It used to be that social reformers would talk about the day when racism has been eliminated from society. They would quote Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, suggesting the goal was a colorblind society. The only people to say this today are clueless civic nationalists and so-called conservative pundits. The former are always behind the times and the latter is here to run cover for the Left. In the game of racism, the caravan has moved onto a new wave, the third wave of anti-racism.
Like feminism, anti-racism has reinvented itself to meet the challenges of the multicultural age, particularly in light of the new demographics. Blacks griping about whites is not of much use when you have varieties of Hispanic, Muslims, Asians, Jews and lifestyle degenerates. The new challenges of the majority-minority empire require a new kind of anti-racism and a new kind of racism for it to oppose. The new racism is exotic and mysterious, while the anti-racist is fighting a spiritual fight, not a legal one.
Eric Hoffer made the observation that people involved in causes never reach a point where they say the cause has achieved its goals and therefore can disband and cease its activities. For example, anti-smoking zealots have accomplished all that can be accomplished, yet they persist. The same is true of drunk driving activists. Short of martial law, there is not much left to do about drunk driving and smoking. Yet, the pressure groups behind these causes still raise money and agitate for attention.
The same thing has happened with the various causes of Progressivism. Something like environmentalism has evolved into a weird nature cult, with apocalyptic predictions backed by flimsy science. Feminism is pretty much a nonsensical collection of tantrums sporting bizarre lingo and outfits. Anti-racism has moved from demands for equity before the law and mitigation for past racism, to a semi-permanent regime that includes groups, who voluntarily left their home lands for the white nations they now despise.
As a practical matter, so-called “third wave anti-racism” is really just a demand by non-whites that whites mitigate the realities of biology. They can’t say that so they have to use weird language and comical neologisms. The demand is that whites exhaust themselves maintaining a white bourgeois society, so that non-whites can enjoy first world comfort, without actually having to maintain it themselves. The new white man’s burden is whites living as despised helots in the societies they created.
For example, whites are supposed to solve the black crime problem, but not notice that black men commit a lot of crime. No one is supposed to mention that blacks don’t cooperate with police. The justification for the former is the history of racism, while the latter is excused as blacks not wanting to attract attention to the black community. Whites are supposed to work around the realities of the black community, while mitigating the realities of the black community. This is impossible and unreasonable.
Another example is how non-whites expect to be allowed into elite schools. In the name of diversity, the elite colleges decorate each class with vibrancy. The professors are expected to make sure these students graduate and never mention that they make up the bottom third of the class. Once out in the world, the process starts over as law firms hoover up non-whites to meet their diversity quota. Of course, no one is supposed to notice that these lawyers are not very good at being lawyers.
Then you have the central tenet of third wave anti-racism, which is that whites, just by being white, are a burden on non-whites. Because whites want the best for their kids and want to live in safe neighborhoods, it means they live in places without convenient bus service. This is a burden on non-whites, as they don’t have easy access to whites and the societies they create. This is so-called white privilege. The only way to eliminate this is to eliminate white behavior, which would end the modern society.
Instead, the new anti-racism regime is one where every white person is born guilty, tainted by the original sin of white racism. Therefore, just as man was condemned to toil outside of the Garden of Eden for eternity, whites are now condemned to pay the jizya in order to keep non-whites in comfortable modern lifestyles. That means open borders for formerly white countries and a metastasizing set of rules to govern the thoughts and speech of whites. The American jizya is about keeping non-whites happy.
That’s the core argument of Ta-Nahesi Coates. In his jeremiad in favor of reparations, you’ll note he never actually puts a number on it. Reparations are, by definition, about making the other party whole. Coates rejects that such a number exists, because what he means by reparations is actually a recitation. He demands an endless recitation of the crimes committed by whites against blacks. This is to both punish whites in a material sense and to remind them that they are now in the inferior position.
