Where racial consciousness is and is not legitimate

With regard to Rep. Tom Tancredo’s proposal to eliminate the racial/ethnic caucuses in Congress, one of our participants wondered whether this is really something traditionalists want to do, since we believe in the right of people to group themselves according to chosen and inherited particularities. Here I attempt to answer this complex question.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 02, 2003 06:58 PM | Send
    
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One way to resolve this conflict between a commitment to equality-before-the-law and your implication of an urgent need for Caucasian race-conscious responsiveness may be the morals of war and civil conflict resembling war. If a racial group is under attack, they can’t pretend that it isn’t, or imagine one could reasonably be like a population geneticist deflecting bullets by saying he doesn’t believe in race; or like a moderne conservative crying that he is color-blind while his relatives are being killed. In the face of aggression, passivity paired with outcries about peace and brotherhood are weakness and complicity in evil. When war is declared on you, a defensive and collective defensive position are always justified. The war of words is the more significant one so far, perhaps. Has the government schools’ anti-culture declared war on the Caucasians? If yes, does this not signify their doom, as public schools? Can the government set off race war without these schools being public? If not, this would indicate what the majority interest might be.

Posted by: john s bolton on April 26, 2004 11:46 PM
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