Via Mangan, Richardo Duchesne at Council of European Canadians asks, The Great Fear — Why do Whites Fear their own Ethnicity?
I encourage readers to watch “The Great Debate – Xenophobia: why do we fear others?” This debate, which took place at Arizona State University, March 31, 2012, was about the human instinct to form in-groups and out-groups particularly along ethnic lines. The members in this panel (primatologist Frans de Waal, economist Jeffrey Sachs, psychologist Steven Neuberg, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, and physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson) all recognized in varying ways the powerful drive within all living beings, including bacteria, to organize themselves into in-groups and out-groups; and yet the tenor and objective of the conference, as evident from the title, was to view this as a problem that needs to be transcended.
Why a problem to be transcended? Because this evolutionary selected instinct is characterized by xenophobia, fear of those groups who are different, and preference for one’s ethnic group. But why is this a problem if it is a behavioral disposition selected by nature for its survival advantages? Because this is a panel of Western scientists committed to the idea that diversity is a strength and that Western societies must be open to mass immigration. Why? Because these scientists are members of a European-created culture that has come to believe that European ethnocentrism, and only this ethnocentrism, is harmful to humanity. Therefore, Europeans, and only Europeans, must work towards universal forms of community and human solidarity without outside-ness and without fear of the other.
Duchesne goes on to note that Sachs was “the most articulate in his explicit admission that we must follow the ideology of diversity regardless of what the scientific evidence says” and wonders, “How can a man of Sachs’s intellectual stature go for an argument that is devoid of merit?”
After searching in vain for some hint of jew-awareness, I left a comment. It seems to be stuck in moderation.
The answer is not complicated. It is not a mystery. The basic mechanics of group psychology are right there in Duchesne’s discussion. Yet he makes no mention of the jews or their anti-White animus. Instead he acts as if jews and Whites are inseparable partners in one big indistinguishable “us”.
In reality the jews are the archetypical Other. Deference to and worship of the Other is a jew-created culture. A plurality of the panel Duchesne discusses, including Sachs, are jews. Jews stereotypically psychopathologize Whites for not doing enough to “transcend” supposed problems like “xenophobia”. To put it in Duchesne’s own terms, this is a behavioral disposition which confers a survival advantage to jews at the expense of Whites.
Why do Whites, especially those who think deeply about group identity and psychology, fail to distinguish and acknowledge that jews see themselves as a group separate from Whites, and that jews as a group are in fact hostile and harmful to Whites? Why do Whites insist on pretending that jews are White and would rather think and say Whites are doing this to ourselves than note the clear differences between us and them? Why?
The word “self-delusion” came often to my mind as I heard these speakers. Self-delusion is defined as the act or state of deceiving or deluding oneself. A common example, the dictionary tell us, “is a person who believes himself to be much smarter than he actually is.” But these scientists are smart. Perhaps the definition by Voltaire would apply: “The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.” But the self-delusion here is even worse since these scientists have found reasons (based on their life-long research) not to believe whatever it is they want us to believe, but they still believe what they are ideologically expected to believe. And they are doing this openly in front of a large audience without anyone pondering over this self-imposed contradiction.
It only seems like a self-imposed contradiction when you don’t distinguish jews from Whites. The jews aren’t deluding themselves. As previously noted, jews behave as they do because they are hyper-conscious of their identity and interests, not because they are unconscious. They do what they think is good for jews, and a big part of that is guilt-tripping and scapegoating Whites. But rather than seeing jews being jews, Duchesne sees “liberals”. As I wrote in Liberalism as a Suicide Pact:
The litany of White sins – slavery, colonization, holocaust – is a jewish construct. It is jews driving the guilt-tripping that causes White guilt and negative associations with White group identity. “You aren’t liberal enough!” is the gist of it. Auster and Gottfried tack yet another item onto the list: “You’re so liberal you’re killing yourself!”
The idea that Whites are so stupid and crazy that we’re killing ourselves is just the most recent addition to the litany of White sins.
