What White Liberals Need To Know
Meaningful dialogue across an ideological divide can be quite difficult. It’s enough of a challenge with mainstream conservatives, who just need a helpful nudge out of the kiddie pool, but often are hung up on ineffectual positions such as civic nationalism, neocon military adventures, misplaced egalitarianism, and libertarian economism. Liberals are another matter entirely, given their greater ideological distance. Most of them won’t be receptive at all. From their perspective, we’re basically heretics. Quite often, discussions quickly become argumentative, and no meaningful exchange is possible that way. Leftist radicals are even further away, since most are indoctrinated to the point of fanaticism. They’re pretty much unreachable, unless any educable ones can be shown that they’ve been lashing out against the wrong targets.
Again, it’s a difficult case to make, but if I get through even to one person, then the time it took me to write this was worth it. There do exist moderate white liberals who really are open-minded and free-thinking. These are the “Question Authority” guys, right? I bet some of them mean it! This is my message for them.
We’re Not Your Enemy
Quite famously, our corner of the right was named a “basket of deplorables,” merely one sound bite in an ocean of heated debate over the years. (As amusing as that was, let’s try something more cheerful, shall we? I’ll go with the Sunshine Coalition.) I know you’ve heard lots of less than wonderful things about our band of heretics. Of course, I understand that the cheap shots go both ways. It’s not that we hate you; a difference in priorities and premises can lead to much frustration as well as gaps in communication. For instance, when we in the Sunshine Coalition try to get important information across, sometimes it’s as if we were speaking in Klingon.
I promise that I’m not about to bite your head off with this. As it is, quite regrettably, you’ve been getting more than enough flak from radical elements on the left, who have gone off the rails. They’re not really your friends, and being part of the moderate left won’t earn you much kind regard from them. They’ve become quite menacing, especially since the remarkably incendiary summer of 2020.
Why am I reaching out to you? At the end of the day, you’re our fellow citizens. More significantly, especially in the face of constant vilification during turbulent times like these, white people need to stand together. Perhaps the idea of ethnic solidarity makes you pretty anxious when it involves our own people, but there’s nothing immoral or wrong with it. This isn’t about “hate,” “bigotry,” or one of those ‑ism buzzwords coined to push your emotional buttons. The fact is that it’s perfectly natural and normal for everyone to look out for their own people. Why should it be any different for us? If that didn’t make you run away screaming like your hair is on fire, then congratulations!
You’re Not Evil
Now here’s something else remarkable. The moderate brand of liberalism that was normative during my younger days held that every society has good and bad aspects, and contains both good and bad people. I still stand by that much of it. This evenhandedness has become unfashionable. Lately you’ve heard again and again that white people are uniquely bad: the privileged, oppressors, beyond redemption, everything wrong with the world, “the cancer of human history” in the words of Susan Sontag (bless her heart), and so forth. An ideology once that prioritized fairness for all, inclusivity, and all the rest of it has swerved off course. Over time, the “let’s buy the world a Coke” brand of liberalism gave way to political correctness, and more recently critical race theory became normative.
By now, the volcanic resentment has become worse than even the late 1960s. It’s not only the Sunshine Coalition who the radicals, the fanatics, and the self-hating are putting a target on. They mean you too. By now, it’s come to the point of political violence. (I know you didn’t sign up for all that!) If push came to shove, being a big-hearted liberal or even an ally wouldn’t spare you. It’s not just the theoretical possibility of a revolution eating itself; even now, all whites are condemned in very explicit terms. You don’t have to take my word for it, just take a good look at their demonizing rhetoric.
I’m here to say that they’re wrong about you. Really, it’s pretty shabby that those further to your left have been browbeating and shaming you. I bet you’re a nice person. You’re certainly no demon! I’ll gladly acknowledge this, despite our differences in opinion. In fact, from the Sunshine Coalition’s perspective, liberals usually seem a little too nice for their own good! (Maybe some of that niceness gets a bit scarce during political discussions, but I’ll let that one slide here.) I don’t like to see you getting burdened with endless psychological manipulation tactics like false guilt, moral blackmail, abusive badgering, and gaslighting. It’s just wrong. Neither should your kindness or your humanitarian inclinations be turned against you to self-destructive ends.
Although it may seem like we’re polar opposites in ideology, this isn’t necessarily an unbridgeable divide. In fact, there is a place for liberals who’ve shaken off their anti-white conditioning. Moreover, there’s more of a range of opinions than you might expect. My take is that old-school classical liberalism had many good features, although there were areas for improvement, no ideology has been perfect. All told, there is some common ground beyond that.
