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When protesters began chanting “Black Lives Matter,” my first reaction was disgust at the brazen effrontery of that slogan. Imagine a movement to legalize pedophilia calling itself “We Love Kids.” Nobody disagrees with loving kids in the abstract, but most people oppose letting perverts get away with raping them. Calling such a movement “We Love Kids” puts critics at a disadvantage when they have to begin, “Yes, we love kids too, but . . .”
The same is true of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter should be called Black Thugs Matter. BLM does not champion black victims of black crime. It does not rally to stop blacks from killing themselves with drugs, alcohol, and menthols. It does not try to protect blacks from vicious dogs, abortionists, incompetent doctors, or abusive nursing home staffers. BLM’s principal activity is rioting when black criminals die in encounters with the police or victims who fight back.
BLM’s goal is to make it safer for blacks to commit crimes and more dangerous for cops to arrest them. The entirely predictable and obvious outcome of BLM’s efforts is more black crime. Politicians and reporters with above-average IQs pretend not to understand this. But black thugs with IQs of 85 understand incentives. So do policemen. The result has been an explosion of violence that Heather MacDonald has labeled “the Ferguson effect.” It should simply be called the Black Lives Matter effect.
“Black Lives Matter” has turned out to be a very expensive, destructive, and deadly slogan. Thus we have to screw up our courage to question it. Yet not even the most cold-hearted racist would flatly deny that “black lives matter.” Even people who think blacks are a cancer on the planet still grant that their lives matter to someone. Even though I don’t want to share a country with black people, I still think their lives matter enough to have basic human rights.
So how do you respond to the assertion that black lives matter?
If you take the “yes, but . . .” approach, you’d better make it count: “Yes, ‘black lives matter,’ but . . . some lives matter more than others. Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and other BLM martyrs were criminal scum. Their lives matter less than the lives of the good people they victimized. If you champion such trash, you’re either stupid, crazy, or evil.” I’m betting BLM’s leaders are evil. They are cynics trying to gaslight morons into acts of violence or guilt-trip them into giveaways.
A better approach is simply to challenge the assertion. Ask them “Do black lives really matter?” Ask them for evidence. Ask them for clarification. Don’t let “Black Lives Matter” remain a simple categorical statement. It is formulated that way to make it difficult to reject. Ask “How much do black lives matter?” and “To whom do black lives matter?” “Do black lives matter more than other lives, such that blacks can victimize other groups with impunity?” “Do other things matter more than black lives, like justice?”
BLM supporters will just start shrieking. All they have is shrieking. Since their entire movement is based on lies, heinous double standards, and the willingness of whites to patronize and tolerate their infantile babble, BLM can’t afford to have a single civil and intelligent conversation, lest their entire movement collapse.
But it is worth triggering some shrieking. You won’t find it edifying, but many in your audience will. Even if it be only silently, in the privacy of their own thoughts, many of them will draw the conclusion “They’ve got nothing” then quietly back away.
It doesn’t make you a bad person to question the slogan “Black Lives Matter.” After all, black lives don’t even seem to matter to the movement calling itself Black Lives Matter. BLM’s goal is to make it safer for blacks to commit crimes. The principal victims of black criminals are other blacks. Apparently these black lives don’t matter. Black lives only matter to BLM if they can be weaponized against whites. In a sense, only white lives matter to BLM, because black lives matter to them merely as a way of getting whitey.
If the slogan “Black Lives Matter” means anything, it means “Black lives don’t matter enough to white people.” But that’s a complete falsehood. In truth, black lives don’t matter much to black people in general or to BLM in particular. In fact, white people tend to value black lives more than black people do.
What counts as evidence that black lives don’t matter enough to white people? Pretty much any bad outcome for blacks is blamed on whites. If black people are overrepresented among criminals and underrepresented among inventors, that’s the fault of white people. If blacks are overrepresented among the poor and underrepresented among the rich, that’s white people’s fault as well. If black children suffer more from illegitimacy, absent fathers, and child abuse than white children, white people are to blame for that too. If white people cared more — if black lives mattered more to them — these inequities would disappear, because racial inequalities are not based on nature. Nor are they based on the choices of blacks themselves. They are based simply on white social arrangements, at the bottom of which are white ill will and indifference toward blacks.
