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Here’s What You Missed Behind the Paywall! Interview with Jared Taylor
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On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson interviews Jared Taylor on his book White Identity ten years later. Topics discussed include: The story behind White Identity, copies sold, “diversity is our strength,” science and racial differences, Genetic Similarity Theory, reciprocity and unilateral disarmament, whites blamed for black failure, Asian achievements, reviews and responses to White Identity, race vs. class and sex differences, Tucker Carlson, and How Jared’s thinking has changed over the last ten years. White Identity is available through the official American Renaissance bookstore.
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I sure wish that these interviews could be printed out to be read more easily than listening. Just an idle wish.
Actually, I realize it would take staff a long time and much extra effort to transcribe the interview into writing, so I withdraw my above comment. I once transcribed a whole essay elsewhere for publication, and I was often tearing my hair.
You could use audio transcription software and then just proofread it to find the few inevitable errors. It wouldn’t take much time.
I think this is a great idea for a series, and of course listening to Jared Taylor is always a pleasure. A true gentleman.
What is the problem with White people?
The incident happened back in the 1980s at the Carlton, one of those great towers rising over the Johannesburg skyline, more recently seen in online photo essays about the crumbling infrastructure of black ruled South Africa. But this was when Whites still ran the place and SA was a first world country.
Anyway, I was doing the usual student tourist thing, lunching in Joburg (as old hands called it) and walking down a gallery of the aforementioned Carlton. There were numerous people of all races bustling about. Suddenly, a black man rushed by. Well, posted on the door of the black bathroom (this was apartheid, after all) was an Out of Order sign. So he went into the White bathroom. He got a couple of curious stares from the White businessmen, but nobody objected. And why should they? If the black guy had to use the plumbing, he had to use the plumbing. Not letting this fellow use the White bathroom would have been churlish, so looking the other way appeared to be the decent thing to do.
And therein lies the dilemma.
Every day when I walked out of my hotel room in South Africa, I was part of the overclass. This meant acting as if blacks did not exist. And being in solidarity with other White people, like hanging out with them in (Whites only) bars and (Whites only) train cars and (Whites only) cabins at Kruger National Park. It wasn’t really a conscious consideration, it was more of a Hegelian master-slave dialectic and all that kinda thing. And I knew that being the master was much, much better than being the slave.
If you’ve read George Orwell’s essay about his shooting an elephant in Burma, you’ll get the idea. You can not afford to show weakness in front of the natives because then you would be swarmed, as one had seen happen to White people in places like the Congo and South Bronx. A White minority could rule a much larger majority because of this unconscious level of White consciousness.
But it’s a heck of a way to live, like a constant state of war. And you can understand why White South Africans would vote to end apartheid. How much more decent it must feel to renounce racial consciousness, declare one-featherless-biped-one-vote, and let blacks use the same bathroom as the White bwana. What could go wrong?
The dilemma is that once YT puts down the elephant gun, the other races will pick it up. And use it to consolidate their own power. We see this play out in the new rainbow nation of South Africa ™ where blacks are today busy dispossessing Whites from farms held by their families for generations, committing urban guerrilla warfare levels of crime, and generally driving the country into the third world ground. Come to think of it, this is similar to what is going on from the banlieues of Europe to Biden’s Homeland.
One thing to consider is how during the 1980s the South Africans were fighting a war up in Angola against that country’s marxist government and its allies in the ANC and Cuban military. This war had considerable political implications for the situation back on the SA home front. Every South African military victory emphasized that Whites still held the upper hand. But the failure of the South Africans to gain a clearcut victory in Angola is often touted by the ANC as stimulating the anti-apartheid movement. YT had proven unable to shoot the elephant.
Once you surrender the bathrooms, the concessions will not end until you have been pushed out of your own country. Life in wartime, baby.
There are a couple ways for Whites to avoid this dilemma. The first is to maintain a continual state of warrior mentality, which I think is a preliminary for racial consciousness. Dust off that copy of Hegel. The second way is to have an ethnostate with an absolute majority of White people and which represents their interests.
