Charles Murray introduces his short article, Five myths about white people (alternate link), published by The Washington Post on 20 January 2012, by telling us what “our” problem is:
For decades, trends in American life have usually been analyzed through the prism of race, with white Americans serving as the reference point — comparing black unemployment with white unemployment, for instance, or the percentage of Latino high school students who go on to college compared with white students. Those comparisons are illuminating, but they neglect how that reference point itself is changing. Our understanding of white America is subject to a number of outdated assumptions that need rethinking.
Murray thinks up four relatively innocuous myths to take issue with before tripping and falling flat on the last:
5. White Americans are yesterday’s news.
You don’t need to see a young black family in the White House to understand that American demographics are changing. In the 2010 census, non-Latino whites made up 64 percent of the population, down from 69 percent in 2000, 76 percent in 1990 and 80 percent in 1980. In 2011, non-Latino whites for the first time constituted a minority of children under age 2 — the harbinger of a nation in which whites will be a minority. That’s no myth.
Yet, 45 of 50 governors and 96 of 100 U.S. senators were still non-Latino whites in 2010. Whites also were 92 percent of the directors nominated for Academy Awards between 2000 and 2011. They were 96 percent of Fortune 500 chief executives in 2011. The numbers are similar for other influential positions in U.S. society. At least for now, the rhetoric about the fading role of whites in American life outruns reality.
Murray makes the same point anti-White anti-“racists” make. To buy it, for good or ill, all you have to do is buy the most important myth of all – that jews are White. Acknowledging and dispelling this myth would shed further light on most of the myths Murray mentions, and especially the last. But Murray fails to account for it, even while he tries to brush off its consequences.
It isn’t possible to honestly discuss trends in American life, rethinking outdated assumptions, changing demographics, and disproportions in influential positions without mentioning jews. Murray compounds this lie of omission with an outright fabrication: Whites have nothing to worry about, because “whites” still control America. No outdated assumption. No rethinking necessary.
The big disconnect in the worldview of Whites like Murray, who so altruistically embrace jews as fellow “whites”, is that jews don’t reciprocate those warm feelings of solidarity. Jews distinguish themselves from Whites. They are focused on what’s good for jews, not Whites, and not even a hybrid “whiteness” which obligingly includes them. That’s why they go on and on about “anti-semitism”, not anti-Whitism. To the extent Whites like Murray do retain some measure of power, it is only by very deliberately not focusing on what’s good for Whites.
Facing these facts squarely, we can fairly state that it’s jews who are most overrepresented in influential positions in U.S. society. Beside that, it’s clear the anti-White rhetoric Murray so blithely dismisses is actually an expression of deep-seated anti-White animus coming from the very people he misrepresents as racial compatriots.
Murray has already made it clear that he is capable of distinguishing Whites and jews. He is also aware of jewish overrepresentation. In 2007 he wrote Jewish Genius to examine “one of the most obvious topics of all: the extravagant overrepresentation of Jews, relative to their numbers, in the top ranks of the arts, sciences, law, medicine, finance, entrepreneurship, and the media.” Murray’s explanation for this overrepresentation is intelligence, which he goes on to speculate was a product of generations of jewish endogamy.
Murray confirms the distinction with an obligatory regurgitation of the jewish version of history – faulting Whites for trying to defend their interests while lauding jews for advancing theirs:
The sparse representation of Jews during the flowering of the European arts and sciences is not hard to explain. They were systematically excluded, both by legal restrictions on the occupations they could enter and by savage social discrimination. Then came legal emancipation, beginning in the late 1700’s in a few countries and completed in Western Europe by the 1870’s, and with it one of the most extraordinary stories of any ethnic group at any point in human history.
Though Murray refuses to acknowledge it, today a hostile judaized elite treats Whites to savage discrimination. It’s one thing when an ordinary, relatively uninformed person naively mistakes jews for White. It’s another thing entirely when a White intellectual, well aware of the distinction, makes a big deal about it in one context, and pretends it doesn’t matter in another.
