The government will happily help you with the leave nothing behind part.....possibly even before you go

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.

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)

I start to bristle every time I hear someone go on about some "privilege" I am supposed to have had, presumably at the expense of someone else. I got where I am by my own efforts, starting from nothing. I plan to leave nothing when I go.

How about 'Green'? That way you can be a race-of-one* get a chance to be prejudiced against 7 billion people? (Just kidding - I like your answer and will use it in the future.)

Jan
*OK, OK. Other than those with methmoglobinemia. 'Cummon, cut me some slack for a joke.

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.

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.

That is the best way of stating the truth I've heard in a long time.
I agree with you 100%!!!

I feel that our current federal administration (especially Holder) has done more than anyone, even more than Al Sharpton, to insure that racism exists and grows stronger in this country. It even feels to me that they have tried to push buttons to try to get the people to riot. I often wonder if this is their intent or just an error in their method.

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.

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

Racial slurs are a statement of opinion concerning ones behavior, not race. Example: The author of the original diatribe, above, IS a douche (Bag, if you wish).

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

"Racism is racism. And only someone who accepts it can argue the need to name it."
GODS' HAIRY BALLS!
what about reason?

I think the author self labelled with the title

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!

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

Agreed; Racism is racism. And only someone who accepts it can argue the need to name it.