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Someone finally said it. In the words of Congressman Mo Brooks, the Democratic Party’s push for more illegal immigration is “part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party.”
Of course, being a Republican, the Alabama Congressman immediately covered his truthful statement in half-truths and comforting lies. He continued that, “And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It’s a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
Brooks isn’t wrong – the Democratic Party does depend on identity politics to hold its coalition together. However, implicit in Brooks’s comment is the dreamy insistence that race, class, and interest conflicts simply don’t exist, and we are all “American” – whatever that is. White American conservatives – and only white American conservatives – cling to this desperate faith that a universal American identity can exist free of white guilt or tribal ties. Not surprisingly, in the eyes of academia and the media, “colorblindness” is the new racism.
Brooks went on to say that “It doesn’t make any difference if you’re a white American, a black American, a Hispanic-American, an Asian-American or if you’re a woman or a man. Every single demographic group is hurt by falling wages and lost jobs.”
It’s true that mass immigration has a negative impact on quality of life for Americans qua Americans, but this is overcome if it means a growth in the power of your tribe and the related welfare payoffs, job set asides, political clout, and outright wealth transfers. Needless to say, Brooks can’t recognize this – lest the “colorblind” foundation American conservatism is built upon finally crumble.
Nonetheless, Brooks deserves credit for identifying the key truth of American politics – the American Left wages a never ending War on Whites. More than that, waging a War on Whites is all they do. Behind all the shrieks of moral outrage and snarky tweets and Tumblr posts mocking a white man from Alabama lies the stark truth at the heart of American progressivism – it is about hurting white people as a people. And that is the only thing it has to offer.
There is no part of what could be called progressivism that American liberals are not willing to abandon – or even condemn – if it means dispossessing whites. Nowhere is this more evident than in immigration policy.
Historically, it was the American Left that usually led the effort to stop mass immigration. In 1905, the American Federation of Labor supported the Chinese Exclusion Act, saying,
We make no pretense that the exclusion of Chinese can be defended upon a high ideal, ethical ground, but we insist that it is our essential duty to maintain and preserve our physical condition and standard of life and civilization, and thus to assure us the opportunity for the development of our intellectual and moral character. Self-preservation has always been regarded as the first law of nature. It is a principle and a necessity from which we ought not and must not depart.
Not long afterward, the Jewish labor leader Samuel Gompers wrote,
Those who favor unrestricted immigration care nothing for the people. They are simply desirous of flooding the country with unskilled as well as skilled labor of other lands for the purpose of breaking down American standards. America, however, where men are free to voice their desires for greater and still greater advancement in economic conditions, is the greatest country on earth. Its people live better than anywhere else, and the trade unions are responsible for maintaining those standards. Those who believe in unrestricted immigration want this country Chinaized. But I firmly believe there are too many right-thinking people in our country to permit such an evil.
The 1965 Immigration Act was largely backed by Jewish interests and was fronted by Ted Kennedy. However, immigration patriotism wasn’t purged from the Left until quite recently. Gene McCarthy, the original champion of the New Left, came to regret his support of the 1965 Immigration Act and said mass immigration had reduced America to the status of a colony. Onetime favorite Ralph Nader also condemned mass immigration.
Harry Reid opposed mass immigration in the past. The greatest champion of immigration restriction in the 1990s wasn’t Pat Buchanan (who was also campaigning on social conservatism and trade), but Barbara Jordan, the first black female to speak to the Democratic National Convention. And perhaps the most inconvenient truth of all is that the original champion of the Chicano Causa – the now sainted Cesar Chavez – was a huge opponent of mass immigration, regarding illegals as no better than scabs.
Today, aside from a few lonely Blue Dog Democrats struggling to hold off the Tea Party, the Democratic Party monolithically supports mass immigration. More importantly, they defend it using principles straight out of most reactionary Social Darwinism of the 1800s. Democrats support mass immigration even though it has contributed to the utter collapse of organized labor, rising income inequality, and the inability to provide social services.
Instead of arguing for a living wage, Democrats scream that we “need” illegals precisely because we can force them to work like helots in the field for almost no money as opposed to greedy Americans who want high wages. The great champions of social justice are united with the contemporary Robber Barons in defense of cheap labor. And why? Because a Hispanic America, a poor America, a Third World America, is a non-white America.
