Noel Ignatiev, a former steelworker who became a historian known for his work on race and class and his call to abolish “whiteness,” died at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson in 2019. He was 78.
He wrote the infamous book, How the Irish Became White. The book claimed that the Irish became “oppressors” by emulating American whites.
He also wrote an article, “Abolish the White Race,” for Harvard. He was a Harvard Professor at the time. What makes him special is that he exposed the dark underbelly of Progressivism. The truth is that Progressivism relies on hatred of the white race and the desire to abolish all that they are.
The Dangerous Racists of Progressivism
Marxist Noel Ignatiev, a founder of a journal called Race Traitor and a fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute, a leading black-studies department, argued in the 2002 issue of Harvard Magazine that “abolishing the white race” is “so desirable that some may find it hard to believe” that anyone other than “committed white supremacists” would oppose it.
Mr. Ignatiev, a self-loathing white skinned man, wrote that “every group within white America,” including “labor unionists, ethnic groups, college students, schoolteachers, taxpayers and white women,” has at one time or another “advanced its particular and narrowly defined interests at the expense of black people as a race.”
Mr. Ignatiev pledges in the essay that his journal, Race Traitor, intends to “keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.”
Institutional racism exists at Harvard, but it’s against whites
Some of his colleagues at Harvard cite the article as an example of Harvard’s institutional racism.
In a 1997 interview with the New York Times, he was asked if he hates his own white skin. Ignatiev said, “No, but I want to abolish the privileges.”
“The white race is like a private club based on one huge assumption that all those who look white are, whatever their complaints or reservations, fundamentally loyal to the race. We want to dissolve that club, to explode it,” he said.
Christopher Reed, executive editor of Harvard Magazine, defended what Mr. Ignatiev wrote in the September-October issue. “He’s arguing against the mindset and attitude that automatically grants privileges to white people. He wants more fairness,” Mr. Reed said in a statement.
The truth is that white people and Asians worked hard to build this country and build a quality life for themselves and their families. They are targets because of it. No other option is considered.
Demonizing whites has been going on for a long time. It’s stereotyping all white men to the point that the racism against them is insufferable.
Perhaps I should write an article about “Abolish the Black Race” or the Brown Race or something of the sort.
Progressives hate the white race.
Harvard has been trashing white men for at least 23 years.
Hatred against the white race has always been integral to the Progressives (communists and socialists). They have nothing new to offer. They are the same old Bolsheviks they have always been.
Think about it. Progressivism doesn’t work without hatred of whites and DEI and all the other racist lies they pawn on the USA to destroy its very core of equality and freedom.
“The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in U.S. society,” the journal’s mission statement said.
“The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class, gender, or any other interests they hold. The defection of enough of its members to make it unreliable as a predictor of behavior will lead to its collapse.”
Progressives, the anti-white hate group
Among the “privileges” of being white, according to Race Traitor, are not being followed by security in stores, not being harassed by police, having easier access to better schools, jobs, and housing, and not being asked whether skin color or affirmative action got you a job.
In the essay in Harvard Magazine, Mr. Ignatiev says he always expected “bewilderment” at his views from “people who still think of race as biology.”
“We frequently get letters accusing us of being ‘racists’ just like the KKK, and have even been called a ‘hate group,” he wrote.
Mr. Ignatiev isn’t calling for genocide, so I guess the hate is supposed to be okay. “Our standard response is to draw an analogy with anti-royalism: to oppose monarchy does not mean killing the king; it means getting rid of crowns, thrones, royal titles, etc.”
Abolition of a monarchy has often been marked by killing the monarch and sometimes his family members; for example, England in 1649, France in 1792, Russia in 1917, and Iraq in 1958. Even those nations that have abolished kings or emperors without regicide generally have forced the monarch into exile.
The Jewish man said his family was devoid of racial bias. I guess he doesn’t count white race hate as racial bias.
It’s not ok to say this about any group! https://t.co/PzofHZEOsf
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2025
This idiocy has nothing to do with “socialism”. It has everything to do with globalists with their fake “socialism” who push multiculturalism. NS Germany was socialist. Sweden, under Erlander and before Olaf Palme, who pushed multiculturalism in Sweden, was socialist. Socialists are anti-immigration and anti corporate control of government. Immigration is the reserve army of capital. Ignatiev may have been a steel worker, but he was also a Jew who hates “Whites”, just as Soros and the Adelson’s do.
You like the car you drive, thank a white male.
you like the electricity you use; thank a white male
you like your phone, thank a white male.
you like you computer, thank a white male.
shall I go on and on and on.
you want to be a brain dead, chronic complaining freeloader, become a communist.
