Monday, February 16, 2009

Whiteness Studies: Noel Ignatiev Also Critiques Jews

This is the first of several posts I intend to write on Whiteness Studies, a recently developed "scholarly" field that is actually populated exclusively with committed, Leftist, anti-White activists.

More disturbing is the widening power these activists and their allies wield through the placement of cadres or fellow travelers within institutions, or other forms of influence like diversity industry "training" (i.e, reeducation) in universities, K12 education, corporations, military, government and the broader society, frequently using public funds.

Noel Ignatiev is one of the Jewish leaders of the Whiteness Studies movement, a co-founder of the journal Race Traitor and the notorious source of several widely-cited, genocidal-sounding quotes. He's not a "hypocritical Jew" since he holds somewhat similar beliefs critiquing Israel, Zionism and anti-Semitism
(details below).

Below is the "What We Believe" statement from the homepage of the racetraitor.org site with some particularly incendiary quotes bolded:

The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in US society.

The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class, gender, or any other interests they hold. The defection of enough of its members to make it unreliable as a predictor of behavior will lead to its collapse.

RACE TRAITOR aims to serve as an intellectual center for those seeking to abolish the white race. It will encourage dissent from the conformity that maintains it and popularize examples of defection from its ranks, analyze the forces that hold it together and those that promise to tear it apart. Part of its task will be to promote debate among abolitionists. When possible, it will support practical measures, guided by the principle, Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

The editors publish things in RACE TRAITOR because they think that publishing them will help build a community of readers. Editorial opinions are expressed in editorials and unsigned replies to letters.
Here's another aggressive, genocidally-worded exhortation:

Every group within white America has at one time or another advanced its particular and narrowly defined interests at the expense of black people as a race. That applies to labor unionists, ethnic groups, college students, schoolteachers, taxpayers, and white women. Race Traitor will not abandon its focus on whiteness, no matter how vehement the pleas and how virtuously oppressed those doing the pleading. The editors meant it when they replied to a reader, "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed—not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed."
This Occidental Observer editorial disputes Ignatiev's claims of innocence in using genocidal language. He claims to not want genocide against Whites but rather to radically reorder society.

Ignatiev is a Communist desiring the revolutionary transformation of the US.

Here's the conclusion of his pamphlet Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History:
A revolutionary strategy is, in short, a strategy of dual power. It is the treating of revolution as an act for today, as a part of the continuous struggle, instead of a dream to be indefinitely postponed in the interest of "realism".


From what we have said so far it should be evident that we regard the struggle against white supremacy as the most advanced outpost of the new society and the key ingredient in a revolutionary strategy. The waging of that struggle among whites is the main distinctive task of STO, as befits its character as an organization made up of white people.
Here's the Google Book Link. The pamphlet was originally published in 1980 and then reprinted in 1992.

More recently, from an interview conducted on St. Patrick's Day in 1996:
Now if there were five or ten per cent counterfeit whites around—people who looked white but really weren’t—then, I think, the white skin would lose its value. The judge, the school principal, the cop, the social worker, the personnel officer at the plant—and all of the other people who implement and carry out the racial tracking of our society—would no longer be sure about how to perform their function. The white race would undergo some kind of fission or self-destruction, and we would open up to the possibilities that could transform this country from the nightmare that it has been into the dream that it might be.
And from: Abolutionism and "White Studies": (last paragraph)
The task of the nineteenth century was to abolish slavery. The task of the twentieth century was to end legal segregation. The next task facing the American people is the abolition of the white race as a social category. The movement to abolish slavery stimulated women's rights and other reform movements. The Civil Rights movement helped give birth to the counterculture and various oppositional movements. Today nothing offers a greater likelihood of revolutionizing the political climate than a comprehensive challenge to whiteness and its ways.
It should be recognized that although Ignatiev is a self-described non-believing Jew, he forcefully denounces some of the most important Jewish interests as understood by many Jews:
  • The right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state
  • The use of anti-Semitism accusations to restrict debate about Israel and Jewish influence
  • The causes of Anti-Semitism being only evil Gentiles
He loudly condemns Zionism and considers Israel a racist state. His proposed solution is a unified non-sectarian Palestine including both Jews and Palestinians without any legal favoritism for Jews, and with Palestinians having the Right of Return, full legal rights and financial assistance. Obviously very few Jews accept this solution, since it destroys their conception of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate, and, in the real world, Ignatiev's proposed solution would likely lead to the eventual subjugation or genocide of most Israeli Jews. Of course, Israel is in an extremely difficult long-term strategic position no matter what approach they take, particularly with the fast-approaching proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Hilariously, he uses the example of South Africa to reassure Israelis to gamble on the good faith of the Palestinians for their survival:
...the establishment of majority rule did not cause the gods to weep or the earth to open and swallow the people...
I wonder why didn't he use Zimbabwe as a heartwarming example of post-racial brotherhood?

