Rod Dreher - Two Kinds Of Barbarians

This is a difficult post for me because I'm a liberal who has always been very anti-racist. My best friend is Indian and I've known him most of my life. But I noticed one day that there was hardly any white kids coming out of the schools,  and then on another occasion I saw that at my old college there was hardly any white people either.  Soon after that I was in my local high street and I seemed to be the only white person there, and it is a big South London town so there was thousands of people. I felt very uncomfortable and sad.

My hunch is that most liberals feel the same as me but can't admit it, so they have allowed the neoliberals, who are right wing, to get away with mass immigration. New Labour and the elite did not encourage mass immigration because they are anti-racist, in my opinion, but for business reasons, where the demand for housing would sky rocket making the bankers and landlords a fortune as well a bringing in cheaper workers. It was neoliberalism.

Anyway, we humans maybe evolving towards enlightenment but we still have some way to go,  so we still need the feeling of security  and familiarity we get by being in our own culture. When I was my town that I grew up in and I was the only white people there, I felt I had lost my home, that it belonged to someone else, all familiarity had gone.

I will never move to the right, I just want the left to cotton onto this and become honest with themselves like I have before it's  too late.  And those immigrants that are here who are liberals and socialists should understand people with feelings like mine, and if they don't and become intolerant, then they are not true liberals.

Rod Dreher says he all for a multiracial and multicultural society, but not one that overwhelms the host culture.  I believe this issue is the Achilles Heel of the left that could keep them out of power for a long time.  KV

The Edsall column jumped out at me yesterday because I was dealing on Twitter with people who called me racist for likening the present and future mass African migration to Europe to the barbarian invasions of Rome in the 4th through 6th centuries. I did so in a post about a program an Azorean professor has in which he introduces high school students in a creative and intense way to ancient Greek thought.  The professor, who teaches geopolitics in a university, simply mentioned that managing the massive migration efforts out of sub-Saharan Africa (this, given the skyrocketing birthrate, and lack of economic development) is going to be the chief challenge of Europe in this century. Whatever you think the right answer is to the challenge, there can be no denying that this is the key challenge.

European elites — political, academic, ecclesial, etc. — have not wanted to deal with this. The information in the Edsall column indicates why: because they are terrified of sounding and being racist. They believe that defending the integrity of their own cultures, and the ways of their own people, is somehow immoral. We can see that our own liberals view it the same way. The European elites are, therefore, conceptually defenseless against the migrant invasion. One imagines that Europeans, with their militaries, have the means to stop the inflow, but they lack the will.

There really is a racist white right. This is undeniable, and it is a repulsive fact. But when the left refuses to distinguish between Richard Spencer and ordinary white people who, like every other ordinary person, likes his culture and tradition, and doesn’t feel that it is something to be ashamed of they either drive people towards the racist right, or neutralize the contempt that many white conservatives rightly have for the bigots. Because it is so promiscuously deployed, the word “racist” doesn’t carry much weight — and in fact, as the studies Edsall cites show, it actually has the opposite effect.

The American Conservative 

Rod Dreher - Two Kinds Of Barbarians