I don’t know, but it seems to me if it weren’t for white people no one would be able to say, “Hate Whitey!”
Who will be the inventors? Who will win Nobel prizes? Send men to the moon? Develop medicines? Build infrastructures? White people were a critical part in these things. If not for the white man you darkies would still be living in caves.
“The rats are beneath the piles..”
I’m White. And PROUD to be White. Anyone has a problem with that can suicide..save me the ammo
It’s the christian world view that is being attacked. “Hate whitey” plays into the islamist agenda.
I never understood why some white women hate white men. Other than some form of brain washing.
“Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared. The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it. And, superiority excites envy. Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities”
-Joseph Sobran
I think this story misses the mark. Its WHITE MEN who are on the chopping block. They want to cancel white men. White men are considered evil and they are referred to as the “Oppressors”. White men are now at the very bottom of the political totem pole.
But White women are next to the bottom. And several White men and women are self loathing for being White. They’re being taught this in schools these days.
Speak for yourself.. I never needed assistance, I never took a handout. I am a millionaire. And I can buy black people for pennies.
this is the #1 reason all white people should stick together the way blacks have always done. even white liberals should understand they need to support every white person because the group your with wants you dead too. there is nothing wrong with white people being proud to be white.
White Supremcy means white culture. They despise how whites conduct themselves and the standards/values of white people.
One might substitute White Culture for American Culture. They are the same.
The African American Museum in D.C. displayed a poster on what white culture represented: individualism, work ethic, striving for perfection….you know the rest.
The poster was removed.
A few things. First, I am White. I had not one thing to do with it. I was born this way. Anyone that does not like my whiteness can kiss my lily white azz. Second, if whiteness is so d**ned special, why are there so many poor Whites? White people have been running scared of Black people since the 1960’s. Afraid to say one thing negative about them and the Spanish word for Black people a no-no to speak. Worse the N word which is forbidden for me to even write on this site. Yet, slurs like Whitey, cracker, honkey are all OK. Noel Ignoramous didn’t know what the shirt he was talking about. He was making the racial divide wider in his effort to confront what had nothing to do with people with other than white skin. And lastly, if you have problems with people that have a skin color different from yours. You have the freedom in the U.S. to pack up all your shirt and go where there are no Whites. In fact, I encourage you move as far away from America as you can get. And good d**n riddance to you.
ACTUALLY…the more important question…that noboy below has touched on…”progressivism”…progress from what to what…how/why is this “progress”…and if it is absolutely NOT about race…why is everyone who opposes it racists? Sun Tzu said that the fit general selects his battle field. Seems they have chosen to get you to talk about race…while they remain in the shadows…progressing…
I don’t disagree with any of that. The reality is, of course, that it’s convenient for non-whites to scapegoat whites for their own failure to thrive.
White people are “oppressive”. Brown people can’t succeed because white people hold them back….yada, yada.
When the truth is, non-whites have learned that if they sit around on their butts, welfare, paid for by taxpayers, most of whom are white, will cover their lazy butts, while they bitch about “white people”.
It’s past time “white people” tell the bitching non-whites to STFU and start pulling their share of the burden. I’m sick as hell of all of it. I’ve never done a damned thing to prevent non-whites getting ahead. Sick of it…..
I get tired of being discriminated against for being white. And I can tell you from my lifetime experience that there is no such thing as “white privilege”. These marxists can kiss my ass.
There are few if ANY blacks in China. And even fewer in Israel.
Of course….they’re no fools when it comes to gaming the system. They learned long ago that America is where welfare is easy. We taxpayers are pansies ….. suckers.
How’z that make ya feel?
Blacks are followed by security in stores because their crime rates are much higher than ours.
Whites are not forcing blacks to have high crime rates. Blacks are doing that all by themselves without our help.
Hispanics are not as bad but also have relatively high crime rates, higher than white’s.
Whites are not forcing hispanics to have high crime rates. Hispanics are doing that all by themselves without our help.
Blaming whites is illogical, irrational.
It’s important to distinguish Jews from Whites. Most Jews hate Whites as evidenced by their non stop production of anti-White tv shows, commercials, magazines, movies.
The whiteness haters completely ignore culture. Why do Asian (e.g. Laotian, Chinese) children seem to excel academically in the USA. in standardised tests like for university entrance exams? Culture! Why are so many black children, in black led cities undereducated The culture of their black elected leaders. …
Its not culture. Races are different. Google global IQ and click images
That’s correct. My father was a life-long PhD university educator in the field of physics. He had personal contact with blacks in his field of expertise, and he unequivocally voiced the opinion that blacks were less capable of grasping the concepts.
It IS, what it IS.
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