Don’t Like Big Business Manipulating Governments? Neither Do We!
If you’ve suspected that the government doesn’t work the way you’ve heard in your civics classes, then you’re onto something. With leftists, it’s common knowledge that a bunch of extremely wealthy shmucks are really in charge. (When rightists start naming powerful figures and institutions, why call us “conspiracy theorists”? Come on, we’re agreeing with you!) The World Trade Organization protesters in 1999 were onto something, as was Occupy Wall Street a decade later. One notable problem is that both the Democrat and Republican parties are beholden to the same major corporations and powerful lobbies.
The two-party system usually delivers mediocre or highly flawed candidates who (with a few exceptions) generate little enthusiasm with the grassroots. More often than not, voters choose the “lesser of two evils” rather than someone we really admire. Think of it like a good cop / bad cop dynamic – what party plays which role depends on our relative opinions, but either way, they’re all cops! Our side wants to get back the nice country we grew up in. Your side wants prosperity for the masses and world peace. (That also sounds like a fine idea to me.) Then comes Election Day, neither side gets what we want. Whatever the result is, it’s mostly more of the same thing. Not much really changes.
The mainstream Democrats and Republicans don’t differ quite as much as most people assume. You have a choice of a neoliberal globalist party or a neoconservative globalist party. It’s much similar in Anglosphere and Western European countries abroad. Sure, there are several divisive topics the public debates incessantly (haven’t we all?) yet many are of middling importance and don’t really challenge the status quo. It’s rather like WWE wrestling: there’s a lot of melodrama, but the fix is in. The Uniparty holds the line on several major policies that remain off limits. Democrats and Republicans can argue up a storm over transgender inclusion in sports, school prayer, or some other inconsequential policy that generates a thunderclap out of a fart. Still, no matter who’s in office, globalist agendas remain largely intact, despite any empty promises made on the campaign trail.
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Other than that, politicians and major corporations and pretty chummy at the high levels, contrary to what traditional political theory says about government and business always opposing each other. You’ve heard much about the 1%ers, though the Sunshine Coalition considers the 0.001%ers to be the worst part of them. The fact is that all countries have a ruling class, whether we call it The Establishment, the Deep State, the shadow government, or something else. As the saying goes, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
As you’re likely aware, our “elites” are not working for the best interests of the public, and haven’t been for a long time. These oligarchs and their toadies also meddle with the candidate selection process in both parties, subverting the political system into managed democracy. The DNC email leaks gave us a rare view into what really goes on behind the scenes. Although there’s an illusion of choice, the oligarchy effectively presents a “heads I win, tails you lose” dynamic. Do you find that a pretty shabby way to run Our Democracy™️ ? (That was some clever branding, I’ll add!) We in the Sunshine Coalition don’t like what’s been happening either.
What about Donald Trump? You’ve heard that he’s the ultimate incarnation of evil, of course. Really, that’s a little much. The truth is that he still has one foot in the kiddie pool. As much loathing as Bush the Younger received, it was small potatoes compared to Orange Man. The entire establishment went stark raving berserk, including the Republican Party’s “lose with Cruz” shenanigans in 2016, and there’s a reason for it that has nothing to do with his brimstone-scented cologne. In terms of the above-mentioned two-party kabuki theater, he’s been the first gatecrasher so far. Too bad he’s not smarter! He does oppose globalist agendas, and to a degree he means it, but so far it’s mainly amounting to halfhearted token efforts. For example, there’s a highly visible effort to deport illegal aliens, but no effort to put sensible limits on legal immigration. From the Sunshine Coalition’s perspective, being replaced by legal migrants is hardly better than being replaced by illegal ones.
Concerned About Zionism? So Are We!
You may be quite shocked and distressed at the scenes of death and suffering in Gaza. Although the Israelis do have the right to defend themselves, like any other nation, it’s gone to the point of massive overkill. You might also be concerned about the reprisals against demonstrators here. Why were the Gaza protests handled differently from those about anything else? What happened to their rights under the First Amendment? Simply put, they were targeted because they locked horns with Zionism. The demonstrators just didn’t know what they were getting themselves into with all this.
Zionism doesn’t handle criticism very well, to say the least, and will do everything possible to suppress dissent. (There is a bit of irony, of course, since these eternal crybullies dish out so much criticism themselves!) Friction is inevitable, given the extent of Zionist bad behavior; if they want better public relations, they should just stop doing that. Unfortunately, learning from their mistakes isn’t their strong suit.
