Nationalism for Me, Wokeism for Thee

I wouldn’t call it mainstream, at least not at this point, but I am seeing a disturbing trend on the Dissident Right and adjacent movements of simping for China. The argument goes something like this – “China is willing to ban the degenerate stuff that comes out of the entertainment industry and regularly mocks anti-nationalist Western leftists; therefore, China is our ally in this fight.” It is indeed true that China has banned rap music. It is also true that the real reason the “first gay character” in many major film franchises ends up being a minor character with a throwaway line of dialog is so China can easily censor it, rather than risk a complete ban in that market. However, to jump from these facts to viewing China as some kind of ally is madness and risks destroying the Dissident Right by sending it down the same rabbit hole the old Alt-Right did, essentially cutting them off from ever appealing to normal people.

Yes, China bans degeneracy and mocks self-hating leftists. But, they do not do this because they see us as a people to be liberated from Globohomo. Nope, the Chinese are perfectly fine with Globohomo, as long as it stays in the West. They (correctly) see it as weakening the West and making it easier to dominate the world. That’s why they ban degeneracy because they want China to be strong but they support it here because they want to weaken the West. If China really was some kind of secret ally in the fight against Globohomo, they could help us easily. All they would have to do is tell the entertainment industry that unless they stop promoting degeneracy in the West, they will be shut out of the Chinese market. And, I’m willing to bet my right kidney they would do it. There are numerous examples of companies bending backwards to appease them.

Remember that dustup with them and the NBA over Hong Kong? Or how John Cena was forced to apologize because he mentioned Taiwan? When Philadelphia Archbishop Cardinal Dougherty brought Hollywood to its knees and forced them to actually enforce the Hays Code by threatening a national boycott of the film industry, he didn’t turn a blind eye on Hollywood preying on Protestant neighborhoods. His primary concern may have been his own flock, but we did help all Americans clamp down on Hollywood, something that lasted for 30 years. China will not do this and are in fact encouraging it, as they know that a weak America cannot stop them.

This is hardly the first time something like this has ever happened. Back in the 1920s, the Soviet Union pushed cultural leftism on Russians hard. Abortion was legalized, divorce became a matter of a simple agreement, divorce was made easy, and homosexuality was encouraged. Less than a decade after this, the Soviets had a society in near collapse. Russia had gone from having one of the highest birthrates on the planet to not even having replacement numbers, something made all the more terrifying when one considers the massive loss of life that happened as the result of World War I and the Russian Civil War. As a result, the Soviets clamped down hard on degeneracy.

A really interesting and short example of how the USSR changed internally can be found in David Priestland’s The Red Flag: A History of Communism. In the book, there is a set of pictures showing the evolution of Soviet art. In the early days of communism, the art was very abstract and experimental; disjointed and chaotic. But that changed and Soviet art began to take on a more austere and stoic, almost puritanical character. On the surface, at least, it was more traditional. The official line of the USSR on homosexuality was that it was a sign of fascist tendencies.

So, the Soviet Union was a friend of traditionalists, right? Of course not. While they stopped the promotion of degeneracy in the USSR, they encouraged it in the U.S. Their relatively short experiment of cultural degeneracy taught them just how destructive it was, and encouraged it in the U.S. as a way to weaken Heritage America. If you think that the Soviets or Chinese would stop the promotion of degeneracy post-conquest, only having done so as part of a temporary measure to take over America, then I have some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. That will just make the promotion worse, as they would utilize it as a control mechanism. And, Globohomo is a really good way to keep a people docile. Huxley was right. Brave New World, rather than 1984, is what the future looks set to look like.

The ultimate irony of all of this is that the same crowd who thinks China is our ally, because they ban degeneracy, are the same people who harp endlessly on how Jews support nationalism for themselves while trying to undermine nationalism for everyone else. Jews are fiercely nationalistic when it comes to themselves. Are they now our ally? This is the same logic that is being used to support China. Of course, Jews support Jewish Nationalism and Chinese Communists support banning degeneracy in their own country. Jews want Israel to be strong, Chinese want China to be strong. They see a strong West as a roadblock in those goals. But, just as the Jews support anti-nationalism here, the Chinese support degeneracy here as well. They want us to be weak.

The Chinese know a military made up of transsexuals, petite feminists, and Muslims cannot stop them should they ever take Taiwan (that’s coming very soon). A military made up of Virginia aristocrats, good old boys from the hills of Tennessee, and Cajuns from the swamps of Louisiana is a very different story. At the heart of this, and likely why the rightwingers that push this cannot see the irony of what they are arguing, is because they think that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They see the United States as their enemy, and the current regime certainly is hostile to the Right. While Israel and the U.S. are nominal allies, China and the U.S. are open adversaries; and since China is the enemy of the Right’s enemy (the American Empire), China must be our friend, or so the thinking goes.

However, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is not always true. The United States government hates my people. The Empire hates my nation. The Empire hates my faith. Last summer removed any doubt whether or not this was true. It simply does not follow that China is our friend simply because they happen to also be an adversary of the United States. If they were our friend, they would be putting their foot down and telling the entertainment industry to stop shilling degeneracy or accuse the American Empire of trampling on human rights by promoting child transgenderism. That’s what a friend would do, provided they had the ability to do so (which China does).

The fact that they have not done so means they are not our friend. That they are helping promote this means they are our enemy, too.