In this episode, we talk about racism and communism, and how they are similar in many ways, and why racism is worse than communism from a cultural perspective. Malcolm Gladwell explains that racism is a self-extinguishing phenomenon, which is why the groups that don't punish it, don't compete as well, and end up falling apart.
00:00:00.000Ethnic socialism is what it really is. Racism is ethnic socialism.
00:00:03.760They apply unfair barriers to people of different racial and ethnic groups based on preconceptions about those groups that prevent those groups from competing against them in a fair and open ecosystem.
00:00:20.380And so doing that, they hobble those groups, but they also hobble their own group.
00:00:25.760Hmm. What the great thing is about actual racism is groups that don't punish it, don't compete as well, and they end up falling apart.
00:00:33.520If you look at America and you look at the white populations, the white populations that were less racist economically have outperformed the white populations that were more racist.
00:00:43.740Hmm. To a T. Yeah. You look at all cultural groups and this is something you see.
00:00:50.080Racism is a self-extinguishing phenomenon when it is not entrenched in government law.
00:00:56.880That's why I see the groups that are just like generically racist as less evil than the groups that incline racism in law with things like affirmative action.
00:01:05.800Hmm. Because those groups are hurting themselves often more than they hurt the groups around them.
00:01:13.600And so it's like, ha ha ha, look at the idiot.
00:01:30.120And it was inspired by a comment, Simone, by the way, love you, excited to be talking to you again, where some people were like, yeah, but like, why is racism ethically wrong?
00:01:41.140You know, so first we need to define what we mean by racism and what we consider racism.
00:01:48.400So some people consider racism as believing different ethnic groups are different.
00:02:28.060It's when you use intergroup differences to make decisions about individuals when you find out they're part of one group or another group,
00:02:39.740or to make decisions about how you interact with groups as a whole.
00:02:46.460Well, this is very important to me, like, that you never allow knowledge of like, well, people like this are like, like Catholics are like this, Jews are like this, groups like this.
00:02:57.460Like, obviously, there are going to be statistical norms that are culturally, even if just cultural differences,
00:03:05.300because different ethnic groups cluster within different cultural groups, and culture can influence life outcomes.
00:03:12.140Of course, you're going to have different averages that differ between groups.
00:03:15.400And these averages can allow you to create prejudices, which allow you to more quickly make decisions about those groups often.
00:03:26.100And this is what I consider to be a racist.
00:03:28.760But then there's the higher form of racism, which is the ultimate form of racism.
00:03:32.880And I think where you get into sort of pure evil, which is when you encode group differences into legal systems or social systems in terms of how you deal with cultural outsiders.
00:03:56.780So there are many things that our culture values, but one of the highest value systems within our culture is intergenerational improvement.
00:04:07.840The core goal of every human being is to make kids that are better than them.
00:04:15.620It is a game in which you are always playing against your ancestors and yourself.
00:04:23.160It is a game in which you are consistently striving to not stagnate, where stagnation is the highest form of failure.
00:04:33.740A stagnant species, our pattern from our worldview, is completely pointless.
00:04:42.920If you think of it in terms of Conway's Game of Life, and I'll see if you get some video of this or something, a simple self-repeating pattern is as pointless as a pattern that ceases to exist because it is uninteresting.
00:04:59.760Now, this is why when we see groups like the Nazis who are like, well, we need to go back to like a single Aryan white – they sort of see the perfect ethnicity as being something in the past that can be crafted and then is stagnant.
00:05:17.760Which is actually very similar to the people who want to ban us from using genetic selection on our kids because they see us as like dirtying the human gene pool by like entering exogenous technology into our practices.
00:05:33.220They both believe that there is a perfect version of humanity.
00:05:37.520It is either close to the existing version of humanity or in the past, and we can achieve it by limiting other groups, reproductive capabilities, or exterminating other groups.
00:05:48.080So this is a form of stagnation to us.
00:05:51.880But even generic racism is the ideologically uplifting of stagnation as a concept.
