We Need to Talk About the Anti-White Elephant in the Room

The Left has Normalized Racial Hatred. The Targets Are White.

The political left has grown disturbingly comfortable with anti-white racism. What began as wink-wink slogans about “dismantling whiteness” and “ending white supremacy” has metastasized into open racial hostility toward white people, expressed not just on online but in policy proposals and institutional norms.

In politics, culture, and academia, a pervasive hatred of white people permeates everything the left does. Nowhere is this clearer than in New York City, where a housing plan floated by Zohran Mamdani, the likely next mayor, went viral for explicitly targeting white residents.

Mamdani proposed “shifting the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.” Essentially, white people deserve to be taxed more than minorities do.

It wasn’t shocking the 33-year-old self-proclaimed communist wanted to make anti-white racism official government policy. Back in 2020, he tweeted, “Queens is the most diverse county in America. 50% of our neighbors are immigrants from all over the world…. But our Democratic Party is run by 3 old white men on Long Island.” As if white people are inherently incapable of representing those who don’t look like them.

In another post attacking opponents of fellow New York radical Jamaal Bowman, Mamdani wrote: “The rich, white establishment is so threatened by Jamaal Bowman they’ll risk humiliation to try to stop him.”

Two things stand out here. First is the obsession, shared across the radical left, with inserting race into everything. Why does it matter that the Queens Democratic Party is led by three white people? If their policies don’t serve the borough, vote them out.

But Mamdani seems to think that since Queens is diverse, i.e. not white, it should have minority representation because otherwise minorities aren’t fairly represented. The left never confront the logical inverse. If only minorities can represent minorities, why would white voters choose someone who doesn’t look like them?

Following this track, Mamdani, a nonwhite man, cannot fairly represent the largest ethnic group in New York City: white people. I’d argue Mamdani will make a terrible mayor not because of his race, but because he’s a communist.

Ideas, not skin color, determine success.

The second trend in Mamdani’s rhetoric is the casual conflation of “white” with “rich.” In both his tweets and his housing plan, “rich” and “white” are treated as synonymous. Being white and being rich are rhetorically equivalent, and thus it’s perfectly fine to use the two interchangeably.

Leftists tie race and income together to not-so-subtly claim that all minorities are lesser than whites. Remember when Joe Biden said that “poor kids are just as bright as white kids?” Or when the Smithsonian claimed that “whiteness,” is about having a nuclear family, rational thinking, hard work, politeness, and showing up on time?

These frequent assertions equating success with whiteness could almost be mistaken for KKK propaganda if they weren’t coming from such avowed leftists. Saying that minorities are lazy and can’t show up on time isn’t racist anymore, it’s actually progressive!

Leftists claim these attributes are elements of nebulous “whiteness,” equivalent to white supremacy, and are therefore problematic. It’s why leftists can get away with pushing for futures without “whiteness” and not be called out by polite society for being despicable racists.

Case in point, even my niche pop culture hobbies aren’t safe. Legendary Dungeons and Dragons artists/game designers Larry Elmore, Jeff Dee, and James Ward seemingly had no problem working on a project whose entire premise was “what if in the future there were no white people?” Ward even loved it!

They all also were apparently okay with ideas like “We decolonized the RPG, and made a future where the USA and white people don’t exist” and “You’ll just be bred out of existence. We’re not like you, we’ll just eliminate your seed from this earth.”

This is rhetoric that exists solely about white people. A game where, say, Africa and black people don’t exist would be shouted into oblivion and its developers forced to flee the country. But somehow we’re supposed to ignore this despicable language in the name of social equity?

Frustratingly, this type of rhetoric has undoubtably led to the rise of actual white nationalism and white supremacy. How couldn’t it? The left has spent the past two decades insisting that race is everything, that skin color defines identity, morality, and politics. Should we be surprised when disaffected whites start taking them at their word?

This is a dangerous path not simply because it’s immoral, but history is littered with examples of increased racial awareness combined with grievance politics.

In Rwanda, Tutsis were slaughtered en masse by Hutus. In Yugoslavia, old ethnic wounds justified wanton violence. Armenians were first vilified before being exterminated by the Turkish majority.

The left is now following that same script, painting hatred in a veneer of social progress. They use language that dehumanizes whites as “colonizers” or “oppressors” and ties society’s ills to “whiteness.”

The longer the left indulges in this politics of racial blame, the more likely it is that Americans, white and nonwhite alike, conclude that peaceful coexistence is impossible.

It’s how nations die. It’s how civil wars start. It’s how America could end.