Guest Post by The Zman
Yesterday’s post could have been much longer, as there are many angles to the modern American skins game. In the fullness of time, there will be many books written on the subject or at least using it as a launching pad in analyzing the late America collapse. One point of entry is belief. People are believing machines. They will organize themselves around a set of beliefs, even if those beliefs are insane. That is what we are seeing in modern America. Christianity has faded, so something new filled the void.
That something new is a grab bag of ideas borrowed from Cultural Marxism, hung like ornaments on the burnt out husk that is Christian universalism. That is modern Progressivism. Cultural Marxism, by itself, has never made much sense, but inflated with the zeal of universalism, it is a very powerful force in modern society. It certainly does not make a lot of sense and it does not offer anything as pleasing as an afterlife, but for the true believer, it fills the void that Christianity once filled.
That’s most obvious when it comes to race. Progressives are endlessly chanting that race is not real. They are also endlessly chanting that racism is the most dangerous evil spirit in their hierarchy of evil. Most of what is going on today is based in their belief that whites are racists, simply because whites have acted to benefit whites. The trouble for Progs, though, is that this contradicts their support for non-whites. Everywhere you turn, non-whites are out flying their team’s flag and cheering for their side against the honky.
This New York Times op-ed is a good example.
I was 13 when the black woman I was rooting for on “American Idol” won. After black women failed to reach the top spot in the first two seasons, Fantasia finally did. With vocals straight out of a church choir in North Carolina, she deserved it.
All the black people I knew — my mom, classmates and acquaintances — were so proud. We celebrated this moment together. Fantasia’s victory on one of America’s most watched television shows at the time wasn’t just a win for her: It was a win for us.
Yes, we all recall the long struggle for equality on TV game shows.
Issa Rae, a co-creator and the star of the HBO sitcom “Insecure,” stood on the Emmys’ red carpet on Sunday and proudly proclaimed to a Variety reporter who asked which people she was cheering for, “I’m rooting for everybody black.” When I heard that, I jumped up and shouted: “Same, Sis! Same!” Because that’s what I’ve been doing all my life. And apparently many other people have, too, because Variety’s video went viral on Twitter, garnering more than 16,000 retweets and countless reshares up and down my social media timelines.
Ms. Rae told the reporter what so many black people have told their family members at dinner, their friends on group texts and their black co-workers over water cooler talk. As many obstacles as we face in our lives, there are times when we need to see one another win.
But what so many people missed in her comment is that expressing black pride is not the same as being racist toward whites.
Of course not. Only a blue-eyed devil would think such a thing!
Ms. Rae’s critics don’t understand that when it comes to racial pride, the playing field is not level. Black pride does not carry the power to shut others out as white pride does. And that’s the difference. Hollywood has a long history of privileging whiteness, from who gets to greenlight movie ideas to whom studios target for consumption. While white people have the luxury of turning on any given channel and seeing themselves reflected with nuance and depth onscreen, black people haven’t been so fortunate.
One byproduct of Progressive race mongering has been that blacks are now just swarthy toddlers. They assume they are entitled to whatever they desire at the moment. Mx. Finley just assumes she has a right to your stuff and right to live near you. At the same time, she is sure that her status as a sacred person means she gets to have stuff to herself, just for black people. Why wouldn’t she? All her young life, she has been pushed along by the guiding hand of the skins game. She points, demands, and a honky gives it to her.
As Steve Sailer points out, the basis of the skins game now is a blood libel. Because your ancestors were mean to non-whites, you just have to shut up and take whatever abuse non-whites heap on you. That includes the humiliation of pretending that airheads like Mx.Finley are saying anything of value. It means pretending that Genius T. Coates is not a puerile blockhead with the reasoning skills of a sixth grader. It is not enough to write the check.No, the honky has to grovel while delivering it.
This is the fire that fuels the Dissident Right. You can pass this lunacy off to the zealous crazies who read the NYTimes, but it’s not going to fly with the average honky. Instead, they will be open to the alternative, the one that flatters them and gives them a reason to be proud. The racism Progressives fear, the dark force they are sure lurks in the heart of white men, is their own creation. American Progressives cannot stop making war on the honky so it is inevitable that the honky will make war back.
In this war, I’m cheering for my team.
Amen.
“Christianity has faded, so something new filled the void.”
—– article
Why has Christianity faded? Look no further than the so called Christians which sicken all who gaze upon it …. like, AWB.
Me cheering for my team is not enough. I cheer against their team with my pocket book. Every time a commercial pops up with a black person, boom. I change the station, crumple the flier, whatever. I have had enough. In fact I have been force fed too much. So a message to any ad exec that maybe reading. I don’t care what you are pedaling, If there is a black person (oxy-moron) in your ad you just lost a sale. Try selling your shit to those jackals, oh wait they will just take it at the next lootfest.
“While white people have the luxury of turning on any given channel and seeing themselves reflected with nuance and depth onscreen, black people haven’t been so fortunate.”
Three letters, bitch: B…E….T.
____________________________
You can’t have peaceful coexistence with those who envy and hate you, for whom your every hand out is seen as magnanimous derision. Funny how it’s Leftist Goodwhites who seem surest of all that, but not for their constant help, black people would sink into their own septic cesspit.
Just as Marx hated the rich “bourgeois” because he and his fellow “intellectuals” were poor and ignored, the peoples of the world who DIDN’T make the cornucopia of the West (and never could) utterly loath the descendants of those who made it.
Like the dirt people of Cambodia who joined the Khmer Rouge and slaughtered every educated countryman they could find, dooming their society to even greater poverty, the CAN’T-DO’s of America will destroy every iota of American prosperity, killing the geese the lay the golden eggs, if they can……even if it means they sink into 3rd world savagery in North America.
That’s their team…..vs. OUR team.
