Odds and Ends, 1/7/24

In der news.

The HBD race realists are somewhat illogical. First, they promote an ideology in which people/hominids are judged based on a hierarchical ranking of traits such as IQ, behavior, etc. Then they tell us that Asians are superior to Whites by all such standards. Finally, they then label themselves “pro-White advocates.”  Huh? If they believe that value is inherent in specific traits and if they believe that Asians are superior in those traits then the HBD race realists should be pro-Asian advocates. If, on the other hand, they value Whites because Whites are their racial kin, then they should jettison their slavish adherence to HBD and make kinship-based racialism their priority. They can get away with this incoherence within Der Movement because of the affirmative action program and because they refuse to debate their critics among the Dissident/Far Right. But once these issues are hammered away at by the Left, then the Quota Queens will need to deal with it.

Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun is disliked by Der Right because, unlike Tolkien, he makes a traditionalist society look like an unrelenting catastrophe, and unlike Herbert, he makes archaeofuturism look like a dystopia with no redeeming qualities. Wolfe’s work is disliked by Da Left because he is accused of “misogyny” and of having traditional Catholic (a convert) conservative values. The masses in the Center can’t understand Wolfe’s dense and indirect writing. Jack Vance’s style, although unique, is more direct, and sometimes strands of anti-fascist civic liberalism creep through, but because of his near-perfect rendition of female behavior, he too has been accused of “misogyny.” You see, if you are a White male writer who does not have 100 pound female characters effortlessly beating up 250 pound muscular male super-soldiers then you are, by definition, a “misogynist,” and don’t you forget it! If anything, I can criticize Wolfe and Vance for creating female characters who are too unrealistically positive. That’s why Vance is near-perfect and not perfect, re: milady.

Amren hates YOU (emphasis added):

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…mass immigration of Jews, Italians & Irish.

“It is interesting to note that the original Indo-European descended Romans viewed anyone who was dark with suspicion. The Roman proverb Hic niger es, bunc tu, Romane, caveato (“He is black, beware of him, Roman’’) is recorded by Horace as being a common saying amongst Romans of the time. (Saz., i. 4, 85).”(March of the Titans).

Even the fair Brittonic, Pictish & Germanic men fought off the Roman Empire because they wanted to protect their fair colored women & children from the invading Black-haired dark-eyed Romans who wished to conquer & integrate with them. Fair-colored women like Boudica also lead the resistance against the blackening force of the Romans especially after her two fair daughters who raped by Black-haired Roman soldiers while she was beaten by them.

Sallis is always, always, ALWAYS right. Today’s Nordicism is a Nord-Colored alliance against YOU. Your reaction? Nothing.

Note the Sallis’ Law at Amren – a discussion about Irish riots against Colored immigration in 2023 devolves into a (Colored-led) discussion of March of the Titans and racially mixed Romans mongrelizing innocent Nords 2000 years ago. But – Rome conquered England. So by this logic – the English are dark colored mongrels?

Genetic evidence on Roman pigmentation shows that “fairness” has either been stable since the Iron Age/Republic or increasing, not decreasing,

Wrong, wrong, they’re always, always, ALWAYS wrong.

This is an old and tired schtick – non-Whites, South Asians and other NECs prominent among them, promoting radical Nordicism to divide Whites, with the willing cooperation of the Eloi, who get their vanity petted, to assuage their deep-seated feelings of personal inadequacy.

In this scenario, the Eloi are worse than the Brownsters. They must be opposed.

It is typical of Nordicists that they take comments from Roman satirists and poets and try to derive racial meaning from them. Let’s look a bit closer at the quote from Horace; emphasis added:

The title is taken from Horace: “Absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit, alio culpante; hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto – He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him when spoken ill of by another; that man is a dark character; you, Romans, beware of him.”, suggesting that the subject has betrayed a friend.

