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The American conflation of race with class is bizarre. Upper-middle class urban white Americans share few cultural values with unemployed drug-addicted Appalachians and grouping them together as a homogenous “white” block makes little sense.
Wasn’t there a link a while back to one of those Woke Rightists who moved to a majority white town and realised he had nothing in common with the people there, and ended up missing the diverse big city?
One of my favorite articles. A white nationalist realizes he is actually the true rootless cosmopolitan. He also seems to really distrust and maybe dislike white women. Which is going to make having white babies very hard.
I hope he found happiness with a good Mexican or Asian woman, since he doesn't much seem to like white ones.
Reading that article and a few others of his, the story isn't that hard to put together. He's a manipulative and hyper-verbal BS artist (he's a guy with 2 email jobs and calls himself a pirate, c'mon), and his style works very well for seducing leftist women who have poor defenses to that approach. He moved to the midwest, and his approach was less successful. However, at one point he tried to run his game on a disagreeable, intelligent conservative woman (whom he describes as a "Dagny Taggart" type), and she saw through him and hurt him in a way that still smarts a decade later. He asserts it's because he showed weakness and wasn't "batman" 24/7, but far more likely is that she realized he was unable to live up to his BS claims and was disagreeable enough to hold his feet to the fire.
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What's particularly odd to me about his essay is that his descriptions of what "normie conservative church girls" are like doesn't ring true to me. It's true that a lot of country women are into burly, hardworking country men. Obviously! But I'm pretty close to his description of an "extremely online neurotic weirdo intellectual", and I've always had an easier time dating "normie conservative church girls" than dating "bohemian art hoes." Who, to be honest, are often more unstable, which the author admits in a comment describes him; like attracts like. The ideal, of course, is "intellectual country girl," and let me tell you, "she is far more precious than jewels."
I'm guessing it was the outright white nationalism, disagreeableness, and evident heterodoxy that made it hard for him, not the fact that he's smart and creative.
It's also really funny when he says this:
Considering his ultimate reflections on the Midwest, I'm guessing this conversation was a lot more critical and judgmental than he believes they were, and his interlocutors picked up on it. I take as my evidence for this point the fact that he calls German-Americans "low T" and says that they like smooth brains and not thinking about things, and then has the gall to say, "believe it or not the point of this article isn’t to shit on Midwesterners."
This is a disagreeable man whose default mode is to critique to death everything he sees. Of course agreeable church girls didn't like him!
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Yes. The 'white' people of appalachia are not the same race as the 'white' people of New England, c.f. Albion's Seed or for that matter the Hajnal Line. Or for blacks we could easily distinguish between, say, Bantu and Igbo.
And even after distinguishing race at a more granular level, yes, there are classes within races.
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