The Self-Defeating “Justice” of Dissing “White People”

Donald Unger
5 min readJan 10, 2019

Oh, Those Hilarious White People!

Up at 5:00 a.m., I start in on the day’s news.

There’s a piece on meditation, in the New York Times, which opens with a description of a group of “Patagonia-clad white people,” which I assume is a play for laughs. The Belladonna Comedy is running an article on “Parenting Tips for Raising a Confident Mediocre White Man.” The New Yorker hits me with “Does the Paint World Need Another White?”

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Donald Unger

I write what I know and what I’ve lived: humor & chronic pain; politics & parenting; business writing & cultural analysis; and . . . ranting (a lot of ranting).