Life in the New Europe

Tales of high and low life from the New Europe: In the beau monde, former French prime minister Cresson was charged in connection with a European Union fraud scandal. The lady had apparently given her dentist boyfriend at least $150,000 in EU money. Meanwhile, down in the trenches, What’s the point of mentioning such things? Not, particularly, to prove that Turks or female French politicians are bad people. I have no reason to think they’re better or worse than opera singers or used car salesmen. Such stories, however, are emblematic of the self-destruction of Europe though the soft utopianism of multiculturalism and the universal managerial state. If you root out settled habits and standards of conduct other than self-interest, self-assertion, and sentimentalism, bad conduct will be the result. Things that in the past simply wouldn’t have happened will become commonplace and make life impossible for many people. Exactly what are the benefits that make it all worth it?
Posted by Jim Kalb at April 01, 2003 10:44 AM | Send
    
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Although it may not have been the point, it is true that Turks are bad people. They are cowardly (hence the tendency to only fight in groups), they are obsessed with (an regularly practice) sodomy, they have less taste than your average trailer park tenant, and they smell bad. Those who have limited contact with them may get the impression that they are kind and generous, but these superficially kind and generous acts are attempts to hold you hostage to hospitality (to get a favor from you).

Posted by: Turk Killer on April 1, 2003 12:38 PM

By coincidence, another article I linked today, http://www.counterrevolution.net/vfr/archives/001327.html, makes a similar point about Muslims intimidating non-Muslims in France. It says that in some towns, non-Christian girls must wear head scarves in public in order to avoid being attacked or raped.

We may have to face the fact that the decadence of the West is so far advanced that it may only start to be reversed AFTER the Western people have lost control over their own countries to Muslims and other non-Westerners. Only after they have lost their dominance, and thus their status as illegitimate oppressors, will Westerners realize that they have lost their civilization as well. And only then, as a powerless minority group, will they perhaps start to fight to win back what they have lost.

Posted by: Lawrence Auster on April 1, 2003 12:59 PM

This is exactly the sort of thing that I wish weren’t happening but HAS BEEN happening too much since 9/11. “Turk Killer,” probably a very decent chap and a patriotic one, suffers from insufficiency of something called foreign travel which, had he the opportunity to do some, or to do more of it, would make him come home realizing that it’s just wrong to talk that way — I’m not talking about immoral, but just wrong — inaccurate. It’s completely inaccurate. I urge “Turk Killer” to just “settle down,” reconsider what he’s saying, and perhaps withhold further judgment until he’s seen quite a bit more of the world’s peoples and cultures than the average American gets a chance to see.

Posted by: Unadorned on April 1, 2003 1:07 PM

Unadorned:
I lived in North Cyprus for year and Istanbul for two years.

Posted by: Turk Killer on April 1, 2003 1:13 PM

Correction: In the above comment, I meant to say that non-Muslim girls have to wear head scarves.

Posted by: Lawrence Auster on April 1, 2003 3:02 PM

“I lived in North Cyprus for a year and Istanbul for two years.”

OK, I stand corrected. (I’ve never lived in — or even set foot in — a Muslim or Arab country by the way, though I lived abroad a long time and, though I had occasion to come into contact with Arabs, never met any Turks aside from, as I remember, just one — a woman who would’ve appeared indistinguishable from any Western woman to any VFR reader.)

It’s hard to believe any nationality or ethnic group in the world is made up of “bad people.” When I speak out, in the VFR and other forums, against the highly imprudent Muslimization of Europe or Mexicanization, Hispanicization, Africanization, or Muslimization of this country, I am motivated only by a desire to preserve my own country as traditionally constituted race-wise, culture-wise, religion-wise, etc., and not by any idea that some other group consists of “bad people.” (Wanting strongly to remain oneself isn’t to denigrate anyone.)

Posted by: Unadorned on April 1, 2003 3:21 PM

I have heard from tourists with few material benefits to offer their hosts that the Turks are among the world’s most hospitable people. (I haven’t been to Turkey, but I did live reasonably happily with a Turkish roommate once, whose only noticeable objectionable characteristic seemed to be an anti-Armenian prejudice paralleling “Turk Killer’s”.)

Posted by: Ian Hare on April 1, 2003 4:17 PM

Unadorned wroet: “It’s hard to believe any nationality or ethnic group in the world is made up of ‘bad people.’”

C’mon, Unadorned, this is just silly. Is it hard to believe that, for example, the Huns were “bad people?” Were they really just kindly, charitable souls under the influence of wicked leaders? I think not. We are what we do, and the acts we commit stem from the moral principles we hold in our hearts. It is no more silly to talk about a “bad nation” than a “bad regime,” since it’s perfectly possible for a whole nation of people to submit and give the assent of their wills to false moral principles. (Of course, it doesn’t really happen that every single citizen of a country normally assents to every law and every principle of law of his country, but we’re talking by and large here.) Insofar as Nazi doctrine took root in the hearts and minds of Germans, for example, it is perfectly accurate to speak of them as a bad people. Conversely, insofar as it did not, it is not accurate to speak of them that way.

Posted by: Bubba on April 1, 2003 7:52 PM

Is “Turk Killer” Greek?

Posted by: Jason Eubanks on April 1, 2003 10:25 PM

I never thought i would see a majority population in their European nation-state develop the passivism of unemancipated Jews. The majority refuse to setand up and the intellectuals are good collaborators to a growing and hostile minority population.

They are committing cultural suicide with virtually no opposition.

Posted by: Ron on April 2, 2003 1:45 AM

“The majority refuse to stand up and the intellectuals are good collaborators to a growing and hostile minority population. They are committing cultural suicide with virtually no opposition.” — Ron

Unfortunately, Ron has got it summed up exactly right.

In that movie, when the siren went off the Eloi went into sort of a trance, and marched just like zombies to the caves of the Morlocks, to be eaten. That siren in our world consists of the siren-songs of multi-culti, phony “anti-racism” (“phony,” because desiring the continuance of one’s own ethno-culture is in no way “racist” as long as it harms no one), etc. The Tranzi-locks have only to sound their siren and entire nations turn into zombies and march willingly to their extinction.

As if that wasn’t wonder enough, the other mind-boggling thing is, no one seems to be talking about it — no one’s analysing what’s going on (apart from a few clear-sighted and brave “Rod-Taylor-like” individuals and outfits like Pim Fortuyn, Jean-Marie Le Pen, VFR, and some others).

Posted by: Unadorned on April 2, 2003 9:09 AM
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