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A Response To Jonathon van Maren

I had never heard of this Jonathon van Maren and The Bridgehead until this article was brought up in an Austin Petersen YouTube video. Apparently, he is an uneducated Millennial cuckservative in Canada who is some kind of a pro-life activist with a radio show.

Here are some thoughts on Jonathon van Maren’s most recent rant:

1.) He starts out by setting up a straw man that the Alt-Right believes Jews are “a homogenous and monolithic group, are responsible for all of the evils Western civilization faces.” No ethnic group is homogenous or monolithic in its opinions. It would be fair to say that American Jews are an extremely leftwing, wealthy and influential group who have pushed our culture in directions we dislike.

2.) Richard Spencer isn’t a Neo-Nazi. This is hyperbole.

3.) The United States has always had “racial theories.” A sense of White racial consciousness was central to American ethnic identity for centuries before the Third Reich. This is just a smear.

4.) It is fair to say that United States was a “racial collective” until the 1950s. It was seen as a White Man’s Country. American citizenship was rooted in whiteness. Well into the 20th century, the Supreme Court ruled on the whiteness of various groups of immigrants from Syrians to Hindus to the Japanese.

5.) We had internment camps for the Japanese in the Second World War. The United States that fought Nazi Germany had a segregated army, eugenic sterilization laws and restricted immigration to preserve its ethnic and cultural integrity for posterity.

6.) This is another straw man. Richard Spencer did not say “you have no rights.” Instead, he argued that rights are derived from your community. He’s saying that rights exist, but they are simply derived from tradition. English common law is an example of such a tradition. There are no universal human rights derived from nature or speculative abstract philosophy.

7.) We do care about our posterity. Granted, this is not something conservatives or libertarians care about or they wouldn’t be so heedless on immigration policy. They value The Family as an abstract ideal. Real families are based on kinship, genetic similarity and other affinities that create a prejudice in favor of an in-group that distinguishes it from an out-group.

8.) Christianity seemed to exist just fine in the United States with racialism, immigration restriction and eugenics. The Supreme Court sanctioned eugenics in the Buck vs. Bell decision in 1927.

9.) The current custom of “pro-lifers” adopting African children as a virtue signal, impregnating their wives with African embryos and basing their movement on “human rights” and railing against “black genocide” is really inseparable from late 20th century American and Canadian culture. It is modern liberalism. There was no need for a “pro-life movement” in early 20th century America.

10.) Conservatives claim their philosophy is based on classical liberalism. In a sense, this is true. At the same time, it is also true that most “classical liberals” in the 18th century and 19th century were “racists” or at least didn’t feel the same way about race as modern conservatives.

11.) The Alt-Right rejects the “mainstream” which is just a name for a cartel of mass media outlets that attempts to dominate public opinion. We reject “conservatism” which is a failed ideology. There was no such thing as the “mainstream” until the 1950s. Look it up.

Hunter Wallace
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Hunter Wallace is the founder and editor of OccidentalDissent.com

6 Comments

  • It is easy to see why conservatism is a failed ideology. Conservatives seem unable to understand how they constantly have been forced to accept left-wing ideas. They even allowed jewish trotskists to infiltrate GOP as neo-conservatives and take over the entire party. But now we have a nice little contra-revolution going.

  • He starts out by setting up a straw man that the Alt-Right believes Jews are “a homogenous and monolithic group, are responsible for all of the evils Western civilization faces.” No ethnic group is homogenous or monolithic in its opinions. It would be fair to say that American Jews are an extremely leftwing, wealthy and influential group who have pushed our culture in directions we dislike.

    We non-Jewish whites on the alt-right want our race to have its own identity. We want our race to be able to look out for its group interests and to be able to distinguish between its group interests and Jewish group interests. We do not think it is acceptable that Jews have their own identity within white societies while non-Jewish whites seeking to preserve their own racial and cultural identity are persecuted.

    Those of us who have woken up about the JQ realize that Jews are unique among all races of the world, in that they have moved from one host society to another for thousands of years while remaining biologically separate and that they always dominate the elite ranks of society if they are allowed. If you focus on differences between individual Jews, then you miss the forest for the trees. Their unique group characteristics mean that they have different group interests. It is in their interests to keep non-Jewish white identity suppressed, but it is not in our interests.

  • Jonathon van Maren longs to become a Christian martyr, which is what will happen if his survival becomes dependent on the pleasure of the blacks and browns. That is his choice to make, I suppose. Unfortunately, Maren is also willing to martyr the entire white race.

    • Clearly, at some point we are going to have to take away these people’s “right” to make such “choices”. Certainly as they affect our safety, security, and future, and maybe we should even consider “saving cucks from themselves”. We can’t afford to lose half the White population. When a child exhibits self-destructive behavior, do the parents just say, “oh well, little Tommy can make his own choices”?

      These people are not “free to choose” to give our countries away. If they want to brown out, they are going to have to LEAVE.

  • Hunter Wallace – you wrote an article where you detailed when American stopped calling themselves “English, Christian, and free” and simply started calling themselves “white.” Please post a link to that article, it was really good.

  • Ryan Faulk of The Alternative Hypothesis has a good way to frame this issue:

    1. All raceless or multiracial ideologies depend on groups behaving in ways they never have throughout history. Both in their specific temperaments (do you think the Chinese will take to small individualistic systems of thought?) and in how they get along with other dissimilar groups.

    2. Racial integration has a 100% failure rate. No harmony, no living together as people remain segregated, no equalizing of gaps. None of the policies have worked as they were sold.

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