The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

-H. L. Mencken

Many progressives like to cast themselves as the heroes; great white saviors delivering the oppressed black man from his bondage. This trope is so common in cinema it has its own Wikipedia page.

-Jon Gabriel

The condescending paternalism of white liberals towards everyone else - particularly people of color - is the only actual example of white supremacist ideology operative today, but that's not a conversation anyone is ready for.

2021 Note To White Liberals from The Black Community:

  Ease Back On Your Tokenism, Learn To Embrace Inclusivity...

  Black people are not a monolith, and having a complicit Black person in your planning space does not indicate support from the Black community.

  For decades, efforts towards Black Liberation have suffered at the hands of both well-meaning allies and predatory opportunists, and over the last year we have watched as people have profited from and damaged our movement without our consent or approval.

No, Joe Biden Did *Not* March in the Civil Rights Movement...

"When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program. I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes. And we changed attitudes."

White Allies: Damaging The Black Community...

  It has been noted by many that a lot of the riot types in Portland are “down with the struggle” white people. That seems a little racist at first blush. Probably because seeing a bunch of white people speak and act for black people is.

   It would appear that some of the radical left black hierarchy in the City of Roses are no longer amused by the antics of their woke white brethren:

  Leaders from Portland's Black community write an open letter calling on white protesters to stop "doing damage to us." Protesters who say they seek racial justice have damaged Black-owned businesses and a Boys and Girls Club serving mostly people of color https://t.co/QVOs6AhUMK

     — Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) April 21, 2021
  

  Awkward.

And what is the Bai Zuo?

  Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”;

  they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.

  -Chinese scholar Zhang ChenChen, describing “Bai Zuo” or “White Left.”

White liberals present themselves as less competent when addressing minorities, while conservatives use the same vocabulary no matter what the race of their audience, according to a newly released study.

Yale and Princeton researchers found that white Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals played down their competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that conveyed accomplishment and more words that expressed warmth.

On the other hand, there were no significant differences in how white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, spoke to white versus minority audiences.

“White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites — that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent,” according to the study’s abstract.

-Valerie Richardson