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Imagine if I screamed my lungs bloody all day and all night, for years on end, about the Devil and how he’s the greatest threat to humanity. And then, let’s say a well-tempered Satanist tried to counter my caterwauling by saying, “Relax, fella — the Devil’s not that bad.”
If I replied, “The Devil doesn’t exist, you retard,” would I sound crazy?
That’s how the people who yammer endlessly about ending “whiteness” and replacing “white people” sound to me when they abruptly do a 180 and say that “whiteness” and “white people” don’t exist.
What kind of brain is capable of simultaneously holding two such utterly contradictory ideas without exploding?
Apropos of all this, I recently answered some questions from a writer friend, including this one:
“Tribe or caste?”
I answered that both were important, adding that the problem with modern America is that tribal acceptance is not applied equally:
What’s being proposed now is tribalism for everyone except whites, which is a recipe for disaster rather than harmony. Either everyone should be permitted to bask in their tribal identity, or the very idea of basking in tribal identity should be stigmatized for all groups the way it currently is for whites. I’d be fine with either option, but the egregious double standard is the main reason we’re in this current mess.
Someone emailed this to my interrogator:
“Can somebody explain to Jim that whiteness isn’t a thing so there’s no need to be tribal about it?”
I responded:
Can someone explain to this moron that if what he’s saying is true, everyone in academia and the media needs to shut the fuck up about whiteness? . . . Ask him if he thinks “blackness” is a thing.
There was no response, but I’d bet my house, truck, and shiny leather boots that the guy who said “whiteness isn’t a thing” would insist that not only is “blackness” a thing, it’s the greatest and holiest thing that has ever existed on this planet.
These are the same sort of cretinous zombies who think that “race” doesn’t exist, but somehow “racism” is ubiquitous.
The same people who say the “great replacement” is a dangerous conspiracy theory also gleefully cite stats about exactly when whites will become a minority.
The same dopes who say white people don’t exist are the first to leap on a news story featuring a white gunman and a nonwhite victim.
They’re the first to celebrate when a white person loses a job to a lesser qualified humanoid of color.
These same people allege that blackness is an unassailable monolith but also state that modern Africa is home to more genetic diversity among Homo sapiens than anywhere else on the planet.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
Even though white people don’t exist to them, they’ll insist that Hollywood, academia, the media, and everything else, including vanilla ice-cream cones, are “too white.”
How much demoralization does one have to endure and how much denial does one have to engage in before they reach a state of anti-consciousness where their mind says, “Yes, this all makes perfect sense”?
It’s some place so far beyond reason that one wonders whether anyone who believes this nonsense should even be allowed to use a toilet unsupervised.
They’ve managed to get everything spectacularly backwards in their brain-dead quest to assuage their insecurities by engaging in an eternal moral panic that they hope will finally result in them feeling absolutely fantastic about themselves.
I once engaged in a livestreamed debate with race-denying senile dipshit E. Michael Jones, who has attempted to argue that America’s main three ethnic groups are Catholics, Jews, and Protestants. Yes — he’s really THAT deluded.
Besides both of us being white males, the only thing that Jones and I have in common is that we’re both from Philly, and during that debate he mentioned an Irish-Catholic friend of his who got murdered in North Philly — a sprawling war zone that is almost entirely black — and I told him that I’m certain his friend wasn’t killed for being Irish or Catholic.
What Jones — who’s considered to be so hard-Right that he might as well be made of granite — shares with far-Leftists is that he’ll deny that “whiteness” exists but will allow that “Polishness” and “Irishness” are valid identities. But I never hear this breed of schmuck say that “blackness” doesn’t exist, only “Nigerianness” and “Zimbabweness.”
In dealing with such types, it’s better to use the term “continental ancestry” instead of race, because you can do a simple DNA test on a skull to determine continental ancestry. But you couldn’t determine whether that skull ever harbored “racist” thoughts. Race can actually be quantified; “racism” can’t. Again, they have it upside-down — the only “social construct” in this equation is “racism.”
Stammering to defend their screaming illogic and somehow disprove the biological existence of white people, they’ll correctly note that in some classification systems — especially the myopic one that only sees white, black, and yellow — both Castizos and Arabs are considered white.
But that’s simply an error of classification. Using my far superior method of classifying racial groups by continental ancestry, Castizos are European-Amerindian mutts, whereas Arabs are western Asians.
Just as fish probably aren’t conscious of water because it’s all they’ve ever known, the only time in history where “whiteness” likely had no meaning was in ancient Europe, because the only people spanning the continent were white.
It’s a matter of proximity. The term “human race” would only have real meaning if Martians were to invade.