Or take the environment. Again, as Green Party standard bearer Ralph Nader put it when confronted with the idea of an America with 400 million people, “We don’t have the absorptive capacity for that many people . . . we have to control our immigration.” The great conservationists of American history such as Madison Grant and other leading WASPs were also the great champions of immigration restriction and eugenics. The Sierra Club for many years advocated population stabilization, which implies opposition to mass immigration.
However, the Sierra Club abruptly reversed position after receiving a large donation from a Jew on the condition they never mention immigration again. Other environmental groups, perhaps for similar reasons, have remained mute. Even as global warming hysteria shows no signs of slowing, and Americans are told to watch their “carbon footprint” because of the “environment,” American environmentalists are quiet as a tomb about the destruction of American wilderness and the dramatic increase in consumption that is a direct result of mass immigration. There is even silence about the way the wilderness near the Southern border has been utterly destroyed by mobs of rampaging illegals and how national parks have become havens for drug cartels.
It’s incredible to think that it was the Left – and even the New Left in America – that was the great champion of “free speech.” Now, in the age of trigger warnings, speech codes, and bans on political parties that stand up for European populations, the Left is the greatest enemy of the “freedom” they love so much to talk about.
There’s nothing they have not abandoned.
Feminism? We’ll go after white frat boys, but you better keep your mouth shut about women raped by blacks or oppressed by fundamentalist Muslims.
Gay marriage? Ask Pim Fortuyn how white leftists appreciated his fighting for tolerant social values under attack from ultra-religious foreigners.
Secular humanism? Well, it’s easy to attack the Religious Right, but a strange silence greets the creeping Sharia Law in Malmö, Rotterdam, or London.
Peace? Better tell that to the Serbs who were killed because General Wesley Clark said, “There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That’s a 19th-century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”
Remember “dissent is patriotic” after 9/11? It only took America’s first black President to transform concern over civil liberties from the sign of a brave and informed citizen to an indication that one is a paranoid, survivalist traitor, probably linked to racists and “sovereign citizens.” Indeed, citizen is somewhat of a dirty word.
Trade? Destroy those factories and ship jobs overseas. Thinking your country should help you have a good job is another part of white privilege.
Race-blind government? Hubert Humphrey famously said of the Civil Rights Act, “I’ll eat my hat if this leads to racial quotas.” Humphrey died in 1978, his headgear undigested. Today, if you say you don’t want government to consider race, you have just proven what a big racist you are.
Cut down every tree so we can build barrios and parking lots. Overload and dismantle the welfare state. Force those hospitals to close. Make every worker in America slave for crumbs so Wall Street can make more money. Then send that job overseas. Put that hijab on your head, woman! Hey queer, you better read this Koran and respect what this fundamentalist sheik has to say. Spy on everyone’s email, criminalize questioning the state, dispatch drones to bomb every continent, and then import the survivors of your bombing raids into your own country and take revenge on your own population.
None of it makes sense until you realize one very simple thing – the War on Whites is modern progressivism. It is the entirety of what it stands for and what it does. There is no Double Standard, only “The Standard” – whites are always wrong.
What about liberal whites? Take a look at the kinds of things the #UniteBlue types write about the #WarOnWhites. They aren’t arguments – just blunt insults. “There’s no more soy,” “not enough of us are in prison freeloading,” “some people say Jesus didn’t speak English,” derp, derp, derp. Needless to say, we can already anticipate the response if someone tries to bring up incidents like the Knoxville Horror or the Wichita Massacre. As professional black “writer” Leonard Pitts put it, “Cry me a river.”
Needless to say, these same people would be horrified about far more subtle jokes about blacks – because they wouldn’t just be funny, they would be true statements. The biggest weapon for waging the War on Whites is the biological weapon of the non-white population, which destroy white cities, cultures, and civilizations more absolutely and completely than an atomic bomb. The field of victory after the War on Whites are the streets of Detroit, or Camden, or East Saint Louis. We remain silent about the casualities of these conquests – one could even say we “deny” them or engage in “revisionism.”
In contrast, everyone feels free to bash whites, even though the “jokes” made against whites are neither true nor funny nor even clever. They’re just blunt insults – the equivalent of saying “blacks are stupid” and then expecting applause for your rapier wit. The open scorn displayed for the white race by other whites is no longer status seeking. It’s just crude hatred. It’s a transition from social proof into outright race cuckoldry, deriving self-worth and moral satisfaction from the degradation of your kinsmen. It’s no longer a social phenomenon, but seemingly a biological one, the genetic death spiral of whites who do not have a future, and are proud to die out.
