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“We’re White, We’re Male, & We Suck!”
Jim Goad
Roger Ebert
911 words
American culture reached Peak Beta during one sad week in May 2012 when three privileged white-male pundits wrote essays declaring that privileged white males suck.
Lifelong morbidly obese bitchy lesbian Roger Ebert apparently dismantled the presumably elaborate series of pulleys and harnesses that enable him to orally service his adiposely domineering, melanin-drenched wife in order to run that half-a-mouth of his about how “Women Are Better Than Men.” Amazingly, Ebert became privy to this startling epiphany while watching a movie about how women are better than men. Ebert, who was apparently born without male hormones, decried “testosterone.” He intimated that men, at least the brawny ones, are as obsolete as farm animals and that women will be better suited to take command of “our emerging world economy”: “Women are nicer than men. And the sooner more of them take positions of power, the better our chances as a species.”
Mr. Ebert has obviously never heard of Aileen Wuornos or Elizabeth Báthory.
Ebert’s verbal genuflection before the Giant Invisible Goddess Vulva is nothing new. Nor was it as cringeworthy as other recent spectacles of public male self-neutering such as the unconsciously hysterical, vagina-desiccating “Dear Woman” video compiled by a group of ex-men offering “a collective apology on behalf of their gender.” It wasn’t as abjectly self-deballing as the recent trend of progressive boy hamsters holding “I Am a Feminist Because…” placards in what appear to be last-ditch attempts to get laid. It is merely the latest example in a decades-long tradition of men taking pride in taking shame in being men.
The second male scribe to fire a flaming Roman candle into his own crotch that week in May 2012 was the profoundly unhandsome sci-fi writer John Scalzi, who apparently attracts legions of profoundly unhandsome fans who could pass for the bastard sons of Roger Ebert, all of them swinging their flaccid lightsabers of righteous self-abnegation in agreement. Scalzi, who claims he’s in the process of writing a video game, used his undoubtedly well-manicured fingers to peck out an essay called “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.” Since he apparently spends much of his life lost amid fantasies, he likened American social hierarchies to a video game where being born a white male makes the game easier than it is for anyone else.
Rounding out that week’s triumvirate of white-male auto-castrati was HuffPo contributor Bob Cesca, who not only acknowledged a media double standard when it comes to reporting interracial violence—he defended it! He insisted that the double standard “has to remain”—his italics—to help dismantle “the white-dominated American power structure” until that day in the distant future when we finally reach “full equality.” Despite the mountains of narrative-subverting evidence that have leaked out in the Trayvon Martin case ever since the media tried peddling him as a Skittle-nibbling cherub, Cesca still says that he and other sensitive white males “can understand why African American activists like Al Sharpton and others are outraged.” Apparently, he can also understand how Sharpton still retains a pinkie-fingernail’s worth of credibility after Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse scandal, the Crown Heights riots, the Jena 6, and now the Trayvon case, because I don’t understand it at all.
Many modern white males appear to have been culturally conditioned to fit themselves with electric dog collars that deliver sharp, painful jolts when they so much as think of offending anyone who isn’t a white male. And somehow, they seem to see this as noble and brave rather than fearful and compliant. But these self-flagellating public displays are reminiscent of the magical thinking in what I’ve described as “Passover Syndrome”—it’s as if by declaring that they share in an unpaid collective debt, maybe they can emerge unscathed without having to sacrifice anything tangible beyond their basic dignity.
“I am a privileged white male; that is simply a fact.”
“I am a privileged white male…And honestly, sometimes I wish I wasn’t.”
“…I am a privileged white male; it is easy for me to rationalize my views on races simply because I have it so good.”
“I am a formerly clueless privileged white male, who has taken advantage of my privilege…. I’m pathetic.”
“I am a privileged white male Westerner who is not, and never will be, personally affected by this use of colonizing language….”
“I am a privileged white male…and so I ask the viewer to laugh at me laughing at myself.”
Oh, I’m laughing. Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing. You say that collective pride is a sign of ignorance but that collective shame is a sign of enlightenment. You affirm yourself through self-negation. You think it’s brave to be a pussy. You’ve raised your consciousness so high, you’ve left planet Earth entirely. You’re hilarious!
