Category: Blogs & Blogging

The “Fjordman” Project

Many internet sites that focus on the problems and dangers caused by the massive immigration into Europe of nonWestern and mainly Moslem peoples reject contributions by people who do not support Israel.

“Fjordman” is a well-known contributor to several of these sites and he has written an article that sums up the arguments why Europeans should support Israel. (Why Europeans Should Support Israel, Created 2007-03-12 07:49 Published on Brussels Journal.

I find “Fjordman’s” arguments in favor of making support for Israel a priority unpersuasive.

“Fjordman” asserts there is a powerful “anti-Israeli and sometimes outright anti-Semitic current that is prevalent in too much of Europe’s media”. “Fjordman” does not define what he means by “anti-Israeli” or “anti-Semitic” nor does he provide any examples of what he obviously wants his readers to believe are twinned thought-crimes.

Since expressing hostility against Jews, Moslems, or nonWesterners in general is subject to legal penalties in many European countries, I am not surprised that “Fjordman” evades his duty to provide examples of the alleged current.

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The Gruaniad and … VNN!

Two new experiences for me over the last few days have been commenting at the Guardian - twice - and at Alex Linder’s blog.

The Guardian stuff was a little tricky in terms of striking a publishable note.  But there was something very familiar about the thinking of its commenters.  A bit like Samizdata without the guns.  Or maybe This Inverted World without the race-realism (hell, when I think about it, I get into trouble every place I go).  But one of our wise and honoured commentariat said it was possible to get published on the Guardian threads, and he was right.

The second new experience was just a single comment on a very good Michael O’Meara piece at VNN.  It was his take on Le Pen’s disappointing result - superior to my effort on the same subject, I think.  Michael is a deep thinker, and I suspect that he understands as much about the desirability of a synthesis between a philosophy of the right and racial nationalism as any man in America.

Today, the VNN blog (not the main page) put up a post that read “VNNForum.com Arranging New Server:”.  VNN’s existing hoster had informed them that “The content on your sites is not something that we are able to accept or are willing to host here at cari.net.  Per our CEO your account will be terminated immediately.”

That’s something you’ll never read at the Guardian.  But you’ll never read Michael O’Meara, either.

Jim Kalb about turns

I know several MR regulars have the highest opinion of Jim Kalb.  For me, he is one of the two most thoughtful bloggers on the traditionalist right (the other being the more politically “big C” Conservative Mark Richardson).

After a blogging lay-off of some months Jim is back in harness with some new posts at Turnabout.  I’m sure he would welcome your patronage.

Free at last! Thank Bluehost, we are free at last!

Well, hopefully.  We are now relocated to a high capacity server.  So the troubles that stretch back several months, on and off, should be behind us.  There are still some unsolved mysteries that we may now never have an answer for, not least how it was that the pressure-periods seemed to be created by processes the blog did not generate.  If we didn’t, who did?

Anyway, excelsior.  One interesting factoid that arose from the investigations mounted by James and JR is that our Bluehost stats (aw and Webalizer) reveal a far higher traffic than indicated by the EE software - close to 50,000 hits a day throughout October, despite the server problems.

You are all most welcome, and I hope from now on that the blog will be operating with 100% efficiency.  That will shortly include the restoration of much functionality that we closed down to try to keep the page alive.

So, with apologies for all the problems and with every finger crossed, it’s on with the show ...

A long weekend spent working around the house

Sincere apologies to all MR readers and writers for the recurrence of the blog’s suspension by Bluehost.  The issue, as before, is overstepping the CPU limit on our server.  The solution, as before, is a transfer to a high capacity server.  That was promised a month ago.  But we missed out on the 80 slots available on that particular server, and must now wait for Bluehost to build another.

Meanwhile, the blog’s functionality will be further paired back to try to keep us under the CPU limit.  I hope the loading speed will improve as a result and not too much time will pass before Bluehost upgrade us to a server that can deliver the performance we need.

But anything, frankly, will be better than another weekend with nothing better to do than hammer nails into walls.

Apologies again.  Thanks for keeping faith with us.

