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Those Other White People

JL;DR SUMMARY Leighton Woodhouse explores the dynamic within certain liberal circles where white people criticize other white people in an attempt to denounce their racial identity and display "allyship." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryEastern European JewsLiberalismWhite PrivilegeGerman JewsRacial IdentityRaceSocial HierarchyElitismClass

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United States
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New York, United States
"At the time, the United States power elite was dominated by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). But many Jews had also found prosperity in New York."
West Virginia, United States
"In 2019, for example, the state with the highest drug overdose rate in America was West Virginia."

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