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Have you noticed that for all the endless infantile gibberish you hear about “racial justice,” no one has ever bothered to define exactly what this elusive phantom means, nor has anyone attempted to come up with some unit of measurement to gauge the precise moment when we’ve crossed the Racial Justice Finish Line and everyone can go back to enjoying themselves without this exhaustingly endless spiral of hectoring and resentment?
If you have a goal, wouldn’t it make sense to know what that goal is and when it’s been achieved? Or is the fact that they keep moving the goalposts evidence that they can’t define the goal, either, and are simply grabbing as much power as they can before someone musters the gumption to stand in their way? Or does it suggest something even more malevolent: that the racial-justice peddlers always had a goal in mind, but it ran completely counter to the benign, sunshiny goal they originally sold to us?
About a generation ago, “racial justice” seemed to connote a post-racial society where everyone lived in racial harmony, but you hardly hear either of those terms anymore. Nowadays, “racial justice” is all about demonizing “whiteness” and “dismantling white supremacy.”
In other words, as “racism” used to be defined, the very concept of “racial justice” became a lot more “racist” over the years. Harmony no longer seems to be an objective. It’s been replaced by revenge, which is a more honest word for “justice” and never leads to harmony.
But for the sake of argument, let’s suspend disbelief and pretend that the goal has always been a multicultural nation without major friction between those multiple cultures — a post-racial society that isn’t absolutely obsessed with race. As quixotic and dimwitted and ultimately impossible as that goal may appear if you understand anything about race and human tribalism, let’s pretend that this goal is both desirable and achievable.
I can’t conceive of a more doomed-to-fail way of achieving that goal than how the racial-justice game is currently being played.
Even though “racism” is an entirely subjective term whose meaning paradoxically expands the more we allegedly achieve “racial justice,” for the purposes of this piece, let’s define “racism” as “defending the interests of one’s racial group.” It would seem to be a natural, biological right — and it currently is, for all groups except whites.
According to the new rules, whites — and only whites — must be shamed and terrorized and guilt-tripped into believing that they are unique among human groups in that, whereas collective pride and self-esteem is healthy and to be applauded among all others, it only becomes toxic when whites attempt to indulge in such things. For example, the supposedly non-biased Wikipedia famously treats terms such as black pride and Asian pride with affection and reverence, whereas it depicts white pride as analogous to testicle cancer.
That sounds extremely “racist” — at least toward whites. But now they’ve changed the rules to where it’s impossible to be racist toward whites. One begins to suspect that the rule-makers are absolutely full of shit.
According to the old rules, it would have been “racist” not only for whites, but also for blacks or browns or yellows to put their group’s interests ahead of the post-racially harmonious rainbow society we had all been persuaded, cajoled, and brainwashed into thinking was desirable.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
Let’s say your goal is to get a broken family to talk to one another and resolve their differences. But instead of telling them to get past their old grievances and focus on the ties that bind, you target one family member as the source of all their woes. You encourage all other family members to resent, taunt, extort, and threaten this family member, and you forbid the “evil” family member from acting in self-defense. If he even dares to make a single measly peep, it will only be taken as a sign that he’s not only evil, he’s in denial about it and is therefore doubly evil.
What do you think are the long-term odds that this family will get along? What person with even a basic grasp of human and social psychology would think this is going to end in anything besides disaster? As the sage Ted Kaczynski observed long ago, rather than soothing racial tensions, “the activists’ hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred.”
Maybe intensifying racial hatred was the goal all along.
Weren’t racial double standards supposed to be the problem in the first place? Who came up with the bright idea that the solution to institutionalized racial double standards was revenge-based racial double standards pointing in the opposite direction? What sort of good can come from a society where one race is demonized and all others are held as sacred? Where one group is commanded to live in shame, while all other groups are encouraged to bask in pride like pigs in slop? When did “two wrongs make a right” cease to be a primary logical fallacy and instead became a recipe for world peace?
Oh, how little thought it takes to have a belief. It’s startling how many people have blindly accepted that this game — the one with completely different rules for each side — is the Only Way Forward without spending a second to wonder where it will all lead and if it’s even possible to get there.
