It depends on what you mean by that. I celebrate my Celtic ancestry in events and artwork, including bumper stickers. I encourage my mixed-race daughter to take pride in all of her forbears. I have a friend who’s very proud of his German heritage and ancestors.
Being proud of having skin with a high tendency to sunburn would be pretty weird, though, and probably abnormal. And identifying with completely unrelated people based on melanin deficiencies seems more like an obsequious toadying to power based on imaginary commonalities than any true ethnic pride.
Yep, in both positive and negative ways, sho nuff.
But King’s going to have to make a better construction than just this implicit culturalism, racist dog-whistling, and explicit religious bigotry if he really wants to get into Tautology Club.
Something like “Western Civilizations have done more Western Civilizing than any identifiable group that hasn’t” would be more apropos.
