The false dilemma is an informal fallacy which is based on the false premise that there are only two options in a particular situation. The fallacy is not in the logic, as with other fallacies, but in the premise. It is a useful rhetorical trick, so it turns up in political debates and propaganda. “We must do X or Y will happen” with Y being something everyone assumes to be bad. The idea is to limit the choices to one that is preferred and one that no one would willingly choose.
It is such a highly effective rhetorical strategy that what we call conservatism rests on a foundation of false choices. No matter what the left proposes, the right opposes by offering an option that is doomed to fail versus what the left proposes. A good example was the homosexual marriage debate. The left proposed redefining marriage to mean sharing rent and a bed. Instead of rejecting this out of hand, the right proposes civil unions, thus leaving us with two degenerate options.
We are seeing this again with the war over the antiwhite pogroms labeled Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It is not an accident that the acronym DEI could easily be DIE, as the people behind this do not hide their intensions. When they say they want to eliminate whiteness, there is only one way this can happen. If one were to call for eliminating Jewishness, you get compared to Hitler. Therefore, logic dictates that when they say they want to eliminate whiteness, they mean white people.
Under normal circumstance, when someone makes a credible threat on your life, the response is not to offer a compromise or pretend the threat is not real, but that is exactly what conservatives are doing in the face of these pogroms. Christopher Rufo says the only option to these antiwhite pogroms is for white people to embrace a colorblind morality. In other words, white people should put all their energy into a fantasy program rather than defend themselves.
The vision of a colorblind society may be appealing, but the fact that it does not exist and has never existed is called a clue. Whites have displayed some capacity to live under such a regime, but nonwhites clearly cannot exist this way. Outside of European lands, the skins game is the rule. We will never see non-European societies fling open their doors and invite the world into their lands. As we see every day, when these people enter European lands, they bring the skins game with them.
What Rufu is offering up is a false choice. You can put all your energy into this fantasy of a colorblind, multi-racial, multi-ethnic society or you can succumb to the antiwhite pogroms that are raging right now. The point of framing it this way is to eliminate other options, like whites joining the skins game. Not only does this framing sideline other more reasonable options, but it also subtly endorses the moral claim by the left that there is something immoral about whiteness.
Another example is this Elon Musk post in which he says, “Discrimination on the basis of anything other than merit is wrong.” The natural response should be, “who says?” but that is not what you see in the replies. Instead, everyone accepts the false choice that you can either allow nonwhites to play the skins game unopposed or you dream of a day when no one plays the skins game. Again, whites joining in on the skins game and maybe winning at it is off the table.
As an aside, his comment should make everyone’s skin crawl. He is saying that having personal preferences is immoral. Since all humans have tastes and preferences, a feature that makes up a large part of our nature, he is hoping to anathematize most of what makes us human. For Musk, the ideal human is a moist robot. This is the thinking that lies behind the culture war. With the right amount of force, people can be re-coded into what society needs or simply eliminated from the population.
Regardless, the point of his post is to foreclose the parsimonious option which is to let people discriminate for any reason they like. Free association was the foundation of America into the last century. The settlers to the New World literally acted on their belief that people should live where they want and with whom they want, which is why they got on boats and came to the wilderness. The immigrants of the 19th and 20th century acted on the same premise.
Of course, the ultimate false choice, the very heart of American conservatism, is the assertion that they cannot use the same tactics as their opponent or exact revenge when they have power, because that would make them as bad as the left. In other words, the choice presented as conservatism is to adhere to a set of rules that guarantee failure or succumb to some abstract conception of moral turpitude that is somehow worse than losing.
In the end, the culture war is not a clash of visions, but rather a struggle among white people about how best to avoid the fight. The winning side in this fight has always relied on some form of the false choice in order to prevent engaging the people called the left in the culture war. This means the path to victory in this civilizational struggle starts with overthrowing conservatism and its spiderweb of false choices. In its place is a new form of identity politics to counter the current identity politics.
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Mao, on his Great March, had to go through a lot of minority areas. He promised them independence for support. Chinese communism has a phrase that translates “avoid Han Chauvinism!. So China is in theory colorblind, but in practice, not. Same applies to females.
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Mao also knew how to add . . . an atomic war might kill 300 million Chinese but China would remain the most populous on earth. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1964/10/17/Maos-theory-on-atomic-bomb-They-cant-kill-us-all/1653831424805/
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Han Chinese are very tribal. There’s even a place of ancestor worship (“Grove of the Yellow Emperor”) where you cannot enter unless you are of the Chinese race. I know this from an old China hand.
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They’re descended from a long line of government-imposed famine survivors so they never remove more than one foot from their clan network.
