There are issues that turn out to be litmus tests which tell us something about how certain people truly think about their politics. Covid, for example, revealed that many people who sounded like skeptics of the current regime were still willing to accept without question the claims of the regime. The war in Ukraine is another example where people who were media skeptics fell in line with the media narrative. Covid and Ukraine were tests of trust in the institutions.
These types of litmus test issues tell us where someone is mentally on that line that runs between those who trust the system and its institutions and those who no longer trust the system and its institutions. Those who wore masks and Ukraine lapel pins are at the pro-regime end of the scale, while those who rejected and criticized this stuff are on the other end of the scale. In both cases, we learned that some people were not that far along the path from the pro-regime pole.
There are other issues that are larger and more enduring that also work as a sorting mechanism in the churn of politics. In the mass media age, it is much easier for someone to pose as something, but not really be that something. Profilicity is not simply about creating a profile you present to parts of the world, but also the ability to quickly take down and respawn that profile with modifications. There are certain topics, however, that get to the nature of the person playing the character.
One of those issues is race, specifically racism. Unlike those prior litmus test issues, this is not one that exists on a scale. It is a binary issue. You either accept or reject the normative and positive claims baked into the word racism. There are those who think it is immoral to make decisions based on race and those who reject the idea that this behavior is immoral. There are those who reject the objective reality of race and those who accept what the human sciences tell us.
There is no middle ground on the race issue, even though lots of people seek to profit by occupying what they think is a middle ground. An example is this Compact Magazine post by Christopher Rufo. He is getting rich being a non-woke liberal or anti-woke civic nationalist, depending upon your label preference. The key to this character is the sort of triangulation Bill Clinton made famous. You see, he not only rejects left-wing racism, but he also rejects right-wing racism!
There is nothing new about this position. It was a popular in the 1980’s when it seemed like the culture was moving beyond race as a political weapon. The good people treated everyone as an individual. The bad people judged people on generalities. That meant the race hustlers like Jesse Jackson were just as bad as the old white racists from the civil rights narrative. They were judging people collectively. Like everything in this age, the new right and its new characters are just reboots of old material.
That aside, what you see with Rufo is that he does not understand the material and he embraces the morality of the people he claims to oppose. He opposes critical race theory not because it is nonsense, but because they acknowledge the centrality of race in American society. Rufo is an anti-racist, which means he thinks it is immoral to acknowledge the reality of race and especially immoral to act on it. In this regard, he agrees with Ibram X. Kendi, but only differs in presentation.
Further, Rufo does not seem to understand how we reached the point in American society where whites are under constant assault through these corporate and government diversity programs. He seems to think that the reason these programs exist is the people behind them are dumb or craven. Somehow, they tricked the leaders of the most powerful intuitions to embrace a form of racism. He may as well claim that these people are witches, who cast a spell over the institutions.
The fact is, these antiwhite pogroms, whatever you want to call them, are the logical outcome of generations of jurisprudence. The “Brown Test”, named for the famous Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, implemented a set of racial and cultural standards that effectively eliminated free association and made openness the standard against which everything is measured. In effect, it made anything that results in racial inequality both illegal and immoral.
That means it is impossible to have a color-blind society under the Brown doctrine because it would lead to racial inequality. The underlying assumption of Brown and the entire moral edifice that sprang from it is that any racial inequality, not matter how trivial, must be the result of discrimination by whites. Therefore, a colorblind society that has racial inequality will mean that color blindness is the cause. It is why people like Ibram X. Kendi can reasonably say color blindness is racism.
This is what makes race a binary issue. You either understand the moral reasoning that lies behind the novelty of the word “racism” or you do not and simply accept it as part of your ethics. You either understand and accept the reality of race as a biological matter or you reject it and embrace the blank slate ideology. There is no middle position and no way to pick a few things from one column and a few from the other to create yourself a bespoke racial awareness.
In fairness, Rufo probably understands this, but the money in seeming to not understand it is too good to turn down. Even though the logic of the open society has led America down a dangerous moral and social cul-de-sac, the economic and managerial elites continue to cling to the moral framing of it. Cultural inertia is a real thing that drags along even the most powerful people and institutions. When there is no profit in opposition, there is no opposition.
The opposition we see among some elites to DEI and critical race theory rests in their own racial awareness. Jewish donors to elite colleges have grown concerned that they are now treated as white and therefore targets for the diversity rackets. Asians resent the racial spoils system that limits their access to elite institutions. The fact that whites may benefit from this opposition is incidental. Once again, we see that in politics, racial or otherwise, it is about who shall overcome whom.
Regardless of motivations, the people promoting the concept of a colorblind society are unwilling to address the root causes. Further, they fail to see that they are advocating a far more radical version of what Brown demands. To achieve the colorblind society, it means either eradicating those who see race or so terrorizing them that they pretend not to see race. The colorblind dogma makes anti-racism sound reasonable and its implementation would make the Khmer Rouge seem tame.
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Rufo’s article is classic colorblind CivNat hypocrisy. In the article, Rufo rails against both identity politics and anti-Semitism and, of course, for a colorblind, individualistic society. Yet, he’s too dense to notice that Jews are the best argument for identity politics and against colorblind civic nationalism. First, Jews work as a team. They are the ultimate players of identity politics. Second, they’ve been wildly successful working as a team, which proves that other groups that follow a colorblind, individualistic policy will get steamrolled. The past 60 years have one victory after another for identity politics in general and Jewish efforts… Read more »
When does Rufo or Sailer or Murray discuss the power of AIPAC or Jewish donors or them using their power to promote Jewish interesting and the Jewish community? Never.
The Upton Sinclair quote has become a cliche for a reason.
What Upton Sinclair quote? If you would, please.
“It difficult to get a man to understand your point of view, if his pay check depends on him not understanding it”
Or words to that effect
Yep.
I only briefly scanned the top half of his article and his whole tone of “what’s this obsession with jews” in an article obsessing over jews is an irony lost on him (contra to Z’s opinion, I don’t think very highly of Rufo’s intellect).
Agreed. The Rufo article engages in both-sides-ism, but we fully realize the target audience is only one side. The previous version was “that’s not who we are!” I gave Rufo the benefit of a doubt until recently, and this piece distills why he didn’t deserve it.
Yeah, there is always that little hall monitor peering out over the words in the article like he’s looking over the neighbor’s fence making sure nothing untoward is going on. Ready to take down notes and report. That is the case with al of these guys, Rufo, Shapiro. They call them gatekeepers for a reason I guess.
Rufo is stunningly dense, at least in his writing. This article focuses on Left and Right-wing issues with Jews, so you might think he would, you know, discuss the Jewish community and how crazy these issues are. Nope. He rails against “left-wing identity politics” while never acknowledging that no group comes close to employing identity politics, via donors and endless Jewish groups and lobbies, than Jews. You can’t be against identity politics and for Jews using (with wild success) identity politics. He then rails against right-wing conspiracy theories about Jewish power. (They love to use the word conspiracy to marginalize… Read more »
I know little of Rufo, but in fairness, any person, no matter how great his education or native intelligence, will quickly get stuck in logical or rhetorical quicksand if he’s trying to argue from invalid premises and/or towards a logically incoherent goal. When otherwise smart people are saying stupid shit, it’s a reasonable guess that the Sinclair quote is operative.
It’s reasonable to say it’s PR, somebody is pre-staging a move.
Or they are horrified (thanks to their previous training) by what they’ve come to realize is true, and are trying their best to make it not so by not admitting it.
Why would he write this? Is this some compelling issue?
Ah. They’re getting ready to start a war (and finish their ethnic cleansing.)
This is material for an entire essay, one which I hope Zman will do someday. Having spent my entire career in finance and consulting, I have a lot of thoughts on the topic. I have told my Jewish friends that their desire for hegemony here is going to backfire in a major way. The smarter ones understand it, because they realize they cannot manage a coalition of minorities forever. However, the midwits think they can corral and beat rent out of third-world savages indefinitely.
So, none of them even bother denying the Jewish desire for hegemony?