What of it? In every war, there are traitors. And whatever the giggling of the ruling class and its collaborators, at least the conflict has a name. In every university, in every newsroom, and in the halls of the Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Security Agency, there is a War on Whites. It is no longer even denied, but openly defended. All other arguments have fallen away and hate is all they have left.
We should be grateful for this. As Patrick Henry said, “Gentlemen may cry peace, peace . . . but the war has already begun!” It has been waged for decades. It’s just that only one side has been fighting. For at its core the War on Whites is a War on Noticing too. But it seems now that, however hesitantly, ordinary European-Americans are beginning to notice.
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Are we in a situation were it’s best to wait for the culture to change in our favor? This site is being attacked by the SPLC and if we formed a party we would definitely get the Golden Dawn treatment via the International Jewish community. I think Greg Johnson’s idea about alternative infrastructures is brilliant, but infrastructures take time and money to build.
It seems like many whites will always cling to conservatism the way leftist whites and non whites will always cling to their anti white ideas.
“The single-standard is ‘What’s Good for the Jews’ — and that’s why Whites are usually the mark but Muslims increasingly are also targeted.”
I used to believe this, until I saw the power of anti-Zionism in this latest conflict. Any other nation having thousands of rockets coming at them would nuke the source. Even if leftism started as a Jewish movement, it has morphed into something else. Jews are still favored over white Christians, but they are facing increasing pressure not to defend themselves against Islam.
perhaps Zion-in-Palestine should not have driven 2,000,000 Palestinians from their homes and incarcerated them in a concentration camp/free fire zone about the size of Central Park. Then they might not have gotten hit with “thousands of rockets”, not to mention “terror tunnels”. Overall, though, the Jews didn’t come off too bad: 63 dead soldiers, 2 dead civilians; Palestinians: 2,000 people masscre’d, including c. 500 children. Such forbearance the Jews showed:
“When the Jew strikes you, he cries out in pain.”
(Old Russian Proverb)
And about all that terrible “anti-zionism” and “anti-semitism” that Israel’s actions just fomented? Puposeful: more diaspora Jews now heading for Palestine. While the Whites in the Muslim-drowned nations have no place to go. When it comes to destroying others and aggrandizing themselves, the Jews. Do. Not. Miss. A. Beat.
Here’s a little something for these pinko traitors and their nonwhite pets to ponder:
The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd;
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
-Rudyard Kipling
What they don’t understand is, when we are wronged we don’t burn down stores; when we’ve finally had enough we take down whole civilizations. Notice how we haven’t had to take any crap from Carthage?
Excellent article. I’m starting to notice as well that many ordinary whites are in the same position and noticing. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t position. You simply cannot win against the left playing on their terms.
Having been in this game for over fifteen years and having read all nationalist writings I have been able to get my hands on, I nowadays rarely get the experience of getting a clearer view of these issues, but this essay was truly subtle, Mr. Hood. I thank you for writing it.
“…ordinary European-Americans are beginning to notice.”
How clever of them, that they are BEGINNING to notice. Perhaps I should take a closer look at what things were like for white “Americans” in those years prior to the long, bloody, miserable struggle for independance from mother England, but I don’t recall learning of the utter ruin of everything Western (European – White) leading up to that struggle. Whatever it was it was all they could stand, they could stand no more as per Mr. Hood’s P. Henry it was to be rather “death” for him than a continuation of colonialism. No great cities that they were robbed of which then in turn were made into horrors of barbarity and finally to be obliterated as centers of civilization. No endless depradations of their work and property. No vast armies of savages set loose on them with more brought from the far reaches of global barbarism. No endless cursing of them and spitting upon them for all that they are, have been, or ever shall be. It would be easy to go on in this vein.
So I am merely left to wonder – are the current European-Americans, other than genotype, in any recognizable way the same people? And it clearly is too late to “take back the country” as it now exists geographically in any political or cultural sense. As they currently exist can whites take it back in any sense whatsoever? Hope, yes, I hope so, and I’m waiting.
The “new right” is the only thing that can save us in America. Our movement must be based on racial survival and nothing else. Christ-insanity, patriotism and conservatism are red herrings.
How come he gets a little sunny face by his name? I want a little sunny face too, they’re so cute.
When I first read this I thought “wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow force leftists to read this”, but then I realized there was no point. They all stopped being rational a long time ago.