A resignation

John Ray has left the MR panel of writers.  In so doing he has characterised his postings here over the past several months as a counterbalance to an intrusive anti-semitism.  I don’t think that characterisation will surprise anyone.  John is as strongly supportive of the positive Jewish contribution to Western society as most nationalists are critical of the negative, but neither can value the other’s analysis.

There is, as we all know, a wider tragedy in this disconnection in so much as Jewish cultural and ethnic activism works freely upon the body politic, while its critics go not just unheard but slurred, silenced and imprisoned.  If the free speech environment at this one small blog could not break down the barrier - and I recall all too few fruitful exchanges of opinion (not just with John) - then the outlook for our people is pretty bleak.

Anyway, John has gone and it is incumbent upon me to thank him for his past interest and efforts, and wish him well with his extraordinarily diverse array of blogging activities.

We look to the future now.

Angelic host

There can, it seems, be too much of a good thing.  JR’s inimitable contributions on the vexed issue of physical perfection may, by their popularity, have been responsible for the CPU problems we’ve had over the past few months.

In any event, our hosting service pulled the plug on us on Friday because we were starving other sites filed on the server.  Can’t complain about that.  Bluehost have a duty to their other paying customers.

JR has now cut back our CPU consumption and we are restored to life.  It’s time to apologise to all MR readers who have been confronted by a “Site Suspended” notice over the last couple of days.  We think the situation will be sufficiently stable to allow uninterrupted operation in the short-term.  Long-term, another solution will have to be found - on which more later.

Thanks again for your patience and thanks for coming back.

GW

The Real Realist, a two-times blogger in lovely Joburg

My thanks to reader Michael R for tipping me off about “The Real Realist”.  This guy is a new blogger, white of course, braving the rainbow nation to bring us crime news at the fetchingly named Why South Africa is Crap and that diversity we all celebrate so much, of course, at The Death of Johannesburg.

Well worth your patronage.

Outbreak of peace

Notwithstanding my committment to free speech ‘n all, I think the present disagreements about JJR’s posts have exhausted their utility.  I have taken down two recent, let us say, discursive contributions on the matter.

I have also asked JJR to post less frequently and with greater consideration.  As is well known I have no objection to views critical of the majority opinions here appearing on the blog.  What counts is the quality of the argument, and that is also the stated position of JJR’s critics.

I just want to reinforce once more why conventional political analyses are to be welcomed ... why, indeed, the intellectual cross-fertilisation of nationalism and the conventional political right is desirable and central to our goals.

The following argument is bowdlerised from an e-mail I received this morning.  I hope my correspondent will not object to its employment in the present, rather extraordinary circumstances, but it encapsulates my own feelings and, in fact, goes further - into the very interesting and crucial area of the power of art and thought to motivate political beings.

My correspondent wrote of the fringe and the mainstream, stating definitively that the motive drive to get the European people out of their present danger will come from the latter.  He rejected the notion that the movement of fringe personalities such as David Duke, Don Black and the National Alliance towards the mainstream could have telling results.  Our true leadership will emerge from the mainstream, he said, as it emerged in the Polish underground movement that pre-dated Solidarity, for instance.  They weren’t fringe personalities.  They were writers, academics, politicians and patriots seeking to revive the pre-War Polish political dispensation, but they had in common that they were all pushed aside by the totalitarian system.

Only culture, my correspondent wrote, could light the way to the turning point.  But it would have to be a high and new culture - novels, films, poetry, an aesthetic for recovery and renewal that draws fully on the European genius.  By no other means could we imbue ourselves with the energy and vision for the task ahead.  It will, he said, be a long process, slow to start.  Political hotheads need not apply.

Now, that’s a serious prognosis, and it would do no harm for us to attempt the same seriousness in all the work here.  The rest is, or ought to be, tolerance and, when it’s deserved, respect.

The majority and pluralism

So, JJR has provoked another “lively" debate about the JQ.  The unedifying spectacle of extreme judeophilia phobia philia threatens.  Antagonism stalks the thread.  Questions are raised, as ever, about the purpose and utility of the blog ...

Situation normal, you might say.  This is MR, after all.  It has never been Amen Corner.

But I think it would do no harm to set out in a formal post why the blog functions in this manner, and why I will not willingly change it.

