{"id":208663,"date":"2020-06-11T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208663"},"modified":"2020-06-14T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:11:09","slug":"the-empire-takes-a-knee-let-it-but-we-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208663","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Takes a Knee. Let It. But We Don’t Have to!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saker \u2013 The Unz Review June 10, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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It is quite interesting to observe how many commentators are completely misreading the current race riots or compare them with previous race riots in the history of the US. I suppose that by telling themselves that these latest riots are \u201cjust like\u201d or \u201cnot nearly as bad\u201d as past US race riots they try to reassure themselves by maintaining the illusion that what is taking place now is of limited and\/or temporary magnitude. It is not.<\/h5>\n

No, it is not \u201cjust like\u201d the past<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Oh sure, there is plenty of racial violence (by all sides) in US history, from the very inception of the US as a slave-owning society, to the immense number of lynchings (which took place in the North as much as in the South, those interested ought to read \u201cAt the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u201d by Philip Dray) to the murderous \u201cTulsa Massacre<\/span><\/a>\u201d which even saw Black neighborhoods bombed from the air! And while those who point out that there have been many race riots in the past are correct, they are fundamentally missing the key fact that the current \u201crace riots\u201d are not \u201cjust\u201d race riots, but the result of many more complex and multi-layered phenomena. The best proof of this qualitatively new nature of the riots is that they have not only spread across the US like wildfire, but that they also spread to Europe and in Asia and Oceania (see here<\/span><\/a> and here<\/span><\/a>). Even some Japanese joined<\/a><\/span> this decidedly gaijin<\/em> phenomenon!<\/h5>\n
So what is going on here?<\/h5>\n
Unless we assume that Danes, Belgians or New Zealanders have been personally victimized by racist US cops, we have to admit that what triggered this worldwide rash of protests is not a first-hand personal trauma, but only second-hand exposure to a very specific narrative spread with quasi total uniformity<\/strong> by the legacy corporate ziomedia. I call this narrative \u201cBlack is Beautiful<\/span><\/a>\u201c.<\/h5>\n