Renting to immigrants is the new investment hotness.
Who needs making stuff?
Old and busted making stuff.
The whole fabric of the American mythos is becoming frayed to the point of complete disintegration. It cannot survive except in a totalitarian dystopia. If it does, what a sight that clownish frankenstein will be. I have to give them credit, the choisen are good at that.
Correct.
This is most evident in their desperate attempts to keep the WW2 myths alive because they are realizing no one under 45 has any reason to care, even less so in the case of their vibrant young pets.
“Jews work as a team.”
I don’t think that’s true. Big Jews work as a team, sort of. There are at least two distinct teams of Big Jews.
Big Jews don’t care about Little Jews. Never have, or the shtetls wouldn’t have been enclaves of the Little Jews, while the Big Jews lived and ran their mercantiles in Goyland.
So what. Big Jews will still always view Little Jews as part of their team, if lessor members. And they will always view me as nothing, indeed, as a threat.
You’re making the who would you rather live next to, Thomas Sowell or a violent redneck argument. It’s too late for that. Time to tribe up or die.
Fine, Jewish elites play as a team. So what. They’re still playing as team with their people’s interests at heart and they’re still coming after yours truly.
Little Jews are pawns, like everyone else who is not Big Jew.
“You’re making the who would you rather live next to”
Just pointing out they are not the monolithic threat you believe them to be. Unite them in a common cause at your peril.
“They’re still playing as team with their people’s interests at heart and they’re still coming after yours truly.”
True, though if there were whites with half a clue, they would pit Jew against Jew, instead of doing what Israel has done with Sunni and Shia — unite them.
But they are their pawns
They work as a team
Little Jews are their pawns because tactically inept Whites have united them against Goy. Possibly even stupid Whites who listened to Big Jew advisors.
Flyover Whites take pride in opposing our Elites. There’s got to be a way to turn their Littles against their Elites. But that is not going to happen by treating them all as a hated enemy. It’s got to be finding some common cause with them in opposing the managerial class.
I do not think that is ever going to happen, splitting the Bigs from the Littles They are a team united by blood, and every group has a similar hierarchy. The Little Jews look up to the Bigs in a big way too. I have known regular stupid Jews, I forget the name but it would be similar to an Englishman referring to himself as a bloke. Just a regular guy. But ask him how he feels about the Royal Family and he immediately is in fight mode should anyone dare say anything negative. I know a toothless guy from… Read more »
OK, let’s say all that is true. The question then is how can Whites accomplish that, too? We still have the numbers, though almost all are squishes or worse. How can some form of tribal identity (which is novel, BTW — pre-modern Europe was always at war with each other) be developed in Whites? Heck, even blacks can figure out how to vote in >90% solidarity, despite their ancestors being enemies for millenia.
They’re not monolithic, but they’re still a team and a team that has declared war on my team. Did the Japanese all agree on everything during WWII. No. But they were still loyal to their side. Instead of getting into the weeds – which, btw, is a very classic Jewish argument technique – let’s simply look at what Jews do in literally every society that is stupid enough to let them in. They immediately form Jewish groups that work to promote Jewish interests. They work to get control of financial, media and political influence. They push for multi-everything societies because… Read more »
Yes.
From a guy who grew up with the rabbi’s son because I could play school well despite being the archetypal smart-jock totally alien to their family.
Ah yes, I remember it well! Best part was their cadre of good-looking girls (and there were some quite good-looking ones, nipple hair or no nipple hair) all fancied me no end, rather than their ugly, gnomish nerd fellow tribesfolk. Best was their club Youth for Intellectual Discussion to which they had to invite me. My father burst out laughing when he saw the Spencerian penmanship and the founders’ surnames. “Do they realize the acronym for this is YID? Hah hahaha!”
(sorry. clicked upvote, resulting in a negative, then downvote to cancel it, resulting in another downvote: 2 downs in total)
Oh please. Just like every other self-aware racial and ethnic group, both your “Big Jews” and “Little Jews” are mutually dependent and the sea in which they all swim. They lived together – apart and separate from the native society of whatever nation they temporarily inhabited – until the “Jewish emancipation” of the late 18th and mid 19th centuries. This was essentially a mutual agreement: The Jews insisted they were special and morally superior and genetically distinct, and the European natives said “You are not part of our people and history and don’t share our culture, lives, or interests.” Your… Read more »
There’s another dynamic here: in-group and out-group are not fixed. Sure, Big Jew and Little Jew will play on the same team, but what was left unsaid is that’ll likely remain true only as long as Team Jew is playing against Team Goyim. Tribal unity works until it doesn’t. There always have been struggles within a tribe for dominance, as Abel’s blood would readily attest.
“in any conflict with with non-Jews your “Little Jews” will always side with your “Big Jews.””
And that’s the important thing that “our” side refuses to even try to understand, because the Jew hatred is that intense. HOW is that unity accomplished? Our measly fraction of the population does not stand a chance unless we emulate that kind of clan loyalty. I’m not saying to create a cargo cult. I’m saying the smart play is to figure out the principles behind it, reverse-engineer it, and put those principles into practice.
Or just say screw future white generations. Your call.
I agree completely. I don’t hate Jews. I hate what they’re doing to what was once my society, but they’re just playing the game.
I also agree that we should emulate Jews in terms of operating in a larger society. Form ethnic organizations that promote our people and punish those who work against our people.
Jews aren’t evil or magical. They just play the game well. That’s fine. Time for whites to join the game as well.
I can’t say I agree in the slightest. I wouldn’t even be that bothered with them running everything if they weren’t evil.
If they don’t qualify, I can’t imagine you thinking any other group does. I can’t even think of an evil behaviour that isn’t over-represented among them.
Murder, terrorism, usury, theft, rape, pedophilia, dishonesty, human trafficking. Take your pick.
The sole solution is quite simple, and often commented upon by Lineman: Tribe up or die, White man.
OK, but preaching the the choir accomplishes exactly nothing. Unless we can figure out a way to make our own Little Whites, politeness demands telling the losers (us), “GGWP.”
Personally, I’m not a big fan of losing well…
They create non-profits that produce advertisements targeted at White Christians begging them to send money to poor jewish widows in Russia and Eastern Europe.
That’s how the jew cares for their widows and orphans.
(Haha! I was listening to that very ad as I read your comment, Ducati!)
Back in my day, it was commercials trying to get Christians to part with their money to feed and/or import Africans, SE Asians, etc. Pushed by prominent Jews like Sally Struthers and Jane Fonda.
There really is nothing new. Whites have been suckers for stuff like that for at least a few centuries. The problem is not the ones advertising for the extinction of White society, but of Whites who buy. The answer has to be in figuring what is wrong with Whitey that so many crave death.
The problem isn’t the drug lord, it’s the small timers caught up dealing on the street corners. I see, I see. That makes so much sense.
/s
If you can’t resist the lure of someone running an ad for shit sandwiches, I don’t need you in my AO.
What’s with the downvotes? Steve is trying to split the enemy camp, just as they have split us. We need allies, and numbers.
All we can reasonably expect are allies who don’t want us dead, so let’s work with what we have.
I know, I know, infiltrators. But don’t we already have plenty of backstabbers amongst our own?
We can work with Jews, but we shouldn’t allow them into our camp or on our team. Sorry, but we’re Team Whitey. Jews are Team Jew. They’re a different tribe. We’ve seen what happens when you let them into your system. It’s not good. Working with members of Team Jew with the explicit understanding that we will never be a part of their team and they’ll never be a part of ours is just fine. But you make that fundamental understanding very, very clear from the beginning. After that, sure, if our interests are the same on an issue, let’s… Read more »
Very useful, very clear. A negotiation of mutual interests, and concessions by their side WILL be attached.
We recognize our value, and we set the price.
