AmRen is short for
American Renaissance, American Rebirth. Its point is to stand for White
Americans, or even just the White Man. The
Wiki barely bothers to hide its
loathing, its hatred; a symptom of the problem. This contrasts with its
attitudes to the ADL, a grossly
Racist propaganda machine & the corrupt
Southern Poverty Law Center which are both run by Jews for Jews.
AmRen's magazine is published by the
New Century Foundation. Amren Vistas AmRen -
http://www.amren.com/
Race Traitor 2013 Race Traitor 2014 Race Traitor 2015
American Renaissance ex Metapedia From 1990 to
2012,
American Renaissance was also published monthly as a print journal;
these articles are freely available in an online archive.[1]
American Renaissance have also organized conferences with the tenth
taking place in 2012.
American Renaissance
ex Wiki History American Renaissance states that it is a monthly magazine
first published in 1991. A section called What We Believe on the
organization's website states that "Race is an important aspect of
individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide
society — language, religion, class, ideology — it is the most prominent
and divisive."[4] The magazine's arguments are usually explained using
social science and
genetics, but one article mentioned Biblical arguments against
interracial and inter-cultural marriages.[5]
The magazine and foundation promote the view that differences in
educational outcomes and
per capita incomes between racial populations can be attributed at
least in part to
differences in intelligence between races.
Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers in the
Intelligence Report (a publication of the
Southern Poverty Law Center), has written that "Jared Taylor is the
cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is
providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day
Klansmen." They have also stated that "American Renaissance
has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of
intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of
white supremacy".[6]
American Renaissance, the New Century Foundation, or Taylor are
alleged to have had links with organizations such as the
Council of Conservative Citizens, the
Pioneer Fund, and the
British National Party.
Don Black and
David Duke have attended AR conferences and have been seen talking
with Taylor.[5][7]
The organization has held bi-annual conferences that are open to the
public and that attract 200-300 people. Critics say some who attend are
neo-Nazis,
white nationalists, white separatists,
Ku Klux Klan members,
Holocaust deniers, and
eugenicists (as well as numerous
protesters).[8] Contributors to the magazine and conferences have included Stephen
Webster,
Michael Levin,
Nick Griffin,
Bruno Gollnisch,
J. Philippe Rushton,
Glenn Spencer,
Lawrence Auster,
Richard Lynn, Sam Dickson, and
Samuel T. Francis.[citation
needed] The
Anti-Defamation League writes that "Taylor eschews
anti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the
“conscience of society,” Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who
share his views on race and racial diversity" and "Jews have been
speakers and/or participants at all eight American Renaissance
conferences" although controversy followed accusations by
David Duke, who was not a scheduled presenter, at the 2006
conference.[2]
Taylor in response wrote that "There will be no more disgraceful
behavior of this kind if people who attend AR conferences bear in mind
that Jews have a valuable role in the work of American Renaissance, and
are welcome participants and speakers. Anyone who thinks otherwise has
the choice of staying home or keeping his views to himself."[9] Immediately after the cancellation of the conference, in a radio
interview with the
Derek Black Show on WPBR 1340AM in South Florida, Taylor described
the forced cancellation as an obstruction of the right to
free speech, saying it set a dangerous precedent and paved the way
for scenarios in which animal rights activists might shut down a meat
packers’ conference or radical environmentalists could shut down a
foresters’ meeting through the use of death threats.[21]
Taylor also appeared on Russian television, one of the few news outlets
that would interview him.[22]
In late October 2010 American Renaissance announced that they will hold
a conference in Feb. 2011 in an undisclosed location in Charlotte, NC,
the first time in over a decade the conference was not held in the
Washington, DC area, and the first time it is to be held in an "off"
year for the biennial conference.[23]
Although Taylor wanted to keep the location a secret until closer to the
start of the conference, activists discovered it was at the Airport
Sheraton, who promptly kicked the conference out of the hotel. Other
hotels in the area began to follow suit, shutting their doors to the
conference, and Taylor was eventually forced to cancel the event,
holding instead a session in another hotel where the planned speakers
and a few spectators gathered to videotape the speeches they were to
give.[24]
Lawrence Auster, a traditionalist conservative and self-described
racialist,[25]
claimed that Taylor's appearance on
Stormfront radio was part of a long-standing pattern of Taylor's in
"consorting with
anti-Semites" and described Taylor's Stormfront appearance as
"morally obtuse."[26]
John Derbyshire, however, called the conference shutdown an
"ominous" and "shameful thing", and asked for open debate and respect
for the freedom of speech and association.[27] Despite the Fox News report, DHS officials the following day reported
that "the department has not established any such possibility,
undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim."
