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Richard Hanania
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Richard Hanania is a rising star among Right-wing intellectuals. He has a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. He first came to national attention in 2015 with an op-ed in The Washington Post about why Donald Trump was right not to apologize for his controversial remarks. (This is ironic, given recent events.) Hanania has gone on to publish at The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The American Conservative, Reason, and Palladium Magazine. He was also a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight. His book The Origins of Woke will be published this fall by HarperCollins. Hanania also runs a non-profit called the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology from which he has drawn more than $100,000/year. But Hanania’s primary platforms are Substack and Twitter, where he has substantial audiences.
I first took notice of Hanania in 2020. I was never a fan. He struck me as a libertarian who occasionally hinted at race realism, but then retreated to color-blind meritocracy and dark classical liberal mutterings about the dangers of collectivism and social engineering. I simply have no time for such foolishness. The white race is dying, largely through social engineering, and color-blind meritocracy or praying to the “invisible hand” or “spontaneous order” will not save us. We need white collectivism, state power, and pro-white social engineering.
But an astonishingly high percentage of American White Nationalists are ex-libertarians, so I took out a free subscription to Hanania’s Substack to monitor him. Earlier this year, Hanania published an article entitled “Diversity Really is Our Strength,” subtitled “Immigration destroys social cohesion. Good.” He has also inveighed against online anonymity. (Again, ironic, given recent events.) Gradually, I began to hate him.
It turns out, though, that Richard Hanania and I go way back, and I didn’t even know it. From 2009 to 2011, I published Hanania under the pen name Richard Hoste, first at TOQ Online and then at Counter-Currents. Hoste was a joy to work with. He was intelligent, versatile, prolific, wrote well, had interesting insights, and was enthusiastic about exploring ideas. He was also a prompt correspondent and never threw diva fits over editing.
Hoste’s views on eugenics were too illiberal for my tastes. But he was 100% sound on the two litmus issues for writing for TOQ Online: He was a race realist, meaning that he believed in biological racial differences, and he was awake to the Jewish question. For instance, Hoste begins his essay “The Case for Group Selection: Its Deniers” with the words, “I’m not one to be suspicious of an intellectual just because he happens to be Jewish. But Emory University’s Melvin Konner seems to be a character straight out of [Kevin MacDonald’s] The Culture of Critique
At some point, I became aware that Hoste was a Palestinian Arab, but that did not alter the fact that he identified as a white man and wrote in defense of white interests. At a certain point, Hoste stopped writing because he wanted to focus on graduate school. I was sure he would do well. But I never heard from him again, not even a postcard.
Richard Hanania is not the only Counter-Currents alumnus to have an illustrious career as a more mainstream public intellectual. But he is the only one to have been doxed. Hanania began writing for Richard Spencer’s AlternativeRight.com webzine in 2010. Spencer chose to use a third-party platform called Disqus for comments. In 2017 Disqus was hacked, and the emails and passwords of its clients were revealed. Antifa used Hoste’s Disqus profile to reveal his identity.
AlternativeRight.com was not the only site in our sphere to use Disqus. It was also adopted by TRS and Radix Journal. (Readers asked me to adopt Disqus at Counter-Currents, but I declined because it seemed an obvious security risk. I personally used it at other sites because I self-doxed a long time ago.)
Of course, I would never take the word of an antifa “journalist” that Hoste and Hanania are the same man. But Richard Hanania has now confirmed that he was Richard Hoste in an article entitled, “Why I Used to Suck, and (Hopefully) No Longer Do.” Actually, Richard Hoste was quite based. But Richard Hanania sucked big time, and this article only makes matters worse.
My first question is: Was Hanania lying about his purported “academic research” which showed that refusing to back down from controversial statements is a good strategy in garnering public approval? If it is true, why did Hanania not follow his own research?
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Hanania characterizes the views he published at Counter-Currents and similar platforms as “repugnant” and renounces them. Beyond that, he says that he was not entirely in earnest. He was “trolling.”
Sorry, but I am not buying it. Trolls post one-liners on social media. They do not read thousands of pages of densely-written academic works and write carefully-crafted multi-thousand-word reviews.
Richard Hanania is asking us to believe that the things he wrote under a pen name at White Nationalist and human biodiversity sites, including endorsing ideas from Kevin MacDonald’s The Culture of Critique, were not entirely in earnest, but that the more moderate and socially acceptable things he wrote under his own name — when he was both subject to cancellation and rewarded with money and status — are actually honest and sincere. Only a fool would believe that.
