By Selwyn Duke

“The white race is the cancer of human history,” wrote novelist Susan Sontag in 1967. Her position was no surprise. She was merely expressing the common leftist lament that white people birthed the civilization they hate, Western civilization. Precisely two decades later, for instance, race hustler Jesse Jackson, characterizing Stanford University’s Western culture course as too white and male, led the campus chant, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture’s got to go.” Yet this is nothing compared to more recent times, as the demonization of whites has reached a fever pitch with a phenomenon I have dubbed “caucaphobia.”

Sontag made no bones about why she was indicting whites, as the context of her statement makes clear. To wit: “If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization.… The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.”

Sontag cut her teeth as a fiction writer, and her attempts at commentary were clearly her worst fiction.

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