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Feb. 16, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Who Are the Enemies of Western Civilization?
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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What is Western civilization?
It's the philosophy, culture, and spirit of Europe, with roots all the way back to Greece and Rome, and with branches that spread to wherever Europeans live.
Even the beautiful spaces that we build for ourselves are modeled on classical antiquity.
Most countries respect and try to copy vital elements of Western civilization.
The scientific method, representative government, religious freedom, rule of law, freedom of speech.
For example, the two houses of the Japanese legislature are unabashedly modeled on Europe.
Even the Ugandan legislature takes its outward form from the West.
The advanced non-white countries play our music, perform our operas, And read our literature in translation.
This is a Japanese production of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
Jamaicans play reggae music on instruments from Europe and write music in Western notation because, well, what choice do they have?
We don't call any of this cultural expropriation.
American and European institutions are in fact begging non-whites to study our civilization.
And what do we get in return?
The New York Times recently published a long article called He Wants to Save Classics from Whiteness.
Can the Field Survive?
It's an adoring profile of this guy, Daniel Padilla Parata, who was born in the Dominican Republic and teaches classics, the history of Greece and Rome, at Princeton.
His parents brought him here when he was four because his mother needed medical treatment that she couldn't get in the Dominican Republic.
His father disappeared, and they lived in a homeless shelter where, he says, the food tasted nasty.
But he got a full scholarship to Princeton, fellowships to Oxford and Stanford, and now he's a prof at Princeton, where the starting salary is $114,000.
You see, a real hard luck story.
Now, he says, the entire field of the classics is hopelessly tangled up with, guess what?
White supremacy.
He says the field is equal parts vampire and cannibal, and that studying Greece and Rome means justifying slavery, racism, colonialism, and Nazism, and that the classics have breathed racism into every aspect of higher education and may not deserve to survive.
Classics and whiteness are the bones and sinew of the same body, he says.
They grew strong together and they may have to die together.
So a Dominican has the nerve to tell us to stop studying Greece and Rome because that makes us racist.
There used to be something called the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
It was founded in 1983, and it was the most prestigious professional association for people who study old English literature and culture.
Believe it or not, most Anglo-Saxonists are white.
But of course, they're happy to live in people who aren't, including Adam Miyashiro, who is Asian and teaches at Stockton University, and Mary Rambaran Olm, who is at the University of Toronto.
She was named a second vice president in 2017, a real prestige appointment.
Immediately, she started saying there were too many white people in the society and its name because the word Anglo-Saxonist scared off the minorities.
As her pal Adam Miyashiro says, the word has a racist and white supremacist history.
When the society refused to change its name, she made a big fuss and resigned.
Panic! The board immediately decided that Anglo-Saxonist is problematic.
It has sometimes been used outside the field to describe those holding repugnant and racist views and has contributed to a lack of diversity among those working on early medieval England.
You know.
Klansmen call themselves Anglo-Saxonists, and that's why black people don't study Chaucer.
Well, now it's the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, and full of white people who seem to be ashamed to be white.
And there's this guy, Nebal Maisoud, an award-winning queer Lebanese Druze composer based in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
He studied classical composition and won awards in it.
But now he's fed up with classical music.
In an article called It's Time to Let Classical Music Die, he wrote, Western classical music participates in the act of destroying culture and replaces it with its own white supremacist narrative.
He complained that its main purpose is to be a cultural anchor for the myth of white supremacy.
And so, classical music has to die.
In the meantime, Mr. Maysoud says that he's still accepting commissions to compose, and that in his words, as long as people of color are making art, culture stays alive.
Phew! Thank goodness for that.
Music theory is the study of the structure and nature of music.
It's like Anglo-Saxon studies.
It's full of white people.
And so naturally, one of the few non-whites in the field, Philip Ewell, who teaches at Hunter College, says music theory is white supremacist.
He says there is a white racial frame in music theory that is structural and institutionalized and that only through a deframing and reframing of this white racial frame we will begin to see positive racial changes in music theory.
Music theory keeps in place the racialized structures that benefit whites over non-whites.
What does that stuff even mean?
And why do these people talk this way?
Maybe they once loved Beethoven or Homer or Beowulf, but got caught up in anti-white hysteria.
Maybe they want power by keeping whitey on the hop.
Maybe they just can't stand it that their people Could never have created anything like the Ring Cycle.
I don't know.
But that's their problem.
The real horror is that white people fall for this stuff.
Here's an article.
Confronting Our Complicity.
Music Theory and White Supremacy.
White Supremacy really wrecked that classroom, didn't it?
And here's the author, Dave Moult, wearing a shirt that says, Donald is a pubic hair.
These are the truly sick people.
Can you imagine a white man getting a job teaching at the University of Delhi and then saying that the Vedas are racist and sexist, so Hinduism needs to die?
Or studying Confucianism and then yelling because the field's got too many Chinese in it?
Or studying Japanese sword fighting and insisting on getting rid of all that racist Japanese terminology?
Only white people ever become such contemptible cultural bootlickers.
That's why the new dean of the University of Toronto School of Music is going to be Eli Hisama, whose research and teaching have addressed issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and
the social and political dimensions of music.
What's any of that got to do with music?
What is someone like that doing?
Even teaching music, much less running a music school.
The Metropolitan Opera of New York, the biggest arts company in America, has just appointed a chief diversity officer.
Marsha Sells is going to diversify the place top to bottom and concentrate on commissioning works from people of color.
Maybe our friend Nebal Maisoud, who wants to let classical music die, will compose something for the Met.
If his gender-reveal party doesn't take up too much of his time.
Alexander Neif runs the Paris Opera and is going to appoint a director of diversity and inclusion to end the silence that surrounds racism.
You see, it's racist if all the dancers wear white tutus.
And Mr. Neif says some of the classical repertoire will have to go because it is racially insensitive.
He also says the Paris Opera has a duty to represent on our stages the diversity that exists in the world.
No, it doesn't.
It has a duty to put on great ballet and great opera.
This is a uniquely white form of insanity.
If you think our classical roots are inherently white supremacist and our highest art forms are racist, it means our very existence is immoral.
How did we ever let such fools take charge?
They deserve to be laughed out of every position of authority and into the nut house where they
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