“black people haven’t been so fortunate.”
Only a perpetually butt hurt kneegrow could say such stupid shit.
It goes far beyond BET. From BLACK ONLY colleges to literally hundreds of black organizations of every sort … except BlacksForResposible.Living.org …. those fuckers have been given more opportunities and breaks than any other class of people in history.
Wake the fuck up, Kneegrows!!
I especially loathe the commercials pushing black male white female couples and butt-buddies.
I have my own ideas on what makes sense. Given that the mean IQ to which offspring of black men revert is significantly lower than the mean IQ of whites, white women who have kids with black men are rolling the dice with high odds their kids will be lower IQ than the kid’s mother. Probability and statistics are a bitch. So promoting white/black couples is stupid. If someone insists, I’d rather they not make it my problem, but PROMOTION? Pisses me off.
Ditto gays. Guys that take it and give it up the ass have medical costs stratospherically higher than straights. And gays displace a lot of their costs onto society. So F THEM! The promotion 24/7 these days of anal sex makes me, as a microbiologist by education, sick to my stomach. E. coli up the urethra? Micro-tears in the large intestine allowing fecal material to leak into the bloodstream? Those who promote this should be put in a wood chipper…slowly.
They might as well promote butt-xxxxing sheep.
“…The promotion 24/7 these days of anal sex makes me, as a microbiologist by education, sick to my stomach….”
you need to talk to your fellow heterosexuals (ASSUMING you’re actually heterosexual, seem awfully obsessed with Teh Gays)
I don’t play nice with the Left Team that has been gang banging me every way possible and I will do my part to see they lose the Last Game.
This is mainly a Jew creation.The Jews control most of the mass media.They created the ” all whites are racist ” bullshit.Jews are not white in their own minds .They have used race to constantly attack whites. They control the media thus Controlling the narrative.Whites have got to create or find someway to go back control of the media.All Jews need to be removed from all positions of influence.Only then will America survive.
Polls indicate that most people think that blacks make up around 50% of the population. They MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT!. Census data indicates that they are around 12% or so and have been within a few percent of that number for many, many decades. The EEOC virtually demands that ethnic representation in employment match that of the surrounding area. So how is it that most people think that blacks somehow grew in population numbers to reach near 50% of the population? Hollywood, advertising, the mainstream media, etc. Now I live in a suburb of Atlanta, so I see blacks everywhere I look, but having spent most of my life in Los Angeles, I can assure you that hispanics of varying countries of origin are all around, but blacks most certainly are NOT, and most definitely NOT in Hollywood (unless you count the sub-culture that is rap/hip-hop, etc.)
And when the war comes, there are plenty on “my team” that are on the wrong side of most issues, so this will definitely NOT simply be a war of the races. And cheering is the last thing you will hear me doing, but there will definitely be a lot of “noise” coming from my position.
A thought I’ve had for a while now and which does somewhat fit neatly with this post is the following.
Leftists/liberals/progressives apparently lack the far-sightedness to consider the potential ramifications of their actions. From “mansplaining” & the vilification of heterosexual men to claims of “oppression” by “oppressors,” from fake rape accusations that have landed men in prison to the insistence that only whites can be racist, from the decades-long guilt-manipulation of average Americans by the left for transgressions of times past, from the attacks against police and Confederate symbols to identity politics whereby any conservative/Republican/supporter of Trump is now deemed a “fascist” or a “Nazi…”
It’s as if they thought that those whom they viewed as bigots, sexists, racists, oppressors, etc., would simply take all the abuse with bowed heads and persist in a perpetual state of contrition.
How wrong they were.
The election of Donald Trump by the “deplorables” was significant, but it was only the biggest backlash against the left.
Now, the rampant and shrill feminism has helped create MGTOW and men who if not MGTOWers are now seeing radical feminism for the hypocritical garbage it is; men are wising up to dishonest women who will not hesitate to concoct rape accusations. Many of those feminists are women (and less active activist women who agree with them) who paradoxically want to get married (or they grow older and realize they want families), and yet this torrent of man-bashing has made many men swear off marriage.
And yet it’s men’s fault for the irrational beliefs and claims of feminists (men and women alike).
Now, many whites are seeking alternative news and devising non-PC views, and they no longer agree that only whites can be racist. They’ve seen nonwhites use racist terms against whites in public acts of unrest (often very violent ones). They’ve learned that college skew students of color minus Asians to allow them in while excluding white and Asian students with far superior qualifications. They are therefore far less sympathetic to people who cry “racism!” even when racism does happen.
And yet it’s all white people’s fault, because they’re racist.
Now, many average white people who were apolitical are turning right because they know (or learn) that Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson, etc., were not 19th Century Southron Hitlers. They realize Lee, Jackson, etc., were men of valor and honor and integrity and character; they realize that slavery, however reprehensible, was something that less than 2% of antebellum white Southrons were involved with. Many average whites are turning right (whether or not the alt-right or race realism); they’re angrier and angrier that monuments, statues, and dedications to revered historical figures are being wrongfully and hysterically assailed as symbols of bigotry. And they’re learning that many Africans enslaved other Africans and sold them off to both Europeans and Arabs.
And yet whites in 2017 are to be somehow held to account for the wrongdoing of whites who were alive 160+ years ago.
It’s literally mind-boggling to me that otherwise smart folks on the left don’t get any of this, and that they think identity politics is the way to go. They think only they can organize along ethnic lines or ideological camps – well, they’re dead wrong.
I keep silent on FB nowadays because most don’t see things the way I do. But boy is it interesting to deprive people, on occasion, of their illusions by presenting facts and data with bluntness and directness – their reactions have convinced me that divorcing the naive and the idealistic from their bubbles and shoving reality in their faces can be traumatic for them, but I for one believe ignorance is not bliss.