When one starts a political blog it is usually for the purpose of inflicting upon the world one’s own half-baked opinions, bad jokes and other illiteracies.  It is not wholly beyond the realm of possibility, however, that one may be motivated by something a bit bigger than self.  Apart, I guess, from the survival of the planet absolutely nothing in and beyond politics is bigger than the survival of European Man.  And it is that - the shattering significance of where he stands today and why, and where he is heading tomorrow - combined with the fact that this cannot even be discussed in the political and journalistic mainstream, which caused me to set-up this decidedly free speech blog.

Now, at the time there was no template to copy.  There were fine websites addressing the issue from various sides, it is true.  But by definition a blog is an open resource.  Uniquely, the time and opportunity exist to interact, to persuade ... to try to answer and, thereby, awaken as many people as possible who are not currently in possession of all the facts and arguments they need to awake.  That, surely, is the first duty of anyone damned fortunate enough to escape the deadly embrace of conventional thinking.

Now, the place to do it is not, in my opinion, among the demonised and ghetto-ised nationalists.  It is out on the edge of the sleeping world where every illusion about us obtains, and only dreams of freedom drift across eyes wide shut.  I once read that it takes five years to change a man’s mind.  I don’t accept that in our case, because we have Nature, tradition and truth on our side.  There are a lot more light sleepers out there, too, as events drag them unceremoniously towards the morning light.

But there was another, more personal reason why I wanted to position MR as close to the mainstream as our interests and material would allow.  Like John, Phil, Martin and Mark, I am a Conservative by instinct.  I did not come to The Great Issue through nationalist politics.  I am comfortable talking to Conservatives about the dichotomies scarring their worldview.  I believe that if Conservatives can gain, or regain, their normal, healthy group-awareness from contact with nationalists, so nationalists can gain realism and respectablity from Conservatives.  The relationship should be mutually beneficial.

That, at least, is the theory.  In practice it has, let us say, been occasionally frustrating.  MR is very like a great pre-war airship.  When the storm-winds blow she is a might susceptible to being driven off-course - quite a bit off-course, actually.  Usually somewhere around Jerusalem.  We have lost bloggers from both wings - temporarily in most cases, I hope - because of the JQ as well as because their tastes and interests naturally diverge.  In the order of things, individual tastes and interests are of little importance and should, ideally, be subservient to a shared notion of the common good.  The JQ, however, is a challenging subject, and it doesn’t help for nationalists who are very familiar with (and completely unphased by) it to discount the difficulties it poses for others.  I have said elsewhere that I think we spend too much time on it.

Still, for all that the blog is what it is, which is something pretty unique and, I hope, valued by some.  I won’t change it.  I want, instead, to push the experiment forward and invite all who read this and who believe, from whatever political standpoint, that the Crisis of European Man is politically paramount to join in that effort.

Message from our host

E-mail to this blog received today from Matt Heaton of our hosting company.

Dear Bluehost.com Customer,

Today we experienced several MAJOR distributed denial of service attacks against our network. We regret that you experienced some downtime today. We have worked diligently today to further protect our network from these types of attacks. The attack today came from MANY different computers at the same time. This makes it difficult to block and resolve the issue.

Please know that we are working as hard and efficiently as we can to make sure interruptions are brief and rare.

We add our apologies for any connection difficulties you may have experienced over the last 24 hours or so.

New blog

Greetings all. Just to let you know that I’ve started up a solo blog. You will find it right about here. Perhaps Guessedworker can adjust my MR profile accordingly?

Evidence that Godless Capitalist is Lower Caste

Godless Capitalist recently banned me from the porn site “Gene Expression” (warning: if you click on that link, software written by south Asian programmer claiming to be “cognitive elitist” has been detecting that you came from Majority Rights and directs you to pornography of black men and white women and it may do so at any time).  He did so because he claims I am a white nationalist—a vague class of people banned from the site.  But he also—perhaps arguing the alternative—claimed that I am an ignoramus when it counts and not capable of critical thought when it counts—hence not suitable company for cognitive elitists such as those supposedly running and contributing to Gene Expression.