Although dissent is routinely labeled “anti-Semitism,” the object isn’t about dunking on religious minorities. Personally, I’d really prefer to sidestep the Jewish issue entirely, but it’s too extensive to overlook. I’m not out to pick a fight with them; it’s that their elites picked a fight with us. To put things in perspective, the problem isn’t with the ordinary type of Jews who get along well enough— the sort you’re most likely to encounter in daily life. Neither is the problem about their religion; hardly anyone has a sectarian gripe with them these days, other than Muslims.
The major troublemakers include the wealthiest and most influential tier, along with the highly influential and lavishly funded institutions that further their interests. As has happened in many other host nations, their elites have been playing America for chumps. They bit the hand that fed them: the country that took in their forefathers, gave them refuge from Czarist oppression, and proved to be the most hospitable nation they’ve ever known. Moreover, Zionists don’t have the good sense to realize that trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is a bad idea. Yes, we’re the goose.
The bad news is that all this is worse than you probably expect. Some aspects of Zionism are functionally rather like a white collar mafia. (The Sunshine Coalition has been documenting this problem for a long time! We should compare notes. How about it?) Perhaps you might think of The Establishment as an “old boy network” of very wealthy WASPs. There was something to that, but Zionists have been elbowing their way into power gradually, ultimately setting themselves up as an unofficial ruling class. The remaining WASPs follow their lead. In both parties, nearly all Congressmen will dance to their tune. Sometimes Presidents have grumbled under their breath a bit, but JFK was the last one who tried to put his foot down to the Israelis. As for Donald Trump, they threw him under the bus repeatedly during his first term, but he still thinks they’re his friends.
You may find neocon military interventions in the Middle East to be very troubling. Isn’t it time for America to stop playing Globocop where we’re not wanted? The Sunshine Coalition agrees. These turned into deadly quagmires, enormously costly and badly managed. This happened because the Israelis got us to fight their wars for them. There’s much more to the Zionism problem than all that, and we have answers. If you want a deep dive into it, Professor Kevin McDonald’s The Culture of Critique series has the details.
Want To Protect The Environment? So Do We!
I’m proud to admit that I’m a tree hugger. I’m trying my best to bring my carbon footprint down to the size of an ant’s paw. (I’d love to get an electric car too, but first I have to uncover a stash of pirate treasure.) I recycle whatever I can. If I were any bigger of an environmentalist, I’d be the Jolly Green Giant. The majesty of nature leaves me in awe, and I have a big soft spot for forest creatures, be they cute Bambis and bunnies or regal wolves and bears. You also might be surprised to find that ecology had much rightist support, and still does.
There’s another type of environmentalism, however, that isn’t too helpful. For one example, according to the original plan in the Kyoto Protocols, all Western countries are expected to participate, but the only non-Western countries on board with it are Japan and Kazakhstan. China, India, and every other Third World manufacturing hotspot are under no such expectations. What would be the outcome? The end result would be to deindustrialize the First World, and give gigantic corporations even more incentive to move remaining manufacturing jobs to sweatshops abroad with lax pollution controls. They won’t mind continuing to plunder what’s left of our industry. For us, however, it would bring the public another step closer to serfdom, and with little to no real progress toward improving the environment.
Now take a wild guess what gets the most media attention: grassroots environmentalism, or corporate-friendly greenwashing? Another thing is that hardly any tree huggers, me included, really do want to return to swinging on vines like Tarzan and subsisting on nuts and berries. Even living like the Amish would be too much for nearly all of us. We do want electricity, indoor plumbing, air conditioning, modern appliances, reliable transportation, and so forth – the key here is to work toward sustainable development.
For one thing, it will be necessary to stop mass migration. We simply can’t afford to be a safety valve for Third World overpopulation. (That does many other bad things to developed countries, but all that’s a much larger discussion.) Letting in the world’s hard luck cases may seem benevolent from a certain perspective, but they need to start getting hip to sustainable development in their own societies. As I stated before:
The one way to have a world that still has abundant forests, croplands, natural beauty, and biodiversity is to isolate overpopulating regions from those with stable populations. That means no globalist open-borders migration. If the overpopulating regions don’t stop multiplying like bunnies, they’ll eventually hit their Malthusian limit. That’s not pretty to see, of course. On the other hand, it’s better than permitting uncontrollably reproducing hordes to spread across the entire world like a black plague.