For all we hear about how it’s “racist” to notice that some groups appear, on average, to be better at some things than other groups, many “racists” seem to think this is merely the result of a morally neutral evolutionary process. But this new narrative about white self-interest being the cause of all human suffering throughout history is far more hateful than noticing that Mexicans don’t appear to be all that great at basketball. Saying a group is inherently evil is far worse than saying they conspire in self-interest (as is often said of Jews) or have undesirable traits as a result of evolutionary selection pressures (as is often said about blacks). Ironically, this new iteration of “anti-racism” manages to be the most “racist” thing possible.
Either racial identity should be for everyone . . . or for no one. The idiotic current double standard is a prescription for disaster on an unimaginably bloody scale. Either letting everyone be “racist” — or stigmatizing racial identity for everyone, the way it’s currently done for whites — would lead to more harmony than the current double standard, which by its very nature is a blueprint for conflict.
If you’re saying only one group can ruin the world if it acts as a group, you’re paying that group a huge compliment. Why are you so afraid of a white population that doesn’t have its hands tied behind its back?
Maybe you’re secretly fearful that when whites act in tandem, they wind up ruling the world? Wouldn’t that make you a “white supremacist”?
Clearly, the only way to avoid being tagged and bagged as a white supremacist is to allow white people to see themselves as a group with common interests. In the interest of equity, let the whites be “racist,” too. Allow us merry whites to be just as joyously self-interested as everyone else is encouraged to be. Let’s all be happily racist together. America, I think you have it in you!
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The irony for me is I didn’t care about anyone’s skin tone until Obama was elected and I had to hear every single day what a racist I was because I didn’t like him. After years of this I became one. Is there any chance this was by design?
same experience. I have to admit though that the weaponization of anti-white bigotry caught on much quicker and deeper that I imagined. Another curiosity was that the whites that adopted this self hate weren’t limited to the sub-90 IQ group, the midwits are mostly all-in, at least the ones that never did manual labour or used hand tools to pay the bills, anyway.
Is it by design? Obviously some is. Foreign funded judges and governors are supplied ground rules as well as the cash. The result of that is the mentally ill that are running around attacking anyone that just wants to be left alone, without repercussions. That this produces the foot soldiers is incidental (to the mentally ill soldier), they’re too stupid to include in any plan.
In certain respects Obama was the plateau of race relations in America. Who would have thought in just slightly over a decade we’d have the state-sanctioned BLM violence. I voted for Obama in 2012. Obama was the culmination of that ideal of an America where we just look at the individual. “See, we voted a black man to the highest office in the land.” Then racial politics slowly started to seep in. He fanned the flames with the killing of Trayvon Martin. “Hey, I look at the individual, but why isn’t Obama?” What really let the cat out of the bag was the picture of Obama looking chummy with Farrakhan.
I’m a race realist in the sense that I believe that race is a biological fact. I don’t consider myself a racist in that if there’s a black person who is qualified to be nuclear physicist then I don’t think he should be disqualified because he’s black. A race realist will say that you’re more likely to find a nuclear physicist out of a random sample of 1000 Ashkenazi Jews than a random sample of 1000 Zulus. I guess that’s how I would define racist.
Goad is spot on. Jared Taylor has also talked about this. Whites have largely upheld their end of the bargain to just look at the individual and not have some sort of collective racial/ethnic identity while every other group both has a racial/ethnic identity and also lobbies for their group interests.
I knew a guy that cheated on his wife, and got caught. She knew we knew, and so was very likely humiliated as well as furious. Over the next few years every time we were all together she would abuse him in some way. Never by directly referencing the infidelity. But nonetheless she would do things that clearly made his newfound subservient position clear.
They got divorced a bit later.
Because it’s not polite discussion among friends, she may have left out antecedent issues like withholding sex as some sort of relationship passive aggressive tactic. With issues of love and societal frictions, the things ‘you’re not allowed to talk about or notice’ are often the crux of the issue.
And so along came Viagra. Because middle class men who hate their wives can’t bear the thought of losing more than half of what they’ve worked for, becoming an alimony slave, and only being able to see their children that have been subsequently turned against them only one weekend each month.
Not only is the goalpost endlessly moving, but also progressively vague and nebulous. Overt racism morphed to microaggressions, which begat ‘unconscious bias’ and unfocused further to ‘structural racism’. Each shift seemed to follow close scrutiny of the limitations of its predecessor.
