The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart

by Jeremy Carl, Chris Reilly (Narrator)

Anti-white racism, undisguised and unembarrassed, is now official policy in America.

One class of citizens—whites—is openly discriminated against in every sphere of public and private life. The Unprotected Class is a comprehensive explanation of how we got here and what we must do to correct a manifest—and dangerous—injustice.

Launched with an appeal to justice for all, the civil rights movement went off the rails even as it achieved its original goals. Soon its excesses and failures were exploited to justify discrimination against whites in business, education, law, entertainment, and even the church. With the death of George Floyd and the shedding of all pretense of racial justice, vindictiveness, resentment, and hatred were unleashed in America.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History, Race, Cultural, Sociology, Society

13 pages, Audible Audio

First published April 23, 2024

Reviews

[Mollie Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Be Bold: read the book. It behooves no American, Canadian, or European of any color, race, religion, or ethnicity not to know how we got here, where it comes from, why it's happening, and what we can do about it. Be Bolder: let others know you read it, liked it, and recommend it.

[Rachel Schultz · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'll take books that shifted the overton window for $1000 please

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book covers a lot of ground! A clear and dispassionate summary of various policy and culture shifts which display an anti-white animus, as well as suggestions for how to remedy this. Probably best read in conjunction with other civil rights books, since each chapter could easily be expanded into its own book.

[Kyle Grindberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bracing and bold book, and wonderfully doesn't fall into the weaponizing victim-status trap.

[Barry Welsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart is a thought-provoking and powerful exploration of race relations in contemporary America. The author tackles a controversial and often overlooked aspect of racial discourse—anti-white racism—offering a fresh perspective that challenges prevailing narratives. With sharp analysis, compelling arguments, and a deep understanding of the complexities surrounding racial dynamics, the book encourages critical thinking and invites readers to reconsider their assumptions. It is an essential read for anyone interested in the evolving conversations on race and equality, delivering both insight and a call for unity in a divided society.

[John Stevenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bold book with thought-out steps to reverse the current trajectory. It is well worth the time to read.

[David Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone needs to read this.

[Eddie Kaiger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic

[Sean McGowan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good.

[Charles Haywood · Rating 5 out of 5]

A society, or part of it, always adopts definite modes of thought, speech, and action. And in time, inevitably, at least in modernity, those modes shift radically. What was once unthinkable suddenly becomes not only thinkable, but is everywhere, and the change is unstoppable, at all levels. This process has little to do with rational choice, even if the changes are abstractly entirely rational. We are almost at this tipping point with the realization by white people in America that they must act as a group to protect and advance their interests, just as every other group already does in America. Jeremy Carl tells us how we got here, in this excellent and extremely timely book, and what we should do to encourage and manage this process.

One term for this social process is “preference cascade.” What usually triggers such preference cascades is new information combined with fresh realization of personal interest. People will rarely adopt views, especially public views, directly opposing what they perceive (accurately or not) to be a core societal consensus. Placing yourself crossways to supposed norms is risky, and even aside from risk, most people desire to be seen as a member in good standing of a society. Or, put more bluntly, most people are sheep. If, however, they obtain new information, if they realize that many others in fact think thoughts contrary to what the supposed consensus dictates, and even more if personal self-interest also militates for something different, a change of views, first privately, then publicly expressed, is likely to happen. And with each such change, the next one becomes more likely, until a cascade results. Soon enough (and this entire process operates in fast-forward today because of the technology of communication), a new, but very different, equilibrium is reached.

For a long time, this process has only ever benefitted the Left, which for decades has controlled the levers of propaganda and social power that allow the manufacturing of supposed consensus. But their power, despite desperate rearguard actions, has eroded in the internet era, and with each fresh attempt at repression, erodes further. The spells, they do not work as they used to. Oh, to be sure, many are still enslaved by the ubiquitous propaganda, and in some ways the atomization driven by the internet does increase Left capabilities to manipulate social views. Still, the preference cascade toward whites treating themselves as a coherent group, one of the existential nightmares of the Left for decades, is nonetheless in full swing. Every other group—Muslims, Jews, blacks, Chinese, whatever—organizes to protect its own interests, and has always done so, and been encouraged to do so by our rulers. But for sixty years, whites in America have been duped and coerced into entirely rejecting this basic element of human nature. No longer.

