I'm currently thinking we try doing a book every week or two. Maybe with certain books that are more dense this will be spread out. I've never done this before so if this is too fast or something or you have any other suggestions just let me know. Don't feel pressured to binge read any books we do all at once as the thread will still be here as long as Saidit is a thing (I assume). Also, my PC is indisposed currently and I'm doing this all on my phone so I apologize for any weird formatting issues this week.

Courtesy of Erasmus' comment here https://saidit.net/s/debatealtright/comments/4vey/would_you_all_be_interested_in_a_weekly_book_club/i7uz

I was inspired for our first Book Club thread to be about Jared Taylor's "White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century". This is partially because I assume it will give a good overview of the situation we face today and it will help us appreciate one of our best still-living allies. The book can be found here:

https://murdochmurdoch.net/various/books/White%20Identity%20-%20Jared%20Taylor.pdf

Overview of Jared Taylor:

Wikipedia's take: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Taylor

Jared Taylor is a courageous yet soft-spoken man who is editor of American Renaissance (commonly shortened to AmRen https://www.amren.com ) who has been one of the best advocates for White interests for the past several decades. In contrast to the media portrayal of proud Whites as Skinheads, cousin-fuckers or the like, Mr. Taylor is a polite, civilized man who has his shit together and yet unwaveringly tells the truth. He is a model for what many White Advocates should aspire to be. Just take his most recent video for example: https://www.amren.com/videos/2020/06/how-it-came-to-this/ Not quite the firebrand that Tucker Carlson has been occasionally in the past few weeks, but Mr. Taylor speaks much more directly on issues that Tucker would never dare touch. (Warning: frankly the video can be difficult to watch at times as its contents are about the recent riots and the sheer cuckoldry shown by many white people in response).

Please comment however you think is best. This week I'll sorting out inspired thoughts, comments on the book and favorite quotes chapter-by-chapter. I will initially post this thread once I'm done with chapter 1 and will update through all 9 chapters as I read through them.

Headstart for next week: Unless there's any objections the next few weeks we will be going through Kevin Macdonald's Culture of Critique trilogy, starting with the first of the series: "A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples" This can be found easily on Library Genesis and I doubt MacDonald would mind.

Introduction:

On the crazy expectations that the Obama Presidency would solve racial problems: "People hoping for miracles do not want to be asked practical questions." (xiii)

Communism, Libertarianism and Liberalism all ultimately fail for the same reason: they try to deny human nature. Touting "Diversity is a Strength" when it is actually a weakness is our own version of Lysenkoism. It is a mantra as useless for guiding reality as the "Non-Aggression Principle". The contradictions between public and private, policy and (lack of) progress will keep straining and become more and more absurd until something in society breaks. Whites will either benefit or be ruined from whatever that new Synthesis is. For the sake of our people, we have a duty to strive at being on the victorious side of history.

Chapter 1: The Failure of Integration

Every legal goal of Integration has been achieved. And yet segregation remains in every area where the government hasn't strong-armed it away. People naturally segregate. Why? Perhaps racial differences exist and people prefer their own. Would it be such a crime to admit and accept that? Doesn't it even make evolutionary sense for people to prefer their own? Doesn't it seem insane to deny human nature and pretend otherwise?

Jared goes into detail regarding how Integration came to develop its theoretical underpinnings. Apparently, Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's study "An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy" played an important role in convincing academics of the need for racial Integration as well as ultimately inspiring the Supreme Court's Brown v Board decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Dilemma

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Myrdal

https://archive.org/stream/AmericanDilemmaTheNegroProblemAndModernDemocracy/AmericanDelemmaVersion2_djvu.txt

As Taylor summarizes Myrdal's points "Whites kept blacks in an inferior position. Whites then pointed to this apparent inferiority as justification for their own prejudices, which gave rise to the very acts of oppression that degraded blacks. Myrdal believed that if white attitudes could be reformed, oppression would ease, the status of blacks would rise, white attitudes would improve further, and blacks would find yet more opportunities for success." Myrdal even predicted that 30 years of Integration would solve basically all racial inequalities. 60 years later we can clearly see that the experiment failed. Even with Affirmative Action and Supreme Court case after case forcing more and more Integration there seems to be a permanent racial achievement gap. 30 years might be enough for Italians and Anglos to integrate with one another but for Whites and Blacks it's a whole different story.