00:05:59.820So the way that progressive groups – because progressive culture is – if you look at conservative culture, it typically offers a lot of cultural amenities to people.
00:06:11.360It offers – if you live in a very Christian community, they often have a very Mormon community or something like that.
00:06:17.540If you're on hard times, it has systems for dealing with that.
00:06:20.920If you're old and food scarce, it has systems for dealing with that.
00:06:24.460If you're an orphan, they have systems for dealing with that.
00:06:26.820You know, and this often makes progressives angry.
00:06:29.840They're like, well, of course, like the Salvation Army exists and provides services for people, but they don't provide them to trans people.
00:06:36.480They enforce some of their cultural values when they're providing these services.
00:06:41.100And it's like, well, yeah, they do, okay?
00:06:43.940But they are able to motivate their average member to provide these services while you, progressive community, appears to be unable to do that without the threat of government force.
00:06:55.900Well, because of this, if the progressive community wants to deconvert people into it, if it wants to convert people's kids because, you know, they're not having kids as their own, so they can only survive by converting the children of nearby healthy cultural groups, the way that they allow that to happen is they need to create government-mandated alternatives to these social safety nets that are prevented by these variable cultural groups.
00:07:19.120Well, that is what communism is at the end of the day.
00:07:24.140Communism is a system in which the government is providing all of the social services, so socialism, communism, all that, so that there is no need to be in any of the disparate cultural groups.
00:07:36.360Communism has always worked hand in hand with cultural genocide.
00:07:40.560That has always been the goal of communism is cultural genocide.
00:07:43.060It is to erase all of the differences between humans.
00:07:56.760Well, we haven't gotten to exactly how it's similar yet, because I haven't gotten to that.
00:07:59.960But it removes the need for intergroup competition.
00:08:05.340You know, you cannot have, you cannot have in one of these totally socialist states, it becomes much more difficult to say, well, you know, Jews seem to be economically out-competing other groups.
00:08:15.480Maybe there's something we can learn from them or something like that, right?
00:08:17.780To be more pointed, this form of racism is really just an outwards reflection of inwards cultural weakness.
00:08:28.480Strong cultures almost never hold these sorts of beliefs because they don't need to.
00:08:33.820It's the type of thing that people begin to grasp towards when they can see that they are being out-competed and when they can see that they have begun to die.
00:08:43.260And I suppose just the weakness of it disgusts me.
00:08:48.000Seeing that sort of weakness in other people disgusts me.
00:08:51.000Like, because there's no reason to be in any of these cultural groups.
00:08:53.640Then they try to erase all of the cultural differences between these groups.
00:08:57.160So you don't, you no longer get the competition.
00:08:59.780And it is competition that leads individuals and groups to attempt to improve themselves.
00:09:05.500And as they improve themselves as the, and then people convert into the groups that are doing better or that have lifestyles that are, they have a competition of, you know, economic and cultural success and a cultural sense of oneness and cultural amenities.
00:09:19.280And, you know, we had a friend who converted to Mormonism because it helped her find a husband.
00:09:24.300She's like, I just can't find a husband in, in the dominant cultural group I'm in, you know, and so I'm going to convert to Mormonism.
00:09:29.240And they, they have these systems and it did, she found a husband and she's happily married and having kids now.
00:09:33.560Cultures convert people by offering these amenities and these systems that they offer.
00:09:37.100And that is actually one of the main reasons that people often convert to different cultures is they're like, yeah, but like people here are happier and they seem to be living wholesome, good lives.
00:09:46.580And that was not something I felt when I was growing up in, you know, the urban monoculture, right?
00:09:51.580But it's, it's harder and harder to convert people as the urban monoculture offers more and more services that these cultures are able to motivate people to sacrifice to create.
00:10:00.080So what communism is the core reason it's evil, right?
00:10:05.120Is it's not evil because it provides equality.
00:10:07.880It's evil because it removes the motivation for intergenerational improvement.
