Gay Race Communism Forever? By John Carter.
Helen Andrews recently wrote an essay for Compact Magazine, titled The Racial Crossroads, which has been making waves for daring to use the verboten descriptor ‘race communism’ for the acrimonious racial spoils system that has replaced meritocracy throughout the dying West. It’s very good. You should read it. [Excerpts here.]
Personally, I prefer the more descriptive ‘gay race communism’. The progress pride flag is inseparable from the clenched Marxist fist of Black Lives Matter in regime iconography. …
The central point of Andrews’ essay is the following:
The old racial bargain is breaking down, due to a combination of changing demographics and a dawning realization that racial outcomes are not going to converge any time soon. One possible path forward is to throw out the old racial bargain and establish a new one based on equality under the law. The other possible path is to accept permanent racial favoritism at every level of society.
As Andrews sees it, the first problem with the Civil Rights regime is that it reifies the abstraction of equality into a legal presumption that there are no salient biological differences between human population groups.
This simply isn’t true, but the assumption that it is true leads to the necessary conclusion that all differences in outcome between groups must be a consequence of discrimination based on irrational prejudice, rather than a natural result of inborn distinctions of cognitive capacity or behavioural profile.
Result — the pervasive anti-white racism:
Biological differences are real and significant, but the make-believe that they are socially constructed and unimportant incentivizes a perpetual inquisition that dismantles society as it persecutes innocent people for ever more tenuous spectres of racism implicitly haunting the privileged depths of their incorrigbly white ids.
This places institutions in an impossible quandary, since the only way to avoid being dragged into court in discrimination lawsuits is to preemptively discriminate in favour of protected groups, which is to say, against unprotected groups.
Human resources departments have formed as a direct response to the legal sword of Damocles poised over every institution’s neck: their function isn’t actually to hire the best people, or to hire anyone at all, but rather to ensure that the employer won’t get sued for hiring people from the wrong groups, or not hiring the people from the right groups, or for allowing people from the right groups to get offended by things said by people from the wrong groups.
A doctrine predicated on denial of reality must go to war with reality to preserve itself, and as the war on noticing grinds on the battlefront presses into ever more intimate corners of people’s lives, their public speech, their private speech, their silent thoughts, their very emotions. …
The numbers are changing quickly:
The second problem Andrews identifies is demographic mission creep. When race communism first got rolling in the 50s and 60s, the focus was quite specifically on African-Americans, who had an arguable claim to restitution on the basis of their long period of bondage on the cotton plantations1. White Americans largely agreed with that, and were trying to do the decent thing, to make up for the abuses and indignities suffered by the disadvantaged blacks.
The mass migration of the third world into the first upsets that balance. America is no longer a 90% white country with a small rump of Africans, but more like a 50% white country, with large and growing minorities from every benighted slum in the Global South … and every single one of those groups gets to classify itself as an oppressed racial minority from the Global Majority, and therefore help itself to the largess spilling forth from the cornucopia of white guilt.
In the 70s and 80s affirmative action was largely no more than an annoyance for white Americans, but in the 2020s young American whites find themselves shoved aside in university admissions, in corporate hiring, in the availability of loans and grants for education, in the availability of venture capital, in promotions, and so on, with these opportunities being bestowed instead upon supposedly oppressed minorities who arrived five minutes ago and were never actually oppressed by white Americans. …
On the current trajectory, under the current regime, the white population is dwindling, and will be a minority sometime around mid-century if not earlier not only in the US, but in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and most of Europe. Minority status will not mean that white people will suddenly be able to count upon the advantages of minority rights that they graciously extended towards non-whites. South Africa tells you everything you need to know: whites will simply become a dwindling population of designated oppressors. If anything, the genocidal fervour of what BAP calls the interahamwe left will only intensify. The rhetoric will shift from the rights of ‘oppressed minorities’ required by pluralistic tolerance to the rights of the ‘global majority’, since in Our Democracy the majority rules. We’re already seeing this happen.
