Whiteness and the West
Even conservatives are afraid to state the obvious: The West was created and sustained by whites and is indeed pervaded by whiteness.
Written by Bo Winegard
“It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.”
—Ishmael, Moby Dick
Like Ishmael, Western elites are appalled by whiteness. Some have compared it to a disease—a plague or cancer; others, to an almost metaphysical force for evil and savagery. Indeed, in a country riven by political and cultural polarization, progressive and conservative elites remain united in their distaste for white identity. However, this convergence arises from different motives and goals.
Progressive elites are hypocritical. Their desire to eradicate white identity is not impelled by a consistent objection to racial identity; it is impelled by a unique contempt for whites, whom they endlessly deride and lampoon. They have even created a factitious identity, “people of color,” which is defined wholly by its negation of whiteness. It is that which is not white. In this Manichaean worldview, humans are divided into whites, who are evil, and non-whites, who are good. The Marxist obsession with class is transferred to race. Same script with different actors.
Conservative elites, on the other hand, are consistent but naïve. They want to transcend white identity, and their antipathy to whiteness is caused by a philosophical objection to racial identity, which they view as primitive and illiberal. The primary sin of progressivism’s attitude toward race is not its hypocritical denunciation of white identity, but rather its rejection of individualism. And the answer to mainstream double standards about racial identity is the unifying power of national identity. Tribalism must be transfigured into patriotism.
Both positions are flawed. White identity is not sinister, and it is not some lamentable surrender to primitivism to be moderated by wisdom and tolerance. No. It is a reasonable, even laudable response to pervasive anti-white rhetoric and policy. Whites can and should organize to oppose the spread of an ideology that denigrates them while promoting their replacement in countries their ancestors built. If they do not, they will continue to watch their own history trampled underfoot like rubble in the path of a marauding army. Worse, they will be forced to celebrate while it happens.