We can walk from this table at any time…
Age is a factor in all this stuff C. If you are over 50 years old you were indoctrinated from childhood to drink the koolaid, and that it was good. Trust the institutions, trust the experts and things will go well for you. Jews and blacks were just like us, blah blah blah blah… Dissidence is a journey. 10 years ago I thought I was going nuts because the world my shitlib boomer family lived in didn’t match up at all with what I was seeing and my lived experience. There are no blacks or jews where I live so… Read more »
Agree that many of our ideas are going mainstream. The journey will be much shorter young people today. They’ll start many steps ahead. But they’ll still need to get through the colorblind CivNat gatekeepers like Rufo.
As to Rufo in five years, he’ll be the same. He’s similar to Steve Sailer and Charles Murray. He’ll stay right where he is.
There are no blacks or jews where I live
That’s far more the reason for your previous misunderstandings than your age. People who lived among them have known the truths since time immemorial.
Not to quibble, but I am 57 and that was never part of my education and life. My grandmother was openly critical of Jews, and I’d be buying us all dinner if I had a dollar for every time she spoke the words “those Jew bastards” In our school my brother’s best friend had a Nazi uniform from his uncle who had served under Hitler. Not a single person ever made a peep about it. In fact I think he brought it to school as part of Show and Tell. In school it was openly discussed that the reason the… Read more »
Couldn’t help but laugh when I saw your grandmother’s remark. My father’s (I’m 78) version of it was “Never forget ‘jewbastid’ is one word!” Fist slams down on arm of club chair. “ONE WORD!!” He was also fond of saying that Chanukah was invented in 1947 as an also-ran counterpoint to Christmas. Those were the days of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” when good prep schools didn’t even have tokens and the Ivy League colleges were still tweed jacket territory with socially shunned token “semites”. Yacht clubs? Ah hahaha! Long gone now, but still nostalgically not forgotten. Not all Boomers bought the… Read more »
Agreed, but only half of it Jewish groups are not only working as a team, they literally practice racial supremacy that even blind Chinese can see Jews talking other to open their society yet Jew themselves remain as closed society Jew constantly talking about the danger of whiteness while stealing national wealth via FRB transfer to Jewish own finances Overall Most successful group In the United States are Jews, and Jews are extremely racist towards non-Jew I never heard about Asian or any other group allow to access Jewish Community Anti-Racism is lying, because Reason that Jews are successful is… Read more »
In other words, racial supremacism works damn well, better than anything else, so for eff’s sake let’s get some!
White Revolution is the only Solution
The real lesson is that the rest of us also need to work as a team, and stop fighting about who is most holy.
Could be sound. Until the first pahjeet inserts itself into your group.
I am a white Christian-informed straight male.
I and mine have zero need for any other. Those minerals under your feet you couldn’t exploit? Our dim women?
Eff off, we’re full. Although, truly, you are a joke insofar as you complain about us whilst holding onto separation in the.face of the.demonstrably superior form.
Streetshidders.
I dont have a problem with other races, i just dont want to live among them. In their own cultures and lands, have at it, create what they want.
Just let me and my descendants do the same.
They insist on not doing that, and to live in my culture and lands and in many instances harm me and my descendants , therefore we must find a way to seperate lest both my culture and theirs be destroyed.
Until a large portion of whites start to think this way we will continue down the path of perdition.
Exactly, I have no problem nor concerns about Mexican in Mexico, Blacks in Africa, Arabs in the Middle East or Indians in India. When they are in my country, I have a big problem with them.
I like Mexicans. I just want them to stay in Mexico
Define the borders of Mexico. Where I live *is* MX. 😉
Growing up I thought “diversity” was unique peoples in their own lands.
So, why do these other races want to live in the bigoted, racist and prejudiced USA?
What does the USA have that they can’t find in their home countries?
South Africa had the same problem.
They flee from their own vibrant compatriots into the slavering jaws of the Blue-Eyed Ice Devil, where they must surely perish from fascism, racism, exclusivity and inequality. A most curious phenomenon, wot.
Problem is, your race will have stuff that the others won’t and there are lots of them and they will try to get that stuff. How do you stop them? This the same problem libertarians have: How do you go from here to the society you want, and how do you keep that society if you manage to create it?
Shorter version: the Global American Empire fully embraces white genocide. Option 1: A color-blind society that slowly erases white people. Option 2: An anti-white society that rapidly erases white people. The Tribe thought it could transition from the first to the second option and escape the carnage and consequences. Now that it sees it cannot, it reverts to Option 1. Christopher Rufo, like Douglas Murray, Jordan Petersen, and so forth, has been tagged to play Pied Piper to facilitate the reversion. Good luck with that. Cucks will mouth the slogans but too many have the bared fangs seared into their… Read more »
This from the Rufo piece is telling:
Thus, this isn’t just a question of anti-Semitism, but a question of how we want to govern our society.
The guilty man flees where no man pursueth.
Govern what society? That society is a smoking crater. The only consequential questions concern what sorts of societies will replace the one destroyed by Leftists.
I found the possessive pronoun “our” to be the most appalling part of that quote.
Yes, Leftists love to use “our.” Much like certain Russian commies adopted the term “Bolsheviki” (Majority Men) despite the fact that they were actually a minority within Russian communism, to create the illusion of preponderence, our lovely Leftists use “our” to create the picture of an exclusive club of the righteous besieged by evil, dissenting subversives. Our Democracy, Our Society–this wonderful club they persist in calling America belongs to them, and we Traditionalists are bent on wrecking that holy thing.
Charlie Kirk is using the same trick
I don’t think they realize that people are not only on to them but far far past them and already beyond “salvation”
There’s a reason that Steve Sailer was let out of the shadows following the Oct. 7 attack and subsequent protests. All of the sudden, colorblind civic nationalism was “good for the Jews,” so anyone promoting it was pushed front and center.
Hilariously, Sailer thinks that his ideas finally won everyone over. What a rube.
Yes. Sailer is both intellectually dishonest and delusional, which is a really bad combination.
It’s specific enough to be called Sailer’s Delusion: “I’m secretly influential on everybody except for the failures and crazies who actually acknowledge me.” He has been influential. The default dissident media personality’s attitude now, exemplified most flamboyantly by Fuentes, is “Everyone but me and globohomo is a loser.” That didn’t come from Pat Buchanan. I’ve always associated identification with media with gay men. Who loves the TV people? Who talks like they’re one of them in everyday life? Sailer—”spiritually gay,” as the girls say—brought that attitude to the man’s man’s world of the right. His postings at Ron’s place are… Read more »
His postings at Ron’s place are like an old queen doing his diva act at the local hardware store.
Pure poetry there, man.
“What a rube.”
Might as well call him Goldberg…
We could call him that. Or maybe Rubenstein.
I hear Sailer had a DNA test and now finds out after all of these years that he’s a jew
He was adopted
Pardon me for not researching it myself. I am just going off what I think N Fuentes said.
Color-blind sounds nice, but its wildly unrealistic. Good whites need to realize, they may pretend to be color-blind, but the blacks, browns, and yellows are, in fact, color-obsessed. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Color-blindness was a luxury for a majority white country; One could pretend to be color-blind, back in the day, because it wasn’t often that one’s prejudices were confirmed because there was not a great deal of interaction with blacks, or browns, or yellows. Now-a-days, our prejudices are confirmed daily, by incompetent blacks, incompetent and weasely pajeets, and competent but selfish yellows. Oh – and… Read more »
“One could pretend to be color-blind, back in the day, … because there was not a great deal of interaction with blacks,…”
Exactly. I still remember those days in the place of my birth, NYC. The system (segregation) worked quite well as compared to today’s “improvement”—at least for Whites. For the parasite races, it so much as it made “feeding” more difficult.
The corporations now are openly embracing — and even publicizing — a No Need to Apply policy concerning white males, and for decades have excluded white males from hiring and advancement. What’s that tell us? It tells us that the Prog Religion that long ago conquered the country is, chiefly, a two-pronged attack: first, degrade and exclude males. This is the feminist pogrom that’s been in ascendency for half-a-decade now. Second, fine-tune the feminist position by including whites in the satanic equation. To be sure, white WOMEN are still very much being embraced (and hired) by the corporations. They rule… Read more »
I’m not sure if ironic is the right word or not, but it’s certainly remarkable that there are no more eager and rigid enforcers of the pro dieversity, anti white male system than AWFLs.
