There is an interesting post up
this week over at the American Renaissance¹ website, that I have
been puzzling over a bit. What struck me initially about it is the opening
line, “Why we must unite across class lines.” That’s not a phrase you hear much
these days from politicians, activists or certainly polemicists. In fact, class
does not get much of a discussion at all in polite circles. The closest we get
to a class debate in America anymore are some snide remarks from cosmopolitans
about the people shopping at Walmart.
On the Right, discussion of class has long been forbidden. This
was mostly due to the fact that conventional conservatism in America is really
just right-wing Progressivism. The official Right and Left agree on the big
philosophical items. Their quarrels are mostly about tactics and rhetoric. In
the latter, the so-called Right carried the day, so discussion of social class
is mostly forbidden. We are an egalitarian society, so it goes, where your
status is determined by how well you serve the state, not the circumstances of
your birth.
The author of the AmRen piece then goes on to explore the gap
between official rhetoric on racial diversity and objective reality. Our ruling
elites systematically arrange their lives so they have the least amount of
diversity as possible. Whole sections of cities have been ethnically cleansed
so young white hipsters can have cool places to live. Meanwhile, urban blacks,
with the miracle of Section 8, are dumped into lower class white suburbs, where
they set about recreating their normal chaos in otherwise stable white areas.
This compulsory diversity is not just destroying the white
working class, it is hollowing out the white middle-class. Urban female
hipsters are free to sing the glories of miscegenation, while they send their
super white kids to the private day school, and socialize with people who look
like them, think like them and live like them. As we hate-thinkers would put
it, we are seeing the systematic Brazil-ification of America, where the white
urban elite is turning Middle-American is to caramel colored favelas.
This is familiar ground to readers here, but it is the proposed
solution that does not get much attention.
So does our hope lie with the proles? The big difference between
Orwell’s 1984 and 2018 is that Orwell’s elites did not bother to
indoctrinate the masses, on the ground that the proles’ fidelity to Big Brother
was considered irrelevant. By contrast, in our diversity dystopia the masses
are at the core of the Left’s indoctrination project. Our “proles” are the ones
forced to suffer a bad education in integrated schools. They are the ones
subjected to violence, harassment, and intimidation. And they are the ones
told, again and again, that any resistance to this makes them betrayers of who
we are as Americans, deplorable traitors in need of ever-more reformation.
Leadership may not come from the proles, but good sense and
votes will. Those who bear the burdens of diversity see its damage most
clearly. It is no accident that Donald Trump swept the white working-class
vote.
Whatever our own particular economic station, we all have a role
to play in restoring working- and middle-class white America. We should be
hiring our own people, tutoring our own people, supporting scholarships for our
own people, and doing our best to build schools and cultural institutions that
can be healthy environments for our own people.
Growing up in the underclass, my exposure to bourgeois
sensibilities about class came mostly through the movies. Movies and TV shows
featuring the white working class as protagonists, only did so as a canvas onto
which the writers could paint pictures of the multicultural paradise. White
union men learned they had to accept blacks into the union in order to succeed.
Archie Bunker had to see George Jefferson as just a dark skinned version of
himself, in order to rise above the limitations of his class.
The Left’s class warfare was always a hoax played on the white
working and middle classes. The offer was better economic conditions, as long
as blacks were allowed to have some too. It was always a bait and switch.
Whites got high divorce rates, their daughters dating black guys, rocket high
inequality and the looming threat of minority status. By any measure, the
Left’s agenda for the white working classes has been a disaster. It’s why the great white die off is the shadow hanging over
all of us.
We are seeing a replay of this now with immigration.
“Fellow white people! You’re gonna get lots of cool restaurants and cultural
diversity, and a police state, well mostly a police state. Open Borders!” All
the promises of open borders and globalism are a deliberate lie, using appeals
to morality to overcome practical objections and economic arguments to overcome
cultural objections. Just as accepting racial integration in exchange for
economic prosperity was a disaster for whites, open borders will be too. That’s
the goal.
Our side embracing the rhetoric of 1960’s Progressive class
warfare seems a bit strange, but it is one entry point for introducing racial
consciousness to the discussion. Every time someone sees a politician address
the concerns of the white working class, the audience hears it is OK to be
white. Whenever white people, even hipster college professors living in urban
oases, engage in talk about the white working class or the white opioid
epidemic, being white gets re-legitimized and re-normalized in the greater
culture.
The second line of that AmRen post is a line from
Orwell, “If there is hope,” wrote Winston, “it lies in the proles.” Orwell
wrote in a time when it was assumed that Africa was for Africans, Asia for
Asians and the West was for white people. The olden thymes were an argument
between whites about how whites would deal with one another. Our age will be an
argument between whites about how we defend ourselves, our lands and our
posterity from the rest of the world. That starts with defending the white
working class.
¹I
will be attending the American Renaissance conference this spring. if you are
interested in attending, sign up is here.