00:10:14.560It's evil because it removes this grand game, which leads to our species improving itself, every generation improving.
00:10:24.260And, and this is, this is, this is just, it's such an important thing because you, in the moment, it makes life harder.
00:10:31.280But if you look at the technology that's been invented in our capitalist system, it has made even many times, you know, I talk about a 10% American in terms of income.
00:10:42.320They live lives that are markedly better than like the King of England, 200 years ago, 250.
00:11:16.700They apply unfair barriers to people of different racial and ethnic groups based on preconceptions about those groups that prevent those groups from competing against them in a fair and open ecosystem.
00:11:32.520And if they're doing that, they hobble those groups, but they also hobble their own group.
00:11:39.340When you do things that hurt other ethnic groups that prevent you from competing in a fair and open ecosystem, then you cannot see when cultures that cluster within your ethnic group are doing a bad job and you cannot intergenerationally improve.
00:11:57.240Oh, so what you're saying is it makes people blind to room for improvement that they might have in their own culture because they're too busy being like, I'm so much better than you.
00:12:05.360More than being blind to room for improvement, it makes them blind to even the market forces of improvement.
00:12:14.280You know, you eventually have to learn how to improve your culture if it has to be out competing in some metric, whether it's fertility rates or economically for it to still exist.
00:12:23.440And you see this ardently within racist groups, you look at the people who are like racist in our videos and you see this cluster, one, they need to feel just like axiomatically better than some cultural groups so that they feel like their, their lives are meaningful in some ways, even if they're failures.
00:12:39.740So they're like, oh, well, you know, black people bad, my, my group good, I am in some way good because I'm a member of that group, but then you can see the blindness as well.
00:12:49.140They'll look at something like Jews, right?
00:12:51.900Jews, like a lot of Cesar Rogan's guests are Jews, a lot of Nobel Prize winners are Jews, a lot of politicians are Jews.
00:14:38.180Yeah, I guess, I mean, it sounds really bad, but so what you're saying is like, even like in the times of, of the worst forms of racism in the U.S., it did force discrimination.
00:15:05.800And I think that this needs to be said alongside the statement that many ethnic groups within the U.S.,
00:15:13.600particularly the Black and Native American populations in our country, have been systemically disadvantaged due to historic conditions.
00:15:23.340They are not starting from the same starting gun.
00:15:26.240But intergenerationally, you hurt them much more by systemically unevening the playing field and like BLM does, creating this external locus of control.
00:15:38.600Like that is a form of meaningful and in this ethnic external locus of control of meaningful racial oppression because it meaningfully and intergenerationally disempowers specific ethnic groups.
00:15:54.600Also, what would you say to like, you know, the society at large that's like, OK, I hear you and I don't want to disempower people, but also like it's so not fair that they're starting off on uneven footing.
00:16:04.580And like, how do we correct for that? Like, is there a way to both have an external locus of control for groups while still?
00:16:11.420I mean, I mean, really, what you're saying is these policies that are intergenerationally keeping down these minority groups that are starting from worse positions.
00:16:20.000They're all being operated and promoted by white people who intergenerationally benefit the most from these practices, which is really disgusting that these individuals do this because they're helping their own, you know, their own ethnic group over the other ethnic groups.
00:16:39.480And in so doing, feeling good about themselves, like they're being these great, oh, benefactors.
00:16:45.740Oh, it's very, it feels so much like that poem that Noble Savage, I'm sorry, the, what is it called?
00:16:53.320The white man's burden poem, you know?
00:16:55.680Oh, well, I just must help uploose these.
00:17:43.340And that what we need to do is to create a system that even if it's less fair in the moment, can lead intergenerationally to an eventually fair society.
00:18:03.660It means that everyone is given the same shot and same pressures to intergenerationally improve.
00:18:09.920So, by this, what we mean is, like, yeah, I mean, if you wanted to create, and this is something that society doesn't talk about, but if you wanted to, like, ethnically normalize society, so you're going to divide society into ethnic groups and then say, okay, well, we're going to put penalizations on different ethnic groups based on how successful they are.