The left claims it is wrong to have ‘White’ as a group, but ok to have English, French, Germans, Italians, Irish, etc. But we have Asians and Asian pride as an ok coalition instead of Vietnamese, Laotian, Cantonese, Japanese… The same for the Blacks, who are not Nigerians, Ghanaians, Congolese, or Sudanese when these matters arise. This duplicity is made possible by leftist whites, who see their own ticket to preservation as throwing under the bus those who don’t wear the appropriate progressive lapel pin. Witness the brief governorship of Ralph Northam, who despite his blackface photos was figurative blackmailed into promising a litany of left wing concessions if he could be forgiven. When white lefties want to move the bar again to ‘make way for progress’, they should have to be the first to step aside and not ask for your sacrifice.
I actually believe the goal post does have a definition, they just can’t say it out loud. The definition is Death to Whitey.
Each concession granted to them soon becomes the staging point for their next attack. As was stated by a black classmate of mine during civics class back in the 7th grade during a discussion regarding Great Society programs; “Yeah, well you can uplift niggas all you want and it ain’t gonna do a damn bit ‘o good, ‘cuz there ain’t nutthin’ niggas love more than bein’ niggas!” I’m disinclined to think otherwise.
White people must act in our own self interest, and that means restoring physical security to our nations, stopping demographic decline and creating a healthy environment for future generations. The big cities are in a state of absolute squalor, and the record breaking violence in the black ghettos is continuing hot in 2022 as masked criminals blow each other away. That’s one of the reasons why it must be made socially unacceptable to be masked in the future, and why the coronavirus hoax must be brought to a close.
I’m skeptical that unmasking is going rescue the inner city… have you already forgotten the previous scandals of ‘youths’ wearing ‘hoodies’. And plenty of us on the right have frail older relatives and legit virus worries. Masking outside doesn’t make a lot of sense, but inside or in a car with closed windows, I think it polite. Doesn’t mean all of society needs to close down… It’s a bad omen for the future of any dissident identity movement when COVID becomes a wedge issue with no middle ground.
It’s only become a wedge issue because I believe the virus measures are objectively designed to hurt our people. And no, I don’t think we can rescue the inner city but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try to stop the descent into even greater violence. It makes our cities unliveable for everyone.
I don’t see where you get that. The situation has been hard on both the left and right, though (as usual) the left portrays minorities with comorbidities (eg. obesity) as victims of white supremacy. I don’t want to propose conspiracies, but the Asian communities have fared relatively well. There is emerging data that counties with more vax deniers have higher death rates (e.g. your conservative grandpa). So that’s not helping our reliable right wing geriatric turnout at the voting polls – more AOC types coming your way even in the salt flats. Even Trump is out there telling people to get vaccinated. Medicine and research are not owned by the left. There are interesting skews many are not aware of. Pharma is lopsided to conservatives. Academia is leftist, but not as much as many think, especially in STEM area – many on the right keep a low profile to not wind up cannon fodder. Private practice doctors lean to the right. Younger doctors are leftist and go to the right as they age. Young women are left. Public health specialists are neurotic, vociferous far leftists – hence the combativeness of the covid era. They mean well but need extensive checks and balances to keep turning US healthcare into socialist medicine. Masks are a good idea indoors, but even Fauci says unheard of to catch it outdoors (unless at a packed protest). Of course there is always someone glaring at you for not wearing a mask while riding your bike.
I told my wife(who works from home) at the start of all of this bullshit that if any stranger comes to our door with a mask on, tell them immediately that they have two seconds to remove the mask or get off of our property before the cops are called. Too many people are emboldened to do bad things when hiding behind a mask that they are encouraged to wear.
The media reporting on the crimes never speaks about the race of the criminal or the victim, though sometimes a picture is snapped which can’t he hidden. If we knew for sure the races involved, I actually think it would help the race with the most criminals to finally admit that they have a problem, and the more intelligent among them would begin making changes. It would also help to know the racial identity of the people most hard-hit by Covid and other diseases, to figure out why their race is most affected, and begin finding ways to help with that. Same with age. Just shouting about ‘equality for everyone’ doesn’t help with these problems.
Indubitably so…
In a majority Christian-European society, democracy was never going to provide enough security for the Chosen.