They are affluent because they are female. When they also come for white women, which I suspect happens soon, many of them will sing a different tune.
Don’t Karen me bruh.
Lucky for them, women are submissive and it will take longer.
I do not think I have every met a woman without a spanking kink.
They are the core constituency and the lead enforcers of DEI and, before that, AA. The AWFLs were paid off in careers, and also via the awarding of cultural and legal power over males, but particularly white males.
They make an accusation against you, the sheriff’s cars pull up at your doorstep in 15 minutes, demanding an explanation for whatever accusation they made up. You make an accusation against them, you are laughed at. That is POWER.
The Awfuls are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and of Leftism in general. America’s enemy is within.
“White males need not apply” probably works OK in a non-technical bullshi* business and among the suits. But any technical business will decline in inverse relation to the number of white males in the workforce. Find a black CNC programmer, or a brown one who can actually put out working code when needed.
They don’t care if the business declines. That is a PLUS. They openly state that their agenda is to destroy (what is left of) Traditional America, so they can Build Back Better.
Woke means broke? That is a positive result to them. Other countries watch this and their reaction is to de-value the dollar. Again. Decline and destruction is the point.
“What’s that tell us?”
Stay away from nuclear power plants, live upstream from hydro plants and don’t fly in airplanes any more than necessary.
Yep. Last week two women ‘pilots’ flew their bazillion-dollar fancy-radar Growler jet into the side of Mt. Rainier. Soon they’ll be at the helm of your next domestic flight. Happy landings! Two weeks ago a female ‘captain’ of a NZ ship ran it aground and sank it. Etc. and etc. Meanwhile, all our nations are shoe-horning females into military slots for which they are not qualified, just as fast as they can. Hell, they can’t even pass the physical exercise requirements in their basic training units. So of course, the requirements are changed. Because requirements and standards are misogynistic, doncha… Read more »
I’m a bit late to the party, but white women are valued in the current society because women tend to emote rather than think. And when their delusions bear bad fruit, they can be counted on to berate the white men who warned them what would happen. IKAGO and all that, but as with most stereotypes, there’s usually a reason behind them.
No matter which head white men think with, they arrive at wrongthink. Even though that kind of wrongthink resulted in the prosperous society we have, and they want.
True.
Of course, the origin of all this madness is the magical negro. And it’s all just devolving into a racial spoils system now that proverbial “melting pot” is super duper sized. It’s beyond tragic the legacy White population sat back and allowed it to happen. Future generations, as they decline are going to pay a heavy price.
The origin of this madness is currently genociding Palestinians in Palestine and now Lebanon. They aim to do the same to Europeans. Only the means differ.
And just who promoted and continues to promote the Magic Negro. Did black writers, producers and directors make movie after movie with the Magic Negro? Is it black-owned media outlets that employ black writers complaining about white racism?
Don’t blame the dancing monkey. Blame the dancing monkey’s owner.
Blame both. Would that the sea-faring Portuguese had never landed in Africa.
I wasn’t blaming the MN, although there’s plenty to blame them for – of course that trope was (and still is) created and promoted by certain, lighter skinned people. Just pointing out that the dreaded racism BS has always been about black/White and nothing else. And too many Whites bought in – either enthusiastically or apathetically and allowed it to morph into the monster we have now. All the other flavors of mud are just glomming on due to the easy pickings.
Negroes, for the entire history of America/AINO have sat top the Left’s victim hierarchy and no other group even comes close. Hell, how many Messkins do you see in corporate TV ads despite the fact that there are more of them than nuggras in this accursed land? Yes, negroes are the gods of the Left and I daresay that is because they are the people most radically different from the hated whites.
We’re dealing with social and political issues here, but during my Literature studies we briefly studied folk stories, myths, etc. Not surprisingly, there are certain types of narrative structure that have persisted across many cultures and thousands of years. For example, the “Hero’s Journey.” Specialists study this stuff. There is a database of several hundred story formulae and one of them is…. wait for it…”The Magical Negro.” The example I recall from class is Stephen King’s The Green Mile. Of course in the folk tale the character is pure fantasy. Magic healing powers don’t exist. Exceptionally good Negroes really do occur… Read more »
Yes, the Jews punch well above their weight in transfiguring the negro and undermining whitey, but let’s not neglect the role white Leftists have played in all this. In fact, to my mind it’s an open question as to which group is more to blame. At any rate, Jews are gonna Jew, and that is to be expected. What is aberrent in the extreme is whites who have turned treasonous against their own kind.
Most people just say whatever they need to say to keep their jobs and climb the ladder.
“White leftists” are just cowardly. I doubt most actually believe any of it.
Stockholm syndrome is definitely a real thing though… So there you go.
Some are mentally ill and some are just cowardly and selfish. An “Eat me last” sort of thing.
Z seems to be forgetting the Steve Sailers and Charles Murrays of the world. They accept racial differences but still push for a colorblind society, acknowledging that it will lead to unequal results for various groups but, presumably, equal results for individuals.
They are both racist and anti-racists. (I’d argue that they’re also naive, childish and disloyal but that’s a different debate.)
The obvious counter to this is that groups of people behave in predictable ways, and get more predictable the larger the group is. You put a bunch of white men together and they produce excellence, put a bunch of black men together and they produce detroit.
forcing these predictable harms onto people is evil.
I’d argue that they are products of a time when you could separate public policy from private behavior. For example, keeping the races separate in prison is reasonable, as it limits violence. Keeping the races separate on public transit is wrong because it forces people to judge one another by race. For them, public policy is solely about the practical ends of society. Ethics are about how you as an individual interact with your fellows. Rufo conflates public policy with personal ethics. If it is immoral to notice race individually, then it must be immoral to do so as a… Read more »
Agree. It’s an important distinction between Sailer/Murray and Rufo. Indeed, I remember that Sailer often mentioned that he was seeking practical solutions to society’s problem. Of course, Sailer never seemed to notice that his oh-so-practical solution of colorblind civic nationalism has been on a 60-year losing streak, something that would make a practical man re-evaluate their position. Rufo just seems very shallow. Regardless, what binds all three is a desire to remain a part of the commentariat wing of the managerial class. I doubt that Murray or maybe even Sailer need the money but losing that status would kill them.… Read more »
So why can one no longer separate private morality with public policy? Jurisprudence, yes, to some extent, but Brown was not the expansive ruling people make it out to be.
What is it about today’s people that there’s this unquestionable belief that there should be a public policy? My great-grandfather left Norway largely because Norway had swallowed the public policy poison. Norway was a great place to be FROM. But anymore, even Libertarians argue about not whether DC should be bossing us around, but merely how much.
I would argue that Brown was far more expansive than most understand. It created a new moral framework within the law. The ultimate good was the open society, which meant the ultimate bad was any barriers within society. Quickly all private association came under scrutiny. Any barrier to entry to anything that could be defined as a public space, which was everything outside the home, was assumed invalid be default. The establishment of a barrier needed to pass the high bar of the Brown Test. In other words, Brown replaced the purpose of the old order, the preservation of individual… Read more »
It is far too generous to think BROWN was decided for neutral utopian purposes*, but even if that was the motivation, it quickly degenerated into a punitive decision. Only one race and one group were required to be “open” by the cases that followed, notably SWANN that required white students to be uprooted from their neighborhood schools and bussed across town to bask in the glow of Negroes. SWANN only was curtailed after blacks complained about the inconvenience. Only one group ever has been denied freedom of association. *BROWN actually was just another battle in the Forever War against the… Read more »
I expect that last sentence means Marshall gots hisself a white woman.
And, yet, that attack on freedom of association seems very targeted. The open society morality doesn’t apply endless black, Hispanic, Jewish or women’s groups. Indeed, they are promoted.
What was attacked was whites having associations that excluded others.
And largely White men specifically.
