A case in point is a student group at St John's College in Santa Fe. An email was sent to all students and staff at this college advertising the new student group (see below). The email runs:
This is a group where those who most often exhibit racist and sexist behaviour - white males - can begin to be self-critical of the very dangerous, brutal and depraved hierarchical pathologies of superiority, supremacy, and inferiority handed down to us by white Euro-American institutions.
The main topic for discussion will be an ongoing one. How do we deal with the depravity of whiteness and the brutality of masculinity? How can we get to the root of this problem?
Once the email came to light, the college announced that it had erred in not suggesting edits to tone down the "inflammatory" language. But the point remains that it is now considered a leftist position that whiteness and masculinity are to be looked on negatively as pathologies. The obvious thing for whites and males to do in response is to decouple from the left.
Are there no white males on the left any more?
ReplyDeleteThankfully, a decreasing number. Only 9% of white male high school students would have voted for Hillary:
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This is not like an old-fashioned political struggle in which there was always the possibility of compromise in certain areas. It's not like the Cold War. With the communists there was the possibility of negotiation.
ReplyDeleteThis is like a religious war. It's like the Crusades in the Holy Land, or the crusade against the Albigensians. It can only end in the complete destruction of one side or the other. There is no point in imagining that a negotiated peace is possible. The SJWs will accept nothing but unconditional surrender, and that means they intend to destroy us completely and to destroy every trace of traditional Christian values.
Which means that unless we also see it as a fight to the death we are lost.
That's where conservatives have made their fatal error - they think their opponents are reasonable people. They are not. They are, as Steve Sailer has taken to calling them, Social Justice Jihadis. And that's exactly what this struggle is to them - a holy war.
Yes, this is an important point to make. You get a sense of this from the fact that even the slightest setback to the SJW agenda rents them apart emotionally and psychologically.
DeleteI heard a point of view recently that went something like this. Women have been the mother archetype for so long that it will be extremely hard for any real change to happen quickly (if at all). The mother archetype is endlessly compassionate and caring for the thing she loves (the child) but people forget that she is also endless defensive and vengeful against the thing that would hurt that which she loves.
DeleteIf feminists are still governed by their psychology of The Mother, and if they have identified social justice as The Child, what you say is right. We are as likely to negotiate with a real mother about the hurting of her baby as we are with feminists about social justice.
No one hates Straight White Males more than Leftists.
ReplyDeleteThere is no left and right in politics, no liberal or conservative. There are the elites who are highly organised pitted against the masses who are highly disorganised. The elites are aiming for the destruction of Christianity and of the white race, the purveyors of Christianity. It is a religious war and it requires serious organisation and a major fight.
ReplyDeleteIt is most likely that this war must be fought and won in Europe, the only part of the West, apart from Russia, which still has tradition.
Anon, I agree that there is a liberal elite, sharing the same first tier beliefs. However, it helps to understand the left-wing and right-wing variants of liberalism, so I wouldn't say that "there is no left and right in politics".
Delete(Unless, perhaps, you mean by this, "the real battle is not between the liberal left and right, but between a liberal elite and the masses.")
"the real battle is not between the liberal left and right, but between a liberal elite and the masses."
DeleteWhich I think is pretty much accurate. The differences between elite left-liberals and elite right-liberals won't stop them from combining to fight any threat to the elites as a whole.
Almost all of modern politics is window-dressing, intended to make us think that democracy has some reality, that we actually have a say.
Mark have you considered expanding your critique to include aspects of managerialism (rule by elites with no concrete ideology) and not just the liberal/conservative divide?
DeleteI'm about to start on James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution myself
There is no present battle between left and right liberals, an artificial distinction, hence analysis of two arbitrary and artificially defined categories is a waste of time and diversion from the real battle which is a well defined war by the elites and the masses.
DeleteIn the current political scene there is no right and left and not all of the elites are liberal. The battle is between powerful elites and a weak disorganised mass.