Furthermore, no such memo had been issued.[30] Major David Denlinger, commander of the
Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center acknowledged that the
document came from his agency, but contained errors.[31]
He said that he has no reason to believe that Loughner had any direct
connection with or was being directed by American Renaissance.[32]
UNQUOTE
New Century Foundation ex Wiki Taylor advocates segregation as a natural expression of racial solidarity
while denying that his views constitute white supremacism. Viewing societal
problems as racial in nature, Taylor upholds white racial homogeneity as the key
to peaceful coexistence. He sees
Japan as an
exemplar of a racially homogenous society, and views Asians generally as
genetically superior in intelligence to whites. He also view whites as
genetically superior in intelligence to blacks.[5][6] Regarding Jews, the ADL writes that "Taylor eschews
anti-Semitism. Seeing Jews as white, greatly influential and the “conscience
of society,” Taylor rather seeks to partner with Jews who share his views on
race and racial diversity" and "Jews have been speakers and/or participants at
all eight American Renaissance conferences" although controversy followed
accusations by
David Duke,
who was not a scheduled presenter, at the 2006 conference.[5]
Taylor in response wrote that "There will be no more disgraceful behavior of
this kind if people who attend AR conferences bear in mind that Jews have a
valuable role in the work of American Renaissance, and are welcome participants
and speakers. Anyone who thinks otherwise has the choice of staying home or
keeping his views to himself."[7]
AmRen ponders the way forward.
From
http://www.amren.com/news/2014/05/new-vistas-for-american-renaissance/
Richard Spencer, Radix Journal, May 8,
2014 For more than 20 years, American Renaissance and
Jared Taylor have set the standard for a White consciousness
movement. Others have undertaken this mission: William
Pierce, Revilo Oliver, Willis Carto, among them. But Jared
has been most successful in adhering to the norms of modern
political organization. AmRen has, for two decades, focused
on a few key issues that are (or should be) harmonious with
“American values”: free association, the legitimacy of group
interests, and the scientific study of genetic differences. Jared has also avoided the obsessions and crankiness that
have, unfortunately, characterized much of American
racialism. (I have long been under the impression that many
in alternative or dissident movements like to indulge in
their own marginalization, perhaps out of a desire to shock
for shock’s sake, or as a preemptive excuse for failures in
life.) With Jared and AmRen, there is a certain radicalness
in mainstreaming, in presenting ideas that have
world-changing consequences in packages that seem mellow and
respectable. American Renaissance’s 2014 conference took place just
outside Nashville, Tennessee, in comfortable Montgomery Bell
State Park. It marked the 20th anniversary of AmRen events,
a fact that was mentioned only briefly by Jared, perhaps not
wanting to dwell on the past. Fittingly, the conference
marked a certain milestone. This had something to do with the contingent of scruffy
leftists that protested for an hour or so on Saturday
afternoon. It was hard not to chuckle at their signs, which
sported crudely drawn swastikas, and their chants, which
were a mixture of vague physical threats, vague Marxism, and
vague demands for liberal tolerance. Nevertheless, their
presence made the conference feel relevant and “real,” not
merely academic. (The Forces of Diversity were
significantly fewer than last year, probably due to the fact
that their previous protest failed to persuade state
authorities to shut down the 2013 event.) For me, the real milestone was the speeches themselves.
