“Classical liberalism holds that the individual is sovereign and that he or she should be judged on his own merits, not according to his tribe, his class or faith. Identity politics is hemlock to this vision.”
-Johan Goldberg writing in National Review
I'm going to surprise some people here. I can get on board with identity politics.
The reason is this: Maybe if my people (whites) had a better sense of identity, we wouldn't be getting walked all over in our own country by useless Third Worlders and other domestic minorities. In fact, Jonah Goldberg's definition of Classical Liberalism reminds me that the Neo-Reactionaries have a solid point: the notion of individual rights as conceived in the Enlightenment is tragically flawed (more on this below).
Did anyone see ramzpaul's video regarding Colin Kaepernick and his National Anthem protest? He applauded such a display of solidarity with one's own people (even if misguided) and hoped that whites could learn to embrace the same type of solidarity. Maybe then we'd have a country again. Remember, America is America because of the white, English-speaking Christians who settled and built it, not because it's some melting pot of all different kinds of peoples who happened to agree on the fundamental values, as the Left and mainstream Right would have you believe.
Hillary Clinton's recent speech mentioning the "deplorables" (BTW, it wasn't a "remark," it was a planned attack) of American society once again shows us that the Left understands this game better than we do.
What do I mean?
The Left continually speaks in code. They use words like "diversity," and phrases like, "that's not who we are," or, "that's not America" to mean anti-white; an effort to take down the one race they cannot keep under their thumbs. So the war is not ideological - it is racial; it is tribal. If we are to survive, if we are to win, we must be willing to own this fact and act accordingly. I'm not talking about violence, I'm talking about advocacy.
It was ever thus. Since the beginning of the species, all conflict has been tribal. It's only in the last century that whites have forgotten this. Unfortunately, everyone else in the world has not. Colin Kaepernick may remind us of this and for that, I salute him.
P.S. Funny how Jonah Goldberg has no problem with Jewish identity politics as he's shown in the past. Ben Shapiro is another one with that attitude. "Ethno-advocacy for me but not for thee."
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