How To Start A Fire

The House held a hearing on “white nationalism” today. One of the speakers was the conservative black woman Candace Owens, who gave a rousing opening statement. You can watch it here.

The focus on “white nationalism” by the Left has been a clever and effective tactic, one that exploits the essence of the conservative disposition. It is in the nature of that disposition to enjoy a quiet and orderly life, and to take one’s pleasure and fulfillment from that which is. It is therefore almost tautologically true that conservatives are by their very nature not social or political activists; indeed the word “conservative” attaches itself to nothing in particular.

This means that a conservative will be roused to political involvement, in general, only in reaction to that which is threatened — not by any pre-existing agenda for social or political change. If, then, you want to make people of a conservative disposition rise to defend something, the thing to do is attack it. If you want to see them become ardent capitalists, for example, you should go out of your way to attack capitalism. And if, let’s just say, you wished to create a previously nonexistent multitude of white identitarians, the thing you’d want to do would be to attack “whiteness”. You’d do it on TV and in the movies, in books and magazine articles, in political debates — and, most of all, you’d do it in the schools, where you have a captive audience of children and teens wondering what they ought to believe. You’d heap shame and scorn and guilt upon not only the present generation of white people — including white students themselves — but also upon their national heritage, the ancestors they were raised to venerate, and indeed upon the very civilization they’ve created. Suddenly scores of millions of conservatively inclined people, finding themselves accused, for their membership in a class they were simply born into, of the worst sorts of irredeemable social malevolence, will develop a defensive self-awareness, and will begin to stick up for themselves and the things they have created and sustained.

As soon as they’ve begun to do that, of course, you’ve got them right where you want them. Now you can point at this artificially inseminated, newly born identitarianism as being precisely the problem you’ve had your eye on all along, and suggest that it is now “in the open”, and “on the rise”. And you can build your own polyvalent coalition in opposition to it, doing everything you can to make people choose sides — which they will increasingly feel they have to do, as tensions rise and the middle hollows out.

And you should, of course, fan the flames as vigorously as possible throughout — with things like televised congressional hearings.

9 Comments

  1. JK says

    We may wait patiently the two years of the process, what we cannot do, is wait the two weeks for the product.

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 2:00 am | Permalink
  2. Whitewall says

    Long but thorough, and familiar to some:
    https://fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/2019/01/nation-american-style.html

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 6:22 am | Permalink
  3. This is a well-written post. I appreciate the insights you have made here. I imagine what you describe also fuels the long-term strategy behind mass migration into Europe.

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 8:45 am | Permalink
  4. The Left is trying to use their old Jacobin/Marxist/Alynskeyite playbooks, and target heritage white Americans “white nationalist” virtual neo-nazis as their contemporary scapegoats, but all they will do is instigate a brutal civil war that they will lose.

    “Covington Gives a Glimpse of CW2”

    /snip/ “…before every notorious genocide, the same pattern of marginalizing and demonizing a designated scapegoat population has occurred. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the national mainstream media signaled that it was now acceptable to vent seething racial hatred against white males, even teenage boys. This was further telegraphed when notable verified Twitter blue-check accounts were not suspended after doxing the boys and posting explicit calls for violence against them. (By way of contrast, I was permanently banned from Twitter for posting an anti-burka meme that did not even name a religion.)

    “The Covington confrontation points to an ironclad historical pattern. Every previous genocide in modern times was preceded by a similar pattern of public demonization of state-designated scapegoats. But is correlation causation? Does the American Left intend to eventually commit genocide against white heritage American males? In my opinion, yes. Scapegoating is part of a clear pattern of conduct seen during every socialist power grab from the French Revolution until now. In the case of German national socialists, European Jews were the scapegoats of the Nazis during their climb to power. In the case of international socialists, AKA Communists, class enemies were usually but not always the designated scapegoats. Examples of class enemies would include the Kulaks in the Soviet Union, “landlords” in China, and “intellectuals” in Cambodia. But in other cases ethnic groups were targeted as scapegoats by Communists, to include the Ukrainians, Crimeans, Latvians and others.

    “So, are today’s Democrats already planning to load their white heritage American enemies into boxcars for trips to a new Gulag? Probably not many at this time, but Barack Obama’s political mentor Bill Ayers certainly considered it. Ayers believed that so many Americans would bitterly resist Communism that 25 million would have to be “eliminated”.”
    https://www.americanpartisan.org/2019/01/covington-gives-a-glimpse-of-civil-war-two/

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 9:03 am | Permalink
  5. TS Adams says

    I’ve never thought much about being white but I find myself getting whiter by the day here lately. And I like it. I believe that what made the white race–caucasian–(by the way Jews are considered of the same root stock) superior in our civilization building accomplishments was and is Christianity and it’s moral code. But now that we are turning into pagans our accomplishments will falter and fail–maybe. I don’t mean technical improvements. That doesn’t make a people great. It is their cultural institutions and moral character.

    Our enemies have categorized us as haters, racists, nationalists(?), etc. We should tag them with degenerates, traitors, sexual deviates, anti-Christs, communists, insurgents, a virus, etc, in all of our writing. Not one of these would be a lie. We need people good at wartime propaganda because our fight is psychological as much as it will be physical on the great day of our judgement.

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 5:47 pm | Permalink
  6. Dave says

    Our most urgent task is to engineer a mass purge of white women from high-status jobs and replace them with persons of color. Expelled from the progressive movement, white women might say “screw it, I am racist” and go back to marrying white men, bearing white children, and cutting eye-holes in white pillowcases.

    Posted April 10, 2019 at 11:17 pm | Permalink
  7. JK says

    https://thehill.com/homenews/438254-candace-owens-clip-becomes-most-watched-c-span-twitter-video-from-a-house-hearing

    Posted April 11, 2019 at 10:23 am | Permalink
  8. june cahill says

    The fans of flame have been ‘fanning’ in schools for over 40 years now – I know, I taught bi-lingual ed, ESL (which was a wonderful program) and multi-cultural ed (ashamed) – My husband and I are currently hosting our 17 year old niece from Brasil for her junior & senior years of HS. Junior year required her to take “Am Hist” however, since there was no space left in the class when she went to register, she ended up in ‘Am Hist with a Mexican point of view” – some of the things she says the teacher is telling them and articles he gives them (straight our of the NY Times) are horrifying. I thank God she has us, and is a girl who was taught to ‘think for herself’ – I just wonder about the other kids in the class that are absorbing this garbage the teacher is spewing.

    Posted April 11, 2019 at 11:22 am | Permalink
  9. Jonah Kyle says

    Summary by Democrats / Communists / Future genociders:

    “If you’re white, you’re wrong. End of line.”

    Posted April 11, 2019 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

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