The pernicious \u201cBlack if Beautiful\u201d ideological dogma<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Black is beautiful began in the US in the 1960 and it has since become an integral part of the western doxa<\/em>, an ideological dogma which cannot be challenged without immediately resulting in an accusation of \u201cracism\u201d. Simultaneously, another ideological dogma was developed, the one which claims that \u201call races are equal\u201d, but without ever really defining the terms \u201crace\u201d or the term \u201cequal\u201d. Interestingly, the notions that Black is beautiful or races are all equal are never demonstrated, only proclaimed, and any insistence that these notions be factually substantiated also results in an immediate accusation of \u201cracism\u201d.<\/h5>\n
It is not my purpose today to assess the merits (or lack thereof) of this narrative. But what I want to point out is this: any narrative which cannot be challenged or questioned without immediately being branded \u201cracist\u201d is an extremely intolerant one<\/strong>. It is also obviously a narrative which fears any scrutiny for empirical evidence. Yet, those who otherwise denounce the \u201clying media\u201d or say things like \u201cI don\u2019t believe it unless the government denies it<\/em>\u201d or \u201chow do you know when a politician is lying? when his lips are moving<\/em>\u201d seem to be more than willing to uncritically accept these ideological dogmas.<\/h5>\n
Furthermore, one key tenet of any honest quest for true moral values is that it be equally applied to all<\/strong> (if it ain\u2019t \u2013 then it is, by definition, hypocrisy). Yet just try to mention something like \u201cWhite is Beautiful<\/em>\u201d or, say, support the idea of a \u201cNational Association for the Advancement of White People<\/em>\u201d or wear a Tshirt with \u201cWhite Lives Matter<\/em>\u201d on it and you will will be instantly branded a racist. Why? Because far from promoting real \u201cequality\u201d the modern liberal ideology really preaches Black superiority \u2013 a special status for Blacks which cannot be symmetrically granted to White (or any other) people. Furthermore, since most people agree \u201cthat beauty is in the eye of the beholder<\/em>\u201c, we can immediately conclude that the thesis \u201cBlack is Beautiful\u201d is really an opinion, not an established fact. Presumably, it would imply the right to the opinion that \u201cBlack is not beautiful\u201d, right? LOL, good luck with that! Again, this is a clear case of bias\/hypocrisy and, most crucially, the categorical rejection of any dissenting opinion. Finally, what does the term \u201cBlack\u201d even mean here? Does it only apply to US and Sub-Saharan Blacks (apparently so), or does it also include, say, Ethiopians, Somalis, Tamils or even Australian Aborigines? Does it also apply to dark skinned Greeks or Sicilians? Yet again, we see that the category \u201cBlack\u201d is entirely meaningless (as is the category \u201cWhite\u201d or \u201cYellow\u201d \u2013 by the way!).<\/h5>\n
Sidebar: Those who have read me in the past know that I don\u2019t even accept the notion of \u201crace\u201d which, in my opinion, is wholly non-scientific. I also loathe the so-called \u201cWhite nationalism\u201d of the Alt-Rights & Co. which I consider as a rather primitive form of racism (which I defined under #4 here<\/a><\/span>) and even a whitewashing of the Nazi ideology which is \u201cpushed\u201d by the deep-state (for details, please see my article here<\/span><\/a> on this topic). Yet, following my previous article on this topic<\/span><\/a>, I still had a few knuckleheads accusing me of, what else, \u201cracism\u201d. I think of these people as \u201cpachinko<\/span><\/a> brains\u201d(\u201cpayazzo<\/span><\/a> brains\u201d would also work): they take each idea they come across as an \u201cideological ball\u201d and they immediately assume that it absolutely *must* fall within one of a very limited set of categories. For them the simply fact of saying, for example, \u201cthe thesis about racial equality has never been properly defined, never mind proven<\/em>\u201d can only mean one thing: the person saying so is a racist. Period. No other options possible. What they obviously miss is that a person which does not even accept the notion of \u201crace\u201d cannot be a \u201cracist\u201d, but who cares about these logical niceties, right? Virtue-signaling is much, much more important than facts or logic, at least for pachinko-brains.<\/h5>\n
I strongly believe that the western media, especially the US media (Hollywood<\/span><\/a>\/Amazon<\/span><\/a>\/Neflix<\/span><\/a>\/etc) have literally brainwashed much of the poorly educated youth (and that is an understatement!) into a weird form of Black-anything worship, a cult-like certitude that everything Black deserves a grateful standing ovation. Hence the sudden appearance of Black cowboys<\/span><\/a>, Black Celts and Vikings<\/span><\/a> and even of the Black Knights of the Round Table<\/span><\/a> who, apparently, were also Black. There is even a new term created for this kind of \u201ccreative re-writing of history\u201d: color-blind casting<\/span><\/a>. I am awaiting the first appearance of Black \u201cSnow-Black\u201d (as opposed to Snow-White) with impatience\u2026<\/h5>\n

The Empire is universally hated, and not just for its (very real) racism<\/strong><\/h2>\n
This would all be rather harmless and even comical if it weren\u2019t for the \u201cother side of the ideological coin\u201d: the AngloZionist Empire has totally and comprehensively lost any kind of moral or political authority, both in the US and in the EU (as well as in the 5 Eyes nations<\/span><\/a> and other US colonies like Germany or Japan). In the past, the AngloZionist Empire was just as evil as it is today, but at least it had the means to provide a high degree of material welfare to its citizens, but now that the Empire is falling apart and in a major economic crisis, more and more people are turning their rage against their own government or, maybe even more accurately, against the obscenely wealthy ruling classes which have a total control of the US and\/or EU political scene.<\/h5>\n
Remember how George Orwell wrote in his masterpiece 1984 \u201cIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face \u2013 forever<\/em>\u201c? I believe that a lot of people, Black and White, felt something similar when they saw the appalling footage of the slow murder of George Floyd by a gang of clearly stupid White cops. Yes, the image itself did not show Orwell\u2019s boot, but the way that cop was crushing his knee into the neck of Floyd sent the same message \u201cresistance is futile, we will crush you<\/em>\u201c. And many alienated and disenfranchised people (Black and White) felt a profound sense of outrage and even rage, hence the explosion of riots worldwide.<\/h5>\n

