Legacy media, college professors, nonprofits, and celebrities vilify "whiteness" not Irishness or Frenchness. There is an entire industry devoted to blaming “whiteness” — and its sinister traits like punctuality, equal application of the law, "reverence for the written word," and common law — for the country’s problems, and they want it expunged, or at least heavily diluted from its future. Telling those who are being constantly demonized that they should not feel ashamed of their heritage is a good thing—and necessary—and it's not a slight to any other race or group. The best path to a colorblind society is "everyone can be proud of whatever they want," but our institutions and laws should be authentically colorblind. As it is currently, our political/cultural/academic regime has marked "whiteness" as the scapegoat, and our institutions are flagrantly discriminatory.