Why liberals are now free to talk about the browning of America, but “conservatives” are not

Breaking down the factors in the Republicans’ defeat, Matthew Continetti in the fanatically pro open borders “conservative” magazine The Weekly Standard notes:

About two-thirds of Obama’s supporters are white and a third minorities. The Republican coalition, by contrast, is white, male, and old…. [I]n 2008 whites … made up the smallest proportion of the electorate since the start of exit polling. Obama scored tremendous victories among minorities. He won more than 90 percent of the black vote. He won the Hispanic vote by a two-to-one margin. He won the Asian vote by a similar margin.

Continetti concludes that the Republicans are in deep trouble for the foreseeable future, and perhaps finished as a political force in this country. But he never asks why whites, the basis of the Republican party, are a smaller part of the electorate than ever (answer: mass nonwhite immigration), and he never asks why Hispanics and Asians, who voted two to one for Obama, are now a sizable portion of the population (answer: mass nonwhite immigration). He doesn’t ask these questions, because the answer is that turning America into a nonwhite country means the death of the Republican party, the death of conservatism, and the permanent takeover of America by the left. And that answer is forbidden, because it would involve saying that there is something negative about turning America into a nonwhite country.

Liberal journalists, by contrast, are not hesitant to say that America’s increasing nonwhiteness (the result, crows Peter Canellos in the Boston Globe, of the 1965 Immigration Act) is leading to the death of conservatism and the permanent ascendancy of the Democrats, because for liberals, destroying the Republican party and turning America permanently Democratic are obviously good things, and therefore the increasing nonwhiteness that has made those good things possible is also a good thing. Under the rule of liberalism, which says that white racialism is immoral, and which is obeyed by both liberals and conservatives in our society, it’s fine to point out that America is turning nonwhite, if you say that this is a good thing, but it’s forbidden to point out that America is turning nonwhite, if you say that this is a bad thing. Democrats are thus free to celebrate and to state honestly the reason for their victory, while Republicans are incapable of regretting and stating honestly the reason for their defeat.

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Steve R. writes:

You nailed it again. It seems we’re going down. But with such acute awareness of the fall—well, it’s almost tolerable.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 12, 2008 12:45 AM | Send