But on a global scale in the modern world, it’s hard not to think that anyone who says white people don’t exist is either a hopeless nincompoop or a disingenuous liar.
Regarding the disingenuous liars, what are these tools thinking?
The problem is that they’re not thinking at all. They can sniff power, and they’re genuflecting before it.
To them, whiteness exists as a target. Of course white people exist — but perhaps not if the people who keep insisting, against all evidence, that white people don’t exist ultimately have their way.
Maybe they know that white people exist, aren’t happy about it, and are seeking to eliminate them. Maybe that’s what is truly meant when they say there’s no such thing as white people.
Maybe it’s a deferred dream that they hope will one day be a reality.
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About the Great Replacement:
In 1973 in his first declaration then-chancellor Willy Brandt said that there are 2,5 mio foreigners living in (West-)Germany (population 60 mio). In the GDR (East-Germany, population 17 mio) it is said that about 300.000 foreigners lived.
Mathematics: 60+17=77-(2,5+0,3)=77-2,8=74,2 mio
74,2 mio Germans in Germany
Today:
81 mio people in Germany, 20,8 mio foreigners (according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung)
Mathematics: 81-20,8=60,2
60,2 mio Germans in Germany
Conclusion: The population of Germany went up (plus 4 mio). The number of Germans dropped from 74,2 to 60,2 (MINUS 14 mio!). The number of foreigners increased from 2,8 to 20,8 (PLUS 18 mio)
Leftwingloony: There is no Great Replacement you …NAZI!!!!!
Such a pessimist. Based on current demographic trends (which are admittedly accelerating), it will not be until the 23rd century that the last ethnic German dies. Put this in the context of the Black Death, which killed 1/3 of the population in Germanic countries within seven years. Progress! Plus think of how culinarily life of Germany will be enriched during the next two centuries with all of the new Imbissstaende.
Well, instead of the Black Death they invent new viruses, much more lethal than Covid-19 (the efforts are going now, as we see that the new variations of Covid are more lethal than the original Chinese product). And if it will be not enough, they can provoke a new Dreissigjähriges Krieg, which will be shorter than 30 years, but much bloodier.
I looked into Germany’s population numbers and came to a similar conclusion a while ago. Ethnic Germans have declined by about 20% since the 1970’s, similar to many Eastern European countries since the end of Communism. These losses are about the same as the Second World War. White Europeans are going extinct at an alarming rate.
The social constructivist argument is one that people on the Right are notoriously bad at understanding (no doubt due to the fact that many who use it don’t understand it completely either) and one that is commonly attacked as low hanging fruit, when it is really more nuanced.
So, white people, as in people who have white skin, exist. No one denies that. The contention is the existence of whiteness as a category, which does and does not exist, like money. Seen as just a physical thing, money is just paper. However, money has high social value (it is a social construct).
“Whiteness” is also seen as a high-value social construct that is connected to a physical phenomenon (white skin, ancestry from Europe etc). It is a social construct that arose in the 18th century in the context of colonialism. The Left argues that this social construct arose specifically to benefit and justify the practice of colonialism, slavery, white supremacy, hence it is an inherently malevolent social construct.
When the Left takes issue with white people, it is when white people are acting as a proxy for whiteness, which is why Leftists take issue with white people organizing for white interests. They are continuing the existence of whiteness, an inherently evil construct. The Left wishes for white people to become a minority not because the physical phenomenon of white people is evil, but rather less white people means less whiteness.
At the same time, “blackness”, “asianess” etc are also social constructs, but seen as constructs that can be used to oppose whiteness, and thus are seen as beneficial to society and those within those groups, and encouraged.
This is the argument on the Left, properly understood. Indeed, many on the Left genuinely despise white people and make arguments like these in bad faith. But if one is criticizing an argument, give the argument some credibility. Don’t go for the strawman.
As I understand it, the term “whiteness” merely represents the cultural manifestations of those who are genetically European. I think I understand it better than most.
Well put.
I’d quibble about “merely”, but that’s just quibbling.
I have noted, that in dictionaries there is an explanation of blackness as the self-identification and group consciousness of the black people. But the whiteness is explained just as a physical term, simply the quality of something white, without any connection to the culture or identification of white people.
It’s semantics because whiteness is inseparable from White people.
Also, 99.9% of people blabbering about ‘whiteness’ simply hate White people.
The autism is strong with this one…
You beat me to it.
Thanks for this one Jim. EMJ is horrible.
