Donald Trump may have a pretty low approval rating, but that doesn’t mean New York Magazine writer Collier Meyerson is willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a single white man in New York City.
According to Meyerson, white men are no longer worth dating, and that’s all Trump’s fault.
The problem, she says, is that white America is largely responsible for his election, and so white people—and in particular, white men—bear the responsibility for Trump’s actions. And even white men who strive to understand what it’s like to be a member of a marginalized group in Trump’s America have to be told of their white privilege, which makes dating them just not worth it. (Meyerson doesn’t disclose her own race in the piece, but in a profile on the site “My Bat Mitzvah Story,” she says her her adoptive mother was African-American and her father was white.)
Meyerson has tried to date white guys, she says. But on the occasions that she’s been out with a white guy, she’s gone to the bathroom or to the bar, checked her phone and miraculously discovered that Trump is, yet again, “attempting to curtail, or has just succeeded in curtailing, the rights of marginalized people.”
She doesn’t provide details, but suffice it to say, it makes having fun with another human being incredibly difficult, when you know that the world is collapsing around you. Or something.
Suffice it to say, being woke in the world can be nothing but a hardship at times.
The good news (or, bad news, as the case may be) is that Meyerson doesn’t exempt liberals from her complete ban on dating white guys. It turns out that liberals may actually be worse, because they can’t understand Meyerson’s plight, even though they try to. The result? A “cartoonish” attempt at wokeness, “filled with performance and self-congratulation.”
So now, until the end of the Trump administration, she suggests that people like her should restrict their dating habits, pairing up only with people who can understand being oppressed.