July 31, 2015 Religion & Family First, State Second Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Religion & Family First, State Second

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

De Gasperi, for his part, never recognized in Mussolini anything except a destructive radical: ‘Bolshevism in black’, as he put it. His own Partito Popolare Trentino was welcomed by Don Luigi Sturzo into the Catholic Popular Party,
which might have ruled inter-war Italy but for Mussolini’s putsch.
De Gasperi disliked Italian parliamentary politics (‘an equestrian
circus’), with their theatricals and oratorial tricks, which he always
spurned. But he hated the big totalitarian state still more. As he said
at the last Partito Popolare National Congress, 28 June 1925: ‘The
theoretical and practical principles of fascism are the antithesis of the Christian concept of the State, which lays down that the natural
rights of personality, family and society exist before the State.’
Fascism was just ‘the old Police State reappearing in disguise, holding
over Christian institutions the sword of Damocles’. Hauled before a
fascist tribunal in November 1926, he insisted: ‘It is the very concept
of the fascist state I cannot accept. For there are natural rights which the state cannot trample upon.’

So if you are an authentic Christian, Jew or Muslim, you are a member of your religion and family first, and then a citizen of the state? So perhaps Christians and Muslims as well as Jews have loyalties above the state? So perhaps Jews are not so different? So perhaps Jews don’t need to be so squeamish when accused of dual loyalties?

Should not all righteous people be slaves to moral codes above that of state law? Codes that spring from God?

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The Last Leader Of Europe

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times:

If post-war history took the new nations of Africa and Asia down a
series of blind alleys, often terminating in horror and savagery,
Europe’s experience offered more comfort. This was unexpected.
The prevailing mood in 1945 was despair and impotence. The
European era in history was over. In a sense Hitler had been the last
truly European leader, able to initiate world events from a Euro-
centric vision. He lost that power at the end of 1941. The vacuum
opened by his colossal fall could not be filled by European rivals. At
the end of the war, the two non-European superpowers stood, as it
were, on the rim of a spent volcano, peering contemptuously into its
still smouldering depths, uninvolved in its collapse but glad it no
longer had the daemonic energy to terrify humanity.

On 26 October 1945, at the opening of the new ballet at the
Theatre des Champs-Elysees, the drop-curtain by Picasso was hissed
by the packed high-society audience. 1 That was the old Paris. Three
days later, at the Club Maintenant, Jean-Paul Sartre delivered a
lecture, ‘Existentialism is a Humanism 5 . Here was the new Paris. This
occasion, too, was packed. Men and women fainted, fought for
chairs, smashing thirty of them, shouted and barracked. It coincided
with the launching of Sartre’s new review, Les Temps modernes, in
which he argued that literary culture, plus the haute couture of the
fashion shops, were the only things France now had left — a symbol
of Europe, really — and he produced Existentialism to give people a
bit of dignity and to preserve their individuality in the midst of
degradation and absurdity. The response was overwhelming. As his
consort, Simone de Beauvoir, put it, ‘We were astounded by the
furore we caused.’ 2 Existentialism was remarkably un-Gallic; hence,
perhaps, its attractiveness. Sartre was half-Alsacian (Albert Schweit-
zer was his cousin) and he was brought up in the house of his
grandfather, Karl Schweitzer. His culture was as much German as
French. He was essentially a product of the Berlin philosophy school
and especially of Heidegger, from whom most of his ideas derived.
Sartre had had a good war. Despite the surface enmities, there was a
certain coming together of the French and German spirit. Paris was
not an uncongenial place for an intellectual to be, provided he could
ignore such unpleasantnesses as the round-up of Jews, as most
contrived to do without difficulty. 3 As the Jewish intellectual Ber-
nard-Henri Levy was later to point out, radical, proto-fascist forms
of racialism were rarely repugnant to the French, not least to French
intellectuals: he even called it ‘the French ideology’. 4

