Racism is not Racial
Some claim that the White Race is a kind of clan, hence a natural clan loyalty binds all Whites together, for membership in a clan creates a common interest demanding submission to the need for mutual action, regardless of circumstances or personal preferences. You skin color is your uniform.
The claim goes further: Even those Whites not predisposed to vow fealty to Whiteness must do so, since the other races shall combine against us, or already have. Examples of Jews protecting and promoting each other, Blacks receiving special and privileged treatment in corporate hiring, college admissions, and favorable news reporting, are used to show the combination against Whites. No one may print nor purchase WHITE LIVES MATTER on a tee-shirt.
Hence, we Whites form a group as defined by our mutual enemies, so we might as well be loyal to it, and use race as a paramount consideration when determining our group membership and group actions.
So runs the argument.
I beg to differ. The White Race is not a clan. It is nothing of the kind.
A clan is a group of people related by blood. A race, in the older sense of the word, is a group of people related by language and culture and largely by blood but not necessarily by blood (as a Dark Irish is still considered an Irishman, despite Spanish blood in his veins) .
In the older sense of the word, a Catalan, a Saxon, a Norman, a Prussian, a Langobard, a Cornishman, all were considered races, what we now call ethnicity.
In the new sense of the word, a race is a breed of mankind with some visible outward sign, more or less arbitrarily selected, to group a large number of ethnics groups together, hence the Whites, Reds, Blacks, and Yellows.
This was done for historical, not scientific reasons: Christendom spread south and east and crossed the Atlantic to discover the New World, and so divided the several (but related) races thus encountered into Asian, African, and American.
Where Semite races and Pacific Islanders fit into this rough category is a matter of debate. Sometimes Jews, Persians and Italians are considered ‘White’ and sometimes not, depending on the preference of the speaker and the phases of the moon.
In the politically correct sense of the word, the word means any oppressed group, so that ‘Hispanics’ which includes both Spaniards and Portuguese and Mestizos, Argentines and Mexicans and Patagonian and anyone else from Central or South America, is classed as a race.
Likewise “African-American” is classed as a race, even though the various tribes from which they ultimately come have few genetic markers in common.
“Orientals” are not classes as a race because the word is now considered offensive, but when Orientals are gathered together with Siberians, central Asians, Indians, and Middle-Easterners, and called “Asians” that is not offensive, even though there are two or three distinct races encompassed in the group.
Homosexuals are also classed as a race, women are classed as a race, mentally ill people who think they are members of the the opposite sex just this year classed as a race. Islam is classed as a race.
A clan, by way of contrast, is a political as well as a religious and the kinship unit.
A clan, in order to be a clan, must have some ability to act as a unit, some form of leadership, even if diffuse. A modern American has little or none: other men named Wright, for example, will not leap to my defense out of clan loyalty, because none know of any blood ties to me.
On the other hand, among crime families, extended loyalties to cousins and second cousins overseas is often maintained, because the police form a common enemy, and their need to coordinate forms a common bond. With this comes a mystique.
The emotional ties of Hatfield to Hatfield and the bad blood between their foes, the McCoys, have no parallel in the alleged and invented unions called White and Black and Yellow and Red.
When a black, out of loyalty to another black, uses the excuse of a press lie about police brutality to riot and rob a liquor store, that is an expression of political, not racial loyalty. No black would rob anyone out of solidarity to Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas.
There is no common mystique binding White with White or Black with Black. There is no common leadership, common language, common culture, or common economic interests. Even if one wanted to build a city or a commonwealth on shared racial interests, there are none.
What there is, is rationality and liberty on the one hand, and insanity and slavery on the other.
The Left, no matter what they used to support, nowadays supports insanity and slavery. To gain power, the Left uses race as an excuse for stirring up group hatreds. Except when they use sex, or sexual orientation, or national origin, or religion.
Racism is not racial; it is political. This is so obvious I assume people who say otherwise are Leftists, since no one but Leftists make a studied habit of denying the obvious.
The race loyalty preached, for example, by Hitler was a national race (old definition). He was not urging a unity of all White races together. Indeed, the Slavic races were the particular foes of his pan-German movement.
I believe ignorant fellows on the Internet found an obscure immigration law from the Eighteenth Century which uses the term “Whites” and from this concludes that the Founding Fathers meant the nation to maintain a pan-European racial composition.
Unfortunately, the term in that context simply meant “Christians” but the founders, conscious of the First Amendment, did not want to write that language into the bill. They wanted a shorthand term to refer to men from the various European nations, and perhaps Canada, Florida, and Mexico.
Obviously black slaves were excluded, as were the aboriginal savages. Since this was before the discovery of the Pacific Coast of America, there was no concern about Chinamen. So there was no other word to use.
But the conclusion that Whites therefore, in the eyes of the Founding Fathers, represent some sort of political unity based on race is absurd.
In any case, loyalty follows from worldview, which means, from religious faith in wise men, from political party loyalty in fools. The loyalty is not determined by genes, but by your the thoughts your worldview has about genes.
Racism is a political stance, not an instinctive loyalty at work. The instinctive loyalty of Irishmen, who are White, is to hate Englishmen, who are White. The instinctive loyalty of Koreans, who are Yellow, is to hate the Chinese, who are also Yellow. And the Chinese are not a race, but fifty different races, each with its own language and history, and, at one time, own culture.
Even if instinctive loyalties did draw Irishmen towards Englishmen, and Koreans toward Chinamen, nonetheless the ideas that laws and customs should be based on such loyalties is a political idea.
If the political ideas are instinctive, there is no point in debating them. If they are not, then the debate is political.
In the case of America, the obvious tie that binds all our loyalties together is Americanism, that is, the unique cultural and political worldview created here in the New World.