Of course South Africa is puttering along behind Zimbabwe by one or two decades but is following the same, drearily predictable descent.

Following are several quotes demonstrating his beliefs:

1) Israel as racial state:
Israel is a racial state, where rights are assigned on the basis of ascribed descent or the approval of the superior race. In this respect it resembles the American South prior to the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, Ireland under the Protestant Ascendancy, and, yes, Hitlerite Germany. But in its basic structures it most closely resembles the old South Africa. It is therefore not surprising that Israel should have developed a close alliance with South Africa when that country was still under apartheid.
2) Jewish Influence in the US:
Is one permitted to say above the level of a whisper that U.S. policy toward Israel has something to do with Jewish influence in the U.S.? Perhaps Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa can get away with it: "The Israel government," he observed, "is placed on a pedestal [in the U.S.] People are scared in this country to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful-very powerful" (Guardian 29 April 2002). Not only does Zionism shape U.S. policy, it stifles discussion of alternatives. To cite a personal example: Two years ago a PBS reporter interviewed me on the eve of the UN-sponsored conference on racism about to be held in S. Africa. I made some remarks about Israel, and afterwards I asked her if she would use what I said. "Of course not," she replied. "I agree with you, and so do all the journalists I know, but we can't run any criticism of Israel without following it by at least ten refutations." Harvard Professor Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer of the Middle East Forum have begun a website, Campus Watch," to denounce academics deemed to have shown "hatred of Israel." Students are to inform on professors.
3) Sources of anti-Semitism:
If I accomplish nothing else in this talk, I hope to create space for some who are repelled by Israeli actions but are held back from condemning Zionism by a desire not to be antisemitic.

Does what I have just said mean that I dismiss the possibility of a revival of anti-semitism? No, it does not. History shows that anti-semitism ebbs and flows, and that it may return. Time prevents me from exploring that history in any depth; let me instead recommend two books: The Jewish Question by Abram Leon and The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (in particular the first part, "anti-semitism"). For now I will say only that anti-semitism (or more accurately anti-Jewish sentiment) is rooted neither in human nature or Christian theology; it is the product of social relations, including the historic concentration of Jews as representatives of commerce in non-commercial societies. The peculiar occupational distribution of European Jews led members of the dispossessed classes among the non-Jewish population to direct their animosity toward the Jews as the visible agents of oppression. "anti-semitism," as the 19th-century German Socialist August Bebel put it, "is the socialism of fools." It is not beyond historical explanation (as is implied by a term like "The Holocaust," which takes anti-semitism out of history and relocates it the realm of natural phenomena).
4) His proposed solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict:
What solution, therefore, do I propose? A simple and moderate one: within historic Palestine, the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, live ten million people. I propose that there be established there a single state, in which every person who declares his intention to live there and adopt citizenship be recognized as a citizen and have one vote. I propose further that the special advantages given to Jews be terminated, that the Palestinians who were forced into exile after 1948, and their descendants, be granted the right to live there, and that the state undertake practical measures to make it possible for them to do so by building housing and extending to them to right to rent or buy, if necessary providing funds to help them. I propose further that both Hebrew and Arabic be declared official state languages to be taught in the schools, that all residents be granted the right to publish newspapers and maintain cultural institutions in any language they choose, that the special position of Orthodox Judaism be ended and that the state declare freedom of worship and make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Ignatiev has also authored a five-page entry on Zionism for the Encyclopedia of Race of Racism that has been roundly condemned by many Jewish groups. This link contains a critique and a link where someone uploaded a PDF file from a photocopy of the full entry.

Future posts will consider some ideas for coping with the White-hating Left.



9 comments:

  1. "Ignatiev is a Communist desiring the revolutionary transformation of the US."

    On the cultural level that transformation started during the Sixties Cultural Revolution (1965-70 or 71). Ignatiev is a voice of our current establishment,the cultural Marxists are firmly in power. See for example:http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon0219hm.html

    When it comes to the economy we still have
    state-regulated capitalism-of a sort.

