Too white to live.

Of all the BS articles I've seen condemning white people and white culture, this has to be in the top ten, maybe the top two: 

Alcoholics Anonymous more likely to benefit White Americans

Written by a typical media ignoramous, the article tells us that 

Alcoholics Anonymous is a key means by which millions of Americans deal with drinking problems.

However, White Americans are much more likely to engage in the trusted "12-step" program than Black of Hispanic drinkers, a new study finds.

Oh, so I guess AA is now "problematic." These non-white boozehounds go into the meetings and hate what they see, I guess? 

Black and Hispanic alcoholics are about 40% less likely to have ever attended an AA meeting, compared to White drinkers, according to analysis of data from the National Alcohol Survey.

Wait -- so they're less likely to even try AA, and that's AA's fault? What else can we blame on AA?

Among adults younger than 30, less than 5% had ever attended AA versus about 12% of those 30 and older. After accounting for other factors, younger adults still attended AA at a third of the rate of older adults.

You see, the well-known fact that the disease of addiction progresses with age has completely stumped the band here. The fact that heavy drinkers don't usually start seeing serious problems until they're over thirty is data that cannot compute. Therefore, Alcoholics Anonymous must be repelling the youngsters. 

"This is concerning, because the disparities suggest that these groups -- Black, Latinx and emerging adults -- are not receiving optimal care," said lead researcher Sarah Zemore, a senior scientist with the Alcohol Research Group in Emeryville, Calif.

"Not receiving optimal care" is a nice touch. Like AA is a government-run outfit that needs Congressional oversight.  And "emerging adults" is an interesting term for people who in any culture would be called "adults." "Latinx," of course, is a term of art used far more by white people than anyone else. But that's irrelevant; the point is that Zemore gets to dump a bucket of fecal matter on the heads of an old established white-American-origin organization to boost her own career. Keep your eye on the prize!

Gaps in AA attendance could not be explained by factors like the severity of a person's alcoholism or whether they'd received specialty treatment. After accounting for those factors, researchers still found that people of color and young adults were less likely to have attended AA.

I completely doubt that they've "accounted for" anything. That's become a handwave in the press for We already thought of that so nyah nyah nyah. But let's allow it for the moment. You're saying that these people were less likely to have even gotten in the door of AA because of their own prejudice. Is AA supposed to drag them in with chains? 

What else can you tell us, o sage?

For example, past studies have found that people of color attending 12-step meetings have reported conflicts with the program's general philosophy, or have felt scrutinized or discriminated against, she noted.

A typical alcoholic, shaky and miserable, everyone at home angry, his or her life falling apart, who walks into a room full of strangers who look like normal, happy people is going to feel "scrutinized" and "discriminated against" by everyone. Everyone in the room feels sorry for the guy and wants to help him, but he sees threats -- and would love an excuse to say This doesn't work and go drink.  

And young adults may be turned off by the religious nature of the meetings. Participants have to acknowledge powerlessness over alcohol and give their lives over to a "higher power."

The fact that the program has wrestled with this from its founding in the 1930s, has a chapter called "We Agnostics" in its main text, insists throughout its traditions that it is not a religious or religion-affiliated organization, and hosts meetings specifically tailored for atheists and agnostics cuts no ice with these people. 

On the other hand, the nihilistic culture of today's youth does indeed make it hard for them to believe anything, even that their own lives are worth saving. That tells us less about AA than about youth culture, which is a stew of envy, self-hatred, political correctness enforced without mercy, empty laughs, environmental panic, and meaninglessness. 

The report doesn't say much about why black or Hispanic people shun AA except to indicate that they won't go and if they do they feel paranoid about it. Have the researchers wondered if there are elements in those cultures that make them resistant to a program that believes in surrender, humility, and selflessness? Maybe those cultures are a little "problematic," hmm?

No, that can't be. Only white cultures can have flaws. 

In the end, this is just another academic hit job, aided and abetted by a compliant media. White people bad, old people bad, American things bad, anything to do with God bad. 

If their little study makes just one person less likely to go to Alcoholics Anonymous and get help, and instead encourages him to slide into the depths of depravity, despair, ruined health, and destroyed family, and into a shameful and grotesque death, then their work is done. Take a bow, creeps.