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If it’s always sunny in Philadelphia, then why did it rain there on my gay wedding? Regardless, even a spring thunderstorm couldn’t wash away the joy of that outdoor event. Whatever the clouds above were doing I was on cloud nine, and it seemed that everyone from the wedding attendees to the city employees who later gave me my official marriage certificate was as happy for me as I was. (more…)
Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) — no longer the ideal American couple.
Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) — no longer the ideal American couple.
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I gave the Sex and the City revival series And Just Like That . . . a fair chance, but after three hours of diversity, wokeness, and “body positivity,” I found myself returning to binge on the original series with its almost universally white — and glamorous — cast.
I enjoyed the series when it was on HBO, but even as an unserious twentysomething, there was something about the WASP character’s arc that rubbed me the wrong way. Now older, wiser, and fully accepting of my own “white positivity,” I’ve realized on my second watch-through that the character Charlotte York’s marriage, divorce, and remarriage is an allegory for the Jewish displacement of WASPs as America’s most powerful ethnic group. (more…)
Photo courtesy of Alvin Trusty, Flickr
Photo courtesy of Alvin Trusty, Flickr
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Given that white people are only around 10% of our globalizing world’s population, it seems reasonable to predict that 100 years from now whites will be facing the same struggle for survival we face today. The decisions we make will affect our descendants’ chances of success, in part by determining how many of them will even be born. (more…)
Carl Jung (second from right) in North Africa, 1920.
Carl Jung (second from right) in North Africa, 1920.
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The psychologist Carl Jung was a race realist even by the standards of his day, when a certain amount of race realism was seen as simple common sense. He was also a great man and, like all great men, he was ahead of his time in many ways. While he didn’t foresee the precise predicament white people now face, he nevertheless mentioned almost as an aside in one of his more popular essays the answer to the perplexing question of why some people fiercely resist the possibility of racial differences in intelligence, personality, or any other feature of consciousness. (more…)