Break down White ethnic identities, then break down White identity. It sounds like they just have a deep-seated hatred for Europeans, especially considering this exact model is being replicated in once ethnically homogeneous European Countries.
Is there some truth to perfidious Albion? How Jewish was this radical push for integration? I do know that many Jewish communities suffered the same fate as these Polish communities, in Detroit, no less.
It is time for my ritual bashing of William F. Buckley and the NR crowd. They conserved exactly nothing-not the family, not the social order, not economic freedom, not the Constitution, nor even the notion of two sexes. His motto of standing athwart history and shouting No is exactly wrong. It cedes progress to the Left and the shout should have been go back to the nothingness from which you came. It turned conservatives into the handmaidens of the Left and enabled the ratchet effect. And thus it was until the coming of Trump.
I've always hated that saying. It accedes that there is an arc of history, that its direction is predictable and inevitable, and that the left represents it.
I'm actually working on an essay on this very subject…
“Its original purpose was to grant citizenship and legal protection to blacks, but as time passed, the ambiguity of the law made it a playground for activist judges to make judgements based on sketchy legal precedents.”
written and passed by radical republicans (as a requirement for readmission to the union which confederate states had allegedly never seceded) to shift political power and has been coopted by communists to do the same. and some republicans still miss the irony.
I detail the Democrats' need to fragment White America here: There’s nothing crazy about the Democrats’ agenda. Every Democrat policy is designed to build the party’s voting coalition. The Democrat dream: perpetual division and a White minority: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-crazy-about-the-democrats
The 2010s (esp via Obama) brought out an increasingly blatant collaboration between big, government, big business, and the nonprofit sector in consolidating power among a small ruling elite. It was no longer a managerial elite; it is a ruling class, as Angelo Codevilla observed.
This, however, was not a fundamental change in the way of doing things in the United States, as the writer points out. It was the culmination of a process begun in earnest at the beginning of the twentieth century: progressivism. It took the local centralization of power and corruption and nationalized it. There was to be no escape.
This is a story of one (critical) aspect of that effort.
An outstanding article. Packed with stuff that is relevant today. The regime is threatened by cohesion and tradition amongst the subordinate classes. That they have made Detroit a template for social engineering says it all. Given the opportunity the regime will recreate something akin to Salem's Lot from coast to coast. But forewarned is forearmed. We know what we have to do and it is eminently achievable: prosocial choices at a granular level.
What is funny to me as a Swede reading this, is that the history of "racial integration" which you describe here was actually taught (briefly) in schools here until the 1980s, as an example of how totalitarian/authoritarian capitalists would use different cultures/ethnicities as weapons against human rights, worker's rights, democracy in general and so on and so forth.
Which of course isn't news to any student of history: capitalists have ever fomented strife among what they see as their slave caste, which exists only for exploitation, and have always hated free speech, freedom of expression and freedom of association, to say nothing of their hate for democracy and meritocracy both.
"Free markets for me but not for thee", so to speak.
(It all happened during the 1980s and was finalised during the 1990s)
We-l-l. . . basically, the Socialist Democrats realised they were losing the workers and the middle class both at the same time, in no small part due to their idiotic policies during the 1970s, including a Party/Union-radicals led scheme for legally buying controlling shares in the major banks and industrial corporations, a scheme which then would have been made law so that all businesses over a certain size would be under the (in)direct control of the Party and the National Union.
At the same time, the conservative parties (Farmer's Union Party and the Moderates, and the Christian Democrats) dropped any remaining nationalism or patriotism in favour of USAmerican 1980s neoliberalism/neocon-ideology.
This led to both the Socialists and their traditional opposition realising that they suddenly shared policies and politics on 19 out of 20 issues, making a mockery of democracy as a process of government, and removing any real debate or real consequences for impopular policies. Furthermore, the 1990s saw a change in reporting on politics, from issues to personalities/identitarian/celebrity-gossippy-stuff; reading up on a budget proposition is tedious, boring and time-consuming - running an outrage-porn article about "NN waved his dick around at party function" (In reality, he was out back taking a leak but who cares if it sells papers?) or such became the norm.
