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| I am all the reasons Trump beat Clinton – I am the ‘white middle-aged male’ category of voter that has made The Donald President of the USA.
Most of you reading this will hate me, but it’s men like me who won. Most young people wanted Hillary, but we over-45s have forced Trump on you. Most women wanted Hillary, but we men have forced Trump on you. Most Black and Minority Ethnic people wanted Hillary, but we whites have forced Trump on you. Most LGBT people wanted Hillary, but we straight men have forced Trump on you.
I have White Male Privilege and all the other privilege you can think of – well educated, comfortably off, etc. I know I am sexist and misogynistic, racist and xenophobic, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic, anti-LGBT and anti-Choice, right-wing and unsympathetic to the poor and those on welfare. I don't choose to be all those bad things – it’s just part of who I am because of my Privilege.
Privileged white males like me had no right to force our candidate on the majority of Americans, and I am ashamed that we did. I know I don’t deserve my unearned privilege, and I know it means I don’t deserve the right to hold and express my bad attitudes and opinions. Women, ethnic and religious minorities and the LGBT community are going to suffer the consequences of Trump’s victory, whereas it is privileged white males like me who should be the ones made to suffer.
So I offer myself as a ‘whipping boy’ to anyone who is horrified and disgusted by Trump’s victory. Please take out your anger on me – through verbal abuse or physical abuse. Punish me for the pain and suffering now being inflicted on you and people like you. Forcibly re-educate me – crush my white male privilege and force me to show the proper respect to women and to gay men, to Black, Jewish and Muslim people.
I know my humiliation, degradation and pain cannot right the wrong inflicted by my fellow white men on America, but it is the only way I myself can atone for that wrong. And if hurting me can give you any small satisfaction, then I will be pleased that I have repaid just a tiny part of my debt of guilt.
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