NYT Demonisation of Steve Bannon & White Identity

‘Turn On the Hate’: Steve Bannon at the White House

By the Editorial Board, Nov. 15 2016 (LINK to editorial)

"Mr. Bannon, and his toxic [far-right, white ethno-nationalist] ideology . . "

I don't know Mr Bannon, but I have a lot of sympathy with "ethno-nationalism", which the NYT so despises, along with the whole notion of white, i.e. ethnic European, identity.

White nationalism might have spared Europe centuries of civil war, culminating in WW1, WW2 and the Holocaust. It might also have spared America its own civil war.

White nationalism, as I see it, has nothing to do with white supremacism and is the very opposite of Nazism, which, insanely and self-destructively, divided Europeans into different races, some of which it sought to exterminate. The Nazis were not motivated by racial hatred, but by racial SELF-hatred.

In overreaction to the evil of Nazism and the Holocaust, western academics, and with them its ruling elites, embraced the exact, but equally extreme, opposite ideology of post-racial multiculturalism, which denies the importance - even the very existence - of race altogether (even when it is real and manifest), along with the Orwellian oxymoronic absurdity of "multi-ethnic (multi-racial and multicultural) nationhood".

I'm not suggesting that the NYT love those it sees as enemies, e.g. white nationalists, but that it ceases to hate and demonise them the way it does, and to seek to understand them instead. They are not as evil, nor you at the NYT and the Southern Poverty Law Center as good, as you  imagine.

See my BLOG, where I elaborate on these ideas.

Why Do White Progressives Deny & Despise Own Race?

Worthy of Our Contempt

By Paul Krugman, July 31, 2016 (LINK to article)

"the great majority of these not-crazy Republicans are still supporting Mr. Trump for president. And we have a right to ask why."

 I can only speculate, of course, but I suspect it has a lot to do with a semi-conscious rejection of "progressive" ideology, which is premised on white racial self-denial and self-contempt.

I say "semi-conscious", because I don't think they are fully aware of what it is they reject, anymore than the "progressives" who embrace it are. If they were, they would reject it too, I'm sure.

Modern neuroscience (see Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind by Alex Rosenberg) has demonstrated that we are largely motivated by the subconscious, which rationalises our behaviour without us understanding it.

Why are America's still largely white elites making a moral virtue and imperative of reducing their own race to an ethnic minority in the country their European forebears founded? Can you imagine any other race or ethnic group doing the same? Of course not. Because it is not a virtue, but madness. Total madness.

Donald Trump clearly has his faults, but at least he doesn't deny and despise his own race, the way his "progressive" opponents do.

Mainstream academic and political ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt demands an explanation, which I believe I can provide.  It began as an understandable overreaction to the evils of Nazism and the Holocaust, which quickly became part of the state's age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, which I elaborate on HERE.

Trump's Appeal to White Americans

Can Old-Style Politics Beat Donald Trump?

By Editorial Board, July 1 2016 (LINK to article)

"Mr Trump’s continuing appeal [is] to aggrieved working-class voters"

Mr Trump's main appeal, it seems to me, is to white Americans who are sick of their own white elites (the likes of Mr & Mrs Clinton) telling them that they must deny and despise their own race in order to avoid being demonised as "bigots", "racists" or "xenophobes".

Trump clearly has many faults, but at least he doesn't despise his own race, as his "progressive" opponents all do.

WHY do so many white Americans deny and despise their own race?

In an editorial response, The Price of Fear, to the Islamist terror attack in Paris last November, the NYT warned its readers that

“In the reaction and overreaction to terrorism [evil] comes the risk that society will lose its way.”

This is what happened, on a massive scale, in regard to Nazism and the Holocaust, which traumatised the West, especially academics, and even more especially Jews and Jewish academics.

This denial of and contempt for one's own racial/ethnic identity, as a European (whether Jew or non-Jew) is a grotesque overreaction to Nazism and the Holocaust (also to European imperialism, slavery, Jim Crow and Apartheid), which now serves the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly non-prejudiced, i.e. "colour-blind", elite and the morally inferior, naturally (human nature being what it is) more prejudiced, i.e. less colour-blind, masses, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors".

I elaborate on this idea in this and appended BLOGS.

Celebrating Diversity is Orwellian Newspeak

What’s Next for Both Parties

By the Editorial Board, March 15 2016 (LINK to editorial)

"After decades of pandering to intolerance while working against the needs of working-class Americans and minorities, the Republican Party appears headed for disaster."

While Democrats have pandered to minorities, especially blacks, on the back of an ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt.

Yes, an ideology of racial self-denial and self-contempt, if not outright self-hatred. There is no other way of describing it. It involves a lot of Orwellian doublethink, of course: race and ethnic identify matter, if you belong to a minority - especially if you are black - but not if you are white.  Whites are expected to deny and despise their own race and ethnic identity.

What is "Celebrating Diversity" other than Orwellian newspeak for white people to celebrate their own ethnic decline and ultimate demise?

Where does this self-destructive ideology come from? It began as an OVERREACTION, I suggest, to European imperialism, slavery, Jim Crow, Apartheid and, above all, Nazism and the Holocaust, which was blamed on white prejudice against Jews, notwithstanding that Jews themselves are white - more Orwellian doublethink!

What purpose does this ideology serve? It 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".

I elaborate on these ideas HERE.

Opposition to Immigration Equated with Hate Mongering

Britain's ‘Brexit’ Folly

By Roger Cohen, Oct. 26 2015 (LINK to article)

". . the hordes of desperate refugees intent on disrupting the British way of life (whatever they imagine that to be) [and] the anti-immigrant hatemongers of the U.K. Independence Party." 

Blinded by your own self-righteous, Roger, but you are the one, it seems to me, doing the "hatemongering".

Many of us - including many UKIP members, I'm sure, although I'm not one of them - are old enough to REMEMBER (we don't have to imagine) what the British way of life was like, before we were reduced to an ethnic minority in large swathes of our major cities my mass immigration, which you think we should have even more of, and "celebrate" as some kind of "enrichment", when in reality is is Orwellian newspeak for native Britons (and white people everywhere) to celebrate our own ethnic displacement (white flight), replacement, and ultimate demise . .

You don't just want to see European Americans (your OWN race, for heaven's sake!) reduced to an ethnic minority in the country they founded and very largely shaped, but also their descendants who chose to remain in Europe reduced to an ethnic minority in their ancestral homeland.

Why? What kind of racial self-hatefulness motivates you. And not just you, of course, all so-called "progressives", it seems. Where does it come from, this racial self-hatred?

I believe that it is, in large part, ideological: http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/method-to-madness-of-post-racial.html