Tag: race realism

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Vary Your Approach Depending on Your Audience

A few days before last November’s presidential election, a liberal friend of mine tried unsuccessfully to convince me to vote for Kamala Harris. (more…)

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So, 500.

It’s hard for me to believe that this is my 500th essay for Counter-Currents. I began writing for Counter-Currents in March 2016 (almost nine years ago) as a complete unknown, and since then I have managed to scrape together a decent-sized body of work of over one million words. Yes, I keep track of all of it—every topic I write about, every link I include, every person I mention. (more…)

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Homo Erectus reconstruction. Neanderthal Museum

It’s always encouraging when scientific discoveries confirm what people have always known. This is especially the case today when observation and common sense is suppressed and science confirms it anyway—which can be a revolutionary act. In the past 15 years, geneticists have been struggling with the idea of early human “introgression” with archaic hominid populations. (more…)

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While fielding questions during a rally in Detroit last week, Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance was forced to speak about race. The questioner, who was black, asked, “Detroit is 77% African American and the state is 14% African American. Why should African American Michiganders vote for the Trump-Vance ticket?” (more…)

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When given enough time to reflect, one can easily enough unravel most forms of sophistry. The very point of sophistry is to use false argumentation to deceive or manipulate the listener in real time, when they don’t have time to reflect and when they don’t have data at their fingertips. (more…)

Louis Charles Moeller (1855-1930), A Heated Debate

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The wellspring of most, if not all, forms of race denialism is ignorance. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the race denialist himself is ignorant. Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould certainly weren’t. It does mean, however, that you cannot promote race denialism without professing a certain level of ignorance about the mysterious black box we call the human brain. (more…)

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

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The Jewish Question is going mainstream — at least on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X. Major Con Inc. figures such as Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson have felt the need to begin addressing issues of Jewish influence, and conspiracy-theory grifters such as Stew Peters have started incorporating JQ talking points into their brands. Certainly any Right-wing content creator whose online persona is based on being edgy now has to at minimum be talking about Zionism. (more…)

Carl Jung (second from right) in North Africa, 1920.

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The psychologist Carl Jung was a race realist even by the standards of his day, when a certain amount of race realism was seen as simple common sense. He was also a great man and, like all great men, he was ahead of his time in many ways. While he didn’t foresee the precise predicament white people now face, he nevertheless mentioned almost as an aside in one of his more popular essays the answer to the perplexing question of why some people fiercely resist the possibility of racial differences in intelligence, personality, or any other feature of consciousness. (more…)

Abraham Lincoln debating Stephen Douglas during the campaign for the 1860 presidential election, when Lincoln expressed views on blacks that would end any politician’s career today. (Litho by American School, 1858)

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Jacques Derrida remarks that Hegel compared words used over time with coins whose inscriptions wear away with use, ultimately leaving two blank and valueless faces signifying nothing. Words change their meaning, certainly, but they also lose meaning through overuse. Our most obvious contemporary example is the word “racism.”

Racism is a perfectly natural response to the “Other” the hard ideological Left like to parade around like a show pony. It is hardwired into us and is a protective reaction, it being an evolutionary advantage to be with those like yourself, and is why from canteens in high school to canteens in penitentiaries, blacks will always sit with other blacks and whites with other whites. (more…)

Nathan Cofnas (from his Twitter/X feed)

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Nathan Cofnas first came to my attention in 2018 when he became the first mainstream academic to challenge Kevin MacDonald regarding his classic work of counter-Semitism, The Culture of Critique. He engaged with Prof. MacDonald point for point over the course of several weeks regarding the work’s merits and demerits, producing academic theater that was both tedious and fascinating; perhaps a little more of the latter. (more…)

Photo courtesy of the NARA & DVIDS Public Domain Archive.

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I have a feeling that I’m not the only one who enjoys watching dashcam videos of police chases while I relax with a cup of tea. The cameras mounted on most police-car dashboards in the United States provide entertaining yet troubling footage for the tea-drinking armchair constable such as myself. (more…)

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Five years ago I wrote an essay called “Rediscovering a Song” in which I discussed my mistaken initial assessment of “Cat’s in the Cradle,” the famous 1970s hit by Harry Chapin. I had put that assessment in a box in my mind, sealed it up, and never bothered to reopen it until many, many years later: (more…)

The Fabian Window is a work of stained glass which portrays prominent socialists as religious figures. The goal of the Fabian Society was to achieve socialist principles through the Fabian Strategy — to achieve their aims by inches and through stealth. Their symbol was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Metapolitical action

America emerged from the Second World War as the premier superpower. The nations of Europe were starving and in ruins. Japan was likewise wrecked. Even the victorious British were reliant on American aid. But American society was beset with three different kinds of problems. The first was that the economy was shackled by the New Deal, although this was not yet fully understood at the time. (more…)