Honky Printed in the Eugene Weekly in July, 2001.       The controversy over Alan Pittman's use of the word "honky" has been quite disheartening to follow. Comparisons to other racial epithets are missing the point; the white race is not really a race at all. Whiteness is a socially constructed class, made distinct for the sole purpose of indicating superiority and allocating privilege. To quote from the Race Traitor Journal: "The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them."      Last week, members of the Lane County Human Rights Advisory Committee remarked on how culturally diverse white people are due to the many "subcategories" of which they are composed. While this is true, whiteness itself is culturally bankrupt. As was stated so eloquently in the video The Color of Fear, "You have to give up your ethnicity to become white."      So if whiteness describes not an ethnic group, but the phenomenon of racial privilege, then to use an epithet like "honky" only disparages the system of racial oppression. And that's the last thing I would call hate speech.      As they say at Race Traitor, "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."