|Chapter 33 - Re-Classifying the Left|
|“I yam what I yam."|
|Popeye, the Sailor Man|
Returning to the subject of re-classification (Chapter 28), let’s consider a different sort of classification, the classification by psychiatrists of certain behavior as “mental illness” in their manual, “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” The objectivity of psychiatrists came into question in 1964 when U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater was the Republican candidate for President. Without ever examining him, 1,189 American psychiatrists responded to questions about the candidates in a (now-defunct) magazine and stated that Goldwater was mentally unbalanced. (Goldwater sued and won a substantial settlement; such behavior by psychiatrists has been banned as unethical.)
California psychologist Edward Dunbar has now circulated draft guidelines for a new category in the Manual for people who are “pathologically” prejudiced against gays, Jews, blacks, or others, but presumably not for people who are prejudiced against racists, homophobes, Christian fundamentalists, right-wing Republicans, and Nazis. 1 Presumably, people who are “pathologically” prejudiced in favor of certain groups would also end up in the Manual. Since everyone has likes and dislikes about groups of other people, Dr. Dunbar can determine which feelings constitute “prejudice” only by determining whether or not those feelings are justified by the facts. If a Jew hates the Nazis, is he “prejudiced” or does he have a perfectly normal and justifiable feeling? Must every psychiatrist be an historian?
Why is certain behavior listed in the Manual as a mental illness? 2 The reason usually given is that the behavior impairs the ability of a person to function “normally,” i.e., to work and take care of himself and his dependents. Biologically, such behavior is maladaptive because it reduces reproductive success. With few exceptions, the behavior that your genes induce in you (i.e., to nurse, care for your children, avoid danger, acquire resources, find a mate, have sex, etc.) is adaptive and behavior that is contrary to what your genes induce you to do, is maladaptive.
Let us first concede that any behavior, even behavior that is induced by our genes, is maladaptive if it so dominates a person’s life that he can not otherwise function. Someone who cannot hold a job because he is obsessed with sex, or with hating an ethnic group, or with fighting hatred of an ethnic group, probably has some psychological problems. Is racism, homophobia, etc. maladaptive, even if it is not obsessive, so that it could be described as a “mental illness”?
Homosexuality was actually in the Manual until 1973, when it became fashionable to the left and was removed. Homosexuality is hardly adaptive since it does not induce sexual behavior that passes on one’s alleles, and any argument that it is not maladaptive will be devious at best. 3 It is not contagious and it is not a threat to heterosexuals, other than the possibility that it might reduce the number of mates available to the opposite sex. Science is now uncovering more and more evidence that homosexuality is genetic, epigenetic, or due to exposure to the mother’s hormones in the womb 4 and is not a chosen behavior (except when the opposite sex is unavailable, as in prison). But a great many conditions in the Manual, such as schizophrenia, very likely also have a genetic basis, so that by itself should not keep homosexuality out of the Manual.
What about homophobia, a hatred of homosexuals? Should it also be in the manual? Homosexuality is accepted by some cultures and condemned by others, so there is unlikely to be a genetic inducement towards homophobia. But if homophobia is not so severe that it impairs a person’s ability to pass on his own genes (e.g., by physically attacking homosexuals and ending up in jail), it is probably less maladaptive than not liking broccoli.
Racism and ethnocentrism, however, are different. Certainly, caring for your family is adaptive, as they have more of your alleles than do strangers, so, by helping them, you help your own alleles to be passed on; conversely, it is usually maladaptive to not care for your family. Mathematical analysis of genetic distances has now shown - surprise, surprise - that your ethnic group also carries more of your alleles than do other ethnic groups, and the same is true of your race. (Chap. 7). Thus, using your resources to help people of your own race is adaptive and using your resources to instead help people of other races is, when there is no quid pro quo, maladaptive. In other words, it is the anti-racists who should be labeled “mentally ill” and worry about being put into the Manual, not the racists. Like the taxonomists and many social scientists, the psychiatrists have been corrupted by egalitarianism.
