Angel Reese, Jasmine Crockett and the privilege of anti-white bigotry

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity and inclusion was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.In contrast, the other “diverse” 30% were de facto considered the victimized.In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old “one-drop” rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any non-white ancestry was a minority victim.And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors.But human nature is universal and transcends race.One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost.We are now witnessing examples of what follows when anti-white stereotyping and racism are given a pass — as long as the purveyors can claim their victimhood entitles them to bias.Recently, WNBA basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark got into one of their now-characteristic on-court rivalries.But this time around, Reese mocked Clark as a “white gyal running from the fade.”Reese assumes that her status as a black star grants her immunity from backlash — a privilege unlikely to be extended if the roles were reversed.Or is her crassness a simple reflection that 60 years after the civil rights movement, it is deemed cool or deservedly acceptable to use the word “white” derogatorily?After all, loose-cannon Rep.

Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), in one of her accustomed racialist rants, recently went after her party’s big Democratic donors, who raised a record amount of money for Kamala Harris’ short-lived campaign.Crockett played the race card when claiming that Democratic insiders were already backing the next party nominee as the “safest white boy.”Her racist irritation is puzzling.After all, two out of the last four Democratic presidential nomine...