Nuked by YouTube: Discussion/Debate with Patrick Casey on Race, Ethnicity and Religion

Patrick Casey and I got into a disagreement on Twitter over this notion of "white" and its salience. He suggested I come onto his podcast to discuss the issue.

*Note* — YouTube has decided that this conversation, and all the others which Patrick Casey has had, are too dangerous, disturbing, offensive, harmful or what not for you to hear what we had to say. I have decided to leave this post here to remind you that the regime does not want you thinking for yourself.

What should we think about the category of “white”? I am of the mind that while it is not completely without content, it is the highest level of abstraction in which to group those people, likely of European descent, with light skin. My argument in a recent Twitter thread was that if this is the primary way that you think of yourself in terms of your own identity, that is pretty, thin, lacking substance. You are a mass man, largely deracinated, cut off from more grounded, thicker forms of self-understanding. It makes you vulnerable to propaganda manipulation by both enemy and so-called friends. Patrick disagreed. And after our Twitter exchange, he reached out to say that perh…