‘White guilt’ is vanity posing as virtue
Twenty-five years ago, the American filmmaker Michael Moore published Stupid White Men, a book that not only assails America’s ruling class, but also constitutes a wholesale slander of this particular demographic. The chapter ‘Kill Whitey’ is devoted to deploring what Moore regards as the most execrable aspects of white American culture. Despite being released shortly after the September 11 attacks of 2001, Stupid White Men proved a roaring success.
- ▪Twenty-five years ago, the American filmmaker Michael Moore published Stupid White Men, a book that not only assails America’s ruling class, but also constitutes a wholesale slander of this particular demographic.
- ▪The chapter ‘Kill Whitey’ is devoted to deploring what Moore regards as the most execrable aspects of white American culture.
- ▪Despite being released shortly after the September 11 attacks of 2001, Stupid White Men proved a roaring success.
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‘White guilt’ is vanity posing as virtue Katharine Birbalsingh was right: it’s the liberal elites who are poisoning race relations by waging war on ‘whiteness’. i Picture by: Getty dataLayer.push({ event: 'author', author: "Patrick West" }) Patrick West Columnist 3rd July 2026 i Picture by: Getty Share Topics Identity Politics Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Twenty-five years ago, the American filmmaker Michael Moore published Stupid White Men, a book that not only assails America’s ruling class, but also constitutes a wholesale slander of this particular demographic. The chapter ‘Kill Whitey’ is devoted to deploring what Moore regards as the most execrable aspects of white American culture.
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