Unfortunately America has a history of “my way or the highway” which was brutally imposed on the indigenous peoples from the time Europeans showed up, until the late 1800’s. To be fair, every expanding empires imposed this method on the locals so this isn’t criticism, rather a statement of fact.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and the whites are being told it is they who must comply. Europe used to look to the West, and specifically the US, as to what the future held. Now we all have a front row seat to what’s coming into our own back yards.
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South Africa is what’s coming. But the Whites are thriving there. A different breed. Maybe it’s that soy-free, biltong-rich diet.
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I read Rufo’s tweet. It’s impossible to win elections or build a base of support talking like this. Nobody really cares about Griggs vs. Duke Power Company unless it is your job to care about it. Guys like Rufo have no answer when some BLM activist calls him a racist besides stammering under his breath “no…. I’m not….”. This is one reason why the conservative always loses. People vote for the conservative nerd who talks like this and assume he is going to take care of it, because the voters are either too stupid or too busy to care about all these details. Well, the conservative doesn’t take care of it, and nothing happens. This is why people like, sorry Z, Nick Fuentes, are building support amongst zoomers and alphas. They talk in clear and definitive language. They don’t mince words. They say that White people deserve to have a home of their own and don’t want to live in a non-White country and deserve a say in it. That’s really it. It’s simple language that people up and down the IQ spectrum can grasp, and more importantly, people intuitively grasp as fair. Of course you can’t say that and get the sinecures that Rufo gets, which is the point.
There’s also a false choice here because if you sign up with Rufo’s side, you are also signing up as a Zionist. Chris Rufo was instrumental in getting Claudine Gay fired after Bill Ackman targeted him. So the political system as is tells you to either throw your lot in with black and Hispanic activists who want you dead, or Jews who want you dead. You’re basically the deciding the timeline in which you and your family are raped, killed, and your graves are desecrated.
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Ackman is a hyper hypocritical fraud and Rufo is his castrated toadie. I already see signs that Ackman wants to return to the status quo of anti-white hatred with an exception carved out for white-presenting Jews. Rufo will have to contort himself to promote this reversion to the mean, but he will do so on command.
‘Of course, the ultimate false choice, the very heart of American conservatism, is the assertion that they cannot use the same tactics as their opponent or exact revenge when they have power, because that would make them as bad as the left.’
This is the problem, exactly. But the primary reason WHY ‘conservatives’ NEVER punish the Woke-Fem Politburo for tyranny and totalitarianism is because the Right is masculine and the Left is feminine. It ain’t Whites vs. Others. It’s male vs. female. And modern Western men do not have the stones to punish their daughters, wives, or women holding collective power and fiat. They quail and rationalize and compromise and fail. Conservatism Inc.
Best recent example: First thing Donnie did after his election victory was ‘pardon’ Hillary Clinton, backing completely away from his campaign ‘You should be in jail’ rap. So, yet again: a ‘masculine’ male finally takes power . . . then simps and wimps and doesn’t do what needs doing.
Therefore the problem merely persists, and never can be solved, or even addressed. Eventually the Woke-Fem Junta regains total power, and then your saggy old ass is indicted, your followers jailed indefinitely without due process, and your base targeted by the Junta Administration as insurrectionists and criminals. Mr. BigTalk retreats to Mar-a-Lago.
Around ‘n around the ole ball spins. Men never learn. Look at the type of males allowed to be ‘impact conservatives’. It’s Jonah Goldberg and Prager University weenies, fer as the I kin see.
Groundhog Day Nation.
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“It ain’t Whites vs. Others. It’s male vs. female.”
So, if we tame the women, do you believe that a multiracial society can work? If so, what happens when a group of blacks demand proportional representation among surgeons or pilots?
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Yes that is the Genesis. The eternal earthy problem of female temptation unbridled by male abdication of headship.
The inversion has cured this into the foundation of progressive social status and morality.
Until a man divorces from the inversion he will choose to bitterly protect that status and reinforce the morality.
To do otherwise is an indictment that cascades all the way back. And we can’t have that. To take the “vote” from my wife and daughters would be unspeakable. And such.
I’ve never met a woman who wasn’t an exception. Just like the prog death cult is a monolith but without any individual constituent parts. It just is.
The conservative desires to fight in the trenches of incrementalism, to roll back the clock just a bit.
To keep Gods knowledge but to let him have a little bit of his authority back because, you know, things got a little out of hand here for some reason.
How generous.
Chix with dix making my strong daughter have badfeels on the MMA mat is a tench too far.
Conservatives are just Big Daddy to the sorority of exceptions. Just keep writing checks to State U to keep the party going.
Conservatives seem to be more concerned with guarding the precious of exceptions than answering for their own abdication.
The low hanging fruit of the bad commies is where ConInc grazes. But when anyone points to the Genesis, the instinct is to pounce with ire and fire as to how their garden is not among the fallen.
