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The poll of white registered voters on race relations that I conducted for The Homeland Institute revealed that despite many gains in recent years, our people are still woefully uneducated about the truth regarding Martin Luther King, Jr., and by extension the broader Civil Rights paradigm.
We are well acquainted with conservative influencers singing odes to MLK despite the fact that he was a degenerate and a Communist agitator, but I was blindsided when it turned out that an overwhelming majority of respondents, even among Republicans and Republican youth, have a positive view of MLK. Admittedly, cultural change takes time, and the poll was conducted only a few weeks after Charlie Kirk had dismantled the MLK narrative. But I had assumed that the numbers would be higher regardless of Charlie Kirk’s expose, especially since today’s youth are frequently touted as being “based and red-pilled.”
This naturally highlights the need for further education. Our people might be “based,” which I would characterize as possessing good instincts, but they are nowhere as “red-pilled” as we would like them to be, which I would characterize as being well-informed on specific facts and doctrines.
Thus, Charlie Kirk’s dismantling of MLK was a major development in the culture war. Surprisingly, though, certain dissident pundits dismissed it out of hand as passé, simply because for them it was old news.
If we are going to win, we must educate our people. In fact, there are numerous parallels between our movement and a university. This can be for good or ill depending on our choices.
Modern academia is a joke and should not be emulated. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most prominent ones is that instead of focusing on teaching students, the emphasis is on “publish or perish.” This naturally leads to an emphasis on the quantity of one’s “content,” which is the natural antithesis of quality. For all their arrogant snobbery, universities produce very little of real value, especially in the social sciences. Keeping one’s ideas locked within obscure journals on JSOTR doesn’t improve their underlying quality, it only serves to diminish their impact.
The problem here, especially in the humanities, is that sometimes there isn’t anything new to say. There’s nothing wrong with this. Metaphysically, it’s not so much a matter of people thinking, but of “thoughts peopleing.” Sometimes I have a deluge of ideas and sometimes a drought. There are certainly ways to encourage one’s creativity, but ultimately it is akin to a natural force, such as the weather, which just happens when it happens. I would not write a ludicrous word salad about the Evolian metaphysics of pit bulls and then inflict it upon readers simply to produce content during a drought.
In modern academia, however, the typical solution to this problem is to search for even more convoluted theories. This would be a disaster even without the anti-white woke agenda, but in today’s context academia has devolved into absolute absurdity. Professors are always looking to find a new intersectional “hot take” on race, gender, or sexuality.
There is hardly any difference between a tenured humanities professor and a dissident shock jock. One might be establishment and the other anti-establishment, and one might write papers while the other broadcasts livestreams, but beyond that, they are extremely similar. Both are focused on producing a quantity of content instead of quality content, and both are forever proposing novel ideas not because they have value or are true, but only for the sake of novelty.
Modern academia is not something we want to model our movement upon because it’s not sustainable. It has only survived because the legacy media reinforces their deranged ideas, they have a monopoly on conferring college degrees, and because they receive lavish funding from the government and philanthropists. Without these factors, today’s woke academia would have zero influence on society, culture, or politics.
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We want to influence the wider world as academia does, but we want to do it for the better, and with fewer resources. When we publish, it’s so that our people won’t perish.
Imagine if universities were more focused on educating instead of publishing for the sake of churning out content. I was lucky to have professors who genuinely cared about their students and who had boundless energy, but imagine how much more they could do if their primary mission was to educate students instead of publish. Society would be better off, and it would be easier and cheaper for all parties involved.
If we imagine the movement as a university, the general public are the freshmen in need of White Nationalism 101. It needs to be kept simple and defensible, and presented in relation to current events whenever possible. Just like a university, we have to constantly reteach the previous lessons whenever new students come in. For us some ideas are old, or perhaps even stale — but for newcomers, it is an exciting new adventure.
As people attain greater exposure to our ideas, they gradually morph into the equivalent of college graduates. They can be trusted to be good followers and leaders. We no longer have to worry about them falling into rookie intellectual pitfalls such as civic nationalism or mistaking Jews as white. Some — in fact many — go on to pursue the equivalent of graduate studies because of how relevant and interesting our ideas are. This advanced stage of White Nationalism is the realm of Evolian metaphysics and the like. It is at this point that one begins to not only learn, but to help to teach others.
