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Entry: Big Brother in Brussels Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/big_brother_in_brussels#6837 Post contents: 1. What do racialist nationalism and conservatism have in common? NOTHING. These are and ought to be deeply hostile movements. <i>Real</i> Conservatism defends really existing institutions that are the product of a long history extending over centuries. This sense of historical continuity bestows upon such institutions legitimacy for one of two reasons. Either (1) such institutions ought to be maintained because their continual existence indicates their superiority in meeting human needs. Or (2) even if such institutions are not intrinsically superior to possible or theoretical alternatives, they are still superior by virtue of their familiarity and veneration acquired by their antiquity. If am following Jerry Muller here. The Real Conservative is a preservationist of a long, organic continuity. On the other hand, <i>Radical</i> Conservatives, again following Muller, are unhappy with existing institutions, and wish to reach back to institutions found a real and distant past. The Radical Conservative is a restorationist. And he wishes to restore what really once existed, and existed for a long time. (With respect of Catholic liturgy, I might be something of a Radical Conservative myself) Jim Crow doesn’t meet these standards as an institution. Read the best history of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward, <i>The Strange History of Jim Crow</i> and one will find that the Jim Crow practiced in the South had a recent and short life. Anti-bellum Dixie didn’t have it. Southern Redemption didn’t establish it. It was established between 1900 and 1910. It was passing by 1954. It was gone for good 10 years later. 50 years isn’t much history, isn’t much antiquity, isn’t much continuity, and certainly isn’t venerated now save by cranks and bigots. Real and Radical Conservatives know what killed Jim Crow, a real tradition that is ancient and venerated: a 900 year revered patrimony of English liberty and rights. Add to this tradition another, a business history, passed on by England participation in the Hansa, and, according the David Hackett Fischer, found particularly in the Delaware Valley Quakers who became the source of American business culture: a reciprocal concept of freedom: you do this for me, and I’ll do this for you. In contrast to Conservatism, the racialist nationalist hates the present and hates the past. Rather than looking to existing institutions and their antiquity, he looks at a blueprint. His vision is of a future of a purified race purged through an act of violence. Put simply, the racialist nationalist is a revolutionary and a utopian, plain and simple. Ask him what people would be actually doing in his purified racial future, he has no answer. He is against things, not for things. He has no loves, only hates. Thus he is the exact opposite of Real and Radical Conservatives. The racialist nationalist, if he bothers with the past at all, has a completely mythical (in the bad sense of the word), romantic (in the bad sense of the word), fictive, fairy-tale faux past. With this fake past he tries to make Real and Racial Conservatives his useful idiots. It’s time Conservatives wised up. Kirk did. (And his daughter’s husband probably could not be served at a lunch counter under the brief time of Jim Crow.) Kirk's concept of orders and variety had nothing to do with race. Kirk knew what Europeans know and Gringos otherwise ignore: social class. He also knew that a social order is very complex. Or does Mr. Natural wish to make Kirk's "variety" into a Cultural Marxist blathering about "multiculturalism" (which the Cultural Marxist doesn't really believe in)? 2. It’s almost amusing how the racialist nationalist tries to wear the false whiskers also of a libertarian and a Constitutionalist. He defends Jim Crow as the freedom to trade with whomever one will, ignoring that Jim Crow, as I proved in my previous write back, deeply violates freedom. The Real Conservative adds to the Real Libertarian insight that persons live in Gemeinschaft with other persons, and have obligations to those persons. Among those obligations is to recognize what really counts in character, and what doesn’t count at all (“race”, so beloved by “Mr Natural”). And as for the Constitution, Real Conservatives know that it is a manifestation of the 900 year tradition of English liberty and English rights. Slavery and Jim Crow was and is alien to that tradition. Pity that Pseudo Real Conservative and T. French hold his venerable tradition to be the offering of a “used car salesman” and “political correctness”. 3. To emphasize the previous post. Real Catholics know that the racial segregationist deeply offends their faith. Catholics who preached and practiced segregation Archbishop Rummel excommunicated. Let them be excommunicated now, and join the “Christian Identity” filth – a movement which, of course, isn’t Christian. Sent at: 2008 08 21