The institutions are collapsing from self-induced mediocrity:
Institutional collapse is a near certainty on this track. Our civilization is a staggeringly complex system of systems. Operating and maintaining those systems requires a high degree of competence. Competence has to be learned, but it can’t be learned by anyone. DEI pushes incapable people into key positions, while denying even the opportunity for training to the potentially capable.
Eventually, the systems themselves begin to malfunction. Repair becomes impossible, because there’s no one who actually knows how to repair the systems: the ones working in the system are too stupid to understand it, while those who could have learned were locked out and therefore didn’t learn what they needed to know. …
Examples:
This complex systems collapse is already happening. Andrews uses the example of failures in airplane manufacturing, pilot training, and air traffic control that have made air travel that much more hazardous, and which seem to trace directly to DEI-motivated recruitment policies, although naturally it is difficult to verify this as the regime does everything it can to obscure such a connection. The general enshittification of the Internet is probably at least partly a result of less talented and less scrupulous Indians replacing white software engineers. Entertainment media has become ludicrously bad in direct proportion to the replacement of white male directors, showrunners, screenwriters, animators, artists, and programmers by women of pronouns. Academia is in the midst of a credibility collapse for exactly the same reason.
It is not hard to extrapolate this degenerative process out a generation or two. Instead of building cities on Mars, we will be bouncing over potholes on dirt roads. Tap water will have to be boiled, assuming water even comes from taps. Electricity will only be available a few days a week, and that in the good neighbourhoods. What did South Africans use for light before they had candles? Light bulbs. There are still liberals in South Africa, by the way.
Forestalling collapse is simple. All we need do is reinstate meritocracy within institutions. …
Follow the money:
Under the existing dispensation non-whites are the beneficiaries of all sorts of special programs that amount in practice to a vast transfer of wealth from white hands to their own. They have no immediate incentive to change this, and will in fact fight bitterly against it. Sure, you could point out that if the systems collapse under their mismanagement and the sheer weight of their shameless parasitism, they’ll be worse off in the long run, but this assumes that they’re capable of understanding second-order consequences, that they can entertain hypotheticals, and that they possess the ability to defer gratification. “But what if the system collapses and breakfast doesn’t get delivered tomorrow morning?” I don’t know what you talkin about, man, I got breakfast right now. …
A further difficulty is that white populations are divided, because a lot of whites are directly employed in administering expropriation. Think of the armies of white women in human resources, or doing social work, or in the NGOs. Tearing down the civil rights regime would put them out of a job. It does not matter how many facts or how much logic you have on your side, they aren’t going to vote for being put out of a job. …
Is reality “racist”?
Such a settlement [a color blind approach that replaces the current DEI spoils system] is even more unlikely because, in order to be even minimally stable, it requires everyone to accept that sociobiological stratification along racial lines is an inevitable outcome of human biodiversity. We all know how it would shake out: Africans on the bottom, Hispanics and Indians in the middle, and Jews, East Asians, and Europeans on top. Subaltern populations will resent superior populations, and the narrative that they are oppressed will always be more attractive than accepting that they are genuinely and objectively inferior in ways that matter. How many black people per capita accept racial IQ differences as the most stubbornly rock-solid finding of the social sciences? How many of them, per capita, even understand per capita?
Politically impossible for the left:
Simple does not mean easy. Reinstating meritocracy is in fact ideologically impossible for the regime.
Andrews herself describes the patron-client strategy of the Democratic Party, which all but monopolizes non-white votes by the simple expedient of giving them stuff they take from white people. The Republican Party is essentially the faction of ‘let white people keep their stuff’, which is very popular with whites but isn’t at all enticing for non-whites.
TL;DR from Keith Woods:
Woke is downstream of a denial of hereditarianism and the resulting belief that all inequalities between groups must reflect existing power structures rather than natural group differences.
No one has really challenged this, even on the anti-woke right, so wokeism won’t go away. The left disavowing “woke 1” is just a rhetorical correction.
Voting our way out of this doom loop seems unlikely at this late stage, but it must start with ending the high rates of immigration from the third world. If you’re in a hole, stop digging!