For one matter, the US now has close to 100 million more non-whites than it did at the time of the passage of the treasonous 1965 Immigration Act. If not, the population would’ve remained stable and would today be about 90% white, like it was then. The effects today are easy enough to observe: more urban sprawl eating up farmland and wilderness, increased depletion of resources, greater need to manage pollution, strained infrastructure, unsustainable demand-driven increases in housing costs, etc. This doesn’t even account for the other negative aspects of diversity such as endless disputes, loss of national cohesion, reduced social trust, turf wars, and so on.
Hopefully, all that will be food for thought if you find yourself stuck in traffic in a city that’s become much overgrown, more expensive, less safe, and perhaps hardly recognizable over the years.
Who Elected the Media?
How do you get information about the world around you? Can your sources be trusted? There’s plenty of cultural mythology about intrepid reporters battling corruption with a pen and a steno pad, but that one’s way out of date. I observed journalism students back in my college days, before they learned to conceal their biases, and those kiddos weren’t exactly Clark Kent and Peter Parker. (The stories I could tell. . .) Now they and countless other activists pretending to be journalists are cogs in the media machine, society’s most powerful opinion-forming institution. They get a pay check to lie to you, and they believe they’re doing the Lord’s work.
Another sad joke is that an independent media is a pillar of democracy bringing a wide diversity of opinion to the free marketplace of ideas. The management perspective isn’t any better than the bozos in the newsroom. There used to be fifty independent media corporations in America, until antitrust measures were lifted during the administrations of Reagan and Bush the Elder. Following years of consolidation, 90% of America’s media outlets, from TV networks to Hollywood studios and even all the way down to comic books, belong to six gigantic media conglomerates, all heavily Zionist-aligned. Aside from the mediocre neoconservative conglomerate, they’re singing from the same hymn sheet. The latter five may be telling you what you want to hear, but they’re not your friends!
Of their many sins, one of the worst is dishonestly promoting racial agendas. (Once again, you’re on target just as much as I am.) The media has a repeated pattern of portraying whites as the primary aggressors in interracial crime, when in fact the opposite is true. The overall effect is to mislead the public, preventing us from drawing sensible conclusions, while fanning the flames of minority grievances. Did the media tell you about the Knoxville Horror, or many other monstrous cases like that? I rather doubt it; at most, such events get muted local coverage, usually concealing the race of the perpetrators. On the other hand, you certainly have heard about several celebrated white-on-black cases, or incidents that can be shoehorned into that category, which were signal-boosted from coast to coast. There are several such incidents, but I’ll name the two most famous ones and tell you what CNN and Buzzfeed didn’t.
One of them was the Trayvon Martin shooting. The media ran it through their Narrative Filter and dishonestly characterized that as a white-on-black crime, when in fact it was a black-on-Hispanic crime. They purposefully ran a flattering picture of Trayvon at 13 – and not his recent social media posts when he was making obscene gestures and gang signs, and meanwhile ran the most unflattering picture of George Zimmerman that they could find. They characterized the shooting as an unprovoked attack, although the evidence for self-defense was so clear that Zimmerman was acquitted even in one of those politically charged trials. Still, retaliatory anti-white violence broke out, because the media lied to the public. They have blood on their hands because of their mendacious agitprop.
The other one was the George Floyd case, of course. They told you he was a gentle giant, a saint martyred by cowboy cops. They didn’t hasten to describe him as a career criminal who’d last been incarcerated for armed robbery which involved pointing a gun at a pregnant mother’s belly (a black lady, if it makes a difference). The media didn’t mention that he was as high as a kite and behaving erratically, or tell you about his constellation of health problems which, together with the illegal narcotics, led to his death. Does it still seem as if he’d been choked? The recording shows that the first time he said “I can’t breathe” was when he was in the back of the squad car and nobody was touching him. This is consistent with the symptoms of a heart attack, which often includes the “elephant standing on my chest” feeling. Moreover, pressure on the side of the neck doesn’t cause asphyxiation; that only happens if it’s from the front. This is basic anatomy. Finally, how does someone say he can’t breathe if his airway is completely closed off?
Rather than waiting for the facts to come in, the media once again ran the story through the Narrative Filter, and the result was months of coast-to-coast rioting. Dozens were killed, billions in property damage was incurred, and countless businesses were destroyed. The media lied, people died. (I might ask – what did you think of all that deadly violence, mindless destruction, and people losing their livelihoods? Something tells me you didn’t sign up for this.) Note well, if George Floyd had stayed home that day, the media would’ve found some other case to ignite the racial powderkeg.