Man is a highly social animal and readily forms groups that compete with other groups for territory, mates, and resources. Given our social nature and the fact that resources are limited, the formation of a manageable group is the best strategy for surviving against competing groups. A loner, at least until modern times, would not have survived for long. For a group to be effective, it must be cohesive – the individuals in it must stick together and sacrifice for others in the group. Such cohesiveness cannot be easily obtained unless the people in the group are genetically similar so that any sacrifice for others is for those who have more of one’s own alleles and is therefore, in a biological sense, less of a sacrifice than it is a gain in fitness. Ethnocentrism and racism are built into our nature; 5 the alleles of those who support their own genetic family are more likely to survive than the alleles of those who do not, i.e., anti-racism is maladaptive. 6
“In 1998 President Clinton boasted to a cheering Portland State University audience that by 2050 whites would be a minority in America.” 7 Huh? White college students cheering for the loss of their homeland and their own extinction? And no one thinks there is anything “abnormal” about that? How can any people survive who cheer the prospect of their own demise? 8 Surely, this is as pathological as taking poisoned “Kool-Aide” at Jonestown, yet it is considered highly moral, not sick. Jews condemn and ostracize “self-hating Jews,” but a majority of whites love and lionize “self-hating whites.” Can there be any act of betrayal greater than rejecting the genetic heritage that made such betrayal possible?
Noel Ignatiev, who is white (but Jewish), 9 a fellow at Harvard’s WEB DuBois Institute, and the founder of the journal “Race Traitor,” whose slogan is "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity," wrote, “abolishing the white race is desirable.” 10 Another Jewish writer, Susan Sontag, wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history.” 11 Whites supposedly benefit from the “privilege” of being white, which consists of being able to live in safe, white neighborhoods, go to safe, white schools, have white friends, etc., in other words, enjoying and participating in the civilization that they themselves created. Condemning “white privilege” not only makes it hateful and racist for whites to create a society that others are not capable of creating, it also contradicts the multicultural argument that all cultures are equal.
The latest craze on college campuses is “whiteness studies,” which are courses or presentations, usually to whites by whites, on how evil whites are (e.g., “Exploration of Whiteness Week” at Occidental College). 12 Tim Wise, another Jewish white-hater, earns $4000 plus expenses for speeches that induce white college students to flagellate themselves with guilt and shame ("my sin is my skin"), 13 thereby enabling him to live in a white neighborhood and send his children to white schools. 14 “It is an established fact that white people favor integration throughout the United States exactly in proportion as they do not need to practice it.” (Putnam, 1961, p. 36).
|Non-European Caucasoids (NEC)||54||NEC|
|European Caucasoids (EUC)||66||6||EUC|
|NE Asians (NEA)||70||26||38||NEA|
|Arctic NE Asians (ANE)||80||28||30||18||ANE|
|SE Asians (SEA)||88||38||50||25||42||54||SEA|
|Pacific Islanders (PAI)||100||38||54||29||47||70||17||PAI|
|New Guineans & Australians (NGA)||99||47||54||29||41||58||50||32||NGA|
|Ave. % gained over other 8 races||81||34||43||33||39||51||46||48||47|
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1. (Vedantam, S., “Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness,” Washington Post, Dec. 10, 2005). Back
2. A cynic might suspect that the people making the decisions are financially tied to the pharmaceutical industry and that the mental disorders that goes into the Manuel are those that require treatment with prescription drugs, e.g., schizophrenia,. (Cosgrove, 2006; Moynihan, 2006). Back
3. “The best estimates of the fitness cost of homosexuality hover around 80 percent: in other words, gay men (in modern times, at least) have only 20 percent as many offspring as heterosexuals have.” (Hooper, J., "The Great Synthesizer," The Atlantic Online, Feb., 1999). Some claim homosexuality persists because homosexuals help raise close kin, thereby passing on their alleles for homosexuality, of which their close kin may have some. (Vasey, 2007). Also see (“A Wild, and Gay, Kingdom,” World Science, October 24, 2006; Vasey, 2007). But see (Wikipedia, “Pathogenic theory of Homosexuality”). Back
4. (Savic, 2008; “The Science of Sexual Orientation,” CBS News, Aug. 26, 2006; “Further evidence that genetics has a role in determining sexual orientation in men,” PhysOrg.com, Sept. 7, 2007; Manning, 2004). Back