Just as I can’t see all this invisible racism, and just as I think that anyone who believes in institutional racism ought to be institutionalized, I’m absolutely blind to all this privilege I allegedly enjoy due to my skin and gender. I don’t see the privilege in being required to passively accept my nonexistent role in historical atrocities. I don’t see the upside of being constantly lampooned and demonized in media and education. And I definitely don’t see the privilege in being a white-male writer in a modern media milieu where it’s a career-killer if the first words out of your mouth aren’t, “I’m a white male, and I’m sorry.”
(Written in 2012; published in the 2018 book Whiteness: The Original Sin. You can buy all of Jim’s books, signed by the author himself, HERE.)
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“somehow, they seem to see this as noble and brave rather than fearful and compliant.”
Brilliant!
You think it’s brave to be a pussy. You’ve raised your consciousness so high, you’ve left planet Earth entirely. You’re hilarious!
Also brilliant.
This was hilarious. 😂
I’m a privileged white male and I’m fully aware of my superiority and resulting naturally occurring privilege. I expect “white privilege” and I’m irritated and shocked when it’s absent or under attack by betas and/or dindoos.
The big question is whether No 47 can turn it around. Up here in Canada I read that one day he is a genius and the next day he is satan incarnate. Most confusing. Over at voxday.net which Goad’s reference to science fiction brought to mind, the big question is whether President Trump can turn it around
“The USA dealt successfully with its first immigration challenge by shutting it down for more than 40 years from 1921. But relentless pressure by the immigrant lobby finally succeeded in cracking the borders open in 1965 and the USA is now thrashing about in its death throes as President Trump heroically seeks to somehow mitigate the damage while battling all of the immigrant-infested institutions and organizations that seek to put their foreign interests above those of the original nation.”
No wonder one day he jumps to the right and next day hops to the left.
Who is this “immigrant lobby,” whose “relentless pressure … finally succeeded in cracking the borders open in 1965”?
There can be only one answer. The (((usual suspects))). Without them and their “relentless pressure”, we’d still have a normal country. The same for Canada, Australia and Europe. Look at Ireland today – it is in the process of self-destruction.
“The big question is whether No 47 can turn it around.”
As soon as he figures out how tariffs work…….
Trump is way too stupid to turn it around. Actually, who ever thought turning it around was ever in the cards, at least any time since 1986 (when Reagan signed an illegal alien mass amnesty which put the seal on any hopes we had that he might be persuaded to do something to reduce the immigration invasion)?
Some of us did think Trump could at least buy us an extra decade of metapolitical awakening time. But nope, economic nationalists have decided that their ignorance of how the modern economy works should supersede racial nationalists’ (the only real nationalists) understanding of the approaching white racial armageddon. Whatever one thinks of tariffs in the abstract (I think they would be fine were they to replace other types of taxes), pragmatically, this moronic pursuit is simply sewing economic chaos, which in turn distracts from the real issue for which Trump does have a true mandate, which is the mass deportation of illegals. What a wasted opportunity.
Speaking of that, I finished my protectionist essays: came out to three parts, which I sent to CC about a week ago, but I haven’t heard back from them yet so I assume they rejected it for some reason. At that point I emailed and asked them to please tell me if they didn’t want to use it–and when I didn’t hear back from them sent it to Occidental Observer, where it appears to have been accepted for publication. If it was, it should appear there in the next few days, so please go there for your part of our quasi-debate.
We have not received any of these emails. Are you sure you are using the right email: [email protected] ?
Hmm, that’s odd: I sent it to [email protected] as usual–I went back and checked and it is spelled right and everything. Well, I had had a few lost on occasion that I’d sent to various people (perhaps a little of it is that Buckeye is small and local, and I doubt they have the equipment of the larger ISPs–though I would hate to swap it for an account at one of the notorious data-mining behemoths). I have no more idea than you do what happened to it. At any rate, if you want to use the three-part work, I’ve resent the essays. I hope Lord Shang sees this so he knows that he can make his comments to do his part of our semi-debate here at C-C.
Sounds great. I like TOO, too, though not as much as CC. I’ll keep an eye out, and respond as best as I can without doing any “homework”.
