Plain talk about race in America

episode 210

The essay below is out from behind the paywall after a couple of days as I decided to make it the centerpiece of episode 210. The topic is important enough that I’d like everyone interested to be able to read it and join the discussion. The article forms the first block of last night’s show, linked below.

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One of the West’s fundamental psychological derangements is almost never named and described for what it is. But this derangement is killing our once high-trust productive society.

It is this: The idea that being “racist” is the worst moral sin of all; that it is worse than rape or murder.

You want to challenge me, I know. You want to say, “No one actually believes that.”

You are wrong, and I am right. Yes, they do. Their actions-in contrast to their asserted claims-show that they do.

Americans particularly are so mired in this idea that they regularly make choices that put themselves and their children in danger of violence or anti-white discrimination (in job applications, college entrance, grant programs, etc.) simply to avoid being seen as, or to perceive themselves as “racist.”

So deep does this go that simply signaling to others that you acknowledge the objective, provable fact that crime by blacks against whites is massively disproportionate gets you accused of “racism.” Citing the objective fact that fatherlessness is the norm in black families (even more than whites, and we’ve got it too) and that it leads to predictable outcomes in criminality, sloth, and leeching off welfare, gets you accused of “racism.” No, no-it’s not the case that you can show the statistics to people and change their minds.

You cannot. If you can get them to accept the reality of the statistics (that’s dicey) they will STILL treat you as “racist” for citing the stats. Simply noticing a reality, even if it’s a reality that materially affects you or could hurt you, is itself “racist.” That is, it is The Most Immoral Thing and The Deepest Sin Conceivable.

Here’s how perverse it is: the act of acknowledging black people as fully human is not allowed.

I used to live under this moral delusion as a true believer. Let me tell you two anecdotes about how I used to think and behave.

Years ago I was in Georgia at a speaking gig. My hosts who gave me room and board were late middle-aged and retired white professionals. They gave me the tour-by-car that you give to out of towners who have never seen your city.

The lady driving the car noticed that the gas tank was on empty, and said she needed to find a gas station immediately. We slowed down near a convenience store gas station. The parking lot was filled with young black men wearing thug-rapper-bling attire.

There were Cadillacs with gold-crown wheel hubs, sagging pants, do-rags, and lots of loud, aggressive shouting.

My hostess, the driver, got a pained look on her face as she said, “I think I’ll keep going to the next spot.”

Reader, in my mind, I called her a racist. In my mind I called everyone in the minivan a racist, as they all agreed we should move on. Not for one minute did I consider that these locals might know better about what was dangerous and what was safe for older white women in their own town.

A few years later, I bought a house in a working class town in Vermont outside Burlington. I could afford it because the town was down-at-heel. That town also had the greatest concentration of non-white people, because it bigged itself up as a town that wanted as many foreign refugees as possible. What was once a French Catholic mill worker town with two churches was rapidly approaching minority-white status. Whole blocks were occupied by African muslims, with the women shrouded from head to foot, women who refused to make eye contact or speak with any man except their husband.

The rental houses on my street started to take on tenants who were seedier and seedier as time went on. The kind of people who have “domestics” on their door step, screaming obscenities at their bedmates out in public while the TV-dazed children sat around in dirty clothes with vacant stares.

And I felt virtuous for living in a “multi-cultural” neighborhood.

One night I was walking home from the store and a group of about six young black men was walking toward me on the left side of the street. Yes, my initial emotional reaction was to cross the street, but I forced myself not to. Why did I react that way? Because even woke-dazed as I was, I knew the likelihood of aggression from late-teen-black men was higher on average than a group of local white high school boys. And these young men were clearly brand-new “immigrants,” not boys who grew up in Vermont.

So I walked by, feeling virtuous about having caught my “racism” before I could act on it. Nothing happened, but I should have crossed the street. There was nothing wrong with my on-the-fly statistical danger analysis that prompted me to move; I talked myself out of what was just good horse sense.

My later encounters with young black men in the area helped get me over this self-endangering thinking. Those encounters have included being threatened with violence for asking a car to move out of a travel lane to allow my own car to park in a store lot, and similar. That’s just the way it is.

Let’s return to the discussion of what it means to treat others, in this case black people, as fully human. What does it mean? To acknowledge someone as fully human means that you understand they are capable of the full range of human motivations, feelings, and actions. That they are fully responsible for their own behavior. That they are capable of great wickedness and evil, as well as being capable of great good and love.

In American society, you cannot acknowledge black people as fully human. They cannot be held responsible for their behavior (that’s racist). They cannot be feared, even if you have every reason to fear them because, say, gangs of young black men are shooting people in broad daylight in your city. You’re not even allowed to have an interest in preserving your own life. To do so is “racist.”

Because we have constructed a cardboard cutout of black people. In our unending and now terminal desire to “right the wrongs of the past,” we have made black people into both more-than and less-than full humans.

More than: They are to be catered to, sympathized with, made excuses for, paid extra benefits, put into positions for which they are not qualified, etc.