So with “whiteness” they actually mean “white supremacism”, i.e. dominance of Whites over non-Whites. They are however not sincere in their convictions, otherwise they would allow Whites, who do not pursue dominance over other races, to have equal rights for their ethnic interests, just like every other ethnic group. For them Whites are inherently supremacists, and therefore ethnic rights should be denied to them. Thus these so-called “anti-racists” are in reality outright racists in both ascribing inherently and irredeemable negative qualities to Whites and denying them equal ethnic rights.
“Whiteness” …is a social construct that arose in the 18th century in the context of colonialism.
Wait a minute, JJJ.
Part-right but keep in mind when Captain John Smith was killing Ottoman poo-bahs in Europe, he was defending Europe against non-Euros. When he took his hard-won skills to Virginia it went the other way.
An Albanian historian whose name I forget made the argument that if Huns, Mongols, Turks, Moors and whatever other teeming scores of wretched refuse had left Europe ALONE, Europeans would never have been snookered into imperialism in the first place.
The implication, JJJ, is that whiteness or something like it already existed. In much of Europe educated men read Homer and Virgil. Bards went about the countryside telling similar tales to the masses. This does add up to a consciousness. It existed in the pre-conquistador era.
We might even say this consciousness helped Europe defend itself now and then. What poem or song of glory got Cervantes to go Turk-killing at the Battle of Lepanto? And did his war injuries help produce a work of art that carried the consciousness further?
This is only a chicken/egg thing, But if Europe as punching bag was the egg, the world conquering chicken has a hardy pedigree.
Hey, I never said I agreed with the argument I presented. You make a good point.
Very pleased to read I am not the only person who holds such a low opinion of E. Michael Jones. I could not have stated my contempt for his idiotic positions better than you did, Mr. Goad.
E. Michael Jones is very astute when it comes to describing the subversive activity of Jews (their “revolutionary spirit”) throughout history, but he is a complete idiot when it comes to race. According to him, race is no identity factor at all, only religion and language are. Thus a black African immigrant to Poland can become a genuine Pole, if only he learns Polish and converts to Catholicism. It would be fine by him if all Europeans would be replaced by black Africans, if only they learn the languages and convert to traditional Catholicism (his ideal). With friends like these…
Jones actually claims that Blacks only hate Whites because Protestants taught them to. That without the Protestants Blacks would be peaceful and law-abiding and have no problem with Whites. I don’t care what insightful stuff he has said about Jews, anyone this delusional and insane should be regarded with utter contempt.
Reminds me of Fox Butterfield, who wrote a book about an enslaved black family from South Carolina that later moved north and graced NYC with some TNB. Butterboob maintained that the family had learned about “honor killing” from watching their master dueling. If they hadn’t seen that, you know, they would have been Ben Carson.
Jones reduces all of pre-Christian Germanic civilization to “chasing pigs through a forest”. The cadaverous Catholic doesn’t seem to realize that Christian Europeans continued “chasing pigs through forests”, i.e. they hunted wild boar. This cretin isn’t just clueless about race, he actually has contempt for the European people.
The dumbest thing the dissident right could do would be to fracture on religious lines. Engaging with EMJ increases the risk of this. I hope that debate with Jared Taylor never happens.
Yeah this debate sounds like a waste of time. Catholics are usually based on the issue of race. It’s the evangelicals like myself who usually try to hamster wheel around it.
The fracture already occurred, and it’s a huge one. Before Charlottesville, it seemed as if most “Dissident Rightists” saw race and religion as two entirely different issues. After Charlottesville, a huge quotient of avid Sieg-Heilers got scared and ran fleeing into the much less dangerous arms of religion. They discarded race entirely, dismissing it as an obsession of trailer-trash “wignats.” My suspicion is that this phenomenon was orchestrated by an entity with a lot of power—perhaps the federal government, perhaps some Republican with a ton of money who didn’t like the white-identity “optics.”
I would love to see Jared Taylor eat EMJ alive.
I’d like that too, but EMJ won’t debate honestly, and there will be people who won’t be able to see his non-sequiturs and strawmen for what they are.
I listened to the Jones-Goad King of the Philly emigres debate, and that night I ate a cheese steak, illegally parked my car, engaged in lewd banter with my friends, was rude to several people for no reason, got into a bar room brawl, threw beer bottles at my own sports team and made plans to move to the suburbs.
Bwaaaahaha! Perfectly describes all the non-libshit huwhites in Camden, Burlington, Bucks, Montgomery, and Delaware counties. The most pro-White Whites in the country. Good ppl. Assholes. But good ppl.
‘Race denying senile dipshit’
Very nasty of you.
How edgy attacking a old man.
He is also old.