The Paris theatre flourished under the Nazis. Andre Malraux later
snarled: ‘I was facing the Gestapo while Sartre, in Paris, let his plays
be produced with the authorization of the German censors.’ 5 Albert
Biissche, theatre critic of the Nazi forces’ newspaper, Pariser Zei-
tung, called Sartre’s play Huis Clos ‘a theatrical event of the first
order’. He was not the only beneficiary of German approval. When a
new play by the pied-noir writer Albert Camus, Le Malentendu, was
presented at the Theatre des Mathurins on 24 June 1944, it was
hooted by the French intellectual elite (then largely fascist) because
Camus was known to be in the Resistance. Biissche found it ‘filled
with profound thoughts … a pioneering work’. 6 Camus did not
share Sartre’s aloofness to the war; he was in fact one of only 4,345
Frenchmen and women who received the special Rosette of the
Resistance medal. But his thinking reflected the growing contiguity
of French and German philosophy which the Occupation promoted
and which was an important. strand in the post-war pattern. The
most important influence in his life was Nietzsche, whom in effect,
through his novels UEtr anger and La Peste, he gallicized for an
entire generation of French youth.

Sartre and Camus came together in 1943—4, protagonists – and
eventually antagonists – in a cult centred on St Germain-des-Pres
which sought to relate philosophy and literature to public action.
Their caravanserai was the Cafe Flore, itself a symbol of the
ambiguities of French intellectual life. St Germain had been a haunt
of Diderot, Voltaire and Rousseau, who had congregated in the old
Cafe Procope. The Flore dated from the Second Empire, when it had
been patronized by Gautier, Musset, Sand, Balzac, Zola and Huys-
mans; later by Apollinaire and later still by the circle of Action
Franqaise, led by Maurras himself: Sartre occupied his still-warm
seat. 7 Existentialism in its post-war presentation was derived from
Kant’s ‘Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through
your will a general natural law’. Our positive acts, Sartre taught,
created ‘not only the man that we would like to be ourselves’ but also
‘an image of man such as we think he ought to be’. Man could shape
his own essence by positive political acts. He thus offered a rationa-
lized human gesture of defiance to despair – what Karl Popper called
‘a new theology without God’. It contained an element of German
pessimism, characteristic of both Heidegger and Nietzsche, in that it
placed exaggerated emphasis upon the fundamental loneliness of
man in a godless world, and upon the resulting tension between the
self and the world. 8 But for young people it was magic. It was a form
of Utopian romanticism with much the same attractions as the
Romantic movement 150 years before. Indeed it was more attractive
because it offered political activism too. As Popper complained, it
was a respectable form of fascism which, needless to add, could
easily be allied to forms of Marxism. Camus insisted he was never an
Existentialist, and in 1951 he and Sartre quarrelled mortally over the
latter’s defence of various forms of totalitarian violence. But it was
Camus’s re-creation, in modern terms, of the solitary Byronic hero,
who resists fate and an alien world by defiant acts, which brought the
cult so vividly to life and gave it actual meaning to youth on both
sides of the Rhine.

Thus Existentialism was a French cultural import, which Paris then
re-exported to Germany, its country of origin, in a sophisticated and
vastly more attractive guise. The point is worth stressing, for it was
the first time since the age of Goethe, Byron and De Stael that young
people in France and Germany felt a spontaneous cultural affinity, a
shared Weltanschauung. It served, then, as a preparation for a more
solid economic and political harmonization, for which circumstances
were also propitious. Yet this might not have come about but for two
further circumstances. The first was the final (and possibly terminal)
maturing of Christian activism in politics, which for a vital genera-
tion became the dominant mode in Europe. The second was the
emergence of a group of European titans — not Byronic, not young,
not romantic, not indeed heroic in any obvious still less Existentialist sense — who were to revivify the corpse of a Europe which had slain itself. Both the agency, Christianity, and the agents, Adenauer, de Gasperi, de Gaulle, were by nature abhorrent to the founders of Existentialist activism. But then history habitually proceeds by such ironies.

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Just once this year, I want to see a white guy in Los Angeles toting a leaf blower

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek: “Seriously, walk up to a Mexican, ask to borrow his leaf blower, and have him take a picture of you holding it. Then circulate the photo to web sites where people ponder ‘What ever happened to Luke Ford?’ Then they will know.”

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Different Groups Have Different Gifts

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jews tend to be more emotionally expressive than European Protestants. Blacks seem be louder and more emotional than Jews. Northern Europeans tend to be more law abiding and monogamous than southern Europeans.

Blacks tend to yell at their TVs and movie screens with such fervor that non-blacks tend to not like it.