Duchesne is associated with The Occidental Observer, but his jew-blind defense of “Western civilization” smacks more of Lawrence Auster (or Takuan Seiyo, who comments on Duchesne’s article) than Kevin MacDonald.
Why does Duchesne blame Whites without mentioning the jews? Does he think it’s not important? Does he think everyone sees and understands the jews? Is he deluding himself? Why do intelligent Whites go for the arguments jews make? Because they refuse to recognize jews as the enemy. Which one is Duchesne?
“primatologist Frans de Waal, economist Jeffrey Sachs, psychologist Steven Neuberg, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, and physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson…”
As well as the vile host Lawrence Krauss.
Every accusation of White racism by Jews should be taken as an invitation and a moral permission given to White people to talk freely about the Jewish non-European identity, and about their racial animus against us.
A Puerto-Rican and several Jews discussing why THEIR “white club” is under siege from multiculturalism, liberalism, self-loathing….
moving right along.
“Associated with the Occidental Observer…”
They’ve reviewed his articles, but is he credited as a writer for them?
Recently in The Occidental Quarterly: Special Sections on White Pathology | The Occidental Observer – it could very well be that KMac’s admiration and respect for Duchesne goes unrequited.
I discussed my first impressions and reservations about Duchesne in November: “White Pathology” on Saturday Afternoon with Carolyn.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but every so-called defender of “Western civilization” I’ve ever taken the time to examine has turned out to be someone who blames Whites while excusing (or ignoring) the jews. Collin Cleary’s gushing five-part review at Counter-Currents failed to convince me that Duchesne is any different in this respect.
I’ve just started listening to Duchesne’s interview with Red Ice. Between the feedback from his mic, his Frito Bandito voice and the utter jew-blindness of his analysis I don’t know if I will bother finishing it.
Maybe he is trying to be a kosher White civil rights activist a la Taylor or Francis, either due to philosemitism or not feeling secure about his career.
It’s not clear he is a brother. At any rate, the question for such an academic is, does he have tenure?
Duchesne isn’t some random professor of say, physics. He trained under George Rudé, one of the more prominent proponents of the current dominant anti-White/anti-Western jewish-marxist worldview in academia. The job, which he chose for himself, is as a critic of this narrative. Though it is a fundamentally jewish narrative, largely originated and driven by jews with the best interests of jews in mind, Duchesne avoids this unavoidable aspect and instead traces back through history to build a case that Whites created this narrative and this situation all by ourselves. Because Aryans.
As I noted in the post, Duchesne looks at a panel full of jews in the right here and now doing what is best for jews (specifically by psychopathologizing the goyim and telling them how to think about “xenophobia”) and says that what he sees is Whites acting crazy. His explanation:
Duchesne misrepresents a gaggle of jews promoting a jew-created jew-serving culture as Whites promoting a White-created anti-White culture. He’s come up with a new and erudite-sounding critique of the orthodox view that turns out to be no real challenge to its bottom line. It’s all still Whitey’s fault.
Even if Duchesne is a brother, with defenders like this, who needs attackers?
Marcus
1 July 2014 at 2:55 pm
Maybe he is trying to be a kosher White civil rights activist a la Taylor or Francis, either due to philosemitism or not feeling secure about his career
… or about his understanding of the issue/ability to speak to it. He doesn’t do the biology angle at all, IQs, EGI, HBD … he is a Humanities specialist after all.
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It’s interesting he hasn’t passed Tan’s comment but lets Whiskey post his usual post.
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In the Red Ice interview, isn’t he asked about the Jewish role in transforming social attitudes and doesn’t he say the best work on the subject is Eric Kaufmann’s? Quite a snub for KMac, I thought.
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Why do Whites Fear their [sic] own Ethnicity?
We don’t. If it were up to us, none of the things Duchesne complains about would be happening.