Jim,
Yes, EMJ is wrong on race. You are absolutely right. But I saw him speak 15 years ago in Chicago and he said the same thing and he certainly wasn’t senile then. I don’t think it is fair to call him a “senile dipshit”. Despite his failure on race, I believe he has an excellent history of scholarship. He is excellent on the JQ. I was hoping to see Jared Taylor destroy him in the debate in Croatia but it was cancelled because of Covid.
Speaking as an old man, EMJ deserves every bit of nastiness Goad gives him.
Like Jordan Peterson, he carves off big chunks of young Whites who instinctively love traditional Western Civilization and then anesthetizes them to the real issue: seething hatred of the White Male because he is White and Male.
Grey hair, of which I have plenty, is no excuse for being a traitor to your people.
I don’t get it. I’ve read most of EMJ’s books. He calls out the Jews’ hatred for whites like no one else. His distinction between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews is a valuable contribution to understanding the core differences among Americans that’s not incompatible with the racist warfare inflamed by the MSM and academia for political purposes, as far as I can tell. On the other hand, I can see how Jim Goad would become inpatient given the ethnic hatred toward us from the Jew-driven ingrates who’ve contributed next to nothing and now want to step into “whiteness” with a fit that’ll prove as awkward as the roach in the farmer’s body in Men In Black. As far as this stuff about tribe goes, it’s a return to primitive law where only groups had rights according to the group’s status, tossing out two millennia’s advance toward rights residing in the individual. One lethal irony for the “BIPOC” tribes is that Planned Parenthood as an arm of organized Jewry run by Gates’s father not that long ago, always had and undoubtedly still has as its chief objective the elimination from the face of the planet, not “whiteness,” but “blackness.”
EMJ has gone on record saying that if it wasn’t for Catholicism, Europe would be as backwards as Africa.
No further questions, Your Honor.
What E. Moron Jones or his goofy disciples can never explain is that if the greatness of European civilization comes solely from Catholicism how come Latin America is such a backward, third-world shithole?
But Jim… Logos
Logos logos logos.
Now are you convinced???
Praising logos is not the same as using it.
Well said.
I had a similar debate with a Catholic just yesterday; the guy continually reverted to “we’re all equal in God’s eyes” as to ignore objective variety between races. The infuriating thing was that this guy would then immediately talk about how people cannot be lumped together because they are all unique. Pick one, dumbass!
My pious and every-Sunday church-going Catholic grandparents had no hesitation or internal conflict whatever in professing their faith and in recognizing the obvious and significant differences between racial and ethnic groups, and acting accordingly.
What passes for Catholicism now is a gutted carapace whose insides have been hollowed out by 350 years of relentless Enlightenment battering and the self-orchestrated coup de grace of the post-WW2 1960’s, which made of its Vatican Council a veritable Act of Surrender.
Gangs of New York by Scorsese is proof that white exists. Whatever the general ethnic hatred between Anglo Americans and Irish newcomers was, within a generation the beefs between them were settled and the problem of race (civil war cause was about the role and rights of blacks) and the ethnic gangs were all gunned down by a Union military garrison in NYC. It was quite perceptive stuff.
Excuse me while I run to the kitchen and see if Jack Daniels still exists.
“It’s some place so far beyond reason …”
Irrationality is hilarious. I always think of Las Casas saying that only irrational people should be enslaved, as proof that the New World should depend on enslaved black labor, because Africans are irrational (which they are), and his beloved Indians aren’t (?)
You know how you tell white lies to make a friend feel better? Leftists feel the same obligation toward non-whites. They feel like it’s a mass responsibility of everyone to believe patently false ideas or flee from information which would debunk them. They only care about being seen as socially acceptable. They want to be socially safe and keep the peace. They could care less about what’s actually going on. For them, social acceptance is the only reality. They must picture thousands of African Americans with sad eyes…or pitch forks looking at them when someone asks them about race and IQ. Saying the right thing for them is saying whatever makes them socially best off.
“You know how you tell white lies to make a friend feel better?”
No. I’d feel I’d be doing a disservice to that friend if I steered him away from the truth in any capacity. Sure, there are tactful and tactless ways to express the truth, but that’s another matter.
I also make it a practice of not pretending to know how others feel. From their behavior, it doesn’t seem as if leftists feel blacks are dumber. But I’d only be speculating. I can’t read minds.
Ethnos is as real as logos.
‘O mankind ! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.’ [Quran: 49:13]
If someone denies the existence of races or supports race-mixing, he/she goes against the Divine order of things. Races and nations are the signs of Allah. And he (whether he is Black, White, Yellow, Brown) who tries to erase them invites disorder and mayhem.