In order to understand the social justice movement, one must first replace the word “justice” with the word “vengeance.” It’s not about settling the books or making anyone whole. It is about establishing a new hierarchy in which whites are the infidels of the new multicultural empire, forever paying the jizya to keep modern society rolling. The point of the tax is not just to finance the system, but to lock in the moral relationships of the new multicultural empire, because it cannot exist without the jizya.
Excellent post. Regarding the law students referenced, law firms will hoover up very few of them, and only the top performers. Most will affirmative action their way straight into pretty plum government jobs in the administrative state. It was a shocking thing to behold dozens of my law school classmates who were on the lower end of the bell curve walk into jobs at the SEC, DoJ, FBI, CIA, AG’s office, etc. They never worked a weekend in their career, and many of them are retiring now with FedGov pensions and health care for life. Meanwhile, I am still grinding… Read more »
Had the pleasure of meeting Amy Wax and listen to her talk about her experiences at Penn. Particularly when she touched the third rail of mentioning in public that she’d never seen certain minorities in the top half of the graduating classes. Of course the Borg swooped in loudly asserted that was not true, but of course absent any statistical back up. But, as she explained they loudly asserted she we talking out of her ass with no basis of experience. Save, as she pointed out, running the summer associateship program for years and seeing all the class rankings.
Seems one way to combat this is to just let modern society fall apart. Looks like it’s heading that way anyway. And when non-whites have left for browner pastures, rebuild. Hmm . . . I wonder what “A Day Without White People” would look like?
Watts. 1965.
Haiti 1804-present
Pointed out recently that the Haitians proved you can’t butcher your way to success long before the Bolsheviks.
Wow! Jaw hit floor! Cassandra can see the future and broke into sweat! ZMAN…the best ever….seriously intense and well written. Damn it man… your brain is on fire. Don’t set your cats alight sitting near your brain. Saml and DeB….am still sputtering and twitching from the truth of your comments. Especially the “you can’t butcher your way to success” comment. But they will try! My opinion is there is very little hope for a wake-up from the “white” population. Get ready to fight whatever the fight is with the numbers we have. A few may transcend their cognitive dissonance as… Read more »
Example: Both my parents died, years apart, in abject terror. Both were true believers and useful idiots. As they were dying with hours left, both got stuck in their bodies clinging bitterly with terror. There was no dignity in their dying. They couldn’t talk, they couldn’t move. Only their eyes could blink. I had to calm them and patiently talk them across. My father left 5 minutes later; my mother left 4 hours later. Years later my thinking clarified to realize that of course considering their secular ideology they would cling desperately to the edge of the cliff instead of… Read more »
Here’s a hint — https://nypost.com/2017/05/31/college-melts-down-over-plan-for-white-people-free-day-on-campus/
You mentioned Eric Hoffer who nailed all of these grievance movements perfectly.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
In the past, people recognized the racket and ignored it (until we let women vote and ended up with Prohibition). Now the Left is trying to ride the grievance racket into permanent power.
How it all plays out will depend on how much legitimacy this worldview has in the minds of whites. Deligitimizing it, just relentlessly shitting on it and tearing it apart, is job one.
The Zman said that we are “despised helots.” True, but remember the most famous quote about the helots, that they would gladly “eat the Spartans raw.” If we can get white people in their millions to cast out the white-hating mind virus, and bring them up to the eat-them-raw level, then events will take care of themselves.
For many years, when I’ve heard talk about reparations for blacks, I’ve thought, “hmmm…maybe, just maybe I’m in favor of a one-time payment to every black who’s ancestry traces back to slavery.” But only if we can permanently be done with black grievances against whites, including no more affirmative action, preferences, quotas, all race-based policies designed to “lift blacks.”
Now, of course, an older, wiser me knows we’ll never be permanently done with the black grievance industry. With blacks, no matter what you do, it’s never enough.
I’m okay with it if the payment includes a one-way ticket to another country and revoking their American citizenship.
