In this episode, we discuss the magic of “White Privilege.” Recently, I had an interlocutor of color raise my mythical “white privilege” as a red herring objection in a debate on an unrelated topic. This got me thinking about the way racialized concepts are used to mislead, manipulate, and gaslight people, and what the method to this Marxist madness might be.
The reality is, concepts like “white privilege” are part of a sophisticated PsyOp that is effective on multiple levels at once. Of course, there’s the obvious dialectical impact it has on the Overton Window and how certain issues are framed. There’s also the asymmetry of it: guerilla moralists can just pick up these incoherent, insane stock phrases like so many pieces of shit lying around our cultural monkey house, and then fling them wildly and repeatedly at everyone else. The effort they spend flinging shit is minimal; the shit is cheap and abundant. If you respond to all this Marxcissist shit-flinging with good-faith arguments or by trying to dodge as much of it as you can, you are expending a disproportionate amount of time, effort, and attention responding to them, which is a losing strategy in the long-term.
More subtle than these effects, however, are the ways in which these Marxist concepts encourage you to adopt a one-dimensional perspective about yourself and others, and this is where the poison of leftist ideologies is especially dangerous. When you debate the validity of the enemies’ (really the Enemy’s and his useful idiots’) concepts, you are essentially arguing about shadows on the cave wall, rather than engaging with a deeper reality that is available to us. And if you get into a heated debate about these Marxist ideas, you will — even if just on an emotional, subconscious level — reinforce your identification with these insubstantial shadows.
This doesn’t mean that you should just accept the claims that Marxcissists make, or that you should allow their claims to go unchallenged when they’re presented in the public square, but you should remain aware of the fact that you are dealing with a sophisticated PsyOp laden with some subtle pitfalls for the unwary. Know thyself, and recognize the effect that it has on you, especially if you choose to engage with it.
If you’re interested in my own take on white identity politics, I wrote a fun and lighthearted post on the topic:
Treating the dialectical tricks of cultural Marxism like the absurd joke that they are is a healthy way to deal with them, but whatever your response is, be aware of your own perspective and the elements shaping your identity. Be a conscientious rejector of Marxist materialism. Remember that you are a spiritual being with the incipient potential for connection with God.
The Marxist Magic of "White Privilege"