00:18:31.460But, you know, whites wouldn't be at the top of that totem pole in America.
00:18:35.920There are many ethnic groups which out-earn white people.
00:18:39.980And, yeah, so you would, what, normalize it and penalize them?
00:18:47.140I am genuinely morally repulsed by that.
00:18:51.140The idea of saying some other group should be punished because they're out-earning white people.
00:18:56.580And yet, that is the logical conclusion of this sort of system, right?
00:19:01.840So, if you can create a system that is intergenerationally fair, right, in terms of competition, eventually, within a few generations, everyone should be able to come back as long as actual racism is being punished.
00:19:16.120But actual racism, what the great thing is about actual racism is groups that don't punish it don't compete as well.
00:19:25.040If you look at America and you look at the white populations, the white populations that were less racist economically have outperformed the white populations that were more racist.
00:19:37.960You look at all cultural groups, and this is something you see.
00:19:41.400Racism is a self-extinguishing phenomenon when it is not entrenched in government law.
00:19:47.940That's why I see the groups that are just, like, generically racist as less evil than the groups that incline racism in law with things like affirmative action.
00:19:57.940Because those groups are hurting themselves often more than they hurt the groups around them.
00:20:05.040And so it's like, ha, ha, ha, look at the idiot, you know, shooting themselves in the foot.
00:20:35.580But to be clear, from our definition of racism, the Democratic Party is the core, the Democratic Party and the social movements that they support are the core sources of racism in this country.
00:20:45.940And they are the core perpetrators of racism in this country.
00:21:06.660So a population, let's say American Blacks, right?
00:21:11.380They may say, we have a problem in our communities, right?
00:21:14.680Like, I can see, like, Black-on-Black violence is a problem or something like that.
00:21:18.300And we can fix it by creating new cultures for our community that are meant to address these problems.
00:21:28.760But we want these cultures to differentially be of utility to people in our community because due to their social background, you know, due to being a Black person in America, they are going to better be able to understand and assimilate with the culture that we're building.
00:21:46.580I have no problem with that, and I actually support that.
00:21:51.360I have no problem with the fact that Jews sort their culture in part based on who your parents are.
00:21:57.460Like, that it's going to be, like, if our kids wanted to convert to Judaism, they'd have a very easy time because they're matrilineally Jewish.
00:22:03.740And people would be like, well, that seems, like, wrong.
00:22:07.160Like, people know, like, I have differences with Jewish groups.
00:22:09.380I think there's things that they do wrong.
00:22:11.640But I don't think that that is one of them.
00:22:14.000I don't think that saying our culture is an ethnically locked culture, but we treat outsiders as equal, that's totally fine.
00:22:21.880So if you have a Black cultural group with, like, Kwanzaa and stuff like that, and they're like, yeah, we are an ethno-cultural group, and they want to have pride rallies and stuff like that.
00:22:30.540That is all things that I think are perfectly hunky-dory, and there is nothing unethical about that at all.
00:22:37.920So long as they don't frame other cultural groups, it is axiomatically worse than them.
00:22:42.540Okay, so you're for pride, but you aren't for, like, outgroup hatred.
00:22:47.700So there's a big difference between, you know, some of these intra-Black cultural group pride rallies, where it's a cultural group within the Black community, where Blackness is part of their core identity, and they're doing a rally, than something like a BLM rally, which is for all Black people, but only because they're Black.
00:23:05.640I'm thinking about other, like, we'll say control cultures.
00:23:08.740I'm thinking about sports teams, for example, and I think it's really hard to, like, have a lot of pride for your sports team, but then to not be like, oh, that other sports team.
00:23:16.880Like, do you think it's possible to have pride while simultaneously holding respect for other groups, for outgroups?
00:23:27.220And I'm sorry, some people might not, like, know a lot of Jewish people or not have a lot of, like, hung out inside, like, Jewish people when they're being very honest about what they think of outside groups.
