Occidental Dissent

Lawrence Auster (Jew) is once again fretting about, what else … ”anti-Semitism.” This time his complaint is that Tanstaafl and other vicious “Darwinian anti-Semites” refuse to hang on his every word and take each of his utterances at face value. Instead, these malicious bloggers and commentators continue to assign insidious motives to his selfless crusade to save Western civilization.

Auster is always at his best when he is testifying against himself. For years now, Larry has insisted that destructive Jewish behavior in the West is motivated by the same suicidal embrace of liberalism that plagues white gentiles. In a recent exchange with Paul Gottfried (Jew) though, Auster drew a clear and useful distinction between Jewish and Protestant liberalism. In fact, he goes on to say that Jews are not really liberals at all.

What distinguishes Jewish liberalism from Protestant liberalism is the following.

Jewish liberals see white Christians as guilty. The Jews feel ok about themselves, they think the white gentile majority is the problem.

By contrast, white Protestant liberals feel guilty about themselves. This leaves them without a confident group selfhood. They believe only in equality, only in their own guilt for somehow standing in the way of equality. It is this lack of collective and even individual selfhood, this inner nothingness, this willingness to be destroyed, that makes the white Protestants the true liberals. The Jews, whose collective and individual psyche is not guilty under liberalism (since in the liberal world view Jews are victims and the champions of victims), have psychological power and self-confidence and thus are not true liberals.

A true liberal is a person who is willing to accept his group’s extinction. Protestants are willing to accept their group’s extinction. Jews are not. Therefore Protestants are closer to the true liberal essence than the Jews are.

This is a very good analysis. It raises many questions. If Jews are not true liberals (having failed the litmus test of wishing dissolution upon their ancestral group), then what are they? If Jewish liberalism is insincere, then why are Jews so committed to pushing liberalism in the West?

The answer, of course, is that Jews are a self-interested ethnic group who cynically promote liberalism (and communism, neoconservatism, postmodernism, libertarianism, feminism, anarchism, etc.) to weaken other groups while empowering and enriching themselves. Similarly, Auster’s role as a Jewish activist on the “far right” seems to be to “fight anti-Semitism” and “advance the cause of Israel.”

As for Gintas’ “brilliant critique of the Darwinian anti-Semites,” it is nothing of the sort. The phenomena of parasitism is ubiquitous in nature. Parasites can modify the behavior of their hosts, induce non-adaptive behavior in their hosts, reduce the fitness of their hosts in all sorts of ways. A good example of this is the lancet fluke which commandeers the brains of ants and gets them to commit suicide by climbing up blades of grass where they can be eaten by cows or sheep. No benefit accrues to the ants from this. It goes exclusively to the lancet flukes and their progeny.

Auster himself has acknowledged the problem :

When Americans opened the Golden Door to millions of Jewish immigrants (from several of whom I myself am descended) in the late 19th century, if they had known that many of the grandchildren of those immigrants would be a bunch of permanent cultural subversives against this country, would they have let them in?

 
… but his concern is not the “bunch of permanent cultural subversives” (the parasites) nesting in this country. Rather, in his eyes the menace is the “anti-Semites” (the host) who would react by excluding them.

This duplicity crops up time and again in Auster’s writings. He complains endlessly about the ideal of non-discrimination, but he doesn’t advocate getting rid of the civil rights laws. He exorciates liberalism, but would retain liberal democracy as America’s form of government. He writes about black-on-white crime, but supports integration of which it is a product. He attacks multiculturalism, but would not force minorities to assimilate.

There is some nagging concern always at the back of his mind. It runs through the entire gamut of his writing. It causes him to qualify his position on countless issues. Tellingly, it does not seem to be shared by other racialists, which suggests it is some unique quality about Auster.

Auster’s self-contradiction is his own Jewishness. He can’t fully embrace white racialism because of his Jewish heritage. He can’t break completely with liberalism out of fear of what would happen to the Jews. At the same time, he can’t fully embrace his Jewishness because of his ideological commitment to racialism and conservatism.

In the end, Auster sounds like neither a Jew or a racialist. His own self-contradiction (his identity crisis) makes him a poor advocate for both sides.

As I do from time to time, this afternoon I felt the strange urge to drop in and see what’s going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I have been studying the country and its history ever since I was a freshman in college. The latest headline:

Rioting Congo prisoners rape 20 women

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rioting inmates raped around 20 female prisoners during a failed prison break in Democratic Republic of Congo’s violence-ravaged east, the country’s U.N. peacekeeping mission said. . .

The rape of women is going on in the Congo at such an unimaginable scale that HBO has filmed a recent documentary about the subject. The DRC is one of those places that runs so contrary to the progressive theory of history that it is almost never seen in the news.

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, a general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, has yet another column up in The Jewish Week attacking Pat Buchanan over a revisionist thread that was posted in a forum on Linda Muller’s website, Buchanan.org. This is the latest installment in an organized campaign by Jews to pressure MSNBC into dumping Buchanan from the airwaves. The paleo response has been telling: so far nothing but silence (crickets chirping) at Chronicles, The American Conservative, and Taki’s Magazine where more important topics like Mark Sanford’s disappearance are being discussed. This stands in stark contrast to the half dozen or so sanctimonious condemnations of Jared Taylor’s version of white racialism we were recently treated to.