It is, in all modesty, the most astonishingly successful worldview in history. It was the view that men of any nation in Europe could come here and become American merely by adopting the American values, virtues, and loyalty to our laws and customs.
The melting pot worked beyond any expectation. Even races as scattered and different as Greek and Gaelic were unified here, and the racial differences remembered, if at all, as local color, differences of diet, odd surnames.
And no greater sacrifice by any race to the benefit of another race not its own has ever been done except here, in the United States, where three hundred thousand White men died to free four million Black men held in slavery.
The shameful blot and great hindrance to the melting pot were the descendant of black slaves, which had had all original language, culture, and communal identity striped away. Their fathers, each man in his clan and tribe back in Africa, did not think of themselves as ‘Black’ because there was no such category: but once here, there were Black.
All the non-blacks, likewise, lost loyalty to old nations in Europe, spoke English, and became White. (With the eternal exception of the Jews, who are a race apart, and resist assimilation diligently.)
The Socialists saw, and correctly, America as the rebuke to all their theories and the military power, especially after the Second World War, preserving the free world from Socialism. And so they set about to destroy America at her weakest point: the imperfect operation of the melting pot.
The tactic was simple: all non-racists were accused of racism, and all real racists were lauded as non-racists.
The success of various successful individuals was attributed to a invisible conspiracy of magic privilege sprinkled from an elfish wand on one group; the blame for the failures of other groups was shifted away from the errors and failures of that group and placed on witches or goblins in the employ of the invisible conspiracy.
And the Leftist told themselves they can see the invisible. Because magic.
The Right, clinging to their pragmatic political philosophy, had no answer and no way to understand this argument, and so they referred to facts and evidence and common sense and lost every debate.
Because the belief in magic fairies is a religious belief, not a fact-based belief. What a man is not talked into, he cannot be talked out of.
The evil magic fairies originally were called the Capitalists, and later, when that lie ran dry, they were called the Patriarchy, or White Privilege.
The fact that not a single patriarch nor a single privilege can be identified slows the spread of this idea not at all. Because it is not a rational idea. It is a faith. It is a creed. It is a dogma. It is a cult.
In the 1930s the Left mutated and produced a heresy, called Fascism, which accepted all the axioms of Marxist thinking, but applied them to nations and races rather than economic classes, and so came to dogmas antithetical to the orthodox dogmas of their fellow cultists. Nazis and Commie hated each other with so deep a hatred, it is akin to hate between Shia and Sunni. It is Odium Theologicum.
To this day, Leftist refer to all enemies, monarchists, libertarians, anarchists, republicans, as “Nazis” since the term merely refers to an person made into an object of hate, not to any particular political doctrine hated. They hate men and call them Nazis, they do not hate Nazism and denounce men who are (How could they? They alone are the sole practitioners of these ideals).
And of late, the Left has mutated again, and produced a strain of racist collectivist who are bound by that opinion alone.
They are spoken of as if they are Right, just as the Nazis are, but neither their speech between themselves nor their public pronouncements makes any reference to any limited government ideas, any Enlightenment-era political philosophy, and they wish to abolish, not preserve, American traditions.
Particularly hateful to them are the ideal of the melting pot, the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that Americanism does not pass through the blood, the words on the base of the Statue of Liberty, the Statue of Liberty itself (it is dismissed as the work of Frenchmen, hence impure), the wording and the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, the basic notions of liberty, equality, rule of law, and equal justice for all, and they heap contempt on the Constitution, except for one clause in the preamble, which they gleefully misinterpret to suit themselves.
Also, Christ preached racism, according to them.
Now, they hate the Left as much as Nazis ever did, and so must be applauded for that, and they are rational, self controlled, and nonviolent, unlike the Left who have lost their minds and soon, very soon, mean to plunge this nation into a race war.
Their vision of America as a European style nation-state where all members are bound together solely by historical accident, and maintained by hierarchic laws favoring the higher race over the servile race is vicious, disgusting, wicked, and illogical, but at least it is a vision.
The vision of the Left is an opaque darkness filled with screaming, and the Left promises nothing but chaos, barbarism and obliteration.
So what is the bottom line? Are you, as a White man, going to be physically attacked in the near future by rioting blacks and Hispanics?
Yes and no. You, as a White Man, will be attacked, but only by Leftists, and they will be of various races. But if you are a Black Man, they will call you a White Supremacist, and attack nonetheless. See the smear campaign against Larry Elder for details.
Should you make a common cause with other Whites, based solely on the fact of facing a common foe?
No, because those riots are organized and paid for by Whites, who cannot be trusted because they form the backbone of the enemy.
Nor ought you exclude from your loyalty any Black who is Rightwing, that is, sane and honest. Your skin is not your uniform.
The same logic applies to homosexuals. They are not the enemy. Sane and honest homosexuals can live in civilization with you, despite their neurotic sexual malfunction. No one can live in civilization with a Leftist, not for long, because Leftism at its core is the desire to destroy civilization, civility, progress, law and order.
The Leftist will attack the conservative black or the conservative homosexual with more fervor than he attacks the conservative straight White male. And these groups, as we do, need each other for mutual protection in the coming days.
If we had any mutual interest with the White Nationalists, or a mutual foe, then, like Churchill and Stalin combining against Hitler, we could coordinate with them. Alliances are matters of the art of war, not of personal preferences.
But merely having a common foe is no sign of being friends, despite the old saying, since the White Nationalists hate the Conservatives more than they hate their mirror-reflections, the Black Nationalists.
All such ethno-supremacist groups are the enemies of the melting pot, of America, and ultimately, because there is neither Jew nor Greek in Him, they are the enemies of Christ.
Allies like this we do not need. Better to have the Lord on our side, and keep fighting.
So praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.