Odds and Ends, 10/23/22

In der news.

I notice that since the end of WWII, every time the High Trusters get racially threatened by Coloreds, the High Trusters become more Nordicist and start attacking White ethnics, particularly Southern Europeans, who not only did not cause the Colored problems, but in most cases also suffered from it. In America, the “civil rights movement,” integration, and the post-1965 mass Colored immigration triggered Nordicism, leading to Sir Humphrey, McCulloch, Pearce, and Duke, etc. Then, after the election of Obama and continued mass immigration and out-of-control illegal immigration, we now have the revival of more Nordicism in Der Movement, including HBD-Nordicism. The end of apartheid in South Africa led to the radical Nordicist gibbering of Arthur Kemp. The pattern is clear.  Afraid of dealing with Coloreds, the High Trusters look to White ethnics as easy outlets for their racial fears and frustrations.

Consider - a long period of outrages against native Britons by Colored colonists caused the Britons to turn against the EU and complain about White EU immigration, after which we got Brexit, cut the White immigration while increasing the Colored immigration that was causing the real problems to begin with.

Racial Proximity Theory anyone?

And the argument against that theory by invoking hostility against Jews doesn't cut it. First of all, sustained anti-Semitism in Germanic countries was mostly Germany and Austria. Second, such anti-Jewish hostility was more intense among South German types than among more Nordic North Germans. Third, Germans being more hostile to Jews than to Negroes actually supports, not refutes, Racial Proximity Theory.

Jim Crow in America doesn't refute it either. In the South, the divide was Anglo-Negro; in the North, there was plenty of hostility against the White ethnics who were present there, and, there were always the John Lindsay types who preferred Blacks and Hispanics to White ethnics. It is difficult to think of any strong refutation of Racial Proximity Theory.

Speaking (no pun intended) of Racial Proximity Theory, meet Tris Speaker, Texas Southron. First, his attitude toward White ethnics:

Despite the team’s success on the field, tensions were often high in the clubhouse. Speaker and catcher Carrigan never got along and had several brawls. Speaker was often not on speaking terms with Duffy Lewis, who, like Carrigan, was an Irish Catholic. (Religious differences had created cliques on the club, with Speaker siding with other Protestants including Joe Wood and Larry Gardner). The atmosphere grew more complicated with the arrival of Babe Ruth in 1915. Ruth crossed Wood and Speaker never fully forgave him. In his book Baseball As I Have Known It, Fred Lieb wrote that Speaker once told Lieb he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Although the Klan kept its membership rolls secret, Speaker’s alleged membership would not be surprising given that the Klan experienced a nationwide revival beginning in 1915, gaining much popularity with its anti-Catholic rhetoric. In addition, the Klan’s national leader from 1922 to 1939, Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, lived near Speaker in Hubbard...newcomer Joe DiMaggio’s graceful play in the Yankees outfield inevitably caused comparisons to Speaker. The proud Texan bristled at the suggestion that DiMaggio was a worthy successor. When asked about the Yankee Clipper in 1939, Speaker responded, “HIM? I could name 15 better outfielders!

And now, his relationship with the Negro:

In 1947, at the request of general manager Bill Veeck, Tris returned to uniform as a special coach, to help convert Larry Doby, who had played second base in the Negro Leagues, into a center fielder.

It gets worse with Tris Speaker; here he defends a Negro against White "racism" -

Tris Speaker pointed to the racial tension of the era, saying, “the poor guy came up under the worst possible conditions… [he] had nothing to do with the condition that made him the target of the boo birds."

Big Bad KKKer Speaker, attacking the micks and wops but treating every Negro as if their name was "Ben Dover."

A Gab correspondent alerts me to this:

The Ostrogoths came as conquerors and treated the Italians as such. They practiced the typical custom of appropriating one third of the lands or productive revenues for themselves; they barred the Romans from military service; and the kingship (the most powerful position in the Kingdom) was exclusive to the Ostrogoths, who remained consciously separated from the Romans and adhered to their own law. They had no intention of assimilating or of being equals. According to their own law, Ostrogoths were forbidden from attending Roman schools, and intermarriage between Romans and Goths was prohibited.

The Ostrogoths were also Arians (a heretical religious sect which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ and opposed Catholicism). Despite the vaunted "tolerance" of Theodoric emphasized by current historians, the reality is that towards the end of his reign he began to persecute Catholics.

Even though the civil administration remained in Italian hands, and even though Italy's Roman customs and institutions were largely undisturbed, in the end the Italians were still a subjugated people, subject to the Ostrogothic military class and to the king.

Well then, those Ostrogoths were certainly high trust altruistic non-ethnocentric individualists, eh?  Seriously though, the MacDonaldite thesis about "Western individualism" is continuously refuted.