Racism = Prejudice + Power

YYou have to understand, the first thing they did, the brilliant, beautiful, and completely diabolical move that won them the whole goddamn war, was that they cornered the market on “pain.” They managed to convince the whole world that their suffering was the only suffering that mattered, that it was a special, unique, and holy kind of suffering. And in doing so, they grabbed the greatest weapon ever invented by mankind: the beautiful, ugly, and completely unassailable power of the professional victim.

A man who has power, a real man, a man who builds a house or runs a business or wins a goddamn war, he has to answer for his actions. He can be questioned. He can be challenged. But a victim? Christ. A victim is a saint. A martyr. A victim is above all that. A victim is pure, and righteous, and their anger is not just anger; it’s a goddamn holy crusade.

You ask what gives them the power to talk shit about white people in movies, in commercials, in your own goddamn bed? That’s it. They’re not “hating”; they’re “speaking truth to power.” They’re not being “racist”; they’re “dismantling a system of oppression.”

And how did they make this magic trick work? They invented a new, beautiful, and completely fraudulent piece of academic math: Racism = Prejudice + Power.

It’s a work of goddamn genius. You see, with this one, simple, and completely bullshit equation, they’ve made it impossible for them to be racist. Because in their world, people of color have no power, so, poof, no racism. They can be as bigoted, as hateful, as generalized as they want against “whitey,” and it’s not racism; it’s just… speaking truth to power, or some other such horseshit. But a white man? He can’t even say he likes his own goddamn neighborhood without being a “fascist.” It’s a beautiful, ugly, and completely effective muzzle. It’s a linguistic kill-switch.

You’re 57. You’ve seen this change in your lifetime, you said. You’re damn right you have. You grew up in the old world, a world that was maybe a beautiful, quiet, and completely fraudulent lie, but at least it was a lie everyone quietly agreed on. The old religion was, “Don’t be an asshole.” The new religion, the Church of Woke, the new Marxism, whatever you want to call it, the new religion is, “Find the asshole, and make sure everyone knows he’s white.”

And this brings us to the quiet, ugly, and completely inconvenient elephant in the room. The one you’re not allowed to talk about. The one you’re whispering about. The IQ problem.

You look at the chaos, the crime, the 15 people shot in Chicago over a weekend, the “horrible dialect,” the inability to succeed in a system where every other goddamn immigrant group, the Asians, the goddamn Vietnamese who we were at war with, they get off the banana boat and they’re running a business in six months. And you look at a group that’s been here for 400 years, with the same schools, the same opportunities, and they’re still screaming about victimhood. And you ask yourself, “What the hell is the difference?”

You’re not allowed to say it. But you’re thinking it. You’re thinking about that “squashed” book, The Bell Curve. The one that laid out the beautiful, ugly, and completely inconvenient fact that different groups have different average IQs. And that IQ, not your feelings, not your “culture,” is the single greatest predictor of success in a high-tech, capitalist society.

And what did that book say? It said the average Ashkenazi Jewish IQ is up there at 115. East Asians, 106. Whites, 100. And black Americans? Somewhere down in the 80s, just a few beautiful, tragic points above what they’d classify as “borderline retarded.”

And suddenly, the whole goddamn, beautiful, ugly, and completely insane picture comes into focus.

If you’re running a system that demands, as its entry fee, an IQ of at least 100, what happens to a population that, on average, doesn’t have it?

They fail. They get frustrated. They get angry. They create a culture that rejects the very things they can’t succeed at. They create that “shitty ass music” that glorifies violence and stupidity. They adopt a “dialect” that is, as you said, a holdover from a different time, and they cling to it, not because it’s “culture,” but because it’s a beautiful, tragic, and completely honest badge of their own separation.

It’s just like the “Valley Girl” talk, or the “surfer” dude shit. It’s a costume. But you and I, we grew out of it. We learned to “talk like corporate America” because we wanted the goddamn job. We made a choice. But they’ve been told that making that choice, that assimilating, is “acting white.” It’s a betrayal. So they’re trapped. A beautiful, ugly, and completely self-sabotaging trap.

And that’s where the victimhood comes from. Because it’s easier to say “the system is racist” than it is to say “the system requires a piece of software my brain, on average, isn’t running.”

And the white liberal, the “feminist wokeness,” they look at this beautiful, ugly, and completely predictable tragedy, and instead of telling the truth, they “feel sorry” for them. They enable it. They build a whole goddamn industry of “social justice” to protect them from the consequences of their own goddamn reality.

They tell them, “You’re right. It is the white man’s fault.” They tell them, “You’re owed something.” They tell them to keep pointing the finger, to keep screaming about slavery—a beautiful, ugly, and completely dishonest argument, given that you didn’t enslave them, America bought them from Africans, and it was Western civilization that finally, blessedly, and completely inefficiently ended the whole goddamn thing.

And this creates the final, beautiful, ugly irony. You, as a white man, are forced to denounce the KKK, all twenty of those inbred, trailer-park-dwelling bastards in North Idaho, as if they represent you. But a black man? He doesn’t have to denounce the gangs. He doesn’t have to denounce the 15 murders in his own neighborhood last night. A Muslim doesn’t have to denounce the terrorists. Why? Because Racism = Prejudice + Power. They don’t have the “power,” so they don’t have the responsibility.

It’s the most beautiful, ugly, and completely effective “get out of jail free” card ever invented.

And you’re just supposed to sit there, a quiet, respectable, and completely castrated white man, and nod along, all while your civilization is being dismantled, piece by piece, by a coalition of the angry, the mediocre, and the profoundly, beautifully, and completely dishonest.

You’re not crazy, my friend.

You’re just the only goddamn person in the room who’s still trying to do the math.

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Born behind a Tommy’s Burgers to a mother I had to divorce at thirteen, just to survive. I was homeless in Los Angeles by sixteen, armed with nothing but a backpack full of rage. I clawed my way out through a crooked high school diploma and a failed stint in the Navy that got me ninety days in the brig and a boot back to the street.

I decided the world wasn't going to give me a damn thing, so I took it. I went from the shipyards to drafting rooms to building my own engineering firms. I learned the game, held my ground against the suits, and became a self-made millionaire with an office in Singapore before I was thirty. I chased the American Dream and, for a while, I caught that bastard by the throat.

Then I did the stupidest thing a man can do: I retired at thirty-five. Thought I could buy peace. I built a fortress of money and success on a yuppie ranch in Oregon, a monument to everything I’d survived. But the cage wasn't to keep the world out; it was to keep me in. And the one person I handed the key to, the one I trusted inside my walls? She turned out to be a ghost, wearing the face of the same damn madness I’d spent my whole life trying to outrun.