Ironically, the justification he gives for claiming this is, itself, a failure of critical thought and/or ignorance when it counts.  Moreover, this exhibition was apparently brought on by my claim that recent immigrants from India’s lower caste may be bringing intestinal flora with them that are causing the autism epidemic among Westerners.

Now, we are led by Godless Capitalist to believe his ancestry is from India, but could his ancestry be lower caste?  Taking personal offense to such an hypothesis and then abusing one’s position of privilege to suppress rational dialogue—providing logically fallacious and/or ignorant justification for these actions—is certainly something more consistent with the hypothesis that he is of lower caste ancestry than brahmin, benefiting from affirmative action and posing as a cognitive elitist, than it is that he is a genuine member of a cognitive elite.  It is tragic for all concerned when such characters succeed.

Read on for his “egregious” logical fallacy and/or ignorance.

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MR will be off-line for 4 hours from 10am EST

We will be closed for business for up to four hours today so our hosting company can switch servers and effect a substantial upgrade to capacity.  I hope that will resolve the occasional problems we have had with CPU starvation over the past few months.

Thanks for your patience and for your support, as always.

More fun with the Libertoids

The great parroterian himself, Perry de Havilland, has just seen fit to ban me from his blog. What occasioned this fit of distinctly unlibertarian censorship? What was my grievous sin? Did I perhaps doubt the ability of an individual to define himself? Did I question the compatibility of the war in Iraq with the non-aggression axiom?

No- it was my irredeemable “racism”, or rather my irredeemable inability to ignore objective reality about the races that made me feel the cold monstrosity of the libertarian state. I cannot remember offhand what precisely I wrote, my message having gone the way of a victim of a Stalinist show trial, but I’ll reproduce it as best I can. The context is Jonathan P. praising Euan Grey for refuting Matt O’Halloran’s race-realist ideas.

Here is approximately what I wrote in reply:

“EG did not dispose of anything, save perhaps of his reputation in our (if the plural isn’t too collectivist for your tastes) eyes. Matt and I made several claims about race, backed up by historical and scientific arguments. EG replied by asserting that mongrelisation leads to the opening of minds: a claim thoroughly refuted by the preponderance of socialist and anti-free speech tendencies amongst those of mixed ancestry.

Just look at London: one of the Mongrel capitals of the West, but scarcely a bastion of open minds. You would be on safer grounds if you claimed that inter-breeding opened arses, as there is a disturbing correlation between race-mixing and AIDS infection. But then, as good individualists, you think we should all support the Partisans of Sodomy.

If any of you wish to repeat this discussion, I could always copy what I said all those posts back. Or you could observe the mirth caused by your pathetic flailings at MR.com.”

What was I banned for? I admit some of my comments weren’t in the best of taste, but then the phenomenon I was describing isn’t precisely in the best of taste either. If anything, I was notably restrained considering the sort of abuse Perry routinely subjects us to.

If any of you wish to observe the latest twist in the war within the libertarian soul go to “The Economist on ‘soft paternalism’” on their website. Filed, incidentally and quite hilariously, under “opinions on liberty”!

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Squirrels before pine

As we have been helpfully reminded in a recent post, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to JJR for posting so frequently, even though his beliefs are more enlightened than ours. The man is a paragon, blogging at dozens if not hundreds of sites every day. Perhaps we should rename the site.
I cannot do anything about JJR. Anyway, the IQ stuff he posts is good. But I could do something to clean up MR. I could stop posting material that doesn’t interest people—that includes pretty much everything I post. This is your chance! You, the pullulating myriad readers of MR! What say you? Shall I p*** off?

Censorship of Conservative Blogger

I suspect that Auster has few friends here but I think this matter has broader ramifications

Larry Auster is one of the best known conservative bloggers but his webhosting company (Hostica.com) has just treated him like dirt.  They “suspended” his blog last Friday suddenly and without explanation, but presumably because it was in their eyes “hate speech” or some such.  Larry of course tried to find out why he had been so treated but apparently got nowhere.  Suddenly, however, they restored his blog last Sunday—still with no explanation.  He reproduces the terse emails he received here. 