Note that BLM’s accusation assumes that — like children and pets — blacks have no agency or responsibility when bad things happen to them. Why are children abused? Because adults don’t value their lives enough. Why are pets abused? Because their owners don’t value their lives enough. Why do black people suffer? Because white people don’t think that black lives matter enough. Note also that white people — like parents or pet owners — are attributed complete agency and responsibility when it comes to the well-being of their wards.
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But if white people are somehow collectively responsible for George Floyd’s death, why are we not responsible for Oprah Winfrey’s success? Of course, blacks do not wish to surrender all agency and responsibility to white people. They are happy to take credit for good things that happen to them. Indeed, they are happy to take credit for good things that other people do as well, such as building the pyramids. Whites are responsible only for black failings, not for black achievements. We deserve only blame, never thanks.
It is childish for blacks to take credit for the things that please them while blaming their suffering on whites. But denying all moral agency to blacks is not entirely absurd. First, the average black American has an IQ of 85. Very large numbers of black Americans have IQs of 70 or below, which for white people is the cut-off for mental retardation. They are adults with the minds of children and thus should not be held responsible under the law. Second, large numbers of blacks are incarcerated for crimes, during which time they are wards of the state. So is it really such a stretch for white people to take complete responsibility for blacks in America? Isn’t this what BLM is basically demanding? And doesn’t it cohere nicely with white liberal paternalism toward blacks? Aren’t American policies toward blacks basically a glorified form of babysitting?
But I don’t think BLM has really thought this through. As I already pointed out, blacks only want to be absolved of blame and punishments, not praise and rewards. Beyond that, if whites take full responsibility for blacks, we need to make their decisions for them, just as we do for children. But what if they complain? So what? They aren’t legal adults, so as long as something is in their best interest, their consent is neither possible nor necessary.
Of course, in this scenario, black consent would also not be required if whites decided that racial separation is best for everyone and resolved to send black Americans to their own homeland. I personally prefer offering blacks incentives to voluntarily separate, but I admit that making them wards of the state would certainly expedite the process.
It is easy to establish that black people hold their lives rather cheap. Despite being 13% of the US population, blacks have long committed 50% or more of the murders. Based on the FBI’s 2019 statistics, blacks committed 55.9% of murders. As Barack Obama might say, they are sucker-punching above their weight. Because of the collapse of policing due to Black Lives Matter in 2020, murders have skyrocketed in black areas (gun murders up 34.4%), so the 2020 statistics will likely be much higher.
The vast majority of black murderers pick black victims, even though blacks are also far more likely to murder whites than whites are to murder blacks: blacks were 54.7% of murder victims in 2019; in 2018, 70.3% of black homicide victims were killed by other blacks, while only 10.6% were killed by whites; in the same year, 15% of white murder victims were killed by blacks; this is despite the fact that the white population is more than five times the size of the black population. Obviously, black people hold other black lives very cheap.
But those are other black lives. Surely black people hold their own lives very dear. No, not really.
Blacks suffer from high rates of crime, poverty, drug- and alcohol-related problems, unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and general proneness to accidents. All of these problems spring, in part, from a tendency to think about the present and ignore the future. Economists and psychologists call discounting the future for present pleasures “high time preferences.” High black time preferences are well-documented across the board. See the appendix on “Time Preferences” in Michael Levin, Why Race Matters (Oakton, Virginia: New Century Books, 2016). High time preferences amount to a form of heedlessness of the long-term consequences of present-day actions, which means that one’s one future — one’s own life outside the present — matters less than momentary pleasures in the now.
But there’s no need to approach this in such abstract terms. Let’s look at BLM’s alleged martyrs. How much did Trayvon Martin’s life matter to him when he assaulted a man with a gun? How much did Michael Brown’s life matter to him when he tried to take a gun from the hands of a police officer? How much did Ahmaud Arbery’s life matter to him when he tried to wrestle a shotgun out of another man’s hands? What is it with blacks taking bare hands to a gunfight? Assaulting an armed man is a form of suicidal behavior. How much do the lives of suicidal people matter to them?
