Thread: The Roots of White Anxiety

The Roots of White Anxiety
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Published: July 18, 2010

In March of 2000, Pat Buchanan came to speak at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Harvard being Harvard, the audience hissed and sneered and made wisecracks. Buchanan being Buchanan, he gave as good as he got. While the assembled Ivy Leaguers accused him of homophobia and racism and anti-Semitism, he accused Harvard — and by extension, the entire American elite — of discriminating against white Christians.

A decade later, the note of white grievance that Buchanan struck that night is part of the conservative melody. You can hear it when Glenn Beck accuses Barack Obama of racism, or when Rush Limbaugh casts liberal policies as an exercise in “reparations.â€

"The most underrepresented groups on elite campuses often aren’t racial minorities; they’re working-class whites (and white Christians in particular) from conservative states and regions."

So I have been told, firsthand, this is the way higher education was based behind the Iron Curtain. Party first above the ignorant and conservative Christians. A disenfranchisement of morality to further the higher enlightenment of the group of morally bankrupt sociopaths.