It’s an ancient reckoning. But that is the Achilles of modernity. The question of how far back to we go paralyzes us because as Z lays out here, the false dilemma is the ratchet of progress.
“If you love her you will set her free”. To chain her to the ancient, to take her rights, to limit her options must be hateful.
The Right reared it’s cuckoo head long ago when the manosphere first emerged. Nothing has changed in that regard.
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” But the primary reason WHY ‘conservatives’ NEVER punish the Woke-Fem Politburo for tyranny and totalitarianism is because the Right is masculine and the Left is feminine.”
I think it is the exact opposite. Acceptance of false premises as a means to achieve compromise is the ultimate feminine move. Modern conservatism is drenched in estrogen. It is its Achilles heel.
I agree the specific programs and goals the Left advocates are “feminine” in the sense they are anti-male, but their means to attain their goals are quite masculine: set out the terms and force opponents to accept those parameters.
The problem is the Left is a throbbing penis and the contemporary Right receives it with provisos that often don’t even include dinner. Even though he failed consistently to follow through with action, Trump rhetorically rejected the premises. That’s the reason he was hated. Imagine if he actually did anything substantive.
The male delivers the terms, the female decides how to accept them. Which of those is the Left?
I just don’t know if Whites as a group have it in them to stand up and seriously push back against this s***. As Z has said, 20% of that cohort is insane. Life is still too easy and comfortable to rock the boat in a big way. Recently, I joined a new golf group – nice guys and all, but they’re nearly to a man totally into the local college negro sportsball teams, to say nothing of the negro felon league. As I gave up all that stuff years ago, I don’t get it – I mean a large number of us grew up watching that stuff, but 40-50 years ago the nfl and probably the nba were 60-70% White – now it’s just the opposite. I don’t understand how people can watch that crap anymore, especially when every commercial features all blacks or other POCs and maybe a White or two. It’s mind boggling. As long as Whitey is willing to slavishly to lap that garbage up, nothing much is going to change.
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No less an authority than Rupert Murdoch, when asked why he was paying such high prices for TV sports broadcast rights, said “Because sports are tribal”.
Sports are the way lots of white guys connect to others. They are reluctant to lose this connection. Something will have to come along to replace this connection. It may be “the need for survival”……
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True dat. These “men” are content to spend an afternoon in front of the TV watching some Negroes play with a ball.
Very odd.
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True “dat” revealing your inner negro?
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To gain an understanding how defeated whites have become, look no further than the father of Ethan Liming or the daughter of the retired police chief who was run down by scholars on his bicycle. They couldn’t wait to let everyone know that it isn’t about race, and not to judge all by the actions of “the few”. There are no words to describe my anger over such things.
In my mind, the negro was created with the left over slop that was going to be thrown away after God created the rest of humanity. Someone screwed up and allowed the sludge to be re-injected into the machine. Everything they touch they destroy.
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Caucasian people can watch those circuses because most weren’t raised well, same as the people who watched those companies of entertaining performers 50 years ago. Childlike fools love the circus.
Look also at some pictures of kids performing the Bellamy salute, which was abolished in the early 1940’s to avoid awkward comparisons. That’s evidence that those generations, too, weren’t raised well, and that was back in the day when most Caucasian parents bamboozled their children into believing that a Semitic supremacist is their god. It’s obvious that pre-Bellamy generations weren’t raised right. If they were they wouldn’t have allowed teachers to regiment their children into drones of a toxic empire.
Now, the Z Man always has little to say on this blog about the raising of children, about the phases or stages of an individual life, and about the modes of living (e.g. student, householder, retiree, and renunciant). What conclusion(s) ought we to infer from this and other facts when the host starts shaking the cup again?
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“We are seeing this again with the war over the antiwhite pogroms labeled Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It is not an accident that the acronym DEI could easily be DIE, as the people behind this do not hide their intensions. When they say they want to eliminate whiteness, there is only one way this can happen. If one were to call for eliminating Jewishness, you get compared to Hitler. Therefore, logic dictates that when they say they want to eliminate whiteness, they mean white people.”
This is a Jewish supremacist project pure and simple. Kevin MacDonald would have a fair amount to say on the topic. The thing about DIE is that these people are tribal themselves and give preference to one another in myriad ways.
The history of the human world is tribal in nature. Tribes are a survival mechanism. Without the tribe and tribal members looking out for one another and preferring one another, the individual dies. Individual identity itself is drawn from tribal identity and becomes a meaningless joke without it.
Without tribal identity white people are doomed to extinction.
In passing, the 14th century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun had much of contemporary relevance to say about “asabiyyah” (roughly “tribal spirit”) as a force that could prevail against senescent and decadent civilisations. This is the only weapon whites have.