The most charitable interpretation of Richard Hanania’s career trajectory is that he remained race-wise and Jew-wise, but edged up to the mainstream to inject good ideas and shift the Overton window.
He was wildly successful. Hanania is not just an intelligent and energetic writer. He’s also an entrepreneur. He had a good thing going. So, when his real views were revealed, he panicked, cucked, and doubled down on the classical liberal, color-blind meritocracy cover.
It is a depressingly old pattern: smart libertarian and conservative nerds start noticing collectives, especially Jews and blacks, but as soon as there is a hint of pushback, they say, “But I treat everyone as an individual.” Basically, they realize that this a world of clashing tribes, in which individualism is a sucker’s game. Then they get scared — because they have no tribe to protect them — and signal to the enemy tribes (almost always Jews), “I’m an individualist, so even though I notice collectives, I won’t act on that knowledge. So you don’t have to destroy me. You can just play me for a sucker.”
I wish that Richard Hanania had not behaved in such a dishonorable way. There’s more to this struggle than spreading ideas. There is also a moral component, and not just moral ideas but moral character. The Right has the truth on our side. But we’ve always had the truth on our side. We lose not for lack of truth, but for lack of courage. Conservatives and libertarians have many good ideas. But they have weak guts. By cucking under pressure, Hanania reinforces the bourgeois cowardice that allows crazed Leftist fanatics to keep winning, even though they are intellectually bankrupt.
Truth alone will not set us free. All the truth in the world will change nothing if men lack the courage to stand by it.
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52 comments
Greg, the single biggest thing that set Counter Currents apart for me, after I’d spent some time hanging around getting to know it, was you. I became convinced beyond a doubt–reading your articles and listening to you as either host or guest on your own and others’ podcasts–that you would never wimp out and dial back the message, as you’ve described the fellow in this article.
Consistency like that is a make-or-break for me, and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way about you and CC.
Thank you for being such a stalwart. Many things can happen in a day, but you vacillating isn’t one of them.
Thanks. I appreciate it. The whole thing really boils down to what kind of man are you: do you prefer death to dishonor or not? The man who prefers death to dishonor is free. The man who will dishonor himself to preserve life, status, money is a slave. Hanania chose dishonor. Libertarianism is just another modern morality of clever slaves.
Great Point Greg. Libertarians often put on airs of being free-spirits who follow the truly liberating call of Nietzsche, yet these self-avowed “free thinkers” (and atheists) adhere as dogmatically to the myths of racial egalitarianism and moral universalism as any “born again” evangelical christian conservative or neo-communist. Libertarians still follow Christian slave morality but are perhaps more adept masters of the art of self-deception. I need only identify the Jewess welfare queen: Ayn Rand. However, the development of Objectivism as a tool for manipulation of gentiles may have been a genuine expression of her will to power.
Excellent article, as always. But, it’s late; I have insomnia; and I’m confused by this:
In 2012 Disqus was hacked, and the emails and passwords of its clients were revealed. Antifa used Hoste’s Disqus profile to reveal his identity. (GJ)
If Disqus was hacked in 2012, why did it take until recently to doxx Hoste?
I recall reading some of Hoste’s work. I’m sure he published some articles in TOQ, though I can’t recall them. I also thought he occasionally published at TOO, but again, I might be wrong (has his past work at TOO been deleted? the “Against Rightwing Culturalism” essay link to its original TOO publication leads to “Page Not Found”). And I read several of his CC pieces when scrolling through the site on different occasions. Skimming some of them just now, I recall thinking they were excellent (despite Hoste’s arrogant attitude towards religion, like, alas, so many others’ here).
That was then. This guy Hanania “sucks” a great deal. This is what he just wrote two days ago (Aug 6 2023):
If the worry is that migrants might vote for socialism or commit crimes, then the answer is not to exclude people from society or otherwise discriminate against them based on group averages, but to attack socialism and crime directly. (Richard Hanania)
Can a PhD and UChicago JD really believe this? The ultimate reason to halt [95%+ nonwhite] immigration is because we wish to ensure the perpetuity of the white race, and the continuity of Western Civ. There is no empirical (scientific or historical evidentiary) reason to suppose we can accomplish either objective if our territories are subject to nonwhite colonization. But even in terms of the concerns he acknowledges, the more socialists admitted into your polity, the more likely that polity is to suffer socialism. Does Hanania really think it’s easier to prevent socialism by persuading socialists to renounce socialism than simply by preventing their admission into the polity on the first place? Does Hanania live in a modern, one-person, one-vote democracy? Who is this dumb?
