Nationalists come in many shapes and sizes. The government of Israel is nationalist. Nazis are nationalists. People on the political right such as Republicans tend to be nationalists. People on the left tend to more ideological commitments such as socialism, classism, and anti-racism. Ku Klux Klanners like the guy who shot and killed three Jews in Kansas City are nationalists. Some nationalists are evil and some are good just like some of those whose primary allegiance is religious or ideological rather than national are sometimes good people and sometimes bad. Supporters of the Democratic party in America tend to be egalitarians, believing that races and groups are born with equal aptitudes and that it is environment that primarily shapes them. Supporters of Stalin and Mao had these same views. So egalitarians and nationalists come in many shapes and sizes. Some black nationalists do evil, some Jewish nationalists do evil, and some white nationalists do evil. Simply supporting your group and putting your primary allegiance to your group, whether your group is national, racial, social, religious or ideological, is not necessarily good or evil.
The type of nationalism I support is law-abiding. It seeks nothing for its own group that it does not also welcome for others. My nationalism stands for good will towards all, and that every group needs to organize in their group interest including whites. If whites don’t start organizing, they will go the way of South African whites and Rhodesian whites.
Almost all mass evil committed in the world over the past 60 years, aside from communism, has been done on the basis of blood, not ideology. This sounds like a strong argument against nationalism, except you could also say that almost all mass evil was committed by people who breathe. Identifying and sacrificing for your own kind in preference to those who are different is wired into our DNA. The most effective way of overcoming it is with strong religious ties. Fellow Jews, fellow Muslims, fellow Adventists, look out for each other (some groups, such as Jews, much more effectively than others).
Barry emails:
Hello Luke:
Your interview with Kevin MacDonald was a tour de force. Outstanding.
I’ve hugely enjoyed your articles on porn, Judaism and much else over the years. Interviewing is your main skill through. They remind me of an early BBC series called Face to Face with John Freeman.
It strikes me that you are a consummate journalist with an insatiable curiousity. Unfortunately that is why you could never hold a job down in journalism.
Journalism will forgive anything – except curiousity.
The main skill you need in journalism is fitting in and you do that by constantly status-signalling the most conventional beliefs.
As one journalist told me. The key to getting a reputation as a fearless muckraker is not to upset anyone. Or anyone powerful anyway. You forgot that second bit Luke.
Actually journalism doesn’t need journalists anymore. It needs narrative shapers, opinion formers, marketers.
The other problem is that you think the truth will protect you. But the truth is not important. Social conformity is – fitting in is.
You are like the guy in this video who does not get it – he keeps blurting out the truth.
How would you fit in this environment Luke? It would be a comedy in itself! ….