I am willing to give the first obese black woman that I see a bag of chips and a large soda, because I am a generous person. Then my imaginary debt will be repaid and the rest of ’em can STFU for all eternity. If you caught one of them in between snacks they would probably agree to those terms
It is something you can’t fully appreciate until you’ve been in a Costco several times and watched someone split an order and pay for all the electronics and other crap from a was of 100s, then run their EBT order through.
An an old school member of my state’s general assembly years ago was seated behind one of these urban angry reparations now blacks. At one point he’d had enough and demanded to know what his share would be. She wouldn’t answer. He declared that his share to her was 5 cents and tossed her a nickle and demanded to never hear about reparations from her again. As to real reparations, there’s a credit side and a debit side to the final tally. Do you think Jesse Jackson will send me my check to the office? I don’t want the wife… Read more »
You’ll love this one. A few weeks before Christmas I was sitting at home watching “Let’s Make A Deal” with emcee Wayne Brady. He called a fat, young black woman up to deal and asked her what she does and she replied she was going on a trip and “trying to get reparations”. She meant “reservations” but made a mistake. Now Mr. Wayne Brady (net worth over $10 mil) salary estimated at $2 mil a year shouted “I’ve been waiting for my reparations all my life” to the applause of the vastly white and much poorer audience. So this black… Read more »
“Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?”
Sorry couldn’t resist. There was a Chappelle Show marathon last week. One sketch after another that would never make it even to cable these days. Maybe the last funny show on TV,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOw_SzkRQ8
But seriously – Brady is smarter than that, he’s just repeating the crap to get applause from his audience and keep the $millions rolling in.
Someone, maybe Jim Goad, had a good response for the reparations issue. It goes something like this. If I am responsible for the sins of my ancestors of the basis of being white, and never had an ancestor that was a colonizer, or slave holder, I am willing to accept the burden, just for being white. Only, before that happens I want to get in on the perpetual royalties for the the inventions of white Europeans. I want my share of perpetual royalties for all of the inventions that these people use every day invented and made possible by white… Read more »
Can’t pay the danegeld just once.
The flipside of reparations – which few whites talk about yet (save Fred Reed) – are the immense royalties and licensing fees due to European civilization and its pale-skinned inhabitants – for inventing the modern world. If blacks demand reparations, then people of European descent – whites – ought to demand compensation from anyone who uses anything that was invented by European civilization – from radios to penicillin, and so on. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander….
I’ve played The Cultural Appropriations game and it IS fun. I had some ditz say I should not be here eating tacos its not White Food. I told her she should be in a wheel chair with polio cause she is not allowed to use drugs developed by a white Jew. She literally could not utter another word, which I appreciated immensely.
I’m ok with blacks paying whites reparations. For ruining our cities and making them unlivable. And the economic drag from their welfare programs. And the retardation of public education for their benefit. In lieu of payment, I would accept silent gratitude.
“For example, anti-smoking zealots have accomplished all that can be accomplished, yet they persist. The same is true of drunk driving activists. Short of martial law, there is not much left to do about drunk driving and smoking.” In Canada you may as well call it Martial Law: Criminal Code of Canada as of Dec. 18…the new laws will give police officers the authority to demand breathalyzer tests from any driver they pull over. Previously, officers could only test drivers if they had a reasonable suspicion the person was impaired. Any driver who refuses to take the test can be… Read more »
How do they know you have a BAC over 80 two hours before you drive?
Do they randomly breathalyze people who are not even driving?
BAC degrades at a known rate. They measure your current BAC and project backwards in time.
The real point of this is to have another charge for the prosecutor to file against a defendant. It’s a money game.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. AFTER driving? That can’t be right, I can go home, have a beer and be arrested?
One of the better articles I read on the French yellow-vest protests described it as – actual working French people protesting against the Jizya they are forced to pay. Crushing taxes have destroyed their lives to fund hostile immigrant ghettos and city dwelling cloud people’s globalist lifestyles and environmental dreams. The people actually doing all the country’s work woke up and realized how screwed they are.
