RadixJournal - Why Do They Hate Us？

00:00:00.040 Why do they hate us?

00:00:03.320 That's a question that was famously asked by journalists and presidents and average Joes 1.00

00:00:10.380 in the aftermath of the September 11th terror bombings.

00:00:15.580 Judging by the last 14 years of disastrous wars,

00:00:21.040 sending grandma through pat-down lines and x-ray machines and freedom fries,

00:00:26.600 I think it's safe to say that we never really answered that question

00:00:32.000 with a great deal of honesty and self-awareness.

00:00:36.300 Hopefully we can do a little bit better here today.

00:00:40.760 Well, first let's break this question down.

00:00:44.700 When I say us, I recognize that there are many different people in this room

00:00:50.280 with varying perspectives, hopes, and dreams.

00:00:53.380 So I'll define us simply.

00:00:57.480 We think race is biologically real

00:01:01.200 and that it has tremendous social, cultural, and historical consequences.

00:01:08.980 More important, we have a passionate attachment to our extended family

00:01:14.740 and the cultures and civilization that it birthed.

00:01:18.600 Now, when I say hate, I'm not referring to a passing emotion

00:01:27.020 or a maniacal contempt or loathing or resentment to some particular individual.

00:01:33.860 I'm referring to something much bigger.

00:01:38.460 To the total delegitimization of the white man

00:01:43.160 and to what is often called white guilt. 0.72

00:01:47.080 This feeling that is so pervasive that the white race and white racism 0.97

00:01:54.740 are uniquely responsible for suffering and injustice in the world.

00:02:00.540 These ideas could best be summed up by Susan Sontag's facile remark 0.99

00:02:16.420 that the white race is the cancer of human history. 1.00

00:02:21.020 Sontag, of course, was a literary poser, 0.98

00:02:23.800 but the sentiment behind her words is very much a part of the imagination

00:02:30.420 of millions of people

00:02:32.360 and has become a kind of implicit slogan of the unified left.

00:02:39.800 Yesterday, a friend sent me a photographic essay

00:02:43.640 from the hugely popular website BuzzFeed.

00:02:47.080 A journalist, Isaac Fitzgerald,

00:02:51.760 met with attendees at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs,

00:02:57.900 which sounds like a dorky conservative gathering, to say the least.

00:03:03.780 Fitzgerald asked them to send a message

00:03:06.140 to the White Straight Male Publishing Establishment 0.96

00:03:12.040 and, apparently, white straight males in general.

00:03:17.080 And so here are the results.

00:03:20.920 Read less straight white men.

00:03:23.720 That's actually the most benign one.

00:03:26.360 We owe you nothing. 0.99

00:03:29.220 Sit down and let us abolish you. 0.98

00:03:34.600 And she looks so sweet.

00:03:38.920 We are not tokens.

00:03:41.820 You have not doomed us.

00:03:43.920 You've doomed yourselves.

00:03:45.640 Agreed.

00:03:51.480 We don't need you.

00:03:56.180 No comment.

00:03:59.140 Take a vacation.

00:04:01.180 A long one.

00:04:02.700 It's pretty sinister.

00:04:06.360 Don't assume that you are at the center.

00:04:09.460 It's actually good advice.

00:04:10.380 In thinking about the they and why do they hate us,

00:04:17.380 it's tempting to focus on the kinds of people in these images

00:04:21.180 or the kinds of people who have often protested just outside our conference.

00:04:28.440 You know the type.

00:04:30.160 A particularly furry and foul-smelling species.

00:04:33.720 Even the male varieties.

00:04:38.860 But I have sometimes wondered if we just totally misunderstand these people.

00:04:43.140 And when they protest, they're actually groupies and rabid superfans

00:04:49.240 who have traveled across the country to come up, hold up a sign,

00:04:52.740 and scream our name and maybe get an autograph.

00:04:55.180 We just haven't given them a chance.

00:04:57.100 In other words, it's tempting to focus our inquiry on leftist,

00:05:03.960 social justice warriors, and granola communists.

00:05:07.700 Because they personify in our minds what white guilt is and means.

00:05:14.160 We don't quite understand what motivates them.

00:05:17.260 But whatever it is, it certainly can't be reduced to money or career advancement.

00:05:24.740 They are true believers, which you could say makes them interesting.

00:05:32.000 But in focusing solely on this low-hanging fruit, we miss the big picture.

00:05:38.000 We radically underestimate just how widespread and seemingly normal white guilt really is.

00:05:48.580 We overlook the banality of evil.

00:05:52.920 Those little things that go on every day,

00:05:56.700 which millions take for granted or don't even think about at all,

00:06:00.620 and which are slowly eating away at our future.

00:06:03.320 For when I say they, in why do they hate us,

00:06:09.840 I'm actually referring to everyone.

00:06:13.360 To the vast majority of the population of the industrialized world.

00:06:18.820 They hate us.

00:06:20.580 And we know it.

00:06:22.680 It's why even the brave ones among us are afraid to show their faces.

00:06:29.000 White guilt is indeed so pervasive 0.80

00:06:31.540 that it's difficult to pinpoint

00:06:33.540 or say where it ends and where it begins.