This is a good post that deserves to be expanded, for example with numbers regarding Jewish representation in politics that might refute Murray’s assertion of continued white dominance.
One criticism: your trope of writing “Jew” in lower case gets in the way of a serious argument like the one you made in the post. It makes it too easy to dismiss you as a crank.
First, Tanstaafl’s post is dead on.
I don’t know why I see nothing to argue with in what you write lately, Tanstaafl. I’m guessing you’re making a deliberate effort to write simply, to be plain and accessible? Anyway it’s working for me.
Second, to supply numbers for Jewish over-representation is hard, because to be real about it you have to include Jewified gentiles, with Jewish wives or other relatives and associates.
In situations like this, the ersatz Jew can be more assiduous than the Jews in ticking every Jewish box, because they’re making an effort rather than just going with what they grew up with, and because their loyalty is never taken for granted and their identity would be easy to challenge from inside the tribe.
Yes, the crypto-Jewss are generally more dangerous than the overts, precisely because they so efficiently blindside us. I’m also much impressed by the frequency with which Red and other HardLeft male caucasians (cf.: Hemingway/Gellhorn, Ayers/Dohrn, many others) have a Jewess in the background, wife or mistriss, pulling the wires. Where the Jews are concerned, the female is even deadlier than the male.
Good post. Charles Murray’s a lot like John Derbyshire: a conservative White guy with half-Asian children and a lot of personal friendships with prominent Jews who is therefore allowed to stray off the reservation a little bit when it comes to discussing racial topics, but should not be mistaken for a friend of White people. In fact these guys are among our deadliest enemies. The Jews promote them for good reason.
“One criticism: your trope of writing “Jew” in lower case gets in the way of a serious argument like the one you made in the post. It makes it too easy to dismiss you as a crank.“
I do it deliberately. The norm is to conspicuously capitalize jew and not capitalize White. I reverse that norm specifically to call attention to this. Thanks for noticing. I love to call attention to this.
LOL! Let’s argue about something serious, like whether I capitalize jew.
Following your lead Tan, I no longer capitalize ‘jew’ when in online discourse.
Isn’t this the same guy who said that there is actually no other explanation for the exceptionally high intelligence of Jews than the idea that they really are “God’s Chosen People”?
The typical “shabbos goy” but an influential and therefore a dangerous one!
It’s amusing how jew-firsters who wouldn’t think twice about not capitalizing White go crazy when they see jew not capitalized. Hearing them whine about it: priceless.
I’m new to the site from SBPDL, where I saw a link.
I bookmarked it immediately.
I’ve lived and worked with Satan’s spawn for 20 years and only in the last year woken up to the reality of a foreign occupied government and worse.
Fuck the jews.
watch your ass! as if you didn’t know, these devils will be shutting down free speech on the net soon enough, and god help you if they can catch you.
god bless you for your brave work
if we don’t hang together we’ll hang separately.
“It’s amusing how jew-firsters who wouldn’t think twice about not capitalizing White go crazy when they see jew not capitalized. Hearing them whine about it: priceless.”
Do you have the anon. who opened this thread in mind? If so, is merely criticizing this unique bit of your writing style enough to make one a ‘jew-firster’ or was there something else in his post that indicates he is one?
Did Murray also note that–by extension of his logic–we whites also control the ADL, the AJC, and the Knesset?
WS,
I presume that was my link you followed. I hope others join you. Sites like SBPDL serve well as cradles for white awakenings. But To paraphrase Tsiolkovsky…one can not eternally live in a cradle.
“It isn’t possible to honestly discuss trends in American life…without mentioning jews.”
American and by extension Western political life is currently Kafkaesque.
“is merely criticizing this unique bit of your writing style enough to make one a ‘jew-firster’“
Probably not. Is this unique bit of my writing style enough to dismiss me as a crank? Isn’t that the kind of aspersion-casting put-down any jew-firster makes about anybody who criticizes jews in any style?