I’m embarrassed that I used to think of myself as a leftist and even a socialist. There is no creature on this earth more worthy of scorn and contempt than a white leftist.
The Democrats like to talk about the “war on women” but in reality there is a war on whites. The Congressman is certainly right in that regard. It is nothing less than Cultural Marxism. He didn’t stop there ,however. He praised the virtues of a colorblind society and devalued the concept of race. That is a recipe for disaster. Alas, I am one of those who feel America is past the point of no return and what we need is our own Ethno-State. It should be an Ethno-State based on the ideology of the Conservative Revolution ideology. If you are unfamiliar with that term it refers to a political philosophy that arose in the intermediate period in Germany between the two world wars. It is not National Socialism, indeed I believe it is more more holistic and organic than Nationalism Socialism could ever be. To put it bluntly the answer to Cultural Marxism can be found in the transcendent philosophy of the Conservative Revolution, albeit in a more modern and updated form.
The real Americans are anti-homosexual, the same as the Muslims. So, things are not so black and white on that particular point.
There’s a lot to be said here.
I’ve seen the “Unfair” campaign posters (the image of white people with writing all over their faces) discussed in mainstream forums. When it is pointed up that this is an attempt to demonize whites, the usual response is liberal ideological boilerplate: “What’s wrong with being against racism?” or “Why worry about these things?” or “They’re not really writing on people’s faces, it’s just photoshopping,” or whatever. Straight out of the school of liberalism-is-the-ideology-of-Western-suicide. Even when confronted with evidence of an attack on white people–and this campaign is sponsored by various mainstream organizations, including state supported universities–liberals refuse to see the threat.
Or maybe liberals see the threat but go into Stockholm Syndrome mode and rationalize it away. Just as they have rationalized away the mass violence inflicted by third world immigrants and the racial underclass against white civilization via gangbanging, flashmobbing, the destruction of metropolises like Detroit, the creation of No-Go zones, sexual assaults on white women with an obvious political intent, riots that pillage ancient European cities, the overrunning of the southwestern US frontier, and etc., and ad nauseam.
I should say that white liberals engage in these mental gymnastics. Liberals/leftists of other races have no problem understanding all this as an attack on white power, wealth, territorial claims, genes, etc. We can see this in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where white people are progressively removed from the cities and farms their sciences built, sometimes via legal means (affirmative action), others by terroristic violence. Really, this is the final stage of the processes which removed white people from Detroit, and are doing the same today in London and Malmo.
And what of conservatives? I’ve seen some conservatives voice their objections to the Unfair campaign, as well as oppose the agitprop about “white privilege.” Even Lew Rockwell ran a piece on this recently at his website. But this does not seem to be translating into much in the way of political action.
The situation is, as the cliche states, both a crisis and an opportunity. This is an issue which could be exploited to create a wider WN movement. I’d like to see some discussion on how this can be done.
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Several years ago I was visiting a major west coast university. Planted all over the campus were posters advertising student organizations: Black Student Union, MECHA, La Raza, Muslim Student Association, and every racial and quasi-racial group–except White people. This was a moment of revelation, for two reasons:
1. Obviously: there was no White student advocacy group. No one to demand a White studies department, or support the interests of White people in South Africa, or to protest the university’s blatantly anti-White policies. It was OK–in fact, subsidized by student fees and taxpayer dollars–for every other racial group to fight for their racial interests. But not Whites.
2. But more subtly: there were no radical leftist groups represented. There was a time when that same university had any number of socialist and communist front organizations haranguing students. But no more.
Here is what I concluded: the left had morphed from a politically based struggle to a racially based struggle. This is the essence of the attack on “White Privilege.” White people are now what the bourgeoisie were to hardcore Marxists in the 20th century: the class enemy. And we have to follow this to its conclusion: since the goal of the communists was to wage class warfare against the bourgeoisie, the strategy of the left today is to wage warfare on White people. i.e., if the trend follows, then White people are to be considered as khulaks in Russia, “exploiters of the masses” in Red China, or intellectuals in Cambodia (i.e., anyone with eyeglasses).
We see this war occurring in various forms in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Detroit, Malmo, the US southwestern frontier, and many more places. And it’s a real war, with millions of White people killed, assaulted, robbed of their wealth, denied their cultural heritage and driven from their homes.
