You may recall a fellow by the name of Chris Langan (I wrote about him here, back in 2009). He has one of the highest IQs ever measured, but after a hard early life has lived quietly, without attracting much attention.
Yesterday I stumbled on a link to a page on the Q&A website Quora, where Mr. Langan had been asked for his opinion of identity politics. His answer, which is sure to sit well with those of you not ensorcelled by the ethnomasochistic blandishments of our latter-day cultural clerisy, was as follows:
My view on identity politics is that it can be justified only if everyone of any ethnicity is entitled to participate, in which case it is necessary for all (because failing to assert it, as when White people of European ancestry fail to assert it lest they be branded as “racists’, means leaving oneself and one’s group defenseless against competition for resources and opportunity). Alternatively, lest any group be denied its identity while others assert their own, group identity must be equitably denied to everyone.
Human identity is stratified, and thus has both individual and group levels. Accordingly, we can (and sometimes must) reason in terms of group identity. But when group self-identification is officially granted to some groups yet denied to others against which they compete, this can only result in imbalance and injustice. For example, when some overpopulating groups which have overtaxed their own resources by reproductive incontinence and homegrown oligarchy are allowed to migrate into the sovereign territories of worldwide ethnic minorities – e.g., people of European descent – and enjoy special “oppressed’ status whereby they reap special benefits such as free food, free housing, free education, free healthcare, affirmative action, reproductive subsidies, and special treatment under the law, and are even credited with moral superiority due to their alleged “oppression’, this can result in the destruction of the national, cultural, and ethnic identity of the hosts, leading ultimately to their extinction. Incoming groups which assert their own collective identities while denying their hosts any reciprocal right of political group cohesion thus amount to noxious, invasive, and ultimately lethal socioeconomic parasites. Obviously, any governmental authority which enforces or encourages such asymmetry – e.g., the European Union – is illegitimate.
Bear in mind that once we cease to treat individuals as individuals per se, thus allowing members of their respective groups to assert their ethnic, cultural, or religious (etc.) identities against their “oppressors’, their group properties and statistics are automatically opened to scrutiny and comparative analysis. For example, if after several generations of special treatment in the educational sphere (compulsory school integration, special programs, modifications of educational procedure, racially defined college admission preferences, etc.), a particular “oppressed’ group fails as a whole to outgrow these measures, its members are no longer entitled to exemption from objective characterization in terms of associated group statistics; if one wants to enjoy the social benefits attending ethically loaded group-defined properties like “belonging to an oppressed group’, one must submit to rational policies formed on the basis of not just individual assessment, but empirically confirmed group-defined properties such as “belonging to a group exhibiting a relatively low mean IQ and a tendency to violently disrupt the educational environment’. Continuing to pursue racially parameterized measures of human worth and achievement can only lead to personal injustice, social degradation, and biological degeneration (because such measures inevitably supplant any rational form of social, economic, and reproductive selection).
In short, identity politics should either be shut down immediately, or the majority populations of Europe and North America should be encouraged to assert their own ethnic and cultural identities and group interests with full force. Any governmental, academic, religious, or media authority which tries to prevent it is clearly unworthy of respect and obedience.
Correct in all important particulars, it seems to me.
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let me clarify, for those of us with sub-160 IQ’s:
Blacks overhelmingly do racial identity politics.
Latinos overwhelmingly do racial identity poltics.
Asiatics overwhelmingly do racial identity politics.
Muslims overwhelmingly do racial identity poltics.
Whites, though increasingly savaged by these hostile invasive ethnics, so far do very little in the way of racial identity politics.
and when they attempt to do so, a certain wealthy, powerful (((trans-national Tribe))) screams
“raayyyyscisssm! It’s annuduh Holocaust!”
but Whites had better overcome their financial dependency on and fear of this particular (((Tribe))), or they and their splendid civilization will soon be destroyed.
which is, of course, the ultimate purpose of the Judeo-globalists.
Accurate, completely accurate. I’ve heard it is due to “white guilt”; which is ridiculous as it sounds.
Or, more to the point; “I’ve” never owned slaves, and “you’ve” never picked cotton…
I like that one.
“which is, of course, the ultimate purpose of the Judeo-globalists.”
Those four groups you mention at the start are notorious for turning on each other in fits of ‘grievance purity’. Those are the wages of identity politics—it is for losers. Whites will largely refrain from that type of politics. We, I am white, don’t want to play their losing game. I want to encourage and egg on each of these groups against each other though as sort of proxy war.
that’s right; the Starbux (Jews/urban White cosmics vs.Blacks) thing being a current minor instance. Still, the (((Tribe))) – to judge from any number of public pronouncements from
Sontag to Soros – is determined to extinct the
the Whites. And I fear your watch and wait attitude will be to little and too late.
Wow, I’m guessing Langan won’t be invited to any of those fancy parties on the West Side. Spot on analysis though.
I have waited for nearly forty years to enroll in the University for Red-Neck or Scots-Irish studies. Perhaps the time draws near. I would be quite proud of the title “Professional Redneck”
We needed one of the smartest guys in the world to tell us this?
pedantic with a capital “P”.
Too pedantic.
Most of you fellows have figured out or been told 100 times what the end result is going to be. Now what are you going to do to prepare for it? Talking to people who do not listen accomplishes nothing.
Having run across his comments in a variety of other venues, it never fails to amuse me how – for Haxo – the answer is always, “The Jooz did it!” When intellect fails, consistency is admirable. Sort of.
There is probably an equally large number of WASPs – White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who are as bad as Soros, and some of the other people of Jewish descent who try to push the globalist agenda, to run things in support of their own agenda.
Fortunately, I don’t believe Haxo has commented enough here to become as tiresome as he has at WRSA and other blogs. But Haxo doesn’t travel the road to Damascus, so I don’t trouble myself waiting for him to actually become concerned by what a blind bigot he “self-identifies” as to the rest of the world.
RegT,
I’ve never seen “Haxo” here before.
Are the Jews a unique and exceptional population, who have had an outsized influence on Western affairs for centuries? Yes. Given their unique position within host nations wherever the diaspora have settled, and their history of both influence and persecution, can it rationally be considered to be in their interest to act, where they can, to dilute majority cultures? Yes again. There is much to understand there, and much that might profitably be examined and discussed — from the role of the Frankfurt School in the postwar West and the re-education of Europe, to the part that Jewish intellectuals and business-people have played in the promotion of globalism and multiculturalism, to the contributions — out of all proportion to their representation in the population — that Jews have made in science, philosophy, and culture. (Certainly, not all of these contributions have been positive: against people like Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Jascha Heifetz one could offer, just off the top of my head, Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Gloria Steinem, and Chuck Schumer.)
So yes, the Jews are a salient factor in both the history of the West and its present situation, and so the part they have played is a valid subject of discussion and analysis. But (and now I’m looking at you, Haxo): pointing and shrieking and using childish symbols is not a helpful way to open such a discussion — and I will ask you to refrain, or have your comments blocked.
Masterfully dealt with.