In the era of Never Again they appear to have become intent upon backing us into a coroner.
Alas, I no longer believe that the Levy will brake.
I no longer believe that the Levy will brake.
Good one!
“Let the Whites Be Racist, Too.” Already there and getting more so by the day. Not quite Calvin Candie in Django but as close as the Bills got to topping the Chiefs. My definition of racism is the belief that groups of people have unalterable physical traits, biologic hardware, that distinguishes them as being different, inferior or superior to another. That race is a prime maker of human capacity and quality; it is the melody that moves the body blood. Now, that’s the racism I can support, and should be redefined and understood as such. Yeah, good luck with that. Its function however, endlessly evilized by zog-msm’s cretins, operates exclusively dually: as an anti-white cult chant, a word-weapon to expel, fire, cancel, imprison, demonize, and kill white people with impunity. And as a get-out-of-trouble-forever pass for blacks to hide behind like a child does mommy’s skirt. BLACK MAN X and maury show scum both know the R-word hurts like stab wounds so pussified whites self-censor into bone-breaking contortions to avoid the horrible taint and dark shadow of scary word that follows them everywhere no matter if they cure africa of aids, give billions to blm’s coffers, or Bob drags abishola by a truck. The same treatment and hatred await you. antisemitism and holy-moley-caust denier follow the same trajectory for the jewish, and “self-hating jew” is antisemite for jews with a conscience who defy the loathed stereotype and don’t wish ill on white Europeans. Blind, high, and drunk in an actual legitimate debate a Nick Jeelvy or Jim would annihilate our enemy opposition like mayweather on bagel boss guy. They know this and they know that we know it so slander from the censorians remains their only hope. Cut the mic off the corpse-in-chief or kamala’s hen cackle and pelosi’s fargles as answers for destroying a country. And of course, layers of bullshit padding for crenshaw the one-eyed when a kid embarrasses him or the bloodless psaki when Doocy gets too snarky. The brief satisfactions I get are knowing the cracks in the dam are finally showing and cannot be resealed by a desantis/tulsi 2024 to stave off inevitable destabilization and Whites awakening from their slumber.
Tiberiu Diane of Medium in his article Rhodesian Syndrome and its impact on American Society coined the term The Rhodesia Syndrome “to describe the degeneration of society, partially anomic, whose administration camouflages its perverse socialized communist-type policies through its ethnic narrative overtones about the so-called “racial injustice.”
It’s not surprising the Black Nationalist movement collapsed in favor of social redistribution and a quota-based system. I don’t think there is a solution, not because there isn’t one, but because the establishment doesn’t want one. Mass immigration provides the regime with fresh opportunities (and the new-underclass) to engineer solutions to social problems and ethnic conflicts. That way immigration and the non-white minorities strengthen the Left’s moral legitimacy, which enables them to dismantle the privilege of the older America. The U.S. is currently ruled under Anarcho-Tyranny. Even though they are incompetent, they are still dangerous. After their world domination lessens and continues to lose wars, they will turn their increasingly Rainbow colored military against Americans. The military will then crack, and then and there is where the opportunity will emerge.
White Americans have had their identies stripped from them by mass media and crappy mainstream culture. Everything has become watered down. White Americans should embrace their cultural identities and reconnect with their roots. I myself started learning Norwegian to connect with my Scandinavian ancestry. I’m interested in Viking history of course. But there’s more to Scandinavian people than that. Moreover I’d like to incorporate Norwegian and Danish traditions into my life, especially for Christmas and such. By reconnecting with my roots I feel proud to be who I am. I encouraged y’all to do the same.
Larping isn’t going to accomplish one damn thing.
This is a far better idea than acting like the modern version of white people, a.k.a. being excessive consumers without a history to celebrate.
Of course, we should not remain stuck in our past, but knowing more about where we come from is better than knowing less. If we were more attached to celebrating our ancestry, we wouldn’t be in this mess. In addition, normalizing this sort of thing helps whites escape the hell that is American pop culture.
I’m inclined to agree with you. I speak several languages fluently, which have all enriched my life in some way, but never bothered to learn that of my ancestry. It’s a crying shame. I’ll never be a Viking or a real Norwegian, but I should respect my roots.
