Eli Steele

“White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic.” — Shelby Steele

New trailer for the documentary, White Guilt:

#WhiteGuiltFilm

That’s white guilt. 60 years of it.

On the night of our "White Guilt" screening at @NewTrier203, high school students from Trevian Club America confronted Cindy Fey, a Wilmette community activist, about calling them "Hitler Youth" and "Nazis." She denied it. Here is the video and it's stunning.

Some of you may remember Fey from the original post where she was outraged that we were showing the film at all. We showed it to nearly 400 people, who received the film enthusiastically and with gratitude.

Most of you would think a school would never invite onto its campus a community activist who called its own students "Hitler Youth" and "Nazis." Well, there aren't many surprises left in this world. In my essay, linked below, I wrote:

"In her original video, Cindy Fey made one false claim after another about a film that she refuses to see. She accused the film of platforming Nick Fuentes and supporting the Great Replacement Theory and being Islamophobic. Over the next month, she posted videos and screeds on TikTok and Facebook about the film. In her videos and posts, she called the students hosting the screening 'Hitler Youth' and 'Nazis.' She calls herself an antiracist, a community leader, an educator. She ends her videos with 'I love you.'

"After the reported racism and homophobia at the football game (on October 16), she led a protest on the New Trier High School campus. She was then invited in by the school administrators for a conversation on hate and racism. This is astounding. In the middle of its investigation into alleged racism and homophobia, the school invited in Fey, a community activist, who had spent weeks publicly calling its own students 'Hitler Youth' and 'Nazis.' Some of those students are Jewish."

Taking a break from this race bs.

What is this craziness about @MLB experimenting with restricting "the positioning of outfielders on every at-bat?"

The goal is to increase the number of doubles and triples in every game.

"How it works is outfielders will look up at a small video board that can tell a player where they are in the field and will either generate an 'X,' if he's incorrectly positioned or an 'O' if he is in a defensively acceptable spot."

In other words, MLB, not the manager, will tell an outfielder where he needs to stand at every at-bat. This is as dumb as the new NFL kickoff rule. Unless I'm just missing something here.

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America seems to have worked itself into a national frenzy over two white college girls making monkey noises at the Ring camera outside the apartment of three black students. The monkey noise is one of the oldest racial insults there is, and what these white girls did was wrong. But why is this a national story? The young women who were targeted posted the video, which was their right, yet that does not explain why the whole country picked it up. Why do so many people who make a living speaking into a microphone have an opinion on this? I watched CBS (yes, CBS!) interview the black women who were targeted, and they did not seem broken. Even the mother of one of the black women seemed bothered to learn that one of the white girls had withdrawn from Ole Miss.

So why isn't this done and dealt with? We know that race stories go viral and draw clicks. But why do race stories like this one draw so many clicks, and why does an act by two 18-year olds become a far bigger story about a family business and a university? The answer, I believe, is white guilt.

Far too many of us don't understand the true nature of the Left. It is not only politics or policies. The modern Left is an identity, and it is an identity created by white guilt. After the civil rights victories of the 1960s, white America stood accused of racism and lost its moral authority. As my father has argued, the way to win it back was to prove you were innocent of racism, and the surest proof was to stand against it in public. Over decades, that stance, and the display of innocence that comes with it, became part of who the people of the Left were. The genius of this identity was that it gave whites a way out of the box marked oppressor, as long as they allied with the oppressed. It also gave tribal identities room to flourish, so long as they were in the box marked oppressed. A white guilt identity built on standing against racism always needs racism to stand against, no matter how small. After all, if racism fades, then what quick innocence is there to be had?

That is why this story could not stay in that alley. Many in the media have absorbed the white guilt culture, and they amplified this story until their hunt for racism reached the family of one of the white women: an auto dealership group owned by her grandfather and run by her father until February. The implication is that if she is racist, they must be too, and who knows how many people associated with that business have suffered at their hands. Indeed, complaints of racism have been levied against the dealership, and they are now being folded in by the Left as additional proof. That’s how you build the stage for systemic racism.

By all accounts, Ole Miss seems to be holding its ground on individual justice. But the white guilt machine will do everything it can to increase the charge from monkey noises to something systemic — something that condemns an entire university and gives everyone watching a chance to earn their innocence.

This is how it feeds itself. On the white side, those seeking innocence need racism, however small, to create the stage where they can condemn it and earn innocence in return. On the oppressed side, the tribe sells that innocence to whites and collects power in return — policies, programs, transfers of money. And then there are those of us who watch this machine with disdain. We can condemn racism without trading on anything. The machine runs only on those who do.

The two young women at that Ring camera were never the point. The white guilt left seized upon them as their new source of fuel.