Contra the Controlled Right, the Dissident Right knows the entire Civil Rights Movement was a scam and its patron saint, Martin Luther King Jr. was neither a true conservative nor an example of “Christian courage” – he was a leftist and a heretic. The division between these two attitudes runs deep, so deep that it functions as a very good litmus test for the distinction between the fake and the real Right. But, what many on the Dissident Right do not know is just how destructive the logic and language of the Civil Rights Movement is, and how quickly it can turn an authentically rightwing movement into either one powerless to stop the excesses of the Left or, even worse, actively become leftist itself.
Part of the reason the Civil Rights Movement is so seductive is because of its success. It was able to radically transform the United States on racial matters in less than a single generation. Other leftwing movements, namely the gay rights movement, used the basic strategy outlined by the Civil Rights Movement to similar success. Remember, it was not that long ago (2008) that even California was able to pass a ban on homosexual marriage. With all of this in mind, it makes sense, at least on the surface, that rightwing movements can adopt the language of the Civil Rights Movement for their own ends. Even if we are to admit that those ends were bad, at least the basic strategy can be used. However, history shows that is a tragic mistake, one we can see in three different movements that have all seen a leftwing turn after utilizing this strategy – Irish Nationalism, Quebecois Nationalism, and the pro-life movement.
Irish Nationalism
Irish Nationalism found its first real successes – the establishment of the Irish Free State and later the Irish Republic – through rightwing nationalist ends. Though there was a socialist element lead by James Connolly, the vast majority of the movement stood for traditional Irish culture, including a strong place for religion and recognized the distinction between men and women. But, for all the success the movement had in the interwar period, by the late 1960s the movement had staled and it had yet to achieve its ultimate goal of uniting the Republic of Ireland with Northern Ireland. This is when a new strategy was born, one that utilized the language of the Civil Rights Movement.
A shift in language occurred – no longer were the Irish Nationalists fighting for traditional Irish values, but rather they were fighting an anti-colonial war, trendy language in a world where old European style colonialism was on its last legs, with only Portugal under Salazar and his successor and Spain under Franco as the last real holdouts trying to maintain their empires.
The result of this shift in language was the swallowing of a poison pill that would eventually destroy the Irish Nationalist movement. Far from fiercely defending Ireland, her people, and traditions, Sinn Féin (an old Irish Nationalist party that has gone radical Left in recent years) can’t be bothered to support any of the things that make Ireland a unique and special nation. Instead, Sinn Féin began supporting increased immigration into Ireland, abortion, and homosexual marriage. Look, there are a lot of reasons why Ireland went from, in a single generation, the most conservative nation in Western Europe to being the most liberal, and while I do still maintain that the ultimate blame for what happened lay at the feet of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy for its mishandling of the sex abuse crisis, there is no doubt that the leftwing shift of several old Irish Nationalist organizations played a significant role as well, and the beginnings of their shift can be seen when they attempted to use trendy leftwing language to achieve their goals.
Quebecois Nationalism
Much like Ireland, Quebec was a historically rural, religious, and conservative nation. Starting in the 1960s, however, they began to try and assert more control over their affairs, growing tired of being ruled by anglophone Canada. Instead of looking to the rightwing nationalist movements that thrived in the first half of the 20th century, the Quebecois looked to the then burgeoning American Civil Rights Movement for their inspiration. They were no longer a European people seeking self-determination, but rather were an oppressed minority – they considered themselves equivalent to blacks in the United States and their mindset reflected that. The historical legacy of ancient regime France, including the Catholic faith, had to be jettisoned in order to make their new strategy work. The result was the complete destruction of old Quebec, accomplished by her own sons and daughters. By the time the Quiet Revolution turned a decade old in 1970, “France without the Revolution” had become very much like France herself, only in North America and much colder, in terms of its cultural leftism and hostility to religion.
The fact that all of this happened to Quebec so quickly suggests some serious rot had already occurred well before the Quiet Revolution began, but that it occurred so rapidly does suggest that the Quebecois Nationalists made several very serious mistakes. Those critical mistakes being replacing their historical European and Christian moorings, as they relate to the struggle for greater Quebecois sovereignty, to leftists ideologies inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. As in the case of Ireland, using leftwing language and ideas cannot sustain a historic Christian nation. Eventually, be it in a decade as in the case of Quebec or two generations as in the case of Ireland, this will end in disaster as it creates a breed of “nationalists” that are unable to defend the historic foundations of their nations.
