THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: Internalized Racism By White "Liberals" in America

Recently, through social media, I have noticed a new phenomenon. My mostly white, middle to upper class, "liberal" friends are posting anti-white rhetoric in their social media feeds. It bears mentioning that these are mostly white people who live in a culture of privilege and gentrification.

Here are some examples:

Fascinated by this behavior by my peers, I decided to do a little research.

When a person feels prejudice towards their own race it is called "internalized racism". If we Google this term, all we find is references to it as it would apply to minorities. When I specifically search for "internalized racism by white people" I still only get articles referencing internalized racism in minorities:

The Wikipedia article in the link above implies that the term "internalized racism" only applies to minorities, as if whites are incapable of, or excluded from the privilege of using the term as it would apply to those of a paler skin-tone. It is difficult to find any references on the internet to internalized racism by white people, so I assume this is a fairly new behavior, which has developed during the Trump presidency, and is exclusive to white "liberals". I did find one scholarly article on internalized racism by Keshia Unika Williams, which seems to acknowledge that white people are capable of internalized racism, but said "The examination of the experience of internalized racism by white people is beyond the scope of this paper." https://scholarworks.smith.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2379&context=theses

Nearly all humans are guilty of subconscious racism, born out of social and cultural programming and segregation. The failure of white "liberals" to recognize their own internalized racism is, by itself at least, a subconscious form of racism.

I write "liberal" with quotation marks because most of my friends who claim to be liberal have adopted some political stances which are in no way liberal in my estimation. An example of this would be the willingness to erode the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which protects the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. Today's "liberal" pretends to be alarmed by our rapid progression toward a police-state, while blindly supporting campaigns to increase government control over citizens and erode our civil liberties as enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

My "liberal" friends who self-righteously support democrat candidates over republicans appear ignorant to the fact that democrats have gone right along with republicans on some of the most critical issues which have impacted us all in very negative ways. The war on drugs comes to mind, along with a nearly endless list of other wars. Democrats have gone along with republicans in the destruction of our environment and waging war in the name of profit; they have participated in environmentally catastrophic global warfare and imperialist military expansion. Democrats have done nothing to prevent the ever expanding private-prison industry and the mass incarceration of people for victimless "crimes". Democrats went right along with the destabilization of peaceful countries and the installation of puppet dictators who wouldn't oppose plans of robbing those countries of their resources. Democrats took part in the rip-off of Americans by the medical, insurance, and drug industries; the poisoning of the planet by mineral and oil companies; and the destruction of our forests for agriculture and livestock farming. If the above is liberal behavior, I would prefer to call myself a radical. It appears to me that today's "liberal" democrats differ from their republican counterparts in word only: their actions do not comport with the narrative they espouse. In many ways the two parties have flipped in their ideologies: it used to be the republicans who promoted hatred of Russia; now it is the Democrats who are trying to re-ignite the cold-war. My "liberal" friends constantly spew forth hatred and vitriol in their social media feeds without regard to the truth of the propaganda they are helping to spread.

And yes, from the abundance of self denigrating posts on social media it appears that "liberals" are capable of racism as well as hypocrisy. Join me in my support of any political candidate who refuses to affiliate themselves with the democrat or republican conventions.