Glenn Beck is positioning himself to be King of the Whiny Right – the master propagandist of conservative, white male victimhood. Everywhere and every day, right-wingers, conservative Christians, gun owners, businessmen, and especially white males are being oppressed, according to the narrative of the Whiny Right. Here’s a particularly galling example of this culture of white victimhood from the Glenn Beck show:
BECK: Why were they asking the race question, you said when, in 1790? … Right, they want to know, do you count as three-fifths? Do you count at all? So, you have to know how many slaves did you have? People find that offensive today because the idea was, if we’re going to count, we want to know how many are here for services etc. etc. and slaves would get less. Well that’s not right. One. One. ‘I’m not three-fifths, I’m one. Whites are not worth than me.’ Now reverse it, why are they asking this question today?
CO-HOST: Because minorities are worth more than whites.
BECK: Exactly right. So you will get more dollars if you are a minority. So you are worth more as a monitory. Well there is no difference. The reason you don’t answer the race question is because one, everyone counts as one. All men are created equal. If you were offended back in 1790 about slavery and that everyone should count the same, do not answer the race question. How dare you. How dare you. At least in 1790, they were doing it to slow the South down on slavery. To try to stop it as much as they can. Today they are asking the race question to try to increase slavery. Your dependence on the master in Washington. No way, don’t answer that question.
Here’s where we are in the victimhood of the right: a white male conservative of questionable intelligence, little education, and with only the skills of a sinister carnival barker is capable of making something like $18 million dollars in a year for his buffoonery, and yet is still willing to compare himself to the plantation slaves of the late eighteenth century.
I’m sure he would gladly trade places with today’s over-privileged minorities, right?