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  2. Great blog you have here - you are a great writer and you have clearly done the research.

    Come on over to Majority Rights and comment sometime - http://majorityrights.com/

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  3. @togo

    Great point. They have pretty much succeeded in their long march through many of our institutions. I'll check out that link.

    @Eman

    Thanks for the compliments. I have been doing some lurking over there and it is interesting. I'm hoping Jews can be persuaded to abandon some of their anti-White ways and deal honestly with the disproportionate influence question.

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  4. ScotchFiend says: "Noel Ignatiev is one of the Jewish leaders of the Whiteness Studies movement, a co-founder of the journal Race Traitor and the notorious source of several widely-cited, genocidal-sounding quotes."

    Ignatiev is an atheist, he does not believe in, nor does he practice Judaism. So when you say he is "Jewish" you clearly mean he is genetically a Jew; a Jew by blood.

    "He's not a 'hypocritical Jew' since he holds somewhat similar beliefs critiquing Israel, Zionism and anti-Semitism (details below)."

    Let us see about that.

    Ignatiev says: "The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society."

    Are we to assume that Ignatiev is so naive as to believe "white skin" is not a heritable trait? Are we further to assume that Ignatiev is so naive as to believe that the "white race" is not, at least, the coupling of "white skin" and Caucasian features, which is also heritable? Come now.

    "Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them."

    Ignatiev pours opprobrium on lower-class Whites for not working towards the extinguishment of what he himself obviously believe they are genetically.

    "The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing the privileges of the white skin."

    But so long as there is "white skin," coupled with Caucasian features, the boogeyman could never be laid to rest, clearly. Clearly Ignatiev know this.

    "The existence of the white race depends on the willingness of those assigned to it to place their racial interests above class, gender, or any other interests they hold."

    He means that "white skin" and Caucasian features should be destroyed through miscegenation.

    ScotchFiend says: "He claims to not want genocide against Whites but rather to radically reorder society.

    Ignatiev is a Communist desiring the revolutionary transformation of the US."

    Ignatiev is a Communist who clearly believes the genocide of the White race is necessary to achieve revolutionary change.

    Ignatiev says: "Now if there were five or ten per cent counterfeit whites around—people who looked white but really weren’t—then, I think, the white skin would lose its value."

    Hmm, does he mean like Jews? Jews "look white" but are not genetically European. Is this where Ignatiev's mask slips? Jews as the engine of revolutionary Communist change yet again?

    "The peculiar occupational distribution of European Jews led members of the dispossessed classes among the non-Jewish population to direct their animosity toward the Jews as the visible agents of oppression."

    This is no different from the position of Marx, who none the less thought Jews could, and should, maintain a secular Jewish identity post revolution. Kevin MacDonald also describes Soviet Jews who supported the suppression of religious Judaism yet celebrated and clung to a secular Jewish identity.

    "I propose that there be established there a single state, in which every person who declares his intention to live there and adopt citizenship be recognized as a citizen and have one vote."

    Okay.

    "I propose further that both Hebrew and Arabic be declared official state languages to be taught in the schools,"

    "...that the special position of Orthodox Judaism be ended and that the state declare freedom of worship and make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

    So the trappings of Jewish culture, that are important to maintaining Jewish genetic continuity, would not be relentlessly suppressed.

    I wonder if the good Jewish professor Ignatiev would support the right of Odinists to freely practice their religion as a means of ensuring European genetic continuity? Some how, I doubt it.

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  5. @Captainchaos

    In reading through some of Ignatiev's writings I found a few statements where he identifed himself as a non-believing Jew. I do use the term Jew or Jewish referring to ethnicity and not religion. I wrote a disclaimer post where I layout some foundational things like this.

    What I meant by "hypocritical Jew" was one who preaches for the US and other White homelands to be Proposition nations with large 3rd world immigration while Israel gets to be a Jewish ethnostate with essentially Jewish-only immigration. Many Jewish groups and leaders including the Neocon "right", liberals and even some leftist Jews advocate this extremely hypocritical position.

    I wanted to clarify the record a bit because while he is a major Jewish leader in trying to destroy White identity and cause oppression of Whites, he doesn't seem to be pursuing Jewish supremacism or Jewish group interests in the way they'd be understood by most Jews.

    My sense in reading through some of Ignatiev's writings is that he is a far Leftist true believer who seems to imagine a post-racial future after the supposedly aggressively ethnocentric Whites shed their putative virulent bias.

