Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin

Pigeonholi­ng social sectors recipe for division and hate

- PETER CAMPION

OK, I admit it, I’m an angry white man. My anger was born from others hating me solely because of my white masculinit­y.

I’m not a racist or a misogynist or a homophobe or a bigot or a wealthy elitist but I have been called all this and more, mostly by hysterical-sounding white people.

My white male ancestors and their counterpar­ts created the greatest societies ever known, the only ones to have freed people from slavery and poverty.

We achieved this great society through the rule of law, free-market capitalism and the inventive genius required to harvest energy from sources other than man or beast.

Many of us laid down our lives to defend these great, free societies so that the present population­s should not suffer the tyrannies of National-Socialism or Communism.

But suddenly me and my demographi­c are hated and vilified and railed against even though our intellectu­al and physical efforts underpin everything our haters rely on to live.

Suddenly the politics of division is everywhere and everyone who isn’t a white male is a victim and everyone who is a white male is an oppressor.

So I find myself angry about the racism and misandry and heterophob­ia and bigotry and elitism that I and my fellow white men must endure from those who didn’t build all this. Should you feel the urge to spew hatred at a white man, particular­ly if you’re white or mostly white yourself, contemplat­e how your life would look without everything contribute­d by white men.

Think about it deeply and honestly enough and you’d thank us for your wonderful life, good health and ability to express yourself regardless of how selfdefeat­ing your ideas might be.

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