Pride, Personal Exploration, and Class Warfare.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

This post started as a reply to malasadas' post on The State of White People in America incorperating elemenents of a reply I made to amazements earlier untitled post, that grew out of hand.

For the most part I find myself agreeing with malasadas' observations, but there is a critical aspect that I think many on the Right tend to gloss-over and most on th Left outright ignore. I feel that this is also the cause of the percieved discrimination against whites.

This aspect is White Pride.

Now for many people, both black and white, the image conjured by those two words is this...



My skin is pale (bordering on reflective) and my ancestery reads like a travelogue of Eastern and Contental Europe with occasional raids north into England and Scandinavia. I can claim no particular ethnic or cultural classification other than being of White/European decent.

To express any pride in this fact is to risk being labeled as one of those in the image above. But you know what? Though it is politically incorrect to admit it, I am proud.

In my admitedly biased opinion Western European Civilization is the best civilization ever. My ancestors, when they weren't too busy killing each other, conquered the known world and produced minds like Euclid, Machiavelli, Bach, Shakespere, Dostoyevsky, and Einstien. Yes there were a lot of right bastards in the mix as well, but do the Mongolians go around apologizing for Genghis Khan?

The accepted narrative of US politics is that of a class war between the oppressive white majority represented by wall street and thier political champions the GOP vs. the freedom seeking minorities, academics, and thier political champions the Democrats.

Imperialism is bad, Multi-culturalism is good, etc...

There is much to this narrative that is true and this is why it persists, but as malasadas said, it's a gross simplication and dismissive of the complicated interplays of societal trends across many different groups and individuals.

Personally, I dislike the term "Class War" as I feel that one's "Class" is most often an arbitrary designation usually assigned by someone in no position to do so. For instance, I am white and thus part of the "ruling class", I'm also a broke college student in a predominantly hispanic nieghborhood, if I'm supposed to be in charge clearly I'm doing something wrong.

This difficulty is also illustrated in my reply to amazements

It would be easy to argue that Obama's energy policies are clearly an attack on Rural Americans. Increased fuel prices lead to fewer available jobs and higher food prices. Trust me, when your job involves driving a truck or tractor $4.00 a gal adds up quick. And the push for more public transportation does little to benefit those outside major population centers. The Message Leftists have embraced seems to be "who give's a fuck about those ignorant slope-heads in the flyover states?"

Leftists like to portray the tea part as some many headed deamon that rose from the darkest depths of ignorance and racism but is it any surprise that they're angry?


Yes there is a Class War but the sides are constantly in flux and too numerous to count. The Rich left fights the poor right, The rich right exploits on the poor left, the Rural fight the Urban, and the media acts as mercenaries.

We need a new narrative.

Comments

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

An all around excellent point. ^

However, keep in mind that the tribulations of WWII and the civil rights movement are rapidly fading from living memory. As illustrated in dark_weezing's comment above he now have a generation who, from the moment they were born, have been told that they should be ashamed of who thier ancestors where and the color of thier skin.

With this in mind is it any surprise that there is a percieved anti-white bias?

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind also the irony that WWII began as a collaboration of fascism and communism against democracy and turned into the triumph of Soviet freedom against Nazi slavery on the ground and democracies on the sea and in the air. The collapse of the USSR surely means after 20 years we can acknowledge that WWII was not quite as pure as we make it out to be and that Stalin really was an epic dick almost as much as Hitler, and for all that Stalin was one of the biggest winners in the war.

This is why correcting failures of certain views of the past matters. The view that US armies, all-white, won the war by landing at Normandy lies at the root of overestimation of US power that has put the USA on a train hurling off a cliff. That's why I'm so anal about the past, because the USA has turned itself into the Justice League when in reality US policies have been like everyone else's policies more ambiguous and heavily marred by white supremacy.

For that matter, the Reconstruction/Redemption era in a truthful view of what made the USA what it is today exceed the history of the Civil War fivefold. Unsurprisingly history focuses on the clearer issues of the war, not the failure of white liberalism in the 1860s ad 1870s that succeeded it. For such is the rest of the story and such is the death of myths we tell ourselves. And such also the roots, ironically, of "anti-white" bias in obscuring the very roots of white supremacy itself.

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

Indeed, but what you should do is track the anti-white bias in modern media, as it is really hard to detect. If not, maybe I can do it, as I do believe you're onto something. For a starter, go with the Omaha article I linked.

And, yeah, you're told, day in and out, you're racist for reasons you personally weren't responsible for, it is bound to have an effect. And eventually, if you're truly open-minded, you start to rebel. And, I guess, in my way, I'm starting to. That's why I don't care for the Left among other reasons -- anymore, race and class are the foremost things in its collective mind. I don't think that, so here we are.

A recent Jonah Goldberg commentary did address the generational issue, and how my generation goes "that's racist" in a completely different direction than intended.