* Ethnos is as real as logos. And I am sure Dr. Jones too would agree with that.
Is “Lo!” the Islamic version of “Yo!”?
How can it be?! This is Muhammad William Pickthall’s translation who happened to be British. I doubt if he was familiar with Italian-American slangs. :)..
Thanks for proving why one doesn’t see many Muslim comedians.
Well, because the humorism is Jewish, not Aryan, not Altaic, not native EuroAsian at all.
At the height of the “Satanic Panic” in the 1980s, a relative who was always a little nutty came over. She very casually took my sister’s Ojiua board and busted it in half over her knee before preceding to start breaking and destroying my He-Man toys, because she must of watched some propaganda video that said they were a pathway to occultism.
Fast forward a few decades later and that sister of mine, with the tone of a true fanatic is rubbing her arm and saying “see this! This doesn’t exist! It’s NOT real. Race is an illusion!”. Then a little later, without any irony whatsoever she explains the reality of white privilege and that of her own with a diatribe about her ability to be able to buy band aids that match her skin tone and black people not being able to do so. Ignoring the fact that I don’t think anyone actually cares what color a band aid is (except for antagonist blacks and white liberals) and would use a Hello Kitty one if they had to. She explained all of this with while being clearly on the verge of tears, the same way the lunatic relative who busted my toys would explain the need to repent and save your soul. This same sister of mine also happens to despise Christians with an extreme vehement hatred.
Blacks and liberals live in reality but refuse to see it. Not speaking any truth is a comfort for them. They know by and large blacks are violent prone goons, that is why they are far more fearful of saying something racist than “calling out” one of these oh so powerful and dangerous white men. They will say anything to feel safe in the eyes of these angry blacks. Including denying the existence of their own “whiteness” while blaming it for every problem under the sun.
Wokeness is a lot like the Satanic Panic, with a very significant exception—in the 1980s, evangelical Christians did not have a stranglehold on media, academia, and corporations.
‘Race’ exists because physical and genetic characteristics of <i>homo sapiens</i> cluster. Not absolutely, but to a large extent. This was until recently both obvious and uncontroversial. Other species have such clusters: in the case of certain plants they are even called <i>land races</i>.
Just because there is now no absolute correlation between ethnicity and domicile does not mean that the concept of <i>race</i> is invalid. The child of Nigerian immigrants to London may be a British subject, but is not English, despite the liberal media proclaiming him or her so.
We should ask these zealots why they are so ready to discard a useful distinction when they constantly fret about an overabundance of ‘white people’ in every conceivable social category other than crime.
“Africa is home to more genetic diversity” this is only because the bushmen, pygmy, and aborigine have 10-15% non-human DNA. Genetic diversity has little relationship to trait diversity.
E. Michael Jones and David Duke famously had a discussion that was Jones trying to convince Duke to become a catholic and Duke trying to convince Jones that he was white.
Jones is blatantly portraying a double standard in this fact, his work has focused primarily on the Jewish revolutionary spirit and “Jewishness”, yet he groups all Jewish ethnicity’s together as Jews, while he claims there is no singular grouping for whites. If he was consistent he would deny Jewishness and instead focus only on Sephardic, Ashkenazi, etc.. like he does claim Irish, Polish are only acceptable identities.
I don’t think the man is a dipshit, he has written some scholarly works on vast subjects, but he clearly has a modern liberal view of race.
In his debate about porn with that Styxhexenhammer guy, EMJ claimed that he googled the term “porn addiction,” and it came back with something like 66 million results. He then repeatedly insisted this was proof that 66 million people confessed that they were addicted to porn. He also kept taunting Styx about why he hides behind a pseudonym; Styx’s reply was that his real name is available for all to see—even on his website. Those are only two examples of exactly how airtight EMJ’s scholarly research is.
I haven’t read any of his books because everything I’ve seen him say on livestreams is provably wrong. Besides that, he is such an unpleasant sort that he sucks the charm out of any chat room he enters.
To be fair, dipshittery can’t be quantified, but his inability to comprehend how search results work is, in my eyes, yet another example of his either being a dipshit or of being senile.
Sam Dickson or Peter Brimelow needs to write the definitive account of how EMJ hijacked some conference they all attended years ago and has blatantly lied about what happened. If people can’t be convinced that he’s wrong about everything, maybe learning that he’s a serial liar will persuade them.
“race-denying senile dipshit E. Michael Jones”
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“Castizos are European-Amerindian mutts”
75% White is White. Even if they deny it.
Im Catholic and disagree w Dr.Jones on many issues,race being one of them.
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