Steve Sailer writes: I wanted to go back to a Washington Post piece from last September 14th by veteran Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who more or less represents Washington centrism. I think it’s kind of revealing about some of the reasons of rhetorical momentum why the globalist establishment can’t restrain its drift toward extremism on Open Borders:
Angela Merkel is a better leader for America than Donald Trump
By Richard Cohen Opinion writer September 14, 2015
It has come to this: The leading Republican presidential candidate struts like a martinet and has taken on the persona, if not the rhetoric, of a hater, while the leader of Germany, an altogether humble woman of clear moral vision, is performing in the Western tradition of enlightened tolerance. How did we lose this war? …
You can imagine — or can you? — what the world would be like if German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked like Trump. Instead of leading her country in a righteous humanitarian cause, instead of assuring Germans that they really have the wherewithal to take in anywhere from 800,000 to 1 million migrants, what if she had seized the political opening? What if she denounced the migrants as rapists and criminals — concluding, of course, with the oily lie that, as harsh it may sound, it is the truth?
Or maybe Merkel would promise to build a wall — as impregnable as the one Trump promises for Mexico — across Germany’s eastern borders. Look, she could say, it has been done — a wall down the middle of Berlin, separating east from west, and it worked. …
At bottom, the difference between the leading Republican candidate and the leading German is an appreciation of history. Merkel knows that the new Europe skates on the thinnest of ice. She knows that Europe is awful at dealing with minorities. She knows that ethnic peace has been achieved by ethnic cleansing and population transfers that the Nazis and the Soviets initiated and the World War II victors continued. Winston Churchill had it about right when he told the House of Commons in 1944 that “expulsion is the method which, insofar as we have been able to see, will be the most satisfactory and lasting. There will be no mixture of populations to cause endless trouble. . . . A clean sweep will be made.”
That clean sweep is now being unmade. France is anywhere from 8 to 10 percent Muslim; for Austria, Belgium and Germany, the figure is upward of 5 percent. In France, the large numbers of Muslims (and black Africans) live in the banlieues, suburban slums where radicalism and crime fester. Germany has a substantial Turkish community. With more Muslims on the way, the ethnic equilibrium of Europe will be tested. Some politicians will no doubt take advantage. Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, is building a fence topped with razor wire in an effort “to keep Europe Christian.” As any forlorn village priest can attest, it is far too late for that.
Merkel understands what Trump does not: that to pander to prejudice is to reap the whirlwind. His scapegoating of immigrants is playing with fire. We are a tolerant nation, but our better angels have sometimes flown the coop. We incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II, locked our doors to desperate European Jews running from Hitler, enslaved black people and held them in peonage, and nearly eradicated the Native Americans. Unlike Germany, which unflinchingly stares at a history both repellent and frightening, for the longest time we either shamelessly ignored our history or rewrote it to conform to myth. On an airplane recently, I watched a bit of “Gone With the Wind.” Its depiction of slavery made me retch.
Donald Trump is rebuked by Angela Merkel. She has the political gravitas that he lacks and the respect for history that he disdains. It has indeed come to this: A German leader is showing American politicians how to be an American.
Okay, well, obviously Cohen was motivated by the common It’s Always 1933 in Europe fetish, but I want to focus on Cohen’s focus upon the winners’ actions in 1944-1946 to remake the map of Eastern Europe: the ethnic cleansing of about 12 million of the German losers from Eastern Europe:
She knows that Europe is awful at dealing with minorities. She knows that ethnic peace has been achieved by ethnic cleansing and population transfers that the Nazis and the Soviets initiated and the World War II victors continued. Winston Churchill had it about right when he told the House of Commons in 1944 that “expulsion is the method which, insofar as we have been able to see, will be the most satisfactory and lasting. There will be no mixture of populations to cause endless trouble. . . . A clean sweep will be made.”
That clean sweep is now being unmade. France is anywhere from 8 to 10 percent Muslim; for Austria, Belgium and Germany, the figure is upward of 5 percent.
Inviting in million of Muslims into northern Europe will right the wrongs committed by Europeans against each other 70 years ago in the formation of contemporary Poland, that repulsively non-diverse country. You see, to not want to invite in Muslims is not only to endorse Hitler, but also to endorse Stalin.
Or something like that.
There seems to be a growing urge among Establishment voices to demonize as immoral the desire to let sleeping dogs lie.
For example, the ethnic cleansing of Germans at the end of World War II is one of the sleepiest sleeping dogs of them all.
If you asked me, I’d say, Well, throwing all the Germans out of Poland and moving the Polish border 200 miles into Germany was bad, and I’m against it being done back then and all that, but, holy cow, let’s not get into that now. What’s done is done and Eastern Europe is settled.
But that kind of prudence is increasingly out of fashion.
Maybe we should call it the Inglourious Basterdization of elite opinion: the urge is growing to go back into the past and Kill Hitler (and, okay, to be fair about it, Stalin, too). Granted, advances in time machine technology haven’t been wholly satisfactory yet, so therefore we should give anybody who shows up claiming to have some analogy to being like Jews in Hitler’s Europe, well, we should give them Europe … even if they are anti-Semites who would consider it disgusting to claim to be kind of like Jews.
Because Hitler.