Excellent article. I’m left wondering how long it will take normie whites to wake up to the colossal swindle that awaits them. Mainstream conservative types with whom I talk are startlingly (and probably willfully) ignorant about these matters. They still want to subscribe to an impossible “color-blindness” and won’t examine their own choices — like where they tend to reside — which would put them face to face with their own implicit racial consciousness. It’s easy to blame anti-white propaganda for the cluelessness of typical whites. But why do so many whites buy into the propaganda in the first place?… Read more »
Mainstream conservatives place great importance on having lofty ideals and principles. And since Saint Content-of-Character MLK is depicted as having the loftiest ideals and principles, (never mind he was a plagiarist and communist, etc.) it’s not surprising they subscribe to that view. Also, just by being conservative, they’re prone to charges of racism, which scares the hell out of them. So why not insist that you’re color-blind and in fact, the real racists are the Dems! (DR3!) They just haven’t figured out yet it doesn’t matter how much you virtue-signal your color-blindness, or how many based black guys are at… Read more »
Unlike progressives, conservatives do take principles seriously and are slow to change theirs. Way back when I was a kid, they went ahead and agreed the MLK’s standard of judging people by “the content of their character” would be the standard going forward.
The Left kept that standard for maybe a decade then tossed it away in favor of race-racketeering.
Keep it as your personal standard or don’t – it’s now irrelevant to public policy.
Conservative contemporaries of MLK reviled him, and MLK returned the favor, refusing to work with the ostensibly friendly Nixon. He called Barry Goldwater, who was Jewish by ancestry, a voice of “Hitlerism”.
Fear of being deemed a “racist” is sensible since such a label can end one’s career. However, if millions of white people suddenly stopped letting themselves be intimidated by name-calling and consequently spoke their honest thoughts, businesses would have a hard time firing all of them. Add an absence of white solidarity to cowardice and lack of wisdom as contributing factors to the problem.
Unfortunately, the leftist racketeers only need to shoot a few prisoners every so often to keep everyone in line. To most normies, it’s not worth the risk.
This article is what people fear if they get attacked by the mob. And the guy in this story was black, and not a “Nazi”. Just the thought of this is enough to scare most people into compliance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/my-life-as-a-retail-worker-nasty-brutish-and-poor/284332/
The Boomer cohort is still 90% white, so they don’t perceive the shift as much as everyone else does. In the Millennial cohort, whites are around 55% and conservatives are less than 25%, so the temptation for non-dissidents is to cuck in order to fit in.
Lack of identity. They forgot who they are.
I would not mind a color blind society, it is the fairer metric. Were we back in the 1960s it may have been possible to execute. Now? The grievance groups don’t want fair, they want advantage. With that kind of mindset, a color blind society has no chance.
I don’t want a color blind society. I want a White society. In a color blind society all of the problems would still be there magnified by the fact that certain groups basically never perform well. Its not their fault or ours the biology doesn’t allow it but this does nothing to reduce the resentment . When one group and maybe a tiny minority of others is all there is, strife is much lower. And note this isn’t entirely race driven, had our Founders been a bit smarter they’d have strictly limited immigration to Protestant Anglo-Saxons at the Constitutional level… Read more »
I suppose if we’re replacing “justice” with “vengeance”, we might as well replace “social” with “black”. Maybe “wog” would be better, to include more types of vibrancy. “Wog vengeance movement”?
For those senior citizens who remember Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes, it’s fun to read the essay using his voice in your mind. For those younger, he was somebody back a long time ago. Samples: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=andy+rooney
Except Hispanics and Asians also want their pound of flesh for imaginary slights.
r/hapa
r/Asianmasculinity
The average Boomercon should be force-fed a sample of the worst posts on those subreddits.
The call for reparations are nothing more than a fertilizer to grow a continued unrest. It will never be paid just as LBJ’s Great Society never managed to make the minority community it was intended to help a great society.
intended to help
Lol.
