Except Americans and the Europeans who look like them:
There is a peculiar pathology that afflicts white Americans and white Europeans alone among all the peoples of the earth. It is the belief that identity politics is beneath them; that engaging in explicit ethnic advocacy is somehow shameful, distasteful, or morally compromised. They have been taught to believe that the highest virtue is to transcend their own identity, to judge everyone as individuals, to refuse to see patterns or advocate for their own collective interests. Meanwhile, every other group on the planet organizes along ethnic lines, advances ethnic interests, and celebrates ethnic identity without a shred of guilt or hesitation.
This is not a sustainable arrangement. It is, in fact, a formula for extinction.
Let us be clear about what is actually happening in America and throughout the Western world. This is how politics works. It is how it has always worked. Every major demographic group except one practices explicit identity politics. They have advocacy organizations, legal defense funds, congressional caucuses, scholarships, hiring preferences, and media outlets dedicated to advancing their collective interests. They vote as blocs. They network and hire their own. They celebrate their heritage and teach their children to be proud of who they are. None of this is controversial. None of it is condemned. It is understood as natural, healthy, and good.
Black Americans have the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Entertainment Television, historically black colleges, and an entire cultural infrastructure devoted to black advancement. When they advocate for their collective interests, they are celebrated as civil rights heroes continuing a noble legacy. When black politicians openly say they will represent “their people,” no one blinks.
Jewish Americans have the ADL, AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, and countless other organizations devoted to Jewish identity, Jewish continuity, and Jewish interests. Jewish in-group preference in academia, media, finance, and law is well-documented and openly discussed in Jewish publications. When Jewish groups advocate for Israel or against “antisemitism,” they are exercising ethnic solidarity and no one is permitted to criticize it.
Hispanic Americans have La Raza (now UnidosUS), the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and an entire political movement built around ethnic identity and ethnic interests. When Hispanic activists openly advocate for more immigration from Latin America to increase Hispanic political power, this is considered legitimate political organizing.
Asian Americans have their own advocacy organizations, their own congressional caucus, their own identity-based scholarships and hiring networks. When Asian parents organize to oppose policies that disadvantage their children, they are exercising ethnic advocacy.
Only one group is forbidden from doing any of this.
I don’t disagree with anything that Torba points out here. But it’s important to remember, and to understand, that the reason this has taken place is because the immigrants – the Germans, the Irish, the Swedes, the Jews – all wanted to be able to feel like they were true blue original Americans no different than the Heritage Americans, the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, the Posterity of Plymouth Rock and the Founding Fathers.
And they weren’t. They were never part of the Posterity for whom the Constitution was written and whose rights it guarantees. The Constitution was never intended to protect the rights of every citizen, every resident, every tourist, or every human being on the planet. But since there was plenty of room in the New World, and since everyone didn’t see what harm it would do if everyone pretended to be the same in order to get along, civic nationalism was invented and gradually came to take the place of the real American nationalism.
So, keep in mind that if you’re a non-Posterity American, all that everyone else from Afghanistan to Somalia is doing is the same thing that you, your parents, and your grandparents have been doing for decades, which is pretending that they are Americans. The only real difference is that the cultures, religions, and ethnicities from which you came were similar enough to avoid open and immediate conflict. in the short term.
Even so, these cultural differences between the American nation and immigrants from the European nations were what led to the Civil War and the defeat of the South after the first great wave of immigration. The post-1965 wave is what will lead to what will either be civil war, mass remigration, collapse, or some combination of all three. But regardless of what happens, nothing will ever change the fact that America is a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation, and everyone else is just visiting it, or at most, playing tourist while some remnants of it still survive.
There will always be people called “Americans”. After all, Rome still survives as “Romania” to this day. But the modern Romanian is even less related to the Conscript Fathers of the Roman Senate than the average “American” today is related to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.
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