Try To Be Less White

I had a real adventure trying to find a picture to illustrate this post. After a week of Mars rover specials on TV, plus the usual History Channel fare, I was beginning to realize the world is still run by upper-class white ladies who all look the same, because no matter how many transsexuals, blacks, Latins, Asians, or whatever else they have on the show to explain things, there's always -- always -- an upper-class white lady to endorse whatever is said, although the lizard people have given everyone else an approved script as well.

So, knowing what I was looking for, I started doing google image searches for "upper class wasp woman look", and sure enough, I got mostly picures of insects, with a few 19th century sketches of period fashion as well. I tried variations. "Understated elite look" brought, remarkably, ladies in bikinis. "Upper class look" brought ladies in big hair.

Finally, as a last ditch effort, I hit on it: "Sally Quinn". That was exactly what I wanted. I kept thinking of the woman I'd seen on the History Channel last night explaining McDonald's and fast food to everyone, though I'm not sure if a lady like that ever visits a fast food joint. But it was apparently important that an upper class lady with just that look explain fast food to the rest of us.

"Those white ladies are never going to go away," I told my wife.

"You're right," she said.

It was just the icing on the cake that in my search for pictures of Sally Quinn, back in the 1990s apparently she thought Dr Fauci was hot:

In 1991, Sally Quinn—doyenne of the Washington intelligentsia, who was then on a streak of popular novels—published “Happy Endings,” which climbed the bestseller list. Across 500-plus pages, Quinn unspools the juicy romance of a widowed First Lady who falls head over heels for a dashing and cutting NIH scientist. . . who goes by the name of Michael Lanzer.

Or better known by his real name: Anthony Fauci.

In the best Washington tradition, this sort of Washington insider novel is ghostwritten, with the Washington celebrity lending her name to the product for a big fee. This is the manufactured world these people inhabit.

Whiteness is in the news due to a recent flap over a Coca-Cola employee sensitivity program that instructed the hired help to abjure whiteness:

The tips to “be less white” included: “be less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive, be more humble, listen, believe, break with apathy,” and “break with white solidarity.”

Another slide tells viewers that in order to confront racism, they must understand “what it means to be white, challenging what it means to be racist.”

But neither Dr Fauci nor Sally Quinn will change their ways. In fact, they'll lecture the rest of us on our whiteness, implicitly using themselves as examples of good white people.

A Romanian YouTuber on the channel Romanian TeeVee got it right, I think: the Try To Be Less White campaign is directed at the plebs, who've been subjected to racial hiring quotas since the 1970s. It's all meant to get the plebs, black, white, yellow, brown, whatever, to squabble with each ofher while the white people in charge deliberately lower their living standards.

The business of masks, wind power, and artificial beef are all on the white people's agenda.