00:06:38.360 For millions who don't want to think about white guilt,

00:06:42.820 white guilt is thinking for them.

00:06:46.500 So what do I mean by all this?

00:06:48.920 As likely everyone here remembers,

00:06:51.380 last August, a major story emerged from Rotherham

00:06:55.820 in South Yorkshire, England.

00:06:58.220 A report revealed that between 1997 and 2013,

00:07:04.520 some 1,400 children in the town,

00:07:07.960 and likely many more,

00:07:10.020 experienced the worst kinds of sadistic rape, 0.93

00:07:14.400 beatings, and torture.

00:07:17.380 In the words of the BBC,

00:07:19.840 gang rape had become a usual part of growing up in Rotherham,

00:07:24.940 this otherwise quaint town with Roman ruins and a Gothic cathedral.

00:07:32.100 Looking into the matter further,

00:07:34.320 we discovered that the vast majority,

00:07:36.560 if not all, of the alleged rapist and child abusers 0.70

00:07:40.420 were Asian,

00:07:42.220 which in British parlance means Arab, Semitic, and mostly Muslim.

00:07:46.680 Furthermore,

00:07:48.680 the reason this grotesque situation was allowed to persist for so long

00:07:55.840 was that the accusations, stories, and rumors

00:07:59.400 that the authorities were hearing

00:08:01.160 always involved Asian men as the perpetrators.

00:08:04.860 The town council thus constantly avoided the issue,

00:08:11.060 like someone trying to forget a bad memory

00:08:14.120 because they feared being called racist.

00:08:18.920 In a way, the Rotherham case would be much more reassuring

00:08:23.600 if it had been revealed that the town council

00:08:26.460 were secret Maoist revolutionaries,

00:08:29.460 Muslim power activists, 0.99

00:08:31.880 or just Satan worshippers or perverts. 1.00

00:08:35.400 That is, if they were part of some dark conspiracy 1.00

00:08:38.880 to destroy the white race. 0.98

00:08:41.400 What makes Rotherham truly horrifying 0.99

00:08:44.540 is that they weren't.

00:08:47.580 The authorities in the town were,

00:08:50.640 to all accounts,

00:08:52.320 respectable white people

00:08:53.780 who took their positions

00:08:55.700 and social responsibilities seriously.

00:08:59.460 The story offers us a glimpse

00:09:02.380 of just how powerful white guilt can be.

00:09:06.460 In our society,

00:09:08.340 being labeled a racist

00:09:09.620 is arguably more damaging

00:09:11.880 than being convicted for murder.

00:09:14.860 For even murderers get second chances.

00:09:18.340 But I never imagined

00:09:19.820 that white people might actually prefer 1.00

00:09:22.220 that their children be raped and demeaned 1.00

00:09:25.940 than they have the scarlet R 1.00

00:09:28.620 penned on their chest.

00:09:32.400 So what does this mean for us?

00:09:36.200 Who are we,

00:09:37.320 who are taking part in this conference

00:09:39.900 on matters that most white people

00:09:42.580 would equate with unspeakable crimes?

00:09:46.540 Among other things,

00:09:48.140 this means that we occupy

00:09:49.580 a very strange position in modern society.

00:09:53.080 As the writer Gregory Hood remarked,

00:09:57.900 we racists,

00:09:59.440 as our enemies call us,

00:10:01.420 are utterly powerless.

00:10:03.960 And yet,

00:10:04.740 we've got all the power.

00:10:07.480 We are what huge foundations,

00:10:10.100 even sovereign governments,

00:10:11.000 have dedicated billions to combat,

00:10:15.400 unsuccessfully.

00:10:16.300 We are what rival politicians

00:10:19.580 accuse each other of being.

00:10:23.080 We are able somehow

00:10:24.540 to sow hatred in the world,

00:10:26.880 which would otherwise enjoy

00:10:29.040 a multiracial embrace.

00:10:32.360 We might very well feel powerless,

00:10:36.820 not to mention impoverished

00:10:38.840 and other things,

00:10:39.860 but that is not how we are viewed.

00:10:44.300 Our situation reminds me

00:10:46.180 of an old joke,

00:10:47.800 one that involves ethnic humor,

00:10:49.820 but which is actually beloved

00:10:51.540 by anti-racist and leftists.

00:10:55.240 There are two Jews

00:10:56.700 sitting on a park bench

00:10:57.980 one Sunday.

00:10:59.880 One discovers that the other

00:11:01.300 isn't reading the New York Times

00:11:03.000 or whatever as usual,

00:11:04.520 but instead is reading,

00:11:05.900 of all things,

00:11:06.740 a neo-Nazi pamphlet.

00:11:08.240 When asked how 1.00

00:11:10.380 he could read such trash, 1.00

00:11:12.540 the Jew remarks that 1.00

00:11:13.540 he loves this magazine.

00:11:15.900 It says here

00:11:16.600 that the Holocaust never happened 0.95

00:11:18.160 and that you and me

00:11:19.220 control the world.

