The Poverty of Racialist Thought
By Israel Shamir
Racial theorist Prof Kevin MacDonald has written a
piece about film director Roman Polansky's recent arrest:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Polanski.html#KM
As you might expect, KMD has discovered that
Polansky is not condemned by Hollywood because he is a Jew, and Jews
protect their own. They also like Polansky because his films and his
actions have undermined the Whites’ morals and values. Life is simple
for Prof MacDonald.
Real life is funnier and more complicated. In 1967,
Roman Polansky directed the most anti-Jewish film ever produced in
Hollywood, The Fearless Vampire Killers (Dance of the Vampires)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1jeG6YtLU.
In this unforgettable film, the Jewish vampire (1) just smiles at the
cross and bites the neck of an innocent blond victim; (2) sends his
daughter to ruin a Gentile, (3) steals the coffin of the noble vampire,
(4) stays on despite attempts to kick him out, and finally, (5) is a
mixture of Mark Chagall and Fiddler on the Roof. Polansky mocks
practically every negative trait ever attributed to Jews, and does so
hilariously! One would expect that an ethnically conscious Hollywood Jew
would hate Polansky's guts, if anything.
Meanwhile, Goldstone, a Jewish judge, found the
Jewish state guilty as charged of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, while the ultimate non-Jew, PLO leader, Arafat heir and author
of a Holocaust-doubting book, Mahmud Abbas, threw away Goldstone’s
judgement in order to get his cut for a second mobile phone network
provider in Palestine. I repeat: he did not do this in order to feed the
hungry, give water to thirsty or to free prisoners. He did it to allow
the relatively wealthy people of Ramallah a choice of mobile providers,
and to make something good for himself at the same time. Is being a Jew
still relevant nowadays?
If you still think so, the Daily Telegraph published
a claim that President Ahmadinejad is of Jewish origin. Until now, this
piece of news was regularly forwarded for a couple of years by various
Zionists in racialist clothes. Now it is official, being published by a
paper of record. (Another paper of the record, the Times, upgraded me to
a “Swedish Nazi”). We are sorely missing Hermann Goering, the man that
could
decide who is a Jew.
But even he did not claim to know who is White. In
the above-mentioned piece, and it his other recent texts, KMD speaks of
“the Whites”, a group which does not function as he thinks a group
should function. They allow their morals and values to be undermined by
the Jews in the Jews' own interests. Whites do not pursue their own
group interests. A scientific mind would draw a logical conclusion from
such a result. If a whale does not behave like a fish, perhaps it is not
fish. If the Whites do not behave like a group should, perhaps they are
not a group.
He might as well speak about Redheads, or about
people whose name is George, and their values and interests. The
Whites of KMD and of other racialists are not a group, they are a
granfalloon. “A granfalloon, in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat's
Cradle, is a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a
shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually
meaningless”, reports Wikipedia.
Indeed, America’s Whites have nothing in common:
neither faith nor origin, nor morals, values, traditions or language.
The Catholic editor of Culture Wars, E. Michael Jones,
said this a year or two ago, at a meeting
in Washington, and has been
shunned by paleo-conservatives and white
racialists ever since. Peter Brimelow, editor
of the racialist vdare website, threw a fit and instructed his lawyers
to demand the excision of Jones’s talk from the records and the
incineration of his photos because he had denied “the idea that race
matters or that America was ever a nation”. Jones said:
“We [Americans] have no common past. We have no royal
family waiting in the wings. We have no established religion which can
act as a source of order and identity. We have no racial identity. We
have no common DNA. I am almost tempted to say that we have no we…”
Jones rejected the concept of “whiteness”. “White” is
not a relevant classifier outside of the Deep South, he says. For the
Poles and the Germans, the Greeks and the Italians in the North, “White
was a completely negative designation”. If Chicago’s ethnics became
“white” it was only because of migration of the blacks from the South,
not because of any racial identity of their own. The struggle for the
American soul (the “culture wars” in Jones’ term) is simply not
understandable in racial terms. The blacks were ultimately the pawns of
other groups, which were just as white as the groups they attacked.
The real nations of America, says Jones, are
“Protestants, Catholics and Jews. America far from being some unified
nation inhabited by generic Americans turns out to be a lot like the
former Yugoslavia, a country made up of three ethnic groups based on
three religions each engaged in a form of long-standing covert warfare
against each other”. In his view, the Jews made an alliance with the
WASPs against the Catholics of the North and against the Southern
Whites, and turned out to be the joker in the pack.
I am not sure that the three are sufficient for
real-time analysis. There are sizeable new groups – Hispanics, Blacks,
South Asians, Chinese – who count in the millions. But even the older
groups, WASPs and Catholics, may also turn out to be other granfalloons.
Proof? They do not pursue their interests. Their elites do not feel
responsible for their lower classes even as much as Jewish elites do.
They did not make the grade to become nations even in a very limited
Yugoslavian sense. And they never did. American Libertarian
Jacob G. Hornberger wrote this
panegyric to the good old WASP-ruled America:
“Imagine: No income tax, no capital-gains tax, and no
estate tax. For the first time in history, people were free to
accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth. No economic regulations. No
welfare. No Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or education grants. No
immigration controls. People from all over the world were free to come
to the United States. No systems of public (i.e., government)
schooling.”
It is supposed to have been a lost paradise, but it
is not one I would care to regain. For Michael Jones, it was the
anti-Christian Jew, obsessed with his revolutionary zeal, who upset this
order and brought confusion. Perhaps this order had to be upset, for it
was not good for the lower classes. The Jews used it to their advantage,
granted; they used the legitimate dissatisfaction of the blacks in the
South to their advantage, too – but there was much to that situation
that ought to have been repaired in the spirit of genuine compassion.
The American fear of socialism and of ‘revolution’ resonate a fear of
compassion, which goes much deeper than the color of their skins.
I have a lot of respect for Kevin MacDonald; some of
his observations regarding Jews are astute and timely; but his racialist
thought is not reality-based, as illuminated above. There are no
“whites” in the US as a group, and it does not seem that such a group is
in the process of formation. Nothing unites Poles, Germans, Spaniards,
Swedes, WASPs, Southerners in Mississippi, Greeks, Arabs, Irish,
Persians, children of the Mayflower, recent arrivals from Russia and
other whites. The time has come to provide
some constructive criticism for KMD’s work, first of all because it is
not devoid of merit. The problem is that too many politically engaged
people have tried to shame KMD and other racialists, instead of arguing
with them and their readers as though they might be reasonable fellow
human beings.
Let us absolve KMD and other racialists from the
accusation of racism. Racism is a negative attitude to persons
considered belonging to a different race. We all know that racism is
immoral and shameful. Racialists are not necessarily racists, and
present-day American racialists rarely are. They fail as scientists, not
as immoral persons. The schism within America is a schism between
‘whites’ and ‘whites’, and different medicine is needed to treat it.
(to be continued)