If the left really took itself seriously, or, to put it another way, the right was interested in engaging in the kind of silliness that is the left’s enterprise of choice, the following terms would have entered our vocabulary long ago. Some of these terms have actually appeared, but because they militate against the left’s ideological vision and political agenda, they have gained very little traction. Others needed to be created.
For the benefit of all right-wingers, I offer their own Politically Correct (Politically Incorrect?) speech code, chock-full of examples of micro-aggressions!
I.CAUCASOPHOBIA/EUROPHOBIA: Throughout the contemporary world, particularly the Western world, overt manifestations of this animus toward Caucasians or people of European decent, i.e. whites, are in ample supply. Calls for white genocide and the like, “affirmative action,” and racially-motivated attacks against whites by nonwhites are some of the most obvious illustrations of Caucasophobia.
Yet this endemic disease expresses itself covertly as well. Being subconscious, covert Caucasophobia is potentially more invidious than its self-conscious counterpart. The reality and ubiquity of this covert Caucasophobia is established by way of two phenomena: institutional or structural Caucasophobia, on the one hand, and, on the other, the countless, everyday micro-aggressions committed by way of the seemingly most innocuous uses of the English language.
That there is indeed institutional Caucasophobia is borne out by the following considerations:
Whites constitute about two-thirds of America’s population, and yet less than 10% of all professional basketball players and about 20% (or less) of all professional football…