The forced integration in schools heavily contributed to White Flight and the ruination of pretty much every American urban center. Kansas City spent $2 Billion on a grandiose magnet school investment only to completely fail at attracting white students or raise black student test scores. We see this again and again throughout our History. Every time society holds Black people to the same standards as White people, Black people disappoint. I don't really blame Black people for this; it's the White people that should be smart enough to eventually notice the pattern and wake up.

Taylor makes an interesting point that frankly I didn't expect: "White flight usually means moving to better schools, but not always. Monta Vista High School and Lynbrook High School in Cupertino, California, are known for their stellar academic records, but whites have almost disappeared there, too. Why? The schools are almost 100 percent Asian. Whites tend to think Asian children are grinds with no social life, but many simply feel out of place. As superintendent Steve Rowley explained, “Kids who are white feel themselves a distinct minority against a majority culture.”42 Whites in San Francisco also began avoiding schools that became heavily Chinese." (page 29) It seems like White people really do have an unspoken racial consciousness of sorts and White Flight is not simply Whites wanting their kids to be less likely to be raped or killed. Whites genuinely seem to want to be with their own kind when left to their own devices.

Neocons like to point out the hypocrisy in many leftists advocating for the new "PoC-style" segregation but this is as bankrupt as the average neocon argument. Segregation is human nature. And it bears repeating that any ideology that defies human nature is doomed to fail. It's frankly embarrassing to see that the Left is more willing to publicly call for segregation than the Right.

"The larger purpose of school integration was to solve the American dilem- ma, but integration had three specific goals of its own: Lift black academic achievement, raise black self-esteem, and give black and white children bet- ter impressions of each other. There have now been hundreds of studies of the effects of school integration, and none of these goals has been achieved." (33)

In addition to school integration, housing integration has also been a tremendous failure. Interestingly enough, "As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity." (36)

As safer White majority communities have become sparser, White Flight has upgraded from local to regional in nature. Whites can't flee forever though. There will come a breaking point where either integration will de facto eliminate all majority White areas or Whites will have to stand up for themselves. [Slightly retarded sidenote: could we maybe have White only "Indian Reservations" by pushing the Solutrean Hypothesis? Solutrean Reservations? 😳 Not my dumbest idea, though I doubt they'd leave us alone for long. It might be a useful vanguard of sorts. ]

A kinda funny bit: "Middle-class blacks have enough money to choose from many different majority-white neighborhoods but many would rather live among blacks. In the Atlanta area, blacks cluster in suburbs southwest of the city in DeKalb County. “It’s not a separatist thing,” says sociologist Robert Bullard of Clark Atlanta University. “It’s a choice to be whole.” Eddie Long, bishop of New Birth Missionary Church in southeast DeKalb County, said his congregation thinks of the black suburbs as the “promised land,” explaining that many members “wanted their children to grow up in a nurturing black community.”124 A black journalist wrote about a backyard gathering in an affluent, black Atlanta suburb. The party suddenly went silent when a realtor’s car, bearing a white couple, cruised slowly down the street. “I hope they don’t find anything they like,” said one of the guests; “otherwise, there goes the neighborhood.” (42)

Taylor ends the chapter by detailing how even religion in America is segregated by race, not by creed. And this is largely a matter of free choice. So are choice in healthcare and funeralcare. Gays, probably one of the most liberal groups of people, even segregate by race. Everywhere segregation naturally arises: beauty pageants, telephone directories, entertainment, comedy clubs, websites, search engines, social media, dating, marriage. Even most social settings like dinner parties, barbecues, camping trips and bowling parties are rarely integrated.

As Taylor summarizes "Contact theory was wrong—integration does not result in yet more integration—but we never abandoned it. The result is one of the greatest con- tradictions in American life. Our laws and ideals assume that race is such a trivial matter we can easily ignore it, and yet our daily lives violate those ideals. Despite pro-integration campaigns by schools, the media, churches, and government, every new generation baffles the social engineers by be- having like earlier generations." (51)

Chapter 2: The Myth of Diversity—Institutions

Chapter 3: The Myth of Diversity—Daily Life

Chapter 4: The Science of Human Nature

Chapter 5: Black Racial Consciousness

Chapter 6: Hispanic Consciousness

Chapter 7: Asian Consciousness

Chapter 8: White Racial Consciousness

Chapter 9: The Crisis We Face