White Privilege. Again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/style/white-guilt-privilege.html

As an individualist anarchist this grates against everything I believe in. It's sometimes hard to tell if this kind of thing is a spoof or not, but given that it is the NYT and the earnestness of the writing, it's probably safe to say that it's serious.

It's hard to fathom how these people cannot see that they espouse something at least as vile as that which they claim to despise. To accuse a whole group of some perceived injustice based only on the colour of their skin, and to then expect them to atone for it by being treated as second class citizens in order to beg for forgiveness is a racism even more pernicious in that it masquerades as virtuous justice.

Only individuals have agency and only individuals can be associated with the consequences of that agency, whether good or bad. Assuming collective tribal pride or guilt, whatever the 'tribe' (ethnicity, gender, wealth, age, religion, nationality), is not only irrational but can lead to the kind of injustice and abusive bigotry that's on show here. Yes, humans are innately tribal, but the point where that evolutionary trait is used to deny reality is the point where evil like this kind of racist hatred gains a foothold.

Do not be fooled by the supposed altruism of collectivist ideology. It is a chimera, a path that can only ever lead to the forceful subjugation of one human to the will of another. It is the new totalitarian iron fist beckoning to you from within the silk glove of signalled virtue.