The Pro-Life Movement
Over the past few years, I have noticed a growing tendency for the pro-life movement to frame its fight in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. I’m not talking about discussions regarding the impact on abortion on the black population, it goes deeper than that, but nevertheless, it still contains the same seeds of destruction that happened to both Irish and Quebecois Nationalism. Back in 1983, the then Archbishop of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernadin, proposed what he called the “seamless garment” attitude to abortion, which held that while abortion was important, it should be held as equal to “other pro-life issues” – namely capital punishment, poverty, and gun control. Never mind that Holy Scripture and every great mind of Christendom until the late 20th century held that the state has the right to execute criminals for murder. Never mind that there is a distinction to be drawn between the direct, deliberate taking of life as in abortion and an indirect death that may occur due to poverty. Never mind that self-defense is a natural right. They are all held as equals. The “seamless garment” theory eventually produced the “New Pro-Life Movement” that directly tries to appeal to the Left by lumping abortion in with the favorite pet causes. The end result is a weakening of abortion as a great evil.
As of right now, the New Pro-Life Movement is a minority tendency within the larger pro-life movement. If anything, the Democrats radicalization on this issue and the fact they will never offer anything more than tepid condemnation of said radicalization, if that, has limited its appeal. But their presence does show the same mistakes that were made by both the Irish and Quebecois Nationalists – a desire to use the language and framework of the Civil Rights Movement in hopes of piggybacking off of its success. As European people, both the Irish and Quebecois must embed their movements in Christianity. As must the pro-life movement, and the framework of the Civil Rights Movement, made by Marxists and heretics, undermines that, essentially destroying the foundations by which a successful movement must be built.
The logic behind adopting the Civil Rights Movement’s language makes sense. It has drastically changed the United States. In the days before the Civil Rights Movement, phrases like “America is a white man’s country” were taken as mere statements of fact or even a source of pride. Up until this point, the United States had an immigration policy explicitly designed to prevent massive demographic change (specifically, from the 1920 census). It was an arrangement that lasted for almost 200 years. The Civil Rights Movement changed that. “America is a white man’s country” is today only used by leftists who want to push the revolution even farther.
But, the Right must fight this temptation, as it cannot bring the Right actual victory. It is a poison pill that destroys actual rightwing movements, as seen in the disaster that both Irish and Quebecois Nationalism has become, plus the looming possible disaster of the New Pro-Life Movement becoming the dominate strain within the pro-life movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a disaster for the Right, it’s something the Dissident Right understands well. But, what is less known is just how destructive it has been as it has spread throughout the world. It was not merely a disaster because the Left used it. Its very logic, language, and framework are built to remove civilizations from its foundations, as seen in how it has been used throughout the world in wildly different circumstances. It still ends the same.
– By Harmonica
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
“Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword”
Fashionable and easy does not make right… they chose to drink the poison.
The way I have always viewed it, and still do, is as a wall between ZOG and ourselves, or more accurately, a shield. By “it” I mean the terminology, framework etc. behind the Civil Rights power grab.
Whenever I argue with leftists, which I don’t often do anymore due to how boring they are, once I switch gears after realizing that I am not talking to some rational human being, but an ideological disaster that just sucked everything down wholesale and became a wretch, I begin to speak in their language, which is different than the language of men. I frame Southerners as the oppressed minority, which we are, I talk about the racial injustices that I have suffered by colonizers, which I have, I talk about the cultural appropriation Southerners endure, which there is a lot of, blues, rock, country, our food, our homes and a million other things, literally everything they complain about doing to other peoples and cultures. Then I never let up on it and never let them steer the discussion away from that, I nail them to the wall with social justice and never let up until they disappear in frustration as I used to do before I began to just feed their attacks back at them.
It is astoundingly effective against leftists. They cannot disagree with you without showcasing themselves as a hypocrite and consequently futhering our position. Also, all of the frustration, anger, angst and all of the rest taking to leftists, who just repeat their nonsense talking points while you are speaking as a normal human, wells up in them as it used to well up in me when I considered them men, misguided but still men. That was my mistake, they were not men, they had allowed the Social Justice poison to transform them, they were not men anymore, they were Gorgons now, cursed by God and unbale to create, only to bring stagnation and death to whoever gazed upon them. Their purpose is to mire their enemies in an endless defense of their own existence while they themselves remained indistinct, part of a faceless horde, as they will always remain because hordes cannot create. Just read Saul Allinsky’s book, take out the parts describing us as the enemy and society to be destroyed and replace it with them, remove them as the revolutionaries and place us there, blame them for every single one of societies ills and then make them spend all of their time defending those ills. That is a mirror shield and its just that easy to create.