00:11:21.440 Well,

00:11:21.860 such a joke

00:11:25.620 is of course misleading

00:11:27.060 with regard to the status

00:11:29.120 of Jews in modern America

00:11:30.480 and the power

00:11:31.480 of some Jewish organizations.

00:11:34.020 But is this joke

00:11:35.920 not perfectly suited to us

00:11:38.160 perhaps we should spend

00:11:40.900 more therapeutic Sundays

00:11:42.460 reading critical race theory.

00:11:44.860 We'll learn just how powerful

00:11:46.760 we really are.

00:11:49.440 Are our institutions underfunded?

00:11:52.640 Have some of us lost our jobs

00:11:54.520 or become estranged

00:11:55.960 from our wives for our views?

00:11:58.460 Never fear,

00:12:00.240 for apparently we have hegemony

00:12:02.200 over the known world.

00:12:03.420 What this situation tells us

00:12:08.460 is that

00:12:09.000 however futile

00:12:11.040 our efforts might feel,

00:12:13.820 and they feel futile sometimes,

00:12:16.560 when we do

00:12:17.760 what we do,

00:12:19.160 we're doing something powerful,

00:12:22.040 something dangerous.

00:12:23.940 We're dynamite.

00:12:26.620 And because of that,

00:12:28.240 we make the modern world

00:12:29.640 hysteric.

00:12:33.760 In case you think

00:12:34.840 I'm exaggerating,

00:12:36.400 I would direct your attention

00:12:38.000 to the recent travails

00:12:40.040 of little old me.

00:12:43.380 To sum things up,

00:12:45.200 in the fall and winter

00:12:46.400 of last year,

00:12:47.920 I was dragged out of a bar

00:12:49.700 in Budapest

00:12:50.520 by the police,

00:12:52.340 thrown into jail

00:12:53.300 for three days,

00:12:54.660 then shipped out of the country

00:12:56.060 in cuffs.

00:12:56.620 When I arrived back home,

00:12:59.160 a social movement

00:13:00.200 had formed

00:13:00.920 dedicated to making

00:13:02.420 Richard Spencer illegal.

00:13:07.140 In phrasing things this way,

00:13:09.240 I'm exaggerating

00:13:10.440 only slightly.

00:13:12.940 The story,

00:13:14.200 if you haven't heard it,

00:13:15.200 goes like this.

00:13:17.260 My organization,

00:13:18.600 the National Policy Institute,

00:13:20.560 was to host an event

00:13:22.040 quite similar to this one,

00:13:23.840 an English-language conference

00:13:26.140 in the beautiful

00:13:27.300 imperial city

00:13:28.480 of Budapest.

00:13:31.680 Jared Taylor

00:13:32.560 was to be a featured speaker,

00:13:34.000 as were other Americans,

00:13:35.320 a Croatian,

00:13:36.340 a noted Russian philosopher,

00:13:37.860 and a French activist,

00:13:39.040 among others.

00:13:40.980 The Budapest event

00:13:42.560 was to be something rare.

00:13:44.820 It was a genuine attempt

00:13:46.520 by all involved

00:13:48.000 to be good Europeans,

00:13:51.140 to think as Europeans,

00:13:53.060 and to try to overcome

00:13:55.360 the ethnic conflicts

00:13:57.000 and hatreds

00:13:58.020 that have informed

00:13:59.140 European history

00:14:00.220 to this very day

00:14:01.760 to our great detriment.

00:14:04.740 But,

00:14:05.140 from one perspective,

00:14:06.100 our gathering

00:14:06.820 could easily be

00:14:08.340 thought of

00:14:10.200 as entirely harmless.

00:14:12.460 The event

00:14:13.040 was just talk

00:14:14.080 and would have been

00:14:15.280 attended by journalists,

00:14:16.980 bohemians,

00:14:17.660 and other dreamers.

00:14:18.520 But we struck a nerve.

00:14:21.860 We became dangerous.

00:14:24.300 As I was increasingly aware,

00:14:26.160 our conference

00:14:26.760 was making headlines.

00:14:28.780 And it was becoming

00:14:29.620 a political football,

00:14:31.260 and even launched

00:14:32.360 a sort of

00:14:33.060 constitutional crisis

00:14:34.580 over free speech

00:14:36.160 in Hungary.

00:14:37.800 The event

00:14:38.680 happened to be scheduled

00:14:39.600 just before

00:14:40.140 a parliamentary election,

00:14:41.380 and suddenly

00:14:42.520 politicians

00:14:43.200 were forced

00:14:43.760 to weigh in

00:14:44.560 on the hate

00:14:45.540 that was just about

00:14:46.600 to descend

00:14:47.160 on them

00:14:47.860 from abroad.

00:14:50.760 Then strange things

00:14:52.260 started to happen.

00:14:53.300 First of all,

00:14:54.080 all of our venues

00:14:54.980 canceled.

00:14:57.160 Next,

00:14:57.740 and through our colleagues,

00:14:58.720 we had made contact

00:15:00.260 with a man

00:15:00.740 named Marton

00:15:01.640 Gianjosi

00:15:02.860 and the ethno-nationalist

00:15:04.520 party,

00:15:04.980 Yabek. 0.80

00:15:06.040 But suddenly,

00:15:07.040 these contacts

00:15:08.180 were claiming

00:15:08.660 that they had

00:15:09.220 no idea

00:15:10.140 who we were.