Simply put, the paleos are afraid of the Jews, and it has never been more obvious than it is now. They won’t stand up for themselves even when the Jews are flagrantly pissing all over their greatest champion in unison. The only (vaguely) paleo website to even mention this series of attacks is VDARE. Peter Brimelow literally trips over himself in denying that he is a “White Nationalist” and never points out that Jews are once again “leading the charge.” In my experience, Jews have never had the same inhibitions about identifying and attacking their perceived enemies that conservatives do.

Another important lesson can be drawn from this: Jews are powerful, but they are not omnipotent. Although Jews are vastly overrepresented in the American media, they do not control every major media outlet, nor do they make every important decision. The noisemakers have been trying to get Buchanan fired (or Imus’d) since mid-May but so far haven’t got their way. The campaign seems to be dying down since its peak a few weeks ago. Perhaps Buchanan is too well connected to get knocked off so easily or maybe he is being kept around for some other reason.

Alex Linder supports the campaign to get Buchanan fired out his belief that it would further polarize Whites and Jews. I’m too young to remember when Sam Francis got fired from the Washington Times or when Peter Brimelow was canned at National Review, but their career misfortunes do seem to have pushed both of them in a more pro-white direction. If Buchanan really does get fired, the major paleo websites will have no choice but to confront the issue. Their response would likely be interesting.

friedrich braun is catching a lot of flak for arguing against the Single Jewish Cause of white racial decline. He correctly points out that liberalism is at least just as much to blame. Whites created the liberal democratic capitalist system that facilitated Jewish upward mobility out of the ghettos.

The Jews have escalated their campaign to pressure MSNBC into dumping Pat Buchanan. Yid With Lid (Jew) attacks Buchanan and cites an earlier article by Menachem Rosensaft (Jew) at The Huffington Post which does the same. The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants (Jews) is also piling on along with the others (Jews) mentioned in my previous post. This is the latest example of informal Jewish cabals operating in the media and how they network to advance their perceived ethnic interests.

From the New York Times :

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state’s litter prevention program got an unusual ally last year: A neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile section of highway in Springfield and picked up the trash. . . .

Lawmakers responded with an amendment to a large transportation bill that would rename that section of road after Abraham Joshua Heschel, a rabbi who narrowly escaped the Nazis in World War II and later marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Message: This isn’t your country anymore.

True Blood is the only show I watch on television. For those unfamilar with the HBO series (or the novels it is based upon), the show is about a telepathic small town Southern girl and her interaction with vampires, shapeshifters, and other supernatural beings. After Japanese scientists invent synthetic blood, vampires “come out of the coffin” on national television, demand civil rights, and begin to integrate into mainstream society as just another minority.

A few minutes ago, I found myself thinking about True Blood as a product of American culture; how the normal and the perverse have switched places. Bloodsucking monsters are depicted as fascinating, misunderstood, sympathetic creatures. In contrast, ordinary white conservative Christians are cast as homicidal rednecks or members of a violent, bigoted, intolerant hate group called the Fellowship of the Sun.

In case you are wondering, the creator of the series is a white Episcopalian from Mississippi. The director is a homosexual. I couldn’t find any information about his ethnicity, but the show is mostly faithful to the books. Even if Alan Ball is Jewish, he wouldn’t have to be these days. After decades of counterculture, millions of white Americans have become so accustomed to thinking of the perverse as normal that they demand and lap up this sort of material.

Note: The second episode of the second season comes on HBO tonight at 9 EST.

From the Jerusalem Post :

Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama’s administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll.

I seriously doubt Auster will be citing this as an example of Israel’s embrace of suicidal multiculturalism. More on this here.

This came at the end of a week in which the Israeli Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that Israel is a Jewish state.

The private member’s bill, proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev of the “Jewish Home” party, stipulates one year in prison to anyone who publishes “a call that negates the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State.”

 
Imagine what the reaction would be if a bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives that spitulated a year in prison for anyone who denies that America is a “white man’s country.” Don’t count on the anti-anti-Semites to draw any inferences about Jewish Power in America from this.

Takuan Seiyo (1/2 Jew) and Lawrence Auster (Jew) on the “horror” of “MacDonald type anti-Semitism” ; Kevin MacDonald responds. I particularly liked the conclusion of Seiyo’s screed:

Among the growing number of genuinely conservative and race-honest Jewish-Americans whose voices are worth listening to are names like Mark Levin, Michael Levin, Paul Gottfried, Michael Hart, Lawrence Auster, Dan Stein, Ilana Mercer, Julia Gorin, Nicholas Stix and others. Perhaps from them and others like them will come the impetus that can turn the left-tilting rudder of the multiculti ship of America’s Jewry.

… as if any of these Jewish men and women would support the exclusion of the “bad Jews” from America and other Western countries. Jewish ethnic loyalty trumps their ostensible commitment to “the West” every single time.