Counter-Currents
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 584
The Counter-Currents Book Club
Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin
Counter-Currents Radio
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Pssst — white people! There is no shame in being white. There is only shame in ever thinking there was. In the 50 short, sharp, incisive essays contained in his book Whiteness: The Original Sin, author Jim Goad examines why the idea of being white has become the modern version of the unpardonable sin. On the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, which was the fifth meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, host Greg Johnson was joined by author Jim Goad as well as John Derbyshire and Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) to discuss the book and anti-whiteness more generally. It is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:02:54 How did the book come about?
00:06:33 Why are so many white people anti-white?
00:08:40 “They practiced on poor whites and then expanded it to all of us”
00:09:26 Experience is more powerful than theory in producing White Nationalists
00:10:00 Class consciousness in the United States vs. England
00:16:03 Two-thirds of whites who came to America were slaves
00:22:25 On Passover Syndrome
00:26:44 How the culture encourages weakness
00:33:43 On instinctive kinship and partisanship
00:40:30 On Jim’s conception of morality
00:43:07 On purity-spiraling
00:44:04 No one ever yells, “Hey, Catholic boy!”
00:45:19 Is the word “anti-white” a mainstream term now?
00:52:07 On “being told who we hate”
01:01:41 On the butterfly effect of ideas
01:05:18 On the cynical pursuit of power
01:10:51 John Derbyshire signs out
01:11:48 Angelo expresses pessimism about how long it is taking to change things
01:19:47 America used to be an invincible empire
01:22:23 Is this the Kali Yuga?
01:22:56 “The worst possible thing anyone can be is a racist”
01:25:15 When Jim was almost mugged
01:28:55 Race in prison
01:32:19 Other fight stories
01:34:36 Passages from the book
01:36:47 On presentation and white identity
01:41:57 On the stigma of self-defense
01:43:38 What’s stopping White Nationalists from running for political office?
01:47:19 Books on the Alt Right
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5 comments
I very much enjoyed this discussion. While most books go onto the bottom of my growing to-read list after I buy them, Jim’s books of essays always go on the top.
Great discussion about a great book. I gave it and The Redneck Manifesto to my Dad for Christmas a few years back and he loved them.
Man oh man I can’t wait for the Negronomicon.
P.S. Greg, do you not recall the scene in The Big Lebowski when The Dude is giving Walter shit over his Jewish faith?
”I think you’re living in the past.”
”3000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you’re GODDAMN RIGHT I’M LIVING IN THE PAST!!!”
“Unless Western civilization is superior to other civilizations and societies, it is not worth defending; unless Westerners are willing to use their power, the West cannot be defended.” –James Burnham, Suicide of the West, chapter 15, section 2.
Whether or not Western (White) civilization is objectively superior to other civilizations…who cares? The critical thing is the subjective belief among Westerners (especially their elites) that their civilization is worth fighting for. Otherwise, why not open the borders, decolonialize from Rhodesia to the Ivy League, accede to a multi-cultic one-world society?
Going back to the 19th and 20th centuries, there was a common belief among Americans that America was the best country in the world. Whether or not America was objectively the best country in the world, again…who cares? But this belief, given form in such ideologies as Manifest Destiny and the intense patriotism of the 20th century, provided that willingness to use power which conquered a continent, won global level wars and created a really marvelous standard of living.
Note that since the belief in American superiority has been largely eroded over the past several decades, the US has had a fairly dismal record when it comes to winning wars. Meanwhile, Homeland cities self-destruct in a morass of crime, infrastructure collapse and mass immigration.
Alas, too many Western advocates have been morally disarmed by accepting civilizational equivalence (the ideology of multi-culturalism). But the anti-Whites (colloquially known as the “Woke”) do believe that their proposed society (of “diversity,” “multi-racial democracy,” etc.) is superior and act accordingly. Thus, the ongoing tactics of open borders, CRT-DEI-ESG, iconoclasm, and “de-colonialization of the institutions” which: (a) tear down the foundations for Western self-defense, and (b) replace them with Woke supremacy.
But is the West objectively superior?
One can point out the difference between, say, the standard of living in South Africa under white rule as opposed to the black societies which preceded and now succeed it.
A symptom: the growing third worldization of Western countries is leading to a breakdown in complex systems. Third worlder students cannot deal with algebra or calculus? So “math is racist!” Third worlder youth cannot obey lawful orders of peace officers? “Defund the police!” Utilities, schools and emergency services do not function in a city run by third worlder politicos? “Systemic racism!”
What it comes down to is that the third worlders for whatever reasons (genetic, cultural) cannot (in the main) function in an advanced civilization. So they have to lower everything to the third world mean. Like it or not, Chicago’s South Side, Rotherham and the Paris banlieues are their desired futures.
In a backhanded sort of way, they are conceding that the West is objectively superior. The dilemma is in getting Westerners to understand this reality…and act accordingly.
A fantastic conversation! Especially interesting to me, is the contrasting philosophical outlooks of Jim Goad and Greg Johnson.
My copy of “Redneck Manifesto” is one of the prized books in my library, and I very much look forward to reading “Whiteness: the Original Sin”.
I еvery time spent my haⅼf an hour to read this blog’s articles daily
along with a cup of coffee.
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