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Category Archives: WASPs
WP: ‘I rejected my parents’ WASP values. Now I see we need them more than ever’
Comments on the Washington Post article: * “My parents were the kind of polite conservatives who would have been appalled by this year’s Republican presidential campaign. They belonged to that stuffy but understated class of Eastern WASPs who were gently … Continue reading
French Political Scientist Nona Mayer: They [National Front’ Are Unknitting The Social Fabric of Society’
Some people object to the phrase “America First.” So what country should Americans put first? Israel? Perhaps America should put good values first. So whose values? Biblical values? So what would those Biblical values teach? If you take your religion … Continue reading
The Decline & Fall Of The WASPs
It’s good to know that such a radical is a reporter. I trust her to give us the news straight and without bias. Pamela Constable writes in the Washington Post: I grew up in Hamilton’s world, on a winding road … Continue reading
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One Law for Jews, Another Law for Gentiles
Most of the world is tribal and tribal morality is inevitably dual — there’s one morality for how you deal with members of the tribe and another morality for how you deal with outsiders. Judaism is tribal morality (with the … Continue reading
Siskel & Ebert & the Protestants
Comments at Steve Sailer: * What a shocker that Siskel is way more upset about it than Ebert. * Ebert was smarter and more self-aware than Siskel. * Siskel comes off as unhinged, irrational, and completely emotional about it. While … Continue reading
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The WASP Question
A review of Andrew Fraser’s book in the 2012 Salisbury Review: ‘The few proudly Anglo-Saxon patriots scattered around the world are now political pariahs’, declares Andrew Fraser in The WASP Question. ‘In an age of diversity, they are the invisible … Continue reading
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THE ANGLO-SAXON AS PARIAH
Andrew Fraser writes in his 2011 book The WASP Question: This book seeks to explain why WASPs (a subtly, perhaps deservedly derogatory acronym coined sometime in the late Fifties to denote White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) rarely rise to the conscious, principled … Continue reading
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America Was Founded On Anglo Identity
Scott Greer writes: The 2016 election’s unprecedented nastiness provided House Speaker Paul Ryan yet another opportunity to pontificate on his “positive” conservative vision. Lamenting the “disheartening” state of the current election, Ryan offered his alternative Wednesday — a politics focused … Continue reading
The American Nativists Were Right
Brett Stevens writes: American Nativism was a movement in the 1800s which said that the original founding population of America was Western European and that adulterating that with non-Western European immigrants would destroy it. In particular, these Anglo-Saxons argued that … Continue reading
The Distinctiveness Of WASP Ethics
I grew up a WASP. All of my family and friends were WASPs. I took WASP morality for granted. There was no concept of an in-group vs out-group morality in WASPville. If you cheated, you kept quiet. I didn’t develop … Continue reading