Fundraiser Update
The Education of a White Nationalist

Rembrandt, Two Women Teaching a Child to Walk, c.1635 – c.1637

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This year, Counter-Currents is trying to raise $200,000. Since our last update, we have received 9 donations totaling $2,078,65. This means we have received a total of 1148 donations and a grand total of $165,766.37 since we started our fundraiser on March 10th. Thus we are more than 80% of the way to our goal, with just a bit over $34,000 to go and less than one month left to receive it. If you have been waiting to year’s end before giving, it is almost here. Full information on how to give appears below a very special essay by Alex Graham.

Greg Johnson

The Education of a White Nationalist

The reason why I write for Counter-Currents is simple. More than any other dissident Right publication, it possesses the vitality and vision needed to reach the minds of intelligent young white people. I myself am proof of this. I came across Counter-Currents at the age of 14, and it would be difficult to overstate the impact that it had on me during my adolescence.

Before I found Counter-Currents, I had never heard of the New Right. My thinking was mired in the “Old Right,” and I considered myself a National Socialist. Prior to that, I was a paleoconservative. The lack of youthful energy in the paleoconservative movement was always very apparent to me. Who knows, I may well have been the only 13-year-old paleoconservative in the country. The NS-inspired “White Nationalist 1.0” scene in the US was not much to write home about either and seemed not to have changed much since its heyday in the 90s. The day I stumbled upon Counter-Currents was the first time I had ever encountered a Right-wing milieu that was actually intellectually exciting, future-oriented, and was headed somewhere.

My worldview soon evolved beyond its “Old Right” constraints. More than that, Counter-Currents broadened my intellectual and cultural horizons immensely. It introduced (and continues to introduce) me to countless new avenues to explore that otherwise would not have crossed my path.

Above all, everything I learned from Counter-Currents was undergirded by a singular vision and purpose. Nick Jeelvy’s latest article struck a chord with me. My education, too, was characterized largely by the mere “reproduction of factoids” and lacked coherence. The schools I attended were better than others, but the purpose of the education we received was transparently to initiate us into the “Intellectual Yet Idiot” class, to borrow Nassim Taleb’s expression, and to make us “marketable” to colleges and (by extension) future employers.

At school, I did not push myself intellectually and was not encouraged to do so. (A few teachers even discouraged it; I remember one humiliating episode in kindergarten in which a librarian forbade me from checking out a lengthy book, even as I insisted that I would be able to read it.) It did not occur to me that my talents were worth cultivating. This, combined with my ambivalence toward the status-seeking endemic to my educational milieu, fostered a habit of laziness and disengagement in academic settings. 

Counter-Currents provided me with intellectual guidance that had been lacking in my life. In addition to the daily intellectual enrichment it offered, it gave more direction and structure to my self-education and imbued me with a sense of mission regarding my autodidactic endeavors. Hardly a day has passed over the years that I have not visited Counter-Currents, and it continues to be an enormous asset.

Discovering artists, composers, and writers who were aligned with the Right was also a revelation. Introducing young people to this rich legacy will go a long way in re-capturing the arts from the Left. A lot of Right-wingers unconsciously absorb the notion that the arts are inherently Left-wing and not for them. For a long time, I couldn’t envision becoming an artist or musician; I was “not like those people.” Conversely, there are aspiring young white artists out there who imbibe the same assumption and brainwash themselves into becoming Leftists as a result.

There are thousands of bright white teenagers out there who are hungry for knowledge and purpose. Most, if not all, of them have been failed by their schools, their society, and their elders. They would be drawn to Counter-Currents like moths to a flame. The future rests in their hands, and Counter-Currents is uniquely positioned to sway them to our side.

Alex Graham

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Here is how you can help out.

(1) E-Checks

If you are in the United States, E-checks are the fastest and most convenient way to send money to Counter-Currents. All you need is your checkbook.

(2) Credit Cards

Currently, there are only two ways we can take credit card donations:

1. CashApp as $CounterCurrents. CashApp allows you to make an instant credit card donation without a high processing fee. Plus, it gives us an encouraging mobile alert when you donate! Boost the Counter-Currents staff morale instantly! Donate via CashApp!
2. Entropy, a site that takes donations and comments for livestreams. Visit our Entropy page and select “send paid chat.” Entropy allows you to donate any amount from $3 and up. All comments will be read and discussed in the next episode of Counter-Currents Radio, which airs every weekend.

(3) Bank Transfers

It is also possible to support Counter-Currents with bank transfers. Please contact us at [email protected].

(4) Gift Cards

Gift cards are a useful way to make donations. Gift cards are available with all the major credit cards as well as from major retailers. You can either send gift cards as donations (either electronically or through the mail), or you can use them to make donations. Simply buy a prepaid credit card and click here to use it. If you can find a place that sells gift cards for cash, they are as anonymous as sending cash and much safer.

(5) Cash, Checks, and Money Orders

Sometimes the old ways are best. The least “de-platformable” way to send donations to Counter-Currents is to put a check or money order in the mail. Simply print and complete the Word or PDF donation form and mail it to:

Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.
P.O. Box 22638
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA
[email protected]

Thank you, Boomers, for keeping your checkbooks, envelopes, and stamps. There are youngsters reading this site who have never written a check or put a letter in the mail.

(6) Bill Payment Services

If you wish to make monthly donations by mail, see if your bank has a bill payment service. Then all you need to do is set up a monthly check to be dispatched by mail to our PO box. This check can be made out to Counter-Currents or to Greg Johnson. After the initial bother of setting it up, you never have to think about it again.

(7) Crypto-Currencies

In addition to old-fashioned paper donations, those new-fangled crypto-currencies are a good way to circumvent censorious credit card corporations.

• Click here to go to our crypto donation page.
• Click here for a basic primer on how to get started using crypto. Do not, however, use COINBASE. COINBASE will not allow you to send money to Counter-Currents. (Yes, it is that bad.)

(8) The Counter-Currents Foundation

Note: Donations to Counter-Currents Publishing are not tax deductible. We do, however, have a 501c3 tax-exempt educational corporation called The Counter-Currents Foundation. If you want to make a tax-deductible gift, please email me at [email protected]. You can send donations by mail to:

The Counter-Currents Foundation
P.O. Box 22638
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA

(9) Remember Us in Your Will

Finally, we would like to broach a very delicate topic: your will. If you are planning your estate, please think about how you can continue helping the cause even after you are gone. The essay “Majority Estate Planning” contains many helpful suggestions.

Remember: those who fight for a better world live in it today.

Thank you again for your loyal readership and generous support.

Greg Johnson