Hi RG, PCR is an interesting character, but I seriously struggle with some of what he says. This for example:
Trump ordered a halt to the anti-white indoctrination sessions in the Federal government and US military, but the new regime will quickly reinstate the required indoctrinated as a sop to deluded blacks, feminists, and leftwingers.
and this
Fifth: Citizenship for the millions of illegal aliens and open borders in order to reduce the white population to an isolated minority.
Really leaves me with a bad taste. It doesn’t take much to see how racist the US state is, and this kind of pro-racist sentiment is hard for me to rally behind…
Not that I am saying that there isn’t a good deal of hypocrisy amongst the “woke” chatterati. Matt Taibbi has written an amusing and infuriating piece on that subject. But PCR’s criticism reminds me of the right wing “political correctness gone mad” cry from the Daily Mail back in the day. Perhaps he does really engage with the racist underpinnings of the US system, but I’ve not seen it yet, and simply crying about whitey losing his place at the privilege table doesn’t really tug at my heart strings…
An interesting conundrum for you P:
Personally - a bit like Paul I fancy - I’m horrified by the creeping population-replacement/ethnic-cleansing/language-replacement which has been done to my ancestral countries, and which is still going on now.
If I were first president of a newly independent Cymreig Republic, one of the very first things I’d do is to impose strict border and residence controls on all in-coming settlers, from anywhere, with a basic fluency in Cymraeg as a strict pre-qualification for every would-be incomer. I’d do this on the commonsense assumption that uncontrolled migration can - and often does - result in the swamping of a long-time native population of a vulnerable country, and their reduction to a minority in their own ancient homeland - as witness the original-native Hawa’ians, to mention just one of many examples.
I’d affirm vigorously that that doesn’t make me racist, any more than being steadfastly anti-zionist makes me anti-semitic. It’s a perfectly reasonable thing for any old nation to wish not to be swamped by an obliterating wave of incomers from a different culture, with a different language. Both of my patrial nations - Eire and Cymru - have been severely damaged by this process, and it hurts the soul; a pain which is still widespread in both countries.
Controlled, moderate flows of in-comers are a positive benefit to any national grouping of people, and always to be welcomed. Hybrid-vigour/mongrel-glory, both genetic and cultural, is an essential part of thriving in the world, clearly. Who in their right mind would wish away, for a couple of examples, the extraordinary cultural enrichment to Britain which has been brought about by the influx, during my lifetime, of people from the Indian sub-continent or the Caribbean - especially their splendid cuisines now available everywhere, just about! My own beloved step-son is a product of just such racial blending (Caucasian and Zulu), and he’s a wonderful endorsement of the basic goodness of the process. And personally, I’d be mortified if my Sikh friends - splendid people! - where to disappear from our local community. But swamping, to the point where there is actual language substitution, is something else. No amount of civilised liberal rhetoric is ever going to cure people of that gut reaction. I think this is what Paul is getting at. And I agree with him, having been on the receiving end of that sort of tragedy; one which has seriously distorted my own life and that of my close-clan kindred.
I understand that this is a tricky issue for you too, P, with the complicated curriculum vitae of your own family. And naturally I’m dead against any sort of discrimination against any strand of the human family, once they are legally established here and fitting in harmoniously. How could that be anything less than a blessing for all of us? But still, those old strong atavistic instincts march along with us, century after century. It’s a grave mistake, I think, to try to drown then in wishful thinking. Only long-term evolution is going to moderate those instincts. Till then, we have to go on trying to be good to each other. But with some wise, though restrained management as part of the process. Cheers good-brother! 