What a poisonous ignorant little putz.

An example of how the incoherent postmodernist, critical theory mental disease makes itself its own enemy.

From How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror by Charles M. Blow a fully paid up critical theory racialist writing anachronistic opinions no one really believes. The subheading is from seventy years ago.

There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for them to deny knowing precisely what they are doing.

Racialism and genderism. Blow is angry at white women. Not a woman, all white women. MLK would be appalled that his legacy of judging people by the content of their character has been so morphed by these bitter, morally twisted homunculi that have hijacked his mantle.

But they aren’t. The continued public assault on black people, particularly black men, by the white public and by the police predates the pandemic and will outlast it. This racial street theater against black people is an endemic, primal feature of the Republic.

Specifically, I am enraged by white women weaponizing racial anxiety, using their white femininity to activate systems of white terror against black men. This has long been a power white women realized they had and that they exerted.

This was again evident when a white woman in New York’s Central Park told a black man, a bird-watcher, that she was going to call the police and tell them that he was threatening her life.

This was not innocent nor benign nor divorced from historical context. Throughout history, white women have used the violence of white men and the institutions these men control as their own muscle.

She has a name. Amy Cooper.

And Americans right, left and center can and do share Blow's disgust with her behavior. I know different people make different interpretations of the behavior on display, trying to introduce women's fear of confronting men as a mitigation.

I suspect, though, that at least a plurality if not a majority focus in on two aspects of the story. She was the one breaking the law, running her dog off-leash when it should have been under control, demonstrating no remorse, indeed brandishing her privilege to do what she wanted despite the law.

The second aspect was her call to the police. Not providing a description of the man asking her to re-leash her dog but emphasizing three times that it was an African-American man supposedly menacing her. Hard not to see this as a manipulation of the system to exercise her privilege over the birder.

As performance it wasn't quite up there with Scary Movie's "White woman in trouble!" scene but it was very much of the same genre.


Double click to enlarge. White woman in trouble is at the 1:55 mark.

Blow could have written a column condemning Amy Cooper for her bad behavior, her spoiled attitude that the rules don't apply to her, and her coldly calculating and cavalier effort to bring the wrath of the law down on a polite black man.

He could have, though that would probably demonstrate exactly the same disregard of others as he is condemning. Her face is everywhere, her life disrupted, she is fired from her job and likely toxic to any respectable employer for the near future. I don't know whether her dog being turned in to the pound indicts her further or registers her desperate situation. A big name New York Times opinion writer adding his pathetic lash to the already beaten figure isn't much of a moral stance.

He could have used her as a generic example of the real fissures of privilege, which are primarily class over race. Using her inherent position to work the system to accomplish her ends. Lots of people could subscribe to that. We all know and abhor the manipulative Dolores Umbridges of the world.

But that is not what Blow did. He is a social justice warrior. He wants to condemn classes of people, both by race and gender. He doesn't focus on the individual, her focuses on the abstract representation. He condemns all white women for being white women. What a poisonous ignorant little putz.