Indeed, as I listened, I sensed that an evolution of sorts
was taking place. The talks of Jack Donovan, RamZPaul, and
John Morgan–as well as Alex Kurtagic’s speech in 2012 and my
own in 2013–all presented racialism “in a different
key.” Perhaps they even presented a reversal of
some of the rhetoric that informed AmRen gatherings of the
past two decades. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The scientists The next speaker, Douglas Whitman, who presented on the
biological reality of race, was a revelation. Whitman’s
talk was stimulating, sensible, and generous (though he did
twice refer to “those slimy Marxists!”). The revelation was
Whitman himself. He struck me as the kind of man, Henry
Harpending is another, who could be of tremendous value to
our movement. He possesses academic authority (he’s a
professor at Illinois State University); he clearly cares
about his race and civilization; and he is a “happy
warrior.” He also gave us a great slogan for a T-shirt:
“Society is a racial construct.” The way of men One dominant mode of thought in American racialism, and
AmRen in particular, is that Blacks and Third World
immigrants are “unassimilable” and, if they are present in
large numbers, would destroy American society as we know it.
This is certainly true. But such a view fails to help us
understand why our current demographic disaster is
happening and why Whites are so incapable of
resisting it. Jack suggests that the problem is not simply
“foreigners” but the very structure of American life–and how
this has been psychically internalized by White people. The
modern American White man is a “free agent”: a man who has
little loyalty to his place, friends, co-workers, and likely
has never met his neighbors. (We can all see a little bit of
ourselves in Jack’s description.) Loyalty limits your options. Loyalty to no one opens
your options. You become a mercenary . . . .
‘Discrimination’ becomes a dirty word . . . not because
it is evil, but primarily because it is unprofitable. Jack argues that White dispossession is predicated on
Whites’ own embrace of the mentality of the consumer, the
careerist, and the money-accumulator. His indictment is thus
not simply of “socialism” (the perennial bogeyman of the
American Right) but “capitalism,” or more precisely
“capitalist man.” And it is capitalism–debt, shopping,
buying and selling–that has become the American elite’s
favored form of social organization. As Jack states,
“Hopeless people without dreams”–without identity, without a
history, and without a future–“are easy to control.” In a moving coda, Jack observed that the ultimate outcome
of American meaninglessness is not just the obsessed shopper
and salesman but the hipster and SWiPL. These are people
whose identity is irony, whose dress, language, and tastes
are in sarcastic quotation marks. (Imagine a smirking
hipster sporting a lumberjack beard, drinking a Pabst Blue
Ribbon beer, wearing ‘80s Rayban knockoffs, and a T-shirt
featuring an Atari game from his childhood.) Contemporary racialism certainly has its share of
ironists, those whose activism amounts to gawking at the
latest Black-on-White criminal outrage or debating the best
way to pick up unstable women at bars. Jack proffers radical
“sincerity” as the alternative. Leftists of the last century
discriminated between the armchair Marxist and the writer
who was “committed” (“engagé”) to revolution. We
should do the same. Life as a white minority Orania “just works”: the entrepreneurs who created it
turned an abandoned settlement into a thriving farming town.
But at the end of the day, Orania remains under the dominion
of the South African government, and thus the African
National Congress. I was surely not the only one who
imagined that little Orania might be too tempting a prize
for the ANC to seize and plunder if the opportunity arose. I
was also surely not the only one who wished that Craik had
spent less time recounting the history of the Boers and
showing us an Orania promotional video, both of which we
could have found online, and instead talked about various
survival strategies for Whites as racial minorities. Nationalism and beyond There were two things that were conspicuously absent in
John’s talk. (Yes, I know it is unfair to criticize a
speaker for what he did not say. ) The first was
Russia, and in particular the development of the country
over the past 25 years–from leading a “Communist” empire
that was, to a large degree, an expression of traditional
Russian imperialism to the humiliation of the 1990s and,
most recently, to Russia’s reentering the geopolitical stage
as the preeminent counterweight to U.S. hegemony. Surely
this is more lasting and consequential than Ukrainian
ethno-nationalism? The second conspicuous absence was a discussion of the
problems of nationalism in itself, especially as it has been
expressed by groups like Right Sector. No doubt, most in the
audience would concur that nationalism is a natural and
healthy form of politics for all peoples. That said, modern
racialism comes, as Sam Dickson noted in his talk, in the
wake of extremely destructive and fratricidal forms of
nationalism that arose throughout the 20th century (and, of
course, much earlier). However deeply Right Sector might be
influenced by Tradition, it is primarily motivated by
passionate (and, to a degree, understandable) historical
grudges against Russia (as an embodiment of the Soviet
Union), Jews, and Germans. Could even the most hard-core
fellow traveller really look forward to yet another violent
conflagration between White people? Thus, one of our most
important tasks–and one for which Traditionalism could be a
great aid–is to form a cosmopolitan, that is, pan-European nationalism,
an identity that stretches beyond ethnicity, tribe,
religious sectarianism, and the disputes that have, from
time to time, turned the continent into a slaughter bench.