I’m always happy to explain. It really does delight me that such a simple thing causes such consternation. And so far the people who have found it significant enough to criticize have indeed been jew-firsters: Auster, Laura Wood, and Sabril.
The only thing worse than a natural-born lickspittle, which Murray is, is a natural-born lickspittle with Stockholm syndrome, which Murray must’ve contracted after being ostracized for writing The Bell Curve (by all those powerful black academics who help Run America). One can imagine his naivete, thinking that praising jews for their high intelligence would win their favor, when all it did was draw their ire. He’s since wised up to the demands of his masters … jewish contradistinction must not be freely discussed, lest Whites start worrying their pretty little heads about it. So now he overcompensates by absurdly emphasizing their sameness, their Whiteness.
White pride, jewish pride – what’s the difference?
From thefreedictionary.com:
crank
n
a. an eccentric or odd person, esp someone who stubbornly maintains unusual views
b. US and Canadian a bad-tempered person
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“Is this unique bit of my writing style enough to dismiss me as a crank?”
Thank you for answering my question. I’m not sure the first anon. thinks you are a crank, but he definitively stated your argument in this post was a serious one.
If he thinks it makes you sound like a crank, I’m not sure I disagree with him.
Why not capitalize Jew (as it should be) but also capitalize White? You could likely provide us with good reasons that White should be capitalized but not capitalizing Jew is only done as a gimmick; there are no other reasons not to do it. Or am I wrong?
What would you think/write if some famous Jew insisted on not capitilizing, say, Germany or Europe? You’d rip him apart and rightfully so.
“You’d rip him apart and rightfully so.“
No, I wouldn’t. And probably neither would anyone else.
People fail to capitalize White all the time, even while they’re expressing their displeasure with jew not being capitalized. I don’t rip them apart for it. All I do is reverse the norm most other people simply accept without even thinking. When challenged I explain why. People don’t like having such thoughtlessness pointed out. Thus they try to rip me apart.
I’m well aware that language is critical. I find the controversy this point creates edifying as well as amusing. If that makes you or anyone else think I’m a crank that’s fine by me. My view on such things is at the top of the blog: The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
I’m pleased that many of the compatriots I rub elbows with here on the internet who used to not capitalize White have quietly made the switch and do now. I suspect it had something to do with my arguing my crank point, but I don’t know. Whether they capitalize jew or not really isn’t important to me, because after all, I’m not a jew.
This is a good post that deserves to be expanded, for example with numbers regarding Jewish representation in politics that might refute Murray’s assertion of continued white dominance.
But I’m not sure those numbers matter. The price of personal power for White officeholders is the renunciation of their White racial identity. Thus, strictly speaking, there are no White governors.
By the way, last time I counted (two or three years ago) there were 16 or 17 Jews in the Senate.
“The price of personal power for White officeholders is the renunciation of their White racial identity. Thus, strictly speaking, there are no White governors.“
Exactly. This is the nut of Murray’s disingenuousness. It is similar to what Auster and BRAists gloss over when they blame “white liberals”. Their claim is that what matters most is “liberalism”, paying no mind to the fact that jews are liberal to the extent they think that’s good for the jews, whereas Whites are liberal to the extent they reject what’s good for Whites.
In capitalizing White, I think the point is to set a good example.
When you see White capitalized, it raises a question: why should “whites” not be elevated to equal humanity with Blacks?
If an individual was raised in an environment of psychological abuse, taught always to refer to their own self in writing with all small letters for a name and a small “i” of the first person pronoun, while capitalizing everyone else normally “because it would be disrespectful not to,” they might accept that, depending on how beaten down they were. But what if somebody else wrote out their name for them capitalized normally, and transcribed some statement of theirs with the “I” capitalized normally? Even if that person didn’t tell them that they too were human and entitled to the same respect everyone else gets, they might begin to think about it.
I think that’s like the situation of Whites collectively. The way the dominant elites in our societies deny and denigrate White identity is psychological abuse. A tiny part of the cure is to set an example of Whites showing decent self-respect in written communication. Every time a White person writes the name of their own race with respect, it’s a little bit of progress.
