In his video, How Media Frame the Narrative to Make Trump Seem Worse, Tim Pool accuses the ADL of manipulating hate crime incidents - which are down under the Trump presidency - to give the opposite impression. For one, they've framed the data to ascribe the racial violence of the late Obama administration to Trump's presidential run. (Quite unlikely, as the media was reassuring everyone Trump had no mathematical chance of winning the primary up until almost June of 2016, and assuring us he had virtually no chance of beating Hillary all the way through election day.) Second, their protocol of categorizing incidents as either left-wing or right-wing extremism strikes Tim as being very arbitrary. He asks, why is racially motivated murder committed by blacks tallied as left-wing extremism while white racism is always described as right-wing?
It's right there in front of his face, yet he acts confused. He poses a fair question, or at least it would be if the old rules still applied. The old rules of civic nationalism were that a person should be judged based on content of character, rather than color of skin. It was the reigning orthodoxy that began with the civil rights era and ended with the election of Barrack Obama, when half of America was so ecstatic about affirming their anti-racist credos that they voted for a candidate based primarily on skin color. It's ironic that the election of our first non-white president would signify the end of the national experiment with color blindness, but that's when the publicly held ethos shifted back to encouraging racialist voting, so long as the vote was virtuous. Voting for the black candidate just because he was black was to be praised. Ralph Nader reported that his supporters mostly voted for Obama, because they wanted to "be part of history." Contrary, anyone who racially voted for McCain was deemed a white supremacist, an evil relic of our savage past standing on the "wrong side of history."
Americans are slowly waking up to the reality of the new rules. The country pretends the old rules are still in place, but mostly acts otherwise. It can be hard to tell who is pretending and who isn't. Tucker Carlson understands the paradigm changes, but is politically correct enough to play to the old rules. Ben Shapiro clearly believes the old rules, and guards them passionately. Tim Pool seems determined to act as if those old rules are the rules too, but the act isn't entirely convincing. It's understandable, of course, because the reality of the new rules is hard to accept, that the greatest civilization of human history is reverting from a rational society back into tribalism. What Carlson, Shapiro, and Pool all have in common is they are doing everything they can to push back against the descent into identitarianism, and they've all become quite popular doing so. People want to believe that things can just keep going they way they always have, that the modern insanity can be rebuffed with a little common sense, and that the demographics of a society aren't as important as it's shared values. Their pursuit is noble given the rules, but ultimately futile since the rules are only for pretend.
There's no reason why BLM calling for a black ethnostate in the American southeast is any different from the NZ shooter accelerating conflict intended to ultimately reclaim the white ethnostates. It's the same politics: violently rejecting cosmopolitanism in favor of national self-determination. When the ADL and other groups label white racism as right-wing and black racism as left-wing without a pause, they are inadvertently acknowledging the new reality. The right is the people who want to live in the countries that white people built, and the left is those who do not. Those who want to "fundamentally transform the United State of America", and those who do not. The center gets squeezed out, because it becomes impossible to reconcile the diametrically opposed sides. Hard-right conservatives have largely turned on white civic nationalists, because they sense the danger. The longer your side clings to the old rules, the more you lose. Eventually, nostalgic idealism must give way to pragmatism, and even survival.
The irony is that the current system will be doomed by getting exactly what it wants. They racially voted in a black president to prove the country wasn't racist. Now they say the country can stay united if we all share the same values. Increasingly the pre-dominant shared value is one of national self-determinism, and rejection of the multicultural experiment. The shared value, in effect, is to become divided.
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