I have a lot more to say about this, and that will come in essay form here on Substack, and on the show Disaffected, this weekend. For now, I want to say this.
It was first written on Twitter, which is why it goes over some ground that you faithful readers already know.
My show, Disaffected, has a thesis: society is a scaled up version of a childhood home run by narcissistic, abusive parents. The ways these parents mistreat and lie to their kids are the same psych. abuse methods the left and mainstream culture uses.
They're the same people motivated by the same things.
The analogy keeps working. Here's an example from the small and personal to the large and societal.
My mother has borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. She was the kind of mother you saw in Mommie Dearest, except without the money and fame. Now you understand the kind of experience my brother and sister and I had.
This is a woman who beat her children, gaslit them, put two of them in institutions as teens and abandoned them, and allowed her husband to rape his and her own daughter while pretending she didn’t know it was happening. That's the kind of serious abuse I'm talking about.
At various points in my life when I'd plead with my mother to stop badgering me, or when I'd finally lose it with her endless demands and remind her she'd been using me relentlessly since childhood, she would say,
"You're so bitter. You just hold on to old grudges. Why don't you take the high road."
I'm betting it's easy to see how morally insane it is, and how provocative it is. I’d bet you can empathize enough that you’re imagining the white hot anger such a statement would provoke when uttered by someone who had abused you so seriously.
That's the response that leftists, mainstream society, and I'm sorry to say, many conservatives, are giving to people who are proportionately angry and fed up with black violence and blaming it on whites.
For decades black people have abused their social privilege, have said the most profane things possible about white people--and got applauded for it, clapped for on television, and more--and been net takers and freeloaders. They have enjoyed unearned privilege in college admissions, business, and hiring. They commit vastly disproportionate amounts of violent crime for their comparatively small population numbers.
All the while they say that white people are “killing” them. Now, in the 21st century, a black teen can kill a white teen without provocation and be feted by blacks and liberal whites. Without any fear. Brazenly.
This is what started with the moral obscenity that was the OJ Simpson case.
White people haven't been allowed to say a peep. If we even wiggled a little in a way that might signal minor discomfort, we were told that saying "please stop abusing me" was an act of abuse against a black person.
Again, it reminds me of my mother shaking me by the shoulders and backhanding me while screaming into my 10 year old face while she said, "Why are you doing this to me!”
There is no mystery why white people are furious. Nothing weird about it. Nothing needs explanation.
What needs explanation is why so many otherwise sane, sensible, rational people, black and white, are looking at the white people saying "fuck off, no more," and telling us we're the abusive ones. We're out of order. We have to "take the high road."
Get fucked.
This isn't a moral gray area. It's not subjective.
This is narcissistic psychological abuse and it's moral obscenity. And anyone who promotes this view is acting as a narcissistic abuser.