{If Hanania is reading these comments – and he likely is – YOU ARE CONTEMPTIBLE IN YOUR CUCKOLDRY!}
And why should a more civilized people – defined as such of course “based on group averages”! – admit large numbers of a more criminal people into its territory, thereby condemning itself to suffer all the ensuing miseries, as well as their associated remedial expenses (“attacking crime directly”), when it could simply have prevented the more criminally inclined aliens’ initial admission? Hanania’s argument here (and in other places where he cucks) is pathetic.
This is a sad story: an intelligent and intellectual man with a firm grasp of truth deliberating making himself appear stupid so as to preserve his sinecure within the corrupt regime. That’s a poisoning of a soul.
The hack was actually in 2017.
It’s actually the HuffPo piece that repeatedly refers to a 2012 data breach, I think without naming Disqus. To me this was a head-scratcher, as I didn’t recall any fuss about data breaches back in 2012, while 2017 was the Year of the Dox and the data hack. (The link describing this in the HuffPo article actually goes to an October 2017 Disqus blog post telling about the problem.) I gather, then, that the HuffPo author really didn’t have a feel for trends and issues of recent years, and most likely had been spoon-fed a dossier on Hanania by a third party who wanted a hatchet job—the sort of third party that uses terms like “white supremacist.”
I found these C-C pieces by Greg and Alex enlightening because I had only the vaguest notion of what Hanania stood for: little more than a name. From tweets and essays he appeared to be reaching for a pseudo-conservative middle ground that was palatable to the Left, much in the manner of latter-day National Review writers. Intriguing to see that these pieces here have received such abundant response.
> If Disqus was hacked in 2012, why did it take until recently to doxx Hoste?
It was also necessary to gather information corroborating the ‘Hoste is Hanania’ theory, and it is not apparent to me why the leak would have immediately come to the attention of the doxxers.
From Huffington Post:
HuffPost connected Hanania to his “Richard Hoste” persona by analyzing leaked data from an online comment-hosting service that showed him using three of his email addresses to create usernames on white supremacist sites. A racist blog maintained by Hoste was also registered to an address in Hanania’s hometown. And HuffPost found biographical information shared by Hoste that aligned with Hanania’s own life.
James Kirkpatrick,
Hear, hear.
I remember Hoste – he used to review old classics on race. He often mentioned he was Palestinian, and he used to hang around with Richard Spencer. I figured Hanania was likely Hoste as there are not that many Palestinian race realists.
Hanania knows the score on race – particularly blacks. His twitter feed was half race realism on IQ and crime and half libertarian theory that seemed to take aim at the dissident right and race realists.
When he was doxed, his immediate defenders were Dissident Right types like Scott Greer and Darren Beattie. Now it appears he is throwing us under the bus. This comes just weeks after something similar happened to Pedro Gonzalez.
As an aside, it seems every Palestinian I meet in the US is about as white as Hanania. Has anyone else noticed this?
@Bernie
Yes. They are known as white Arabs. It was a phenomena many of us observed coming in and out of the Middle East the last 25 years. Wikipedia used to have a page dedicated to it, same with White Hispanic.
Sometimes referred to in not so glowing terms as “Crusader Baby’s.”
I knew two Palestinian brothers, both super smart. One was swarthier, could tell people he’s Arab or high-caste Mexican. The other could have easily passed for the NYC branch of his enemy’s tribe.
Christians, especially high caste ones, from Palestine presumably descend to a large extent from Greeks and the people of the Crusader states. Religious apartheid was very largely racial apartheid in the Ottoman Empire.
The Palestinians I’ve known have been very very dark.
Thanks for writing this. Egregious public traitors who cause substantial harm should be at a minimum noted and perhaps monitored. This type of article serves as a public file, both a point of future reference and a disincentive for others so weakly inclined.
The underlying problem is of course obvious: This defector cares more about money and status than truth and winning. The really dumb part is you can make a ton of money, vastly more than being some nomadic think tank whore, while also being openly pro-white, anti-globalist etc.
This guy made a retarded career choice, and I’m sure his conflicted identity didn’t help clarify the decision.
Please continue
There’s a youtuber named Rich Cooper, who has a video on the ways you can earn serious income, enough to boost your investable capital to a few million in reasonable time. They are 1) high-end professional 2) C-Suite 3) high-ticket sales 4) influencer and 5) entrepreneur.
Once you have a few million to invest, you don’t get to choose your primary career anymore, you will then be an investor*.