Different groups tend to have different standards of intelligence, empathy, sociopathy, law abidingness, work ethic, etc, so diversity often means friction and distrust.

The biggest racial divide in America is between blacks and non-blacks. Few non-blacks want to live around blacks. From a white perspective, blacks are crime-prone menace. From a black perspective, whites are uptight. The different races have different norms and they create different communities. Race isn’t skin deep. It’s a clue about massive divides in behavior and thinking.

Nature has color-coded people so that we can make instant decisions to our evolutionary benefit.

Jews would not put up with the following nonsense.

From the Washington Post, a story about the havoc that a street band is wreaking:

One morning this week, five members of Spread Love, a New Orleans-style street band, gathered at one of Washington’s busiest intersections, pulled out four trombones, a drum set and a tips bucket and began playing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”
The band’s brassy riffs at 15th Street and New York Avenue NW always delight the hordes of tourists heading toward the White House. But the very spot that’s proved so profitable for Spread Love to pull in tips has also earned it the enmity of employees at two major Washington institutions: the Treasury Department and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Apparently, the economists in charge of our nation’s financial stability and the attorneys who represent many of our country’s corporate high-rollers and white-collar criminal defendants are struggling to focus inside their offices because the band is so loud. They are hearing Spread Love spreading its love too much.
The conflict, which began this spring and was first chronicled by the Above the Law blog, pits two very different slices of Washington against each other: the super-educated strivers working at the upper echelons of government and law against a group of exuberant street buskers who make a living off Mall-bound tourists.
Spread Love plays all over the city — L’Enfant Plaza, Farragut West, George Washington University — but the band’s favorite spots are outside the Farragut North Metro stop and at the corner of 15th Street and New York Avenue NW. Most of the group’s members — who go by stage names like Stixxx, Country and Love Soul — are full-time musicians. They sometimes land paid gigs, too. Earlier this month, the band played a Decatur House barbecue for the White House Historical Association.
Still, to many of the men and women cloistered away in offices at Treasury and Skadden Arps, Spread Love is a nuisance.
“We have to relocate our conference calls. We can’t have meetings in that corner of the building anymore. It’s like they’re playing music in the building,” said one Treasury Department employee, who, true to Washington form, would speak only on the condition of anonymity and be identified only as an “employee.” “There are people here who have headphones, and everyone’s got the air conditioners cranked up to get the white noise. And there’s people who have their children’s white-noise makers, too. Everyone’s going crazy.”

Can you imagine a WASP band displaying such a lack of empathy and good manners?

Comments on the WP story:

* I know some commentators here love these guys, because they are like, “sticking it to the man,” but they need to be relocated to the middle of a park somewhere. Playing loudly when you know it is bothering a large number of people working nearby is just obnoxious and poor manners.

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The Rising Cuckservative Meme

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

Am I wrong for taking strength and confidence from these trends such as the rise of Donald Trump? From the success of cuckservative?

A friend: “You are not wrong. That was a shock to everyone. The power of that meme ripped into the mainstream, Breitbart legitimized it, which was a total surprise and kinda brilliant. Breitbart essentially s*** on Redstate instead of holding the line.”

How long till Jewish nationalist organizations such as the ADL, SPLC, MOT, start denouncing the slur “cuckservative” as anti-Semitic?

The white man might have woken up.

Chaim Amalek: “The key question: How can Yidden use all of this talk about cuckservatives to improve our lot in life? I am thinking we could create a new set of board games for racially conscious white people. Beginning with Shoots and Ladders (for gun owners). My Rav says that we need to think like Yidden. If this is the next phase in the development of the goy, we have to get on top of it and monetize it before someone else does.”

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Living As An Illegal Immigrant Requires Deceit

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

A friend says: I just met with a woman and her illegal immigrant parent. I had to go way over my clock out because I had to stay and answer why I cannot accept her (most likely) falsified taxes. In the end, it turns out she has not really filed, even though tax season was over in April. The exciting world of dealing with people who have no social security, yet provide me documents with a mysterious social….probably stolen. I feel like I am in an asinine business.

