Hi photog,
I’ve been watching the comments to your post to see if a discussion breaks out. Well, maybe I should be the first one to jump in and see what happens.
As you may remember, I read and listened to ZMan religiously until the kerfuffle with Michael Anton. After giving it some thought I decided that Anton was a lot more right than the ZMan and I just lost interest. I’m sure ZMan would brand me as a “civ-nat” but I just can’t care anymore. As I get older I find one dimensional labels, including “civ-nat”, worse than useless and try to avoid them when possible.
There are several ideas I would like to throw out there and see what your readers think. It seems to me that the white collar and entrepreneurial community always knew the blue collar folks were getting the shaft. For the most part they thought they were on the “right side” of history so they were safe. Now they are starting to realize they are just the next ones to be eaten by the crocodile. The next couple of years should be interesting.
You are correct that ZMan doesn’t think the races can live together under one set of laws fairly enforced. A big problem for the Dissident Right is they can’t really provide a definition of “race.” White, black, and brown aren’t races. I have heard ZMan say on several occasions that the original colonies should have grouped together into five different countries, instead of one, due to differences in the English immigrants. For anyone whose interested I believe he got that idea from the book Albion’s Seed.
If that’s true, and you multiply that across all European immigration to the U.S., there are literally hundreds of white groups (really clans) in North America. Add to that all the other immigration that’s happened over the years and I am a bit perplexed as to how the Dissident Right would implement a government. ZMan never provides a sketch of what this reconstituted government would look like and I suspect that’s on purpose.
Also, per their theory, I should prefer to live next to other white people (yes, I’m white) over anyone else. I happen to be Christian and find that I have more affinity for other Christians than a generic white person. I would, in no uncertain terms, rather live next to a black family from my church than Richard Dawkins. I don’t think I’m the only one that feels that way and would fight any attempt to cram some form of involuntary segregation down my throat.
In the end I don’t think the Dissident Right will be a majority on the “right”. If they hope to accomplish anything they will have to learn to work with the civ-nats who they love to hate. Maybe ZMan is coming around to that view? I guess we’ll see in time.
Glenn, thanks for the comment. I think most people would consider me a civic nationalist. I think that the problems between race and ethnic groups are exacerbated by the race conscious policies that the US government has pursued for the last seventy years. My hope is that color blind policies would allow people to live their lives as they choose without race becoming a major problem. But I freely admit that the dissidents were the first to point out that the Republicans were complicit in allowing anti-white discrimination to become the norm in the United States. For that reason I… Read more »
One note. The mlilitary does a pretty good job these days of meshing different religions, races and ethnicities under a single set of rules, pretty fairly enforced. I have had White, Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian commanders, first sergeants and sergeants major. I served under Colin Powell right after he got his first star. Good man.
It’s a good example. Or at least it used to be. Now I think they’re going to a different model. Much more woke.
And that’s a dirty shame. I’m glad I retired 12 years ago. I’d be up on charges every week for misplacing pronouns, triggering snowflakes, and trying to apply common sense.
There should be a continuous stream of cases reversing this stuff through the Supreme Court.