Is Horace talking about race? Is he suggesting that Romans not trust dark-eyed, dark-haired people?  Is “character” appropriate to be inserted in the translation?  I say yes, because it is quite clear from the context – “He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him” – that Horace is referring to defects in character, in behavior, and there is no implication of a literal meaning of phenotypic complexion or race/ethnicity in general.  If the “hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto” was spoken in reference to, say, immigration into Rome then the meaning could be interpreted differently, but here Horace talks about a faithless friend of bad character. Further, even if you want to extrapolate that certain cultures, including the Roman, associated “dark features” with a bad character – and there is no implication of that in this quote – then it is more likely to refer to dark complexioned non-White aliens, such as NECs, rather than to dark-eyed, dark-haired Romans that could be the immediate family of lighter-complexioned individuals (as is common in European populations). To extend Horace’s comment to Roman race is ludicrous. 

In the context of the entire Horace quote, it is quite clear that “niger” refers to character and not a literal reference to complexion. If you hear someone refer to “dark humor” does that mean a Negro comedian? Does “a black day in history” mean Marcus Garvey’s birthday? A more relevant question – is a positive trisomy 21 status a prerequisite for membership in Der Movement?

Let’s apply the standards Der Movement applies to the Roman Empire to the British Empire. Disraeli as prime minister? Proves that 19th century Britain was populated by Judeo-Semitic Levantine mongrels, a fact supported by Jewish graveyards in London’s ghettoes. Random quotes from Oliver Twist will confirm the degeneracy of the population. Hence, the British Empire collapsed because of racial admixture. QED.

Some things (among) many in Der Movement that are annoying. First, labeling people you disagree with as Feds, CIA assets, Jews, Russian shills, etc. – while at the same time ignoring the open infiltration of Der Movement by non-Whites. Then we have individuals (“Hood” and the late “Roberts” being prime examples) who write under different personas at the same time. The last annoyance to be mentioned here is the opposite of what was just mentioned – in this case an individual is incorrectly associated with other personas; in other words, actual different people (two or more) are assumed to be a single individual (this has happened to me several times). Interestingly, the same types who make incorrect accusations that “X” is really “Y” never catch on to the “Hood” and “Roberts” types.

People who obsess over “racial admixture” in Southern (and Eastern) Europe have a blind spot when it comes to those areas they favor. I’ve previously posted links to papers showing North Asian/Siberian ancestry in Northern Europe and have posted pictures of celebrities whose phenotypes are consistent with such ancestry. Let us consider another case. Actor Charles Bronson’s ancestors came to America from Lithuania. However, his father was of Lipka Tatar origin, which likely explains Bronson’s phenotype. However, let us be realistic – the only reason this detail is known is because Bronson was a famous actor (and one with an unusual appearance), so someone went digging into his background. Otherwise, he’d just be a “Lithuanian-American” and that’s that. It is also obvious that Bronson’s family were not the only people in Lithuania with such ancestry. So, in addition to the more ancient Asian/Siberian ancestry, the Baltic states no doubt have some more recent Tatar influences as well (that no doubt crossed borders into neighboring countries). But we are not “allowed” to discuss such things in Der Movement; it takes away from mentioning True Romance every 15 seconds. The reality is that low levels of admixture exist throughout Europe and Strom is right in that racial purity is something we need to strive for in the future, not some state of grace we fell from in the mythical past.\\

It’s all well and good to say that we should be infiltrating existing community organizations. But you really need at least several people acting as a coordinated unit to make it work. The real underlying issue is how to form local groups of trustworthy pro-White activists to begin with; social pricing, infiltrators, and possible spiteful apostates turning against the cause and against you are all impediments. I suspect that in any locale with a reasonably significant White population there will be at least several pro-White activists who do not know of each other’s existence and would not know how to safely establish contact. They could be neighbors or co-workers and they would not know it. For all I know, I could have neighbors and co-workers who are regular readers/listeners of my work, and I would never know it. The System/Left and their minions have created – intentionally – an atmosphere of fear and mistrust, and this is a problem. Facilitating networking would be an important role for pro-White organizations, but I’m skeptical that Der Movement could effectively do it even if they wanted to. Der Movement’s history with infiltrators and apostates is rather depressing.

When the major difference between America’s “two” parties (actually two wings of a single party) was economics/class, Italian-Americans supported the “working class” Democrats against the “country club Yankee” Republicans. Once the Democrats became the Colored/Left party, Italian-Americans  started shifting to the GOP, on the basis of race and social issues. They were attracted to Nixon’s false “Silent Majority Law and Order” image (some Italian-Americans  were Wallace supporters in 1968) and more so Reagan’s image of semi-populist social conservatism (“Reagan Democrats” = White ethnics) and even more so to Trump’s (fake) right-wing populism. On the other hand, Italian-Americans  have been less interested in the Bush family, Dole, McCain, Romney, etc. Italian-Americans  in general care about “sticking it to the darkies” and not about “capital gains tax cuts.”

Four axioms of warfare:

• 1. Victory is achieved through offensive operations; defense alone is insufficient
• 2. Total victory is achieved through the destruction of the enemy’s armed forces and their ability to resist, not merely by occupying territory.
• 3. All else being equal, and if possible, encirclement and maneuver are superior to a direct frontal assault.
• 4. While both are important, morale is more important than is material.

Now apply that to politics (war by other means).

If you are a graduate of a college/university, and graduate/professional school as well, you may get in the mail the school magazine and you can read the contents, full of far left activism of not only faculty and current students, but stories of how graduates are now engaging in Far Left anti-White, anti-male sociopolitical activism, across a broad front of activities, with not a single example of anything on the Right. The idea that “we’re winning” is again shown to be ludicrous; we’re losing and losing badly. As the Left engages in effective, broad-based real world activism that has real destructive consequences for us, the Right engages in esoteric theorizing and debate, tin foil hat conspiracy theorizing, with the occasional foray into real world activity in doing things like opposing abortion and vaccination. As the Right preaches anti-intellectualism and downward mobility, the Left has a stranglehold on academia and on the professions, and are constantly training new generations of activists. The reality is utterly catastrophic for our side.

See this. I know I posted about that before, but it is useful to look at again. You do not need to stress out over the math, just listen qualitatively to Harpending’s arguments; his debunking of Lewontin is complementary to my own. Also interesting is his discussion of Bushmen having a phenotype with East Asian-like characteristics, with speculation that this convergent evolution was no accident, implying the possibility of a common mechanism. Contra HBD dogma, that common mechanism, if it exists, obviously cannot be “cold, Arctic conditions.” My own theory that the East Asian phenotype is due to selection for neoteny is, unlike the Arctic theory, compatible with the Bushmen situation. It is therefore possible that both Mongoloids and Bushmen underwent selection for neoteny for environmental reasons and/or sexual selection; in the case of East Asians, these adaptions pre-selected them to be able to thrive after some of them moved from warm climates to cold climates in Northern Asia. So, I’m saying the opposite of HBD – Arctic conditions did not cause the Mongoloid phenotype; the Mongoloid phenotype, due to selection for neoteny, allowed Asians to live in Arctic conditions.

WDR16: Three Ideas

Three ideas to consider.

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I discuss Sallis’ Law, autism, and the Fermi Paradox.

Odds and Ends, 9/28/22

In der news.

Oh boy, someone is going to get banned from Counter-Currents:

No. Ancient North African admixture in Southern Italy is between 2.5-5%. Insignificant. Now, why don’t we start questioning why Jewish Ron Unz, Jamaican Lipton Mathews, Filipino Michelle Malkin, or South Asian mongrel Neil Kumar have prominent roles in the movement. What do you think their non-White admixture percentages are? Perhaps its time for “White Nationalists” to stop obsessing over Southern Italians so much. I blame True Romance. A piece of advice for everyone here, don’t base your racial views around Hollywood movies.

That was in response to a classic example of Sallis’ Law. A Counter-Currents post about Meloni and the Italian election devolved into discussions of “racial admixture” in Italy, True Romance, guidos. “tanned” Italians, and “honor killings” in Italy.

If we agree to the premise that White ethnics have every right, and every need, to engage in pro-White politics as any other Whites, then what is way forward in the face of so much hostility toward White ethnics in such politics, particularly in America?  I say that White ethnics are going to have to build and participate in pro-White constructs that they themselves have helped to create and shape, and demonstrate extreme competence and dedication to the endeavor. As an integral part of this activity, White ethnics should have a zero tolerance policy to Nordicism and other manifestations of hostility and lies about their ethnies, and refuse to ally themselves or associate with any way any entities who promote or tolerate such paradigms.  Conversely, White ethnics should ally with and associate those Whites, of any ethnic provenance, who espouse an authentic and sincere pan-Europeanism. In this manner, pan-Europeanism can be strengthened, and opposing, hostile ideologies left to wallow in their own failures and rank incompetence.

While I will defend White ethnics – indeed, all Whites – from unjust attacks and mendacious lies, I also urge those peoples to engage in self-reflection about why they are constantly attacked in this manner.  To say “it is for no reason” or “just racism” makes them sound like the Negro; to say it is envy makes them sound like the Jew. And, yes, it is true that Racial Proximity Theory ethnocentrism on the part of the attackers informs much of the attacks, the nature and intensity of the attacks, and their specific manifestations still require the aforementioned self-reflection. Let us consider the Italian, for example. The Italian is not feared or respected, and therefore is not admired for his virtues and is instead constantly ridiculed for his faults, real or imagined.  And this occurs with no restraint and with complete impunity.  It stands to reason therefore that it is appropriate for the Italian to self-reflect on why he is neither feared nor respected and, then, what can be done to remedy the situation. Merely opposing external problems, like Nordicism, is not enough. The internal problems need to be tackled as well; indeed they may be more important, and solving the internal problems may be a prerequisite for effectively solving the external ones.

Is Meloni’s victory an example of successful mainstreaming? It depends on what you compare it too. In comparison to Italy’s original post-WWII “neo-fascist” parties, then, yes, it is successful mainstreaming (and it is interesting that Europe had to look to Italy for such an example of success). However, compared to the original formulation of Brothers of Italy, the answer is no – the party has not compromised its principles, did not move to the center to win, and is at least as “far to the right” – if not more so – than its coalition partners. So while this is as close to a mainstreaming success as we have seen in Europe, it is not mainstreaming per se. It is not strictly farstreaming either – more a success of “staying the course.”

This here is one of the best posts ever at Amren.  It is all true.

Point of No Return

Book review: An analysis of Anglo-America.  In all cases, emphasis added.

Let us consider the author John Marquand, who concentrated on America’s Anglo-American elites, particularly the “Yankee” New England stock.

Marquand’s life and work reflected his ambivalence about American society — and, in particular, the power of its old-line elites. Being rebuffed by fashionable Harvard did not discourage his social aspirations…

…In the late 1930s, Marquand began producing a series of novels on the dilemmas of class. Most centered on New England, and some were at least partially set in Clyde, Massachusetts, a fictional seaside community based strongly on Marquand’s Newburyport. The first of these novels, The Late George Apley (1937), a satire of Boston’s upper class, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938. Other Marquand novels exploring New England and class themes include Wickford Point (1939), H.M. Pulham, Esquire (1941), and Point of No Return (1949). The last is especially notable for its satirical portrayal of Harvard anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, whose Yankee City study attempted (and in Marquand’s view, dismally failed) to describe and analyze the manners and mores of Newburyport…

…For all of his ambivalence about America’s elite, Marquand ultimately succeeded not only in joining it, but in embodying its characteristics. He forgave the upper crust classmates who had snubbed him in college…

Of particular interest is Point of No Return, which I have read:

Raised in the small town of Clyde, Massachusetts, Charles Gray has worked long and hard to become a vice president at the privately owned Stuyvesant Bank in Manhattan. But at the most crucial moment of his career, when his focus should be on reading his boss’s intentions and competing with his chief rival for promotion, Charles finds himself hopelessly distracted by the past.

Years ago, the Gray family was featured in a sociological study of their hometown. Charles, his sister, and their parents were classified as members of the “lower-upper class,” the unspoken strains of their tenuous social status cast in stark black and white. A chance encounter with the author of the study fills Charles’s head with memories—and when a business matter compels him to return to Clyde, it seems as if fate is intent on turning back the clock. As he reflects on the defining moments of his youth, Charles contends with one of the central mysteries of existence: how our lives can feel both predetermined and random at the same time.

Published in 1949, Point of No Return is a brilliant study of character and place heralded by the New York Times as “further proof that its author is one of the most important living American novelists.”

There is a little bit of Sallis’ Law in this 1949 book; as the WASP protagonist and his wife come home from a country club (inhabited by equally insouciant co-ethnics), he says to his wife (who visited a (“Italian”) shoe shop during the day): “I wonder why Italians always like to repair shoes.”  This is of course completely superfluous to the plot, a bit of WASP contempt for White ethnics thrown in. Whether that is reflective of the author, or if the author is trying to tell us something about his book’s characters, I do not know.  But, again, superfluous to the plot, but interesting as a focus on White ethnic immigrants and children of immigrants trying to make a living as small business craftsmen, while Jews were stealing America away from its founding stock.  Later in the book there is another completely superfluous Sallis’ Law comment, this one about “Sicilian peasants” “hiding women.”  It is quite remarkable that all of the crazed sweaty obsessive fetishism about Italians that we observe in today’s “movement” was already present in embryonic form in a popular 1949 novel.  Again I stress how completely superfluous those comments were to the storyline, unless it was the author’s intention to demonstrate how America’s WASP elite considered White ethnics to be like insects to be contemptuously examined and ridiculed. 

One particularly pompous character in the book was disdainful of those in the town who were not of the “good Yankee stock,” as he put it, and was horrified by how the crude behaviors of the White ethnic Morlocks affected those of the Eloi females. This same person also had class prejudices against his own co-ethnics; thus, his refusal to allow his WASP daughter to marry the “lower-class” (but still upper middle class) WASP protagonist of the book was a defining moment in the life of the latter. Remember, at this time, the Jews were conquering America and today, such an individual would smile benignly as his daughter came home with a brutal Negro.  

Further, the pompous character disparaged “stock market money” as being inferior to “inherited wealth.” Now, as the story line overlaps the stock market crash of 1929, apologists in Der Movement would attempt to retroactively justify the pompous fool’s comments (that were made before the crash, when the market was booming) but that isn’t the point, is it?  He wasn’t criticizing “stock market money” because he thought such investments were unsafe, oh no. After all, he also looked down upon upwardly mobile newly rich neighbors who earned their monies by inventions and/or ownership or productive companies.  The problem with “stock market money” was that it was “crass” and “uncouth” and “undignified” as opposed to the stately dignity of inherited wealth.  That’s why the newly rich created by productive hard work were also looked down upon (even when they were his co-ethnics) – they were crude grasping plebeians, not aristocratic patricians like himself.  When the book’s protagonist, the immediate target of this snobbery, justifiably pointed out that every family had to start somewhere, suggesting that at one point the pompous fool’s own family had to start somewhere, had to be at one time upwardly mobile grasping plebes generating the wealth that now bestowed patrician status, those reasonable comments fell on deaf ears. The pompous fool “had his” and all that’s mattered, who cares about the right or wrong of it?   In addition, the protagonist’s wealthy WASP boss also has the same disdain for people who have become rich “the wrong way,”  Thus, he complains about his exclusive community being tainted by people uncouthly earning money through advertising or skin cream business – we certainly can’t have that!

No doubt “movement” “traditionalists” and Anglomaniac worshippers of America’s WASP Yankee elites will defend and celebrate this aristocratic disdain for grasping upward mobility and “stock market money,” but, alas, groups like the Jews had no such compunctions or prejudices.  No, money was money, and money was power, and if that money and power was produced by the crudest grasping behavior, so be it.  Stock market?  Criminal activity?  Moneylending? Hollywood?  Peddling? Business ownership?  Sweat shops? Nothing was disdained, nothing was rejected.  With the money and the consequent power came the conquest of America (aided by the brainwashing of the goyim aided by such “crude” moneymaking enterprises like the movie industry, and, later, television) and the dispossession of WASPs who looked down on such lowbrow merchants and fast-talking conmen.  It didn’t matter though, and eventually the WASPs were forced to work with the Jews, as their junior partners, in an alliance to suppress the upward mobility of the White ethnics, a remaining threat that could still be constrained as the Jews were not.  The WASPs were not going to make the same mistake twice; they may have had to settle for second place behind the Jews, but they weren’t going to let upstart White ethnics erode WASP power and prestige (whatever was left of it) any further. If that meant alliances – and in some cases even inter-marriage – with Jews, so be it.  Better to salvage something of patrician exclusiveness, regardless of how degenerate, than show second place with Italians whose parents “worked with shoes” or were “needle workers” or whose parents were “raw Slavs” from Chicago’s slaughterhouses. Holding one’s nose to mingle with Jewish Wall Streeters and Hollywood movie moguls was bad enough, but to deal with hard-working craftsmen and first generation middle-class professionals who came from Europe’s South and East?  Impossible!  Even the Northwest European Irish Catholics were held at arm’s length; even the “lace curtain Irish” were looked down upon.  But – Italians and Slavs?  Greeks and Hungarians?  What?  Are you mad?