This is probably the only thing I credit to economics—to capitalism. To depress wages and generally immiserate the citizenry, to eliminate the middle class family and the freedom and aspiration it breeds, women must work, must be employed. So a hundred million American girls need jobs, but they can’t really do anything except “woman’s work.” We have to alienate them from all that, lest they remember, so for that we’ll import slave races, Chinese to launder, Ukrainians to whore, miscellaneous to nurse, etc. What’s left to our women? The typing pool can only get so big, and we can only… Read more »
Women entering the workforce en masse destroyed the nuclear (male-led) family. A BIG win for The State and its elites (banksters, moneyed families et al.) Now everywhere you look — especially in government and large corporations — girlbosses rule, swaggering about in pantsuits and padded shoulders. Hillary Clinton clones after sixty years of AA. This alienates and dis-spirits the male, especially the white male, who has been the specific target of the Progressive Politburo for many decades now. Clearly, the PTB don’t want family formation — they want everyone to rely on The State, and for females to replace husbands… Read more »
Yes, capitalism did that, led by the noted capitalist country, the USSR.
At the time that the Equal Rights amendment was being considered, women in the US comprised a little over a third of the workforce, heavily skewed in secretarial, clerical and education. At the same time, USSR’s workforce was over half women, and they were well represented in heavy industry.
Good point.
Jews ran the USSR too. Right into the ground, just like what is happening to late stage USA.
Both ideologies were really just elaborate jewish excuses to kill or neuter the old King and replace him with themselves.
Now they seem to favor the word “Democracy”.
Pretty weak as excuses go.
The first time I visited boomtown Shenzhen in 1993 when it was still very much a crazy Wild West (sic) saloon of a place, I saw women working on construction and demolition sites carrying heavy loads. Can distinctly remember young and impressionable me thinking “Now that’s equality!”
If women want to ‘Hold Up Half the Sky™’ well fine. But then they get to hump heavy loads and dig out septic tanks along with men, not just be the Girl Boss.
Kinder, Kirche, Küche, plus a fine leavening of Hetaira to inspire the menfolk to strive to make bank.
I disagree. The Brown decision specifically refers to public education. That when it comes to education, separate is inherently unequal.
It’s much like Hart-Celler. The Act itself set quotas for 150k Europeans, and around 4k each from Asia and Africa.
Brown and Hart were little more than a foot in the door. It’s the bastards who subsequently kicked the door off its hinges who are to blame.
First off, you might want to ask yourself why “The Brown Test” is a foundation of civil rights jurisprudence. If it is a trivial ruling, why does very lawyer learn about it and know what “The Brown Test” means?
Second, Hart-Celler eliminated the national origins quotas. It erased half a century of immigration limits and led to the open borders regime we see today.
Understood. Like @Ostei said, Brown became a slippery slope. But ITS roots are in Marbury v. Madison, in which the USSC gave itself the power of judicial review. Without that slippery slope, the USSC had only the power to write opinions, not to make rulings.
What is it with members of the USSC named “Marshall” that they become instrumental in the overthrow of civil society?
You might want to acquaint yourself with slippery slopes and camels’ noses. They are very real.
Brown was immensely expansive. If people are required to relinquish their children to years of forced government education/indoctrination, those with whom they associate and by whom they are taught is vitally important. Most of the lawyers behind Brown were Jewish, and they were motivated not by ‘love’ for the blacks, but resentment and hatred of Christian Whites.
The front organization behind BROWN was the NAACP, which was created and initially openly run by Jews. The black nationalist Marcus Garvey, after his one and I suspect only meeting with the NAACP, famously said he didn’t see a black person on the committee. What he also didn’t see was a white person. Thurgood Marshall, who argued the case, as repayment got elevated to the Supreme Court by ol’ marse Schlomo via their other puppet LBJ.
‘”Brown” was a catastrophe. On the surface it was bad enough. It replaced the old Plessy v Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine, relying on mid 20th century US social science to rule that separate was inherently unequal.
This foray by judges into areas way beyond their competence and authority was at best utopian nonsense. But then it ran into the fact that “white” was better. So only non whites were harmed by separation, and thus had a justifiable grievance.
“Brown” made access to white people a constitutional right.
““Brown” made access to white people a constitutional right.” Sort of, but only because they included a case from Delaware(?) in the decision, because that case explicitly held that White schools were superior. The reason they rejected Plessy was that while they could not dispute that schools in those cases were already or were being made equal in objective terms, “[o]ur decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases. We must look instead to the effect of segregation itself on public education.” Read the… Read more »
Glad you made that distinction, Z. Private vs public
That was my lead-in thought on the subject, but now I see you touched on it already
And then there are those who argue you can’t get an “ought” from an “is”. That there are racial differences, and that there are the exceptional “Magic Negros” says absolutely nothing about how a society ought to be constructed. “Both” sides (I still maintain it’s more of an analog variable than a digital one) are so fixated on imposing a political “one size fits all” that any outcome other than chaos and disaster is vanishingly likely.
Exceptions vs. broader society, ‘analog’ variables… Alas and alack, I am inflicted with Confucian Rectification of Names obsessive compulsive autistic tendencies. So: I think the vocabulary you are looking for is that associated with probability distributions. The simpler case of Sowell vs. D’Shawn is simply extreme right tail vs rest of ’em. The not quite felicitous ‘analog’ analogy is better thought of as two partly intersecting distributions or a bimodal distribution depending on use case. I think you were saying you thought there might be some overlap of opinion rather than a sharp divide when you refer to ‘Both Sides’… Read more »
Cute. But fundamentally wrong. Nothing has a probability. It’s all measurements of our uncertainty. You can have multimodal distributions, sure, but that is a different thing entirely.
The likelier answer is Sailer and Murray are intellectually dishonest liars.
The left isn’t really interested in helping minorities; their true objective is to smash the majority.
Then, they hope to create a perfect society upon the ruins of the old.
Although, I suspect that the revolutionaries reward for the their destructive work will a one-way trip to the GULAG because that is the best way for their employers to renege on whatever promises they made to make their janissaries do their dirty work.
How to accomplish that one way trip, to beguile the guards into betraying their own?
Why, your pay and privileges depend on it, citizen.
Who controls the Left?
The East Coast/Wall Street financial establishment. Characterised as the Wicked Witch of the East in “The Wizard of Oz”.
And just who are the East Coast/Wall Street financial establishment?
So Glinda is Canada?
Frank Baum knew. So many hidden messages.
Nobody. Nothing. The Left controls the West.
Yes, they want to smash the white race. But truthfully, they really do worship negroes, albeit preferrably from afar.
Or from the Owner’s Box.
Donald Sterling to the white courtesy phone!
At this point, yes, that’s the only conclusion. They view themselves as part of the anointed intellectual class and that requires them to avoid certain truths, so they avoid them. No one in their circles ever chide them for it, so it doesn’t bother them.
This is a very harsh view Jack. These guys are nothing if not scientific. The problem is that they do all the statistics and then make magical policy conclusions in spite of the data/results.
Harsh and true. There is no magic involved, only convenience. They have the data and understand it.
Captain: Harsh but true. Sailer is more than aware of the black propensity for violence, the Jewish and Asian propensity for ethnic nepotism, and the Mestizo propensity for both. He is only ‘scientific’ when it suits him, and he regards all people as fungible if they share his sensibilities and conception of intellect. Sailer pretends to be self-effacing but is actually quite arrogant in which data he deigns to use and which data he determinedly ignores.
If you ever see an interview of him, you will see he is quite full of himself and talks like he is some towering intellect
Now I’m going to do an IKAGO. If you want someone who *is* a towering genius and value-free realist about traits of all races, check out Steve Hsu.
Cowards
If Sailer dropped the Truth Bunker Buster, who would he then play golf with?
All of this talk of equality versus inequalilty is really something of a red herring. Far more important is difference versus sameness. Frankly, it doesn’t bother me that Indians in AINO earn more, on average, than whites. Hell, more power to ’em. What does bother me is their aesthetic and cultural difference. I simply don’t want to live in a nation where I’m surrounded by groups who are radically different from my group, which is whites. And that difference cannot be remedied by government programs and social engineering. It is ineradicable.
