What matters is what it means to the people crying about it; which appears to be a disjointed mish-mash of all the misguided bullshit that they've been conditioned to hate about their own Civilization, which they rail about from within the safety and comfort of that very environment, no less.

@rway What do you think whiteness means to the author?

@WilyRickWiles same... he's just another run-of-the-mill racist trying to blame everything he hates on the predominant hue of the people involved. It's the depth of analysis that you normally get from a seven-year old.
I wonder if he dismisses shoddy, exploitative manufacturing as just an unavoidable symptom of Yellowness...
Or child-warriors as an inevitable characteristic of Blackness.

What does Blackness mean to you?

@WilyRickWiles

It certainly appears to the author that the majority of the population is an existential threat to his existence...or at least a threat to his ability to undermine the system that is enabling him to live in wealth and comfort

@Sensrhim4hizvewz, @rway Neither of you answered! How can you be so upset about the threat of something you can't even describe?

@WilyRickWiles

"Whiteness" means nothing to me. I never wrote the article and I disagree with the whole concept of "whiteness" because it is a term that could describe ANYTHING the left wants to vilify. "Whiteness" could mean wealth. It could mean intelligence. It could mean European descent. It could mean a skin color. It could mean an area or region. Whatever the left wants to attach the word "whiteness" to in order to vilify the system that allows them to prosper

@Sensrhim4hizvewz I could publish an article full of nonsense words and you would surely think it was stupid, especially if I insisted that you agree with me and use my language. But it sounds like you think the author's words aren't just stupid but dangerous and evil. So much that he should be deported. You must have some opinion of what he means by that word, for you to have such a strong opinion. Unless you're just triggered by people saying anything critical about white people and want to shut down that discourse.

@WilyRickWiles

No, I must not have an opinion on a ludicrous terminology that I never invented and do not agree with. What does greenness mean? What does blueness mean? What does purpleness mean? It all means anything you want it to. Stating that someone "must have an opinion" is gaslighting because I don't recognize the term "whiteness". It's like the term dryness or hardness. Those are terms of relativity.

If you have decided "whiteness" means something terribly bad and something very negative, then that is what it means.....TO YOU! To me, it has NO meaning whatsoever

@Sensrhim4hizvewz Would you demand deportation for someone writing about some other noun like "shortness" or a completely made up one like "plurmness?" Surely there is something about your understanding of this particular word or its specific meaning to the author that makes the difference.

@Sensrhim4hizvewz A word does not have a "terribly bad" meaning to me just because you speculate that it COULD have some undefined "terribly bad" meaning

@Sensrhim4hizvewz To be sure, the meaning of language is subjective, but through discourse it's possible to arrive at a shared understanding that approximates each individual's objective meaning.

@Sensrhim4hizvewz Even though the underlying meanings are objective, you still don't HAVE to agree on a person's intent or whether their thoughts are coherent. But if you are choosing to respond with violence to someone's language without any theory of what they mean, it suggests you DO have one, it's just unconscious. Because again, you demonstrably respond differently to the word "whiteness" than you do other words that either aren't defined or aren't racial, while claiming the same non-theory of meaning. There's a hidden variable there.

@WilyRickWiles It seems you missed my description of the term...
Whiteness seems to mean, to the people who use the term: "Everything that they have been conditioned to hate about Western Civilization."
...which changes all the time, even from one example to another, which is what happens when you have no real Principles.

The fact that trying to clarify what in the hell they are talking about, is like trying to nail Jello to the wall... is simply the norm for ALL of their (the "Left's", in general) poorly-conceived, intentionally-vague, and internally-inconsistent dogma.

To actually say what they mean, and to stand behind it with anything resembling conviction, doesn't appear to be in their nature.
That's because what defines them in the first place, is the collective swallowing of a hive belief system than simply doesn't make any sense if you look at it too closely.
Accordingly; being vague, noncommittal, and hypocritical are core tenets of the Leftist religion.

Cultural Marxism attempts to leverage the inherent racism of Collectivists against political ideas, by painting those ideas with the racial label of "Whiteness". Which is utterly disjointed and baseless, but try explaining that to a bunch of people who's entire view of the world is not grounded in anything real in the first place.
[blank stares....]

@WilyRickWiles You never answered... What does Blackness mean to you?

Surely a comparative analysis will offer some fascinating insight, if not clarity.

@rway If the mere use of the word is evidence of a meaning that shifts but always warrants violence in response, surely there must be a minimal definition of what you think the author means by the word. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to assume that you disagree with the author's usage of the word simply by its presence in a headline. Surely there are valid criticisms of white people, no? Unless you are judging the author by some other attribute, perhaps what network he belongs to, or past statements, but then why highlight this specific headline? I'm assuming here that you share the intentions of the original poster.

@rway Not to mention, you seem to be projecting about a "hive mentality" given that you just vomited a bunch of talking points from the John Birch Society and can't seem to think critically for yourself. We can also debate where Birchers are truly "individualists" if you prefer.

@rway In terms of how I use the word "whiteness," the root of the word is "white," a socially-constructed class that has historically been given legal preference centered around a judgement of skin pigmentation. "Whiteness" just means being white. Who has the ability to grant whiteness? The power elite, who created the social construct of whiteness and deemed themselves white.

So if you affirm whiteness, i.e. claim that you are white and other people are not, especially from a place of power, or affirm laws or power structures that do, you are perpetuating a social construct that has no real basis (and to think you're accusing people who criticize whiteness of being detached from reality) and is racially supremacist.

The only sense race is real is in the sense that it is imposed, creating an overclass of people who deem themselves collectively white (and to think you're accusing people who criticize whiteness of being collectivists), and an underclass of people who are deemed Black (or non-white). Because of that history, USians of colonial European descent and USians descended from slaves, who have various cultural traditions, are highly correlated with those respective imposed racial classes. The project of abolishing whiteness is the work of removing affirmation of that false, supremacist, social construct of whiteness from those cultures and the law.

@rway And yes, removing white supremacy from the law does not just mean changing the letter of the law, though the Constitution for example still privileges white men who own property, it effectively requires changing the balance of power so that people who affirm whiteness no longer hold it and people of color and all working class people are meaningfully represented. That is what was sought unsuccessfully by the projects of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. It is something that mere individualism--e.g. platitudes about changing hearts--will not solve.

@rway I think that answers your question for me, if indirectly, and despite you still not having answered mine. I guess I was feeling charitable, lol.

I found it.
[aljazeera.com]

Yea I do. You type the title of the article followed by a comma and then the Bolshevik's name

[aljazeera.com]

@FEWI, @Sensrhim4hizvewz Thank you!