Among the aforementioned booster-rocket fields, some are clearly more amenable to open dissent than others; in general, a DC think tank whore (influencer) is going to have a tougher time than a highly skilled trauma surgeon. In particular, while it is likely the openly-dissenting surgeon will be run out of Shitsco CA, where they give junky bums lethal doses of fentanyl so they can party to death, in smaller cities it’s not nearly so obvious that even an openly race realist surgeon on the job would get canned by Karen. If she did that, she and the administrators would have more bodies behind them than the gang bangers they’re trying to save on Saturday night. The bull pen isn’t so deep in a lot of smaller towns. Likewise, you might move real estate in Boseman while chatting clients up about the JQ, but in JYC it would be a tougher sell.
So there is great variation of how much open dissent, white advocacy and race realism among the categories and within them could be adopted before something breaks. That is, except the last category.
As an entrepreneur, you can get away with just about damn near anything if you’re doing something that is creating real value. You can racially insult your suppliers, get in cuss-laced sociological arguments with your clients and engage in quasi-tyrannical proselytization on the job. Those things may be badly suboptimal. But when you call the shots, you generally get to do as you will, and others as they must.
There was an instance where an entrepreneur was talking to a prospective client, a female, who had become enamored of the royal family, in particular, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, reading a book about the former. The client was perplexed as to why Queen Elizabeth had largely cut that branch of the family out. The entrepreneur suggested that it was due to her degenerate tramp son sharking up with a dumb black slum rat. Despite obvious consternation, the client agreed to the deal a few minutes later.
In another episode, it was noticed that a certain landlord had no hispanic tenants. The reason, he said, was, “I don’t rent to spics.” This was in a public setting with many people within earshot.
I use these crude and unenviable examples to illustrate how much latitude a value-creating entrepreneur often has. Either of these statements would likely get even the small-town trauma surgeon fired, but not the entrepreneur on whom others have developed an exclusive dependence.
*If you have special skills in real estate or business, you could potentially borrow the money — or put together deals that give you a piece — out of the gate although you should have a 99.9th percentile understanding of the Kelly criterion and how it applies to your strategy, or consciously accept a high bankruptcy risk.
He definitely looks Semitic, even with a few European features. The examples I see over and over from these nonwhite white nationalists is that it really is just a phase for them. The doxxing only preempts their retirement from race realism. Pedro Gonzalez seemed to be over it before then. Yet they live on because they don’t get canceled. They get to retake their place as a ‘based’ token Republican, as if it were an American version of post-fascism. It is true that they seem to be the most hardcore, but that quickly burns out. Then we are left with yet more libertarianism.
Quite the moniker you’ve got there. I’m assuming there are layers of irony involved.
Wow, this guy has quite an academic pedigree! University of Chicago is one of the top law skoos.
It’s obvious that he still believes the things he wrote as Hoste and sort of did a Cypher going back into the matrix for the sake of personal advancement and, well, to get political traction. You have to interact with the mainstream. We need gateway drugs. We need people in mainstream politics and that requires some degree of deception and mind weaponization, or taquiya. All these -isms(ism ism ip!) such as libertarianism are the white equivalent of the evolutionary strategies described in Culture of Critique. Neoconservativism is a front for blatant Jewish nationalism, and it works well for them by camouflaging their interests with various platforms that are appealing to Christian whites. We should imitate their success.
I wonder if counter currents could be hacked like disqus, and what information would be discovered in that event?
So, the Palestinian is a super secret spy, doing it not for the cash and status but for the cause? Possible, but unlikely imo.
I agree with the goal of seeking political power, especially locally. But I’m not sure what is the net utility of becoming a well-paid cog in the anti-white widget factory while signal repeating lies with disarming verbal fluency. When it comes to trying to start a career serving places like think tanks, “The National Review”, “The Atlantic”, “Reason” etc etc, would you really be coopting them or they you?
That is an interesting take and commentary. Perhaps Hanania is indeed doing some sort of reverse crypsis now that the gig is up. “Hey! I was woke all along and just trolling!”
Crypsis could be used by white nationalists and white advocates to get into positions of power. It has been successfully used by Jews c.f. your neoconservatism example and by that black politician in I forget where it was who during the campaign was all about getting together and talking like a well educated black and then once in office grew a giant afro, put on the Malcolm X glasses and started in the negro civil rights leader dialectic.
All is fair in love and war. The public was more if less manipulated into voting for Joe Biden. A white advocate could easily LARP was a woke Democrat and then once in office talk about the vibrant diversity that white people bring.
Yes!! Beautiful. Honor and character matter and will win in the end. The only humans worth surviving our current situation are repulsed by it and will eventually come to understand the two main groups driving this bus into the gutter. Traitors and weak men and women like Hanania are not wanted. They will always save their own hides first and say whatever is necessary, even if they know it’s a lie. They make me sick. And not for nothing, but I had to really examine his picture to figure out if he was wearing ladies makeup.