My dear Lord Shag
Considering the Age of Aquarius is said by some to have begun on the 19th November 2024, the month in which President Trump was reelected I am confidant that he is far from being “way too stupid to turn it around.” Why the universe will do it for him – brotherly love, peace, flowers in your hair and the whole nine yards. Like, eh, life is good man. Peace
This 2012 article dissects the phenomenon of the “male feminist”, all of whom are anti-White as well. (The two go together.) The author brilliantly takes down such “white-male auto-castrati” as Roger Ebert, John Scalzi and Bob Cesca.
I knew about Ebert, but not the other two. If he were alive today, how would Ebert assess the new Netflix TV series, Adolescence? He would approve, of course! He would give it four stars for its degeneracy, its masochism and its egregious dishonesty.
That is what Roger Ebert did with the film “Kids”. Even though the movie was degenerate and disturbing. Roger Ebert was always unattractive. After his cancer treatment his physical appearance became even worse even though he lost weight. I haven’t heard of these other two either. I’m willing to bet that they are what are referred to as soy boys. These people are so far gone that if they were attacked and beaten by a group of blacks, they would probably say that they deserved it for their so called “privilege”.
This may be a bit before your or others’ time, but I still recall an old Siskel & Ebert episode from the late 80s during which they reviewed the Tom Selleck prison movie An Innocent Man. I happened to have already seen the movie. I noticed Ebert, who was an Ultimate Cuck (though I didn’t quite realize this yet), getting totally bent out of shape at what he was calling the “racism” of some prison scenes where Tom Selleck, the titular character (who, be it noted, had been framed by some white cops), has to kill a criminal negroid who had been bullying him. This display of the most craven cuckery so unnerved me that I still recall Siskel’s more measured response, in which he noted that those interracial conflict prison scenes were the most interesting and “realistic” (his word) of the film.
Ebert was a typical white liberal male, and his cuckish spirit lives on at the ebert.com review site, in which any film made by a minority, especially if it’s a ‘sensitive’ portrayal of white bigotry, is guaranteed four stars. (Once again, I cannot forbear noting that there is something wrong with whites; no other race behaves as the douchebags among us do.)
I’ve seen the movie. Roger Ebert’s response to that scene doesn’t surprise me.
It’s actually a pretty amazing movie, especially for the time it came out. Most of the blacks in the prison are portrayed as violent and animalistic, and there is even dialogue by some of the “good guys” in the film (F. Murray Abraham in particular) to that effect. It’s the last movie I can remember that featured a black vs. white narrative/conflict where the blacks were portrayed as the villains.
Ebert was seriously pained over it. Granted, this was more than 35 years ago, but I couldn’t get over what a douchebag he was (at least in my recollection). He kept saying things like “why did they do this? why are they inflaming tensions? why did they have to make this about blacks and whites?” etc. I didn’t formulate the concept of cuckoldry, but I did think there was something pathetic about the guy. I didn’t know he had a black wife (not that that’s any sort of excuse).
He died when I was around 14 so I do not recall but would ebert’s & ernie’s counterpart in gene siskel be as much of a cuck pussy as him? We know he’d be antiWhite.
I can’t say I watched the show all that much, but I do seem to recall that Siskel was more measured and less proto-woke than fat Ebert (who even looked like an old lesbian, and from a very young age). Siskel sadly died rather young.
Ebert sucked so hard his jaw fell off.
I don’t think you are privileged because of your skin tone Jim. But I do think there is something repulsive about the CHARACTER of the sort of Gen xers and Boomers who can go on to have second lives, second wives, while sneering down on the youth, who they have screwed over by importing millions of aliens into our midst….and then turning around sneering, ….even if they they decide to take on the far right cause some time in the 90s.
I don’t think you people are privileged because of your skin. But there is a certain kind of……offloading of responsibility and arrogance which the older generation has.
I’m not complaining about that specifically……I don’t care…….but one thing that does finally rub me the wrong way
…is the assumption that “we are all stupid” and just “don’t get it” with which we are greeted by many Boomers.
Oh….we get it. We just can’t do anything about it. Your generations however…..could have.
Baby Boomers had no more say in genocide by racial replacement than their grandparents, parents, children, or grandchildren. Sewing generational division is a genocidal crime against the White race.
Jim Goad would agree with you. What kind of crap is this, attributing our woes to those persons who were born at a certain time.
