Membership Has Its Privileges

Satire is the savior of liberty. No other art is as powerful, for satire reveals the absurdities and contradictions of those who seek to control us. So long as satire exists, so long as publishers have the right to print it and speakers have the right to say it, liberty will not die. So long as one person writes satire, the idea of liberty will live. Satire makes life tolerable, particularly when all other means of amelioration are rare. Satire, in short, is humor in the midst of pain. No wonder tyrants are unfunny. No wonder every leftist movement is a target for satire. Kudos then to A.J. Rice, author of The White Privilege Album, whose sense of humor is as keen as his sense of duty. Rice mocks the left, triggering the woke and exposing the Trans Mafia, with style. His book is a call to laugh—and a guide to study, in defense of the best of Western civilization.

The book is also a wake-up call, admonishing the reader to save America from the insanity of wokeness. If we are to expel the woke mob from the classroom, if we are to arrest the mob’s infiltration of colleges and universities, we must first arrest the members themselves: the vandals, the trespassers, the occupiers, the lawbreakers—the criminals—who have no right to violate students’ civil rights. If the mob harasses a white student or ostracizes a black student, if the mob targets one or both based on politics or religion, the mob is guilty. If we do nothing to stop the mob, we are guilty. We must not allow the mob to bring the intifada home, resulting in violence against Jews and threats against Christians. At stake is nothing less than the survival of our Judeo-Christian society.

Rice emphasizes the moral stakes of this war for intellectual freedom. He shows the reader how tyrannical and zealous the mob is. Most importantly, he shows how unfunny the mob is. As a study of how the mob works, of its worship of power and its mindless devotion to ideology, the book is a must-read. As a study of the mob’s discontent, of its collective self-hatred, the book is an indictment of the evils of collectivism. The woke mob, BLM, the Trans Mafia—misery pervades these groups.

About the misery of the Trans Mafia, about the actions of the Trans Mafia, the evidence is indisputable. Rice marshals the evidence with skill. No other group is as vicious as the Trans Mafia. No other group is as violent as the Trans Mafia. No other group is as vehement about spreading a lie—a slander against man and a blasphemy against God—than the Trans Mafia; for the Trans Mafia wants us to believe gender is a lie, that boys want to be girls and girls want to be boys. It is no exaggeration to say the Trans Mafia is the enemy of all that is good and true, for its wants are wanton. It is impossible to exaggerate how evil the Trans Mafia is, because the corruption of the young—the maiming and dismemberment of children—beggars description.

All is not lost, however. As Rice explains, we can still win; we must win, because we cannot cede our institutions to the antidemocratic forces of the left. We must not cede our humanity either. Only by pointing out the absurdity of the enemy, of its hatred of dissent and its disdain for creativity, can we remember to laugh at—to mock—the enemy. The White Privilege Album does this—and more.

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Loren Kalish is a writer and consultant. He is at work on a novel.