Glenn Loury Interviews Charles Murray

Unfortunately, this interview kind of got sidetracked in a weird way IMO. Still good, tho. 

   One thing Murray brought up is a thing I've been fretting about for awhile now.

   The left used to bitch and moan because--allegedly--whites didn't recognize themselves as a race. I was never exactly clear on why that was bad. Aside from the fact that everything whites do is bad, of course... And, well, I guess if we don't really dwell on our raciness the left's constant denigration of whiteness loses some of its impact...can't have that!

   But, as the left hyperbolically "valorizes" (to use a favorite paleo-PC term) all other races*...and unreservedly demonizes whites...eventually whites are going to start seeing themselves as a race for real. And I mean: normal whites. Not the Aryan Brotherhood and shit. 

   I don't particularly want whites to develop a "race consciousness." I don't think that tends to work out well. I'd rather we just continue thinking of ourselves as more-or-less raceless. If we even really do that.

   However--if the insane left continues to be insane in these particular ways, whites will develop a race-consciousness--and should. It's the only way to survive in the future the left has planned for us.

   Incidentally, it also matters that whites are very, very much a global minority. That matters in particular because the left is insisting, basically, that whites must change the demographics of countries in which they are currently a majority so that they reflect the demographics of the world. Which means: the left insists that we become a kind of super-minority--a global minority that minoritizes itself even in its own home countries. A minority that is a minority everywhere. 

   They--the progressive, IDPOL left--also openly says that whiteness must be destroyed. But, when challenged, they say: Oh, hai, we don't mean killing people! We mean...gibberish gibberish gibberish! See? Totally different thing! Totally innocent! Don't fret about genocide! We don't do that stuff anymore! 

   Ha ha! Yes! I'm sure this is all perfectly innocent...

*Except, y'know, the Jews...