“Color-blind meritocracy” is just a way to bring in the normies. Blacks cannot compete in a meritocracy. They don’t even get jobs in the NFL based on merit, as was proven by the story of Vince Papale. We can’t say it out loud, but if we can get people to accept color-blind meritocracy, we’re halfway home.
Color-blind meritocracy is a way to make multiracial society work for the people who are getting rich off the current system. I don’t want it to work. Fortunately, I have vast numbers of allies in this: most of them non-whites who don’t want to live in a society in which 40% of their males are incarcerated just because they commit crimes.
I see it as a step forward, not as an end. And as a way to publicly argue for a Pale dominated society without risking the “shunning” from the “goodwhites” I have to live amongst.
It is inevitable that as the pendulum of history slows on its leftward swing, the cowards, opportunists and grifters will choose to run to the center conservative, traditionalist brood hoping to profit from the unyielding efforts of the right, or white nationalist aka the Civilized Europeans. Its the path of least resistance for the ideologically weak. As nationalists in general gain momentum we thankfully will force more stagnant centrists away into conservative sterility. In the United States these conservatives have come to resent the momentum created and often refer to Nationalists in public as “Feds” to defame them. So these “feds” or F–ascistic E–uropean D–efenders can be proud the gulf between the Nationalists and conservatives widens.
We were usurped in Spain by Franco many decades ago. It won’t happen again.
Wow, this must have been something for you, Greg, to realize the guy you weren’t impressed with (Hanania) was the same guy you were impressed with and wrote for you (Hoste). It’s almost like a Scooby Doo episode.
It’s interesting to see the Jekyll and Mr. Hyde aspect to all this. I think Greg more or less debunked the whole, “I was just trolling bro!” angle with the, “Trolls post one-liners on social media. They do not read thousands of pages of densely-written academic works and write carefully-crafted multi-thousand-word reviews.”
It looks like the folks at HuffPo did the doxing: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817 . That article is dated August 4th just a few days ago and Hanania’s (Hoste’s) “Why I used to suck” letter is dated August 6th. It sort of reads as an apology but also a not-apology, especially with him saying, “The reason I’m the target of a cancellation effort is because left-wing journalists dislike anyone acknowledging statistical differences between races. My mistake in a previous life was assigning collective guilt based on certain undeniable facts.” It sounds like he is still indeed a race-realist, but wants to have his cake and eat it to and be accepted into the “polite society” of the woke elites who will hear nothing of various racial statistics. It seems like his “Diversity Really is Our Strength” article written in June was anticipating his doxing almost two months later.
I’m guessing around the time of his “Diversity Really is Our Strength” article he was getting phone calls from HuffPo journalists and figured it was time to pull out the boilerplate, “blah blah blah I just look at the individual. blah blah blah classical liberalism is the greatest thing ever” to cover his ass. I frankly don’t blame him. Being canceled is the modern equivalent of being called a witch back in the day.
Yes, I am sure he knew this was coming ages ago, and he has been positioning himself for deniability. But at this point, I don’t even care of the man who wrote “Immigration destroys social cohesion. Good.” is cancelled or not. At a certain point this became antifa on antifa violence. Let them take out their own trash.
Looking at the comments section for the ‘Diversity’ article (416 of them!) there seems to be a good dialogue between budding ethno-nationalists, civ-nats and various flavours of libertarian with free discussion of Jewish influence. His position in the article was intentionally inflammatory I would say. Perhaps he was making a contribution, whilst getting the system to work for him. As @Dark Plato mentioned above we need propaganda at all levels.
Greg. Terrific Article. Incisive Point: “Basically, they realize that this a world of clashing tribes, in which individualism is a sucker’s game. Then they get scared — because they have no tribe to protect them — and signal to the enemy tribes (almost always Jews) … ”
In many ways, white nationalists expect too much from white men who have something to lose, and generally, only those men possess the power to turn history rightward through their “courageous” actions. However, these men are rarely motivated by “the truth” or ideology as such. Foreseeable material reward must align with the ideological object or “truth” claim before they take “courageous” action. A man who is not a fanatic would perform a cost-benefit analysis upon being presented with this risky opportunity, and the sober-minded man would determine that engaging in white nationalist (or dissident right) activities poses a high likelihood of cancellation and a low likelihood of remuneration. In contrast, this person would determine that engaging in anti-white activities poses a low likelihood of cancellation and a high likelihood of remuneration. Today, even white men who live in communities of “conservative” white people will receive social opprobrium for standing up for fellow white people in any direct, and thus meaningful, fashion. Racially-conscious white people do not have a tribe. If they expose themselves as white advocates among white people, then white people will shun them out of fear and cowardice. Racially-aware white men have no real world tribe. One must have a tribe before one can dream of building a nation. Racially-aware whites have no tribe and thus have no nation.
