#IRLScholarPascalBruckner "It is the new key to interpreting everything: the white man (Western and heterosexual) is guilty of everything, yesterday as today. The fall of the Berlin Wall overwhelmed the European left and a new ideology supplanted the class struggle with the conflict of identities. In the sixties and seventies there was a fight for the proletariat, the Third World and the damned of the earth, in the name of a reunified humanity: feminism aimed to restore equality between women and men, anti-colonialism to free colonized and colonizers from a reciprocal relationship of domination, anti-racism demanded respect for all peoples. Today these battles return to Europe from the United States in a deviated form that shifts the terms of the battle on the ground of gender, identity and race, and brings skin color back to the center of the debate. Three new currents of thought - neo-feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial - identify a common enemy in the heterosexual white man. Scapegoat par excellence, the color of his skin designates him as a racist, power as the exploiter of all the oppressed, his very anatomy as a predator by nature. By inserting himself with great strength and a polemical spirit in the contemporary debate, Pascal Bruckner analyzes the effects of these new discourses which hide the contempt for the Enlightenment and humanity in general, and lead to the reappearance on the world of societies folded on their own identity, and to the de facto substitution of one racism with another. We are witnessing, the author denounces, the reversal of progressivism into a new obscurantism." http://www.storiainrete.com/maschio-bianco-il-colpevole-quasi-perfetto/ i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation