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John Derbyshire is one of the most intriguing journalists I know of. He writes smartly and bravely about the big taboos, he has a very eclectic set of beliefs, and his personal history is interesting. The fact that he was beaten up by Bruce Lee (in a movie, not for real) also really adds an air of coolness to his persona.

He's written a fascinating article called "Towards a White Minority" at National Review Online. Here's a little of it:

This reinforces a number of findings from recent years suggesting that people are much more willing to be taxed for the benefit of people like themselves than for the benefit of the Other. Old people already grumble about paying taxes to support extravagant educational establishments. As the racial generation gap opens up, with the oldsters being noticeably more white and Anglo than the kids being educated, the grumbling will escalate into action — most likely, the simple action of yet further residential segregation, the old and white-Anglo living here, the young and dark Hispanic living there.

Though, of course, the unwillingness to be taxed to support the Other cuts both ways. How will a majority nonwhite young workforce feel about paying out income and Social Security taxes for the sustenance of old, white Anglos? I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I, at least, have looked forward glumly to my last days, most likely spent stuck, incapable, in some cruddy nursing home with a bunch of other helpless white geezers, my daily needs in the hands of resentful black and brown orderlies whose educations featured long catalogs of the wrongs done to Them by Us.

Back of all that is the question: As white Anglos decline into a minority, will we see the rise of white-Anglo race consciousness? The common understanding at present is that open expressions of race consciousness are taboo for white-Anglo Americans, but just fine for everyone else. A leading black presidential candidate subtitles his best-selling biography “A Story of Race and Inheritance”; the main lobbying organization for Hispanics carries the proud title “National Council of the Race”; and so on. This word is, however, not available to white-Anglo Americans in reference to themselves, and white-Anglo Americans are indoctrinated from childhood to believe, or to pretend to believe, that race is an empty category.

Full article

Earlier this year, Derbyshire and Joey Kurtzman had a great dialogue at Jewcy about whether the points Kevin MacDonald made in his Jewish trilogy (A People That Shall Dwell Alone, Civilization and Its Discontents, and The Culture of Critique) were valid. It's a long set of articles that roams a little off-topic and everything in it is interesting, so I won't even try to excerpt any of it. You should just read the whole thing (Kurtzman's contributions are at least as good as Derbyshire's) starting here.