Occidental Dissent

At VFR, Auster writes:
I myself believe in race-neutrality as a rule for society, but only in the area of government’s relations with citizens, and citizens’ relations with each other as citizens.
After all his bloviating about liberalism, Auster himself embraces the principle of non-discrimination. I fail to see what is “traditional” about his brand of conservatism. [...]

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Lawrence Auster, who calls himself a “traditional conservative,” praises Lincoln’s “revolutionary” war against the South. A few days ago, he was describing the North’s effort to conquer the South as “conservative.”

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At Free Media Productions, Iceman makes a few controversial points about American racialists. Here is my response:
1.) Jews did play a major role in the demise of American racialism.
2.) Negroes and American Indians were not assimilated into American culture at the time when they were extended citizenship.
3.) The idea that America is a “nation [...]

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The American Racial History Timeline is getting lots of hits off search engines. It is quickly becoming the most comprehensive resource of its kind to be found on the net. I’ve added in the Jim Crow laws of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas over the past few days.

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At Mangan’s Miscellany, “Bemused Observer” asks:
I still haven’t been able to discern what “tradition” Mr. Auster is intent on preserving. Isn’t he a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement?
Is a “traditionalist” someone who (twice) supports the radical overthrow of the established law and customs of the South in the name of “equality” and “progress”?

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At VFR, Auster and Mencius Moldbug are sparring over the so-called “Civil War.” Moldbug correctly points out that Auster typically takes the leftist side in events that happened before 1960: he sides with the American rebels against the British; the Union against the Confederacy; with FDR against the Old Right; with the Civil Rights Movement [...]

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At VFR, Lawrence Auster opines that WASP timidity, an unwillingness to “make a fuss” about things, was responsible for the Immigration Act of 1965. He goes on to conclude that the fight to preserve America requires “white ethnics” who “don’t have the fatal upper-class WASP inhibition.”
Howard Sutherland notes in passing the major objection to this observation: [...]

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Massive updates have been posted to the Jim Crow section of the American Racial History Timeline.

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Following up on the previous post.
The United States was founded as a “white man’s country.” Outside of New England, Americans didn’t believe in the political equality of the negro. Here are the dates that individual states took legislative action to disenfranchise negroes:
Virginia (1723, 1762, 1830, 1850)
Georgia (1777)
South Carolina (1716, 1790, 1810)
Delaware (1792)
Kentucky (1799)
Maryland (1801, 1810)
Ohio [...]

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By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In other words, New England. This and many other entries have been added to the American Racial History Timeline.

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