“I simply don’t want to live in a nation where I’m surrounded by groups who are radically different from my group, which is whites.” Well, that ship has sailed—especially in the US, but in the West in general, hasn’t it? At best, in the US, we need to return back to a time of segregation. Legally enforced segregation. Would be nice to have such on a State by State basis, but easier to enforce/create on a community basis as was the case when I was a youngster. Right now it seems only the wealthy can, by dint of $$$, buy… Read more »
It is far more feasible to work toward the creation of a white ethnostate, which will emerge from AINO’s rubble than to try to reinvent the wheel within the structure of AINO. I abandonded all hope for AINO directly Biden was installed and now think exclusively in terms of what can be fashioned for whites in its aftermath.
Call me a bigot, but I will not be lectured on my supposed failings by an Indian. The Tribe have mastered the art of making Whitey feel guilt and shame over the preceding 200 years and one can give them a grudging backhanded accolade for that ‘achievement’.
But Indians rocking up after the fact and skimming the Cliff’s Notes on the technique and then taking Free Kicks after we’re down on the canvas. Never!
Never forget that the flip-side of bigot is to gib…
White people are getting screwed and some of them like it as long as it’s not them personally. And some of the more twisted sort actually do like it. I think the incidence of paraphilias among the managerial class is quite high.
That’s an opening for a seasonally appropriate joke from the 1980s. Here it is, more or less:
The Democratic Party has announced they will change the organization’s mascot from a donkey to a condom. After input from many focus groups, reasons for the change were given as:
It symbolizes the commitment to safe sex.
It protects a bunch of pricks.
Most importantly, it brings a feeling of warmth and togetherness to party “members” even as they are being screwed.
They are selected for management because of their paraphilias bro. There is no need to think it anymore, we now know it for a fact. Epstein, P-Diddy, most of our elite class for quite some time have been compromised by jewish handlers. The public knows this now. They choose to elevate the people they can tape having sex with kids or doing some other horrible thing that would make normal people sick. Permanent control, through threat of ruination. They always have that tape they can “leak” if any of their puppets get uppity. It’s quite a toxic system. I’m frankly… Read more »
Though not strictly race based, the true believers really do believe the magic dirt theory with regards to ethnicity. All these Chinese spies being hired in our government is a great example. The identity of the Israeli plans to attack Iran leaker has been released and it’s, surprise surprise, an Iranian high up in the Pentagon.
Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian lesbian is a senior Pentagon staffer. You cannot make this shit up.
Only the “woke” West is so stupid as to ignore such aspects (racial ties) of highly placed personnel. However, I’m wondering if the Israelis are that stupid as to trust such information—if important—to the US Defense department, and therefore the validity of the information “leaked”.
The GAE being an (at least) equal partner in the wars Israel is waging is the only good explanation for why the Pentagon would have the plans in the first place, Iranian lesbians or no. Or perhaps it is the one calling the shots, and not Israel.
Agree. Is this false bait put out by Mossad, since they knew the regime would leak it? Suspicious Cat knows there must be some spy name for this “leak”.
At another site like this a few years back there was a military officer commenter whose job included, weirdly, accomplishing some normal military objectives. One to which he was assigned was to study and remedy the Chinese spy problem in his particular area of responsibility. He dutifully studied and was surprised—military guys are never really /ourguys/—to find a clear singular problem with a clear singular remedy: Don’t allow any significant information to come into the view to anyone of Chinese descent or any man married to a Chinese woman. All the spies were them, and known spies were a huge… Read more »
For a while, I’ve said every significant Western university has had its own miniature Chinese spy network for decades.
To be clear, it is the process of real War, not pretend Special Forces Olympics forever wars. Real War tends to winnow out per Ike in Crusade in Europe, the peacetime butt kissers, who advance in the peacetime army. See: Grant, Sherman, Forrest, Patton, etc. Moreover, there are significant military aligned people like Boeing and others who realize that open borders = no military spending. Already we have lost forever about 10 carrier groups because of the social spending on “immigrants!” Musk is the creation of the Military Industrial Complex. He would not exist without the money poured into Space… Read more »
We’re well beyond race with this lunacy. Males and females are fungible commodities. Obese and skinny are ideal morphologies. Bring out Diana Moon Glampers who I imagine resembles Admiral Levine in appearance.
Even Kurt Vonnegut’s fertile imagination couldn’t have dreamed up Admiral Levine and the current clown world.
Player Piano was a decent attempt to predict where we are today.
He probably wouldn’t have gone so far as to make Levine and Milley high school classmates
Thanks for the Glampers reference.
Rufo is not that smart, but he knows what he’s doing. They are setting up a post-election purge. It looks like Trump has been promised the presidency and an end to his legal difficulties, but the conditions are greenlighting war with Iran and cracking down on “antisemitism”.
Similarly, Elon Musk will get to go to Mars, but he will have to kick the Fuentes types off twitter. I expect the censorship will be justified by a false flag, OK City style terror attack early in Trump’s term.
I think it’s an open question if the people hypothetically promising Trump the presidency can actually deliver it to him. Unless they really do control the dominion machines. Because I am pretty sure that the people determined to fortify the election against him cannot be reasoned with or dissuaded.
As Z pointed out a couple months ago, it’s very plausible that the fortification doesn’t happen in PA this year. Shapiro wants to run for president and he’s not going to be able to do that in 2028 or 2032 if Kamala wins. And just that by itself might be enough. Also, the narratives around Kamala have totally crumbled. Nobody is calling her brat anymore. Nobody is posting coconut tree memes. She’s going on TV and making a fool of herself every day. She’s trotting out Liz Cheney and B-list celebs to try to make the case (the big ones… Read more »
That’s the thing- for Trump to win, they only need to tamp down the fraud some. It’s not like they need to affirmatively commit any themselves, which requires more effort and resources.
Tarl-
Your point about Iran is interesting.
It makes me wonder if the current hysteria about North Korean troops in Russia is a desperate attempt by the current regime to widen the war so they can declare martial law, cancel the election, write off all existing debt, and trap everyone into digital ID with CBDCs.
The neocon Ukrainiacs are the wild card. They certainly have not reconciled themselves to Trump, (hell, they tried to kill him). Problem is, they don’t control Pennsylvania. The Zionists do. Although, it is interesting that Josh Shapiro met with Alex Soros the other day.
I guess come Election Day, we’ll all just wait and be amazed.
One word to destroy a civilization: this is the power of spells. It is also, the power of story, as the human operating system.
Humans think in ideograms, in camps, clusters, connotations. This unique spell sets up a kind of schizophrenia, or doublethink, or reverbrating cognitive dissonance.
How to defeat this one, ONE, word?
The word, the concept, “racism”.
As if that were a bad thing, not a natural, necessary fence, a thing to be honored.
Perhaps, by recognizing it is seen as a good in nonwhites, and a sin in whites.
The, “Rufo Position”, which you point out well predates him, is the Regime Orthodoxy. That orthodoxy is moralism and moralizing. The RP is saying, “Racism is bad. You are being racist therefore you are bad.” He is no different than Jesse Jackson in that regard. One quibble is Jackson rallied mobs to chant that our civilization must be destroyed. Rufo, just ignores that issue all together and thus permits its demolition. In terms of the moralizing, The Radical Egalitarians have the power so their accusations have tremendous consequences and weight. The Leftists, (Rufo, Con Inc., JK Rowling, Musk, … …),… Read more »
“The colorblind dogma makes anti-racism sound reasonable and its implementation would make the Khmer Rouge seem tame.” I told my Dad, who when he was young was thoroughly indoctrinated into being a proggy, about 6-7 years ago that the path they were on was going to lead to 200 million dead. He was stunned. The notion doesn’t seem so shocking any more. They at least have an inkling that not everything is going as promised by the aliens and mutants on their television screens. There is no way in hell they are going to change course without some pushback, though.… Read more »
Young people are pretty redpilled on race. On things like LGBT and abortion, not so much, but they have spent years seeing misbehavior from people of certain ancestry on X, in streaming, they see what happens in schools, they saw the same stuff we all did after 2020, etc. Even the regime has started to tacitly acknowledge realities. Twenty-five years ago, underperforming schools in places like Baltimore and Detroit were met with a chrous of anger and tons of resources to fix it. Nowadays, it’s greeted with a shrug and the idea that asking these people to turn in their… Read more »
Thanks. Apparently Compact Magazine has been outed as Soros-funded, too. Old man Soros may disavow his Tribe and Israel but apparently retains their worst traits, including buying the putative opposition.
