“Why is White Nationalism on the Rise?”
By Jared Taylor
On May 4, CNN published an article by David Neiwert called “Hate groups are recruiting our young people into a toxic belief system.”
This belief system is “white nationalism,” which Mr. Neiwert warns is
growing at an alarming rate: “[W]e’re talking in the hundreds of
thousands, if not millions of new young white nationalists being born online right now.”
Why
is white nationalism, which Mr. Neiwert dismisses as “hateful” and
“toxic,” so attractive? Because it is based on the conviction that
whites—like every other racial group in America and the world—have
legitimate group interests. The most obvious of these is not to be
reduced to a minority where they have traditionally been the majority.
From its founding and until immigration policy changed in 1965, Americans took it for granted that whites would always be the majority. They were 85 percent of the population in 1960, but are now projected, largely through immigration, to become a minority by 2045.
Whites
were never asked if this was what they wanted. White nationalists do
not want to become a minority, and the burden is on people like Mr.
Neiwert to explain why they are wrong.
Is
it wrong for Japanese to want to remain a majority in Japan? Or Mexicans
in Mexico? Or Turks in Turkey? Israel is an explicitly Jewish state,
and virtually all Americans recognize its right to remain Jewish. White
nationalists believe that whites—whether in the United States or
Europe—have the same right.
It
is not “hatred” for whites to want to live in a society shaped by the
European values and texture of life handed down by their ancestors. Mass
immigration changes a country—often radically—and whites have the
absolute right to prefer societies that are faithful to their ancestral
values. This is an entirely normal, healthy sentiment that Mr. Neiwert
would surely not find “hateful” if expressed by non-whites.
Would
Mr. Neiwert be happy if the whole world were changing as the United
States or Europe is? Should populations migrate and mix everywhere,
reducing every local majority to a minority? That would crush every
distinct culture and civilization everywhere. Why is that acceptable
only for white countries?
“White
nationalists” recognize that hypnotic slogans do not make “diversity” a
strength. It is a source of tension and conflict. At its worst, it
means race riots and prison riots. Every day, it means discrimination
lawsuits, resentment, accusations of insensitivity, and bitterness over
whether the Oscars or Harvard or boardrooms or tech jobs or
neighborhoods or the police force have the right racial mix.
Even
if diversity were a strength, why should whites “celebrate” it when it
always means a decline in their numbers and influence? No healthy people
wants to give up its place in society and march into oblivion.
White
nationalism is also the inevitable reaction to an increasingly harsh
double standard: Whites must always be “sensitive” to others, even if
others hold them in contempt.
In 2018, the New York Times appointed a 31-year-old immigrant from Korea, Sarah Jeong, to its editorial board. Miss Jeong had tweeted
such things as “White men are bullshit,” “#CancelWhitePeople,” and
“White people have stopped breeding. you’ll all go extinct soon. That
was my plan all along.” No white person who said anything remotely like
this about non-whites could be a janitor at the Times.
Headlines such as these show contempt for whites: “To the White Men Running to Be the Democratic Presidential Candidate: Can You Not?” “Step aside white men. It’s time for women of color to lead.” “Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?” Television host Trevor Noah put the same question to Bernie Sanders: “Isn’t this a time for your guys to step aside?”
In the 1960s, the national goal was to overcome racism and achieve color-blindness. Now, whites—but only whites—learn that, as Psychology Today explains, “Colorblind ideology is a form of racism.”
When whites left transitioning neighborhoods, it was called “white
flight” and was “racist.” When they go back to those neighborhoods, it
is “gentrification,”
which is also “racist.” It’s healthy for blacks or Asians or Hispanics
to have a firm racial identity; for whites, it’s “Nazism.”
When
blacks and Hispanics do not do as well as whites, it’s the fault of
entrenched white supremacy. But if America is a white supremacist
country, why do East Asians do so much better than whites?
All this—certainly not Donald Trump—explains the rise of white nationalism.
It
is true that some people with nationalist ideas have committed horrific
murderous acts. Why? Because when people have a voice, they speak. When
they are hated, silenced, and their deeply felt values driven
underground by self-righteous media censors, they may act in unspeakable
ways.
There are democratic solutions to these problems. Censorship and demonization will make them worse...........http://www.unz.com/article/jared-taylor-on-cnns-the-state-of-hate/
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