This book itself is proof of the change; The Unprotected Class could not have been meaningfully published even a year ago (nor would I have written much of what I say here a year ago). Even those on the Right would have viewed it as incendiary; now it just seems to state the needful and obvious. If it had earlier been published by some fringe press, or more likely self-published, it would have been dismissed (and essentially banned, by removing it from all mass market sales platforms). It would only be mentioned as an example of the (imaginary) boiling cesspool of “white supremacy” and “white nationalism” (about both of which more later), the existence of which required the whipping up of even more anti-white hatred. Instead, Carl’s book has gotten significant respectful and positive attention, including his interview with Tucker Carlson being the second-most-viewed video since Carlson launched his network, and encouraging comment from Elon Musk. Only a year ago, saying something as anodyne as “It’s OK to be white” was completely forbidden; it would have been both career- and social status-ending. Now prominent conservatives not only do not flee from it, but they say it, and more, and face no punishment or blowback for their speech.

But the audience for Carl’s book isn’t those who have already passed through the gates of the preference cascade. It is those yet to enter the gates. To this end, he exhaustively documents the simple facts about how whites are systemically disadvantaged and persecuted throughout America today, for an audience that does not already know these facts. He aims to accelerate the cascade, and to offer solutions which thread the needle, restoring justice to white Americans without causing social fracture. A tall order, to be sure. It is, and has been for sixty years or more, an article of faith among any person in good social standing that white people are the major source of injustice in America, and suffer no debilities of any kind. Stripping this delusion from people heavily invested in it their whole lives is no easy task. Moreover, whites do not like the idea they are encouraging racial conflict. We resonate with Rodney King, “Can we all just get along?” Certainly, my interactions with non-white people where I live are, quite literally, uniformly positive. But no, we can’t get along, on any level other than individual personal interaction, until white people are no longer treated as second-class citizens.

Carl begins boldly, and does not fade. He starts with the drug overdose death of the two-bit black criminal scumbag George Floyd, although his terms for Floyd are somewhat more polite, and the resulting imprisonment of the arresting police offers as political prisoners, with judge and jury, and all of white America, under duress from violent threats, from which the government made no effort to shield or protect them, but rather encouraged. He notes that all of this, and all the other massive violence in 2020 collectively known as the Floyd Riots, was wholly based on pure, unalloyed hatred of white people. Then, for the next three hundred pages, Carl relentlessly lays out the facts. None of these facts are disputed or disputable; you are simply not allowed to talk about them, which makes many unaware of them. The only response to stating any of these facts has been to scream “raaaaaacist,” and to attack the speaker. Again, no longer.

As Carl lays out, until 1970, America was nearly ninety percent white, and had always been so. It was “demographically unified.” That is to say, white people made America, the most successful country in the history of the world. Whatever problems America might have had, and they were few, it was those of European descent (which is what “white” means) who created America, and made it great. But beginning in 1964, the Constitution was rewritten in the name of so-called civil rights, to aggressively disadvantage whites at every level of society. (Here Carl extensively cites Christopher Caldwell’s recent The Age of Entitlement, the seminal work on this destruction of the American rule of law.) Freedom of association, long a pillar of American life and supposedly enshrined in the Constitution, was entirely vaporized. Alien legal concepts such as disparate impact were introduced to strip white people of their jobs and rights, and transfer the same to non-whites. Enormous bureaucracies, both inside and outside government, were set up to ensure white people were continuously made inferior citizens in the country they had made.