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Trump Can Win

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

Trump can win the nomination for sure, unless he does a Perot and runs from his possible destiny. He has a shot at winning the election in November against HRC especially if he points out that a rise in Hispanic power = fall in Black prospects. Whites + Blacks can put Trump in the Oval Office.
I don’t know of any other Republican I could vote for. Certainly not Bush. I’d much much rather have Bernie Saunders as president than Bush.

Manly men are for Donald Trump! Girly men are for Jeb Bush. As my rebbe Chaim Amalek says to the sodomites: “You do not understand the yearnings of the Heterosexual Christian American Man, be he White or Black. Thus, you and many others are in for a surprise or two as the election season unfolds.”

Chaim Amalek: I am more concerned with addressing America’s open borders and the Oligarchy’s obsession with imposing globalism on us than with Trump’s private life.

Much like Christian White Men, Black Men like Donald Trump. If he can tie immigration of tens of millions of hispanics to rising unemployment among Black men, he can win their votes against Miss Hillary and so win the election.

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Goyim Wearing Yarmulkes

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Luke Ford

A lot of mentally ill goyim walk around 90035 wearing yarmulkes to get some of that tasty Jewish privilege. Hey, this is not about me! Anyway, I saw two shaygetzes walking down Pico this morning wearing kipot. One was a big tall muscular guy who I saw walk into a 7/11 on a recent Shabbos. We have to keep our conversion standards stringent so we don’t let in white nationalist infiltrators, riffraff, etc. About 100 people are year are converted to Orthodox Judaism in the USA and in Los Angeles anyway, there’s a 95% plus success rate (though others say 85% at most) after five years when measured by the standard of public Sabbath observance.

Speaking seriously, before I finished my Orthodox conversion, I thought the process was too harsh. The day I finished that conversion, I stopped thinking that and started thinking that complaining converts were whiners. My empathy, never huge to begin with, just vanished as I started seeing things from the Jewish point of view. Why make it easy for people to become Jewish? It’s a long proud complicated history. Jews are America’s elite, the world’s elite, why let just anyone join? Why smooth their journey? Why not keep it challenging so only the most committed join the team? As soon as I finished my conversion, I had a whole new respect for and peace with the rabbis who oversee conversion.

Chaim Amalek: “Most mentally healthy goyim will simply not convert to orthodox Judaism ever. It must be a rare event for a successful, happy goy to truly bond as an orthodox Jew.”

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With the Washington Post, has Jeff Bezos broken away from the clique?

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Luke Ford

Today I was shocked that the Washington Post linked to American Renaissance, the premiere journal of thought for white advocates.

Since Jeff Bezos bought the paper, it has moved in a race-realist Steve Sailer direction.

In April, the Washington Post quoted Charles Murray on IQ.

Charles Murray, a conservative political scientist who argues there is a relationship between intelligence and economic class in his book “The Bell Curve,” said genetics cannot be ignored.
“It is confidently known that brain size is correlated with IQ, IQ measured in childhood is correlated with income as an adult, and parental IQ is correlated with children’s IQ,” Murray wrote in an e-mail. “I would be astonished if children’s brain size were NOT correlated with parental income. How could it be otherwise?”

I accept that Jews influence the media. That does not mean that every important person in the media is Jewish, but that Jews, through their superior brains, industriousness and cohesion, influence the boundaries of what can be discussed publicly in America (one thing that can’t be discussed publicly is Jewish control of the media).

Steve Sailer wrote: "Jewish intellectuals have a tendency that on any topic related to Jews, they tend to think baroquely many steps down the line. Thus, the full panoply of the subjects that have been assumed to be bad-for-the-Jews and therefore ruled out of discussion in polite society is breathtakingly broad — for example, IQ has been driven out of the media in large part because it is feared that mentioning that Jews have higher average IQs would lead, many steps down the line, to pogroms."

Sailer wrote:

To quantify the statement that "Jews are a small group, but influential in their areas of concentration," in 2009, the Atlantic Monthly came up with a list of the top 50 opinion pundits: half are of Jewish background.
Over 1/3rd of the 2009 Forbes 400 are of Jewish background, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency's reporter who covers Jewish philanthropy.
Joel Stein of the LA Times found in 2007 that people of Jewish background hold a large majority of the most powerful positions in Hollywood.
This is not to say that influential Jews are at all united in what they favor. On the other hand, it is more or less true that Jews hold something of a veto over what topics are considered appropriate for discussion in the press, Jewish influence itself being the most obvious example of a topic that is off the table in polite society.

