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Old December 31st, 2009 #11
Mike Parker
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Two strands of the MacDonald-TOQ strategy are in conflict. The “top-down” approach seeks to convince whites in the “cultural establishment,” the under-defined “elites,” of the intellectual merits of WN. One means to reach these people is to soften the differences between WN who view Jews as a hostile racial or ethnic group, and paleoconservatives who pretend it's just an ideological disagreement with some Jews. But is mendacious paleoconservatism really more palatable or respectable (or a “gateway”) to elites than truthful WN? Steve Sailer argues:

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Views on illegal immigration may be the surest status symbol. A blithe attitude toward illegal immigration conveys your self-confidence that you don’t have to worry about competition from Latin American peasants and that you can afford to insulate your children from their children. Moreover, your desire to keep down the wages of nannies, housekeepers, and pool boys by importing more cheap labor advertises that you are a member of the servant-employing upper-middle class.
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Another class marker of elite discourse is not letting the dreary realities of daily life sully discussions of affairs of state. Both average and elite Americans observe that the children and grandchildren of illegal immigrants are more likely to become disruptive students and to join street gangs, so they both try to find schools for their children far from them. While the typical citizen draws the additional lesson from this that our government should therefore work harder to enforce the laws against illegal immigration, inside the Beltway anyone noticing a connection between the personal and the political is looked down upon as a pathetic loser who needs help from his government.
That’s all consistent with my observations. The highest-achieving people I’ve known are “moderate” Republicans: socially liberal, fiscally conservative is the typical formula. They want no part of paleoconservatism, with its “petty resentments” and whiff of nativism. These are people who cheerfully fund minority scholarships and aspire to be “citizens of the world.” Whether they really believe in any of this is another matter: mine aren’t the only eyes that roll in diversity training. But that goes back to the gap in MacDonald’s understanding:

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A critical component of the success of the culture of critique is that it achieved control of the most prestigious and influential institutions of the West, and it became a consensus among the elites, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
MacDonald has a comprehensive explanation of why Jews critiqued the culture, but little of why the whites who controlled our institutions accepted, even welcomed the critique. It’s not surprising that he doesn’t have a clear idea of how to change the minds of the few such influential whites still left.