The war among college-educated white people is swallowing all of us

On Liam Bright's paper "White Psychodrama"

Why should we analyze the white psychodramatic culture war?

I’ve suspected for some time that I’m watching on the sidelines while white people mostly fight with each other about race and gender while using people of color as props to bolster their arguments.

I’ve let myself be used this way even though I knew what was going on because that was the easiest way to fit in with a bunch of progressive white women. But, this wore on me, and I knew that playing up my victimhood was a tool for social capital accrual in groups of women, as it has come to be in the age of critical social justice obsessed with race and gender-based oppression.

I’m examining this dynamic through an eye-opening argument made by British philosopher Liam Kofi Bright in his paper “White Psychodrama”.

To be sure, I’m not saying that racist policies or people don’t exist, and I’ve always been committed to creating a more just world. The way we’re doing it, however, will not lead to lasting material change or equality and i…