5. (Barkow, 1991, p. 149). Babies as young as three months prefer the faces of someone of their own race to the faces of people of a different race. (Kelly, 2005; Bar-Haim, 2006). Back
6. “The inclination to form bands, cliques, clubs, secret societies, and ‘in’ groups to the benefit of themselves and the exclusion of others is part of the coalitional psychology that enabled our ancestors to thrive.” (Allman, 1994, p. 251). Back
7. (Roberts, P.C., “That Buchanan Book,” Jan. 8, 2002). Robert Frost defined a “liberal” as someone “too broadmined to take his own side in a quarrel.” Back
8. Even in the 1960s the mostly-white Weatherman" advocated the end of the white race: "I remember going to the last above ground Weatherman convention [in 1969], and sitting in a room and the question that was debated was, 'Was it or was it not the duty of every good revolutionary to kill all newborn white babies.' " (McAdam, D., professor of Sociology at Stanford University, in "Picking Up the Pieces," Part 5 of the PBS series "Making Sense of the Sixties," televised Jan. 23, 1991). “The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.” (Professor Noel Ignatiev). Perhaps “leucanthrophobia,” the hatred of white people, should be listed in the Manual? Back
9. Many Jews do not consider themselves to be “white.” (Lerner, M., “Jews are Not White,” Village Voice, May 18, 1993). Jews who wish to condemn racism, but not themselves, say, “I’m not white; I’m Jewish.” Back
10. ("Abolish the White Race," Harvard Magazine, Sept-Oct, 2002). Another quote from the august professor, who has not read Section II of this book: “The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.” By convincing blacks that white racism, rather than their own deficiencies, is the source of their problems, egalitarians justify black crime against whites. (Chapter 12). Even Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation, has been accused of implicitly urging slaves to rebel and attack whites, “[It is a] proposal for the butchery of women and children, for scenes of lust and rapine, and of arson and murder.” (Horatio Seymour, former governor of New York). Back
11. (Partisan Review, Winter 1967, p. 57). Back
12. “The goal of WS [whiteness studies] is to entrench permanent race consciousness in everyone—eternal victimhood for nonwhites, eternal guilt for whites … Abolitionism is also a strategy: its aim is not racial harmony but class war. By attacking whiteness, the abolitionists seek to undermine the main pillar of capitalist rule in this country … The task is to gather together a minority determined to make it impossible for anyone to be white.” (Barbara Kay, Canada’s National Post). “Black studies celebrates blackness, Chicano studies celebrates Chicanos, women’s studies celebrates women, and white studies attacks white people as evil.” (Conservative social critic David Horowitz). Back
13. Inducing shame and guilt into the mind of one’s enemies is the surest way to undermine their will to resist their displacement. Any creature, man or beast, who questions his right to be what he is, will soon be no more. Back
14. Whites who are more educated live in whiter neighborhoods and avoid sending their children to schools that have more than a few token blacks. (Sikkink, 2007). Upon leaving office, Bill Clinton, who describes himself as “the first black president,” bought a house in lily-white Chappaqua, NY. Back
15. Taylor’s censored speech. Drowning out the speaker and destroying his handouts suggests the attackers have “philophobia,” the fear and hatred of knowledge that is likely to conflict with beliefs that serve a desperate psychological need. Back
16. Selective enforcement is common. In 1996, Californians voted for Proposition 209, which banned race and gender preferences in government and education. The day after it passed, public officials filed a lawsuit to have it declared unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Huh? Though the courts upheld the law, the Pacific Legal Foundation has had to draw white bureaucrats kicking and screaming through the courts to obtain even reluctant minimal compliance. (MacDonald, H. “Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead,” City Journal, Winter, 2007; La Griffe du Lion, 2000c). A similar refusal to enforce the law occurred in Seattle. (Ramsey, B., “Tiebreaker,” Liberty magazine, Nov., 2007). Here’s another Fourteenth Amendment “Huh?”: “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” (Mary Frances Berry, former head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). To paraphrase George Orwell (Animal Farm), "Some people are more equal than other people." Back
