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Clean Water = White SupremacyFrom Tom's newsletter of January 9, 2024 This story, which you may have missed, says so much about so much that I had to share it with you. A YouTuber known as “MrBeast” launched an effort to get clean drinking water to 500,000 Africans. Now surely there can be no controversy here, right? Clean drinking water is a good thing! Well, apparently helping people get clean drinking water is another manifestation of white supremacy. Yahoo ran this headline: “YouTuber MrBeast Builds Wells in Africa, But Receives Criticism for Spotlighting Failures of the Kenyan Government.” Imagine the effort it would take to be on the wrong side of this one. On the one hand, he's bringing people clean water. But on the other, he's showing up the Kenyan government. Let's get him! We shouldn't be all that surprised. Harry R. Lewis, who was Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, recently pointed out just how systematically the weirdo left has extended its reach over the college's offerings: The Harvard online course catalog has a search box. Type in “decolonize.” That word — though surely not the only lens through which to view the current relationship between Europe and the rest of the world — is in the titles of seven courses and the descriptions of 18 more. Try “oppression” and “liberation.” Each is in the descriptions of more than 80 courses. “Social justice” is in over 100. “White supremacy” and “Enlightenment” are neck and neck, both ahead of “scientific revolution” but behind “intersectionality.” When people's minds are deformed like that, it's no surprise that you'd actually hear complaints about a white man bearing clean water. This perpetuates stereotypes that Africa is dependent on handouts, we're told. Not perpetuating stereotypes is more important than clean water, you see. No normal person thinks like this. And while DEI and “anti-racism” try to portray themselves as the very embodiments of justice and solidarity, in practice they're little more than a moralizing veneer draped over venality and avarice. Thus we discover in the Yahoo article that the two people quoted as being unhappy with MrBeast are a Kenyan politician, who of course feels embarrassed that in 2024 he still can't deliver clean water, and the other is a woman who started a nonprofit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called Face Africa, whose latest filing shows they raised $131,000 and spent $83,000 paying themselves. Long live white men bringing clean water. Subscribe to Tom's newletter here. Back To It Takes Brains
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