This is why the mainstream media can’t be trusted. I understand confirmation bias is real. It’s comforting to read and see things which back up our existing beliefs rather than challenge them too much. The problem is that limiting yourself to carefully curated content and one-sided ideological spin doctoring will make you like a dweller in Plato’s Cave. What’s going on outside of the echo chamber? Are you being told both sides of the story? You don’t know unless you step out of your comfort zone once in a while and have a look around.
That’s what I’m challenging you to do. I don’t mean Fox News; they’re in the kiddie pool side of the right. By exiting your comfort zone, I’m not asking you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself. (About a quarter of my writing at Counter-Currents involves in-depth reviews of books and films with a leftist, globalist, or minoritist angle. I’m certainly not limiting myself to a single perspective.) As for the activists pretending to be journalists who lie to you, emotionally manipulate you, and feed you demoralization propaganda, why not tune them out?
You’re Not Responsible For The World’s Problems
I’ve saved the best for the last. Now I’ll let you in on something that might bring as much relief as a dozen therapy sessions, a bubble bath, and pint of Ben & Jerry’s. Back in my liberal days, I labored under a millstone of collective guilt. I know that there are plenty of others; I’ve heard from some of them, including in my own family. You too, perhaps? If so, I’ll share with you the four words that lifted the tremendous burden from my mind: It’s not your fault.
You’re responsible for what you do personally, of course, as is everyone. However, you cannot inherit guilt even if you wanted it. (With some, it seems there’s a masochistic streak going on. Hopefully that doesn’t include you; it’s quite grotesque!) Not only is the collective guilt trip invalid, it’s based on a narrow and very biased interpretation of history. Moreover, the purpose is to manipulate you into serving everyone else’s interests and disregarding your own.
Still not convinced? For Americans, the greatest emotional blackmail narrative is about antebellum slavery. If there were a legitimate debt for it, then you might be surprised to know that it was paid off long ago, and enormously overcompensated by now. For the most part, differential patterns of taxation and consumption of social services effectively amounts to an ongoing massive transfer of wealth from whites to non-whites with no end in sight. If the black community is still lagging behind on several socioeconomic indices after six decades, then they’ve squandered trillions in federal funding intended to improve their lot. (Misspending their freebies is not our fault either! Our role is merely to pay the tab.) Equality of outcome is not a realistic goal, especially between populations with differing average genetic characteristics, and there’s no reason to believe that pouring more trillions down the drain on social leveling schemes will produce better results than before.
As for the tens of millions of non-white immigrants since 1965, any complaints from them also ring hollow. It’s just more emotional blackmail to angle for special accommodations. Nobody forced them to move here. They did so in order to take advantage of a more orderly society with better economic conditions and social services than the countries their own people built. If they really were getting it as tough here as many of them claim, then they’d return to their ancestral homelands. Finally, as our editor put it:
- White people do not bear collective guilt for the acts of others. But collective pride in our race and nations is perfectly healthy and moral.
- We have obligations to other human beings. But our obligations to others are not equal. We owe more to people who are biologically and culturally close to us than to those who are biologically and culturally remote. Preferences for one’s own are natural, normal, and right. The political system most consistent with human biological and cultural diversity, as well as ingroup preferences, is nationalism for all nations, a world with borders.
- The classical rather than the Christian scale of values is correct. Merit is based on virtue, not need; strength, not weakness.
- We are not magically redeemed from fake guilt through suffering and self-sacrifice. Human beings are not naturally good or innocent. Human goodness is rare and requires cultivation. Nobody attains virtue merely by professing the right ideas or championing the people who lack.
- Suffering and weakness do not entitle you to victimize others.
So there you have it. The world’s problems are not your fault, nor are the woes of eternally dissatisfied minorities. Neither is it your obligation to cater to everyone else’s demands, or to perform thankless self-sacrifice until the end of your days. Your natural priority is to look out for your own people. Hopefully that’s a load off of your mind!
In Conclusion
I’m not expecting that you’ll be completely convinced, or experience a “Saul on the road to Damascus” conversion. I know that all this was quite a lot. Still, perhaps you’ll come away with a better idea of what the Sunshine Coalition is about. If you got anything out of this, then I hope that henceforth you’ll start taking your own side in the great contest of life, and refuse to participate in your own destruction. Being kind and caring doesn’t mean letting others walk all over you like a doormat, either individually or collectively. There’s so much more to be said, but this will have to do for now. Until next time, keep questioning authority.
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