You know all those YouTube and TikTok videos with the ceiling birds chirping?
The youth are definitely noticing those.
Trust versus distrust? I’m afraid we Traditionalists are well beyond that. We actively reject the “institutions.”
I must disagree with the idea that “It is a binary issue. You either … think it is immoral to make decisions based on race [or] reject the idea that this behavior is immoral.” It’s perfectly consistent to think that large population groups differ in average traits, but also that individual people should be judged as individuals. If all we know about people is that they’re in group X, then it’s justified to treat them on that basis until we know more. As John Derbyshire pointed out before he was purged by National Review, if we’re suddenly surrounded by a… Read more »
“It’s common sense to treat people as individuals as long as it’s not suicidally crazy to do so.” When I screen candidates for a technical position, if I can tell with high probability they are a black or African, I won’t waste my time with a phone interview. That is common sense. When something has been confirmed over and over and over in sixty years of real-life experience its common sense to use that experience as one’s guide. Sure, when one knows a person, like Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams, or my old Platoon Sergeant and First Sergeant, then treat… Read more »
Your judging people as individuals is simply a high-minded way of proclaiming IKAGO. Like it or not, people’s potential (good and bad) is a product of their genetics, and their living up or down to that potential is affected by environment. Thomas Sowell, Mr. Magic IKAGO himself, refuses to acknowledge the racial IQ gap and instead blames black pathologies on White ‘hillbilly/redneck culture.’ He cannot and will not acknowledge genetic racial reality because he has black children and grandchildren. And since reversion to the mean is real, why would a White want Sowell or his family as neighbors? Exceptions merely… Read more »
Another commenter mentioned the basic issue: One part is a statement about facts (“the average of people in group X is different from other groups”) and the other part is a rule about our behavior (“we ought to treat people equally if the circumstances are equal”). They’re mostly independent of each other.
Exactly. The aspect of IKAGO is a precept that *you*, yourself, are free to follow in your *personal* endeavors/interactions. It is quite a different story to impose those standards upon other Whites in “societal” decisions.
Note that whereas I am a stanch supporter/promoter of Thomas Sowell, he is a “very lonely man”.
He did! Blacks learned that prickly pride from rednecks, he claimed, so I wonder if whites taught them to write the Black Paper too.
…IN THAT…
“all men are created equal in that they are endowed by their Creator”
Sorry to spoil the surprise; short, well argued article, thanks.
In fairness, Rufo probably understands this, but the money in seeming to not understand it is too good to turn down. The default DR position is that these stances are genuine moral expressions and not the result of financial incentive. This is particularly true when it comes to the subject of race, where having your color-blindness recognized, particularly by a numinous negro, provides a strong dopamine rush for most. If you’ve partaken in any normie-con media in the past week or two, you’ve seen it on full display. A slightly larger sliver of the black male population will vote for… Read more »
“…provides a strong dopamine rush for most.”
That is key, that is SO key to the equation. Thanks much!
“That calls for getting a “based” black man on your show to acknowledge and compliment your erection.”
LOL. Whites always look for black affirmation!
That’s bang on. We have a hard time imagining Leftists–including Civ-Nats–actually believe their own bull because we are a very logical and rational group of people. It is difficult for us to hoist in that anybody can truly believe Leftist lunacy. But most of them really do. The fame and the fat stock portfolios are just nice side dividends.
Has anyone noticed that the FED cut rates .50 and………. rates have gone up! People in the financial sphere are shocked they cut .50 when the stock market is booming and unemployment is so low, i take a different view. 2020 was a financial event, with exaggerated flu, fear porn, and bullying. They cut .5 to see how much control they have, and if you take the reaction of rates, i’d say slim to none. Don’t think we’ll have much longer to wait for this stupid system to totally destroy itself
I took a chance staying in the money markets. Maybe it’s going to pay off. More lucky than smart.
Yep. The problem is that the government has too much debt to service, hence cutting rates—yet, we still spend $3T+ more each year than we take in. The market is filled with “dumb money” whereas the smarter folk like Warren Buffet remain all in cash waiting for the inevitable crash. The system is going down, it’s just when and exactly how. Even my investment brokerage buys gold as a hedge. Dumb money is not simply a slur on the small public investor, but refers to any number of pension funds and the like where there is little control by “Joe… Read more »
They just follow short term rates, which while up it’s only just barely. Kalr Denninger said the rates went down because the bond market knows the Fed is just a follower and so the big investment houses “made the market” so that they could exploit the cut they knew would come. Far be it for me to doubt his market prowess but it could also be the inevitable dip in rates as the economic suck sets in.
Enjoy Karl quite a bit a read all his posts, in a sense, his “boomerness” blinds him to things. BRICS are having a big meeting as we speak……….
I wish whites were more tribal, not because i think tribalism is a good thing but because other ethnics are tribal and they are all allied against whites.
In our upper middle class neighborhood of about 50 homes, I can count one Trump sign, (Catholic) and 13 Harris signs (all Jews).
Of course there would be more Trumps signs, but they get stolen and there is also the fear of reprisals.
Rufo’s article was a shot back at Chris Brunet / Fuentes’ Groypers. Who exposed his Israel funding and excusing last week. It’s a fun little war that Musk has only been too happy to promote on X.
https://x.com/realChrisBrunet/status/1848831279069794657
History shows us that racial groups who don’t defend themselves against other racial groups invading their country…will be wiped out..The fact that Whites make this country work and prosperous will not, as Haiti and Jamaica show, prevent them from being annihilated or enslaved..
The good news is that hispanics, many of whom are essentially white, are natural allies…and they know how to deal with blacks effectively…
Mestizo=/ White.
White citizens with traditionalist attitudes make up roughly 50% of that group’s population. That is not enough to impose their will on the remaining groups in American who temperamentally want to give the unknown future a chance, that is, the collectivist/liberal/progressives of different shades, including other whites of an adventurous temperament. Therefore, if you or others of similar bent want to win the Game of Life, you all must cooperate against the degenerates by strategic and tactical acceptance of allies whose appearances are divergent, but whose attitudes align with yours. I live in Orlando and have lived in the remaining… Read more »
“I live in Orlando . . . ”
Bully for you. I’ve lived 5 nations and visited half a dozen more. I’ve dealt with all the races and met good and bad individuals in each. But I never forget for whom and what I’m advocating: Western civilization inhabited by White Western man. Go ally with whomever you wish; I know whose side I’m on.
You are on the side of people whose appearance you use as an absolute gauge of their trustworthiness as human beings, and hence potential allies with you and yours in competing against your social enemies. I am saying that shorthand way of looking at life is a limitation on your capacity to achieve your goals. The fact is not all whites value the things you value, so if you want to be effective in the world that you constantly say you want to reflect your view of the good life in order to pass on a positive legacy for your… Read more »
“White citizens with traditionalist attitudes make up roughly 50% of that group’s population.”— Which country are we talking about? The variance from that percentage will vary greatly, even within countries. Honduras, for example, is largely mestizo, with a few negros on the Mosquito Coast, along with the usual admixtures. Guatemala is almost pure indio in the countryside, mestizo in the cities (note that their very location often determines how they will define themselves). Costa Rica is mostly white.