00:15:11.380 They were apparently

00:15:11.920 suffering from a kind

00:15:13.000 of political amnesia.

00:15:15.700 I hope they recovered.

00:15:18.700 Things started

00:15:19.540 to get crazy

00:15:20.360 when we were denounced

00:15:21.440 by the minister

00:15:22.220 of the interior,

00:15:23.800 and then by no less

00:15:25.020 than the prime minister

00:15:26.080 himself,

00:15:27.060 Viktor Orban,

00:15:28.120 who claimed

00:15:28.660 that he would use

00:15:29.500 quote,

00:15:29.880 all legal means,

00:15:31.220 end quote,

00:15:31.660 at his disposal

00:15:32.440 to stop us.

00:15:35.200 I was taken aback

00:15:37.300 by all this,

00:15:37.940 and I certainly

00:15:38.740 thought that maybe

00:15:40.680 I should just

00:15:41.280 cancel everything.

00:15:43.760 But there was

00:15:44.520 something about

00:15:45.120 doing that

00:15:45.720 that didn't feel

00:15:46.520 right.

00:15:48.900 First off,

00:15:49.720 there were some

00:15:50.160 150 people

00:15:51.400 coming to Budapest

00:15:52.380 from around the world.

00:15:54.140 Conferences are really

00:15:55.020 about meeting people

00:15:56.080 and making friends,

00:15:57.240 not speeches.

00:15:58.320 So why shouldn't we

00:15:59.020 all come together

00:15:59.820 in a private venue?

00:16:01.920 On another level,

00:16:03.040 I felt that our movement

00:16:04.080 needed to stand

00:16:05.260 its ground.

00:16:05.860 And we needed

00:16:07.240 to force our enemies

00:16:08.680 to play by their own

00:16:09.980 rules and follow

00:16:11.420 through with their

00:16:12.140 threats.

00:16:14.200 If Viktor Orban

00:16:15.460 was determined

00:16:16.260 to act like a

00:16:17.700 liberal caricature 0.97

00:16:18.700 of a fascist

00:16:19.620 and demonstrate

00:16:20.620 our movement's

00:16:21.540 resolve all at the

00:16:22.440 same time,

00:16:23.280 then why should I

00:16:24.080 stop him?

00:16:27.740 The rest is,

00:16:29.320 as they say,

00:16:29.920 a blur.

00:16:30.380 The government

00:16:32.800 sent a detail

00:16:33.860 of a couple dozen

00:16:34.860 police officers,

00:16:35.920 some undercover,

00:16:37.220 to track us down

00:16:38.240 at a local bar.

00:16:40.000 I was arrested

00:16:41.100 around midnight,

00:16:42.620 and the next 15 hours

00:16:44.100 were comprised

00:16:45.000 of bright lights,

00:16:46.440 hard benches,

00:16:47.280 and being shuttled

00:16:48.000 between various

00:16:48.800 bureaucracies.

00:16:50.320 I was forced

00:16:51.220 to sign my name

00:16:52.260 to documents

00:16:52.940 printed at Magyar,

00:16:55.160 which is understandable

00:16:55.880 we were in Hungary,

00:16:56.580 but they gave the

00:16:57.140 proceedings a Kafka-esque

00:16:58.960 quality.

00:17:00.340 I was then informed

00:17:01.500 that I had been

00:17:02.280 declared a national

00:17:03.380 security threat,

00:17:05.040 which made everything

00:17:07.940 even Kafka-esker.

00:17:13.260 Jail is the experience

00:17:14.940 of having everything

00:17:16.120 on your person,

00:17:17.420 up to the lint

00:17:18.300 in your pockets,

00:17:19.420 inspected and cataloged,

00:17:21.660 and then being under

00:17:22.500 constant surveillance

00:17:23.800 by guards,

00:17:24.920 literally even

00:17:25.800 while you sleep.

00:17:26.640 It's also the experience

00:17:29.220 of being served

00:17:30.120 some substance

00:17:30.960 that appears

00:17:32.140 to be a mix

00:17:32.820 between sawdust

00:17:33.740 and cat food.

00:17:35.860 I don't say any of this

00:17:37.600 to evoke pity.

00:17:39.780 In a way,

00:17:40.580 I'm deeply grateful

00:17:41.820 for what happened,

00:17:43.860 as funny as that

00:17:44.620 might sound.

00:17:46.440 A little bit of prison

00:17:48.020 goes a long way.

00:17:50.240 It focuses the mind.

00:17:51.840 It allowed me

00:17:53.400 to better understand

00:17:54.360 myself and learn

00:17:55.640 just how far

00:17:56.600 I was willing to go.

00:17:58.820 And crises reveal

00:17:59.760 character.

00:18:01.580 In other words,

00:18:02.800 you get to know

00:18:04.160 who your friends

00:18:05.160 really are

00:18:06.040 and aren't.

