By Kevin MacDonald
The recent TOO article by Dr. Lasha Darkmoon on Rachel Corrie is indicative of the emotional appeal of the Palestinian cause. There is a powerful moral message: An attractive young woman motivated by a sense of moral idealism brutally murdered while trying to help an oppressed people — people who are ethnically and religiously different from herself. On the face of it, it would appear to be a case of self-sacrificing altruism.
There are other similar examples of what Christopher Donovan labels the “Amy Biehl Syndrome,” after the young woman who was murdered by a crowd of South African Blacks she had come to help.
This syndrome exemplifies the moral idealism that, while certainly not true of all Whites, seems to be far more common among us than other groups, quite possibly as concomitant of evolution for individualism among Northern hunter-gatherers.
The problem with moral universalism is that it makes it impossible to develop a similar moral sense on behalf of one’s people. As Westerners, a big part of our psychological baggage lies with post-Enlightenment universalist ideologies. They feel natural to us, whereas reasoning on the basis of what’s good for us doesn’t have any moral standing at all. It’s very difficult for us to get into the mode of “Is it good for Europeans?”
Imagine this moral dilemma. Right now in
The implicit logic of this is that there is a natural alliance between anti-Muslim groups in Europe and the settler groups fighting to dispossess the Palestinians in
In fact, of course, the organized Jewish community and the vast majority of Jews have not supported these parties and are vastly unlikely to do so, preferring to support multiculturalism and massive non-White immigration in the Diaspora in the West while also supporting an apartheid, ethnonationalist Israel bent on ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Although Geert Wilders was hosted by one pro-settler member of the Knesset, the other European anti-Muslim politicians were not hosted by any member of the Knesset. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to entertain the implicit moral trade-off. In a radio interview with Tom Sunic, I expressed support for an alliance with Zionists against Muslims. A comment on the Reason Radio website notes that “The remarks that MacDonald made during this show on the topic of Geert Wilders and Wilder’s support of Zionism have been generating some discussion around the Internet.” To my knowledge, these comments have been on email discussion lists, the main issue being the moral standing of supporting the Zionist program of ethnic cleansing.
When White advocates discuss how to accomplish their goal of repatriating the millions of non-White immigrants, the usual line is that repatriation would be accomplished without violence. Immigrants would be given financial inducements to leave (e.g., Geert Wilders) and governments would completely cease to subsidize immigrants with welfare, housing, or jobs.
It would be wonderful if it was that easy, and I certainly hope that a non-violent method could be found. But I rather doubt that this would be sufficient.
Moreover, it’s unlikely that the immigrant-sending countries would want them back because it would produce further economic problems in societies with chronically underperforming economies. Further, just as in
And it’s obvious that the Muslims are not going to become good Europeans and simply submerge themselves in European cultures, start attending church, and identify with European culture and history. Just recently, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey, urged Turks in
So suppose that an anti-Muslim political party comes to power, say in the
A crisis of Western universalism for starters. Universalism always presupposed substantial homogeneity, at least of culture and, quite possibly in the end, of race, given that universalism remains a uniquely Western creation. That’s why the ideals of the Enlightenment implied that Judaism would wither away and that Jews would commit to the atomized citizenship of an individualist culture without the primordial ties that have bound them together over the centuries. When this failed to happen, Enlightenment intellectuals like Voltaire became “anti-Semites,” and Jews, rather than giving up their groupness, eventually responded in three main ways: by promoting Zionism beginning in the late 19th century; by masquerading as leftist universalists while maintaining their Jewish identities, also beginning in the late 19th century; and by inventing multiculturalism as the new paradigm for Western societies in which groups could retain their culture, a movement that came to fruition in the 1960s. (The last two of these are themes of The Culture of Critique.)
We are how witnessing the failure of Muslim assimilation just as the last 250 years of European history has shown the ultimate failure of Jewish assimilation. Ultimately, Jewish intellectual and political efforts were aimed at changing the nature of Europe and developing a national homeland outside of
So in the end, Europeans are likely to have to choose. In the same way that the Israeli right has chosen to expropriate the land of the Palestinians and to degrade their lives to the point that they voluntarily leave — perhaps followed ultimately with expulsion if the political climate is right, Europeans will likely have to choose whether to do the same. Granted that Europeans as aboriginal peoples may be seen as having more legitimacy than their opponents. It would still result in a crisis of moral universalism. The law of nature is expediency — whatever works, not whether one has lived up to an abstract idea.
According to a newspaper report, Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the
Exactly. Pretty much around the world, peoples have been displaced over the course of history. Europeans are now in the process of being displaced from lands they have held for centuries (the
Surprisingly perhaps, some White advocates suppose that what they seek can be accomplished without violating universalist moral principles. But real life is seldom so convenient, and to survive it may be that one must reject moral universalism. Whatever works.