Pat Buchanan succumbs to a severe case of white man blues, often found among people who don’t get out enough:
“Can Western civilization survive the passing of the European peoples whose ancestors created it and their replacement by Third World immigrants? Probably not, for the new arrivals seem uninterested in preserving the old culture they have found.
Those who hold the white race responsible for the mortal sins of mankind – slavery, racism, imperialism, genocide – may welcome its departure from history. Those who believe that the civilization that came out of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome and London to be the crowning achievement of mankind will mourn its passing.”
Comment:
Of course, those dreadful changes that so frighten Buchanan are laid at the door of colored immigrants who actually had very little to do with bringing them about.
You thought the changes in society today reflect the efforts of militant atheists (white), anti-Christian activists (usually and originally white), Darwinists and atheists (white), atheist Marxists (whites), modern gender feminists ( white), the gay liberation activists (white), communists (white), global pornographers (the most powerful groups of which are white), the Cold Warriors (white), Hollywood (white), the Wall Street criminal cabal (white), the military-industrial-intelligence leviathan (white); university and establishment liberal activism (white)?
No, no.
The colored folk did it all.
Of course, if we really wanted to be picky, we’d ask Buchanan if he thought Jesus Christ was “white” and “European,” or Middle Eastern.
And we’d ask whether a large part of Christ’s teaching derives originally from Greece or from the Near East, which is not white.
And we’d like to add too that without Muslim civilization (non-white) and Byzantine (half-white), we doubt if the Greco-Roman heritage, which owed much to the Egyptians (half-white?) would ever have passed on to the Europeans in the first place.
And without the Jewish (which Buchanan appropriates as white, whereas it is Middle Eastern genetically), we doubt modern Europe would have ever come into being.
White Judeo-Christian and humanist civilization are something I greatly admire, have studied for a life time, and have benefited from.
But having had the privilege of living in two countries, one ruined by (white) Fabian socialism but enduring because of (brown) religious and holistic traditions, I am amazed and saddened by the small horizons of a man I have long respected for his unabashed love for his traditions and people.
Indeed, we think the West is only kept alive at all by the misplaced adulation and semi-slavery of its global mercantilist plantation. The problem is actually philo-Americanism of the wrong kind.
Recently, I thought about this when I had the good fortune to walk through the mansion of one of the richest men in America in the 1920s. I spent a day enjoying his art collection, amassed from Europe during the years before the collapse of the stock market.
Europe’s glory, at least measured in terms of art, was five centuries. Rising with the Gothic and setting in the nineteenth century, where, already, the forces of decline were evident.
That would be a long time before those barbarians Buchanan deplores came upon the scene. If Europe is dying, and it is, don’t blame the crowd gathered around the corpse.
Blame the children of the house, who in broad daylight, with weapons forged under their own roof, rose up and slew their own father.
Only to find they had not yet learned to live without him.