The Trashing of Poor Whites by Time Magazine Circa 1975

Posted by James Bowery on Thursday, 22 July 2010 21:07.

From Time magazine’s 1975 book review of Jean Raspail’s “The Camp of the Saints”:

Poor White Trash

...The Camp of the Saints shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world may well face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources…

The time is the not so distant future, when nearly 1 million hungry refugees from the Ganges commandeer 100 rusty ships—heavily freighted with symbolism and exiles—and set sail for the promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and “all that brotherhood crap.” When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d’Azur, the French are so “mucked up with brotherly love” that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper.

The notion of France undone by its own benevolence is a grand comic conceit. But Raspail is not joking… “The tidal wave fleeing the south has paused briefly to catch its collective breath in the soft underbelly of the nation.”

This bilious tirade would not be worth a moment’s thought if it had come off a mimeograph machine in some dank cellar. Instead, The Camp of the Saints arrives… with the imprint of a respected U.S. publisher and a teasing pre-publication ad campaign (“The end of the white world is near”).

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Posted by Leon Haller on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:46 | #

I wish you would post the entire review.

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Posted by Wanderer on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:42 | #

This review is of great interest, but in what way is it “the trashing of poor whites”? If anything, it is a mocking of the white-middle-class racialist holdouts in the post-1945 Western world.
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a teasing pre-publication ad campaign (“The end of the white world is near”).

How easy it was to mock such a sentiment at the time…!

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