All this was very successful in its object, as the lived experience of any white person today, if he is honest, reveals. The results speak for themselves—for example, between 2007 and 2016, non-whites gained ten million jobs while whites lost 700,000, and that was before the anti-white frenzy of all major businesses after the Floyd Riots ensured that nearly every new job went to non-white people. Last week, New York proudly announced, without fear of pushback to their technically illegal actions, that the city had awarded contracts worth $2.3 billion to repair JFK Airport; white men need not apply. We could spend all day listing examples, but every white person who chooses not to delude himself knows that he is regarded by all institutions of power as tolerated, at most, and every day he has to struggle uphill against the massive privileges granted non-whites at his expense, institutionalized both in law and in every area of society.

At the same time white people are persecuted, non-whites, especially blacks, continue their long pattern of anti-social behavior. Blacks commit crimes at rates vastly greater than whites, including committing around sixty percent of all murders, despite being only twelve percent of the population, and an even higher percentage of stranger murders. Since 1968, there have been almost 200,000 interracial murders; seventy-five percent have been white victims of black murderers. White flight, and the consequent destruction of white American cities built up over hundreds of years, was not the result of racism. It was because any neighborhood where black people moved in saw crime, including such crimes as violent rape of the elderly, skyrocket, so white people left (with the encouragement of white real estate investors who exaggerated the devastating-enough effects of crime). This ethnic cleansing stole the massive generational wealth of millions of whites. Almost all supposed hate crimes against non-white people are hoaxes (and the innumerable videos you can see online of groups of blacks savagely beating individual whites are never shown in the so-called mainstream media, even though if there were a single such video of whites beating blacks it would be international news for months). Redlining wasn’t racist at all, but highly rational and not directed at blacks. The so-called Central Park Five, a group of black rapists supposedly exonerated, are 100% guilty. Nearly all anti-Asian violence is perpetrated by blacks. And so forth.

The response for decades has been to coddle blacks and pretend that it is somehow the fault of whites that these problems exist among blacks (and, to a lesser extent, among all non-white groups except Asians). Instead of dealing with the pathologies of non-whites in America, government policies across the board are aggressively designed to blame and harm whites. The core dogma that permits this is the falsehood that any differences in outcomes between whites and non-whites are due to white racism, which can never be identified with any specificity, but we are told permeates everything. Thus, the mortgage bailouts after 2008 went vastly disproportionately to non-whites, but were paid for by whites. The set of regulations euphemistically called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing is simply meant to destroy white communities and confiscate their wealth. Schools have indoctrinated children with anti-white hatred, under many names and guises, for decades. Whites are turned away from all good universities in huge numbers, to instead admit grossly unqualified non-whites.

All mass entertainment and advertising is designed to marginalize and demonize whites, to “drive perceptions and changes in the culture” in an anti-white direction. The environmental movement has abandoned actual environmentalism for anti-white activism, the lens through which everything from conservation to climate change is now required to be viewed. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was not racist, but medicine today is—including the infamous widespread explicit preferences for non-whites in treatments for the Wuhan Plague, while non-white (and non-Asian) doctors have much lower levels of competence, a problem getting worse fast. Medicaid, a trillion dollars a year, is mostly paid for by white people and mostly used by non-white people. Mainstream religious denominations are racist against whites; the military is even more so (the cause, naturally, of the massive problems in recruitment), even though most in the military who actually fight are white, including nearly all members of the special forces.

White history, that is, American history, is continuously erased, both in schools and through destruction of monuments, cancellation of holidays, and removal of all memorialization of the white accomplishments that made America and every place in it. Immigration policy is designed to replace white people and thereby transform America by crippling white political power (and America has never been a “nation of immigrants”; if anything, it is a nation of settlers, white settlers, those who came here to risk everything, as opposed to today’s immigrants, who come here for the gibs, including immediate preferences over native whites in employment, education, and benefits). The Democrats are the party of racial resentment; they have not won the white national vote since 1964, even though whites are a supermajority of voters, something unprecedented in history for any multi-racial democracy.

The reader has to take a breath occasionally, a pause from drinking from this gusher of truth. Carl doesn’t ignore subtleties, though, such as the position of Asians in the ubiquitous anti-white framework that makes up America today. Asians occupy a strange lacuna in America—they are overrepresented in many jobs, especially in tech, because they are not as subject to discrimination against them as whites, and because for cultural and genetic reasons many are capable of better average performance on some metrics than whites. They repay this favor by voting for the Left in large numbers. Yet they are, by other non-whites resentful of their success, increasingly lumped in with whites. Where this will lead politically is an interesting question, though a very secondary one to the question of white political action.