    He seems to couch his language as not being against Whites as a race but more as a supposedly oppressive power system he calls White Privilege. He adopts the Boasian position that races don't exist biologically. I don't know if he or they actually believe that or whether it's a pretty lie they tell to avoid weakening much of their ideology.

    As both you and Kevin MacDonald's article state, his use of genocidal-like language may very well disingenuous.

    Perhaps many of the Whiteness Studies crowd are using a kind of Straussian double talk with their true agenda masked from their public rhetoric. I haven't read enough of their stuff to talk in an authoritative manner. Although frankly even their surface layer is bad enough for me even though they don't explicitly support physical genocide against Whites. It does look as if adherence to their policies would pragmatically lead to continuing marginalization of Whites through many forces, including widespread miscegenation and in the long term there would clearly be very few full blooded Whites, similar to the sad situation of the Native Americans. And given the uncertainty of the future and the increasing vehemence of socially allowable anti-White rhetoric, it is all to conceivable that in the future Whites might treated as a class enemy targeted for genocide.

    As far as the "counterfeit whites" you're right that Leftist Jews would probably be the dominant group leading the way, although we must recognize that there are plenty of White Leftists too. The Left seems to be a hybrid of White and Jewish elements. Kevin MacDonald discussed this in his article:

    American Transcendentalism: An Indigenous Culture of Critique: Philip Gura’s American Transcendentalism

    LINK

    I have more learning to do in all of these areas.

    I'm planning some posts soon about how to respond to the Left and one part of that is we need our own large group of scholars and activists that closely read and respond to their assaults on Whites, their history, culture, identity, etc. We mustn't let their critiques go unanswered to pervert our own intellectual and cognitive elites.

    Regarding his position on religion is a future Palestine, he seems to be saying he wants the state to be fully divorced from religion and for there to be "freedom of worship" so presumably Odinists would also be free to practice their religion. I don't know if he has a record of being the kind of communist that wants to eliminate all religion or not.

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  6. I notice that Svigor made an interesting point in a thread at majorityrights.com where he suggests Noel Ignatiev might be duplicitously voicing anti-Zionist rhetoric, consciously or not, to maintain consistency, while actually putting very little effort into anti-Zionism relative to his anti-White activism.

    That may very well be true; I don't know enough about Ignatiev's activities and the full corpus of his work.

    True or not, it's very worthwhile to consider these sort of deceptive stratagems. A full taxonomy correlated with their real-world uses and practitioners would come in quite handy. e.g. seeing a full list of all known deceptions correlated with by author with full context and supporting evidence for why they're false or deceptive. Of course we'll need more resources and scholars to systematically perform these kind of analyses. I hope we can harness the power of many internet volunteers to perform small units of individual work that, when strategically managed, allow high-impact work to be performed collaboratively.

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  7. Having studied Social Science and from the white mans point of view black people have always been deemed to be second class. The case is strong for the perpetual putting down of people cannot last for ever and therefore it would be a fitting justice to see an abolition or at least pulling down of the white race. In the UK now they talk of Black Britain and London has more and more blacks moving in and white people moving out. We whites (and I am not like that) believe we are the master race. I firmly believe then that Noel Ignatiev has a point and in a strange quirk of fate could lead to racism with blacks being the masters over the white people. After years of slavery it would be called justice and with the immigrants fairly coming to the UK it may well be likely that blacks will go against the whites. It is certainly a oint worth thinking about. - JPG

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  8. Whiteness studies is the next step in undermining European (white) culture and racially discriminating against white people.
    The hypocritical, anti-white (especially anti-whit emale), politically-correct society in the United States today is not the country that the American flag is supposed to represent.

    The term "affirmative action" is the politically-correct term for the institutionalized racial discrimination against white people (especially white males).

    The feminist movement was intended to alienate white females from white males and encourage divorce and the breakup of the traditional nuclear family, all in the hopes of "breeding" white people out of existence.

    The polically-correct system exists in the workplace, in the media (at all levels), and in the military. The system bashes white males, encourages all who are not white males to hate white males, encourages all whites to hate themselves and have "guilt" over how minorities were treated in the past - this is a crock of crap because the ancestors and civilizations of these "minorities" have been repressive, non-democratic, ruthless, and cruel societies that these "minorities" would not want to be living in.

    There is a hypocracy in those "minorities" who want to express the culture of their "mother country" but don't want to live in that country. They would prefer to live in the white-founded USA and enjoy its benefits and domocratic institutions. These "minorities" are hypocrites who want to "have their cake and eat it too".

