How Do You Sustain Evil Nonsense?

I seriously don't understand how this is sustainable.

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool wrote on X “I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender.”

Threlfall-Holmes, who is white, added “So yes, let’s have anti-whiteness, and let’s smash the patriarchy. That’s not anti-white, or anti-men, it’s anti-oppression.”

From my own backyard comes the course description for COMM 442, a class in the Communications Department at our very own University of San Diego, our diocesan university.

COMM 442 | CRITICAL WHITENESS AND COMMUNICATION PRACTICES

Units: 3 Repeatability: No

In this course students will think critically about whiteness by studying the communication practices that create and sustain power differentials in society. The course explores the social construction of whiteness in the foundations of the US, maintenance of citizenship, legal definitions of race, property ownership, neighborhoods, educational systems, technology, and media, emphasizing the way this history shapes our communication practices today. Students will emerge from the course with a thorough understanding of the ways white supremacy has shaped their social geography and will be equipped with tools for disrupting it.

Here's a professor at USD whose expertise if smashing Jewishness, err, Whiteness. I have to admit, I get my Nazis mixed up sometimes.

Her research focuses on race and ethnic studies in education with a theoretical focus on critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, critical pedagogy, and feminism of color. Specifically, she uses a feminist of color approach to deconstruct the emotionality of whiteness in urban teacher education and how it impacts urban education.

How does any of this survive scrutiny? None of it makes a lick of sense. None of it can withstand even a cursory review of actual data. None of it has actionable definitions of words like "whiteness." 

Thanks to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and it's role as the last bastion of free speech, whenever these people post in public, they get dragged from here to Jupiter in the replies and quote-tweets. I joined in on the dragging of Archdeacon Trelfall-Holmes with my go-to line about her statement sounding so much better in the original German.

There were no substantive replies in her defense, just as I'm sure that the USD bigots could offer no defense of their own hate-filled ranting.

So how does it sustain itself? What do these people do when they get dragged or watch their comrades get dragged? Their bubble must be positively impenetrable.

Special Bonus Data Point

Here's Pete Buttigieg telling credulous reporters that bridges in people-of-color neighborhoods were specifically designed to be too low for buses. Those bridges would also be too low for trucks to bring in goods to be sold to the people of color, so presumably the evil, white capitalists who wanted to take all the money from the people of color hadn't thought this one through all the way.

Don't worry, folks.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is focused on… solving racist bridges, roads, highways, and tunnels. pic.twitter.com/WxygVqyIPR

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 26, 2024