So where do we go from here?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Simply put, things are not going to get better. Neither the US (as the host of the Empire) nor the Empire itself (which is a parasite living off the US) are in any condition to reform themselves. This train has left a very long time ago (and it appears that 80% of US Americans agree<\/span><\/a> with that). As long as the Empire (thought of as \u201cThe West\u201d) still had some credibility left, it could at least pretend to be willing to right many undeniable wrongs without subverting itself in the process. After all, the best way to control a potentially dangerous opposition is to infiltrate it and then redirect it in a safe direction (that is basically the main role given to the Left wing of the Democratic Party and its pretend-revolutionaries leaders like Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard: a glorified safety valve). Furthermore, the entire BLM movement \u2013 being both racist and violent \u2013 has exactly zero potential, even partially, to reform the Western society (abolishing police departments does not qualify). This does not mean, however, that it cannot greatly contribute to the final collapse of the Empire. After all, what we see today is that all the symbols of power of this society (politicians, cops, corporations, religious leaders, etc.) are \u201ctaking a knee\u201d when faced with what any mentally sane society would immediately recognize as a textbook case of criminal rioting<\/span><\/a>. And when one politician dares to appeal for a full restoration of law and order, he gets vilified along with the editor who dared to post it<\/span><\/a>. In other words,<\/h5>\n

The Empire is taking a knee<\/strong><\/h2>\n
This is not unlike what happened to the Soviet Union in the late 1980s when basically the entire ruling elite felt that it had lost any will to stand up against the opposition and when it became trendy to bash everything Soviet (much of which very much deserved such bashing, but not everything!). That state of affairs led to, first, the collapse of the soviet society Soviet Union in 1991 and, second, the collapse of the Russian society in 1993. The Soviet Union, just like the United States, was born from a bloodbath and for decades the Soviet leaders could use their police\/security forces, and even the military, to crush any dissent, as in what happened in Novocherkassk massacre<\/span><\/a> in 1962. Yet by 1991 and 1993 even the KGB special forces refused to take any action against the demonstrators. Why? Because by 1990 the Soviet Empire had also completely \u201ctaken a knee\u201d before (a completely imagined and non-existing) the West just as the West today is \u201ctaking a knee\u201d before (a completely imagined and non-existing Wakanda<\/span><\/a>-like) Africa. Considering the evils which the West has wrought upon the African continent in general, and Sub-Saharan Africa especially, there is some karmic justice at work here, but this will be of very little consolation for all the people (irrespective of race) who are now suffering from the criminal mayhem of the BLM-inspired mobs (or from the violence of the police forces for that matter!).<\/h5>\n

So what can decent people do next?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Well, for one thing we don\u2019t have to chose between White and Black racism. In fact, the only logical (and moral) stance today is to reject any and all forms of racism, very much including the Hollywood-promoted anti-White (and, I would add, anti-family, anti-male and anti-Christian) and pro-Black racism. And, crucially, we need to reject anti-White racism not because there is such a thing as a \u201cWhite race\u201d out there, but because the current anti-racist ideology is every bit as oppressive and intolerant as the racist anti-Black (and not only!) ideology of the heydays of the western Empire<\/strong>. The enemy of my enemy is NOT always my friend and between White-supremacists and Black-supremacists, the only morally correct choice is to categorically reject any and all forms of supremacism, even and especially the one which happens to be promoted by those who oppress us all: the (multi-ethnic) oppressive ruling classes of the Empire.<\/h5>\n
So let the Empire\u2019s leaders take a knee if they want to: let them show their cowardice and hypocrisy.<\/h5>\n
We don\u2019t have to. Yes, it takes much more courage to speak against the prevailing ideological dogmas than to meekly parrot the official narrative. That is the price to be paid for true, inner, freedom.<\/h5>\n

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