And to compound all this (which is like summing up a galaxy by saying "Oh my god, it's full of stars"), we had a very real generational shift during the 1990s: the generation born during the 1910s and 1920s, the builders of modern Sweden, retired in droves leaving the executive spots open for the 1940s generation.
The one who was young during the 1960s, and found their inspiration in US Campus Radicalism, anti-Vietnam war roleplaying, Maoist ideals, and all lot more "flum*".
And this generation then recruited each other's kids to be their second-in-commands, creating a dynastic power structure of each successive generation being less able, of lower IQ, and more ideologically blind than their predecessors.
When I say many Swedes of my age and older reason and analyse as if it's 1975, it's not a joke - they are stuck in that decade, mentally and conceptually, and cannot understand how different the world is.
*Flum is an idiomatic word that to my knowledge lacks a straight English equivalent. Any Swede would immediately know what's meant by it, but a translation would need to be quite lengthy with examples. Think of a female middle-aged AWFL sociology professor at Brown, peace-pins and flower-power hairstyle, trying to explain that even if there would be photo-evidence of Haitians stealing and eating pets, it's because of Phalocratic patriarchal cis-hetnormative white supremacist racism making you code the images that way. That's about the closest I think I can get. Add maybe a stink of PlayDo, the feeling of corduroy, nicotine-gum halitosis, and patchouli+henna covering the reek of whatever's underneath the clothes.
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A word about the 14A. The Supreme Court gutted Privledges and Immunities back in 1873. Clarence Thomas has been trying without success to revitalize it. Instead those cases mentioned in the article are under the invented and self-contradicting doctrine of substantive due process.
The 14A is a knife that cuts both ways but among conservatives only the firearms activists have the wits to use it. (See my comment about WFB. ) The Second Amendment Foundation and the NRA have won major Supreme Court cases using the 14A. I can think of many applications for other conservatives were they not so spineless. BTW both NRA and SAF are NGOs.
Great article. I am part of one such effort to establish a legal and resilient community like that which is mentioned at the very end. Although it has not been tested with any legal challenges yet, I think our approach - think neighborhood with the legal structure of a condominium - will prove to be a success.
Absolutely. We believe that we have nestled our legal structure deep enough into LLC law that it would be unfeasible for the state to make what we are doing illegal without destabilizing LLCs in general. Of course, its all just paper at the end of the day and local political influence will be an important factor in long term resilience.
An Irish theater in NYC I worked at once developed a play about this historical moment (it was about “Corktown”, so swap Polish for Irish, but still). It was written by a mixed guy living in Ireland at the time, who looking back on the whole process was kind of psychotic; let us just say that the Irish penchant for self-flagellation has not waned alongside Catholicism lol. You could tell reading the play that it was mostly a crock of the writer’s unhinged, belligerent nonsense; now I know how distant it was from the truth of the matter!
They read that play for an audience of old Irish people, who I think it’s fair to say were disgusted. It didn’t make it very far past that stage.
We had a play like that, too (what does it mean for a black guy in Ireland to call Irish people “pasty” and “greasy-haired”?).
This one was more, “the Irish and Polish are just so damned clueless about love/life/work/society, thank God a black woman is here to impart her gift of humanity to them”. The Irish girl’s character arc concluded with her use of Ebonics. Lol.
This same infiltration happened in my home town, Toronto. I had already left in the early 70's, but my family remained.
When they finally left in the early 80's it was explained to me to be 'white flight.' Most of my clan moved north to the Georgian Bay area.
I can see now how our society was destroyed by social engineering and why.
It's like the frog in the pot of water analogy and it's all for control of power and money. 'They' got us good!
The model was proven successful in the US, and the GAE has since exported it everywhere its influence reaches.
Break down White ethnic identities, then break down White identity. It sounds like they just have a deep-seated hatred for Europeans, especially considering this exact model is being replicated in once ethnically homogeneous European Countries.
Is there some truth to perfidious Albion? How Jewish was this radical push for integration? I do know that many Jewish communities suffered the same fate as these Polish communities, in Detroit, no less.
One thing is certain: nonwhites are bio-weapons.
