Crying on Cue

The Performative Weakness of White Women

The burned and mutilated remains of Jesse Washington surrounded by a smiling crowd. (Source.)

This is going to be a story of overt racism. We are a violent species. Let no one tell you anything different. Our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom regularly violently dismember their own. And so do we. When I was a child my father had a collection of textbooks on history and archaeology. For whatever reason I read and reread the one on the Holocaust. I did not at the time understand…