I was in a class once where a graduate student was assigned to grade the midterm papers. He threw Cs, Ds, and even Fs around because he was grading us at the graduate instead of the undergraduate level. When some of us went to confront him during his office hours, he declared in his fruity voice that we needed more analysis. While he would have been entirely correct if we were fellow graduate students, he came across as infuriatingly condescending because we were not. Thankfully, our kindly professor intervened and saved our grades and bruised egos.
What’s ironic is that this grad student, while pompous and lacking judgment, was probably trying to help us. We could have become even better students if he had productively shown how we could do more and deeper analysis in a way that did not potentially involve making our grades suffer. But once our grades and pride became involved, we became deaf to any lessons we might have learned.
Don’t be that grad student. Being condescending to the people we are trying to teach will turn them off more than any ad hominem slur cast by the Left. The general public should be encouraged to learn about MLK. We should praise them when they apply the concept of per capita to particular crimes. We should firmly, but respectfully, correct them when they go astray regarding one of the many false paths laid down for them by the enemy. Disparaging them for learning about MLK in 2024 instead of in 2016 because we have long since moved on to Oswald Spengler is not a winning strategy.
There is still ample room for vanguardism and novelty. It provides us with prestige while also keeping us sane. But it should not detract from our primary mission: public education.
If educating the “undergraduate” general public were not a threat to the regime, they would not be conducting an extensive campaign of censorship, deplatforming, and lawfare against us. For example, the diversity-hire judge Letitia James who is targeting Donald Trump is also waging a personal lawfare campaign against VDARE. This is clearly because VDARE consistently tackles immigration in a way that is simple, direct, incisive, and defensible.
The upside to the general public’s lack of education regarding our ideas is that there is a lot of room for improvement. Once I stepped back from the initial poll results, I realized that it would almost be more discouraging if the general public were highly informed about MLK, because that would mean that this knowledge was having almost no effect on politics.
Imagine living in a country where the majority of white conservatives are well-informed about immigration, white identity, and MLK. That would be a game-changer. We are happy to educate our people, but just like a university, we need money to do it. We may not be paying diverse plagiarists a $900,000 salary per year, as Harvard pays to Claudine Gay, but we do have an operating budget. In fact, Counter-Currents’ entire operating budget is one-third of Gay’s salary.
If you’re excited by the prospect of the white electorate becoming as radicalized on Right-wing ideas as the typical college graduate is radicalized on Left-wing ideas, then I would kindly ask that you consider a donation to either Counter-Currents or The Homeland Institute — or both.
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Absolutely true. I love this. Sometimes people who are already in-the-know about certain race-related and other subjects roll their eyes at efforts to hammer the basics. “That’s so 2015,” they might say, or they’ll refer to it as “old hat.” It’s not new to them personally, so they fail to see the value in it. Or such people will mock the Republican “normies” for believing that race is merely skin color or that diversity is our greatest strength. They’ll call these “normies” hopeless, but many of these “normies” simply haven’t been educated properly. Many are simply one or two AmRen (or similar content) videos away from seeing the light. There are SO many people to reach, and I think effort spent reaching those people is well worth it.
There are certain discussions and ideas that I think can never be disseminated enough: what is the connection between race and culture? why are demographics important? is race merely skin color? why does race matter? what are the racial group differences in intelligence? why shouldn’t white people be able to advocate for their group interests? what should we think about the anti-white double standards? how can we go about eliminating the anti-white double standards?
If just 5% more white people had a better handle on these issues, we’d be in vastly improved situation.
And then there are historical and other lessons correcting various myths, such as the MLK myth mentioned above. Other examples: are whites the villains of history and the only group that has ever engaged in slavery and conquest? Does America really owe its wealth and prosperity to black slaves? Was America really intended to be a country up for grabs? Jared Taylor has done great work in his videos, and I hope more people feel inspired to do similar things.
And then there are things like the common objections to White Nationalism, which Greg Johnson has addressed very well in his writings. The objection I see most often is the one mistaking “white nationalism” for “generic white nationalism.” People will say, “I understand French nationalism, but ‘white nationalism’ would erase French identity, so I don’t want it.”
I would love to one day see a whole library of easily shareable short videos (similar to Prager U, but better) addressing all these subjects and more in an accessible manner targeting intelligent “normies.” In a way we have the upper hand, despite all the censorship, because we have the truth.