Isn’t there something grotesque about the cult that has grown up around George Floyd in the year since his death? After all, Floyd was a career criminal and a drug abuser. He also fathered and abandoned at least five children with various women. At the time of his death, he was walking around with Covid-19. These behaviors reveal that Floyd rated present pleasures very highly while holding the lives of others, as well as his own long-term survival, very cheap. Floyd died because he was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl, capering around a store with a banana in his hand, trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. When police approached him as he sat behind the wheel of a car that he was too stoned to drive safely, he gobbled down even more drugs, dying of an overdose while being restrained for resisting arrest. Floyd was not murdered. He died of the predictable consequences of his own bad decisions. Taking a lethal dose of meth and fentanyl is suicidal behavior, as is resisting arrest. If George Floyd’s life mattered more to him, he would be alive today.
You people treating George Floyd as a saint look like fools. At best, you are fools. At worst, you are cynics manipulating fools to benefit yourselves while harming society as a whole. You’re probably too stupid, crazy, or evil to be trusted with any civic responsibilities. I’d take away your votes at the very least.
That’s why I regard the slogan “Black Lives Matter” with such disgust. Why should any of these phony BLM martyrs’ lives matter more to me than they mattered to themselves? Why should black lives matter more to whites than they do to black people?
When people engage in suicidal behavior, we assume that they are out of their minds and feel entitled to intervene. When that happens, we feel quite self-righteous about the fact that these people’s lives matter more to us than to them. We are operating, however, on the assumption that we are dealing with a psychological emergency. When the emergency is over and the victim is back in his right mind, we can end our paternalistic intervention and go back to normal.
But what if it is normal for whites and blacks to value black lives differently? What if black lives will always matter more to us than to blacks themselves? Do we really want to commit ourselves to a permanent state of emergency, to permanent paternalism, to permanent babysitting? Isn’t there something presumptuous and ethnocentric for whites to declare that we, not blacks, are the arbiters of how much black lives matter? Isn’t this just another version of benevolent colonialism, what Kipling called “the white man’s burden”? Don’t you think that blacks would eventually find such a situation oppressive? In fact, they already do.
But the only way to stop “oppressing” blacks is to abandon civilized — i.e., white — standards of behavior. That is, in effect, what BLM has already accomplished. The results are clear: a crime wave in black neighborhoods, increasingly numerous and savage black attacks on whites, and the abandonment of fair trials, e.g., the open intimidation of a jury into convicting Derek Chauvin. Eventually, it will dawn on even liberal whites that blacks are a retarding force on civilization. White Nationalists reached that conclusion a long time ago.
Fortunately, there is a solution. Whites and blacks in America have irreconcilable differences. When a married couple has such differences, the solution is divorce. After four centuries of racial conflict and resentment in America, we need to start listening to reason rather than hope. It is time for blacks and whites to seek a racial divorce. We need separate, independent nations for blacks and whites in North America.
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I think this is all factually perfect, but still wrong headed. BLM is a top down phenomenon, inspired mainly by white liberals, together with a few high iq mixed race and ethnic persons. Neither white conservatives nor white liberals give a hoo about ”black lives,” least of all white liberals. It’s all a faux civil rights movement invented as a battering ram against conservative white civilization and especially trump most recently. Whites elites like to fight with other whites. What we are seeing is Guelph versus ghibelline, Norman versus Saxon, Protestant versus catholic, all over again. Only this time European civilization won’t be able to get back on its feet after the massive third world immigration.
I personally prefer the counter slogan “all lives matter.” I wouldn’t mind being fired for having said that.
I didn’t intend for this to sound critical, I mean the article is factually and logically perfect, great for red pilling normies and young people, but for the sake of discussion, the people responsible for blm are never going to read something like this and say “gee he’s right..”. I believe they are cynical and fully understand what they are doing.
I am not writing articles for the stupid, crazy, and evil.
