J.D. Vance's 'White Boy Christmas' and the Myth of Apologizing for Whiteness [View all]

Yes, Christmas has come and gone, but here’s a belated stocking stuffer that comes with a side of dumb political grievance, the kind you unwrap and realize it’s just racism in festive paper: J.D. Vance went to Turning Point’s AmericaFest and announced that Americans “don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

That’s hilarious because nobody asked for a Hallmark apology card in the first place—this man is out here dreaming of a White Boy Christmas, the kind where every ornament is a grievance, every candy cane is a dog whistle, and Santa shows up like, “Ho ho ho, HR is coming for your identity,” while I’m over here dreaming of the kind of Christmas that actually looks like America: a loud, messy, joyful, beautifully diverse holiday table where the playlist can go from Mariah Carey to Vicente Fernández to Tems, where the food has seasoning and history, where the wrapping paper doesn’t double as a Confederate recruitment poster, and where the only thing we’re canceling is the idea that being asked to acknowledge reality counts as oppression.

To reiterate, here’s the news part: Vance closed out Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix by bragging about shoving DEI into what he called the “dustbin of history,” and then he told the crowd: “In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.”

And right there—right at that line—is where you can tell exactly what game he’s playing. Because nobody—literally nobody with a job, bills, and a working frontal lobe—has been standing at the gates of America demanding white folks submit a handwritten apology for the crime of having melanin levels that make sunscreen a suggestion instead of a lifestyle.

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