Jimmy, short answer: yes I have. James Kalb articulates this point of view particularly well. I do see it as part of the modernist mindset (even if you read things written by the Bolsheviks you see a kind of managerialist criticism of traditional institutions, e.g. that they are too "opaque"). I would love to read Burnham and will try to remember to put him on my reading list.
DeleteAnon, I massively disagree with you. Even today, many people are stuck within the left-liberal vs right-liberal paradigm. We have to help them to break out of it, by explaining how both fit in with the making of liberal modernity.
Delete"There is no left and right in politics, no liberal or conservative."
DeleteYet there does exist a polarity where most will gravitate toward one end or the other, especially under political and social duress, as now. A stronger society finds most of its members in the middle and avoiding abstract contention; it seems those periods of grace are more transitive than normative.
The fact that we are manipulated (but not controlled) by elites does not obviate the left-right distinctions that are clearly in evidence. The masses are always subject to this conundrum by their inability (or disinclination?) to organize as effectively as the few with great resources and whose business is managing those resources.
More interesting I think is whether the differences between elites and the masses are left vs. right or right vs. left. What is happening today seems like the French Revolution in reverse.
My nephew came home complaining about the 'celebrating cultures' day at high school here in Canada.
ReplyDeleteNo white 'cultures' celebrated. All 'non-White diversity'. Some kids asked where the White cultures are.... answer... you're just White its all the same.
This crime must end. White Genocide is a crime, this is the modus operandi.
Jail for Justin and his bureaucrats
The collapsing of all white europeans into the category 'white' has been a boon for the Left. Of course in reality most whites do not share a direct history, though they are often close relations. White europeans are a diverse group, period. But when our enemies are able to gather up everyone under the categories 'white' and 'whiteness' they become free to tar every single white european with the crimes of the 'white man' without regard to his origin.
DeleteExplicitly recognising the unique historical and cultural identity of ethnic europeans would make this tactic less effective, but as we see in Europe the EU has plans to erase individual european cultures with multiculturalism. The tactic is the same everywhere - relatively homogenous european nations are labelled racist, backward and hopelessly parochial, and it is absolutely essential to progress that they be superseded by a 'pan-cultural' secular liberal states that embraces humanitarian values. Only a bigoted xenophobe would disagree and by definition their views are irrelevant.
Well, I agree, although for somewhat different reasons. The most powerful form of communal identity is that of ethny, which is the larger tradition we belong to, made up of history, culture, religion, language, race and so on. The term "white" certainly has meaning, but it is a more abstract one, than the terms Swedish or French or British. I have to acknowledge, though, that not everyone agrees with me on this point.
Delete"White Genocide is a crime, this is the modus operandi. "
DeleteThe person that first coined the term "genocide" was Raphael Lemkin. He was also a driving force behind what became the UN convention against genocide. In light of what is happening in many white nations today, it is relevant to look at Lemkin's original definition of genocide:
"By "genocide" we mean the destruction of an ethnic group…. Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups…."
Read it one more time, and then think about if there is anything in the last sentence that is not going on in most white nations.
" disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion" sounds like an excellent summary of Canada or Sweden, with most other western nations close behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_definitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin
EuroSwede, yes it's genocide.
DeleteIndeed its Genocide, and its important to call it what it is consistently and not back off.
DeleteHover over the target, its where you'll get the most heat.
SJWs always double down. This will only help us. If anything we ought to have agent provocateurs in there pushing them into more extremes.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's true. They have pushed white males to the right, and they now seem intent on pushing white females in the same direction. The battle amongst whites will perhaps be between older right-liberalish ideas and newer dissident right ones.
DeleteSomewhat OT: improper use of "female":
ReplyDeletehttps://heatst.com/culture-wars/anti-trump-march-for-science-forced-to-apologize-for-calling-women-females/
The left is getting more and more unhinged. Great opportunity to leave it behind.
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