Close enough; they are a successful mix, and we need allies. They turn “whiter’ in sympathies and outlook as they turn lighter; I argue that since we need numbers, note how they quickly repopulated South America after a 90% populations loss due to foreign disease. I say it is because both originate from the Northern hemisphere, and are somewhat cognate. Note that anyone who mixes with whites turns lighter (and smarter), more evidence that we are the Upgrade. Someday we may be a mere trace, a 1 to 4 percent, of the record, as are the Neanderthal; let us put… Read more »
Perhaps my “shorthand” was misunderstood. I lack the patience to figure out how to add the ‘unequal’ symbol to my text. Mestizos are not White. I’ve known many who are half. I’ve known many who are quarter. They all side with their non-White kin. Ally with whomever you wish; I will continue to refuse what I see as a devil’s bargain.
Using the Republican share of the hispanic vote at 33 percent or less as a proxy for white support, every one vote for us yields two for the anti-whites. Probably not a winning strategy. Note that Florida’s hispanic vote is skewed by Castro having kicked out the white propertied elite, who have managed to hold some sway over later working class Cuban migrants. Definitely not the case in California and elsewhere.
Mestizo ≠ White
Mestizo/=White
True. But Hispanic/= mestizo. Hence why “hispanic” truly is a social construct, unlike real racial differences.
“Hispanic” is just a social construct. It’s like calling someone an “Asian/Pacific Islander” and then generalizing based on that. Latin America was mostly founded by European men and Amerindian women. Think mestizos. Slavery brought negros, who begat zambos or mulattos, depending. Indios were at the bottom of the social order—unless your indio spoke Spanish and lived in a town, whereupon he might be considered a mestizo. So “white” in the Latin American context is likewise a social construct. Lighter complexion plays a role to be sure, but acting white is also a thing. Natural allies? I can promise you, your… Read more »
The trouble with blacks and whites is on an individual basis it can work but on a group basis it can’t. There is a spectrum So the issue can never be solved, as it were. A guy can hate what blacks represent in terms of all the costs and social burdens and the crime but then sit back having a beer and strike up a conversation with a black guy and have a great time. But as soon as five white guys wander in, he gets nervous, and vice versa. But there is much more to it. It is a… Read more »
I see it more as ternary than binary. At one end you’ve got a vocal minority with control of mass media and organs of propaganda and brainwashing such as schools and universities, who maintain that race is a “social construct”, that it’s just skin-deep, that the dark-skinned have suffered from centuries of persecution and discrimination. Then you have the vast bovine herds of white Americans in the middle, who can sense at some level that there are differences in behavior among the races but aren’t smart or vigorous enough to make their way to the relevant literature by people like… Read more »
Let me repeat without the blather:
“Racism”, a natural and necessary fence, is seen as a good in nonwhites and as a sin in whites.
Reconciling public policy with an individual ethic is impossible;
the underlying assumption is that whiteness is the sin…
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(We live by the strictures of ancient racial politics.
This is the crack in the foundation; Aryan whites were seen as the Original Sin.
They then proffered a cure: raise another people as First above the Aryan whites.)
Rufo is a Jew .His writings are pointless even. To mention.
Did he convert? Because here is part of his “Early Life” section.
Unless he converted, he isn’t.
“I am a Catholic and we recite the St. Michael’s prayer at the end of every Mass. It’s a beautiful prayer.”
I’m convinced all of the political turmoil today is because of two issues: Immigration and ObamaCare. The Republicans exposed themselves as controlled opposition by fighting Trump on the wall every step of the way, not to mention wagging their fingers and telling people, “That’s not who we are.” When they capitulated on repealing obamacare, even if the repeal was flawed, they showed their heart was never in it. I guess there were also a few other moments along this journey that left a meaningful impression, like trying to kneecap the TEA Party. That’s why the base has no use for… Read more »
“That’s why the base has no use for establishment Republicans these days. Cucks.” Worse, duplicitous liars. They (Rep’s) voted for repeal several times when the Congress was not in their hands and repeal impossible—that included the great establishment/machine Rep, John McCain. This was good campaign fodder for the rubes back home. McCain was the defiant Rep vote when the last ACA repeal was voted down under the Trump administration. McCain was the great voice on the Rep side against building “the wall”, under Bush waay before Trump took office as well. McCain Republicanism is why there is so much contention… Read more »
People like Rufo only have agency if they can help instigate an authoritarian society in which jackboots enforce their policy-of-the-day, such as forced compliance with their rules. And in their mind, this enforcement is mild and just. Until it isn’t. Cancel culture anyone? And we cannot resolve this dichotomy with words. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is. Eventually, the solution gets existential and man-made selection must step in where nature is no longer able to help us. 4S & focus will arrive sooner than you think.
“Regardless of motivations, the people promoting the concept of a colorblind society are unwilling to address the root causes”.
This is not so much about causes as it is about effects. Rufo and his ilk are basically tasked with defending the status quo: the distribution of economic and political power. Defending the status quo is about defending the moral foundation of the System. If the System is colorblind, then the power distribution is moral, right? The alternative – tribalism – would likely yield a vastly different distribution of power.
Nope: “You either accept or reject the normative and positive claims baked into the word racism.”
Between true and not true there is nothing, but between accept and reject (interpreting the latter as denial) there is undecidedness. Maybe one is deliberately reserving judgement, or timid, or just oblivious to the matter, like a young child. There is always a middle ground between affirmation and denial.
[…] ZMan cuts to the chase. […]
discussion of the FED is taboo Zman?
Rufo derangement syndrome
Speaking of racism, here’s a treat. Haven’t seen this movie in a while and it’s on Pluto. Someone also put it up on YouTube. Slaughter (1972) with Jim Brown. Jim Brown gets called the N-word about a dozen times during the movie and just shrugs it off. If this movie was filmed today, he’d have a meltdown and run to his safe space, or maybe start slashing people to death. But seriously, I always liked this movie. Lots of gunfire and lots of bad guys getting shot to death — great flick. (Not sure if the Pluto version keeps all… Read more »
The polls show that trust in almost every sector of society — from the media to elected leaders — is on the decline. Fed a steady stream of lies for so long, the average person feels like a Bobo doll that’s been punched around. The institutions that no longer have trust can only regain it through continued examples of scrupulous honesty. But the mass media, for instance, is addicted to slanting the news. It’s hard to break an addiction. Not until the newspapers and TV stations are teetering on bankruptcy will change happen. Media executives must get it in their… Read more »
“Not until the newspapers and TV stations are teetering on bankruptcy will change happen.”
You never really understood what the bailouts in 08 were huh? Same for the people that say go woke go broke. They all went broke in 08, the entire corporate system. They’re still here, but yeah go woke go broke. Stupid and woke will increase until they can no longer print money. I’d argue woke comes directly from the government, and if you want a chance at bailout money you better virtue signal damnit. Idiots
Apparently you didn’t read the article. Those polls don’t correspond to reality. A small % of people say they trust the media in polls, but when the media told them covid was the new black plague, the overwhelming majority bought it.
As for the idea that the media will realize they were wrong to lie and reform at some point, keep huffing that copium. I’m sure there will be a big Nuremberg 2.0 for covid as well, where everyone who perpetrated the lie confesses and cries or is put in jail. Keep dreaming.
You seem to say/imply the media was lying. In essence that’s true, but was it deliberate lying—as in the media knew the truth, but reported differently? Or was it rather because the media is too dumb, mendacious, and lazy to investigate, discover, and publish the truth—therefore, they simply accepted what the government agencies stated in press handouts? I tend to believe the later for reasons of a declining news media ethos and intellect of personnel. I also must remark that the truth was out there for anyone with the time and effort to review, which, if I recall, most folk… Read more »
The banality of evil, also i disagree with you. They knew, otherwise why censor anything that would cause people to ask questions? 20 years ago i would have agreed with you, too much water under the bridge since then. They know
Sigh. I’m afraid the above was AI copyright filler, an advertisement insert, as filling as a Kamala platitude.
The lies disseminated by the gubmint comported with media preconceptions and predilections. That is why the media didn’t bother doing research and confirmation/debunking. When you hear what you want to hear, you just roll with it. Confirmation bias, I think they call it.