Thursday, 15 April 2010

The Red State Family Crisis

From The Occidental Observer.

I heard Naomi Cahn and June Carbone talk about their book, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford, 2010), on Commie Radio Pacifica, so you can be sure there is a “progressive” message. As summarized in their op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor, the idea is that families in Blue State America are thriving, while families in Red State America are failing because they are too hung up on old fashioned ideas like sexual abstinence.

There is an obvious dishonesty in this approach because it completely ignores race in the analysis in an effort to pin the blame on traditional sexual beliefs and customs. Blacks and Latinos who live in urban areas and in very Blue States exhibit high rates of teenage pregnancy, non-marriage, and dropping out of the education process — much higher than Whites in Red State America.

So what they are really trying to explain is variation in family patterns among White people. And there they have a point. Red State White America is in a crisis. (Indeed, it’s no accident that Red State America is where most of the much-commented-on White anger is coming from.) The data they are summarizing really relate to some of the correlates of education which are in turn linked to IQ. But we have known at least since The Bell Curve that higher IQ people not only are more likely to go further in the  educational system, they are more likely to have stable marriages, they don’t have babies outside of marriage, and they begin child bearing later. These people are more likely to live in large urban and suburban areas where there are jobs for educated people.

Wednesday, 07 April 2010

Gay Nazis

Not too long ago, many mainstream historians were apt to depict the Nazis as sexual deviants. There's certainly no shortage of evidence supporting this view: the leader of the SA and Hitler's onetime rival for power, Ernst Röhm, carried on various liaisons with some of the working-class men who made up the "Brownshirts," and his indiscretions weren't lost on the Nazi's left-wing opponents, who attacked him in no uncertain terms. Röhm's penchant for buggery was, in fact, used as a pretext for his execution by the Nazi leadership during the "Night of Long Knives" of June and July 1934, though intra-party disputes were more decisive. Eugen Kogon, a historian and concentration camp survivor who wrote a 1946 volume detailing the system of Konzentrationsläger, paid special attention to the plight of gay men, who, according to him, weren't only treated more harshly than their peers but sometimes raped or offered food to perform gay acts by their Nazi tormentors. 

Much of this historiography likely informed the "fascist = pervert" meme found throughout European cinema of the '60s and '70s, most notably in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo (1975), based on the Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, and Luchiano Visconti's The Damned (1969), which features a famous scene in which the SS guns down Brownshirts in flagrante delicto

Published in Untimely Observations
Monday, 05 April 2010

The Case For Open Borders

Most people on the Alternative Right are decidedly not in favor of our open-border policy in the United States. They complain of the program of race replacement, foreigners stealing our jeeeebs, committing crimes, and generally lowering the property values in the joint. I sympathize with these arguments, but, personally, I hope we make allowances for the kind of immigration I like to date. You see, I belong to an oppressed sexual minority: American men who prefer foreign women. There is power in naming things, and so I'll just come out and say it: I am an American xenosexual man.

It took me a while to come to realize my sexual preference. It was never conscious until fairly recently, and I figure it's time for me to come out of the closet, so my xenosexual brothers won't feel alone. It isn't a realization that I'm particularly happy to have had, as it makes life in the Republic incredibly inconvenient. In my long and sordid career as a bachelor, the only women I have been able to maintain a romantic relationship with have been at least raised in other countries.

Published in The Magazine
Monday, 15 March 2010

The Homosexual Question

Why Same-Sex Marriage Is Still Wrong, But Repealing DADT Is Right

From the right, there's not much to like about gay men.

The highly vocal and visible queer fringe publicly celebrates extreme promiscuity, sadomasochism, transvestitism, transsexuality and flamboyant effeminacy. It is so unabashedly Marxist that even Marx himself would blush. It is anti-military, anti-patriarchal, anti-nuclear family, anti-Christian, aspirationally vegan and virulently anti-Western. Queer theorists—the pink-haired, punk rock stepchildren of feminists—blame straight white men for all of the wickedness the world has to offer.

Gay moderates, much like moderate Muslims, offer their tacit approval to queer extremists because they refuse to openly condemn extreme behavior for fear that they'll look like traitors, Uncle Toms or hypocrites. Gay conservatives of any variety are scarce as leprechauns, and not nearly so beloved by their lucky fellows when spotted. The average gay man is politically progressive and politically correct, he's a multiculturalist, and like his fellow progressives he's particularly enamored with European styles of government, however failed and fundamentally flawed.

Published in Untimely Observations
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