And here is a critical difference: during the Cold War, people being targeted by the communists understood the threat and fought back. There were any number of anti-communist movements in the USA of varying effectiveness (McCarthy and his partisans, John Birth Society, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Hoover’s FBI).
Today, most White Americans do not seem to understand they are being marked for extermination, much less make an effort to organize and resist.
The underlying problem is that when Whites abandoned race as a principal for political advocacy, they gave up the foundation for their own defense. And other races saw this weaknesses and piled in on it.
It’s like some mask has been pulled off. My encounter on campus indicated that the leftist politics of the past were only a guise for an underlying race based struggle. After all, what are politics when compared to race? Perhaps there always has been this underlying struggle, reflecting genetic drives not fully conscious. When one group weakens, other groups move in for the kill. Worked on the veldt, works on the campus.
I do not think the situation is hopeless for the White race. We have seen the rise of various nationalist movements in Europe in recent years. And perhaps such movements are in their embryonic stage in the US. The fact that the majority of voters approve anti-immigration initiatives shows there is some racial consciousness at work (and also points out the treason of ruling elites).
The question is–again–how to turn this into a viable political movement?
You just described what I call the three stages of Marxism :
1) Social-economical Marxism or “class-struggle”, war against the “oppressive” bourgeoisie. The egalitarian Utopia would be reached when the bourgeoisie would be destroyed, hence the mass murders in the Soviet-Union, Maoist China and Pol Pot’s Camboja.
2) Cultural-sexual Marxism or Frankfurt School activism : war against cultural and sexual “oppressive” structures, hence feminism, the homosexual agenda, and Political Correctness.
3) Racial-ethnic Marxism or “anti-racism” : war against “racist” Whites. Since Whites are inherently and irredeemably “racist” the only solution to racism is to destroy the white race itself. Apart from non-Whites and Jews many white “anti-racists” are of this opinion too, they are therefore suicidal.
Notice that in all three cases the Marxist Utopia can only be reached by destroying the adversary, not by reforming him. Marxism is by nature destructive and genocidal, a truely demonic ideology.
Notice that in all three cases the Marxist Utopia can only be reached by destroying the adversary, not by reforming him. Marxism is by nature destructive and genocidal, a truely demonic ideology.
One element goes like this: “racism,” sexism,” “Islamophobia,” and all the other thoughtcrimes are the “constructs” of White people. Prior to White/Western imperialism, non-White peoples lived in an Edenic state of equality. Then White people “invented racism” to justify the enslavement of black people. Thus, one can not blame blacks in Africa today for their failed states, kleptocracies, or havoc played on both human rights and the natural environment. It’s all White people’s fault!
Now it can be argued that this is just clever agitprop, scapegoating White people for the inadequacies of blacks (regardless if those inadequacies are genetic, cultural, or whatever in origin). But it indicates a sort of mythology, making White people into the Snake in the Garden of Eden. The conclusion is: get rid of White people and the Earthly Paradise shall be upon us.
The fact that when White people are eliminated (as in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe, Haiti or Detroit) you end up with a dystopia makes no difference. Ideology explains it away with the usual convoluted sloganeering.
Radical feminism has a similar strain, claiming that in some pre-recorded era, men and women lived in an idyllic state of equality, but this was corrupted by “patriarchy.” Thus, eliminate patriarchy and the Earthly Paradise shall be upon us. This may be one reason that radical feminists can be fellow travelers with militant Muslims–they share the same methodology.
Now, there are any number of risks to the Western world. The obvious one is that the current trend in Marxism is targeting White peoples for destruction (and, again, succeeding in places like southern Africa and America’s inner cities). But since most non-White peoples can not maintain White levels of civilization, things collapse in a hurry. Look at the various websites devoted to the ruin of South Africa under black majority rule. Perhaps East Asians can pick up some of the pieces. The Chinese, after all, have a manned space program. Even so, they seem more imitative of White enterprises in technology and industry than innovative.
You have to wonder what future generations will make of all this. Will they look back on this era as we do today on the Fall of Rome and ask…how did it happen?
It’s no longer a social phenomenon, but seemingly a biological one, the genetic death spiral of whites who do not have a future, and are proud to die out.
There is a basic sort of psychology at work here. White guilt could be a fertile subject for psychologists if they weren’t forced to look at it from an anti-white perspective. This includes the subject of group dynamics. Here is a quote from Wikipedia:
Ironic, isn’t it? The neatest trick is getting a group to be prejudiced against itself, but the white race is living proof that it is possible.
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