A New York Times columnist writing in the digital magazine The Root declared “whiteness” a “pandemic” and said the “only way to stop it” is to “kill it.”
“Whiteness is a public health crisis,” said New York Times columnist Damon Young in an op-ed. “It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.”
Young, who is listed on the New York Times website as a “contributing opinion writer,” wrote the op-ed in response to shootings in Georgia on Wednesday that killed eight people at Atlanta-area massage parlors. Six of the eight victims were Asian, prompting some to immediately speculate that the killings were a hate crime. But investigators said that the gunman, 21-year-old Robert Long, appeared to be motivated by “sexual addiction” and said that the slayings were not “racially motivated.”
“White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect,” Young Continued. “Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.”
Young argued that “a line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist” in Georgia “to the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year,” which he blamed on former President Donald Trump, who he claimed, “Can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans.”
“It extends back 400 years and has tentacles clawing everywhere white supremacy exists here, in America, which is everywhere,” Young said, citing the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue and the 2015 Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shootings.
Young also pointed to what he argued are examples of everyday racism.
“But also to gentrification, to red-lining, to racial profiling, to gerrymandering, to voter oppression, to mass incarceration, to the war on drugs, to the subprime mortgage crisis, to the vast disparities in both COVID deaths and who receives COVID vaccinations, to how the men and women who stormed the Capitol just went home and had dinner with their families afterward,” Young said.
In 2018, the New York Times editorial board hired Sarah Jeong, despite her history of anti-white tweets, saying she was justified because she was responding to “online harassment” when she wrote “Dumbass f—ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants” and, “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.”
Jeong left the board in 2019 and is now a contracted contributor for the New York Times.
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