This is the nut of Murray’s disingenuousness. It is similar to what Auster and BRAists gloss over when they blame “white liberals”. Their claim is that what matters most is “liberalism”, paying no mind to the fact that jews are liberal to the extent they think that’s good for the jews, whereas Whites are liberal to the extent they reject what’s good for Whites.
Yes, modern liberalism can practically be defined as what’s good for the jews. Those who seek to blame social developments solely on runaway ideas while completely disregarding interests should be treated with great suspicion. The same way you can attribute the modern anti-White ethos to the destructive ideas of “liberalism,” you can blame obesity on the love of eating. It might be true, but it isn’t at all helpful. For, in healthy individuals, the perfectly legitimate love of eating is counterbalanced by other concerns, such as for one’s health and appearance. To understand obesity, you have to ask why the love of eating has hypertrophied relative to (and at the expense of) normally countervailing homeostatic forces. Similarly, non-discrimination feels good and has played a role in healthy, stable societies from time immemorial (cf Baucis and Philemon*). But the fact that non-discrimination has, in the past 50 years, become the be-all and end-all of morality (the formulation by which doltish Auster thinks he’s moved beyond symptoms to actual root causes) just raises the more important question: what happened to the healthy forces that normally counterbalanced the feel-good desire for non-discrimination, namely, feelings of racial pride, a desire for ethnic homogeneity, national stability, rule by one’s own people, etc?
*”Zeus was the guardian of travelers, and all those who sought shelter in a strange land were under his special protection. In his mind hospitality was paramount, and Zeus didn’t like what he saw so far in this rude land of Phrygian. Zeus and Hermes disguised themselves as poor travelers and flew to earth, knocking on the door of any dwelling they encountered, be it rich or poor, large or small. They were unceremoniously turned away everywhere, and nobody would deign to even speak to these dusty and famished-looking souls. “Get lost, you bums!” they were told, over and over again”
Thanks for posting the link, Portier!
Its tough to get stuff through on there. I’ve been censored many times. I try to respect his focus, but its just so hard not to mention the larger framework of “BRA.”
SBPDL has his reasons, I’m sure, and better he get out part of the word than none at all, but its hard to limit the conversation to the smoke (hah!) rather than the fire.
I feel like a medieval peasant contemplating how to escape the king’s control(I’m just a modern peasant ).
I wish the answers were more clear and accessible.
Tanstaafl, thank you again for the reply.
“People fail to capitalize White all the time..”
But wouldn’t most who don’t capitalize white say that it is just standard English usage? They would say that ‘white’ is not the same as Catholic, Pole or, yes, Jew. You think that ‘white’ should be ‘White’ and that race should be treated the same as ethnicity and religion in the way we write. Fine. But is ‘black’ normally written with a capital B? If so, I’ve missed it. I know ‘African-American’ is more common in the mainstream but ‘black’ is still used relatively often.
I disagree with not capitalizing Jew. It strikes me as perhaps counter-productive. I could be wrong. But in any case, I don’t think it is a major issue. Your usage isn’t going to stop me from reading or recommending this blog.
“But wouldn’t most who don’t capitalize white say that it is just standard English usage?“
Of course. I invert the anti-White/pro-jew standard specifically to call attention to it, to call it into question.
“They would say that ‘white’ is not the same as Catholic, Pole or, yes, Jew. You think that ‘white’ should be ‘White’ and that race should be treated the same as ethnicity and religion in the way we write.“
Right. You’re making my argument for me. Everyone who has ever taken issue with me about this considers capitalizing White not as valid/important/significant as capitalizing jew.
“But is ‘black’ normally written with a capital B? If so, I’ve missed it.“
Don’t care. Not black.
“I disagree with not capitalizing Jew. It strikes me as perhaps counter-productive.“
Yes, you’ve made your priority clear. I think these exchanges are productive. More people are capitalizing White.
I disagree with not capitalizing Jew. It strikes me as perhaps counter-productive.
