The Racial Self-Contempt of America's White Elites

Bernie’s Dead-End Math — and Why He Should Stay In

By Timothy Egan, March 16 2016 (LINK to article)

"the angry millions in the margins, those who may be tempted by the demagogue who wants to make America white again."

America never was entirely white, so no one, I'm sure, not even the few genuine white supremacists, imagines making America white again.

America was founded and largely made what it is today by white settlers from Europe. It is still a white majority country in which whites remain the dominant political, cultural, economic, scientific and technological force, but for reasons less noble than they believe, America's ruling elites (themselves overwhelmingly white) have embraced an ideology of racial self-denial and self-contempt.

That millions of ordinary white Americans with a healthy sense of their own ethnic origins and identity are very unhappy about this is entirely understandable. They find themselves in the position of a child with masochistic parents, who want to include it their games of self-flagellation.

It is not just America, of course, but the ruling elites of all western countries which have embraced this ideology, that initially was an overreaction to Nazism and the Holocaust (as well as to Jim Crow and Apartheid), which has been exploited by the state to serve its age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly "colour-blind", elite and the morally inferior, naturally (human nature being what it is) less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors".

This is a major social and political issue that urgently needs to be recognised and addressed.

You might like to begin HERE.

The NYT's Narrative of White Racial Self-Contempt

Empowering the Ugliness

By Paul Krugman, Dec. 11 2015 (LINK to article)

"angry whites who make up a large fraction . .  of the G.O.P. "

It seems to me that white people, both in Europe and in America, have every reason to be "angry", not least at the liberal left, which, in overreaction to Jim Crow, Apartheid and, of course, Nazism, has embraced an ideology white racial self-denial and self-contempt.

Is Paul Krugman, like the majority of those who work and write for the NYT, not white himself? Yet he generalises about "angry, xenophobic and racist whites" as if they were a different and despised race, effectively equating them with Nazis.

This is what virtually everyone on the liberal left does, of course, because it is rooted in the ideology they share, so its extremism goes unnoticed. It is, I think, something the Editorial Board itself warns against in a recent editorial, The Price of Fear:

“In the reaction and overreaction to terrorism comes the risk that society will lose its way."

Western society, led by the liberal left, has already lost its way, in comprehensive overreaction to Nazism and its insane racial ideology, which it has gone to the exact but equally extreme opposite of, denying the importance of race altogether, so that now conservative concerns about immigration and the changing racial composition of America that comes with it (from majority white to majority non-white), are demonised and dismissed as racist and xenophobic on a par with Nazism.

I elaborate further in this BLOG.

White Guilt in the Service of Political Power

What We Fear When We Fear Terrorism

By Ross Douthat, Nov. 30 2015 (LINK to article)

"American xenophobia: We fear attacks from a nebulous or specifically-Islamic “Other” more than we fear violence by angry white men . . . , because Americans still identify with whiteness/maleness/Christianity too closely to fully imagine “white Christian terrorism” as something to be feared . . . This is a mostly left-wing argument . . "

Indeed it is a mostly left-wing argument, behind which lies an ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt, which began as an understandable overreaction to Jim Crow, Apartheid and, of course, Nazism, with their ideology of racial supremacism, before being transformed into an instrument of socio-political intimidation, rewards, punishments, manipulation and control, just as medieval church ideology once served.

What makes this ideology so powerful and pernicious is that is serves the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly "colour-blind", elite and the morally inferior, naturally (human nature being what it is) less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors".

It plays the same power-political role that medieval church ideology once did, whereby "original sin" (disobedience of divine, i.e. priestly/state authority) is replaced by "racial prejudice" (the natural human inclination - like original sin - to identity with members of one's own tribe, race or ethnic group, which was wrongly made responsible for the Holocaust and equated with the evils of Nazi racism), which only submission to priestly/academic/state ideology and authority can save us from eternal damnation for, not as heathens and heretics, as in the past, but as "bigots" and "racists".

As in the past, we are being bullied by an elite of "moral supremacists" who demonise different aspects of human nature to their own, personal, advantage, and which academics don't recognise, because they themselves are some of the biggest bullies.