Larping?!!! I’m fluent in several languages including Russian pal. I’ve even read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in the original language. You’re right that learning about our “roots” won’t stop anything but it will give us the self respect we need to stand up for ourselves. They’re constantly trying to shame us and many fell brow beaten.
So being interested in one’s ethnic traditions and history is larping? I’ve noticed that every comment you leave on this site is always arrogant and condescending. You contribute nothing that is intelligent or stimulating to a conversation. You are the embodiment of a pathetic troll.
Brostoevsky, I think connecting with your roots is great. That comment was aimed at the Ricci troll btw.
I say let the Left openly declare that the font of all evil is ‘Whiteness’ or ‘White Supremacy’ — or some other flimsy proxy for people of European descent.
It will only harm their cause, for few of us are masochistic enough to tolerate being nagged, scolded and disparaged while our cities fill with Orcs.
I think Asians make some of the best racists because (A) they can get away with it, (B) they are the best-performing group in America, (C) James Hong and George Takei speak for them, and (D) they never forgave or forgot being interred in camps in the USA during WWII. But isn’t what this is all about anyway, that none of it is supposed to be soluble? As long as we all fight each other, we don’t look up, etc. I think the black middle class in the media, and especially those who are mixed race, play a HUGE role in the fomenting of racial discontent and division, whether by accident or design or both.
They are doing well enough in a society where they are not supposed to be doing well enough, it’s not meant to be possible, so they make everything about race so they can have their middle class creature comforts and score racial ‘cred points’ too. Plus they can massage their black liberal guilt at the same time, but they sure as Hell wouldn’t want to live anywhere near the ‘oppressed’ black people they strut and (Jim) crow about 24/7. Patrice Khan-Cullor’s purchase of primo real estate far from the madding black crowd certainly proved that.
Mixed race people ALWAYS rant about whitey (anybody noticed that cutesy new racist contraction of ‘whitey’ online, ‘yt,’ for ‘white people,’ doing the social media rounds recently?), cos they are forced to identify as black because of their skin color. So they’re the most especially vociferous anti-white racists, because they feel they can never truly belong to either side, and it screws them up. They write the best anti-white racist plays and poems and news stories and columns. And this constant anti-white racist shit is certainly making racists out of even the most tolerant white people, cos getting spit on because of your race 24/7 365 (or 366 during a leap year) tests the limits of anybody’s patience.
It’s all just a total mess from top to bottom, and I don’t know if there’s any solving any of it. It’s all very, very tiresome, and tragic, and boring.
I’m not white and I agree with Jim 100% on this issue. Anti whitism is brain cancer. Whites deserve their own homelands to run as they see fit. I’m not white and I love this sites content
Moving the goalposts has been part of it for a very long time. It applies to other branches of cultural Marxism too, such as feminism.
BLACK BOYS’ LIVES HAVE VALUE TOO!
Tell black boys that. Did the person who made that sign ever watch the news?
Jim Goad’s position on retaking language is spot-on. I routinely describe myself as racist. It decouples the epithet from the implication that it is identical to hatred for everyone else.
One notable attempt to adequately define “racial justice” is James Lindsay reference encyclopedia. Its translations discuss and illustrate the relationships to other terminology. (For example, the connection between racial justice and intersectionality.) https://newdiscourses.com/translations-from-the-wokish/
Modern conservatives assume that political correctness is a matter of whether a statement is perceived as offensive. This misses a foundational difference in philology. For the woke, whether statements are correct is not a matter of correspondence with reality, but political utility. A central theme is the effort to disrupt existing identities and substitute a new taxonomy of affiliation.
Although Lindsay is a moderate liberal, his work highlights the perverse internal consistency in wokish. To these ideologues, racism is an explicitly antiwhite construction. “It’s okay to be white” is objectionable because it is identical to the proposition that “It’s okay to be racist.”
Whenever these types of ridiculous pro-black/anti-white (or any other non-African ethnicity or skin color) BLM type of conversations come up I always have a simple 3 word statement that instantly and absolutely decimates each and every one of these absurd ideologies… Buffalo Soldier Hypocrites. The end.
“If you’re saying only one group can ruin the world if it acts as a group, you’re paying that group a huge compliment.”
I could say the same about the Jews.
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