I live near an Ivy League school. I was talking to a woman in town familiar with the politics of the school. (She is one of the few half-sane ones.) She told me that they can’t fill their quota of Negroes so they import something like 90% of the quota from Africa. How many White people aren’t getting their ticket to the elite punched because of the quota? The slots aren’t even going to “oppressed” Amerikwans. Ron Unz has done yeoman’s work exposing how the slots for Whites are filled with a wildly disproportionate amount of Jews. It’s almost like… Read more »
I have to admit zero sympathy to hearing about upper-middle-class whites kids getting rejected from the Ivies in favor of tokens.
They are not missing much. My run in with most Ivy types have not been favorable. They shun anything that will sully their hands but a keyboard. Worthless.
Although in fairness, I’d rather be governed by my assholes, than foreign assholes.
The Ivies will reap what they sow. Give it time (if we have any).
More going on there than you expressed. Like — the import will be paying international matriculation rates up to 50% higher than the oppressed ‘murikn black. More alluring is the prospect that this decision is being promoted by the all black admission committee!
Black on black racism for the almighty buck. Surprise, Surprise! as Gomer would say.
Interesting point on the tuition fees. I’ve read that there are large numbers of Orientals in the Ivies because they end up putting more money in the school coffers than Americans. The almighty dollar is probably playing a role in which POC’s get admitted. The son of some African kleptocrat is more lucrative than some affirmative action scholarship Negro.
I’ve worked in engineering for a long time. Twenty or thirty years ago, we’d hire a black college guy and make an honest attempt to integrate.Train them, retrain them, etc… Never worked out, not even once. So they’d get fired. But for the past 10 years, maybe longer, we go through the same song and dance but now we no longer fire them. The company is much bigger now so we find them a lower level position, typically something a high school kid could do. Of course they get a nice fat salary, 3 or 4 times what we’d pay… Read more »
I actually saw this play out in a civil engineering firm. The soil technician slots go to a lot of people (not actually engineers) who limped over the minority-hiring threshold. They give them formulas and processes and hope the techs follow them. But the techs don’t understand what they’re measuring or why, so anything non-routine throws them off and it’s a huge, costly mistake. But the minority techs just keep blundering on because everybody’s terrified of firing them.
All of the insanity referenced in this post is enabled by the affluence of modernity, which allows society to carry vast amounts of deadweight. The Congress has become a perfect metaphor for this affliction, as easily a third of its members are clinically retarded or overtly corrupt, and likely would not survive 20 minutes in the ancestral environment of our evolution. Yet now, we not only subsidize these idiots, but elevate them to leadership status. The insanity will continue until the gravy train runs out of gas.
I burst out laughing at the “clinically retarded” comment. Your last line says it all. The insanity will continue until the gravy train runs out of gas. Unfortunately for the rest of us, with continued government spending, that may happen sooner than later.
White Americans have been paying the jizya for longer than some have been breathing air — since 1965 at least. They have paid by having to accept a government encouraging massive nonwhite immigration to replace themselves. They have spent their tax money and borrowed more on top of that for endless programs in housing, education, and affirmative-action hiring as payoffs to blacks not to riot. Huge and costly federal and state bureaucracies have been created as pretend-work sinecures for “persons of color.” Many whites have paid with their lives for an ongoing criminal underclass comprising a significant number of black… Read more »
Brilliant effort, ZMan…. I have used the terms “reverse apartheid” to describe the inverted new society our would-be masters are building around us, but your idea of the jizya tax works just as well, perhaps even better. Moreover, your explanation does much to explain the appeal of the “red-green” alliance to leftists and Muslims alike.
1835–Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom, but for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, and invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. What concerns me in our democratic republics is not that mediocrity will become commonplace, but that it may be enforced.
