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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Greg's an intellectual powerhouse.

[–]Jacinda[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

SS: Greg Johnson (Counter Currents) is probably the most thoughtful advocate for white identity politics. In his writing he goes beyond describing the challenges that white advocates and their societies face and attempts to propose possible solutions.

In this detailed review of White Identity Politics Richard McCulloch examines both the strength and weakness of Johnson's arguments. The article also provides a good overview of Johnson's thoughts as well as the problems that face white identarians.

[–]Fitter_HappierWhite Nationalist 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Greg will always a place to live and work for free as long as I'm alive. no homo

[–]Girondin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Judging from the review, it seems to be way weaker compared to his other works. He has abandoned the label of white nationalism for white identitarianism? I really don't get that. Identarianism is linked to as many bad things as white nationalism is as a term. A quick google search of identarianism gives me its ties to christ-church shooting (Apparently Tarrant donated to martin Sellner) and claims of being "nazi hipsters" (pretentious douches), searching up white nationalism I get dumb articles on "Trump's agenda" and "Americas deep roots of white nationalism", "the return of white supremacy". I don't get this concession. Beside you can look at google n-gram and google trends you will see that neither term has much mainstream traction and are completely dwarfed by "white supremacy" / "white supremacist" as a term people know. I know it has been a long term project of his to bring French New Right thinkers to America (he used to say "North American New Right") so maybe it's tied to that. "identity politics" compared to "nationalism" is more of a abused term by conservatives (easiest potential converts to WN). I use to think it was just "white supremacist " and "conservatives" when I was a conservative.

I don't get why Greg Johnson feels the need to tie white identitarianism to contemporary / recent populism of Trump, Brexit, Bolsanaro, Salvini. Not saying to condemn people who are national populist, but I don't really what is so productive about the linkage, I didn't read the book, only this review so maybe it's tied in better. The reviewers says it's the main point of the book.

I don't get this "90% white nationalism" that he advocates, he seemed to have been way more hardcore in the "white nationalist manifesto", he painted white nationalism in a very broad stroke, that it was actually very normal (religious pluralistic, civil participation of women, populist governmental policies, all policies as being tested in 20th century America). To me a slow demographic replacement of brown people (so you get to 90% white) sounds less appealing then just a racial divorce, maybe for most people. The reviewer states that this apparently falls into the UN definition of genocide.

Not saying it is all bad or you shouldn't read the book. Some of the speeches and essays seem to be pretty good.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't get why Greg Johnson feels the need to tie white identitarianism to contemporary / recent populism of Trump, Brexit, Bolsanaro, Salvini.

Because the people who voted for them are primarily driven by white demographic anxiety.