Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Who's Right, CNN or the Academy?
Aired: 2021-06-30
Duration: 08:00


=== White Shift: Race & Populism (07:38) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  Recently, I was interviewed for what CNN promised would be, in its words, an hour-long, serious treatment of white nationalism.
[00:00:16]  I accepted skeptically, and I wrote back, I will permit myself to hope that the word hate will not be in the title of your program, and that my interview will not be sandwiched between footage of goose-steppers and cross-burners.
[00:00:29]  Ha, vain hope.
[00:00:31]  The program was called State of Hate, the Explosion of White Supremacy.
[00:00:36]  My co-stars were Dylann Roof, Timothy McVeigh, the New Zealand mosque shooter, and, of course, Adolf Hitler, along with hundreds and hundreds of Klansmen.
[00:00:48]  CNN draws a straight line from me to mass murder and genocide, but academics, at least in Europe, have actually begun to try to understand white advocacy.
[00:00:59]  And they've discovered that we have legitimate interests and deserve a voice in politics.
[00:01:05]  One example of this wiser view is the book White Shift, Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities.
[00:01:13]  The author, Eric Kaufman, is professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
[00:01:19]  Professor Kaufman understands why whites all around the world Don't want to become minorities.
[00:01:25]  And he sees the danger of what CNN is trying to do, namely, demonize white identity and force it underground.
[00:01:33]  Let me quote from Whiteshift.
[00:01:35]  Not only is white group self-interest legitimate, but I maintain that in an era of unprecedented white demographic decline, it is absolutely vital for it to have a democratic outlet.
[00:01:48]  Vital. He goes on to say, He even notes that progressives want to shove whites right out the door.
[00:02:06]  White decline emboldens the cultural left, he writes, with its dream of radical social transformation.
[00:02:14]  He goes on to warn that if the government backs this transformation, and if whites are shut out of politics, they could, And I quote again,"Start viewing the government as an enemy." Pretty strong talk.
[00:02:27]  Another book that recognizes white interests is National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin, two more British professors.
[00:02:39]  By National Populism, they mean white support for immigration control parties throughout the West.
[00:02:45]  They understand why white people And they go on to write this.
[00:02:56]  National populists are appealing strongly to people who share distinct and legitimate beliefs about how this rapid change poses cultural and demographic risks.
[00:03:08]  Legitimate beliefs.
[00:03:11]  Again, unlike CNN, which wants to treat dissidents like insects, Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin write, These are legitimate, democratic issues that millions of people want to discuss and address.
[00:03:25]  Believe it or not, this book, startlingly full of common sense, was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year for 2018.
[00:03:35]  Another even-handed European treatment is the identitarians, the movement against globalism and Islam in Europe.
[00:03:43]  It's by José Pedro Zucchete at the University of Lisbon.
[00:03:48]  Dr. Zucchete explains that identitarians have a traditional morality that elites have rejected, adding that identitarians value, quote, territorial belonging, historical and cultural inheritance, collective memory,
[00:04:04]  Hereditarianism and ethnic ties.
[00:04:07]  Yes, we do value those things.
[00:04:10]  Dr. Zuckete even explains why American identitarians talk more about race than European identitarians.
[00:04:18]  He quotes me, respectfully, I might add, as follows.
[00:04:23]  Americans have no choice but to speak in terms of race as our unifying factor.
[00:04:28]  Whereas European nationalists can emphasize language, history, and culture without specifically talking about race.
[00:04:37]  American academics don't have anything like this sane perspective.
[00:04:42]  Making Sense of the Alt-Right by Professor George Hawley of the University of Alabama is a mostly accurate description of the ideas and people in the dissident right.
[00:04:52]  However, Professor Hawley calls us a racist movement, and he claims that, quote, If the alt-right continues to grow in size, it may represent a serious challenge for America's liberal democracy.
[00:05:06]  You see, Europeans understand that if democracy means anything, we have to be heard.
[00:05:12]  Professor Hawley thinks we're a threat to democracy.
[00:05:16]  Ashley Jardina of Duke University is even more hostile in a book called White Identity Politics, but she does make a surprising concession.
[00:05:27]  White identity is not synonymous with racial animus and is not a proxy for white supremacy or extremism.
[00:05:36]  Are you listening, CNN?
[00:05:38]  She even recognizes that, quote, white identity may be, in part, a reaction to the development of other strong racial identities in American society, and that this raises the obvious question.
[00:05:52]  Whites wonder...
[00:05:53]  If blacks, Latinos, Asians, and others can organize around their race or ethnicity, why can't we do the same?
[00:06:00]  Well, she says, we can't.
[00:06:03]  Because, in her words, whiteness, by its very nature, is constructed in opposition to other groups.
[00:06:10]  Racial solidarity is healthy for everyone else, but pathological for us.
[00:06:15]  The usual rubbish.
[00:06:17]  Now, doesn't she look like a sweet, earnest white woman?
[00:06:20]  But Professor Giardina does write something interesting.
[00:06:25]  Americans today remain more polarized around issues of race than ever.
[00:06:31]  Really? More polarized than in 1860 when South Carolina seceded over slavery?
[00:06:37]  More polarized than in 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated and there were race riots in more than 100 American cities?
[00:06:45]  If she's right, and I'm not arguing with her, then it sounds to me...
[00:06:50]  She could be saying that race is a problem that can't be solved.
[00:06:55]  And even though she hates it, Professor Giardina realizes that white people everywhere are waking up.
[00:07:01]  As I said to my CNN interviewer, I can assure you more and more white people agree with me all the time.
[00:07:10]  European academics see this, and they take it seriously.
[00:07:13]  They understand that whites have legitimate interests, even if...
[00:07:18]  We are kept off of campuses, out of politics, silenced on social media, and smeared on TV.
[00:07:25]  American elites, even more than European elites, rely on pure repression to try to squash ideas they can't refute.

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[00:07:34]  But the truth is leaking out.
[00:07:37]  The truth is on our side.
[00:07:39]  And in the end, the truth will set us free.
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