"White Nationalism?" Bah Humbug!

By Michael Parish

Contrary to the delusions of left-victomologists, American history is not an uphill battle between black and white. As Jim Goad aptly chronicles in his indeispensable The Redneck Manifesto, the earliest Europeans to populate the American South were indentured servants culled from the lowest tire of English society, who occupied a social status comparable to that of the slaves. Even at its most obscene, slavery was an institution enjoyed only by a tiny moneyed elite, with the majority of whites toiling fruitlessly in poverty. The notion of collective Southern guilt is easily dispelled. Since then, whites have comprised a majority of the American working class, and the majority of those displaced by corporate offshoring. Sorry, Fanton-being white does not automatically assign you bourgeoise status, nor does it make you an appropriate target of ethnic cleansing. And, despite the teary-eyed bleating over inner city living conditions, a full half of those in poverty here are white. If you want to experience desperate living, the trailer park and the farmstead are every bit as recommended, if not more so, than the tenament and the ghetto. The inahbitants of the former comprise the majority of welfare recipients, the revelation of which causes the liberal to undergo a sudden change of heart regarding the program, mimicking the "leeches who need to get a job" mantra of the right.

Given the predominance of liberal guilt and minority exaltation in our institutions, these realities have been predictably glossed over. Indeed, to the average American, white is a mere synonym for "priveleged" and black (or brown) for "got it bad and it's all our fault." This leaves the peculiar oddity of white trash to suffer as the sole bearer of blame for their unfortunate existence, when their existence is mentioned at all. Given capitalism's chronic mistreatment of these hapless fucks (and the left's chronic failure to attend to it) it would seem that these people deserve an identity crusade of their own, complete with a list of grievances and corresponding demands, and a pompous, overly sensitive spokesman. So when I first discovered the existence of a movement calling itself "white nationalism" my penis grew erect and blew a mollasses thick load with excitement. Closer examination of this tendency revealed that I would be wiping my tum tum clean for nothing.

Foucault famously remarked that "power begits its own resistance" and took a hesitant position toward supposedly subversive movements, seeing them as unavoidably structured by (and therefore echoing) the very institutions they claim to oppose. To the extent that this is true it would explain the historical impotence of the Left, but the same flaw is also instantly detectable on the radical right. "White Nationalism", having developed as a reaction to percieved excesses within the academic and managerial regimes, predictably inverses those institution's ideology without affecting any substantive change to their discourse. This renders it a striking example of the futility of developing oppositional tendencies within the same theoretical framework they ostensibly react to.

As such, "white nationalism" presents not a genuine break from victomological consensus, but a mere Euro-centric restatement of it. The claims of this milieu are a limp wristed role reversal of New Left cultural politics. Now it is whites, we are told, who are the oppressed, and ethnic minorities the oppressors. Only the victimization comes not slavery but from left social engineering, not from colonialism but cultural Marxism. This, of course, is to be contrasted with the undue and irrational priveleged status afforded non-whites by our current ruling class. Facing this dire set of circumstances, whites must first take pride in the achievements of their ancestors (remember..."you're white!") and then organize to fight for rights supposedly lost in the social upheavals of the 60's. Remove the word "white" from this paragraph and you have any pathetic purveyor of left-wing identity politics. And, true to victimological form, most WNs (like their counterparts from across the Parliament) are from the upper economic echelons.

To be blunt, WN does nothing to advance the interests of the outcasts whose misforune I lamented in my introduction. If anything, it takes the same stance of elitist dismissal on them that the Left does. Instead, it casts the white middle class in a victim role, bellyaching for the 'burbs the way the Left does for the inner city. While academia and popular culture are admittedly full of anti-white animus, the cultural hypocrises and double standards present there are a mere irritant. Gnats at a picnic. They in no way constitute any form of systemic oppression or persecution. But...au contraire...the white middle class is suffering systemic oppression and persecution!

You see, thanks to affirmative action policies in hiring and college admissions, it's nigh impossible for whites to gain employment and or an education. The flipside to this is that it defers an unfair privelege on blacks, those favorite pets of our liberal elite. Never mind that whites comprise over four times the percentage of the population as blacks, and the two continue to live and work in largely separate neighborhoods, so the actual numerical chance of a white losing an opportunity to black is an incredibly low one. Or that, since the program's implementation in 1969, white economic fortunes have not decreased substantially. Nor have blacks circumstances increased substantially, other than cultivating an irritating and entitled negrogeoise cronying for the system. While I dismiss AA as a load of liberal bullshit, I don't view it as a detriment to my well-being.

Similarly, the white middle class is being disenfranchised by mass Mexican immigration, which is also eroding and replacing our rich Western heritage and culture. Horrifically, the Holy Trinity of Wal-Mart, McDonald's, and Netflix is under attack from pinto beans and prayer beads! White Americans, proudly declaring themselves "mutts" (i.e. they're part everything and all nothing) have no organic identity or culture worth preserving. "American" is a legal term denoting citizenship that exists only on paper, not tied to any specific line of descent. Without the latter, there is no real value system or means of expression. Consequently, America's existence as a coast to coast commerical cesspool can largely be attributed to the rootlessness and individualistic emptiness of the more privelged segment of its Euro-descended population. I see nothing worthy of preservation in this morass.

Evidently, neither do the pale-skinned petit bourgeoise I'm railing against, as the main source of whitey-hatred in this country comes not from minorities but from whites themselves. I have never had a nonwhite preach to me about how "diversity is our strength" and how I must "celebrate" it as such. I've never had a minority tell me I need to "experience and "appreciate other cultures."Nor have I ever heard one pontificate aabout the moral neccessity of Europe opening it's borders unconditionally to the Third World, on the grounds that it's "enriching." Moreover, the myriad of insipid anti-Western propaganda disseminated in our universities is the provence of upper class whites (and white males, no less!). As are cultural double standards and hypocrisies evident in the media and in the entertainment industry. And what do whites have to say about all this? Nothing. Nada. They're too busy condemning long abolished institutions and deifying long dead "civil rights" leaders. If a group does not see itself and its culture as an objective of value worth preserving (that is if it even has consciousness of itself as a group), then it is not worth being preserved.

While my unpopular defense of the redneck remains, my condemnation of the soccer mom is just as sincere. I'll leave you with a brilliant assessment from Paul Gottfried-"The descent of white Americans into a self-despising and self-indulgent minority would certainly suggest that there are problems for us ahead, but these are problems that the majority-while it remains a majority-should be able to address before they occur. If whites ignore them, then whatever suffering will ensue is fully and richly deserved." Amen.