Just like their counterparts in other societies throughout the ages, schoolchildren in America are taught an official view of history that is carefully vetted by the authorities.
“The white race is the cancer of human history.”1 Susan Sontag’s (pictured right) words of 1967 express the central idea of the age that we live in. In the contemporary view, which I will dub the “whites as cancer” myth in honor of Sontag, whites are a destructive and malign force that is the major source of the world’s suffering. Fifty years ago, the West saw its history as the gradual ascent from barbarism to civilization and from dogmatism to Enlightenment. Today, the West sees its history as the gradual, but still imperfect, conquest of racism. Racism has, in sum, become the defining feature of the West.
This website is dedicated to the proposition that what the “whites as cancer” myth turns reality on its head, or is a sort of lens that shows us an inverted world. In reality, whites are the great benefactors of humanity, and have shown throughout their history a charity, generosity, and capacity for accomplishment that do not have any parallel among the other races of man. The “whites as cancer” myth causes a pervasive distortion of reality that prevents us from understanding and dealing with the problems the West faces.
To be more precise, the myth posits that:
- Whites are the only “racist” race. That is, they are the only race that has believed itself superior to other races, and this belief has led them to treat other races in a uniquely cruel manner.
- White racism and imperialism are the primary explanation for the failings of non-whites.
- Whites deserve no credit for their superior cultural achievement. Indeed, they deserve to be blamed for it, as whites only achieved cultural superiority by keeping non-whites down and by stealing cultural innovations from them.
The “whites as cancer” myth does not affect merely how we view whites. Since it posits that whites are uniquely evil, the myth causes us not only to exaggerate the evil of whites, but also minimize, hide, and apologize for evil committed by other races.
When stated as flatly as this, the myth looks like an absurdity that could never compel any credence whatsoever. Anyone who pays attention to world news knows that races other than whites do show enormous cruelty to people of other races: think of the genocide committed by Arabs on blacks in Sudan, for example. And yet, the myth persists because we so rarely bring ourselves to reflect on it: our belief in the evil of whites is so powerful that it does not occur to us to defend them from slander. Defending the white race seems like defending pure evil.