The white nationalist movement will continue to fail to attract high quality persons in a quantity sufficient for a mass rebirth unless some unforeseen series of events (a Deus ex machina) fundamentally turns the table on the incentive system that prevails today. This is the apocalyptic narrative that Rockwell preached in the 1960s and the Atom Waffen Division preaches today. This apocalypse is a necessary condition for white nationalism as a mass movement to succeed. Thus, many in the movement have faith that the total system collapse and/or race war scenario will occur in the timing and manner that they as individuals envision it. Their emotional logic is as follows: I want X to happen. X will happen if and only if Y happens. Therefore, Y must happen.
Nevertheless, the apocalyptic folks are correct in one respect: the present incentive structure is our enemy. The system is our cyanide. The carrot and the stick are our ball and chain. In short, we are prisoners in a multiracial prison system where Jews are the merciless corrections officers and wardens. To survive, the white prisoners need to form a white prison gang as serious and effective as the Aryan Brotherhood before they can effectuate their collective escape.
I am not a white nationalist in the traditional sense because the nation-state appears to be an outdated social technology, and whites in North America do not constitute a tribe, much less a nation. Judaic Globalism by way of the WEF will crush whatever tepid resistance is offered by the adherents of Judeo-christian Zionism by way of the following organizations: the GOP, NatCon, Edmund Burke Foundation, CPAC, Christians United for Israel, AIPAC, and yes, Chabad Lubavitch. Conservatives, including semi-edgy paleocons, will lose because they are not serious. They are not serious because they are Christians. They are cannon fodder and scam victims for Jews. These brain-washed people will not make it past the genetic bottleneck of post-modernity. They will breed out or not breed at all. We must build ruthless and deceptive tribes like the Jews once did. We need to covertly adopt a modified Jewish evolutionary strategy to survive the 21st century and beyond. Whites in North America are a stateless people and must act accordingly. The development of real world communities is the first and only meaningful step.
This world is a cold one. Lies are rewarded, and truth as such is despised. Truth is rewarded only when it empowers. Except among philosophers, this will continue to be so. The white survivalist movement needs to come to terms with the fact that our project is one that must survive a coming bottleneck of the European gene pool across the globe. We must accept that our relatively powerless movement cannot on its own reverse plans that have been carefully considered and implemented over hundreds of years. We must think in terms of millennia, not four-year election cycles. Greg to his credit understands this, yet Greg sometimes opines about the relevancy of certain elections and North American electoral politics in general. I cannot blame him. Hope can be useful, but it must be tempered with reason.
Conservatives and libertarians are modern bourgeois calculators who put money and comfort ahead of honor and principle. That makes them slaves of any system that can create incentives for going along with white genocide as long as it is slow and comfortable and they will die before things get really nasty. The solution is to stop being bourgeois and start preferring honor and principle to life itself, if necessary. That is what the people who rule us fear the most.
It’s difficult grappling with you sometimes. Most of this comment is correct, if harsh. But that first sentence is too severe. I’ve known many sincere conservatives and libertarians, ones who are not secret race realists and white nationalists who’ve sold out for an easier life. Many whites, including ones who are not self-loathing auto-genocidalists, just don’t care about white perpetuity. I have cousins like that. They’re good people and citizens, whose voting is mostly indistinguishable from mine. One is a real idolater of homo economicus. While he agrees with securing the border, and admirably opposes family reunification migration excuses, he does support ‘skilled’ immigration; indeed, thinks it’s wonderful and wants a lot more of it. He will never be a WN because he thinks it’s silly to worry about white extinction, as long as it happens via peaceful and voluntary miscegenation, which is how he predicts it will in fact happen – and that prospect doesn’t bother him in the slightest! I try to get him to think in at least race realist terms, which he does. He understands that more Central American migrants will lead to more crime. But somewhat like Hanania, he’ll say, why fixate on race instead of class? As long as we’re admitting skilled professionals without criminal records, why does race matter?
Indeed, why does race matter … if we’re willing to be realistic about statistically significant modal racial differences, but then neutralize those differences in terms of their negative sociological effects by admitting only “higher class aliens”? My cousin has even homed in on this: “Wouldn’t you like to have the best people in your country regardless of race”? I have pragmatic answers for him, but ultimately, we must convince others that racial preservation is its own inherent, rather than any sort of instrumental, good.