John Derbyshire wrote: "I can absolutely assure you that anyone who made general, mildly negative, remarks about Jews would NOT—not ever again—be published in the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New York Sun, The New York Post, or The Washington Times. I know the actual people, the editors, involved here, and I can assert this confidently."

As Joel Stein wrote Dec. 19, 2008 for the Los Angeles Times:

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between “The 700 Club” and “Davey and Goliath” on TV all day.

So I’ve taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that’s what we do best. I’m weighing several slogans, including: “Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!”; “Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible”; and “Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all.”

I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs “do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans,” and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to “weaken the influence of religious values in this country.”

That’s a sinister canard, Foxman said. “It means they think Jews meet at Canter’s Deli on Friday mornings to decide what’s best for the Jews.” Foxman’s argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter’s more often.

“That’s a very dangerous phrase, ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood,” he said. Instead of “control,” Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry “happen to be Jewish,” as in “all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish.”

But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. “I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They’re disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well,” he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make pro-Jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though other countries, I’ve noticed, aren’t so big on circumcision.

I appreciate Foxman’s concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.

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The Washington Post Links To American Renaissance!

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Luke Ford

Alexander Hart writes for VDARE:

Well, now, the Establishment. Left and Right, is paying attention to race realists—but they aren’t laughing at us, we’re laughing at them. Over the past few months, snarky right wingers have popularized the term “cuckservative”—a portmanteau of cuckold and conservative—on social media and message boards, most notably the website and Facebook group, The Right Stuff, My Posting Career, and twitter accounts like @Cuckservative and Snark Enlightenment. [VDARE.com note: This marks the first time the term has appeared on VDARE.com, because of Editor Peter Brimelow’s notorious prudishness]

Some of these memes were vulgar and even more Politically Incorrect than sites like VDARE and American Renaissance. Yet many were original, funny, and struck at the truth of the Republican Party and Conservatism Inc.’s failure to actually conserve the people who created and support it. A couple of examples:

“Cuckservatives… A person who wishes for America’ return to 1950’s values/strength, without admitting the nation was 90% white then”
White children need to become a minority and the USA a third world country through LEGAL, not illegal immigration
“Immigration isn’t a winning issue, let’s talk about tax cuts for corporations with rainbow avatars instead.” –
[Important: Roundup of #Cuckservative articles and memes, Occam’s Razor Mag, July 26, 2015]

While most of this was tongue-in-cheek, Alfred Clark published a serious definition of it on Radix Journal: a white conservative or libertarian “who thinks he’s promoting his own interests but really isn’t.” He further noted that the cuckservative will try to attack the Left by calling Democrats “the real racists” or by suggesting that abortion is “racist” because blacks and Hispanics disproportionately choose to have the procedure. And in contrast to opposition to abortion or strident support for Israel,

…the cuckservative feels uncomfortable about issues like immigration. If the cuckservative is not an outright open-borders shill, he will only give lip service about “securing the border” or “opposing illegal but favoring legal immigration” but he will never talk about immigration very much. After all, immigration has very serious implications for Western Civilization, so it doesn’t concern the cuckservative.
[“Cuckservative,” A Definition, July 16, 2015]

After inquiring why people called him a “cuckservative,” RedState’s Erick Erickson stumbled upon the Radix Journal article and described it as “a slur against Christian voters coined by white-supremacists.” Erickson doubled down on this interpretation without finding a single quote from anti-cuckservative activists critical of Christianity. Instead he cited various quotes like “anyone voting to destroy Christian lands by importing or breeding a horde of hostile minorities is a cuckold” and “you’re like Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of pottage” as proof of anti-Christian animus. [“Cuckservative” is a Racist Slur and an Attack on Evangelical Christians, July 29, 2015]

The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis was at least capable of looking up cuckold on Wikipedia and wrote,

A cuckold, of course, is a legitimate word for the husband of an adulterous wife — but that doesn’t really do justice to what they’re suggesting here, either. The people who throw this term around are most likely referencing a type of pornography whereby a (usually, white) man is “humiliated” (or ironically thrilled) by being forced to watch his wife having sex with another (usually, black) man.