Oy Vey!
Me thinks thou dost protest too much, already.
Formerly I didn’t see the use of Tanstaafl’s counter-cultural counter-capitalization. It’s leading to productive discussions, which is what he wants.
But for me it suffices to write White, as in “say it loud, I’m White and I’m proud” – and as human and worthy as members of other groups that get to capitalize their racial identity.
Which includes Jews, now that I think of it. “Jewish” has always been a racial as well as an ethnic and a religious identity. Yet it always gets capitalized even when only the racial issue is in question, while White does not.
I don’t approve of this double standard to the detriment of Whites. Whites should write White.
“Yes, you’ve made your priority clear.”
*sigh*
We can’t all be as pure as you, mate.
Keep up the great work.
The term White, as I understand it, means a person of European descent. Jews, if we are talking about those of Semetic ancestory who are not converts, are not white, because their ancestory is from the Middle-East. Confednnorth
A snippet from a comment by Yggdrasil on Devlin’s review of Murray’s Coming Apart, Elite and Underclass | The Occidental Quarterly:
I quote from page 51 of “The Vanishing American Jew,” by Alan Dershowitz:
“Even America, which has had a significant Jewish presence for only the last century, has been enormously influenced by Jews. The theater critic Walter Kerr, writing as early as 1968, demonstrated the integration of Jews into the mainstream American life by describing not Jewish acculturation to gentile culture, but rather gentile adaptation to Jewish patterns of thought: ‘What has happened since World War II is that the American sensibility itself has become part Jewish, perhaps nearly as much Jewish as it is anything else. … The literate American mind has come in some measure to think Jewishly, to respond Jewishly. It has been taught to, and its was ready to. After the entertainers and novelists came the Jewish critics, politicians, theologians. Critics and politicians and theologians are by profession molders: they form ways of seeing.’ Today this influence is even more apparent, as individual Jews dominate television, film, book publishing, newspapers, magazine advertising, public relations, and other opinion-shaping businesses. Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman of Brandeis University titled a November 1996 article U.S. ‘Culture Has Been Judaized, and Vice Versa.’ She calls this process the ‘coalescence of two cultures.’”
The elite, the upper class, the opinion-shapers, however you want to describe them, is thoroughly judaized – their thoughts and actions governed by the jewish narrative. This has had and will continue to have disastrous consequences for Whites because we are the bad guys, the scapegoats in this narrative.
The irony is that the bragging of two jews, in just one paragraph, contains more valuable truth than Murray’s book, Devlin’s review, or Yggdrasil’s comment – all of which either ignore the judaization or dance around the implications of it. Just look how pithily the point can be made by two jews who think the judaization of the ruling class is good for the jews. It should be even easier for our advocates to identify and criticize the same thing because it is bad for us.
Is the “crank” the person who presents an alternative view or one who stubbornly holds onto an “unusual” form of political correctness.
Last time I checked, this blog openly criticizes the actions of jews. If readers are so bogged down by case-sensitivity of writing jEW, I think they’ve chosen the wrong blog.
WS – SBDL does have its uses but its blindness on the JQ and the fundamentally flawed BRA concept is what led me to categorize it as ‘controlled opposition’ in the links on majorityrights.com
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That quote from Dershowitz is prima facie evidence, Tan. I don’t know how/where you find these things, but you come up with the perfect quotes to augment your assertions. FWIW, while I continue to capitalize Jew, I have chosen to capitalize White and not capitalize black, for similar reasons to yours – to make a point.
OT:
CC’s recent Podcast with KMD’s updating his Preface to CofC is pretty good.
Anonymous said: “But wouldn’t most who don’t capitalize white say that it is just standard English usage?”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, White — when referring to White people — ought to be capitalized.