Liberal elites might wield the weapon, but the weapon needs to be studied, understood, taken out of their hands and punted all the way back to Africa, seeing as it is so effective.
It is very sad watching the further destruction of our homelands. Just as many decades ago our major cities like Detroit, Chicago, LA and so forth were ceded from nice white places to live, over to anti-white mob rule, now the same forces are working on obliterating medium sized cities that have been nice white places to live, like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and so forth. We are being roused from the places of our ancestors creation designed to be safe and nurturing, but which are now crime filled and cancerous.
The only whites who are still asleep to the peril are those who are fully in thrall to the anti-white propaganda and have no direct life experience with the reality of the situation. They each desperately need a Dickens night where the ghosts of white peoples Past, Present and Future pay them a visit.
“capering around a store with a banana in his hand….”
LOL
This, like “Irreconcilable Differences,” is an article I will surely be forwarding to select “open” persons in my life as soon as it becomes generally available. Wonderful work, Greg.
The most ‘cold hearted racist’ chiming in here. Black lives do not matter. Not to me. Not to other Whites. Not to blacks themselves. There is no great art, music, literature, or scientific discovery that will cease to exist if blacks cease to exist. There is no sportsball that could not be played by equally able White athletes. Offer any black fambly who’ve won the ghetto lottery the genuine option of having their dearly departed son/babydaddy returned to life in exchange for all those dollahs they received in exchange, start your timer, and settle down and wait.
It’s frequently been noted that black murderers exhibit absolutely no empathy for their victims of whatever age or sex – Who is ‘x’ to Jontavious? If he/she is not known fambly, said victim’s life is utterly worthless to the black killer. And half the time they cheat and steal from and kill their own fambly as well. And the notion that ‘All Lives Matter” is equally up for debate – for Whites as well. This supposed uplifting of the human experience in an age of mass abortion and throuples and mass degeneracy rings false. To whom could all these lives possibly matter, given that Christians are constantly reminded there is no ‘sky daddy’?
Of course a national divorce is warranted, but equally certain is that blacks will never willingly allow Whites a diversity-free existence. They deeply believe they are owed, everything by everyone. The few who are bright enough to acknowledge black existence as a massive grift also acknowledge only Whites offer sufficient monetary payout and psychological satisfaction as victims. A parasite-free host? Not on your life . . . or the lives of your children.
“Why are children abused? Because adults don’t value their lives enough. Why are pets abused? Because their owners don’t value their lives enough. Why do black people suffer? Because white people don’t think that black lives matter enough.”
Absolutely savage lol
Why do Blacks still suffer if there are no Whites around to harass them?
Think Haiti or every sub-Saharan country.
There’s a book by Walter Rodney that explains How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. You see, we never should have been there. But while we were there, we should have developed them more. So the fault is still ours. Because of blacks, someone had to invent the sin of “underdevelopment.” See what a blessing they are?
I play a thought-experiment/game I call Racial Rapture. I study up on various groups and then imagine what things would be like if they were raptured away, all of them, in an instant, gone, as some modernist/crazy US Protestants believe. You can do it with Whites, Jews, Asians, and, of course, Blacks.
If all 40 million of our dearly beloved African-American bruthas and sistas were raptured away in the twinkling of an eye, major league sports and the pop music industry would collapse, great numbers of prison guards and social workers would be unemployed, street level bureaucracies would be understaffed, personnel for commercials would plummet and the reservoir of both vulgar and cool catch-phrases would dry up. Just for starters.
Otherwise, everything would improve instantly.
BLM my a**.
Sounds fun, like a more benevolent varation of Emily Youcis’s “Nuke Africa.”
It sure is a great time to be a black voice actor. I’m getting PTSD from YouTube ads; every time I hear one of them trying to be empathic and relatable I feel like imploding.
I may be left behind, but a world without those scourges of the earth… give me that Mark o’ the Beast on the hand and forehead!
The Youcis Nuke Africa thing is more about curbing global black population numbers rather than just American black populations. Her reasoning is that African populations will just keep rising if nothing changes and they’ll keep trying to immigrate into white countries, so we might have go to the source to sort things out.