By the way, I know race does not exist genetically and all that because race is a social construction, but the socially constructed current border between Poland and German is a racial/genetic border, too, because race can be socially constructed if you have enough T-34s.
Hum Genet. 2005 Sep;117(5):428-43. Epub 2005 Jun 16.
Abstract
To test for human population substructure and to investigate human population history we have analysed Y-chromosome diversity using seven microsatellites (Y-STRs) and ten binary markers (Y-SNPs) in samples from eight regionally distributed populations from Poland (n = 913) and 11 from Germany (n = 1,215). Based on data from both Y-chromosome marker systems, which we found to be highly correlated (r = 0.96), and using spatial analysis of the molecular variance (SAMOVA), we revealed statistically significant support for two groups of populations: (1) all Polish populations and (2) all German populations. By means of analysis of the molecular variance (AMOVA) we observed a large and statistically significant proportion of 14% (for Y-SNPs) and 15% (for Y-STRs) of the respective total genetic variation being explained between both countries. The same population differentiation was detected using Monmonier’s algorithm, with a resulting genetic border between Poland and Germany that closely resembles the course of the political border between both countries. The observed genetic differentiation was mainly, but not exclusively, due to the frequency distribution of two Y-SNP haplogroups and their associated Y-STR haplotypes: R1a1*, most frequent in Poland, and R1*(xR1a1), most frequent in Germany. We suggest here that the pronounced population differentiation between the two geographically neighbouring countries, Poland and Germany, is the consequence of very recent events in human population history, namely the forced human resettlement of many millions of Germans and Poles during and, especially, shortly after World War II. …
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Should Europe be Jordanized?
Jordanian population is 80% Palestinian because of the Nakba.
Cohen-ian logic applied to history goes as follows.
Jewish policy driving out 800,00o Palestinians: necessary and progressive.
But….
suppose Jordan had refused to take in Palestinian refugees caused by Zionist policy.
Why, Jordanians would have been like the Nazis.
Jordan had to pay the demographic price for Zionist actions.
And how does Cohenian logic work today?
Zionist-Globalist foreign policy messes up Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, & Syria and leads to the deaths of 100,00os and the displacement of millions of people: No Problem! It’s just spreading democracy and western values.
But…
If Europeans say NO to this deluge? They are like Nazis.
Cohenian logic in action.
If Cohen takes over someone’s house, steals all the property, and kicks him out into the cold, that is not a problem. If anything, we should praise Cohen and defend his action.
But if you won’t take in this homeless victim of Cohen, YOU are the Nazi.
What a truly vile son of a bitch.
I wonder if he’s just morally blind or sociopathic in his lies and hypocrisy.
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What should recent Western policy toward the Middle East be called?
Mega-nakba, affecting pretty much all Arabs and Muslims in the region.
* Cohen has also been vehemently advocating for starting a humanitarian war in Syria.
* So with France at 10 percent muslim; and Austria, Belgium and Germany at 5 percent, it’s far too late to keep Europe Christian? Does that mean they should all just give up? It sounds like more of that theory of inevitability crap the Left is always pushing down our throats to get us to submit and stop resisting. It’s inevitable after all so stop wasting your time and get on the right side of history.
I wonder if Mr. Cohen thinks that it’s far too late to keep Israel a Jewish state since the muslim population is about 18 percent? If so he ought to tell the Israelis, I don’t think they feel it’s too late.
* Here’s a recent BBC interview with Marion Maréchal Le Pen which, you guessed it, spends lots of time fretting about the legacy of WW2 and anti-Semitism.
She describes her grandfather as a “not a conservative but a right-wing anarchist” which sounds right.
* I have watched the movie “Ex Machina” 6 times. It is great in every way. I know what happens at the end, yet still, I cannot quit rooting for the robots. I feel it is the same for people who cannot quit rooting for “immigrants” illegal and legal. It is self defeating in the extreme, but some people are hardwired for it.
* Mr. Cohen’s “respect for history” seems to lack so much as a scintilla of grasp of fourteen centuries of Islam’s bloody aggressive wars of conquest, Islam’s genocide of Armenians and other races, and Islam’s still-imposed slavery, intolerance, stigmatization, humiliation and extortion of other faiths in Moslem lands. Perhaps by attempting to enter Saudi Arabia while wearing a kippah and Star of David pendant Mr. Cohen might test Islamic “tolerance”?
* From Philly.com, Jan 21, 2016:
Philadelphia City Council returned Thursday for its first meeting of the new term. […] [A] nonbinding resolution was offered suggesting that two Muslim holidays become official city and School District holidays.
Speaking before a chamber packed with men wearing Muslim prayer caps and women wearing hijabs, Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. said an acquaintance had questioned his timing, considering the recent shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a man who said he was acting on behalf of Islam and the tension surrounding calls for Muslims to be banned from entry to the United States.
After Council passed the resolution on a voice vote with no dissent, many of those supporters celebrated by saying, “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is the greatest.”
The resolution urges the city and the School District to make the holidays official.
It received initial support from Mayor Kenney.
The two holidays in question are Eid al-Fitr, celebrated after the monthlong observance of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, celebrated at the conclusion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Philadelphia, which has an estimated 200,000 Muslims, would not be the first city to add the holidays to the official calendar. Schools in New York City added them to the academic calendar last year.