00:18:09.260 When I arrived

00:18:10.440 back in Whitefish,

00:18:11.540 Montana,

00:18:12.080 where I live

00:18:12.980 for half of the year,

00:18:14.200 I spent the next

00:18:15.340 few months

00:18:16.060 fighting a local

00:18:17.220 battle I previously

00:18:18.720 didn't think

00:18:19.500 was even possible.

00:18:21.640 I had been under

00:18:22.660 this impression

00:18:23.400 that Montana

00:18:24.580 was immune

00:18:25.940 to leftists,

00:18:27.740 that all those

00:18:28.680 people had

00:18:29.500 moved to Oregon

00:18:30.620 or something.

00:18:32.220 But,

00:18:33.000 lo and behold,

00:18:34.840 after the town paper

00:18:35.960 reported on my

00:18:37.000 Hungarian adventure,

00:18:39.180 a local rabbi

00:18:40.240 and his band

00:18:41.180 of the self-righteous

00:18:42.440 came out

00:18:43.380 of the woodwork.

00:18:45.000 The group

00:18:45.540 called themselves

00:18:46.540 Love Lives Here.

00:18:47.880 And much like

00:18:53.220 the SBLC,

00:18:54.200 their lives

00:18:54.820 are based

00:18:55.440 on hating hate.

00:19:07.620 Furry,

00:19:08.340 foul-smelling

00:19:08.920 creatures,

00:19:09.520 even the male

00:19:10.120 varieties.

00:19:12.120 In October,

00:19:13.240 more than

00:19:13.480 a hundred people

00:19:14.220 mobbed the

00:19:14.980 city council meeting,

00:19:16.080 telling various

00:19:16.860 tales of patriarchal

00:19:18.600 and racist oppression

00:19:19.580 and demanding

00:19:20.640 that the local

00:19:21.520 government ban me.

00:19:24.080 These efforts,

00:19:25.120 as you might imagine,

00:19:26.160 didn't go anywhere.

00:19:28.160 America is still 0.50

00:19:28.960 a free country,

00:19:30.640 or sort of.

00:19:32.600 At least,

00:19:33.540 we can say

00:19:34.040 that you aren't

00:19:34.740 allowed to pass

00:19:35.720 laws against

00:19:36.540 people you don't like.

00:19:39.360 My enemies

00:19:40.200 then decided

00:19:40.840 to pass

00:19:41.520 a much

00:19:42.720 weaker resolution,

00:19:44.540 one that simply

00:19:45.300 declared the goodness

00:19:46.540 of diversity.

00:19:48.840 And in a chess

00:19:50.160 move that

00:19:50.860 still brings

00:19:51.840 a smile

00:19:52.360 to my face,

00:19:53.560 I publicly

00:19:54.360 endorsed

00:19:55.100 their call

00:19:56.180 for greater

00:19:56.740 inclusiveness.

00:20:00.040 Writing for

00:20:00.840 the local

00:20:01.180 paper and even

00:20:01.860 standing before

00:20:02.680 them in the

00:20:03.540 city council.

00:20:05.500 I'm able to

00:20:06.420 chuckle at this

00:20:07.200 episode now,

00:20:08.400 but the fact is,

00:20:09.700 living through it

00:20:10.940 became very

00:20:11.760 painful.

00:20:12.220 being the

00:20:14.280 subject of

00:20:15.240 a witch 0.64

00:20:15.700 hunt

00:20:16.080 means

00:20:16.860 alienation.

00:20:18.840 It means

00:20:19.520 not being

00:20:20.220 home in

00:20:20.980 your home.

00:20:22.660 It means

00:20:23.440 this surreal

00:20:24.360 feeling

00:20:25.260 of knowing

00:20:26.200 you're on

00:20:26.620 everyone else's

00:20:27.580 mind.

00:20:29.420 The suspicious

00:20:30.460 glances

00:20:31.120 and stares,

00:20:32.280 the polite

00:20:33.080 request that I

00:20:33.960 had not

00:20:34.360 returned to

00:20:35.300 their shop

00:20:35.860 anymore,

00:20:36.560 and the

00:20:37.820 knowledge that

00:20:38.480 nothing will

00:20:39.060 ever be the

00:20:39.600 same.

00:20:42.300 But enough

00:20:43.120 about me.

00:20:44.940 The real

00:20:45.760 question is

00:20:47.500 how do we

00:20:47.960 make sense

00:20:48.800 of all these

00:20:50.020 threads?

00:20:51.900 In the case

00:20:52.840 of Whitefish,

00:20:53.880 we see

00:20:54.540 something all

00:20:55.400 too familiar,

00:20:56.920 and almost

00:20:57.600 entirely all

00:20:59.080 white community

00:21:00.060 reacts 0.97

00:21:00.920 pathologically

00:21:01.960 to any

00:21:03.020 movement for

00:21:04.080 white consciousness

00:21:04.960 and survival,

00:21:06.240 or even to

00:21:07.460 any individual

00:21:08.680 who appears

00:21:09.680 to be racially

00:21:10.560 aware.

