Trainspotter, Paradigms

I tried to post this over at Oxy dissent but it got caught up the filter (or maybe I’m just on moderation).

Trainspotter,

1. Reach a consensus on our territorial objectives. Make the Idea as tangible as it can be. Make the Idea assume a mentally and psychologically digestible form. Is it going to be the Northwest? The South? Or to take from the Captain – “Take it all back…the Big Idea.” I happen to favor the Big Idea, but that may fail the tangibility test.

You don’t say.

Now, if you don’t want to look yeller before giants like the mighty Cap’n and The Admiral and Nordmacht(frei) and you’re in effect saying “I’m with you in spirit, fellas, alas..”, that’s one thing. But if you actually consider proposing such an idea, leading with it, making it a centerpiece of your message, I’m afraid you betray a severely compromised appreciation of just what constitutes a “new paradigm”: there’s nothing new about “I hate non-whites. Get ‘em out of my country.” It’s bitter, old-style nationalism that clashes head on with what the vast majority are prepped to believe about the world — ie about human existence — and, more importantly, what they experience of the world, which is to say very few experience the other so negatively as to wish death on him or to destroy his livelihood, which is what they imagine running him out of the country is equivalent to.

On the other hand, a philosophy of racial live-and-let-live at whose core lies an appreciation of the benefits that accrue from racial homogeneity and racial similarity while relegating “hatred” to matter of contingency does constitute a new paradigm. Far more importantly, it lessens opposition because it requires the least amount of rethinking about the world, one’s country, one’s person, — consider it a kind of “racialist aikido.” In fact, I’d go so far as to say that, while the former (“Big Idea”) makes it all but impossible to support you, the “new paradigm” makes it all but impossible to oppose you.

What I imagine would gall a man the most is the thought of foreigners carving out a piece of his territory just-like-that, without even having to have fired a shot to do it. There are arguments that could be deployed which, if understood (hardly a given in this crowd), can diminish such concerns — but I’m out of time.

A Boasian Niggerlover in Rio

It’s no easy thing being a moderate racist who simply understands the value of racial community and thus desires it. On the one hand, you’re exasperated by the near-insane, mind-bending levels of racial loathing of your bedfellows (the nutzi set, who, whatever their failings, can at least be counted on to never compromise on race), and on the other hand, you’re exasperated by the idiocy and desperation of the race-deniers, and sometimes it’s hard to tell which group exasperates you more. And always, always, there is that alpha and omega of multiracial insanity, the absolute zero of homo sapiens at which point all theories of human conduct cease to operate, the infallible cure-all for racist remorse, the eternal Nigger.

The thread I’m linking to in this post combines the latter two of the above, niggers and niggerlovers, or rather a niggerlover, a very smart and very smarmy, and very literal — he’s married to one — American niggerlover in Rio. The fellow, posting under the moniker “Macunaima,” has a doctorate in social anthropology and hangs out in Brazil forums where he devotes his time to correcting misconceptions about his adopted country. Unlike what you might expect from a hard left, niggerloving, gringo expat, he holds niggers themselves to his anti-racist standards. This produces discussions like the one linked to which demonstrate wonderfully the futility and pointlessness of anti-racism: Macunaima’s eminently reasonable attempts to inject facts and objectivity into the discussion are completely lost on his ostensibly intelligent African-American interlocutors, who at times seem to suspect they’re dealing with a white racist rather than the obvious died-in-the-wool niggerlover Macunaima is. You know, maybe mutually beneficial multiracial interracial understanding could be achieved one day…if we had another three thousand years to work on it. But wouldn’t it be worlds easier to just give in to “racism” and recreate society on the assumption that race is significant and important and spare people the endless frustration of mitigating it?

Obama’s Prize

This line from Mississippi Burning sums it up:

“He wasn’t doing anything…except being a Negro.”