00:23:38.380I guess, yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, they do show a lot of respect for, like, oh, yeah, I love what this group does. It's really interesting.
00:23:57.220They don't do it with the people they're currently in conflict with, but they typically do it much better with groups that they're not in conflict with.
00:24:05.760With groups they're assimilating? Because that's all I'm thinking about right now.
00:24:08.840So, look at the Catholic group. I mean, they typically didn't see, like, Protestants as that much better than, like, Native groups and stuff like that.
00:24:15.220They have an equal level of disdain and discomfort with all cultural groups that aren't theirs.
00:24:21.720Okay, but that's different from being proud of your own group and respectful.
00:24:27.400How antagonistic those groups are to them.
00:24:29.960They might have an avowed Satanist or Wiccan or something like that, but that's because those groups are, like, actively in conflict with each other.
00:24:40.680You know, most Protestant groups are actually very good at this. Calvinists, historically, have been very good at this.
00:24:45.720Historically, Calvinists really did not see, like, they would be like, okay, this cultural group has problems competing in this way or this way.
00:24:53.100But, obviously, everyone is wretched, us especially, but we're just a little less than other people.
00:24:59.980It is not wrong for a cultural group to say people of our cultural group are different than people of other cultural groups.
00:25:05.860But when you tie that to an ethnicity, I think that that, or when you begin to rank other cultural groups outside of your group against each other and then treat them based on that, that becomes a big problem, socially speaking, because it means that your group doesn't need to improve as much.
00:25:20.220So, it's okay, like, for example, to disproportionately, like, if you are within one of these Black separatist groups, right, and they have, like, a distinct culture, and you are disproportionately rewarding other members of that Black separatist group, that is totally okay, like, totally ethical.
00:25:36.260But when you start rewarding other people who are outside of that group just because they're Black, that's totally unethical.
00:26:10.380You can have multicultural societies like we had in early America that lived alongside each other.
00:26:17.520But usually that happens when a symbiotic cultural group is the one in power and becomes less likely when a dominating cultural group is the one in power, which we've talked about in other videos.
00:26:27.140Something that people often miss is America was founded, and the majority of at least the white population in the country during the founding was the Calvinist cultural group, which did not believe that everyone could join it or everyone was meant to join it.
00:26:37.800So they didn't have conversion as a big part of their mission statement, which meant that they were like, okay, it was being Catholic because they were like, well, you were born to go to hell, so whatever.
00:26:47.260You know, or Jewish people, you know, you were born to go to hell, whatever.
00:26:49.720Like, we don't need to convert you as a state.
00:26:51.440Like, we're okay working alongside you, which is, you know, not dissimilar from Jewish cultural groups.
00:26:55.880They're also a symbiotic cultural group.
00:26:57.060They're like, ah, well, not everyone's meant to be Jewish.
00:26:58.420So they're usually, when you have a cultural group that thinks that anyone can convert or anyone can be a member of their cultural faction, like the progressives or like some other Christian denominations, when they become the majority faction in an environment, they often will try to use government apparatus to commit cultural genocide and force the conversion of people who are different from them.
00:27:18.600Which ultimately ends up weakening those societies, as we've talked about in other videos, you know, if you're talking about fertility rate or economics or really anything, typically, more diverse societies seem to be doing better and seem to do better historically.
00:27:31.940But the reason is, is because the diversity leads to competition, the diversity of economic situations, the diversity of ethnic groups and the recognition of, and the diversity of cultures and the recognition that this diversity is meaningful, but that ultimately you're only competing with yourself and your ancestors, not with the other, not with the other.
00:27:53.840Yeah, but it's good to like, see what other people do and compare notes.
00:27:56.480Speaking of comparing notes, actually, not at all.
00:27:58.740It is time for us to play with our kids.
00:28:00.420Oh, but I have so much fun talking to you, but I have so much fun playing with them.
00:28:05.780You know what our viewers haven't seen in a while is any after video shorts, because I stopped getting them from you.