00:21:12.700 For me,

00:21:13.780 this kind

00:21:14.480 of antipathy

00:21:15.340 and hatred

00:21:16.100 towards us

00:21:16.940 should never

00:21:18.060 be understood

00:21:18.980 as just

00:21:20.220 some

00:21:20.580 misunderstanding.

00:21:22.660 They don't

00:21:23.080 know what

00:21:23.620 we really

00:21:24.080 stand for,

00:21:24.900 or we

00:21:25.200 haven't yet

00:21:25.740 given them

00:21:26.280 our best

00:21:27.080 argument or

00:21:27.840 our best

00:21:28.260 data set.

00:21:29.920 To the

00:21:30.660 contrary,

00:21:32.460 their hatred

00:21:33.200 points us

00:21:34.640 to the

00:21:35.020 nature of

00:21:35.920 guilt,

00:21:36.960 the nature

00:21:37.480 of morality,

00:21:38.160 the foundation

00:21:39.080 of religion,

00:21:40.320 and the

00:21:40.700 things that

00:21:41.240 make us

00:21:41.900 social animals.

00:21:44.600 These are

00:21:45.360 uncomfortable

00:21:46.020 topics for

00:21:46.900 modern people,

00:21:47.920 who like to

00:21:48.980 believe that

00:21:49.680 they're all

00:21:51.140 past all

00:21:51.920 that,

00:21:52.880 that they're

00:21:53.320 post-moral,

00:21:54.740 post-guilt,

00:21:55.620 post-shame.

00:21:57.580 For them,

00:21:58.380 religion is 0.76

00:21:59.000 just another

00:21:59.600 lifestyle choice,

00:22:01.300 like yoga,

00:22:03.020 or the

00:22:03.400 paleo diet,

00:22:04.900 something one

00:22:05.480 could try out

00:22:06.440 or not.

00:22:08.180 They close

00:22:08.900 their eyes

00:22:09.680 to the

00:22:10.100 reality that

00:22:11.020 morality,

00:22:12.240 guilt,

00:22:12.820 and shame

00:22:13.380 are much

00:22:14.360 more than

00:22:15.060 personal.

00:22:16.980 They are a

00:22:17.580 force of

00:22:18.120 social bonding

00:22:19.200 and social

00:22:20.000 hierarchy.

00:22:22.420 Sam

00:22:22.820 Francis was

00:22:23.600 deftly

00:22:24.140 perceptive when

00:22:24.980 he observed

00:22:25.620 that modern

00:22:26.640 people have

00:22:27.380 not really

00:22:27.940 dispensed with

00:22:29.100 morality and

00:22:29.960 religiosity like 0.97

00:22:31.420 they think

00:22:31.860 they have.

00:22:33.080 They've just

00:22:33.780 rearranged it

00:22:34.900 and swapped

00:22:35.640 out the

00:22:36.080 parts while

00:22:37.340 maintaining the

00:22:38.300 same intensity.

00:22:40.380 Sam noted

00:22:40.880 that for the

00:22:42.400 Victorians,

00:22:43.740 the great

00:22:44.280 taboo was

00:22:45.140 sex, and 0.95

00:22:46.800 they were,

00:22:47.640 from the

00:22:48.060 perspective of

00:22:48.620 the 21st

00:22:49.180 century,

00:22:49.820 profoundly

00:22:50.500 repressed.

00:22:52.680 Sexual acts

00:22:53.800 and identities

00:22:54.560 that are now

00:22:55.160 commonplace on

00:22:56.080 television were

00:22:57.400 criminalized by

00:22:58.620 the men of

00:22:58.980 the 19th

00:22:59.460 century, or

00:23:00.440 seen as signs

00:23:01.520 of insanity

00:23:02.360 were denied

00:23:03.600 altogether.

00:23:05.360 On the

00:23:06.180 other hand,

00:23:07.360 the Victorians

00:23:08.140 would speak

00:23:09.080 about the

00:23:09.980 biological reality

00:23:11.460 of race,

00:23:12.620 not to mention

00:23:13.300 eugenics and

00:23:14.340 breeding, in

00:23:15.620 frank, carefree

00:23:17.640 terms that

00:23:18.800 would utterly

00:23:19.360 horrify the

00:23:20.740 enlightened minds

00:23:21.800 of today.

00:23:24.280 Seen in this

00:23:25.040 light, modern

00:23:26.120 people have

00:23:26.900 become Victorians

00:23:28.660 about race.

00:23:29.520 race, they've 0.82

00:23:30.740 become Puritans 1.00

00:23:31.960 about race.

00:23:33.920 Race has 0.80

00:23:34.400 become the

00:23:34.760 very center of

00:23:35.740 their moral

00:23:36.440 universe in

00:23:37.620 the most

00:23:38.060 unhealthy

00:23:38.780 fashion, so

00:23:40.600 much so that

00:23:41.460 the Rotherham

00:23:42.480 Town Council

00:23:43.440 was unable to

00:23:44.440 protect children

00:23:45.540 lest they

00:23:46.800 violate that

00:23:47.840 unspeakable

00:23:48.760 great taboo.