I would be finding another hosting company in a big hurry if I were he.  The only trouble is that you are likely to encounter liberal arrogance wherever you go.  A web-hosting company that advertised itself as engaging in no censorship of conservative writing might do well, under those circumstances.

If anybody reading this is doing business with Hostica.com, you might think about taking your business elsewhere and telling them why.

Ecce Homo Scratchy

… to be honest, ‘blood and soil’ is such a dismal, choking thing when taken in too strong a dose compared to the attractions of globalised cosmopolitanism.  The wonderful thing about modern ‘identity’ is that you can make it for yourself and rather than having it forced upon you by the people around you.  No, be[ing] a cosmopolitan is not to be less than whole, it is to be British (or American or French or Chinese) .... but not just British (or American or French or Chinese) if that is what you want.  It allows you to be you and to wrap yourself up in the bits of ‘your’ culture which work for you and to say ‘screw it’ to the rest. That is irresistible.

Freedom is not belonging… you can get that at a football match. Freedom is ... well, freedom.

These auto-intoxicating words of Samizdata illuminati and liberty-tripper, Perry de Havilland, were passed down to me from on “high” during a debate on what is now an ancient and very much pre-MR thread at his blog.  For anyone who still doesn’t know, Samizdata is a famously critical-rationalist (ie, Popperian) blog, and is right-wing Britain’s most-hit (by us!).

As was my practise at the time of that quote, I always acted with caution, giving Poppergun Perry no excuse to ban me.  Later it transpired that no excuse was necessary.  But that’s another story.

Now, following our disgracefully enjoyable examination of all these critical-rationalists’ emotional lives, organised so ably for us by Alex, I want to take a moment to reflect on the strange hatreds and glaring weaknesses of these desperately bitchy, cosmopolitan housewives.

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Samidioting

That motley collection of identical Sovereign Individuals and non-aggression axiom loving warhawks over at Samizdata have finally noticed our existence. Well, not this website’s, but certainly that of what they charmingly and inanely call “race collectivists”. A regular commentator called VeryRetired (and thank god for that) apparently wrote:

“My experience of racists is that they are race based collectivists who are so utterly without anything to redeem them (and know it), that they pick out something they didn’t have to earn (race) and claim that as their most valuable asset.”

Well, my experience of libertarians is that they are ideology based collectivists who are so utterly without anything to redeem them (and know it), that they pick out something they didn’t have to earn (their ever so correct opinions) and claim that as their most valuable asset. I decided to notify them of my existence in the following manner:

“Meanwhilst, “in the real world”, Blacks get together to filch from Whites, Mestizos get together to make American open borders a fait accompli, and Arabs get together to preach radical, anti-West jihad.

Oh, and as to your post-racial fantasies: have you noticed that the greater the number of inter-breds, the less liberty there is in a place? Deprived of any other identity, mongrels attach themselves to the all-powerful state to find some sort of belonging.

You state that believing in racial differences is the product of a sense of personal inferiority. Yet, if racial differences do exist, and judging by the performance of Blacks on just about any metric they do, then they should be believed in.

You state that the success of a nation is the result of its freedoms, not its race. But a nation’s freedoms are the product of its race. Why was classical liberalism only ever tried in the West?

You claim to libertarians: well, then, presumably you are opposed to social engineering. Yet, that is precisely what is necessary to convince the people to welcome every ethnicity under the sun into their embrace. The miscegenation you celebrate is the direct result of half a century of government propaganda to the effect that “if it feels good, do it”.

Every self-governing people in history has resisted large scale immigration. It is the empires, the late Romans and the Persians and the Mongols and the Soviets, which welcomed the great unwashed mass, caring as they did not for their people but for their military might.

“Diversity, tolerance, araciality” are the swan song of every civilization, and the beginning of many a dictatorship.

Is it possible to be a race-based libertarian? If you consider opposing government propaganda, social engineering and the whims of emperors to be libertarian, it most certainly is.”

That resulted in a veritable Niagara Falls of verbal diarrhea, as I was accused, in posts lacking any sort of evidence or argument whatsoever, of ignorance. I guess the truly enlightened do not need to discuss and debate: they just know what the case is.

Remembering what Kirk said about libertarians being like wild-eyed anarchists, albeit ones that don’t even know which sex they are, I invite you to watch the bitch fight progress.