I began to stop treating those in the faceless horde as men once they reveled themselves to be full of Social Justice cancer. So how to defeat them on ideological grounds if they don’t fight those battles as men would and where even often women or people who suffered from mental illnesses, that they use as fodder to make you fight women and lepers just to even approch the ideology that drives them, and stab at that which is your true target? Well the answer is to just mirror what they do, Social Justice is garbage, actual garbage, meant to destroy societies from within while giving all of their enemies a viable excuse, a falsified pretense, for their every action, an umbrella ideology that’s not really even an ideology, to coalesce all manner of monsters under, to create an ideologically possessed horde that they run at us while staying safe and separate from them themselves. Just feed it back to them, being sure to include those who created it to run at you, as the real target the horde should be after. Its highly effective.
I began to call it the Perseus tactic, as in how he was only able to kill Medusa with a mirror. Not a sword, not a bow, he did not come at her head on, or trick her, not anything other than reflection of her own weapon back at her. It worked.
Mythology is more important than any of us realize, these where not just stories. Mythological Heroes were not just ancient versions of Captain America, they were the distilled versions of all of our collective wisdom, history, cunning and identity. Mythology is what drove Alexander the Great and his teacher Aristotle, its where their understanding stemmed from and Aristotle’s ability to extract the wisdom of the ancients from the myths and to then apply it to the real world, in the present day, is why we still know his name.
This is far to much to go into here, it has to do with various forms of IQ, some of which is memorization, but the more important part is the ability to abstract, to construct things in abstracted spaces and then to bring them from the abstract spiritual realm and into reality and efficiently apply them, those people are our creatives. You can’t sit in a desk and learn that either, just like IQ you are born with the ability to work in the abstrated, spritual places that God gave you, it can’t be raised. You can’t raise IQ anymore than you can raise creativity, which is the ability to abstract out of sets of information that IQ allows you to memorize, which is mythology and why its so important and powerful.
Its too much to go into in a comments section, but that does not mean we can’t learn from it, after all Mythology was meant for normies, people who could not see the abstracted reality clearly, so they framed them as stories and started dispensing condensed wisdom to the general population, your IQ, your ability to read and memorize, did not matter. You could hear a story and see it painted on the wall of the temple and that was enough to build civilizations on. Its also what the writers here do and why I come to this site instead of other places.
The answer to Social Justice is more Social Justice. You embodying Perseus and reflecting it right back at them until it creates a feedback loop, that then creates a paralysis in them, stopping them from taking action without also furthering our cause while hurting theirs, is the answer, they freeze. It turns them to stone.
No, we should not ourselves become Medusa, no more than Perseus did, we should however create a polished, mirror like shield to fend off their attacks. It is both a defense and an offense, at the same time. A tactic that stops us from wasting years of our life as I have arguing with idiots as if they were men, which is in effect engaging Medusa with a sword and being turned to stone ourselves. Instead remembering and then embodying Perseus requires zero effort on our part, while enabling us to put our energy into true ourselves from the safety of a shield that requires minimal effort to build and deploy. Its just mindless, canned responses and framing that any clown can do, as evidenced all around us in clown world. To ensure we don’t become just another Gorgon cursed by God ourselves is the only expenditure of effort reqiried on our part. The shield is comprised of terminology and framing, not of our own making, but that of the Gorgon trying to kill us. Show them their own reflection, their true self, they cannot stand it and they freeze, I’ve have see it done and have done it myself many times. It is highly effective and saves me the draining feelings that would always manifest whenever I would debate them on ideological grounds. They cannot adapt the ideology they have been brainwashed with, that requires true creativity, something hordes do not possess. That job falls to the people that crafted the Social Justice golem in the first place, and if we are smart, the reflection our mirror shield provides will point Medsua’s anger towards the people that cursed her in the first place, to use Social Justice on those very same people, as they were trying to do to us when they created Social Justice and the horde in the first place.
Its much more involved than that, but that is the gist of it. The only concern I have is becoming the Gorgon, forgetting that it is a shield and not who we are, that is its inherent danger, its Achilles heel. We must remain seceded in our mind, and more importantly in our hearts, the abstracted spiritual place we all dwell together, where our collective soul resides must be what shapes and guides us. Perseus and Medusa must always remain separate mythological figures and so must we or we will become Gorgons. Our efforts must be redirected from maintaining a staring contest with Medusa, which is a losing war of attrition, and into restoring our true self. Then we must advance.
None of this can take place until we organize the right people and pay each other. I’m sure Perseus did not eat dirt and neither can we continue to wage war if we can’t feed our soliders, a lesson our enemies know all to well.