one reason why religious blackmail won't work anymore is because enough people seem to understand that, due to our politics, americans (read whites) are officially excluded from any basic moral calculus. if this changes, all judgements will have to be revised. this is partly because of our understanding of liberalism, where whites agree to their own dehumanization because the project of eliminating all prejudice and sense of identity means we have transcended these categories. it's dehumanization from the top (gods rather than beasts).

more from jeremy carl's book the unprotected class: how anti white racism is tearing america apart. this time the focus is solely on his chapter on immigration.

most of these excerpts are going to highlight just how dramatic and revolutionary our post 60's policy actually is: a comparison of our immigration policy with other countries like japan and even mexico.

thread with some excerpts from jeremy carl's new book the unprotected class: how anti white racism is tearing america apart.

to begin, the very first page offers a critical perspective on the death of george floyd and the riots that ensued.

the end of the introduction. this first paragraph is excellent. a succinct explanation of the unspeakable anxiety over mass racial transformation that is only ever allowed to be expressed in indirect ways (that still invite persecution, it should be said).

@MainstreamViews a problem here imo isn't forgiveness as such (suspicions about a grieving father making immediate public statements like this aside), it's the treatment of a decades long pattern of group domestic terrorism as if it were an isolated incident resolved at the personal level @MainstreamViews without responsible authorities acknowledging this pattern and protecting its citizens from it (america is obviously such a derelict state), these public apologies are interpreted as an approval from the victimized white population of state ideology of continued violence

some mutual linked this piece a few weeks ago and I just read it now. writer argues that freud initially knew that the neuroses he was describing were actually a result of childhood sexual abuse by fathers but eventually projected it onto all children.
web.archive.org/web/2021060406… one of freud's early disciples repeating the original theory (which was called seduction theory) and suffering for it.

a tension in american politics occurs when conservatives believe that their desire for assimilation and universalist rhetoric that anyone can become american go together when they may conflict universalist rhetoric is designed specifically to undermine any cohesive identity to which a foreigner presumably ought to assimilate, a mask to conceal continued group strategy

we ask if we can be good without god, the answer in terms of the historical development of religious practice & morality seems to be "no" much ethics originates in delineation first of what we owe to the gods, which is expanded in terms of both responsibility to others besides ourselves as well as an inescapable & universal accountability for our actions

a thread on fr. bonaventure hinwood's book race: reflections of a theologian (1964). he was the first south african to be ordained a catholic priest in rome. the failure of superficial beliefs that seek to stigmatize consideration of the differences between groups & the inadequacy of religious unity in eliminating material diversity among men

some books from this year: inheritance of rome, chris wickham.

each chapter opens with a small story meant to be illustrative of the region he is about to cover. different parts of europe and north africa inheriting some of the political & economic structures post empire.

scott cummings was an academic involved in community organizing. in the late 70's he arrives at a place in texas he calls "Rosedale," which is experiencing the exact same process of demographic transformation as dozens of other cities in america at the time. community center meeting. he is discussing problems elderly residents are having. notice his own reaction and his reporting of other academics' reactions. this was in the late 70's btw.