The Expanse and Race

The Expanse: The TV Series.

Summary here.

The few semi-positive White men featured in the show are:

James Holden, played by Dutch-Italian hybrid Steven Strait, is a race-mixing/oil-drilling “emo” character, who spends half of his time onscreen with a comical look of moral anguish on his face. In addition, Holden derives from a bizarre family with multiple mothers and fathers. Indeed, The Expanse normalizes various types of perversions, including miscegenation, homosexuality/lesbianism, and polyamorous familial relationships.

Amos Burton, played by a muscular Wes Chatham, is a sexually ambivalent, wild-eyed, violent psycho.

Joe Miller, played by a haggard-looking Thomas Jane, is the stereotypical cynical hard-boiled detective, in his case enlivened by falling in love with a grotesque Eurasian woman (to eliminate redundancy – an Eurasian woman) he is searching for and for whom he ultimately sacrifices himself.

Those are the “positive” portrayals. The rest of the White men featured in the show essentially fit into one or more of the following categories: weak, corrupt, evil, mad scientists, semi-autistic, perverted, treasonous, nerdy, untrustworthy, cowardly, etc.

In contrast, the heroes and heroines are for the most part non-Whites and women of all sorts, including, but not limited to: noble, deep-voiced, Morgan Freeman-like Negroes; every possible racial configuration of women; a White SJW woman Methodist minister involved in a lesbian relationship with a Negress; NECs of varied types, etc. Such people are portrayed as strong, noble, far-sighted, altruistic, heroic, trustworthy, loyal, disinterested, moral, intelligent, competent, and calm, with powerful leadership abilities. Indeed, thankfully, someone is around to clean up after the cringing, stupid, cowardly, and corrupt White man!

Particularly jarring is Naomi Nagata – Holden’s love interest by the way – played by Dominican-English hybrid Dominique Tipper. Nagata is not only one of these strong, honorable, and competent non-Whites, but also disconcertedly combines an English accent with brown skin, a mildly prognathous jawline, and a  broad flat nose.  Well, in the year 2020, half the people living in London look like her, so I suppose we’ll all just have to get used to it.

The Expanse is essentially the Globohomo-Technic multiracial future the SJWs think we will have.  Detroit and the slums of Brazil exemplify the horrifying reality that we will have on our present trajectory.

The Expanse is nothing more than leftist multicultural propaganda hiding behind a sci-fi facade. Alas, harsh reality often has the habit of clashing with ludicrously unrealistic propaganda. 

And so it goes…

Political EGI VI: Know Your Audience

Calibrate your arguments.

With respect to introducing EGI to political discourse, I am sure the attitude will be: “most people will not be convinced by rational, scientific arguments; instead they will be influenced by emotional arguments instead.  No one will care about EGI.”

This is truth to that – but I also do not believe that ”most people” are going to be influenced by cartoon frogs or screams of “Hail Kek!”- but I’ve never said that “most people” should be addressed by discussions of gene frequencies or of “Hamilton’s Rule.”

Obviously, if you are addressing who Pierce would call “Joe and Jill Sixpack” then you are not going to be invoking “genetic kinship” and explaining the fine points of On Genetic Interests.  You could, however, invoke the language of family and tribe, stoke the “us vs. them” divide and equate face and family to stimulate protective instincts for the group against those threatening it.  

As one moves up the intellectual hierarchy then one can be more explicit about EGI, although the “full story” is likely going to make complete sense only to scientifically literate and sane individuals with triple-digit IQs (leaving most of the “movement” out of the running).  Along the continuum of human understanding, knowledge, and intelligence one must calibrate the rhetoric and arguments for optimal receptivity.

So, no, I’m not arguing that one should go to a local town hall with charts of Fst values or what have you, but the fundamental principles can be put forth in language understandable to the target audience, even if one must use analogies and rhetorical proxies for some major points.  In past “Political EGI” posts I gave some examples of calibrated arguments: I’m no politician or speechwriter, and I’m sure those that are can do an even better job of formulating EGI-based arguments that can resonate to even Mr. and Mrs. Sixpack.

One can also argue – and it’s likely correct – that the less intellectual Whites, the Sixpacks, are more inherently tribal and will require less prompting to unleash their instincts in that regard.  They just need guidance so as to direct that unleashing in the proper political direction (not to GOP cucks or Trumpain frauds, for example) and they need to be inoculated against “we are all the same” leftist rhetoric that, while they may not believe it “in their bones,” may still confuse them.

On the other hand, it are the more intellectually advanced “professionals” among Whites who lead rarefied lives apart from tribal instincts so it are precisely they – the ones best as understanding EGI concepts – would be benefit from more explicit, albeit still carefully calibrated, appeals to more rationalized EGI arguments.

So in that sense it works out well: those Whites least capable of understanding the more explicit EGI arguments are in the least need of them and those Whites most capable of understanding have the most need.

At this point someone will say I’ve missed the original point, which was one of emotion trumping logic, not one of understanding or not.  That’s true, but consider that the “lower class” Whites tend to be more emotional/irrational and the “upper class” Whites are relatively more rational, and hence rationality and understanding go hand-in-hand.  In addition, remember I’m still advocating calibration even for the upper classes; likely pure EGI is suitable for the highest intellectual groups, academics, top intellectual activists, etc. Some “irrational” arguments may need to be made to the rank-and-file upper class, but these would need to be calibrated differently than those used for the Sixpacks.  Perhaps less raw tribalism and more Universal Nationalism? This post is not the place to evaluate this at that level of detail, but to point out that those with rhetorical skills can make EGI-style arguments palatable to specific target audiences.  It’s more a matter of will – wanting to do it – rather than the rhetorical technics.