Generally, Carl is interested in documentation, not detailed explanation. For example, he briefly discusses the depiction of white and non-white people in entertainment media, including advertising, but does not talk much about precisely why it is that white people (straight white men universally; white women a little less; white homosexuals get a pass) are usually depicted as objects of hatred or as stupid incompetents, or both, while non-white people are depicted wholly unrealistically, both in disproportionate numbers and in their typical actions. And, of course, many white historical figures are depicted as black, as laughable as that is, from Alexander Hamilton to Anne Boleyn. Why? It is not simply to exalt non-whites and give them yet more they have not earned and do not deserve. Rather, it is also a deliberate attack on white people designed to deface their culture. It is the stories of white people which constitute the vast majority of American history; therefore erasing the stories of white people is a way of denying they made America. (Non-whites often project, and claim that their accomplishments have been erased, but the truth is, with a very few exceptions, they have had no accomplishments to speak of, relative to white people in America, so ignoring nonexistent achievements is hardly erasure.) It is also a humiliation ritual, enacted to keep white people feeling low and broken, required to be silent in the face of gross lies, similar to the ancient story of the Chinese emperor who made his courtiers identify a deer as a horse, and executed those who failed to follow his direction, seeing them as threats to his rule.

Carl does not pull punches in demonstrating that other races have consistently shown themselves, on average, to be less able than whites on many axes (except for Asians, who are sometimes more able), which is the real basis of racial differences that our rulers claim are due to white racism. (Bizarrely, huge percentages of self-identified liberals, and even many conservatives, fervently believe that racism is the cause of these differences, though they can never identify any mechanism or examples.) He points out that nearly zero black students score adequately to be admitted to any top law schools—but fewer than thirty percent of the federal judges appointed by “President” Biden are white. The result is rising incompetence among the judiciary. Everyone knows, or at least every lawyer knows, that Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson are dumber than two boxes of rocks. No doubt the cause of these abiding failures relative to whites is both cultural and genetic, but the results are extremely clear, and they have not changed and are not changing, despite trillions being taken from whites to give to non-whites to “redress imbalances.”

Why, however, has all of America become organized around anti-white hatred? Part of the reason is obvious—as Carl titles one of his chapters, “The End Game: Reparations and Expropriation.” “My central contention is that many of the fundamental trends I have outlined serve a common ideological purpose. That purpose is to create an intellectual and cultural environment to justify the expropriation of land, property, and other wealth from whites while instituting a permanent regime of anti-white employment and legal discrimination.” “There is a conscious effort by those in the political system to delegitimize whites and to retell the American story in a way that makes whites the villains to justify expropriating the vast wealth and prosperity produced by whites on behalf of the new American people.” Because whites hold most of the physical value in America, and provide most of the production of new value, seizing their assets is necessary to enrich non-whites. Reparations are only the first step, even though blacks in America are the richest black people on the planet, and many blacks have arrived very recently (such as Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, who count zero slaves among their ancestors). So-called land acknowledgements, of Indian tribes (usually ones who held land because they exterminated the previous inhabitants) are a similar step, which “justify expropriation by putting excessive value on the land itself rather than on its development, which was overwhelmingly accomplished by white Americans.”

“The final destination is a world in which whites have been stripped of political power and resources, which are then redistributed . . . [Review completes as first comment.]

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was well-researched and written in absolute good faith. However, it felt extremely tone deaf and like the author was living in a clear social and political bubble. He implies he didn't write this for other white people, but for everyone. But throughout reading I found myself cringing because I cannot imagine the average leftist person reading this, white or otherwise, without just becoming more enraged at the Evil White Right. Also, the last section about what steps could be made used "we" throughout almost the entire section, implying a United White Club, when I don't feel like the average nonagreeing reader would EVER feel included in that, and it would make them even more hostile.

