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Entry: McCain is even worse than you thought Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_is_even_worse_than_you_thought#32002 Post contents: Leon, If you are truly to spend the remainder of your life advocating ethical theories of racial nationalism, I ask that you consider something. No message will spread if it falls on deaf ears. Racial nationalism will not be accepted by Americans who have not first been prepared to accept these ideas. For the sake of argument, let’s say I believe as you do that racial nationalism is the solution. This belief would not stop me from adjusting my strategy to the contextual moral situation of our time. People are unwilling to accept, or even listen to arguments that challenge the equality of the races. To understand why, we need to look at the historical evolution of equalitarianism that has occurred since the 20th century. Beginning in the 1920s, the equalitarian movement formulated a new strategy within the Boas School of Anthropology. Boas and his followers accurately recognized that the contextual moral situation of the time would not permit them to seriously propagate equality in its purest form. So they began their communist quest for total equality by propagating the idea that cultural inequality explained the inequalities among men and that the colored races could be “equalized” if they were assimilated to the superior white culture. Although this watered down version of equality would still prove difficult to spread, it was far more palatable to the American public than the idea that all men were truly equal regardless of their culture, traditions or nationalist identity. This watered down version of equality also tied in nicely with the American ideal of meritocracy, that anyone can come here and have a good life if they are willing to work hard and become Americanized. Through a shrewd and manipulative effort, (See Kevin Macdonald), the cultural explanation for inequality took root in academia and was eventually proliferated throughout the rest of the nation and much of the Western world. Ironically, having saturated the American public with the idea that culture explains inequality, the equalitarians became more ideologically aggressive and began to propagate more fiercely the theories of cultural relativism and multiculturalism. Since all cultures are really equal, argue the equalitarians, the only explanation for inequality is unfortunate circumstances (poverty, bad luck, etc.) and Western thievery, both of which are sins against humanity that must be corrected by an expansionist Leviathan government. Amazingly, these ideas have taken root and many Americans actually believe that all cultures are equal. So Leon, if this is the moral contextual situation of our time, I ask that you adjust your strategy in accordance with what is achievable. Your message of racial nationalism is reaching too far and will unavoidably fall on deaf ears. Not unlike Boas and the anthropologists, you must first saturate the American people with the idea that culture explains inequality rather than unfortunate circumstances and Western thievery. Only when Western Man is willing to believe his culture is superior will he even consider that other explanations for inequality are viable. Sent at: 2008 12 01