There is a good collection of information here:
https://thuletide.wordpress.com/debunking-race-denialism/
I’d also like to see an introductory reading list of articles from here which can bring newcomers up to speed.
Thank you for sharing this. This is great!
Wonderful article, David. I have a feeling it will be referred back to for many years.
To all the newcomers figuring it out, I’m glad you’re here, and hope you feel welcome. You most certainly are.
I’m of two minds on the Martin King issue. Of course he was a fraud and a communist and an anti-White agitator, but the republican (not conservative) move to coopt him is amusing in how it enrages and befuddles the racial left. By turning one of their icons into Tim Scott, the repubs can continue to say they aren’t “racist”, which is very important to them.
The only reason certain conservatives like MLK is because of the universalist sentiments in the “I have a dream” speech. (This was probably written by Comrade Stanley David Levison.) MLK himself didn’t personally buy into universalism; he was talking out of both sides of his mouth. Universalism isn’t even desirable, though.
Maybe you’ve seen otherwise, but I never noticed liberals getting triggered about CivNats invoking MLK. They really don’t care, at least as far as I can tell. On that note, telling them that “Democrats are the real racists” packs as much of a wallop as saying “You’re wearing socks.” It’s something they throw at us, because it puts us on the defensive, but it has no effect when we try to show them they’re being inconsistent.
As a Zoomer, I think that the characterization of young right-wingers as “based” but not “red-pilled” is spot-on. Most of my friends are White guys in their early 20s who support Trump. When they bring up politics or history, I try to drop at least one “redpill” into the conversation. More times than not, they are intrigued by what I say, and ask questions in order to learn more.
For example, a few weeks ago one of my friends, who is into European history, referred to the Bolshevik Revolution as the “Russian Revolution”, so I mentioned that very few of the Bolsheviks were actually Russian. He, of course, asked “Well if they weren’t Russian, what were they?” I then told him that most of the leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, which he hadn’t heard before. He was surprised, but interested, and asked me several more questions about Jews and communism, which I gladly answered.
I believe that there are tens of thousands, if not millions, of young White men who would embrace White Nationalism if they were only made aware of the relevant facts about race realism and the Jewish Question. It’s our job to spread the word.
When the libtards say “please educate yourself” they kinda have a point.
I was blindsided when it turned out that an overwhelming majority of respondents, even among Republicans and Republican youth, have a positive view of MLK.
In psychological warfare you need to seize the initiative to win. Throw the other side onto the defensive. Force them to disperse their time and resources by responding to your accusations. Rally friendly audiences behind your propaganda line.
Start with an easy target. Target George Floyd as a career criminal who expired as a result of his resisting arrest and using controlled illegal substances. Demand that the various memorials to Floyd be taken down as symbols of criminality and rioting.
Then go on to Nelson Mandela. Mandela was the head of Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”), an insurgent group which routinely conducted terrorist attacks (mainly against other Africans). Demand that statues to Mandela be taken down as they glorify terrorism.
Finally, take on King. Point up MLK’s advocacy of Big Government, a surefire issue for conservatives. Start the ball rolling on how King’s Civil Rights Movement led to the dispossession of White people which is playing out right now in the DEI regime, Great Replacement, social media de-platformings, trashing of American cities, et alia.
Boycott MLK Day. Add the “clenched fist” of the Black Power Movement to the list of “hate symbols.” Rename the MLK Boulevards, formally or informally, after real American heroes.
Might also bring up how MLK gave “aid and comfort” to the Communists during the Vietnam War by his openly opposing President Johnson’s policies in Indochina. Further point: LBJ gave the Civil Rights Movement just about everything that King demanded, yet in return King betrayed the president personally over Vietnam. And oh yes, just about every Long Hot Summer Riot from Watts 1965 to Summer 2020 has been justified by militants as an “uprising,” i.e., insurrections. Cite Article III, Section 3, US Constitution to close the deal.
It can be done…
Settlers of Catan is a great game, but I prefer the more obviously colonial game Puerto Rico.
Sorry, this was meant for the other article.
WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE!!!… Nothing else possibly matters today! Let’s UNITE the entire WHITE RACE in an idealistic Community of Values, Racial preservation, and prepare for our future expansion TO The PLANETS and to THE STARS!!…
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