This article was written by an immature boy masquerading as an intellectual. The simple answer is to treat individuals with respect, evaluate each individual on his/her merits, and abandon all forms of group identity politics.

I always just tell people "I'm not racist, I hate all people equally" that usually shuts them up.

Besides being tired of the liberal-acedemia salivating on the inappropriate sex habits of our founding fathers, that’s five minutes of my life I can’t get back.
What a liberal douchebag!

Anytime I'm asked what race I am I cross out all of the choices on the list (they are legion) and write in "human". I may look "white" but I have over 100,000 years of human evolution behind me and have no idea what artificially contrived group of ancestors I came from. The only race I recognize is human.

I think the author self labelled with the title

A diatribe of floating abstractions unrelated to reality, reason, ethics or politics.
No wonder our youth who are.pop culture addicts can't think.

I proudly tell people that as an Objectivist, I cannot be a racist - by DEFINITION. Racism is the lowest form of collectivist thought and the hallmark of a small mind.

Then I prove it by living it.
(I wasn't raised racist. I got lucky.)

"Hatred of the good for being the good." The article was essentially the continuous self-aggrandizing conceit of a prattling three-year-old.

I read this yesterday and thought it was pathetic. He makes a tremendous amount of assumptions and stereotypes while trying to say these people are representing white privilege.

I get the Medium emails and I find they are mostly very left biased. Disappointing really.

It doesn't deserve the respect of thought.
I do not think of it.

What Mr. Cohen does not understand is that "White Privileged" is NOT for whites only. Whites, like myself, want to give it to all who will receive it. White privilege is the knowledge that hard work, delayed gratification, imagination, etc. are available to anyone who wants to work for that privilege.

A fascinating study in meme engineering. Mr. Cohen's disgusting and distorted essay of hate-mongering against well-off white people is primarily an attack on capitalism. Through concept pollution and sexual symbolism he also seeks to perpetuate insults against both men and women based in male envy that sees power and privilege defined primarily as sexual success. So women's methods of cleanliness are belittled because they thereby remove male deposits? So douchebag is a suitable insult but bidets are exempt?

The power of sexual imagery comes from the double standard that for men to succeed in gaining entrance into a woman is a sign of superiority and dominance, but for women to be so used is degrading and even punishable by death in some cultures. Mr. Cohen's rant is a throwback to the Dark Ages, a tutorial for trolls. We don't need more racist and sexist slurs in our language. We need reason and respect.

I read through most of it waiting for some interesting revelation or point. Eventually the left-wing false assumptions became too great to make any sense at all.

He adds to the false assumption of "White Privilege" by somehow concluding that all whites have privilege because they are seen as individuals whereas blacks and Latino are lumped together as a race.

But a Rich white person can be lumped together as douche bags. Then he lists who he considers a douche bag... and what do you know, they are the 1%a and the Republicans.

More left-wing illogical bullshit from... yes, a douche bag.

I feel so guilty! I'm white and I work for my own money... well, half of it. The non-workers get half. Wonder if this clown knows he has a self-refuting argument - you won't be racist if you are racist against white-working-male-conservatives.

This reminds me of Why Do You Think You Think? by Floyd Ferris, PhD

I got a ways in and determined that he is a Douchebag and PROUD of it.

When describing himself he forgot to add, "who is irrelevant and so will be increasing his volume in a vain, desperate attempt to seem relevant. Y'know, like labor unions."

It troubles me that this is even a subject for discussion when so many other really important problems troubling our world today.

I stopped reading when he lumped Redskin in with his list of obvious slurs.

This article was the longest diatribe of crap I ever read (well, part of it anyways). I could not finish it. I had to stop when it said Romney was a douchebag but Biden wasn't!!! As far as the Michael Brown part, the evidence that came out today proves that he was not killed in cold blood by a white cop just killing another black man.

Why are there not riots when a black cop guns down a white man???

For someone to be a racist, they have to first be a collectivist, have to ascribe certain characteristics to individuals based on their collective genetics, to their collective "class," to their collective station in life.

The word "prejudice" stems from "pre judge." Prejudging is irrational, by definition, especially when the prejudgment stems from or focues on an awareness of color or ethnicity, etc.

A rational person judges persons on behaviors, those "actions" that lead to consequences. If there are no actions from which to draw conclusions, there cannot be a rational judgment made about a person. A black person walking down the street cannot be judge as a nigger unless the judging person is a collectivist that ascribes nigger to all blacks. That is not rational.

I call people names based on their behaviors and judge their behaviors based on the consequences. Good consequences, good names. Bad consequences, bad names. WHAT people DO is the determining factor, nothing else.

come on!!! take a few facts, throw in an unhealthy mix of forbidden fruit, and voila! i suggest the author take a mental douche (please don't use lysol)

There are no races in our species. Race is a social construct created by social scientists to support their issue advocacy once the science was clear that there are no races in our species. Racism exists because some people still believe that there are races in our species and that some non existent races are inferior/superior to other non existent races.