Jim’s Boomer Defense League proposal would have failed. The problem is not where 60-78 year olds were in 1972 and what they coulda shoulda woulda done. That’s a red herring that never fails to exhaust. The millennial-X-boomer-zoomer generational belt would have all been corrupted by the same subversive ploys by the same overlords in their own time. The difference is when you’re nearing the end, in the internet age, have kids or grandkids, and witnessed the death spiral from pre-1964 Mayberry to our current antiWhite state, you should be more militant angry and taking the most based redpills with your mucinex instead of Bob prioritizing comfort on the golf course. Excepting the usual outliers, boomerdom has disproven that wisdom is begotten by age. GenX and older millennials are guilty of the same, should know better and give a shit more about antiWhite jewry and company rather than gamer indulging in petty distraction comforts. It’s disgraceful and inexcusable in your seventies with the kids grown up and out to still be a selfish, clueless fart-fossil looking to just ride it out and a ‘good luck sonny!’ to their progeny who have only the bleakest future in this post-amerikan death knell. Turbo White Nationalism at ludicrous speed should be the default setting of the boomer the last fifteen years. If they had chosen to instead bequeath a cache of knowledge, resources, money, land, and shown a palpable hatred of the enemy rather then enthused votes for muppets, their reputation in the eyes of the younger would be very different, and an exemplary model to follow. Zoomers would be smacked for daring to even jokingly suggest a ‘day of the pillow.’
I can’t prove it, but I suspect that this promotion of intergenerational hatred is a psyop created by the gubmint spooks to cause dissension within the Right, and thus weaken and damage any effective pro-White movement.
I am burning a candle for Hitler’s birthday, why aren’t you? No I am not a skinhead, the reason I am burning a candle is because I recognize that Germany’s loss of WWII was a watershed event in white history and may well spell our racial doom. You ask me if there is still a chance? Yes, though the years ahead are dark and daunting. Thank you, that’s very kind of you! 🕯️
The only (((victors))) in WWII — everyone else lost.
I’m seeing a pattern here, Clouseau.
Me as well. I try to do something every year on the 20th and 30th of April to commemorate his life and his sacrifice for our people.
That’s a Woody Allen joke, right? From the movie, Crimes and Misdemeanors. He recalls the last day he had intercourse with his ex-wife – because it was on April 20, a special day.
I don’t like Hitler for many reasons. He was a disaster for Germany and for the White race. (Similar to how Napoleon I and Louis Napoleon destroyed France as a great power.) War-mongers.
Where is the down-like comment button here at C-C?
It is in the emojis, right after the cats. 👎
Scalzi, who claims he’s in the process of writing a video game … Since he apparently spends much of his life lost amid fantasies, he likened American social hierarchies to a video game where being born a white male makes the game easier than it is for anyone else.
I don’t care if someone chooses to spend his time on video games. But as soon as he starts to derive philosophical, moral or political arguments from gaming, I quit paying attention.
Is Jim on hiatus? Any idea when he will be back?
It sort of boggles the mind how the poisoned seeds of diversity being our greatest strength planted in the 90s some 30 years later are bearing their poisoned fruits. This dovetails with all these deportation cases being litigated. It is almost as though the system is saying that even if diversity isn’t working it is here to stay so you better get used to it.
Hidden in plain site of course is the fact that the America everyone knows and love is a product of white men. Deep down everyone knows this true.
Jim Goad reruns are good, even the ones from over 10 years ago. It’s not often you can say that about any writer. Joe Sobran is another.
I suppose whites who marry blacks can’t help but carry around a sense of shame about their very existence. It’s a shame. Ebert was a very bright guy. He could have done a hell of a lot better.
Was he a white or a jew? 🐍
Peter Quint: April 21, 2025 Was [Ebert] a white or a jew?
“Roger Ebert was not Jewish. The famous film critic was one-half of the movie reviewing team of Siskel and Ebert with the late Gene Siskel, who was Jewish.”
