John C. Wright's Journal

It would be nice, if, once and for all, the smear used by the Left of calling everyone who supports fascism “anti-fascist” and everyone who opposes fascism “fascist” were abolished and forgotten.

This lie, as all commonplace lies in the modern press and modern politics, is Leftist.

The designation of Left or Right, originally born in the politics of monarchic France, was co-opted by the Socialists to apply it to themselves, in order to cloak their totalitarian death-cult dogmas in the glamor and demeanor of pro-liberty and pro-equality measures popularized by the writings of Locke and Montesquieu and the success of the American Revolution.

Only by avoiding definitions, can the confusion of terms continue.

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Some claim that the White Race is a kind of clan, hence a natural clan loyalty binds all Whites together, for membership in a clan creates a common interest demanding submission to the need for mutual action, regardless of circumstances or personal preferences. You skin color is your uniform.

The claim goes further: Even those Whites not predisposed to vow fealty to Whiteness must do so, since the other races shall combine against us, or already have. Examples of Jews protecting and promoting each other, Blacks receiving special and privileged treatment in corporate hiring, college admissions, and favorable news reporting, are used to show the combination against Whites. No one may print nor purchase WHITE LIVES MATTER on a tee-shirt.

Hence, we Whites form a group as defined by our mutual enemies, so we might as well be loyal to it, and use race as a paramount consideration when determining our group membership and group actions.

So runs the argument.

I beg to differ. The White Race is not a clan. It is nothing of the kind.

A clan is a group of people related by blood. A race, in the older sense of the word, is a group of people related by language and culture and largely by blood but not necessarily by blood (as a Dark Irish is still considered an Irishman, despite Spanish blood in his veins) .

In the older sense of the word, a Catalan, a Saxon, a Norman, a Prussian, a Langobard, a Cornishman, all were considered races, what we now call ethnicity.

In the new sense of the word, a race is a breed of mankind with some visible outward sign, more or less arbitrarily selected, to group a large number of ethnics groups together, hence the Whites, Reds, Blacks, and Yellows.

This was done for historical, not scientific reasons: Christendom spread south and east and crossed the Atlantic to discover the New World, and so divided the several (but related) races thus encountered into Asian, African, and American.

Where Semite races and Pacific Islanders fit into this rough category is a matter of debate. Sometimes Jews, Persians and Italians are considered ‘White’ and sometimes not, depending on the preference of the speaker and the phases of the moon.

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