My sense is that in this all-important project, Ukrainian
nationalists won’t be of much use. After John, the English barrister and long-time
nationalist advocate Adrian Davies chimed in about
developments in Western Europe. Adrian is a talented orator,
who can be concise and humorous while speaking
extemporaneously. He was rather bullish on the prospects for
European nationalist parties in the coming years. France’s
Front National, for one, has not only survived the
retirement of its long-time leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, but
has actually increased its popularity under his daughter,
Marine. Adrian noted that the FN has been successful in
finding a new constituency: the working class, which has
certainly been affected by the flood of unskilled, Third
World immigrants. It’s worth noting that Radix’s Roman Bernard has been
much more bearish on
recent trends within the FN. In a podcast following
FN’s recent electoral gains, Roman argued that the party
hasn’t so much brought its ideals to the working class as it
has begun to be defined by the outlook and tastes of this
new constituency: this includes dropping the FN’s
traditionalist character and even promoting
non-White politicians. Across the channel, British Nationalism is in turmoil.
Much of this has to do the rise and fall of the British
Nationalist Party: throughout the first decade of the 21st
century, the BNP scored a series of electoral coups that
seemed to many of us like breakthroughs. But as this decade
began, major figures and factions within the BNP lost
confidence in its leader, Nick Griffin. In 2013 a new
competing party was formed, the British Democratic Party.1 One of the biggest beneficiaries of this disorder has
been the United Kingdom Independence Party. UKIP’s platform
is “Euro-skeptic” and libertarian, and the party’s identity
has become intrinsically linked with its charismatic
frontman, Nigel Farage. Beneath the façade, however, UKIP
has succeeded by being the Party of general right-wing
protest and unspoken racialism (as UKIP’s detractors
correctly observe). In other words, much as in America,
nationalist energies are being articulated through
inherently liberal rhetoric. As Adrian argued, UKIP is made up of people whose instincts are
fundamentally sound . . . but they are still too
obsessed with Anglo-Saxon concepts we need to put behind
us: unlimited individualism, the great benefit of
unfettered capitalism, etc. Could UKIP be “co-opted” by the system? Adrian asked a
higher-level question, “Can the establishment co-op UKIP and
remain the establishment?” Unfortunately, my answer must be
“yes.” In 2009, major establishment figures were genuinely
disturbed by the Tea Party, which seemed to advocate
something like anarcho-nationalism. Conventional Republicans
were being reframed as radicals, or were being “dared” into
making radical statements by populist forces. The governor
of Texas, Rick Perry, went as far as voicing the potential
of secession (!). In a short period of time, however, the
Tea Party became a barely distinguishable wing of the GOP.