00:23:51.720 And we must

00:23:52.420 recognize that

00:23:53.560 this morality

00:23:54.400 of white guilt

00:23:55.680 would not be

00:23:57.380 nearly as

00:23:58.660 powerful and

00:23:59.740 successful as

00:24:01.200 it is, if

00:24:02.260 whites didn't 0.96

00:24:03.080 at some level

00:24:03.920 really believe

00:24:05.420 in it.

00:24:07.340 Put another

00:24:08.180 way, white

00:24:09.840 guilt could not

00:24:10.680 have triumphed 0.96

00:24:11.640 over whites

00:24:12.320 if whites

00:24:13.280 lacked that 0.83

00:24:14.380 special capacity

00:24:15.700 of becoming

00:24:16.860 their own

00:24:17.660 worst enemy.

00:24:19.900 This is the

00:24:21.000 manner in which

00:24:21.920 white guilt

00:24:22.580 functions as 0.64

00:24:23.900 guilt, that

00:24:25.160 is, as a

00:24:25.940 personal moral

00:24:27.020 experience.

00:24:29.040 Any animal

00:24:30.680 can feel shame.

00:24:32.620 My dog

00:24:33.580 feels shame

00:24:34.680 whenever I'm

00:24:36.720 capable of

00:24:37.420 actually

00:24:37.820 disciplining that

00:24:43.400 lovable creature.

00:24:45.660 Caught in the

00:24:46.480 act, he will

00:24:47.400 assume the

00:24:48.520 prone and

00:24:49.320 penitent posture

00:24:50.360 of a devout

00:24:51.360 monk.

00:24:53.840 Shame is based

00:24:54.560 on fear.

00:24:55.160 guilt, on the

00:24:57.320 other hand, is

00:24:58.580 shame when

00:24:59.940 one is alone.

00:25:01.740 Guilt is shame

00:25:02.740 without fear of

00:25:04.100 a master or

00:25:05.020 tribal elder.

00:25:06.920 Guilt is

00:25:07.400 disembodied shame,

00:25:09.040 internalized shame.

00:25:11.320 Guilt is our

00:25:11.860 ability to punish

00:25:13.020 ourselves.

00:25:15.160 And this

00:25:15.560 psychic violence

00:25:16.860 we are able to

00:25:17.880 inflict is what

00:25:19.280 we call our

00:25:20.120 conscience.

00:25:20.580 sins.

00:25:22.740 In a notable

00:25:24.060 book, Paul

00:25:25.240 Godfrey

00:25:25.780 understood modern

00:25:26.860 white guilt as

00:25:28.220 a kind of skewed

00:25:29.220 form of

00:25:29.880 Protestantism, with

00:25:31.760 slavery or the

00:25:32.700 Holocaust replacing 1.00

00:25:33.820 original sin. 0.93

00:25:35.980 But the white 0.89

00:25:36.740 man's ability to

00:25:37.840 inflict guilt on

00:25:39.320 himself goes back

00:25:40.600 much further, well

00:25:42.160 before Protestantism,

00:25:43.480 to the dawn of

00:25:44.400 Christianity in

00:25:45.260 Europe, and it

00:25:46.240 actually points to

00:25:47.320 something eternal

00:25:48.320 in ourselves.

00:25:50.800 In Beowulf, the

00:25:52.600 first great piece

00:25:53.660 of old English

00:25:54.640 culture from

00:25:55.960 950 AD, the

00:25:57.500 narrator relates,

00:26:00.460 that was sorrow

00:26:01.920 to the good man's

00:26:03.080 soul, greatest of

00:26:04.480 griefs to the

00:26:05.560 heart.

00:26:07.180 The wise man

00:26:08.280 thought that

00:26:08.960 breaking established

00:26:10.160 law, he had

00:26:11.700 bitterly angered

00:26:12.940 God, the Lord

00:26:14.500 everlasting.

00:26:15.100 His breast was

00:26:16.860 troubled from

00:26:17.640 within by dark

00:26:19.240 thoughts, as

00:26:21.360 was not his

00:26:22.080 want.

00:26:23.940 In this scene,

00:26:25.160 Beowulf is alone,

00:26:27.500 and yet he is

00:26:28.500 troubled by these

00:26:29.420 internal dark

00:26:30.560 thoughts about his

00:26:31.820 honor.

00:26:33.840 What kind of dark

00:26:35.000 thoughts haunt us?

00:26:39.240 We might be able

00:26:40.640 to glimpse, off in

00:26:42.840 the distance, another

00:26:44.640 version of

00:26:45.480 ourselves, with

00:26:46.960 another morality, one

00:26:49.700 that is utterly

00:26:50.580 immune to white

00:26:51.840 guilt, in fact, to

00:26:53.580 guilt in general.

00:26:57.100 There was a time in

00:26:58.720 our history when we

00:27:00.160 practiced what Nietzsche

00:27:01.380 called master

00:27:02.260 morality, a morality

00:27:04.320 that is self-contained

00:27:05.940 in a way that only an

00:27:07.760 aristocratic morality

00:27:09.000 can be.

00:27:09.820 we are we, we are

00:27:14.800 strong, we rule, we

00:27:17.940 are good.

