Tuesday, August 15, 2017

"The narcissism of small differences"

Via InstapunditIt's becoming so clear now why the war of words between SJWs and the new white nationalists is so intense. It isn't because they have huge ideological differences -- it's because they have so much in common. Both are obsessed with race, SJWs demanding white shame, the alt-right responding with white pride. Both view everyday life and culture through a highly racialised filter. SJWs can't even watch a movie without counting how many lines the black actor has in comparison with the white actor so that they can rush home and tumblr about the injustice of it all. Both have a seemingly boundless capacity for self-pity. Both are convinced they're under siege, whether by patriarchy, transphobia and the Daily Mail (SJWs) or by pinkos and blacks (white nationalists). Both have a deep censorious strain. And both crave recognition of their victimhood and flattery of their feelings. This is really what they're fighting over -- not principles or visions but who should get the coveted title of the most hard-done-by identity. They're auditioning for social pity. "My life matters! My pain matters! I matter!" The increasing bitterness and even violence of their feud is not evidence of its substance, but the opposite: it's the narcissism of small differences.

3 comments:

ricpic said...

I'm a white nationalist and it has nothing to do with the psychobabble employed in an attempt to "understand" me. It has to do with a love of my own kind and the world they and only they have made. Of course I'm Jewish so at least half the whites would call me a counterfeit white. Not true, I'm paler than a Mick!

bagoh20 said...

"White nationalist"? Oh my! that sounds terrible. I'm white, and I love my nation. What can I do - move to France, stop using sun block?

edutcher said...

White nationalists aren't lusting for a Communist state that combines the fun of the purges with the mind-numbing of the Cultural Revolution.