(Perry now mostly talks about prison reform.) Predictably, insurgent populist parties–UKIP, the Tea
Party, the BNP, the Euroskeptics, und so weiter–ride
a wave of negative social mood, but fail to articulate an
end goal or real alternative to the current order. UKIP’s
guiding fantasy appears to be the good ol’ days of Margaret
Thatcher, that is, an earlier stage of liberalism and racial
decline. The ability of the established order to absorb such
energies should not be underestimated. Counter revolution The Dark Enlightenment (which RamZ’s talk equated with “neo-reaction”)
is a decisively “alt Right” phenomenon that doesn’t merely
differ with policies of the mainstream Right–it opposes the
root assumptions on which they are based. According to the
DE, all flavors of the American political spectrum–from the
Tea Party to Republicans to Democrats to leftists; from
Richard Dawkins to Andrew Sullivan to Cliven Bundy–are all
fundamentally liberal in nature. They may have passionate
disagreements over style, the scope of government and the
military, or the role of religion, but these are
disagreements over means, not ends. They each hope
to inaugurate a society organized by individual rights, the
market, and a benign government, in which every person will
pursue his or her chosen form of “happiness.” The entire
American experiment–from the Declaration to legalized gay
marriage–was a liberal disruption of the traditional order
of God-Church/State-People. (Martin Luther, it could be
said, was the first, though unintentional, “progressive.”) I often find argumentation like this to shift between
profound truth-telling to “all is lost!” fatalism to “I’m
more right-wing than you!” geekiness. Perhaps any successful
movement needs a little bit of each? Whatever one thinks
about DE, the “take-away” is that race is not “everything”;
it might not even be the most important thing; it could be
that the racial crisis is a symptom of a deeper
crisis at the heart of Occidental civilization that has
persisted for centuries. In the subsequent Q&A, I caused a bit of a stir by asking
whether liberal universalism was predicated, not simply on
Luther, but on Christian monotheism itself. Moreover, as
Christianity loses sovereignty in the hearts and minds of
European peoples, might this offer an opportunity to rethink
our relationship with the “Other”: to view other cultures
and races not as more souls/individuals to be converted to
Christianity/integrated into democratic capitalism, but to
see them as different peoples with their own pasts,
destinies, and, indeed, gods. It became obvious
that RamZ and many in the audience are not quite ready to
follow me down this path . . . which is fine. Can we handle the truth? Sam Dickson closed the conference with a talk on the
converse to cliché “truth will set you free”: lies will
make you slave. Modern America–maybe the entire modern
world–is in the grips of the lie of human equality. For any
“conservative” who remains an equality-slave, he can
ultimately conserve no great tradition, nor anything of
value at all. The concept of race is ultimately that of an
extended family, of a people that has interbred for
millennia and that has a shared historical experience. If
race is meaningless or fraudulent, then why not do away with
nation and “family values” as well. If America is simply an
accumulation of individuals from around the globe who
believe in equality, then what right does one have to
prevent any “potential American” from immigrating? Echoing
his talk from NPI’s conference this fall, Sam suggests that
America has, from its very beginnings, been slave to
individualism and an anti-Europeanism that has obscured its
racial identity. As usual, I found myself resonating with Sam’s oration .
. . but afterwards, I began to think that his central
metaphor–“Lies will make you slave”–might have masked more
than it revealed. Has the American racialist movement been
empowered by the scientific study of racial differences? To
a certain degree, yes. I have met individuals who have
changed their minds as new evidence was presented to them.
But such people are quite rare; they have the personality
type of the free spirit, scientist, or revolutionary, who
takes opinions regardless of their consequences. (I’m
reminded of Martin Luther’s famous declaration, “Ich
kann nicht anders!”) But if the history of American racialism has taught us
anything, it is that the truth has not set us
free–and, furthermore, that truth is always molded,
informed, and concealed by political power, social pressure,
hopes, and wishful thinking. Martin Luther King Jr. was,
from our perspective, never in possession of the “truth,”
but he was set free by a “dream”–the idea that emancipating
his people would be uplifting to all of humanity. This
“dream” has remained powerful for decades, despite the
mountains of IQ studies, crime statistics, and evolutionary
theorizing put forth by our movement. I certainly don’t mean
to say that these publications don’t have value–I’ve been
involved in publishing a great many of them–but for us to
build a movement and ultimately hold power, the ”truth” is
insufficient. It’s fitting that in the second half of Sam’s
talk, he discussed creating a master narrative of the White
race, involving our connection to the ancients, the age of
the cathedrals, and high culture of Europe. With stories
like this, what we omit is as important as what we include. Articulating racialism What’s happening here? Perhaps the best way to describe this “new key” for
American Renaissance is that activists are finding–indeed, forced by
events to find–new ways of articulating some of the basic
principles of our movement: that race is real, that race
matters, and that race is an indispensable component of any
form of nationalism or traditionalism. For decades during
the Cold War, racialism was articulated as “anti-Communism,”
with the Soviet Union cast as a violent, egalitarian
superpower. For AmRen, which was founded in the wake of the
Cold War, racialism could be imagined as a wing of
conservatism or libertarianism: if liberals were dedicated
to violating free association and equalizing society, “race
realists” could best understand the limits of state power.