Something to think about in the continuing chaos…
Very wise comment, until the very end. The 1.5? 1.6? 1.7? billion global Chinese can afford to let their guard down, at least in their own behemoth nation. The white man never can, not even once Europe has been re-transmogrified into a continent of ethnostates, nor once we Americans have our own ethnostate carved out of the rubble of the dying USSA. We are a small (if great) race on a shrinking planet. We must never allow ourselves to fall into liberal degeneracy again. NEVER! That means the necessity of perennially cultivating “warrior mentality” among our people, which in turn requires that the Ethnostate will be at at least somewhat racially authoritarian. Coercive measures to bind the race together (Orientals need an injection of individualism to maximize their collective potential; innately more individualistic whites need injections of tribal collectivism to maximize ours) will take precedence over appeals to “liberty” and “muh rights”. The Ethnostate will be teleocratic and not nomocratic: we will not be governed by “neutral” laws (if such a thing is possible) and procedural rules, within which individuals may do as they wish, but rather, individualism will be subordinated to the Racial Good – ie, white preservation; ethnostatist security and sovereignty; and the gradual eugenic improvement of our people.
Note I say this even though I’m loyal to the US Constitution (though it can and will be improved upon within the Ethnostate), and support private property rights, free enterprise, a non-favoritist rule of law, and a high degree of personal liberty. It simply must be understood that, in the Ethnostate, extreme individualism that puts the race and its future at risk will not be tolerated.
Some thoughts…
In the Cuito Cuanavale campaign (August 1987 to March) the South African Defence Forces (SADF), aligned with UNITA guerrillas, fought against the Angolan marxist government and its Cuban allies. The South Africans took about 200 casualties, the communists many more. The SADF generally held the tactical edge and won battles but overall the campaign ended in a stalemate.
Which gets back to the dilemma.
South African policy was to keep their own casualties low in the Angolan Border War. A couple hundred excess KIA in external ops and the folks back home would be ruffled over their morning papers. The irony is that following black majority rule in 1994 far more Whites in the Rainbow Nation ™ have been killed by black criminals and ANC supported terrorists than ever in combat in Angola.
In retrospect, it would have made more sense for the SA government to have mobilized in the 1980s and fought for a decision in Angola. A creditable victory would have had a massive psychological impact in demoralizing the ANC at home and reaffirming White power throughout Africa. The downside would be a likely adverse international reaction, but since the “world” was against SA anyway, the situation could hardly have been any worse for Pretoria. If nothing else, it would have been amusing to see the UN pass more ineffectual resolutions over South Africa.
So, yes, the warrior mentality is critical.
For a nation to be free, it has to understand it is in a continual state of war with any and all competitors. This was pretty much the case with Americans from the 17th century until well into the 20th: near-endless frontier skirmishing with Indians, warfare with competing European powers, and the Cold War against communism. i.e., there was always the friend-enemy distinction and Americans acted accordingly, forging a great nation.
But somewhere along the line this mindset was replaced with the democratic mass idea: that all peoples everywhere – even those openly hostile to one’s civilization – could be brought into the polity by handing out the vote indiscriminately, opening the borders, and performing other magic tricks. We have seen how this has played out in the ruins of Western Civilization from Johannesburg to Rotherham to Portland.
This is why, I think, that movies like Zulu continue to exercise a hold on the Western imagination. Nobody cares if the Zulu impis outnumbered and potentially outvoted the British at Rorke’s Drift in January 1879. It was us against them. On that day in South Africa, the British stood their ground, fought and won.
So yes, White people need to revive their warrior mentality, especially that of the political soldier. It just may be perpetual war for perpetual racial survival.
Just for fun, I looked up “Paved with Good Intentions” on Amazon, and it is indeed available — for $970.00 for the hardback! I’m telling you folks — buy banned books and keep them in circulation!
Want to have a good laugh?
Since the initial establishment of Toronto (Canada) as a City in 1834, Toronto’s Coat of Arms read:
“Industry Intelligence Integrity”.
(a very long time ago, Toronto was also referred to as ‘Toronto the good’.)
In 1998 Toronto’s Coat of Arms was changed to: “Diversity Our Strength”.
(Predictably, ‘Toronto the good’ is long gone as Toronto’s homicide rate surpasses that of New York City.).
Toronto, enjoy ur diversity! Lol!
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