Defining themselves through their hatreds

Mitchell Gunter reports in Texas students launch 'No Whites Allowed' magazine:

A group of students at the University of Texas, San Antonio plans to start publishing a “No Whites Allowed” (NWA) magazine.

According to a Facebook event titled “Zine Release,” the magazine will be revealed on March 1 at La Botanica, which describes itself as “Texas' first vegan restaurant with a full bar and performance and event venue.”

“Thursday at La Botanica from 8-11pm there will be the NWA Zine release party! This zine specifically features and promotes black and brown lgbtqa creatives,” the description states. “We hope to showcase our talent and create an open space for our voices to be heard.”

The description goes on to explain that “for a very long time, black and brown people, especially those who are queer, have been told that they don’t have a space. That they don’t have a voice or a say. With this we would like to create a space.”

Student Kayla Ramey further elaborated on the event’s purpose in a comment.

“I keep having to make this post but I'll try it one last time so everyone clearly understands. The name of the zine is No Whites Allowed. It's a zine for QPOC and by QPOC,” Ramey wrote, noting that while “white people are welcome to come to the event,” the “main goal is to celebrate and empower people that society routinely ignores and rejects.”

Like so many foolish things, it pops up, makes its splash and then will disappear, either never launching or launching and then folding. An initiative with no market and which can only sustain itself via other people's money, obtained through deception or coercion.

But what immediately leapt to mind reading this was a phrase I had not thought of for a couple of decades. Bantustan. Bantustans were a product of late stage apartheid under the white South African regime, an attempt to herd the bulk of the black South African population into semi-autonomous micro-states where the South African government would not have to deal with them.

From the mid-1970s through the abandonment of the policy in the mid-1980s, four of some ten planned bantustans were declared independent. Only one had even a single redeeming feature and that was its tongue twisting name - Bophuthatswana.

What is the sickness of social justice postmodernism which is driving people to tribally identify and isolate themselves from the nation and their fellow citizens? To create their own self-imposed bantustans. The inherent racism of their policies are, of course, repugnant, but the tragedy is even more striking. It is not just racial hatred which will destroy these people's lives. It is defining themselves through their hatreds.

Astonishing.