Each of these perspectives is valid, in its way, but as this
year’s AmRen conference made clear, an exploration of new
vistas is being undertaken. This is, to a large degree, generational,
but not merely so. If the “alt Right”–or Dark Enlightenment
or Reactionary-sphere or Manosphere or whatever–is to be
successful, it must not merely be dissident; it must be
necessary.
PS AmRen takes a position on Jews at
Jews And America.
You might feel that it is not good news, that it does imply consorting with the
enemy, does go along with Cultural Marxism -
or not.
An assessment.
Is the link to their web site. See for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for
yourself. You do not need the Wiki's allegations but here they are anyway.
This is the inaugural award in what is going to be a series. It went to
Rand Paul.
This year's winner is Bill Gates, the world's
richest man.
It is the first time that it has been won by a woman; she is
Angela Merkel, a onetime member of the
Stalingjugend,
which was just like the
Hitlerjugend or
Hitler Youth so she understands Thought Crime,
Doublethink,
hypocrisy & now, pandering to the blood sucking leeches who run the
Stolen Land that they call
Israel.
American Renaissance is a pro-White,
race realist, and
paleoconservative organization and website founded by
Jared
Taylor.
After an incident involving
David
Duke at an American Renaissance conference in 2006 Jared Taylor
issued a statement which included "I started American Renaissance 17 years
ago in order to awaken whites to the crisis they face and to encourage them
to unite in defending their legitimate interests as a race. To these ends,
AR has deliberately avoided taking positions on questions about which
racially-conscious whites are likely to disagree. Some of these have been
foreign policy, abortion, the role of homosexuals in a white consciousness
movement, and whether Christianity helps or hinders our efforts. By taking
no position, AR has served readers who may be sharply opposed on these
questions but who agree on the central importance of race, and are committed
to our survival. AR has likewise taken no explicit position on Jewish
matters. Readers have always included both Jews and people who believe Jews
play no useful role in a movement that promotes white interests. It has been
my intent to emphasize questions crucial to our interests and on which we
agree. To put it more accurately, AR has taken an implicit position on Jews
by publishing Jewish authors and inviting Jewish speakers to AR conferences.
It should be clear to anyone that Jews have, from the outset, been welcome
and equal participants in our efforts... Whatever its origins may have
been—and they are hardly exclusively Jewish—white ethnomasochism has a life
and momentum of its own... We have vital work to do. Our civilization, our
way of life, even our continuity as a distinct people depend on whether we
succeed or fail. It is a distraction from our proper work to hunt for
culprits, to blame others for our own loss of will."[2]
QUOTE
American Renaissance (AR or AmRen)
is a monthly magazine published by the
New Century Foundation,[1]
which has been described as "virulently racist".[2]
The magazine and foundation were founded by
Jared Taylor, and the first issue was published in November 1990.[3]
Cancellation of 2010, 2011 conferences
In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several
hotels, which Jared Taylor claimed [ Why only claimed?
Words are Propaganda Tools
] included some death threats, American
Renaissance's biennial conference was canceled. Taylor complained that
the incident was largely ignored by the media, in sharp contrast, he
claimed, with how news outlets would have responded had a civil rights
group's conference been shut down.[20]
A document initially claimed to be a leaked
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo alleged
Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in the
2011 Tucson shooting that wounded Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords and killed six bystanders, may have had ties to
American Renaissance, which it referred to as an "anti-ZOG (Zionist
Occupation Government) and anti-semitic" group.[28][29]
In an interview with
Fox News, Jared Taylor denied the organization ever used the term
"ZOG" and said Loughner had no connection to them.[28]
The more the Wiki hates the better AmRen sounds.