The only thing worse than the Judeo-Marxist highjacking of political ecology in the 1970s is the way the right just handed it over because of muh market boomerism. These conservative and libertarian priors need to be gotten over. The sooner this happens, the better it is going to be. When you are talking about white flight and suburbanization, you are talking about habitat. And when you are talking habitat, you are talking ecology. This should be obvious, but the larger implication tends to be ignored. This has had the effect of ceding the issue to people whose feminine sentimentality would… Read more »
I’m reminded of my wife’s first few years of teaching. Saddled with affirmative action blacks. Most were nice eChnough, but many were barely literate and a few barely human. Of course they couldn’t be fired, or even disciplined.
I heard some social justice prof. on the radio some years ago talking about balancing the books, or “what could be easier” than quantifying the injustice and putting a number on it. like YT is just being obstructionist and stubborn, and I thought: if it’s double entry book-keeping you want, then wouldn’t WE get some credit too? They might not like the bottom line then. On the other hand, as you say, they really don’t expect to get a check, just a rain check for endless bitching and favoritism; who’s being obstructionist now? (Alinsky Rule: always accuse your opponent of… Read more »
I appreciate how Z-man’s posts and podcasts have built on each other lately. For example, I see the continuity between Friday’s podcast on the ancient Greeks and Z’s assertion here (interesting and new to me) that American whites are being transformed into a helot class, whose work supports the comforts demanded by the country’s otherwise unsuccessful “minorities.” On reflection, there is a logic to this development, considering the direction of our culture in the past 50 years, and given the fact that for “good-whites,” such a helot status represents the fulfillment of an inchoate wish.
So much of our society today applies to the French Revolution. Not in a racial sense. But in human nature, which is like a car with no brakes. Happy mediums only seem to be in place for a short time before they are run over. The pendulum keeps swinging violently in one direction. This pendulum started swinging our direction long before any of us was born. I think once we reach the full madness and anarchy at the end of this long arc of history, it will start swinging back just as violently. The French Revolution started out by going… Read more »
Jizya:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/01/on-1st-day-gov-gavin-newson-proposes-free-healthcare-for-illegal-immigrants-under-26/
Regarding the minority appetite for reparations and higher education: perhaps these could be satisfied by combining both issues. That is, demand that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (e.g.) become black-only colleges. These schools have already ratified all the affirmative-action arguments, and could hardly refuse a central role in rectifying the “great injustice of American history” (TM). Nor could our elites dispute the suitability of affecting reparations by turning the most coveted ticket to social advancement exclusively over to blacks. Of course, from the dissident right perspective, this policy would be a just punishment of these educational institutions. It would, frankly, ruin… Read more »
MUAHAHAHAHAH…sorry. No, it’s only right.
Jizya was a much less despotic or vindictive system than what has been imposed on your white population.
The solution to black crime is the death of black criminals. Death is a solution to a lot of problems. And despite the fact that death is a universal human condition, our modern society abhors death. We cannot let an elderly person with stage IV cancer die. We cannot let an alcoholic with end stage liver disease die. We cannot let a homosexually active man with AIDS die. We cannot let heroin addicts die. We cannot let death-row inmates condemned lawfully by jurors die. We cannot let fly-blown Ethiopean children starve to death. The litany continues. I suspect that the… Read more »
Very, very true. And there will be much death once all this starts unwinding. Anyone familiar with the famous Enoch Powell, “Rivers of Blood” speech knows that it wasn’t the rantings of a crazy old man in the 60’s, but a reminder of 5000 years of recorded human history and knowledge of human nature. All of this was deliberately stripped out of the education systems decades ago. So it will be that much more surprising to us when it happens. We’ll eventually go from “everyone must live, including tadpoles in the wetlands” to “I must live, therefore you must die.”… Read more »
Have reparations not been paid for the last 50+ years in the form of trillions of dollars transferred from working Americans to non-working Americans (and non-Americans) as welfare payments, food stamps, school lunches. . . ? In the form of free college education to “those in need,” most of whom have no real interest in using college to earn a living? In the form of affirmative action, which guarantees that “majority” students and employees are not allowed to compete with “minority” students and employees? in the form of the general transfer of wealth across all of society to “lift up”… Read more »