Does the darkest hour come right before the dawn?

(Update: shortly after he wrote the below promising masthead advocating a non-anti-Semitic white nationalism, Cesar/Chechar had a sudden epiphany and became an all-out anti-Semite.)

I’ve previously linked (here and here) blogger Cesar Tort (a.k.a. Chechar) at The West’s Darkest Hour. Either he has a new masthead or I hadn’t noticed it before, but it contains a wonderfully succinct statement of the traditionalist position vis a vis both Islam and the larger threat to the West that made the Islam threat possible: liberalism.

THE WEST’S DARKEST HOUR

A NEW LIBERAL LEFT AIMS TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION BY MASSIVE IMMIGRATION AND BY LABELING “RACISTS” THOSE WHO OPPOSE THEM. LIBERALISM, THE BELIEF THAT NON-DISCRIMINATION IS THE HIGHEST AND RULING VALUE OF SOCIETY, IS A SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY. IF ISLAM WERE TO DISAPPEAR TOMORROW, THE WEST WOULD STILL BE AT GRAVE RISK. IF MODERN LIBERALISM WERE TO DISAPPEAR TOMORROW, IT WOULD BE ISLAM FACING THE GRAVE RISK FROM A NEWLY-REVIVED WEST BASED UPON NON ANTI-SEMITIC WHITE NATIONALISM.

Cesar covers the bases so skillfully that he even coins a new and needed phrase: “non anti-Semitic white nationalism”

We’re still very small in numbers, but we’re starting to see the elements of an intellectually serious movement to save the West.

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Will D. writes:

“Non anti-Semitic white nationalism” is a “new and needed phrase”? How about heartening? Emboldening? How about wish-I’d-said-it-first?

LA replies:

It is heartening and emboldening. But I can’t say I wish I’d said it first, because I’ve never related personally to the phrase white nationalism. While I haven’t criticized the phrase, I’ve also never used it to describe my own position. I can’t explain exactly why. Maybe the reason is that it is associated, subtly or not, with anti-Semitism.

The funny thing is, notwithstanding what I’ve just said, I use the word “racialism” to describe my own position, which some may see as more politically incorrect than “white nationalism.” Many people, at least in England, see racialism as a synonym for racism. It doesn’t have that connotation for me at all. To me it means two things: the belief that race matters in various ways, particularly in the formation of a society; and loyalty to the white race. For me, the word racialism has a benign and moral connoation.

November 20

Bruce B. writes:

I prefer “racial conservative” to “white nationalist.” I think anything with an “ist” in it sounds more threatening, especially if it also has the word “white” attached to it. I think my term conveys what we seek and emphasizes that it’s non-threatening. What do you think?

LA replies:

I like “racial conservative.” It’s precise and appropriate.

This goes back to my long-standing critique of conservatism. What is conservatism about? The preserving and flourishing of certain constitutive aspects of our reality and the values connected to them. So, we have “economic conservatives,” “social conservatives,” “family values conservatives,” “cultural conservatives,” “constitutional conservatives,” “Christian conservatives.” All those types of conservatives are recognized as part of the conservative mix. But there are two problems with this picture. One, the various types of conservatives are often in different rooms, only seeing and defending one part of the whole, rather than the whole. Two, there is one type of conservatism that is completely missing from this recognized conservative mix: racial conservatism. Without racial conservatism, all the other types of conservatism will go down, because without the continuance of the Anglo-European white majority and its culture, everything else about our society will be lost. That is why I said in my speech at the 1994 American Renaissance conference that a conservatism that lacks a recognition of fundamental racial realities is not a serious conservatism.

Bruce replies:

The only thing I don’t like about it is that if you say that’s what you are it can sound like that’s all you’re for conserving, so it needs qualification.

LA replies:

I agree, it absolutely needs qualification. :-)

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