I truly believe I know what it feels like to be coming out of a cult. Western society has been brainwashed into believing things that will ultimately destroy them. I thank God for the discontent that comes from working against nature. I thank God for the discontent that comes from not putting your own family first (1 Tim 5:8). In this section Johnson explains the necessity of having the attitude of a supremacist in a meek way (power under control).
These lessons are part of a wider study seeking to answer a timely but age old question:
Psalms 11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
God set boundaries to protect us from evil. Underneath each boundary lays a foundation. When evil men redefine biological sex (Gen 1:27), they strike at that foundation. When evil men redefine marriage (Gen 2:23-24), they strike at that foundation. When evil men redefine nation (Gen 10:5), they strike at that foundation. When the footing is shattered, people lose hope and become easy prey to evil forces.
When God freed the sons of Israel from Egypt (Ex 1:1) He continued His promise to make them into a nation (Gen 12:1-2). He taught them as they marched through the desert to the Promised Land. He gave them their first lessons on nationhood. He reminded them of their history and origin. In the first 11 chapters, and of first importance, were the definitions of nation, marriage, and biological sex. From chapter 12 on, to the end of the New Testament, God persistently impressed these definitions upon His chosen, but deviant, people. His definitions were not contrary to the nature of things. This was His plan and means of bringing the world a Savior and conquering evil. What would have happened had He not held to these definitions or worked against His own laws of nature?
I hope to bring light upon these questions and others like them in this series of studies called What is a Nation? To explore this broader topic I will review a number of books, the first of which is The White Nationalist Manifesto by Greg Johnson. I will add some comments and study questions to each post to turn them into short 10-20 minute lessons. To go to the beginning of this series click here.
9. Supremacism
The charge that White Nationalists are “white supremacists” has two aspects. First, there is the claim that whites think of ourselves as superior to other groups. Second, there is the idea that whites want to rule over other groups.
Civic Nationalists are the Supremacists
I do think that whites are superior to some groups in some ways. I am very proud of our people, and we have a great deal to be proud of. In the areas in which we excel, we have done a lot for the world. Our superior achievements in comparison to other races are why so many non-whites are flooding into white societies. There’s no need to mince words about that or apologize in any way.
It is easy to find ways in which we are superior to other groups. But we can also find ways in which we are inferior to other groups. I just don’t think this issue matters, however, because as Kevin MacDonald and Jared Taylor have pointed out, even if we were the sorriest lot of people on the planet and had accomplished almost nothing, it would still be natural, normal, and right for us to love our own and to be concerned with the future of our people. And it would still be politically expedient to demand our own sovereign homelands.
As for the idea of whites reigning over other people, I don’t want that. I am a universal ethnonationalist. I believe in self-determination for all peoples. The people who are actually committed to whites ruling over other people are civic nationalists who claim to be Western civilizational chauvinists but not ethnic or racial nationalists.[1] Civic nationalists have basically conceded multiracialism to the Left. It is a victory they are not even going to question, much less try to roll back.
Chauvinism is an attitude of superiority. A Western chauvinist believes that Western civilization is superior. What is Western civilization, though? Basically, it is white civilization. Thus civic nationalists are committed to the idea of white civilizational superiority, which is the first form of supremacism. They try to evade this implication with a hat trick, of course, declaring that Western civilization is a universal civilization, but this is simply false.
White Supremacism In The Second Sense
Western civilization is a product of white people, and the people who are most comfortable in Western countries are white people. When blacks, Asians, and other groups come to white countries, they want to change things to suit them better. The Western chauvinist must say “no.” Non-whites have to live by white standards, including white laws, which are of course enforced by the state. In effect, this means whites must rule over non-whites. This is white supremacism in the second sense.
Now I certainly believe that if non-whites live in white societies, we absolutely must impose our values on them, or they will create a society that we do not want to live in.
We really need to reflect for a moment on the absurdity of the situation in which it is now “problematic” for white values to be “supreme” in white societies, which were created and sustained by white people and white values. Does anyone denounce Japan for being Asian supremacist or Nigeria for being black supremacist?[2]
But we have to be honest that it really is a form of oppression to impose white standards on non-white populations and demand that they “assimilate,” that they surrender their identities, that they in effect go around wearing clothes that don’t fit. Because one’s civilization should be as comfortable and as becoming as a well-tailored suit.
Blacks, for instance, don’t find white civilization comfortable. It is like demanding they wear shoes that are two sizes too small when we impose our standards of punctuality and time preferences, demand that they follow our age-of-consent laws, or foist the nuclear family upon them. These things don’t come naturally to Africans. Imposing such standards is the hated “white supremacy” system. But if we don’t impose white standards upon blacks, we have chaos. We have great cities like Detroit transformed into wastelands.
William Blake once said, “One law for the lion and ox is oppression.” Because lions and oxen are different beasts, to put them under one law forces them to live contrary to their natures. White supremacism would be like lion supremacism: demanding that the ox live by the code of the lion. But the ox doesn’t eat meat. He eats grass. Eating meat doesn’t come naturally to him. The true white supremacists are the civic nationalists, who would think they are doing the ox a favor by declaring meat the “universal” diet and force-feeding it to him.
White Nationalists are not white supremacists, because it is not our preference to rule over other groups.[3] Although if forced to live under multicultural systems, we are going to take our own side and try to make sure that our values reign supreme, our preference is to go our separate ways. That’s reason enough for an amicable, no-fault racial divorce, so we can live in the manners that most befit us in our own separate homelands.
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Questions & Notes
The people who are actually committed to whites ruling over other people are _________ _________. ↑
Does anyone denounce Japan for being Asian supremacist or Nigeria for being black supremacist? ↑
White Nationalists are not white supremacists, because it is not our _________ to rule over other groups. ↑