    For those minorities who say their ancestors were brought to the United States by force (such as by slavery from Africa for example), I say there is nothing stopping them from returning to their "ancestral homeland". Most of them would choose to stay in the U.S. because the lifestyle in white-founded U.S.A. is MUCH better than living in present-day Africa. By the way - the African slave trade was started by Africans, joined later by Muslim Arabs, and was a well-developed institution on the African continent long before (as in several thousand years before) Europeans tapped in to the African slave trade. Politically-correct, white-bashing history will not reflect this.

    This anti-white racist behavior is similar to human nature where one person is jealous of another person so, to make themselves feel better about themselves, the jealous person does everything in their power to put down and humiliate the person they are jealous about.

    Politcal correctness tries to tell me that 2+2=5 (in other words, racial disrcimination is OK as long as its done against white males). Well racial discrimination is racial discrimination -> 2+2 is ALWAYS 4.

    The politically-correct system (including Whiteness Studies) was not designed for equal opportunity as what the American flag and American values stand for. The political correct system in the U.S.A. is designed to deliberately discriminate against the white male, and as a white male myself, I say all you politically-correct types can piss off and remember - the truth always comes out. Your lies will come back to haunt you as more and more white males like myself get tired of your lies, get pissed off, and organize to resist you. You can count on that happening. When you try to destroy the white race (or any race for that matter) with your lies and discrimination, you go against God (because God made white people just as he made all peoples). When you go against God, you eventually lose (God will let you know your are wrong in his time).

    Everything you accuse white people of doing YOU and your ancestors are guilty of doing. You remember that, for your time is coming.

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  9. We have the problem in Canada:

    http://1867confederation.com/2013/04/the-public-service-is-too-white-says-louise-harel/

    "The public service is too “white”, says Louise Harel"

    Original French article: “La fonction publique est trop «blanche», estime Louise Harel” published 24 May 2011 at 15h49 | Updated 24 May 2011 at 18h08
    http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/montreal/201105/24/01-4402376-la-fonction-publique-est-trop-blanche-estime-louise-harel.php

    Exclusive English translation by Kathleen Moore for 1867Confederation.com and Habeas Corpus Canada.

    According to Vision Montréal, only the implementation of a “vast campaign” will change the face of the Montreal public service.

    By Gabriel Béland, La Presse

    Despite the implementation of an employment equity program, the Montreal public service is still too white and too homogeneous, deplored Louise Harel today, leader of the Vision Montreal party, who recommends that a campaign be instituted to hire more minorities.

    The leader of the city’s official opposition convened a press conference to denounce the “semi-failure” of the City’s diversity policy.

    Citing statistics in support, she recalled that visible minorities and ethnics represent 31% of the Montreal population, but constitute
    only 13% of the public service.

    “It hasn’t budged for five years and the portrait is distressing,” said Louise Harel. An assessment of semi-failure is obvious. It is
    absolutely necessary to set in motion steps to improve the score of the City of Montreal in terms of integration.”

    Since 2001, the law on the equality of access to jobs in public agencies has compelled those municipalities with staffs of over 100
    employees to implement a policy of integration. However, the policy has not borne fruit in Montreal, deplored Louise Harel.

    According to her, only a “vast campaign” will change the face of the Montreal public service. Vision Montréal believes that an overhaul of the hiring process adopted last week may help solve the problem.

    A plan was adopted in Montreal by the elected representatives which foresees the creation of a single job center. Currently, persons
    wishing to work for the City must submit their candidacies at 34 different locations — in 19 boroughs and 15 administrative units.
    Starting in November, only one office will be tasked with receiving CVs and drawing up lists of candidates. This centralization should
    facilitate the integration of minorities, believes Vision Montréal.

    “It will put an end to the scattering. An overall plan was needed, with results-oriented objectives and visibility to assure success,
    explained Mrs. Harel. Previously, each borough could hold its own job competitions, with its own candidate-selection team. For the
    past five years, this has all played against the equality-in-employment program.”

    At the City, we are “decidedly troubled” by these figures, of which the Administration was already aware, explained Jean-Yves Hinse,
    manager of human resources for the City of Montreal.

    Mr. Hinse also thinks that centralization of the hiring process will make it easier to attain the City’s objectives in respect to diversity.

    “They expect to make important breakthroughs in the coming years”, assured Mr. Hinse.

    - 30 -

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