My slightly disingenuous reply to your cousin would be: “Define best.”
He would say law-abiding, professional people with highly valuable technical skills (and presumably high-IQs): engineers, scientists, doctors, business executives. If I harp too much on race, he’ll say, “But isn’t Clarence Thomas the best SCOTUS Justice according to your own conservative Constitutional views? {well, yes, he is} “Don’t you like Michelle Malkin (and Pedro Gonzalez, he would add if he knew who he was)?” {yes} “Didn’t you like that black sheriff who vowed to shoot all the looters in his town?” {yes} “So it isn’t really race per se that’s the problem, but behavior and ideology?” {umm …}
My cousin is not stupid or unaccomplished. His types of questions have to be answered by white preservationists and nationalists. The answers lie in the usefulness, and perhaps necessity, of thinking in statistical terms when developing public policy, OTOH, and justifying white perpetuity as something good-in-itself, rather than the more usual tack of emphasizing the demerits of diversity.
Why doesn’t your cousin live in Culiacan, Nairobi or Sao Paulo where his dollars will stretch from slaving-UMC money into idle-jet-set money, from nice house on the corner to gated neoclassical finca?
He’ll say, “family, language” etc. But the class of people like him disproportionately move around the US like gypsies and master foreign languages like jews. The real reason is why they’re real liars.
See my response immediately above.
Great post and great points. But the “Protocols” are allegory, not historiography. There is no plan, only emergent behavior.
You posit that we — we being all whites, even the worst — sit at a poker table short stacked vs a deep stacked opponent. That, however, is not the case. Look at the Forbes 400 list. Our opponent is the one who’s short (we have more options and lower chance of bustout). This is mathematical reality and barely even a metaphor.
Players can always improve, no matter how bad they presently are.
The ‘Protocols’ are a detailed theory of what in 1900 was in retrospect an undoubted if opaque conspiracy. As Mr Ford opined in the early 1920s, whether or not they’re written by a Jew or a Christian ‘they fit the facts’. Given the hundred year timespan predicted to bring about total chaos by corruption of science and morals, at which point the people are to be offered a false saviour, we’d do well to consider the possibility that there is indeed a plan.
I’ll admit that what I’ve read of the “Protocols” is shockingly prescient. But strong cohesion born of insularity in an intelligent, religious and relentlessly aggressive group explains what we see before us with satisfactory completeness imo.
Your point’s taken wrt the described conceit of a secret jewish leadership conference. But the idea that all of jewry has been run like a lockstep Ranger platoon for the last 120 years invites skepticism. And once you stray much from that model, any appearance of sustained organized results is likely more emergent than engineered.
That’s not how it works. Only a relatively few people need ever read the plan or understand it. Everyone else is just doing what comes naturally, namely intense ethno-centrism and criticism of the majority, resentful hatred of self and society, or going along to get along, in a carefully curated information environment. As the Torah, studied by all candidates for Bar Mitzvah at age 13, promises:
I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
from KJV Gen 22:17
Of course all such plans of world domination are subject to being hijacked by similarly far-sighted and well-resourced groups but such groups need to have a viable long-range plan and an inspiring idea.
Nonwhite White Nationalists simply don’t have skin in the game. It’s easy for them to waver. Why stick their necks out for another tribe when you’re going to be publicly garroted by the system for doing so?
Hanania identified as white when he was blogging under a pen name, which was probably sincere. Now that the pressure is on, he is no longer white. But he’s probably being insincere.
Obviously an edge case like him is less trustworthy than someone who does not occupy a gray zone. I have met people who say they are not white but Irish or Italian because they sense the system is anti-white and want to claim outsider status. The same people would identify as white if they felt it was beneficial.
‘[A person] get scared — because they have no tribe to protect them….’
This is the who ‘defector’ problem in a nutshell. And it’s not clear that any amount of ‘metapolitics’ decoupled from practice is going to fix it.
But the Racial Right has been in the same boat for almost 100 years without the slightest improvement.
Everything cannot come down to ‘honor’ and ‘standing by your word’. It just can’t.
Without rewards for good behavior, only the most masochistic will persist in ‘good behavior’.
In the long run, only race matters.
In the short run, a race needs to be able to reward (and protect) those who take its side.
We don’t have a way to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. Thus we have to count on honorable behavior if we are ever to build something. The current system’s primary power is our people’s acquiescence out of calculations of self-interest. A few thousand men who hold such calculations in contempt are enough to overthrow the whole rotten structure. There’s no way out but by speaking the truth and having the courage to stand by it. Power and wealth come later. We have to begin with idealism now.
