BLM is the white left’s self-annihilation fantasy

By Pete North - June 26, 2020

The bigotry of Priyamvada Gopal is not, as it superficially seems, racial in nature. It is an elitist belief that the commoners are unable to acknowledge the brutality of the Empire, viewing it only as an unalloyed good by way of imperialist education. This is then the foundation of “systemic racism”.

Course, none of the people who actually believe this crap actually had a working class British state education and are more likely to have been taught about British colonial figures than us oiks who were forced to endure repeated screenings of Roots and read the works of Maya Angelou at GCSE level. There’s a touch of projection going on here.

All too often we see on Twitter various cleverdicks saying that Britain has never really confronted its colonial past. REALLY?? We never hear the last of it. Meanwhile France is still an active and brutal colonial power. Not a peep is heard.

For sure, the likes of Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg and his fellow Etonians might well be steeped in all the usual imperial fluff, whose eccentricity is viewed with a certain affection by the British public, but that’s because the British value a certain sense of conservative continuity. Johnson and Rees-Mogg serve as a pastiche. We all know it.

That we still go and vote for Tories, in the mind of the progressive, is because we are still a simple folk who never came to terms with the end of the Empire, and unless we can be broken of our spiritual and historical ties then we will never reach the progressive nirvana of equality for all.

Since the progressives can’t win elections (by way of agitating for the abolition of biological sex, and waging a persistent war on the idea of the nation state itself) they instead wage war on the people through the institutions they control. They slander us, demoralise us, destroy our statues, delegitimise our historic figures and sooner or later they’ll get round to burning books.

You see, the problem is our learned “whiteness”. That whiteness is responsible for all the evil in the world and if it can be eradicated then we shall all live in peace and harmony. Because of that whiteness we are systemically racist and for as long as it exists, BAME people will always be held back. This is verging on becoming a new blood libel.

The problem with this racially tainted elitism is that it begets only more racism. If such a thing as learned whiteness exists, to the point of toxicity, then surely the same applies to blackness. Much work has been done in the field of welfarism where we see a learned helplessness that traverses the generations to the point where the offspring of affluent immigrant families outperform the white working classes.

That then begs the question as to how much black communities are held back by toxic blackness? If children are taught from an early age by parents and imported American culture, that the entire system is against them and that all police, regardless of their skin colour, are racist, to what extent to this engender the sort of belligerence that reinforces black stereotypes that prevent them from participating fully in civil society? A steady diet of homophobia, casual racism, violence and misogyny can only have a corrosive effect and serve as a barrier to advancement.

But in the current climate, could there ever be a full and frank discussion about toxic blackness? The inherent street cool of toxic blackness is aped by white working class and Asian teenagers, particularly in London, and then we’re surprised they grow into feral yobs whose eventual destination is a stay in one of Her Majesty’s secure facilities.

To what extent is toxic blackness a consequence of being a cultural subordinate of the USA where black children learn about the black American struggle which couldn’t be less to do with their own heritage? We don’t even have a uniform blackness in the UK and nor does the USA.

Recent African immigrants in the USA want little to do with the black American victimhood narrative precisely because it’s a divisive inhibiting influence. The sooner Black Americans wake up to how they’re used by white liberals and black race hustlers the sooner they’ll claw their way out of poverty and exclusion.

And then if we’re talking about “systemic racism” there is much we can say about the murderous Indian caste system and the, frankly, barbaric paternalistic tribal values of South Asia more generally.

White British working class communities have had their own problems to contend with. Nobody’s claiming perfection or even superiority for that matter. It’s just that we’re not going to embrace or tolerate toxic blackness in our midst, nor are we going to tolerate the rape gangs and honour killings or the FGM. We are going to defend our “whiteness”. We do not accept that we are “enriched” by these exotic and different cultures, nor are their tribal battles spilling on to our streets in any way tolerable. We want our police to go in hard and make them understand the standard we demand they conform to if they want to be treated as equals.

But we are told our own standards are in some way corrupt and racist and unworthy and that we have no moral right to defend ourselves against the persist onslaught on our values.

It saddens me to have to write what I’m writing lately. Reading this article back it’s not all that far from the sort of ethno-nationalist toss you used to see on the BNP website. But it was only a matter of time. When the left took up identity politics, dividing everyone by race, ethnicity and gender, the inevitable consequence was a renewed white identity, not least as it’s under constant attack. Ultimately identity politics is being used to legitimise various forms of segregation and bigotry, and we can’t be surprised if it begets only more of the same.

There is a certain naivety and insularity about British white middle class progressives. Outside of their cotton wool world where the only ethnics they rub shoulders with are affluent academics and fellow university students is a world as savage and brutal as ever it was.

The nihilistic self-deletion tendency in the belief that we are the cause of all the world’s ills is rapidly disposed of by even the most cursory examination of other cultures yet still we are to believe that “black people cannot be racist”. White progressives may have talked themselves into self-annihilation but the rest of us can still see something good in who and what we are.