QUOTE
The New Century Foundation is an organization founded
in 1994 known primarily for publishing
American Renaissance. From 1994 to 1999 its activities received
considerable funding by the
Pioneer Fund,[1][2][3]
and has been described as a
white supremacist group,[4]
which its founder,
Jared
Taylor, denies, calling it
white separatist.
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Dealing
with Jews is a dubious occupation. You need a long spoon to sup with the Devil.
Amren Vistas
Saturday morning began with the always entertaining John
Derbyshire, the kind of man we all wish had been our
professor in anthropology or the history of science in
college. But I’m afraid I wasn’t able to detect much of a
through-line in this year’s presentation. It struck me as
wandering romp through Chinese history. Interesting at
times, but never necessary.
It was with Jack Donovan’s talk that the “evolution” was
in full effect. It’s worth noting that Jack Donovan has
never identified himself as a “racialist,” “White
nationalist,” or “White advocate”; and he is more often
attacked as a “self-hating homosexual” or a “misogynist.”
Certainly, much about his personal history has rubbed
fundamentalists the wrong way . . . But even the most
truculent paleoconservative would struggle to deny that
Jack’s talk was insightful and masterfully composed.
Jack was followed by three speakers who reported on White
racialism in other lands. The first was Philip Craik, who
discussed the community of Orania on South Africa’s northern
Cape. Orania is an enclave that is exclusively for the Boer
people, the “White Tribe” of Dutch Protestants who trekked
through Africa and settled in its southern region in the
17th century. Orania represents a distinctively
post-Apartheid survival strategy for Boers: it is a secure
community that is semi-sovereign and could be compared to a
state or municipal government in America: its restrictions
are something like citizenship, and it governs and regulates
construction and economic activity.
Next came John Morgan, a “citizen of the world” in the
best sense of the term: John is an American who created a
Euro-centric publishing firm, Arktos Media, which was based
in India and now operates out of Hungary. Last winter, John
had the opportunity to speak to protestors–and ultimately
revolutionaries–from Ukraine’s Euromaidan movement
to remove Victor Yanukovych from power. Whatever one might
think about Maidan, the
Right Sector, and Svoboda–I must
admit that I am not sympathetic–John had a chance to become,
in a small way, a part of history; and the Traditionalism
(with a capital T) that Arktos advocates became a part of
history, too. As John relates, “The political struggle is an
outward form of a cultural struggle.” As America is
dominated by a religious culture that is “thoroughly
corrupted by liberalism, thoroughly moronic, or both,”
Morgan suggested that we look towards Eastern Europe as a
source, or at least as a model, of authentic nationalism.
After our group enjoyed a steak dinner, we were treated
to a lecture on the so-called “Dark Enlightenment” by noted YouTuber “RamZPaul.” “Comedic stylings” is probably a better
term than lecture, or perhaps “serious comedy.” RamZPaul has
the rare gift of timing, and the ability to deliver a joke
in a deceptively bumbling manner, à la Bill Murray.
Sunday featured two speakers who have addressed each and
every AmRen conference since 1994: Sam Dickson and, of
course, Jared Taylor. The centerpiece of Jared’s talk was
his claim that White people are not simply motivated by
their material interests or greed or ethnocentrism; they
possess a moral imagination. That is, they
genuinely care about the suffering of others–other people in
their race, other people of other races, and even animals
and the natural world. This can be, in Jared’s estimation, a
wonderful thing; it is a quintessentially White trait that
is the basis of a civilization that values recognition and
dignity. Jared’s urged us not to simply to view “liberals”
as our enemies, but to speak to them honestly and in good
faith.2
Monarchy . . . the problems of Americanism and capitalism
. . . race isn’t everything after all . . . the
former Soviet bloc is healthier spiritually than the
so-called “free world” . . .