You know, there are clubby little groups of White men who cooperate with each other to advance their interests. But those interests are personal and individual, not racial or even tribal. And virtually all of the really influential groups of this sort — the Council on Foreign Relations, for example, or groups of very rich and powerful men, corporate bosses or bankers, are in fact heavily larded with Jews. They’re not racial groups at all, even if they don’t have any Blacks or Chinamen in them. They’re simply special-interest groups, whereas the 14 million Jews of the world form a huge, self-conscious racial-interest group. – Dr. William Pierce
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/media.htm
WS said…
Thanks for posting the link, Portier!
Its tough to get stuff through on there. I’ve been censored many times. I try to respect his focus, but its just so hard not to mention the larger framework of “BRA.”
SBPDL has his reasons, I’m sure, and better he get out part of the word than none at all, but its hard to limit the conversation to the smoke (hah!) rather than the fire.
I feel like a medieval peasant contemplating how to escape the king’s control(I’m just a modern peasant ).
I wish the answers were more clear and accessible.
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I used to read SBPDL. I’ve ‘graduated’ from there and have moved on. But it’s a stepping stone towards racial awareness.
We need some sort of step by step curriculum that takes newbies from being ignorant of Zionism to knowing its evil intent.
The info is out there, but it is not consolidated into an accessible format, as you say.
While we’re on the subject of capitalization of group names…does anyone know why Paul Kersey of SBPDL capitalizes Black, but not White? He does this consistently and I’ve never seen him acknowledge it or explain why. I’ve asked him myself but I didn’t get an answer (though I didn’t follow up very carefully; he might’ve answered after I stopped checking the comments).
While I haven’t signed on to the “jew, White” thing, I do think the discussion here serves as an good, concise springboard for a wider conversation about reciprocity. All the basics are seen here: Jew-firsters object to TAN’s lower-case spelling of “Jew,” but not the lower-case spelling of “White.” Despite the fact that society at large does the reverse, Jew-firsters think the few people who do as TAN does are worth bitching about, while they uphold the status quo.
The big offender along these lines, of course, is the “OMGZ yoo blame everyfink on Jooz, Joo Konspiracy, Joo World Dominationz Lulz!” They go on and on about this stuff and the “Joo mind control rayz, lulz” whenever anyone criticizes Jews for anything. Meanwhile, Jews have been blaming Whites for everything for the better part of a century now.
Somehow, in their fevered, Jewish Supremacist Jew-firster brains, 99% of the population buying into the Jewish Narrative of “blame everything on Whites” is just fine, but the 1% of the population blaming anything, let alone everything (same thing to the Jew-firsters) is the sin of all sins, crazy, dangerous, etc.
It’s kinda nuts, really.
“SBPDL has his reasons, I’m sure, and better he get out part of the word than none at all”
I think anything that cracks part of the dominant culture helps crack the whole because each crack undermines faith in the ruling elite and that faith is the primary foundation – that’s how the cultural marxists did it, various separate but allied groups picked out individual weak spots and focused on kicking them till they cracked.
As long as the Jewish element is being addressed somewhere then people can put the pieces together themselves. It’s not like there’s any possible counter-argument to the existence of the Jewish element:
1) The MSM constantly attacks White people (and only White people) over disparate impact.
2) The MSM exhibits massive disparate impact in favor of Jews.
So they obviously don’t have a problem with disparate impact on principle and are simply violently hostile to White people and White people – being White – are too busy defending themselves to see the obvious hypocrisy and double standards staring them in the face.
They go on and on about this stuff and the “Joo mind control rayz, lulz”….
And the remarkable thing about this bit of ridicule is that, since the advent of commercial television, the Jews have in fact used mind-control rays: cathode rays.
Lolmao, I am Jewish and wanted to point out to you that it is obvious to anyone with half a brain that Jews made up a large number of communists and multiculturalist fascists and other deviants.
But, on the other hand…. today Jews are disproportionately represented in the anti-multiculturalism movement and will contribute to CRUSHING IT.
I can see why u dont like jews and am surprised that decent white folk are so nice towards us, but look at european countries like sweden; they have almost NO jews and yet they are ethnocidal socialist homos. who is causing white genocide in europe, huh??
u should just realize that jews are neurotic.