Yes, I know. I was just making a reference to her funny and audacious suggestion for dealing with the (or, at least a) black problem.
I hate to be that guy, but when I still watched TV documentaries, I would switch them off if a black or female voice was narrating. I knew what was going on and did not want to be party to it. Beyond that, I don’t think blacks or women sound authoritative and credible. But that’s how narrators should sound.
I’m with you, having practiced the near-total boycott of black for years now. Even when I hear the supposedly avuncular Morgan Freeman … it’s *click*.
So do I. Click.
I have serious black and Jew fatigue. Actually, I’m pretty much fatigued all around.
I’m with Desert Flower on this one.
Yes, the fatigue is real.
I simply stopped looking at them as fellow rational creatures. They can talk, but so can parrots. They, like talking birds, when they’re not squawking and shitting everywhere, are merely mimicking civilized people.
My sainted mother in law disapproved of “lady pastors” because even she, mother of many sons, didn’t want to listen to a woman preach.
Download a free ad-blocker for your YouTube ads. It saved my life.
I’ll take that advice. Is there one you’d recommend?
I use one called Adblock Plus (https://adblockplus.org/) … It’s free and works great for me. … I’m really a bit of a Luddite, so if anyone else has a better option, please let us know, but it has been awesome for me – the frustration of dealing with ads gone forever !
Thank you. I’ll try that one. 🙂
uBlock Origin is quite reliable.
Thanks, Bookai. I’ll check it out too.
Car insurance would plummet. Cctv would be obsolete.
I would no longer need to look over my shoulder every time I get in and out of a car, even in the best neighborhood. Imagine that. The feeling of being just a bit more relaxed as you go about your day to day business. I long for that.
Back in the 1990s I was listening to NPR on MLK’s birthday. Yeah, I used to listen to NPR. Some “authority” was interviewed about racism. He said that America was racist because if aliens came and offered us unlimited clean energy in exchange for taking blacks back to their planet, we would go for it. I was annoyed, but I had to admit that I would take the deal. Thanks NPR. That was an important step on the path that led me to where I am today.
It is even sadder to contemplate that we would have been able to develop such technologies ourselves by now without the retarding presence of blacks.
Reminds me of that great scene in (1999) Boondock Saints, the joke where a genie appears to a Hispanic, a Black and a White guy and asks for their one wish. The Hispanic and the Black both ask to have their people returned to their homelands “to be happy and free.” Done.
Then
Uh, so the genies says to the white guy, “What’s your one wish?” And the white guy says, “Wait, you mean to tell me that all the spics and niggers are out of America?” The genie goes yeah, and the white guy says, uh, “I’ll have a Coke, then.”
Of course, there is a third group he could have asked to to returned to their homeland “to be happy and free” but this is Hollywood and that is beyond the pale. Of settlement.
This is why we need a like button.
Precisely! Whole heartedly agree!
I’ve wondered about this, even asked about it back when the new website was launched but didn’t get a reply.
Why isn’t that feature available for the comments section? (I had just assumed it was a deliberate choice not to have it.)
Just needs the Jews to make aliyah and I will have a Fanta.
Rather than a Coke, I would have asked for a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
I used to listen to npr back before Iraq too. The news used to be really good. For example I heard there before bush2 was elected that he planned a reinvasion of Iraq. After Otto reich and the neocons took over, npr became another part of the msm.
I agree with most of your article however the idea of the Bakanization metaphor would seem more reasonable in a European climate . The American Indian was conquered because of its divisions . Separations are in both body mind and spirit.
The following are a collection of thoughts by others I think worthy of consideration :
Jung’s picture of the average American was as follows:
“Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behavior and an Indian soul. He shares the fate of all usurpers of foreign soil……
The absolutely homogeneous must lapse into the relatively less homogeneous thus becoming heterogeneous, e.g., consisting of different ideological tendencies.
