Why racism is a stupid and incoherent concept that you should not worry about and that Western society must sooner or later discard
OOGA BOOGA RACISM POST
I have been planning to write this post for a while.
Running a modest contrarian blog means that one is often accused of various political improprieties and social sins. From the beginning, many have been wont to call me a racist. After the war in Gaza broke out, I enjoyed a brief respite from this; other critics decided that the main problem with me was rather that I was a crypto-Zionist. Now that that hysteria has passed, the days of eugyppius-is-a-racist have returned. I’ve addressed these accusations here and there, in comments and even in the occasional dedicated post, but it is time to address them again, far more comprehensively than I ever have before.
The topic is much bigger than me of course. Anybody who speaks directly and honestly about the detriments of mass migration will sooner or later attract the racism police. In the eyes of these discourse minders, it is illicit to notice that all human populations do not behave in the same ways, that not all human populations should be intermingled with each other and that diversity is not a strength and often in fact a great problem. Talking like this is bigoted, xenophobic, prejudiced and above all it is racist, and that is very bad because racism caused National Socialism and slavery and Jim Crow and Apartheid and the only way to avoid these evils in the future is to insist that there is only one race, namely the human race, regardless of inconvenient hate facts like crime statistics and social science data and all of the naughty things that the psychometricians have dredged up.
Before I can explain why these attitudes are stupid, counterproductive and inimical to rational thought, I must draw the curtain of the paywall. The reality and imminent danger of racism are central doctrines of the German civic religion, and these are inauspicious times to propagate even mild heresy on the open internet. If you wish to read further – if, for example, you are a constitutional protector eager to catalogue my political sins – I invite you to subscribe. I promise a measure of wrongthink below the fold for your files.
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