Greg, this is a phenomenal essay. Thank you so much.
The comments and also your replies – classic stuff.
Your last paragraph and sentence sums it up perfectly.
I was thinking the other day how absurd our plight is and in many ways, so unnecessary. There are only about seven million Jews in the U.S., how many of them are running the show…? I really don’t know. 100? 500? In other words, a minimum amount of people. And we’re all so afraid of them! And they rule with nothing but lies! Most of what is taught about WWII is a lie. Climate crisis is a lie. The covid thing is all a lie. The Ukraine debacle is a lie. What they teach about our history is a lie and on and on it goes.
Schopenhauer said: “The Jews are the scum of the earth, they are the masters of lies”. He wasn’t kiddin’.
Yes, we must continue to speak the truth with courage no matter how futile it may seem. We must find ways to inculcate the knowledge of the evils of Jewish Supremacy into the mass vernacular.
These types can plug themselves back into The Matrix, but once the truth has been seen, it can’t be unseen. They know what kind of people they have to ingratiate themselves with to get back into The System’s good graces. It’s a shame that so many of those who walk away will unnecessarily take the “scorched earth” approach rather than walk away quietly.
Now that he has been exposed, this turncoat will be made to grovel and humiliate himself in public before the Left will let him off the hook. What the Inquisition termed an auto-da-fé and the Maoists self-criticism, will most certainly be required of him. He will never be trusted again and doubtless will be carefully watched for signs of backsliding. A lickspittle career endorsing high critical hogwash and galloping degeneracy awaits. What a waste!
The general rule: Don’t reuse passwords or emails, and hide you IP address.
But of course this implies that we should use a password manager, a disposable email service and a VPN — which are single points of failure. If they fail, we get fried.
And then there are the sites where the management expects us to use a “real” email address etc. I comply with the rules, but just can’t fathom why a webzine wants to hold on to personal data that is even more sensitive than my financial identifiers. I can only hope that the database is regularly purged of emails and IPs.
As for the morality issue, it’s understood how WASP virtue signalling and individualism contributed to the creation of the great American nation. But right now these cultural traits are clearly impediments to moving the movement forward.
In my majority Catholic country virtue signalling is considered a sin, or at least ridiculous. It is recognized that human character is flawed, and it is the job of the leadership — who are also flawed individuals themselves — to organize a movement for the Good out of this flawed human material.
Secondly, it’s understood that individualism is something that we must overcome. “What is political power? Political power, my friends, is our ability to act as one.”
There is a difference between a content creator and a leader. A content creator sees here the opportunity to signal his own virtuousness and thunderously denounce the bad guy. A leader would think, Why do talented and energetic writers leave the camp and defect to the enemy? What’s missing here? What can I improve?
There is a small problem here — the character of Richard Hanania.
And a big problem — that the Atlantic wing of the so-called movement has no leadership.
I am quite comfortable with the role of a content creator. What does “leadership” even mean in a “movement” that consists largely of online spaces where anons come and go? I am in the “business” of spreading ideas, and I think it works best by having easy entry, easy exit policies. I detest the “market” as a whole and the “marketplace of ideas” as a subset, because the market has no power to demand that people grow beyond their given preferences. Sadly, given the medium, we are much better at promoting ideas than moral virtues like courage. Fortunately, though, there is a small “market” for becoming better human beings, and since I don’t believe in ceding the territory of morals to the redemption-by-magic crowd, I am perfectly comfortable with denouncing obviously vicious behavior.
I would say you are a bit more than simply a content creator. True, a highly prolific publisher. That’s been a main goal for you, and you’ve done well.
However, I was regular at the much missed Northwest Forums. Those were a great deal more than just content. I made friends there that remain friends. I learned things and talked about thing with so many people, such a thing cannot be replaced! I met Charles Krafft, for one- and was greatly enriched by getting to know him in what would be his last days. You facilitated my meeting David Irving and Mark Weber. I met and got to know McNallen there. I won’t forget the time we had Mr. Taylor, although I had met you both a few times in the glory days of conferences! I missed Amren the past two years, but I shall return. I miss Spencer and Cyan- I miss the whole thing!
I really would love to see the NW Forum revive and continue somehow. There is something IRL that just doesn’t happen online. Something really special that make me feel sad for those that have never had such an experience.
Counter-Currents has been more than just publishing and content creation. Don’t undersell yourself.
Thanks for this. Email me at [email protected]. There’s a Mystic Sons of Charles Krafft gathering in the works.
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