Excerpts from Exposing Faux Capitalism’s My summary of Dr. Ricardo Duchesne’s second hour on Red Ice Radio, April 18, 2014 (2nd hour is members-only):
Duchesne seems well enough aware of the mechanics. Yet he excludes jews from the discussion, resorting instead to all the usual euphemisms to describe the symptoms of their poisonous, hostile influence. Is it because he’s afraid of being called “anti-semite”? At some point he’s going to have to pay that price if he wants to save the White race. Based on what I’ve heard and read of him so far, he’s just putting a new spin on the same old jew-exculpating story.
Duchesne is more Gottfried than Auster. More academic, less polemic. He drives deeper and gets more specific than either of those jews ever have. But this makes his silence on the jews all the more troubling. I don’t see how pretending the jews don’t exist helps Whites. I’d like to hear him explain why he thinks it does.
If you can be named – you don’t hold any power.
He goes further here:
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2014/06/the-straussian-assault-on-americas.html
“Havers observes that Strauss was particularly worried about the inability of liberal regimes, as was the case with the Weimar republic, to face up to illiberal challenges. He wanted a liberal order that would ensure the survival of the Jews, and the best assurance for this was a liberal order that spoke in a neutral and purely philosophical idiom without giving any preference to any religious faith and any historical and ethnic ancestries. He wanted a liberalism that would work to undermine any ancestral or traditionally conservative norms that gave preference to a particular people in the heritage of America’s founding, and thereby may discriminate against Jews. Only in a strictly universal civilization would the Jews feel safe while retaining their identity.”
Karl Popper is another example of how jews want what’s good for the jews and judge everything else in those terms.
In Yockey on Liberalism – Part 5 I referred to The Authoritarian Personality:
Sailer is remembering the jews again. He dug up the original context for the Lasch/Zizek paragraph quoted above. Slavoj Žižek on Kevin MacDonald’s “Culture of Critique”. He introduces it like so:
Duchesne should read it. This portion in particular better answers the questions he’s asking:
Sailer concludes by catching a glimpse of himself in Zizek:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/slavoj-zizek-on-kevin-macdonalds-culture-of-critique/
ben tillman’s comments there are gold, as usual.
ben tillman sums up KMac:
Kevin MacDonald’s review of Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization from the Oct 2011 Occidental Quarterly: Going Against the Tide: Ricardo Duchesne’s Intellectual Defense of the West.
I recently heard a interview with Ricardo on RedIce Creation. He said so many right things, yet never mentioned jews. I found that to be very odd. With he was talking and leaving jews out of the equation left me baffled as to why? He kept saying ‘cultural marxists” or “marxists” “left” ” liberalism” How and why would somebody do that? It has to be intentional. I also kept thinking I remember reading something on him not to long ago. Then I remembered yesterday, it was here. Thanks for this write up. Thanks
Ricardo Duchesne knows what he’s doing. he won’t speak on anything before he has studied it fully. As of now, he has the entire country in an uproar, and the great thing is, he’s got a PC shield as he’s mixed race, albeit primarily European. The the major news papers covering his spat with Kerry Jang, the Chinese white guilt hustler and flooded with comments in favour of Duchesne, the Globe and Mail article has over one thousand.
The government is spooked, they have cancelled the planned importation of 10000 Syrian refugees, it’s like a dam has burst. Duchesne knows the political climate here, things have to approached carefully and diplomatically, Canada is deep in the PC kool-aid.
He has already accomplished something I never thought I would see here. And he’s a fighter, don’t worry about him, keep an eye on his work.
Agreed, Iloonun.
Plus, Canada’s draconian “hate” laws may be an impediment to Prof. Duchesne’s reluctance in the naming of perfidious jews. Unlike the United States, we don’t have the full protection of free speech in Canada. It was jewish influence that lobbied for these laws to be given power over what should be a sovereign citizen’s right to speak, write or transmit any information they wish. So, I believe he is treading softly in his intended direction without simultaneously waging war on too many fronts at one time.
Also, before naming the “who” in this matter, unawakened Canadians require careful handling and must be spoon-fed with small doses of reality before the brainwashing affects of p.c. are over-ridden.