Odds and Ends, 7/5/21

In der news.

If you want to read a comic distillation of unhinged leftist paranoia, stupidity, contempt for Trump supporters (“rabble”), apologia for Antifa (“restrained”), and overall neo-Marxist academic madness, read this.

I’ll agree with this though:

In a way, to call Trump a fascist is an insult to fascism.

Fascism returning to Romania? Let us all hope so.

Racial differences in narcissism.

Black individuals have been found to report the highest levels of self-esteem of any racial group in the United States. The purpose of the present research was to examine whether Black individuals also report higher levels of narcissism than White individuals. Study 1 (N = 367) found that Black individuals reported higher levels of narcissism than White individuals even when controlling for gender, self-esteem level, and socially desirable response tendencies. Study 2 (N = 967) and Study 3 (N = 315) found similar results such that Black individuals reported higher levels of narcissism than White individuals on the narcissism measures that captured less pathological facets of this construct. Study 3 also included indicators of psychological adjustment and found that the pathological aspects of narcissism were more strongly associated with maladjustment for Black individuals than for White individuals. The implications of these results for understanding the Black self-esteem advantage are discussed.

Also see this.

Digging deeper into the literature on race and narcissism reveals the deeply anti-White nature of academia and of the psychiatric profession. First, they claim that White racists manifest racism because of narcissism disorders and psychopathy. Second, when the data show that Negroes have the highest rates of narcissism disorders and associated pathologies, they engage in hand-waving spin - you see, Black parents teach their children to have high self-esteem to protect them from a White racist society, and sometimes the toll of White racism is so much for the poor, tormented Negroes that the honest and upright Afros develop pathologies.

All your fault Whitey!

HBDers weep. I openly call for a thorough federal investigation of the HBD cult, to ascertain if the HBDers’ cover-up of Chinese complicity, and lies about an “American bioweapon,” had any connection to Chinese government interests and operatives.

I make no accusations against anyone, merely ask for an investigation. If the HBDers are innocent, then they should welcome a highly intrusive, detailed, and public criminal investigation of every facet of their activities.  If they have nothing to hide, let’s shine the disinfecting light of truth on every detail, every facet, every action, every email, every meeting, every conversation, and every word, of HBD activity.

Italians in the Spanish Civil War.

What's next:

1. HBDers assert that Whites have no legitimate (genetic) interest in their own children; instead Whites have interests in favoring Jews and Asians.

2. The Retards of the Right accept the validity of point 1; after all, if the HBDers say it, it must be true!

3. The sane among us then waste years explaining to the Retards why the HBDers are wrong.

Certainly, a useful way to invest our time and effort!

Salter never wrote that he expected that (most) people would be willing to sacrifice themselves or their children to "prevent the immigration of a million Bantus" (or anything similar) - just that, in theory, it would be adaptive if they did so. That said, it is true that people throughout history have sacrificed themselves to protect their peoples and homelands from invasion, and have watched their sons march out to war - many never returning - ostensibly for "blood and soil."

It matters how the issue is presented to the people. I have noted that Salterism as such is unlikely to be a direct motivator of action in defense of ethny, and that more "irrational" proximate substitutes may be necessary. Putting the idea in the language of "extended family" could be useful. That doesn't change the fact that Salter was correct about the adaptive nature of defending the ethny. Even the leftist Brigandt admitted the adaptive value of favoring ethny.

I can't help noticing that HBDers tend to be:

1. Nords, particularly those with Asian spouses and/or who live or have lived in Asia

2. Jews

3. Asians

4. Negroes (particularly West Indians)

It's almost as if - who knows? - Lind's America's Tribes hypothesis has some validity.

Certainly, I'm not seeing too many Italian, Romanian, or Hungarian HBDers, that's for sure. Those ethnies must be deficient in "race realism," I suppose.

Perhaps if the fetishists cared less about hating wops and hunkies, and more about defending their peoples and homelands from non-White invaders, London wouldn't be swarming with Negroes and Pakis.

Ever notice that the fetishists are very willing to cite the anti-Salter ramblings of anti-White, WN-hating HBDers, but won't cite pro-Salter analyses coming from actual WNs? Says something about the fetishists, doesn't it? They are more interested in self-absorbed ethnic narcissism than in any sort of principled racialism, or any honest evaluation of theories.

That said, the best thing would be for Salter himself to write a comprehensive, point-by-point refutation of his critics, which could be either a long article or a short booklet, or perhaps a separate chapter in an update of OGI (or whatever). While I do not mind defending the EGI concept, defense is best served by its originator.

The funny thing about (Far) Right critics of Salterism is that the EGI concept is not telling them to do anything that they wouldn't be doing anyway - promoting the interests of their group, immigration restriction, nationalist activism, etc. Salter simply wrote a biopolitical analysis evaluating the adaptive value of pursuing group interests, discussing the political implications, and providing ethical perspectives. It's not like an acceptance of EGI obligates its adherents to engage in kamikaze attacks against migrant boats or to mimic the Charge of the Light Brigade against BLM rallies. Certainly, leftists and HBDers, who do not want Whites to promote group interests and to be ethnic or racial nationalists, have a self-interested agenda in opposing anything that justifies those actions. However, for people on the nationalist Right to engage in pseudoscientific, illogical gibbering to delegitimize their own group interest is, frankly, bizarre.

There is no logical reason to assert that genetic interests, and adaptive behavior, applies only to “the level of cousins,” and “falls off’ and is invalid beyond that.  What about half cousins?  Second cousins?  Where do you draw the line? Why? The more dilute genetic kinship with non-familial co-ethnics is offset by the larger numbers of the latter. Any, anyway, genetic interests are context dependent. In a world consisting of just one ethny, there are no EGI (unless that world is attacked by extraterrestrials or is facing some environmental extinction event).  In that case, only personal and familial genetic interests exist. However, in a crowded world full of competing ethnies, you can be damn sure that EGI exist and are of paramount importance.  Even more so when your ethny is being targeted by replacement-level mass migration and its demographic consequences. The fact that this is even controversial among those on the Right demonstrates that we are our own worst enemies.  If the GOP is “the stupid party” than what does that make the self-destructive (Far) Right?  The retarded party?