Heather MacDonald: Those Fighting Racism and White Supremacy And Promoting Diversity ‘Should Be Careful What They Wish For’; Says Doing So Will Lead to More Radicalized, Murderous White Men

So now we have Heather MacDonald hating diversity so much, she is justifying White supremacist mass shooters. Seriously.

Conservative writer Heather MacDonald has always been known to be an antagonist against anyone who is critical of racism and especially if the intent is to promote diversity, but a recent column and television appearance might have crossed a rather serious line.

On Aug. 20, MacDonald went on the television program on Fox & Friends to defend Donald Trump against charges of racism, accusing instead the left and the media for being obsessed with white privilege and identity politics. “They’re committed to a narrative that America remains endemically racist, and only they can save minorities from the deplorables who vote for Trump,” she said. “That is a false narrative. This country has changed radically. There is not a single mainstream institution that is not doing everything it can to hire and promote so-called people of color, and I think they’re simply engaged in racial division.”

MacDonald’s assertion that fighting racism is actually promoting it, was amplified even more as she went on to promote a false narrative of her own, blaming those that do with radicalizing Whites should they continue. “They want to see Whites as the enemy and the thing that I worry about most is that this is creating a tribal identity politics,” she said. “It is inevitable that some White people are going to say, ‘Well, if you’re talking about toxic White privilege all the time, toxic White male privilege, and you’re giving us a White identity, we will embrace that too. And this is going to be a very hard thing to pull back on, but it is up to the sources of this false narrative and this dangerous narrative, those sources being initially the left wing academy that sends this stuff into the mainstream body politic to pull back on this rhetoric.”

MacDonald later will further this assertion with a particularly chilling aside: “(T)o be honest, you know, I think (with) these mass shootings, although they are a miniscule proportion of gun homicides in this country, we are giving these alienated young white males who are cut off from family from traditional sources of meaning a pariah identity that is going to have some effects.”

MacDonald was on the program to promote her Wall Street Journal column where she again blamed talk of racism for White racist mass shooters. “To note the inevitability of white identity politics in no way condones the grotesque violence of men like the El Paso killer. But the dominant culture is creating a group of social pariahs, a very small percentage of whom—already unmoored from traditional sources of meaning and stability, such as family—are taking their revenge through stomach-churning mayhem,” she wrote. “Overcoming racial divisiveness will be difficult. But the primary responsibility rests with its main propagators: the academic left and its imitators in politics and mass media.”

In the article, she accused the left of scapegoating heterosexual white males and celebrating other cultures, terming it “identity politics” which she said fueled the Democratic Party. “But its advocates should be careful what they wish for,” she wrote. If ‘whiteness’ is a legitimate topic of academic and political discourse, some individuals are going to embrace ‘white identity’ proudly.”

According to a January 2019 report by the Anti-Defamation League, all of the extremist killings in the United States in 2018 had some kind of connection to right wing extremism. In July and August,  two mass shootings, one in El Paso, and another a week before in Gilroy, CA, are said to have been committed by individuals harboring White supremacist views. In the weeks that followed, 31 persons threatening to commit similar violence have been arrested, and of them, at least four of them have reportedly been connected to right wing extremism. One of the arrested, James Reardon of Ohio, participated in the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia almost two years before, and was seen in videos of that day holding the flag of the neo-fascist group Identity Evropa.

Meet wannabe mass shooter James Reardon. pic.twitter.com/PjJamJ1tn1

— Idavox (@IdavoxOPP) August 22, 2019

On Monday, the day before MacDonald’s Fox and Friends appearance, two members of the violent neo-fascist group Proud Boys were convicted in New York City of assaulting anti-fascist protesters during a street fight last year after an event at the Metropolitan Republican Club featuring its founder Gavin McInnes, which brought the total to eight of those prosecuted in that assault with one pending.

MacDonald has a history of targeting persons of color, doing so by first dismissing any charges of unfair practices against them to be untrue and a manifestation of left wing propaganda, then just as immediately blaming persons of color of instigating those practices if they indeed occurred. When she comes to the defense of police, she has said that law enforcement is not racially biased, and, as she noted in an article, “the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police,” citing crime statistics showing Black males are more violent than police officer. She has also suggested that a spike in violent crime four years ago was due to what she called the “Ferguson Effect”, police deciding not to be active in Black neighborhoods in the wake of the Mike Brown shooting by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. At the time several law enforcement experts, including then FBI Chief James Comey said they found no evidence of a Ferguson Effect having an impact on crime statistics. In 2001, she wrote an article defending racial profiling by first defending it to be a “myth” while at the same time urging that “the anti-‘racial profiling’ juggernaut must be stopped, before it obliterates the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in inner cities,” and that “Despite the hue and cry, there is nothing illegal about using race as one factor among others in assessing criminal suspiciousness.” MacDonald also aggressive law enforcement against those of Middle Eastern decent, saying, “A country has an obligation to gather the intelligence needed to keep its citizens safe. When the threat is Islamic terrorism, that intelligence-gathering will by definition concern itself with Muslim targets; that is not invidious racism, it is a tautology.” Ironically, given her position on White Nationalist mass shooters, where she absolves those shooters of blame and says the charges of racism fuels the rise to it, MacDonald has not given such a pass to those who are radicalized against the West. “The liberal intelligentsia’s reflexive blaming of Western society for anti-Western barbarity is the ultimate act of narcissism,” she wrote. “That intelligentsia believes that everything that happens is about us. In fact, it’s not. The remaining pockets of savagery in the world exist independently of the West.”

In February, approximately 100 students at Penn State protested her appearance there.