How easy it is to call someone a racist

My 87-year-old buddy plays handball twice a week with three other octogenarians.  Their YMCA has two handball courts, one of which is preferred because the lighting is better.  One day, the senior athletes arrived at the Y only to discover four black women doing their stretching workout on the good handball court.

The men, all of whom are white, politely asked the women if they wouldn’t mind doing their exercises on the other court so the men could play ball on the court with decent lighting.  The women agreed and moved to the other court.

Five minutes later, a member of the YMCA staff informed the handball players that they would have to relinquish their court to the women.  Then the staff member lowered the boom.  The women had claimed the men had used the N-word.  Horror of horrors!  Send in the Marines.

The men categorically denied the charge.  It didn’t matter.  The staff member refused to accept the men’s denial.  The mere accusation by four lying women was sufficient to establish that the men were racists.  The women were not challenged because convicting a white person of racism without proof is part of the liberal playbook.

Welcome to the left’s new rule for establishing culpability: a mere allegation of racism is sufficient to convict.  Say goodbye to the bulwark of our legal system.  If you are white, you are guilty of racism until proven innocent.

“Yesterday’s race baiters were brutal white bullies,” said author Ben Shapiro.  “Today’s are left-wingers invoking fictional white racism to achieve their goals.”

Cut to the present.  I had the temerity to write a book entitled The War on Whites: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.  My thesis is that while blacks traditionally have been the objects of racism, the tables have turned, and now whites are being demonized, marginalized, stereotyped, denigrated, and suppressed at every turn.

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