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While I agree with your post, you also need to realize that the people getting all of the spoils of this bullshit have not put up any resistance to it or spoken up about it. The criminal race has gladly taken their preferences and “free shit” from YT with a big smile on their faces. In the eyes of the criminal race, they are always a victim of the white man. So while we can say that the juice have a lot to do with this, the subjects have been more than complicit.
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It’s not about race, religion, gender, or any other divider issue. It’s about powerful people conquering by dividing. It’s about setting up oppressor vs. oppressed to take full control. Focus on the real enemy. Do not get caught up in the diversions. You are not wrong with your answers about the diversions, but if answered, there would just be another diversion. Prepare to battle those setting up the diversions.
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“Focus on the real enemy.”
Okay, so who is that?
“powerful people conquering by dividing”
So, everyone on earth would just live happily if powerful people weren’t exacerbating divisions for their own unspecified reasons? Kum Bah yah.
It seems like you must oppose all immigration laws, since those are divisions. Right?
Finally, if powerful people are exploiting divisions for some reason, then that reason is the more fundamental explanation for their behavior, rather than the mere act of dividing people.
Race is the deepest cause of division, but that division is authentic and best respected.
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Yeah whenever I see:
powerful people
I always ask for some names, you know, just some examples so that we can put some faces to ridiculous statement. It’s then always amusing to see how deep they go into the bench-of-evil to keep people from seeing the lie behind the claim.
Sailer shows a flicker of life as he calls out the useless Hainaia’s foolish contention that DIE won’t affect air travel:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/die-in-the-sky/
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There are several personalities that have mastered rage farming, and Hanania is top-tier in this regard. He says hard-right things for interest, and then something retarded for engagement. When the backlash happens, he calls everyone stupid. It’s a cynical ploy for relevance that is, unfortunately, very effective.
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Musk seems to be more libertarian in his world view, he still needs some slaps across his face to wake up to reality. Musk comes from the now increasingly failed state of South Africa, he has to see what has happened to his homeland but libertarianism is a blindness but maybe in time he comes around to reality? I am both happy at times with Musk but at other times much disappointed.
Musk seems to be the best we got among the elite class right now which is not saying much.
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Musk is holding back. He’s still a technocrat and therefore not to be trusted, but he knows the score and the line he can’t cross (yet).
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False choices cherished by the right also includes the idea that buying guns will keep you free (not having a gun means you are at risk from the government).
All these guns have not resulted in any rights being preserved including the 2nd amendment which keeps being chipped away at and will eventually fall when the left manages to pack the court.
All of the false choices the right is given result in the right not pushing back sufficiently against the jihads waged by the left and their Globocap masters.
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Gun rights are still important: just visit a society where law-abiding citizens are unarmed by law (Latin America).
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It’s amazing how so-called “muh free speech” Anglosphere has such blanket, “consensual” censorship. If you follow Eric Zemmour and Marion Marechal in France, they get invited on national TV all the time to complain about anti-White racism and Black/Arab crime. You’d never see that in the US, UK or Australia/NZ.
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This is the stench of Puritanism. France does not suffer it. To be fair, if Zemmour or Marechel make the same statements to the public in a forum away from the media, they theoretically could be charged with crimes (it has happened to others), but isn’t that now the case throughout the Anglosphere, which also would destroy any broadcast outlet that followed the French model?
One of the biggest lies we suffer is the belief we are free. That’s never been true and becomes less so with each passing day. The public stocks never went away in the Anglosphere. They simply are managed now by ignorant Hottentots in sun dresses controlled by Jews.
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“The left proposed redefining marriage to mean sharing rent and a bed. Instead of rejecting this out of hand, the right proposes civil unions, thus leaving us with two degenerate options.”
There is a large family in my community who are devout Christians. They have five kids and the husband works really hard to support his wife who diligently teaches their children at home.
Their oldest daughter is 17 and has been telling them that she is now a boy. They obviously love her and their world has been torn apart by this. They have had to put her in a type of group home because they are greatly concerned about the influence she could have on their younger kids. It’s a heartbreaking situation.
Damn the conservatives for never standing up and for always permitting the degenerate tentacles of the left to destroy so much.
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Likely she got that from Social Media or School. The only other reason is usually sexual abuse.
One of my uncles has a son who went to the “Catholic” University and came back a tranny. They’re trying to figure out what to do before he permanently mutilates himself. My guess in this case is autogynephilia.
Sad to say it, but a lot of the reason is Christian parents are just plain weak, and the kids can sense the outside culture is far more powerful. They simply don’t have the vitality for a real war. One of the dumbest tropes is that kids naturally rebel. It’s nonsense. Kids follow power, and teen rebellion is a result of a stronger power pulling kids away from their parents.
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Chet Rollins:
It absolutely was social media.
I’m sorry about your uncle’s situation. It’s really tragic.