I just don't agree with this approach. The book described the opposite side clearly and with so many statistics and definite facts, but has no idea how to actually talk to that opposing side.

[Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer who invented the term genocide and drafted the original United Nations Convention on Genocide, was the first to develop the concept of cultural genocide.
For Lemkin, key components of cultural genocide included the mass distribution of intoxicants, re-education of children, forced relocations, and the destruction of important cultural symbols.
Certainly, we see all of this in our current cultural context with white Americans. We have the re-education of children (the curriculum wars, Critical Race Theory), the destruction of cultural symbols (the tearing down of statues, denigrating the Founding Fathers and other central figures of American history), and even what are effectively forced relocations (“white flight” to the suburbs as crime increased in the cities). The notion of “white genocide” has generally been associated with the far-right fringes of American political debate—yet according to Lemkin’s typology, slow-motion “cultural genocide” would seem a fair description of what’s currently happening to white Americans."


A must read for the White American.

[Kevin Costain · Rating 1 out of 5]

As someone who would not normally consider a text like this credible, I was all too happy to see another perspective. There is value in seeking out those ideas that might, on the surface, counter yours.

This book, however, confirms most of my suspicions regarding credibility.

[Jeanette · Rating 5 out of 5]

This just about covers it. Because of where I've lived for 77 years and because of all the things I have seen first hand, I can honestly say that I am not as brave as Jeremy Carl. Because if I told my tales of real, the book would be shorter but much harder than his. I HAVE been the minority. Not always, but in earliest years- often. It isn't always fun.

Read this. In 1967 or 2025, what many people see in the "BIG" nation or state or town picture is NOT the whole picture. Numbers of majority DO also matter. In every sense they do, be it in a minute or over a decade in any one place. But presently, the entire onus of Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and deeds have been reversed to the blindness toward color/ race that he detailed so well.

Mobs exist. They do. Making excuses for mob action is NEVER acceptable. They kill, they maim far byond the property destruction that is always the "highlight" of afterwards.

This is written as if this racism has existed only in the last decade or two. NO, it was immensely present in generous areas of Chicago way, way beyond the last mid-century. Truth.

[Tyler C · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sharp, polemical tour through the labyrinth of American identity politics, with a laser focus on the one group the culture seems happy to vilify: white, working-class men. Beneath the rhetorical jabs and cultural critique is a serious argument about dignity, dispossession, and the dangerous vacuum left when elites abandon whole swaths of the population in favor of curated victim hierarchies.

What makes the book sting is Carl’s refusal to play it safe. He’s Ivy-educated but talks like someone who’s spent time outside the Acela corridor. The writing is crisp, the data tight (over 20% of the book is endnotes!), and the historical context woven in with enough restraint to avoid sounding like a lecture. It forces the conversation into uncomfortable but necessary territory, and does it with more brains than bluster.

[Ned · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the book highlights well the general trend of anti-white racism and leftist racialists, however I don't think the movement is really driven by racism per se. The attack on "whiteness" and "thinking white" appears to be mere cover for good old fashioned Communism. The real resentment is directed toward private property, business, success, wealth, personal responsibility, and of course Christianity, which especially fosters these things. Hostility towards "whiteness" is just a proxy. The same can be said of feminism, environmentalism, homofascists, and the like. Penetrate the ostensible.

[Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a mostly white man I feel like I have to walk on eggshells now around anyone with a fucking tan or darker. Legacy media tries its fucking best to pin all the world's problems on whites. Jeremy Carl does a great job articulating this issue. Thank God for white people.

[David Hyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have long thought that the most racist entity in the US is our government. If the author is to be believed I am correct. I wish I understood why our elites think better of minorities than of poorer whites.

[Wyatt Stringer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A well written, timely and important book.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

[Emil O. W. Kirkegaard · Rating 5 out of 5]

It goes hard but arguably not hard enough. Still it's a great compilation of evidence that USA is extremely anti European. Sad.

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Victim cosplay is the current fad for the dominant classes. I couldn't take this book seriously.