A reading of the new book Dangerous, by Milo Yiannopoulos, reinforced my long held belief that the notion that conservatism today is the province only of angry old white men is but another leftist lie, designed to shame anyone who might have even a fleeting thought that strays from leftist orthodoxy.  I certainly qualify as an angry old white man.  Knowing that Milo, a young, conservative, Jewish gay man shares my disdain for the Left, and is even more eager than I am to make liberals hear things that make them uncomfortable, warmed my heart.   In truth, leftists suffer from a mental disorder which leaves them with delusions of rectitude, that is, the certainty that whatever they believe, no matter how loony and out of touch with reality, is right and good, and that any dissenting opinion is wrong and evil.  Thus afflicted, the leftist must stifle all dissent, and punish all non-believers as heretics.  Sounds a lot like radical Islamic  fundamentalism, doesn’t it?  Maybe that’s why the Left preaches for unconditional tolerance of radical Muslims, the most intolerant group on the face of the Earth, even when they commit unspeakable violence.  Birds of a feather, I guess.  Leftists like to call conservatives fascists.  It’s not their fault.  Their sickness prevents them from recognizing themselves as the true fascists.  A fascist is one who supports a dictatorial central government that seeks to control people’s lives.  Benito Mussolini defined the three principles of fascism: “everything in the State; nothing outside the State; and nothing against the State.”  Does that sound to you more like Ted Cruz or Chuck Schumer?  Mussolini would have made a great California Democrat.  Too bad he had all that trouble in Italy.  Leftists are delusional, you see.  That’s why they can can endorse the use of violence to prevent conservatives from speaking on college campuses, and then have the Washington Post blame their own repressive conduct on Donald Trump.  The Devil made them do it?  That’s why a Republican proposal that will increase Medicaid spending is denounced as a drastic cut that will kill millions.  That’s why Leftists can side with Black Lives Matter, and declare the relatively rare police shootings of black suspects a “genocide,” while ignoring the murders of the thousands upon thousands of black men, women and children killed by black criminals.  So, who’s to blame when black men (some 6% of the population) commit 50% of all murders in America?  The police, who else.  As I said, it’s a sickness.  Anyhow, I thought that since Milo Yiannopoulos is doing his part to convince millenials that conservatives are not the evildoers portrayed by the Left, I should do what little I can do to see that the truth gets out.  That’s why I decided to use this space to combat one of the most fervently believed falsehoods of the Left; the myth of white privilege.  According to a professor at the University of Massachusetts, “White privilege is a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others.  White privilege can exist without white people’s conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country.  The biggest problem with white privilege is the invisibility it maintains to those who benefit from it most.  The inability to recognize that many of the advantages whites hold are a direct result of the disadvantages of other people, contributes to the unwillingness of white people, even those who are not overtly racist, to recognize their part in maintaining and benefiting from white supremacy.”  Is that insidious, or what?  We have this privilege, these advantages that we don’t even realize we have, and we have them only at the expense of non-white people, making us white supremacists.  Uh huh.  Let me share with you my experience with the white privilege which has made me what I am today.  Neither of my grandfathers even made it to high school; not even close.  They worked all their lives to support their families.  I was the first member of my family to go to college.  Even though I clearly was white, the government provided no college fund for me.  My parents did their best, but they didn’t have much money for college, so I had the privilege of working at minimum wage (no, not $15 an hour, $1.20 an hour) cleaning in a movie theater.  Then I worked for a trucking company.  Being white, I had the distinct privilege of going to school all day, then loading and unloading trucks all night.  I got to spend my summer “vacations” in a metal box that had sat in the blazing sun all day. (Ever see Bridge on the River Kwai?)  Winter was a veritable ice carnival of white privilege, working outside in below zero temperatures.  You really haven’t lived until you’ve inhaled the exhaust fumes of 50 diesel engines being cranked to life simultaneously on a cold winter morning.  It’s a shame me and my fellow white supremacists didn’t have the foresight of a college professor, to give us the rare ability to realize just how privileged we were.  Don’t get me wrong,  I’m not complaining.  That job was one of the most valuable experiences of my life.  Everybody should have the opportunity to do some back-breaking physical labor in their youth.  It convinced me that staying in school was the better option.  It got even better.  After graduation, my wife and I paid school loans for the next 10 years.  She was privileged too.  Maybe “intellectuals” should have some understanding of how “the working class” lives before they presume to speak for them.  Minorities remain economically disadvantaged, to be sure.  But remember, it was those privileged white supremacists who created the War on Poverty.  And it was those privileged white devils who funded it to the tune of some $22 trillion. (You didn’t think all that money came out of Oprah’s taxes, did you?).  If it didn’t solve the problem, and inadvertently destroyed most two-parent black families, well, I guess that’s what you get when you rely on the government.  Bottom line – white privilege is invisible to me for good reason; it doesn’t exist.  Conservatives don’t oppose offering a helping hand to any group that needs one.  We’re just tired of being told we got ahead at the expense of the groups whose helping hands we provide.