It is time for my ritual bashing of William F. Buckley and the NR crowd. They conserved exactly nothing-not the family, not the social order, not economic freedom, not the Constitution, nor even the notion of two sexes. His motto of standing athwart history and shouting No is exactly wrong. It cedes progress to the Left and the shout should have been go back to the nothingness from which you came. It turned conservatives into the handmaidens of the Left and enabled the ratchet effect. And thus it was until the coming of Trump.
I've always hated that saying. It accedes that there is an arc of history, that its direction is predictable and inevitable, and that the left represents it.
I'm actually working on an essay on this very subject…
Looking forward to it.
“Its original purpose was to grant citizenship and legal protection to blacks, but as time passed, the ambiguity of the law made it a playground for activist judges to make judgements based on sketchy legal precedents.”
written and passed by radical republicans (as a requirement for readmission to the union which confederate states had allegedly never seceded) to shift political power and has been coopted by communists to do the same. and some republicans still miss the irony.
The dubious way they added those amendments doesn't even rise to the level of a banana republic.
Tell me again, immigration is not being used as a weapon of war to turn all of North America into a 3rd world cartel/gang ruled ghetto?
And not only North America.
All of the West
“This mess started when freedom was eroded”
brevity is beautiful.
I detail the Democrats' need to fragment White America here: There’s nothing crazy about the Democrats’ agenda. Every Democrat policy is designed to build the party’s voting coalition. The Democrat dream: perpetual division and a White minority: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-crazy-about-the-democrats
The 2010s (esp via Obama) brought out an increasingly blatant collaboration between big, government, big business, and the nonprofit sector in consolidating power among a small ruling elite. It was no longer a managerial elite; it is a ruling class, as Angelo Codevilla observed.
This, however, was not a fundamental change in the way of doing things in the United States, as the writer points out. It was the culmination of a process begun in earnest at the beginning of the twentieth century: progressivism. It took the local centralization of power and corruption and nationalized it. There was to be no escape.
This is a story of one (critical) aspect of that effort.
An outstanding article. Packed with stuff that is relevant today. The regime is threatened by cohesion and tradition amongst the subordinate classes. That they have made Detroit a template for social engineering says it all. Given the opportunity the regime will recreate something akin to Salem's Lot from coast to coast. But forewarned is forearmed. We know what we have to do and it is eminently achievable: prosocial choices at a granular level.
Perhaps more importantly, we know what the consequences of failure are: Detroit, everywhere.
(Replying from a foreigner's angle)
What is funny to me as a Swede reading this, is that the history of "racial integration" which you describe here was actually taught (briefly) in schools here until the 1980s, as an example of how totalitarian/authoritarian capitalists would use different cultures/ethnicities as weapons against human rights, worker's rights, democracy in general and so on and so forth.
Which of course isn't news to any student of history: capitalists have ever fomented strife among what they see as their slave caste, which exists only for exploitation, and have always hated free speech, freedom of expression and freedom of association, to say nothing of their hate for democracy and meritocracy both.
"Free markets for me but not for thee", so to speak.
How surprising that they stopped teaching that. I wonder what changed in Sweden that made such a curriculum undesirable…
(It all happened during the 1980s and was finalised during the 1990s)
We-l-l. . . basically, the Socialist Democrats realised they were losing the workers and the middle class both at the same time, in no small part due to their idiotic policies during the 1970s, including a Party/Union-radicals led scheme for legally buying controlling shares in the major banks and industrial corporations, a scheme which then would have been made law so that all businesses over a certain size would be under the (in)direct control of the Party and the National Union.
At the same time, the conservative parties (Farmer's Union Party and the Moderates, and the Christian Democrats) dropped any remaining nationalism or patriotism in favour of USAmerican 1980s neoliberalism/neocon-ideology.
This led to both the Socialists and their traditional opposition realising that they suddenly shared policies and politics on 19 out of 20 issues, making a mockery of democracy as a process of government, and removing any real debate or real consequences for impopular policies. Furthermore, the 1990s saw a change in reporting on politics, from issues to personalities/identitarian/celebrity-gossippy-stuff; reading up on a budget proposition is tedious, boring and time-consuming - running an outrage-porn article about "NN waved his dick around at party function" (In reality, he was out back taking a leak but who cares if it sells papers?) or such became the norm.