” A nation based on blood and race can tolerate a wide range of differing philosophical and religious views as long as those views are subordinated for the good of the race.”A Flawed Masterpiece: Spike Lee’s Malcolm X , excerpt by Morris Van De Camp
Jung’s picture of the average American was as follows:
“Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behavior and an Indian soul. He shares the fate of all usurpers of foreign soil……
I have been a reader and admirer of CG for many decades but sometimes he veers off into the weeds. He believed in a literal magic dirt theory, that the soil of America promoted Indian energies in the Whites who founded the country, even if they never met an Indian. What he terms “Indian soul” and “Negro behavior” remain mysteries locked in his own head.
Plus, like many people whose ancestors have lived long on their land, he seems to forget that the Swiss are descended from Germanic invaders who were also “usurpers on foreign soil.” I find his researches into the psyche far more worthwhile than his off the cuff comments on the passing scene.
The “Indian soul” part doesn’t make sense, but he must have been channeling his inner Nostradamus with the “Negro behavior” bit.
True, alas. He was writing in the early 20th century. Were he alive and visiting now, he’d be on target about the “Negro behavior.” It’s like a virus.
Hitler said the US was blacked as well.
Peron and Peronism synthesizing a third position rather than a separation of nations. I haven’t read Kerry Bolton’s book yet on Peron . And the remaking of race in Argentina.
Remember, after the assassination of the five policemen and wounding of nine others in Dallas in 2016, police wound up in a standoff and shouting match with the shooter.
When asked at a press conference what the guy had to say, the police chief wasn’t very specific but he did say these words: “Black Lives Matter.”
We later learned that among other things the guy was laughing about killing the cops and wanting to kill more before police sent a nifty bomb-bearing remote control device his-a-way.
He who laughs last…
On the one hand, it doesn’t matter, no pun intended, what psychotic nutters claim to justify their actions but on the other hand, if he had mentioned, say, Donald Trump or your-scapegoat-here in passing, the grotesque entity we call “the press” would have taken that and run with it.
As it stands, we have this blatant example of police murdered by at the very least a Black Lives Matter sympathizer but that tidbit wasn’t broached by anyone. Not one “journalist.”
Not only that, but it didn’t even cause a speed-bump in their march to legitimate policy-affecting political power.
Barack Obama would tell a class of young black college graduates: “I appreciate groups like Black Lives Matter.”
Without mentioning that if any of those impressionable young people misguidedly elect to put themselves in harm’s way by “taking it to the streets” with his blessing, he’ll be at George Clooney’s Italian villa or on Richard Branson’s private island if they need him.
Last year I created a petition on Change.org advocating for a separate black ethnostate. It actually stayed active for several months and gathered a couple of hundred signatures including at least one black, Shemeka Michelle, who enjoys over 10K followers on FB. Someone at Change.org finally detected the sarcasm I wrote into the petition and it was deleted by the website. I composed the petition to focus on the creation of the black ethnostate primarily for the chronically discontent and on voluntary action. Below is a portion of the petition that I saved:
“Relative to the population numbers, there is a very large segment of blacks in the U.S. that state systemic racism prohibits them from living productive and fulfilling lives and leads to unjust convictions for anti-social and criminal behaviors. In spite of the U.S. voting in a black POTUS with a black FLOTUS for 2 terms, 3 very large and loud institutions that advocate for and pander to blacks which are the News Media, Academia, and Entertainment Media, 28 plus NGOs that advocate for and empower blacks, Pro Team Sports dominated by black athletes that command 7 and 8 figure incomes, blacks that achieved wealth in every industry including our systems of finance and financial markets, black engineers, scientists and astronauts, numerous black politicians at every level of government from local to state to federal, and the millions of employment listings that include the text “minorities strongly encouraged to apply”, systemic racism somehow expanded in scope and severity of oppression in the last dozen years (the start of Obama’s first term).
As a seeker of and advocate for solutions, I propose for serious discussion and consideration a Sovereign N. American Black Ethnostate within the continental United States (give them southern California including “J” dominated Hollywood).
This new sovereign nation would have some infrastructure for industry, land for agriculture, and deepwater ports with access to the ocean for trade. The United States must give territory to the oppressed blacks for the opportunity to pursue self-determined lives away from systemic/institutionalized racism.”
Comments in parentheses were not in the original petition.
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