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Aodhan MacMhaolain's avatar

Based. Hexenkartothek for King.

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Norman Eckart's avatar

Oh my, if you think the Dissident Right is troublesome, you'll certainly have a ball like I recently had with Walt Bismarck's latest article "White Nationalism is Anti-White", which I'll just link here via my article rejoinder to it: (https://thenorme.substack.com/p/refuting-white-globalism)

As a man from before the Alt Right days, I can help explain the focus on IQ. Of all the markers that are high in societally-relevant predictive capability while also being quantifiable and easy to communicate, IQ reigns supreme. While I do agree that the personalities and other sub-rational qualities of a people are far more important in determining the real nature and goodness of a society - a largely extinct term that was once called National Character - these qualities are qualitative and largely intangible.

Being qualitative renders most of the "betterness" qualities a matter of subjective opinion. What is better, the horizon-seeking adventurism of Whites, or the honor-bound pro-sociality of the Japanese? Can you even compare the two? Whereas an average IQ of 100 is simply higher than an average IQ of 80, and the societies such averages make up tend to show the general results. That instant comparability makes it an incredibly useful metric, even as it isn't of paramount importance.

More difficult still is National Character's intangible qualities. Ask your average Nationalist, "What makes White people special?" and even some of the best speakers among us will struggle to rake together what makes our people unique. It virtually takes a poet to weave the right words together to give form to those strongly-felt yet hardly-articulable notions that belie things like our love of kith and kin or other fundamentals of Nationalistic fervor. Whereas IQ again is very obvious and right in people's faces. Smart is good, dumb is bad. We extend that thinking to virtually every field of high and low debate, and therefore IQ is highly attractive in arguing the point since we are an intelligence-valuing people.

IQ is largely irrelevant to why one would love their people to a Nationalist. No White Nationalist would for a moment think of replacing his people with the Japanese, regardless of their higher IQ. But it is an incredibly useful tool that works with one of our most fundamental values as people.

As far as advancing Nationalistic ideas further though, the rational argument is easily won and has been won for many decades now. The real breakthroughs have been through the emotional and the spiritual arguments, which are much more difficult challenges for many of the types we have in these circles. It is the artist and the poet who will drive the great weight of Truth home, and they are through memes and jokes and rhetoric.

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