Lewis argued that his critics believed that “by supporting immigration reform, criminal justice reform, etc., a white conservative is therefore surrendering his honor and masculinity (and it won’t be long before his women folk are compromised, as well!).” [What’s Behind The ‘Cuckservative’ Slur?, July 23, 2015]

This prompted the same Leftists who enthusiastically embraced much more vulgar terms like “Teabagger” pompously to psychoanalyze the supposed sexual insecurities of “white supremacists”. For example, Buzzfeed noted that the point was to allude “to a genre of porn in which passive white husbands watch their wives have sex with black men, it casts its targets as impotent defenders of white people in America.” [Joseph Bernstein, Behind The Racist Hashtag That Is Blowing Up Twitter, July 27, 2015] Mediaite said the users of the word were both “racist” and “sexually anxious.” [Trump Fans Target ‘Mike Cuckabee’ for Being a ‘Cuckservative,’ By Tommy Christopher, July 29, 2015] The New Republic did the most psychoanalyzing of the joke:

the term cuckservative is popular because it pushes psycho-sexual hot buttons. Racism and sexism have always been connected, with one of the prime justifications for racial hierarchy being the supposed need to protect white women from black men and also, more implicitly, to keep black women sexually submissive to white men. A cuckservative thus conjures up one of the supreme nightmares of the white supremacist imagination, the fear that white men will assume a submissive role (or position) in the sexual hierarchy.
Conservatives Are Holding a Conversation About Race, By Jeet Heer, July 26, 2015

Meanwhile, Matt Lewis became completely unhinged in the Daily Beast, describing his twitter antagonists as “evil and primitive.” Even worse, many of them “have Confederate flag avatars”! After this preening, Lewis got to his point.

I think it’s fair to say that we on the center-right have been defending ourselves and our movement against charges of racism for so long that we’ve forgotten that, well, our side has some racists…whereas they were once confined to the nether regions of the Internet, now Twitter allows them to spread their pernicious message, and Trump has given them a candidate to get behind.

Lewis then declared his goal to purge them: “I can’t police the left, but my hope in writing this is to sound the alarm on the right.” [Twitter’s Right-Wing Civil War, July 28, 2015].

Yet unlike the past victims of would-be right wing excommunicators, Lewis’s targets are largely anonymous and independent. Rather than marginalizing the Dissident Right, he and his other cuckservative allies have merely given it more attention.

And not all the attention has been un-objective. Dave Weigel of the Washington Post just published a piece that gave Radix Journal Editor Richard Spencer an opportunity to explain the insult in an intelligent and reasonable manner:

The ‘cuck’ slur is vulgar, yes, but then piercingly accurate. It is the cuckold who, whether knowingly or unknowingly, loses control of his future. This is an apt psychological portrait of white ‘conservatives,’ whose only identity is comprised of vague, abstract ‘values,’ and who are participating in the displacement of European Americans — their own children.
[‘Cuckservative’ — the conservative insult of the month, explained, July 29, 2015]

Weigel also linked (!) to an American Renaissance article that explained: “While cuckservatives claim to adhere to abstract principles, wiser men and women understand that ideology is often the echo of racial, cultural, and ethnic interests. And since cuckservatives no longer bother concealing they care nothing for their own white supporters, frustrated whites are looking for alternatives.” [What is a Cuckservative? by Gregory Hood, July 24, 2015]

Moreover, not all mainstream conservative outlets are following Lewis and Erickson’s lead. While distancing himself from more of its extreme proponents, Milo Yiannopoulos defended the term in a lead Breitbart.com Op Ed, noting that

cuckservative memes are about GOP spinelessness on immigration, lies the political left tells about racism in America today, or simple frustration with the perceived limp-wristedness of the right-wing Establishment in the face of the vast left-wing smear machine.
[‘Cuckservative’ Is a Gloriously Effective Insult That Should Not Be Slurred, Demonized, or Ridiculed, July 28, 2015]

Instead of marginalizing the Dissident Right, the cuckservatives have exposed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of conservatives to intelligently-expressed heterodox opinions that undermine Conservatism Inc.’s basic premises and conceptualize it as a problem. The comment threads suggest this is resonating.

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