As President-(s)Elect Donald Trump continues to shape his cabinet, and the possibility of Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as the new attorney general nears, an unidentified American citizen has launched an effort to keep all Americans, and by extension the world, safe. Along the lines of Trump’s proposed national registry for Muslims, designed to keep Americans safe from “radical Islam,” the National White Male Registry is up and running and white males are urged to voluntarily sign up. The registry has a form which requests that white males list their names, ethnicity (in the case of a “Light skinned Person of Color that is occasionally afforded white male privilege”), sexuality, socioeconomic status, gender (in the case of a “Male identifying person occasionally afforded white male privilege”), as well as some brief survey questions around privilege/microaggressions. Oh, and the registry also wants to know if you own any guns. A copy of your responses will be emailed to you. From the “About” page:
As you may or may not know, in America 57% of reported rapes and 64% of mass shootings were committed by white men. 45% of all serial killers are white men. 1 in 3 women will experience some form of domestic violence during their lifetime, and 97% of those domestic violence perpetrators were men.
According to a Newsweek article from earlier this year, Right Wing Extremists pose a greater threat to National security than ISIS6, and in the past week alone The Southern Poverty Law Center has registered over 400 reports of hate crimes enacted in the name of the nationalist, racist, and sexist campaign rhetoric espoused by Donald J Trump7. Every day, as shocking staff appointments and Muslim registry plans start to emerge from the President-Elect’s transition team, one thing has become increasingly clear: the safety of American citizens– all American citizens– is in danger.
[...] Until January 20th all white men may voluntarily register themselves. Special consideration may or may not be granted to those who register before this date. After January 20th, however, I will be encouraging anyone and everyone to add to the list any non-registered white male they may personally perceive as a threat to their safety.
The site’s creator says he has added Donald Trump to the registry, and there are letters on the site informing Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions that they have been added. Steve Bannon does not appear to have been added, however there is a screen shot of a “tip” sent to Bannon, care of Breitbart News, requesting Bannon to ask other white men to join the registry.