The other day I wrote an intentionally controversial article. There is a place for robust polemics now and then - and the problem of feral blacks rampaging through our cities is something that needs to be addressed in uncompromising terms.
all I'll ask is...where is Britain's answer to Thomas Sowell?
Wherever he's been hiding for the last 50 years, we need him.
Sowell wanted to get blacks out of the victim mindset and into aspiration, that is commendable and I wouldn't dream of 'remigrating' a Thomas Sowell type out of Britain.
Well, fixing it is straightforward, really. We need to return to kids being raised by families - a mother and a father in the same home. It's clear that that's all that's needed for decently-behaved kids. (This is true for black kids and white kids).
The tricky bit is making it happen. The only way I can see is to drastically reduce welfare for single mums; that would make women think very hard before raising a kid alone. But, of course, society wouldn't allow such drastic reduction of welfare...
Only Pete North can see a wasps nest and whack it hard with a stick. If you don’t get lynched you may be able to start a conversation. I wonder if part of that involves the rest of society looking in the mirror? We have a low trust society because that is what we have created. A certain underclass - that gets the attention here - has come out of our laboratory. We provided all the ingredients of critical theory, victim culture, no blame/no shame culture, the decolonised curriculum, the demolition of marriage and family life. And yes, there are cultural differences but if the older culture sets no expectations and rots its own foundations, what do we think is going to happen?
You say South Africanisation but SA is looking very attractive compared to the Ukay. Different racial groups actually get along with low animosity. There is no obvious hate for whites and comparatively low crime. But if you’re worried about that you can legally buy and use firearms or get armed security. Although it would be a wrench to abandon the Ukay climate, perhaps we could rebuild Rhodesia on the Cape?
Do you have first hand experience of South Africa? I do not, but what I have read about it from others is that the country has very serious problems and has declined on all fronts since the end of apartheid - and that is not just a dissident view but also mainstream commentary and the reported experiences of people who live there. Your assertions run contrary to all this and seem more consistent with what a naive tourist might say after a two week safari trip with a brief stay in a safe hotel district of one of the cities.
Nope. This is from South Africans who believed all those things you said, went back, still basically agree with those things, but still find it hugely preferable to living in the Ukay. In other words, however much SA may have fallen, Ukay has fallen harder and faster.
Your first comment said nothing about that, and gave an entirely different impression. I think Pete North is absolutely right that what we are undergoing is a process that will lead to a situation broadly similar to South Africa. Brazil could also be cited, perhaps still more accurately.
South Africa should have become a Nordic superpower. Instead, it became a Third World cesspit in the name of "equality". The people you refer to will be the South Africans who can buy their way out, which is what happens in Third World countries. To be strict about it, South Africa was never an apartheid society and that was the real problem. It was just a racial caste system, and all that happened is that the system was rearranged in favour of blacks against the backdrop of capitalism and Western legalism. But this is why I have a lot of time for Nelson Mandela - just not for the same reasons that the Left do. The problem whites have is that we do not have our own Nelson Mandelas and the reason for this is that, unlike blacks and other non-whites, we are burdened with a self-abnegating moral-ethical value system that universalises a level of loyalty, reciprocation and trust that should be largely racially exclusivist.
David Horowitz, a founder of the New Left in the 60s saw this in San Francisco.
Good black citizens with families complained that liberal politicians incentivised the single parent family model.
It turned him to the Right.
Can’t fault your logic although it’s a bit shocking to see it in print, guess that’s thirty years of gaslighting by the establishment.
all I'll ask is...where is Britain's answer to Thomas Sowell?
Wherever he's been hiding for the last 50 years, we need him.
Sowell wanted to get blacks out of the victim mindset and into aspiration, that is commendable and I wouldn't dream of 'remigrating' a Thomas Sowell type out of Britain.
Well, fixing it is straightforward, really. We need to return to kids being raised by families - a mother and a father in the same home. It's clear that that's all that's needed for decently-behaved kids. (This is true for black kids and white kids).
The tricky bit is making it happen. The only way I can see is to drastically reduce welfare for single mums; that would make women think very hard before raising a kid alone. But, of course, society wouldn't allow such drastic reduction of welfare...
Following my comment on your last piece, it looks like the Summer of Love has already arrived. Double Yippee!
Oh, to be in England, now that April's there ...
Only Pete North can see a wasps nest and whack it hard with a stick. If you don’t get lynched you may be able to start a conversation. I wonder if part of that involves the rest of society looking in the mirror? We have a low trust society because that is what we have created. A certain underclass - that gets the attention here - has come out of our laboratory. We provided all the ingredients of critical theory, victim culture, no blame/no shame culture, the decolonised curriculum, the demolition of marriage and family life. And yes, there are cultural differences but if the older culture sets no expectations and rots its own foundations, what do we think is going to happen?
You say South Africanisation but SA is looking very attractive compared to the Ukay. Different racial groups actually get along with low animosity. There is no obvious hate for whites and comparatively low crime. But if you’re worried about that you can legally buy and use firearms or get armed security. Although it would be a wrench to abandon the Ukay climate, perhaps we could rebuild Rhodesia on the Cape?
Do you have first hand experience of South Africa? I do not, but what I have read about it from others is that the country has very serious problems and has declined on all fronts since the end of apartheid - and that is not just a dissident view but also mainstream commentary and the reported experiences of people who live there. Your assertions run contrary to all this and seem more consistent with what a naive tourist might say after a two week safari trip with a brief stay in a safe hotel district of one of the cities.
Nope. This is from South Africans who believed all those things you said, went back, still basically agree with those things, but still find it hugely preferable to living in the Ukay. In other words, however much SA may have fallen, Ukay has fallen harder and faster.
Your first comment said nothing about that, and gave an entirely different impression. I think Pete North is absolutely right that what we are undergoing is a process that will lead to a situation broadly similar to South Africa. Brazil could also be cited, perhaps still more accurately.
South Africa should have become a Nordic superpower. Instead, it became a Third World cesspit in the name of "equality". The people you refer to will be the South Africans who can buy their way out, which is what happens in Third World countries. To be strict about it, South Africa was never an apartheid society and that was the real problem. It was just a racial caste system, and all that happened is that the system was rearranged in favour of blacks against the backdrop of capitalism and Western legalism. But this is why I have a lot of time for Nelson Mandela - just not for the same reasons that the Left do. The problem whites have is that we do not have our own Nelson Mandelas and the reason for this is that, unlike blacks and other non-whites, we are burdened with a self-abnegating moral-ethical value system that universalises a level of loyalty, reciprocation and trust that should be largely racially exclusivist.
Equally if not more, I appreciate your considered response to your critics in this article.
I don’t have any solution to the Windrush problem either. Not any remotely humane one anyway.
I very much appreciated the previous article in which you took a risk and stuck your neck out. Hopefully you won’t get a “polite visit”
the polite -> the police
Very well said.