Hustling backwards

It's the actual identity politics they accuse us of.

For recent works on this see: Jonathan Metzl's "Dying of Whiteness" and McGhee's "The Sum of Us"

They have always and will continue to work against their own self-interest and make their lives worse if they think it'll hurt people they view as less the most and if it will further solidify the racial/class/gender hierarchies that they are so desperate to benefit from.

They want to others to suffer from Republican policies while thinking they can benefit from them. Barring that they're willing to suffer too as long as black, brown, gay, trans, and poor people suffer more.


Whiteness is the altar upon which they'll sacrifice everything they claim to hold dear (their families, their communities, democracy, christianity, the future of this very planet).

It's the poison pill they can't stop taking.