Vicious Croat politically correct

Feisty Scottish blogger, Neil Craig has had a good letter published in The Scotsman: 

“David Irving is sentenced to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust. The late ruler of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, also denied the Holocaust, but this did not prevent us helping him to get his own country and ethnically cleansing 560,000 Serbs, 240,000 of whom are still “missing”. Nor did it prevent him being invited to the United Kingdom’s celebration of the defeat of Nazism in Europe. Just as there are some Holocausts which may not be denied and some which may, there are clearly acceptable and unacceptable Nazis”.

Background

Neil Craig takes a line broadly opposite to the Clinton one—he favours Serbia and deplores Croatia.  There is no doubt that the Croats of WWII were appalling.  They even sickened the Nazis.  Gouging people’s eyes out was their specialty. But I think I am like most Westerners in saying “A pox on both their houses”.  I think they deserve one-another.

La vie Parisienne

Can’t have JJR out on his lonesome.  Here are a couple of blog offerings from the capital city of love, the first a fine display of principle and true courage from the bloggers of “no-passaran” who protested a Muslim protest march last weekend against Western free speech.

Voices start to ring out. “It’s provocation!” “You tread on 1.5 million Muslims!” “Connards!” “Rat faces!”

“Ignore them, they are idiots!” reply others as a crowd starts to press around. A rhetorical question rings out: “Would they be carrying out the same provocations in other types of demonstrations?!” (Actually, Monsieur, yes we would and yes we have.)

The Danish American feels like replying that they have done the same to Chirac, to Mitterrand, to the civil servant salons, and to union demonstrations, but suddenly he and the French American start moving away. What has happened is that a short blonde Frenchwoman has tugged on their sleeves and gently but firmly started pulling them away.

“I will show you my ID 10 meters from here” says the plainclothes cop. “They are going to lynch you!” she adds, as she leads us into another street (in the movie taken by our valiant camera team, you can briefly see her wearing a brown coat, right after a bearded guy in white cap and tan jacket says “They are provoking us” and the camera turns).

“Sons of adultery!” “Hey, you two sons of the whore!” Uniformed policemen join us and start rushing us, more and more quickly down the street (I don’t want to run, I tell them), with a growing crowd quickening their steps. A police van’s door opens. “Go! Go!” shouts a policeman to the driver, “Foncez!” as sirens wail and the van rushes ahead.

“Are you out of your minds?!” ask the two officers. “Do you know how many of them there were?!” “Somebody’s got to stand up for free speech”, replies the French protestor. After staying with us for 20-something minutes, they let us out. (As a departing farewell, I say, “You know, right before you came, we almost had them surrounded.")

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Announcement

It probably isn’t my place to point this out, but in the absence of anyone else having noticed, John Ray’s piece on Pauline Hanson was the 2000th Majority Rights posting. I hope all MR bloggers will crack open a few Carlsbergs tonight in celebration.

The cartoons.  A selection of the points being made:

The man who orchestrated the anti-Denmark uprising was a Danish Imam:  “Abu Laban’s celebrated celeb status is about history in Denmark. Danes have no more patience for those who preach love in one language and war in another, those who publicly play the role of the victim, demand tolerance and then secretly incite hatred. While much of Europe has been asleep at the wheel, oblivious to the monumental threat radical Islam poses to its future, at least one country is increasingly awake. Denmark’s first battle is domestic, unmasking the enemy’s fifth column inside its borders”.

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Blogspot

For anybody who’s wondering, all blogspot blogs seem to be off the air at the moment—including mine.  There are however mirror sites for my blogs which are all OK.  See:

Dissecting Leftism, Greenie Watch, Political Correctness Watch, Education Watch, Gun Watch and Socialized Medicine.

More praise for Razib Khan of Gene Expression blog (GNXP)

Razib Khan is the designer and chief administrator of Gene Expression blog (gnxp.com).  Lately, he has been advertising his availability for web development using PHP (hypertext pre-processor language) and writing well-informed and well-reasoned pieces on genetics or public policy.  Anyone thinking of hiring Razib to do such work had better read this entry first. 

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