Revisting the Evils of the Anti-Racists

For the past few days I've been parrying with a decidedly inferiority-complex-bound intellect (I use the term loosely) in the comments section over at FreedomFolks who is openly determined to promote unfettered mass immigration as a penance for the evils of his ancestors. I've rarely come across someone so consumed by self-loathing in the 13 years I've been posting stuff on the Internet; today, the insistent little gnat came out of the closet and revealed his guilt for having Spanish, Italian and "Native American" blood. It appears he believes he must make amends with the "Indian" part of himself for the things that his Spaniard ancestors did. It all would be comical and laughable if his premise were not so pathetic, and his desire to take the nation down with him so virulent. I guess his being miserable about the combination of genes with which he was born isn't enough, he has to make us share his despair.

No thanks.

As is the case with all discussions in which a leftist is the antagonist, the time is fast approaching in which we can all invoke Godwin's Law and be done with him. He's already devolved into calling racist anyone who disagrees with his assessment that this nation is evil and must make amends for every wrong he perceives it has ever done by allowing ourselves to be over-run by the denizens of the third world. Right now, he's stuck on ad-hominems about our being bigoted for even thinking that this nation has a culture we should be concerned about keeping. Such is the plight of the anti-racist: He cannot see that he has become the reverse-actualization of the very figment-evil he decries.

All of this got me to thinking about a long ago post in which I agreed with Jim Kalb's assessment of the anti-racists. Nearly two years after the fact, this page is one of the most read of all I've ever posted here. And I think it's time that I bring Kalb's work to the forefront again. After all, the time I wasted responding to guilt-ridden trolls has to be good for something, right?

Anti-racism -- Jim Kalb

Indeed, anti-racism requires anti-majority racism. An anti-racist ruling class must treat the majority as presumptively wrong. "Ingrained social stereotypes" -- the culture and habits of the majority -- must be discredited because their dominance puts minorities at a disadvantage. Since habits and culture are what make a people what it is, the things that make the majority a people must be attacked; the majority must be defined as racist, and therefore evil and unfit to rule or even exist. "Racist" has the same function today that "nigger" once did: it makes a man less than human and so unfit for self-government.

Attempts to abolish deeply rooted human tendencies are necessarily tyrannical; "rule by the people" is absurd when a government that loses confidence in the people can dissolve it and form a new one. Such attempts inevitably fail, and succeed only in destroying traditional restraints. Attempts in Russia to abolish the profit motive ended, after unparalleled brutality and massacre, in lawless greed and mafia rule. It is not clear why attempts to abolish ethnicity should be more successful.

Rather than attempt a utopian transformation of human nature, it seems better to accept the distinctions men find important, and let them deal with them in customary ways that make sense to those involved; abuses and extreme cases can be dealt with as such. Things classified as racism -- ethnic loyalty and dominance -- are necessary features of social life. Something as closely related as ethnicity is to men's habits, attitudes and loyalties is plainly relevant to participation in a common effort like carrying on a business. The fact that men universally take ethnicity into account in choosing associates is the best possible evidence that it makes sense for them to do so.

For the last two years, I've lived in a rather mixed-ethnicity and mixed-race neighborhood. The student-of-human-nature part of me has been fascinated by the self-segregation that goes on here. Despite this being a very liberal and leftist college town, and despite my neighbors being predominately leftist in political persuasion, the strongest bonds I see growing in this most "utopian" for the multiculturalist setting, are between people who are of the same ethnicity and the same race. While we all exchange superficial pleasantries, the only times I have witnessed or participated in deep conversations about substantive issues, the participants have obvious ancient-tribal similarities. Heck, we even self-segregate our seating arrangements at our homeowners' association meetings. I notice this stuff and wonder who else sees the same things.

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