The White Man’s Unbearable Burden
by Jim Goad
Author Nikesh Shukla—a
fat brown manwho appears to sweat a lot—has just been named one of
Foreign Policymagazine’s “100 Global Thinkers of 2016.” He won this award for his work focusing on the “
unbearable whiteness of publishing.” Ironically, his surname is a word of Sanskrit origin meaning “white.”
In books such as
The Good Immigrant, the British citizen complains that British society is unfairly dominated by indigenous Britons.
I think I’ll move to India, bitch about how the Indian publishing industry is stacked in favor of Indians, and then expect to receive grants and awards…or maybe not.
I’ve never read a word this chubby
samosahas written and I never intend to, but the mere fact that he cribbed the already severely overused term “unbearable whiteness” suggests to me that he is an unoriginal hack. This play on Milan Kundera’s
Unbearable Lightness of Beingis approaching
Fear and Loathing in _______levels of overuse.
Referring to “whiteness” as “unbearable” is not a bold move if you want a media career these days. In fact, it appears to be a prerequisite.
The Huffington Post—which was started by a woman who’s
so white, her eyes appear to be turning into cocaine—is a serial abuser of this term. The publication decries “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Trumpistan,” “
The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being in China,” “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Anti-Intellectualism,” and “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Suicide-by-Mass-Murder.” Someone needs to tell the author of the last piece—a beta dweeb named
Michael Kimmelwho has been described as “the world’s most prominent male feminist”—that despite the myth that mass shooters are disproportionately white, a study of mass shooters from 1982 to 2016 reveals that when it comes to this crime, as is the case with nearly all other categories of criminal malfeasance, whites are statistically
underrepresented, comprising a mere 57% of the total. Blacks actually perform slightly above their quotient of the population when it comes to mass shootings, but this is to be expected since the subject is crime.
To my knowledge, the quintessentially unbearable writers for the Huffington Post have never referred to blackness or Jewishness as “unbearable.”
Despite the fact that the publishing industry slavishly caters to minoritarian tyrants and routinely bashes the very notion of white people, many insist that this industry, too, is unbearably white. A gay black author whinges about “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Science Fiction.” An editor for the
Islamic Monthlytakes issue with “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Canadian Columnists.” (He notes that “Canadian columnists are predominately white” and designates this as a “problem.”)
A writer for
The American Prospectslams “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media,” noting that even the staff of
The Nationhas only “slightly over 4 percent of its staff hailing from racial and ethnic minority groups.” (Apparently he counts
Jewsas white.) And of course, even
The Nationitself bemoans the publishing industry’s “
unbearable whiteness.”
Writing in
TIME, a certain Eliza Berman tut-tuts “
The Unbearable Whiteness of the Oscar Nominations.” In the Daily Beast, an Asian woman takes issue with “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Cameron Crowe’s ‘Aloha.’” And Think Progress—which is bankrolled by
Holocaust enablerGeorge Soros—has a bone to pick with Ridley Scott’s
Mosesand its “
Unbearable Whiteness.”
These hard-hitting, truth-digging articles all point to a cultural crisis, because it is an undeniable statistical fact that Hollywood’s ownership is
too white.
American music, alas, is likewise condemned as unbearably white. We are lectured about “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Soft Rock” and read earnestly stupid attempts to explain “
Why ‘Indie’ Music Is So Unbearably White.”
In the real world, nine out of the top ten singles currently on the Billboard charts are by
black artists. But I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a barrage of articles about the music industry’s “Unbearable Blackness.”
TV, too, is allegedly so white that it makes people want to scream. At
Salon, a certain
Scott Timbergslammed David Letterman’s farewell shows for their “unbearable whiteness.” Failed black late-night host Kamau Bell has a problem with “
The Unbearable Whiteness of Late Night.” And the
Advocatefeels the need to cry little rainbow tears about the “
Unbearable Whiteness BehindOrange Is the New Black.”
Of course, black actors are actually
overrepresentedon major network shows—and likely
severelyoverrepresented on commercials—but let’s not let facts get in the way of an egregiously self-righteous and hyper-emotional narrative, shall we?
Politics? Unbearably white as well! This includes
Bernie Sanders, the
American left,
protesters,
Congress, and
America’s donor class.
Regarding the political donor class,
Jewish Business Newsclaims that “
US Jews Contribute 50% Of All Donations To The Democratic Party And 25% To The Republican Party.” How unbearably white of them!
Everywhere you look, you’ll see something unbearably white. This includes
marijuana legalization,
baseball,
brunch,
milk,
librarians, and
craft beer.
It all reminds me of a brilliant
exchangebetween Anthony Jeselnik—that rare
Nordic-lookingfunnyman—and black comic Patrice O’Neal at the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen:
Anthony Jeselnik: Besides, what can you say about Mike Tyson that hasn’t already been a title of a Richard Pryor album?
Patrice O’Neal:Oh ****.
Anthony Jeselnik:He got it. Patrice got it.
Patrice O’Neal:Too many white people [in the audience] to get that.
Anthony Jeselnik:Too many white people? You know what no one ever says? Too few black people.
The iron template these days is to complain that in
everything, there are way too many whites and far too few blacks.
You know what’s truly unbearable about white people these days? That they don’t find this nonstop defamation unbearable. I’d honestly like to see a historical antecedent to what’s currently going on in America, where a majority population is broadly slandered every second of every day, but precious few of them are even bold enough to mention it, much less start slandering back.
What puts lie to this notion that “whiteness” is unbearable is the fact that global immigration patterns show nonwhites desperately trying to get into white countries, whereas an inverse phenomenon—say, whites moving to Swaziland in droves—is virtually nonexistent.
If you can’t bear all this whiteness, I suggest you run as far away from white people as your soft brown feet will take you. Failing that, I suggest you show some respect toward your mostly unwilling hosts, because it appears that they are rapidly beginning to find you unbearable.
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