In summary, the WASPs were narrowly focused on the epiphenomena of their elitism (and attitudes of contemptuous superiority toward White ethnics) without properly focusing on the actual levels of power, which was seized from the WASPs by the Jews. Instead, WASPs thought that keeping Jews out of country clubs accomplished something useful; instead, that behavior did nothing but embitter Jews and make them more dedicated to their program of vengeance. So, the dispossessed WASPs became junior partners to their new masters, the Jews, and together they waged war against White ethnics. Particularly given the Jewish conquest of America and political dispossession of the founding stock (well underway in 1949), this book is not a flattering portrait of America’s “Yankee” WASP elite

In general, the navel-gazing ethnocultural self-absorption of the book is quite remarkable, but that may be the point. The Wikipedia summary of the book asserts that one of the book’s characters – an academic who did a study of the social structure of a New England town (the home town of the book’s WASP protagonist) – was a parody of real-life academic W. Lloyd Warner who performed similar scholarly activities.  And author Marquand also specialized in these sorts of social critiques in his books, so in a sense the book is a self-mockery of the author’s own obsessions. In any case, the ethnic self-absorption is still remarkable.

Read this for additional context.

[Spoiler alert]

The story line itself was a bit dull and certainly anti-climactic. The protagonist Charles Gray experiences some tragedy. His older brother dies in WWI. His feckless, dithering, procrastinating, romantic dreamer of a father loses all of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and commits suicide, which is covered up.  Charles Gray gives away his own savings to his family, pretending that this money was his father’s money (as if it was never lost) and now cannot marry his WASP princess girlfriend (with whom he has had a passionate relationship) – her father, the pompous fool described above, being against the relationship (for class reasons) in the first place. Chuck then goes away, gets a good bank job in NYC, becomes successful, marries another WASP, has children, and is in the running for promotion to be VP of the bank (this is the current day “stress” of the story) after returning from WWII (he had volunteered despite being ~ 40 years old and with children).  He now needs to go back to his small home town on business.  Now, here is where the book goes off the rails – you would expect, as some sort of dramatic climax, that he has a “showdown” with his ex-girlfriend.  But, no.  He visits his best friend from his boyhood – an anxious, hyper-grasping, small town mini-success and finds out that this “inferior man” is now engaged to the former WASP princess. You see, she had been pining away for Chuck for years, but now, middle aged and desperate, she has given up and has fallen in with the grasping friend – her pompous father now too old and demented to object. The friend tells Charles that this old girlfriend is anxious to see Charles – she knows he is back in town – but Chuck refuses.  And that’s that.  Perhaps that anti-climax is more realistic; I don’t know. He then goes back home and is invited, with his wife, to his boss’ elegant mansion for “supper.”  From the conversation he believes that he is going to be told that he has lost the promotion to a colleague – another anxious grasping type obviously modeled after his boyhood friend – but instead finds out that he has gotten the promotion, which makes him feel “dull and tired” and not what he “dreamed.” Apparently, Chuck is dissatisfied with his rat-race life, and perhaps secretly dreams of having made a life with his former WASP princess, but, no, poor Chuck must “make do” with a successful business career, a helpful wife, and two well-adjusted children. Oh, the agony!  The end.

Apparently then, the entire objective of the book was to dissect “Yankee” WASP culture, since there really wasn’t much of an interesting story there at all.