You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you don’t notice the police not bothering you. You get the job so you don’t notice not getting it. Your children are not confused with criminals. I live in downtown Toronto, in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in one of the most open cities in the world, where multiculturalism is the dominant civic value and the inert virtue of tolerance is the most prominent inheritance of the British empire, so if you squint you can pretend the ancient categories are dissipating into a haze of enlightenment and intermarriage.
Not at the border.
You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/10/white-man-pathology-bernie-sanders-donald-trump
So being white is now a disease? Just wonderful.
I might be pleased if such an attitude were to lead to something good, but the worst part of what this author laments is enshrined in TPP, TTIP, TISA, and similar "trade deals". We may someday be cured of our "white pathology", but its scars will be with us forever.
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