Less than: they are not capable of controlling themselves, they are not to be accused of crimes even if they commit them, they must never be held to full account, and no justice reckoning for a black person may be performed until the white people perform this act: “Of course, I recognize that systemic racism is real, and I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t believe in it. We must be so, so, so careful to make sure that none of our justice-oriented approaches have even the slightest chance of negatively affecting any social or material privilege enjoyed by black people. That would be racist.”

You can’t even mourn the death of a family member (if it happened at the hands of a non-white person) without also saying, “Of course, racism exists.” Again, do not scoff. We’ve seen parents stand in front of a podium and excoriate “racists” who call for the expulsion of illegal aliens after their own daughter was murdered by an illegal alien. If I could figure out the search string to find that example, I would, but I cannot. I featured this pitiful display on my show within the past year.

This is a full-blown, clinical level psychiatric and moral delusion. It’s the definition of the word “perverse.” And it has been so normalized since the Civil Rights era that I fear it may be impossible to root out.

I’m using race and black people to illustrate for two reasons:

a. The way we are supposed to view and treat black people is the most enduring and extreme expression of this delusion.

b. This must be explicitly called out in blunt terms with zero apology, making sure that everyone reading knows we’re talking about black people. The delusion is so strong it has to be bulldozed bluntly if there’s to be any chance of reckoning with it.

Many of you reading this right now know that it’s true, but you have a knot in your stomach. You are not going to like this post, you won’t forward it, and you will probably never admit even to your best friend or your spouse that you know it’s true. But you do.

This post by itself is enough to ensure that I can never be hired by any “respectable” company for the foreseeable future (I’ve already lost all my respectability, so nothing left to lose). It is likely to be screenshotted and used by someone to prove that I’m a dangerous “racist” who poses a threat equivalent to an actual Klansman. That’s no exaggeration.

But it’s not only black people that we do this with. There’s something deeper. This dynamic is also at play in how we are to treat any person who’s ascended to “protected class” status:

-Gays

-Trannies

-Women

-The disabled

-Foreigners

The common denominator? Every member of these classes is inherently, essentially, and permanently Morally Better and More Deserving than any white heterosexual person (mostly men, but white women get the stick, too).

What’s at the base? I don’t know fully, but the psychology seems to be a kind of inverted masochistic narcissism. It’s the idea that the way to be a pure, moral, “godly” person (used loosely) is to be or perform “being ashamed” of your whiteness or your normalcy or your health or your non-bankrupt status, and to glorify all others who fit into “protected class” categories.

It’s an essential guilt that has no solution. We are not allowed to not feel the guilt. It is literally a secular original sin.

For all our Western infatuation with the alleged but obviously not real “purity” and “morality” of all non-white, non-Western cultures, we don’t engage with them as full humans either. Have you noticed that these cultures don’t have this problem? Have you noticed that they don’t apologize for working in the interests of their own families and cohorts? Have you noticed how they have no problem restraining or punishing or even killing hostile outsiders, and that they don’t feel guilty about not laying their families open to pillaging by outsiders?

These people act more like normal humans than we do. It’s NORMAL to have self-interest. It’s NORMAL to protect you and yours first, to the death, against outside forces. It’s not only human-normal, it’s organism normal. We white Westerners are the only group I’ve encountered who seem to have a positive death wish for their own cultures, their own families, and themselves.

Please permit me a side excursion into my experience with psychotherapy to wrap this up. I promise it won’t be stupid babble; there’s a real point.

My therapist is unlike the image that just popped up in your head when you read “my therapist.” Utterly unlike it. He is 70, educated long ago before woke, has years of experience with extremely traumatized people, and is the biggest proponent of self-reliance and self-candor I have ever encountered. He is a “hard ass,” in other words, which is what has made him so helpful to people like me.

People like, and maybe like you, who came from abusive, deranged childhoods. We are left with mental illness and deep moral confusion. We’re confused about what makes us good people or bad people, we don’t know who to trust because we didn’t learn “normal” during a childhood development window.

We often make ourselves “victims” (yes, we were victimized by parents, but I mean beyond that) as a way of earning our social living. We often end up thinking in patterns like our parents with borderline personality disorder-all good, or all bad. We hate ambiguity and shades of gray in many cases because ambiguity meant uncertainty and danger, and we’re mostly interested in protecting ourselves. Uncertainty drives us mad.

My six years of psychotherapy with this genuinely good professional has focused on tolerating uncertainty, allowing for mixed bags of good and bad, and finding actual discernment. For me it has been grueling. It could not be any other way; I would not have made any progress unless this was painful, and it is.

Because I know how distressing and how difficult it is to work through this, I despair of seeing any appreciable portion of the population achieve this growth for themselves. They need it, but I don’t know that they can do it.

But if we, collectively, do not try to make some progress toward this, we have no chance of moving past this culture-wide moral delusion we live under. A sane and balanced society would not view this post as “racist” and The Worst Sin Ever, but at least half the U.S. population today would likely see my writing this way.

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