Richard Hanania

That's capitalism.

Trump arresting immigrants?

Somehow that's capitalism too.

It's true that our society is very capitalist, and that capitalism touches in some way upon almost everything.

But that gets laundered into an excuse to believe you're being a good communist by hating everything about everything.

In the same way, 60% of Americans are white.

The white fraction of the most powerful Americans, and among the forebears who got us into this position, is even higher.

Say that you hate everything and you sound like a nihilist who is hard to take seriously.

Say that you hate white people or white culture or whiteness, and this is broad enough to give you an excuse to hate every specific thing without having to admit you are doing this.

This is my true objection to the term boomer.

By this point, every institution in the world is either run by boomers, used to be run by boomers, or was shaped by boomers in some way.

It's a cheap way of hating everything.

One might argue that at least anti-boomerism has a time limit.

At some point they'll be gone, and people will have to blame something else.

Still, this is a double-edged sword.

You shouldn't be racist or sexist.

But if you have to be one or the other, be racist.

You can be racist purely and honestly, but if you're hetero, then sexism will inevitably make you miserable.

It can't help but be a love-hate relationship.

Yet ageism is even worse.