17. Because a person who is in conflict with his biological nature is pulled in opposing directions, he cannot attain confidence in his purpose in life; having a purpose is what makes life meaningful and satisfying. Back
18. Do some animals also have free will? A test that is sometimes given for self-awareness is to put a mark on the forehead of an animal then show him a mirror to see if he touches the mark on his forehead. Chimpanzees, orangutans, elephants, and probably dolphins pass, but only some gorillas do. (Zimmer, 1998, p. 132-134; Wikipedia, “Mirror Test”). Back
19. Suicide in the elderly may help their genes survive, however, and death may even be programmed into the genes of some living things to die. Since territory is finite, in the absence of accidents and predation, the failure of parents to weaken and die after raising their young to maturity may reduce the rate at which generations turn over, thereby preventing the population from rapidly evolving when the environment changes. Genes that cause aging can reliably open up habitat for a new generation. (New Scientist, Aug. 11-17, 2007, p. 37). Of course, if space is not a problem (e.g., bristlecone pines or sequoias that cannot guarantee their space to their seedlings when they die) or predation and accidents keep numbers down, those genes would be unnecessary. (Fuerle, 1986, pp. 133-134). (Telomeres that are shortened each time a cell divides may perform this function. Wikipedia, “Telomere”). Back
20. (Salter, 2002a, p. 69). The failure of whites to act in their own interests is best exemplified by their importation into their territories, at great cost to them, of tens of thousands of African refugees, each one of which lowers the genetic fitness of whites, as suicidal a policy as any could be. (Salter, 2003). Back
21. (Salter, 2002a, Table 5). The children of a person who mates with someone of a different race will have (100 × FST/0.25)% fewer of his alleles than if he had mated with someone of his own race, where “FST” is genetic distance. “For example, a person of English ethnicity who chooses an English spouse over a Danish one gains less than one percent kinship with offspring. But choosing an English spouse over a Bantu one yields a fitness gain of 92 percent (0.2288/0.25). [The FST in this case is 0.2288 – see Table 7-1, p. 45] In both cases the same applies in reverse order.” (Id.). Back
22. Note that the average percentage is the highest (81%) for Africans because they are by far the most genetically distant from the other races. This suggests the movement of alleles in to Africa, as described in Chapter 26, as humans could not have advanced if the flow of alleles was out of Africa. Also note that the aborigines of New Guinea and Australia are in fourth place (47%) because, while they are in some ways more primitive than Africans, they are more closely related to the ancestors of the other races. (Chapter 24). Back
23. There would be a 66% loss from mating, plus possible additional losses from reduced reproductive success in the hybrid offspring due to undesirable traits and incompatible traits. Back
24. (MacDonald, 2002b). A class struggle makes no sense if people are genetically incapable of moving into a different class; hence, egalitarianism – everyone is genetically the same. Back
25. “What Makes Liberals Tick?.” The degeneration of a society may be tied to the percentage of liberals (i.e., leftists, not classical liberals, i.e., libertarians) in it, and that may, in turn, be tied to parenting. In other words, the social cycle of civilizations – struggle, triumph, complacency, degeneracy, and collapse – may feed off the parenting cycle of strict discipline, relaxing standards, pampering, and spoiling, producing more establishment-hating leftists, as described in that article. Also see: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, by Lyle H. Rossiter and Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, by Michael Savage. Back
26. Note how, more and more, the government can dictate parental behavior and seize children from their parents, and how much education is now in the hands of government teachers, instead of parents. The egalitarian left sees government as their idealized “good” parents (a “nanny state”) and everyone else as children. They fear that their parents will not love them, a reasonable fear given their hostility towards their white parents, but their ideal nanny state will love everyone. And, if everyone is genetically equal, as the egalitarians believe, being equally loved becomes a right. Back
27. There are less psychoanalytical explanations to white anti-racism, such as gaining status and demonstrating moral superiority, but they are more superficial and do not explain the intensity and depth of the feelings of the anti-racists. Back