Confessions of a Reluctant Hater
Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2016
268 pages
2nd Ed., Revised and Expanded
About Confessions of a Reluctant Hater
Greg Johnson’s Confessions of a Reluctant Hater collects 52 short essays, reviews, and opinion pieces that chronicle the author’s discovery of a white worldview and a white voice to defend it. The second edition contains 24 new essays plus an index and is 40% longer than the first.
Greg Johnson discusses multiculturalism, immigration, economic policy, political correctness, the limits of the Republicans and the Tea Party, the 2008, 2010, and 2012 US elections, and books by Christian Lander, Jim Goad, Vox Day, and Malcolm Gladwell.
Greg Johnson shows that White Nationalism is not a rigid, Right-wing orthodoxy by including searching and controversial essays on drug legalization, race-mixing, homosexuality, “West Coast White Nationalism,” and counter-culture guru Alan Watts. He also argues that White Nationalism will not triumph until white racial consciousness leaves its Right-wing ghetto and becomes the common sense of the whole political spectrum.
Greg Johnson is a master of defending radical and uncompromising views with both seductive logic and brutal frankness.
Praise for Confessions of a Reluctant Hater
“Greg Johnson’s work is something rarely seen but badly needed on the so-called New Right. His learning is both wide and deep, but lightly worn. He is not afraid to challenge the orthodoxies of Left and Right. He brings a sensitivity both West Coast and Traditional to the cultural politics of today. The works collected here will, like his website, serve as a foundation for any serious attempt to regain control over our destiny.”
—James J. O’Meara, author of Green Nazis in Space!
“Greg Johnson is a rare writer, in that he can combine lucid insights with humor and off-the-wall ideas, offering an analysis of contemporary Western man, culture, and society that transcends disciplinary barriers and highlights the subterranean processes that govern the grand panorama of history. This may sound grandiose and esoteric, but the reader need not fear having to push his way through a caliginous jungle of abstruse terminology and turgid, sludge-like argumentation: Johnson’s simple and easy prose makes reading about these weighty matters an effortless task, clearing the decks for the reader to rethink the world.”
—Alex Kurtagić, author of Mister
Contents
Preface — iii
Finding a White Voice
1. Confessions of a Reluctant Hater — 1
2. A Nation of Immigrants? — 8
3. The First Word: Craig Bodeker’s A Conversation About Race — 14
4. The Conversation Continues: Craig Bodeker’s More of . . . A Conversation About Race — 21
5. Smells Like . . . White Guilt: Christian Lander’s Whiter Shades of Pale — 25
6. Tea Party: The Documentary Film — 34
7. Separatism vs. Supremacism — 40
8. To Cleanse America: A Modest Proposal — 45
9. The Autochthony Argument — 49
10. Three Questions on Identitarianism — 56
11. Christianity & European Identity — 60
12. White Civilization in the Dumpster — 64
13. The Politics of Nostalgia — 66
Polarizing Moments
14. The “W” Word — 69
15. The 2008 Presidential Election — 73
16. A Tariff in Time . . . Saves Billions — 77
17. The Gates Controversy — 81
18. The Persecution of Kevin MacDonald — 86
19. The Persecution of American Renaissance — 89
20. 9/11: Ten Years Later — 93
21. The “Ground Zero” Mosque Controversy — 98
22. Jews to Mormons: We’ll Tell You What to Think — 101
23. The 2010 US Midterm Elections — 104
24. Implicit Whiteness & the Republicans — 108
25. The 2012 US Presidential Election — 113
26. Being Nice Will Not Save Us — 119
27. The Nigger Word — 121
The Wages of Diversity
28. Anders Behring Breivik: The Neo-Conservative Rambo — 124
29. The Coward Canard — 129
30. Breivik: A Stange New Respect — 133
31. On the Necessity of a New Right — 139
32. Understanding the Charleston Church Massacre — 142
White Lifestyle Politics
33. West-Coast White Nationalism — 146
34. Is Racial Purism Decadent? — 149
35. Race-Mixing: Not Just for Losers Anymore? — 160
36. Male Genital Mutilation & Jewish Power — 166
37. Lawyers & Sex Crimes — 173
38. Homosexuality & White Nationalism — 180
39. The Coming Pedophile Rape Epidemic — 185
40. Drug Legalization in the White Republic — 189
41. Against Pot — 193
42. Forced to be Free: The Case for Paternalism — 196
43. Redneck Rousseau: Jim Goad’s Shit Magnet — 198
44. It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas — 203
45. Plastic Christmas — 208
46. Merry Christmas, Infidels! — 212
47. Alan Watts at 100 — 217
48. The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts — 222
Turning the World Around
49. Defeating the Left: Vox Day’s SJWs Always Lie — 229
50. Making Ideas Virulent: Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point — 239
51. Connectors vs. Polarizers — 243
52. Mavens & Salesmen — 247
Index — 251
About the Author — 262
About the Author
Greg Johnson, Ph.D. is Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd., as well as Editor of North American New Right, its webzine (https://counter-currents.com/) and occasional print journal. He is the author of New Right vs. Old Right (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2013) and Truth, Justice, & a Nice White Country (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2015).
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