Self Hating Whites The Cause Of Much Grief
Here’s a series of fascinating statistics.
The FBI data—an agency which is not known for its willingness to tell uncomfortable truths—shows that blacks are about 10 times more violent than whites. There’s some year-to-year and geographic fluctuation and so forth, but whatever the precise number is, it is not small, and never has been. Indeed, the “gap” is only widening in favor of greater black violence. The situation is nowhere near Equality.
It is therefore pure fantasy to suggest Equality. What, then, is it that explains how white woke (a.k.a. liberals) believe whites are more violent than blacks?
Is it the same reason why white conservatives don’t rate the difference anywhere near Reality? Their trend is toward Equality, which is false. The trend is inverted. Why?
The next stat, similar to the first, is laziness. Same signal in the woke saying whites are lazier than blacks, and with conservatives saying the opposite, but with the trend toward Equality. Realizing the difficulty in measuring “laziness”, we’ll pass it by and move to the next item.
Once again, the conservatives trend toward Equality, and the woke say black superiority holds. Now that it truly interesting.
The question remains: how in the presence of abundant, and easy-to-discover information that is discordant to these answers, do people come to believe these things?
The author of the stats also wondered:
Something to consider is that the socially desirable ‘I don’t want to seem racist’ response here should, in theory, be just rating the groups equally on all traits. To go beyond that suggests genuine animosity (which would accord with trends in anti-white feeling thermometer scores)
And, for the woke, he thinks some of the signal is explained by “an attempt to proclaim their anti-racist bona fides–which, interestingly, now seems to require expressions of anti-whiteness.”
Conservatives aren’t known as being anti-white, though. Surely some are becoming more that way, but enough to show that trend? Plus, the same author has some (albeit not strong) data on anti-white feeling:
A slight uptick in anti-whiteness by conservatives at the very end, but an uptick within the given uncertainty. Really not much change for both conservatives and moderates. Huge increases in white hatred among the woke, which is of course no surprise.
We’ll come to the woke in a moment. But this data, if accurate, means something besides animus must explain conservative and moderate opinion trends toward Equality.
It is, as the author suggests, in part surely a desire to prove oneself is not “racist”, even if it’s just signaling to an unknown poll taker. And what is a “racist”? All evidence says it’s someone not sufficiently despairing of whites. Blacks, for instance, can’t be “racist”, we are told, regardless of their behavior toward any person not of their race.
This definition of “racist” is confirmed by those signs which read “It’s Okay To Be White”, which were met with howls and outrage and shrieks of panic by the woke. In spite of them being unable to articulate precisely why the words were “racist”.
Another portion of the explanation would be Equality itself. Relentless propaganda, from birth to death, that Equality is the true state of the world, a utopia only held back by “racism” and other isms and phobias. Theory above Reality. Or, rather, people answer to what Theory demands, because Equality is “really” there, but masked.
Some of this explains woke answers, too. But, like the author says, it can’t be a complete explanation. Active hostility must be there, as we see.
The funny thing about it, given whites are still a majority, and as all experience already proves to us, this animosity must be itself largely from whites. Whites hating other whites. Self-hating whites. Whites believing themselves both irredeemably evil because they are white, but simultaneously granting themselves a kind of sainthood for recognizing their whiteness and condemning it.
This is not sane.
It is just this side of complete lunacy, though, because these self-hating whites have not yet done away with themselves, as their beliefs demand. Instead, they seem to believe that if they think hard enough about their evil whiteness, the evil of it passes into a deplorable, which is a white who does not condemn himself for being white.
The woke, though, to cleanse themselves from the original sin of whiteness are happy to consider eliminating deplorables.
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Transferrence is the psychological mechanism, ideology the driving religious force which moves the true believer to deny reality and to undertake evildoing against "the other" and hatred of "the self" for commiting whatever original or mortal sin or contrived transgression is anathma to the religion and the Party of ideology. In The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn describes the phenomenon wonderfully well in his intense depictions of Stalin's show trials, whereby, after years of unwavering service to the ideology of Leninism and sacrifice to the Communist Party and after comitting myriad atrocities on their behalf, devout Bolsheviks were falsely accused and wrongly convicted as enemies of the Party (and thus of the State), became self-loathing, and, then, openly, sincerely denounced themselves. No punishment in the gulags, thereafter, was so harsh and insufferable as banishment from the very Party for which they gave their lives and from which they obtained their human identity and their existential meaning.
(Borrowing from Wikipedia,) we learn that, while Solzhenitsyn agreed with Shakespeare, that "conscience doth make cowards of us all," he also concluded from his years of eye-witness experience in Soviet labor camps that ideology was the psychological power that empowered evil by eliminating moral hesitation, whether in harming others or hating one's own self: "Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes...."
Orwell perfectly understood the phenomena of transferrence and the all-consuming power-unto-death of ideology, when he tenderly proclaims of the psychically-crushed Winston Smith, "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
Big Brother's ideology of anti-racism demands the unquestioning love of Big Brother, that one politically approve Big Brother's hatred of whites and physically support Big Brother's destruction of whites and psychologically loath one's caucasity.
"The woke, though, to cleanse themselves from the original sin of whiteness are happy to consider eliminating deplorables".
It sure seems to be headed that way, doesn't it?
My sister just met up with some friends living in a rather nice section of Chicago. They informed her of carjackings, shootings, assaults, and robberies in the neighborhood, the perpetrators unidentified because to do so would be tres gauche and, frankly, unnecessary. There is one subset of Chicago's population that is responsible for 80+% of the violence. Of course, her friends settled in on the abundance of guns as the reason for this mayhem.
Discussion later turned to favorite bands of their youth. The Smiths were no longer on her friends' playlist, since the lead singer Morissey revealed that he supports an anti-immigrant, so-called "white nationalist" political party.
A few years ago, I used to roll my eyes when reading someone claim that "liberalism is a mental illness." Now I think the evidence is overwhelming.