And to compound all this (which is like summing up a galaxy by saying "Oh my god, it's full of stars"), we had a very real generational shift during the 1990s: the generation born during the 1910s and 1920s, the builders of modern Sweden, retired in droves leaving the executive spots open for the 1940s generation.
The one who was young during the 1960s, and found their inspiration in US Campus Radicalism, anti-Vietnam war roleplaying, Maoist ideals, and all lot more "flum*".
And this generation then recruited each other's kids to be their second-in-commands, creating a dynastic power structure of each successive generation being less able, of lower IQ, and more ideologically blind than their predecessors.
When I say many Swedes of my age and older reason and analyse as if it's 1975, it's not a joke - they are stuck in that decade, mentally and conceptually, and cannot understand how different the world is.
*Flum is an idiomatic word that to my knowledge lacks a straight English equivalent. Any Swede would immediately know what's meant by it, but a translation would need to be quite lengthy with examples. Think of a female middle-aged AWFL sociology professor at Brown, peace-pins and flower-power hairstyle, trying to explain that even if there would be photo-evidence of Haitians stealing and eating pets, it's because of Phalocratic patriarchal cis-hetnormative white supremacist racism making you code the images that way. That's about the closest I think I can get. Add maybe a stink of PlayDo, the feeling of corduroy, nicotine-gum halitosis, and patchouli+henna covering the reek of whatever's underneath the clothes.
Destruction in the name of “progress”. Leave it to the Do Gooders to tear ANYTHING apart.
A word about the 14A. The Supreme Court gutted Privledges and Immunities back in 1873. Clarence Thomas has been trying without success to revitalize it. Instead those cases mentioned in the article are under the invented and self-contradicting doctrine of substantive due process.
The 14A is a knife that cuts both ways but among conservatives only the firearms activists have the wits to use it. (See my comment about WFB. ) The Second Amendment Foundation and the NRA have won major Supreme Court cases using the 14A. I can think of many applications for other conservatives were they not so spineless. BTW both NRA and SAF are NGOs.
Excellent point.
Northern US cities then, European countries now.
EUropean nations since the 1970s, rather.
It really took off after 1991-1995.
Great article. I am part of one such effort to establish a legal and resilient community like that which is mentioned at the very end. Although it has not been tested with any legal challenges yet, I think our approach - think neighborhood with the legal structure of a condominium - will prove to be a success.
Interesting, any info you can send me without doxxing your community would be appreciated.
Good to know that such experiments are happening, but I hope you realize that the state is not above simply changing the law if it wants to crush you.
Absolutely. We believe that we have nestled our legal structure deep enough into LLC law that it would be unfeasible for the state to make what we are doing illegal without destabilizing LLCs in general. Of course, its all just paper at the end of the day and local political influence will be an important factor in long term resilience.
Fascinating. What's the basis of the community?
It took maybe a minute to click back to this concerning the community; https://youtu.be/O_5-ciNmQyQ?si=702T8mIkbxdFm_Mf
“urban renewal”
if the government claims something you can almost assuredly bet that the actual outcome will be the opposite. coincidence? patterns.
An Irish theater in NYC I worked at once developed a play about this historical moment (it was about “Corktown”, so swap Polish for Irish, but still). It was written by a mixed guy living in Ireland at the time, who looking back on the whole process was kind of psychotic; let us just say that the Irish penchant for self-flagellation has not waned alongside Catholicism lol. You could tell reading the play that it was mostly a crock of the writer’s unhinged, belligerent nonsense; now I know how distant it was from the truth of the matter!
They read that play for an audience of old Irish people, who I think it’s fair to say were disgusted. It didn’t make it very far past that stage.
Let me guess: the play presented the Irish as the racist baddies.
We had a play like that, too (what does it mean for a black guy in Ireland to call Irish people “pasty” and “greasy-haired”?).
This one was more, “the Irish and Polish are just so damned clueless about love/life/work/society, thank God a black woman is here to impart her gift of humanity to them”. The Irish girl’s character arc concluded with her use of Ebonics. Lol.
Disgusting.
Yeah. We’re a long way since Yeats
The OG nazis did the same thing to jews in Germany.
I think there's a clue to what multiculturalism-globalism-PC-woke actually is, in that similarity.
Inter-National Socialism.