Though Ebert was Catholic, Siskel was Jewish, and just after Siskel died in 1999, Ebert eulogized him for the Chicago Sun-Times, recounting a conversation they had after a speaking appearance at the Harvard Law School Film Society:
…Gene said, “The importance of Judaism isn’t simply theological, or, in the minds of some Jews, necessarily theological at all. It is that we have stayed together and respected these things for thousands of years, and so it is important that we continue.” ...Source: The Jewish Journal: Roger Ebert’s religion
White Catholics do not think in terms of “staying together [as a race] for thousands of years, respecting these things, and continue…] In fact, they foolishly worship the Jews’ otherwordly tribal deity.
I’d describe Roger Ebert, the anti-White male Hollywood film critic, as not a Jew, but most definitely, Jew-ish.
Regarding Roman Catholicism, I believe I was very fortunate to grow up in an upper middle-class all-Catholic, & all-White neighborhood in the 70s & 80s.
This past Sunday I decided to take my elderly mom to a Catholic Easter service at a university chapel. (In the last few decades, I’ve only stepped inside a Catholic Church for weddings & funerals.) I have to say I was quite impressed with the young White American priest’s motivational (& somewhat humorous) speaking style, & the ~99%(!) White attendees on a super-diverse campus. The sermon topic: Do not fear death (because Jesus offers us an afterlife).
Ironically, it was Catholicism’s strong anti-suicide stances that saved my life when I was very young. While I’ve rejected many central Catholic theological beliefs, and I am 100% against the notion of being deemed guilty for sins I did nor personally commit, an innocent ancient man being executed, Vatican corruption, AND the sickening & deadly infection of liberalism in the church, I do miss my personal experience in a moderate/conservative (at the time) strong White Catholic neighborhood. There are many dormant former Catholics out there who are principled, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-divorce, & just perhaps… pro-White European. Some, like me, have already ditched multi-culti Maryland for WV.
“I suppose whites who marry blacks can’t help but carry around a sense of shame about their very existence.”
Rather, it was the shame that came first, generations of it, that no doubt lead to marrying a negress in the effort to expiate it. Ebert was, as Thomas Berger once said, “of German stem”. From his essay, ‘My Old Man’:
What have I inherited from those Germans who came to the new land? A group of sayings, often repeated by my father: If the job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. A good woodsman respects his tools. They spoke German at home until the United States entered World War One. Then they never spoke it again. Earlier than that, he was taken out of the Lutheran school and sent to public school, “to learn to speak American.” He spoke no German, apart from a few words.
Chaz Ebert. Omg. I’m always stunned when I discover a White man whose married a black female.
Interestingly, I’ve heard that these Whites are still not allowed a pass to say the “n” word by their fellow liberals. They try it at parties, & the entire room immediately goes silent. The speech policemen then glare at the White spouse disapprovingly.
These 3 moderately talented wordsmiths would be fully aware that women can barely even write anything interesting. Talking about themselves and how they feel about things is about 90% of female consciousness. But even when it comes to recording their feelings about things they’re rarely as insightful or entertaining as a moderately talented male. I assume the 3 hacks are pursuing the beta-male mating strategy of pretending to be feminists.
For every Flannery O’Connor, there are a thousand Maya Angelous.
And for every Savitri Devi there are millions of e.l. james’ meets stephanie meyer.
Kim: April 21, 2025 I’d describe Roger Ebert, the anti-White male Hollywood film critic, as not a Jew, but most definitely, Jew-ish…
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You’ve got that right. The profession of film critic is heavy with Jews who give cover to their Tribe’s dominence of Hollywood. That Roger married the Negress “Chaz’ confirms that he lost any claim to be a White man.
I don’t know if author Neal Gabler is a Jew, but he sure blew the cover off of the dirty little secret of Jews founding and running Hollywood with his 1989 book An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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I do miss my personal experience in a moderate/conservative (at the time) strong White Catholic neighborhood. There are many dormant former Catholics out there who are principled, anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-divorce, & just perhaps… pro-White European. Some, like me, have already ditched multi-culti Maryland for WV.
There certainly are many “dormant” Catholics, like the “dormant” Presbyterians I grew up around in our White neighborhood in the then racially segregated South. More White former Christians will become more intelligent as we have. ;o}
Smart decision to ditch multi-culti Maryland for still mostly White, salubrious WV.
“Passover Syndrome” is one of Mr. Goad’s greatest contributions. A pithy, short quote of his on this ought join the annals of quotable wisdom.
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