00:27:19.960 They are other, they

00:27:22.220 are weak, they are 0.99

00:27:24.420 bad. 0.95

00:27:26.620 The greatest

00:27:27.800 revolution in morality

00:27:29.640 occurred when these

00:27:30.880 basic, natural, unthinking

00:27:33.240 assumptions were brought

00:27:34.540 into question.

00:27:35.300 when we began doubting

00:27:37.360 ourselves and giving

00:27:39.320 legitimacy and honor

00:27:41.320 to the other.

00:27:43.660 Some of us might long

00:27:45.460 for a return to that

00:27:47.580 old master morality,

00:27:50.580 perhaps today in the

00:27:52.320 form of an unthinking,

00:27:54.360 affirmative nationalism.

00:27:55.720 But I doubt anything

00:27:58.740 like that is possible

00:28:00.180 or desirable.

00:28:02.780 And we shouldn't

00:28:03.840 underestimate how

00:28:05.620 our conscience, our

00:28:07.740 self-questioning,

00:28:09.100 self-doubting,

00:28:09.960 self-loathing mechanism

00:28:11.420 has made us deep

00:28:13.120 and made us

00:28:14.440 interesting.

00:28:16.060 And we shouldn't

00:28:17.100 underestimate the

00:28:17.840 degree to which we

00:28:18.680 will need our

00:28:19.600 conscience in the

00:28:21.080 future to confront

00:28:22.800 the great challenges

00:28:24.080 of this new

00:28:25.220 century, which are

00:28:26.680 not the sexual

00:28:28.000 hot buttons of

00:28:29.480 contemporary

00:28:29.960 conservatism, but

00:28:31.900 the question of how

00:28:32.860 we can become

00:28:33.500 guardians of the

00:28:34.500 natural world and

00:28:36.160 the creatures that

00:28:36.960 live in it and

00:28:38.400 restrict our

00:28:39.340 unrelenting economic

00:28:41.400 and industrial will

00:28:42.660 to power.

00:28:44.740 But we shouldn't

00:28:46.040 forget that the

00:28:47.820 Jews and early

00:28:48.540 Christians who, at 0.96

00:28:49.940 the dawn of this

00:28:50.820 new age, said

00:28:52.900 that the meek

00:28:53.660 shall inherit the 0.99

00:28:54.600 earth, that the

00:28:55.780 first shall be

00:28:56.440 last, and that

00:28:57.780 there is righteous

00:28:58.500 and the most

00:28:59.040 pitiable, that

00:29:00.640 they were waging

00:29:01.620 war against their

00:29:03.100 masters, their

00:29:04.780 other embodied by

00:29:06.400 Rome, and making

00:29:08.120 them doubt

00:29:08.680 themselves.

00:29:10.820 In turn, we

00:29:12.180 shouldn't forget

00:29:12.820 that there is a

00:29:13.540 fundamental asymmetry

00:29:15.200 to the white guilt

00:29:16.400 phenomenon.

00:29:17.980 There is a

00:29:19.000 difference between

00:29:19.960 being sick with

00:29:21.300 guilt, being

00:29:22.400 decadent, as so

00:29:23.860 many millions of

00:29:24.860 white people are,

00:29:26.260 and, on the other 0.58

00:29:27.160 hand, promoting

00:29:28.500 white guilt as a

00:29:30.120 means of making 0.99

00:29:31.280 your enemy sick and 0.82

00:29:33.040 decadent. 0.96

00:29:35.220 Why do they hate

00:29:36.520 us?

00:29:38.220 The fact is, our

00:29:39.720 enemies are giddy

00:29:41.460 imagining a world

00:29:42.940 without us, as do

00:29:45.620 so many whites 0.99

00:29:46.520 embrace their own 0.88

00:29:47.640 oblivion. 0.98

00:29:50.000 White guilt is the 0.92

00:29:51.420 foundational morality

00:29:52.940 of this global

00:29:54.420 transformation we are

00:29:55.680 now experiencing, what

00:29:57.540 could be called the

00:29:58.600 great erasure.

00:30:00.560 It is a transformation

00:30:01.900 of a world created and

00:30:04.020 once dominated by

00:30:05.180 Europeans into a

00:30:07.100 world with many

00:30:08.380 European shapes and

00:30:09.880 forms, democracy,

00:30:11.980 feminism, free love, 1.00

00:30:13.620 and the iPhone, but a

00:30:16.520 world without

00:30:17.480 Europeans in it.

00:30:20.400 In other words, sit

00:30:22.480 down and let us 1.00

00:30:23.820 abolish you. 0.99

00:30:26.400 Opposing this coming 1.00

00:30:27.860 world and offering

00:30:29.760 alternatives to it is

00:30:31.920 the mission of our

00:30:33.260 movement.

00:30:35.320 In order to achieve

00:30:37.220 this, in order to

00:30:39.040 fight, we must learn

00:30:42.240 to rise and greet

00:30:44.220 the dawn with a

00:30:45.620 clear conscience.

00:30:47.320 Thank you very

00:30:47.840 much.

00:30:48.100 Thank you.

RadixJournal - May 22, 2015

Why Do They Hate Us？

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