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THIS, is playing the victim.
Why do people dislike these men? Is it because they exist?
Or is it their draconian attitudes and beliefs?
“What’s always interesting to me is the degree to which you’ve seen created in Republican politics the sense that white males are victims.” - Former President Barack Obama
Today, some whites have taken the art of victimization to a new level. Criticism of whites becomes a whining session Paul Masson or Julio Gallo would appreciate. We must understand how complete the madness is.
“Aggrieved whiteness is a white identity politics aimed at maintaining white socio-political hegemony through challenging efforts to combat actual material racial inequality, while supporting heavily racialized investments in policing, prisons, and the military, and positing a narrative of antiwhite racial oppression loosely rooted in an assortment of racialized threats.” -Mike King
Aggrieved whiteness is a trait shown mainly by right-wing white men. They have problems reconciling how people are holding them accountable for the creation and maintenance of a system here in America and most of the world that has benefitted many of them by exploiting others. An example of this is an op-ed written in the July 3, 2017, edition of the Boston Globe titled “In Defense of the White Male” By Roland Merullo. In this article, we see the most common argument used by the white grievance crowd when the topic is racism. Here the author complains about how he thinks white men are mistreated, suggests that white males have done no more or less evil than anyone else, and wonders why in his view, everybody is picking on the poor oppressed white male.
“From Jews to African-Americans to homosexuals to Irish, Italian, and now Middle Eastern immigrants, hatred began by tossing all of them into a group, and attributing to that group the most unattractive characteristics imaginable. What is being done to “white males” now, it should go without saying, is not on a par with what was done to those people. But the instinct to label and blame is born of the same kind of group-think.”
-Roland Merullo
White males tossed all the people he mentioned into those groups and attributed those unattractive labels that many of us still face coming from members of the white male population today. This reality is what men like Marcus and other white men with this mindset willfully ignore. Therefore, they can write such articles and believe they have a legitimate grievance. To them, being held accountable is unfair blame. Yet they can hold anyone they want responsible even if it is made up. Again, this is part of the entitlement mentality that encompasses white male privilege. This kind of amnesia has allowed a part of the white community to embrace a position of white victimhood.
Mike King, Aggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation, May 4, 2017

Aggrieved Whiteness: White Identity Politics and Modern American Racial Formation
Mike King offers a contextualized understanding of aggrieved whiteness and the challenges it poses to pursuits for genuine racial justice.

Roland Merullo, In Defense of the White Male, Boston Globe, July 3, 2017, In defense of the white male - The Boston Globe
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