Odds and Ends, 9/28/22

In der news.

Oh boy, someone is going to get banned from Counter-Currents:

No. Ancient North African admixture in Southern Italy is between 2.5-5%. Insignificant. Now, why don’t we start questioning why Jewish Ron Unz, Jamaican Lipton Mathews, Filipino Michelle Malkin, or South Asian mongrel Neil Kumar have prominent roles in the movement. What do you think their non-White admixture percentages are? Perhaps its time for “White Nationalists” to stop obsessing over Southern Italians so much. I blame True Romance. A piece of advice for everyone here, don’t base your racial views around Hollywood movies.

That was in response to a classic example of Sallis' Law. A Counter-Currents post about Meloni and the Italian election devolved into discussions of "racial admixture" in Italy, True Romance, guidos. "tanned" Italians, and "honor killings" in Italy.

If we agree to the premise that White ethnics have every right, and every need, to engage in pro-White politics as any other Whites, then what is way forward in the face of so much hostility toward White ethnics in such politics, particularly in America?  I say that White ethnics are going to have to build and participate in pro-White constructs that they themselves have helped to create and shape, and demonstrate extreme competence and dedication to the endeavor. As an integral part of this activity, White ethnics should have a zero tolerance policy to Nordicism and other manifestations of hostility and lies about their ethnies, and refuse to ally themselves or associate with any way any entities who promote or tolerate such paradigms.  Conversely, White ethnics should ally with and associate those Whites, of any ethnic provenance, who espouse an authentic and sincere pan-Europeanism. In this manner, pan-Europeanism can be strengthened, and opposing, hostile ideologies left to wallow in their own failures and rank incompetence.

While I will defend White ethnics – indeed, all Whites – from unjust attacks and mendacious lies, I also urge those peoples to engage in self-reflection about why they are constantly attacked in this manner.  To say “it is for no reason” or “just racism” makes them sound like the Negro; to say it is envy makes them sound like the Jew. And, yes, it is true that Racial Proximity Theory ethnocentrism on the part of the attackers informs much of the attacks, the nature and intensity of the attacks, and their specific manifestations still require the aforementioned self-reflection. Let us consider the Italian, for example. The Italian is not feared or respected, and therefore is not admired for his virtues and is instead constantly ridiculed for his faults, real or imagined.  And this occurs with no restraint and with complete impunity.  It stands to reason therefore that it is appropriate for the Italian to self-reflect on why he is neither feared nor respected and, then, what can be done to remedy the situation. Merely opposing external problems, like Nordicism, is not enough. The internal problems need to be tackled as well; indeed they may be more important, and solving the internal problems may be a prerequisite for effectively solving the external ones.

Is Meloni's victory an example of successful mainstreaming? It depends on what you compare it too. In comparison to Italy's original post-WWII "neo-fascist" parties, then, yes, it is successful mainstreaming (and it is interesting that Europe had to look to Italy for such an example of success). However, compared to the original formulation of Brothers of Italy, the answer is no - the party has not compromised its principles, did not move to the center to win, and is at least as "far to the right" - if not more so - than its coalition partners. So while this is as close to a mainstreaming success as we have seen in Europe, it is not mainstreaming per se. It is not strictly farstreaming either - more a success of "staying the course."

This here is one of the best posts ever at Amren.  It is all true.