Reading List: May 2012
May 11th, 2012 by Unamused
I thought you might like to know what I’m reading on my awesome Kindle.
(None of these links give me money.)
Recently read
- Gedaliah Braun, “Racism, Guilt and Self-Deceit”
Basically a collection of anecdotes about life in post-colonial Africa, especially South Africa; specifically, how Black Africans feel about their past, present and future. Also contains philosophical musings on the nature of racism, guilt and self-deceit. Informative and entertaining, hilariously raciss, but quite poorly edited. I recommend it anyway.
- Ilana Mercer, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot”
Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. Just what it sounds like. All about how bad things got in South Africa after Mandela (the mass-murdering Marxist) came to power. A little too gung ho for Israel, and it shoehorns in a few too many disclaimers about how awful and raciss that awful raciss Apartheid system was (possibly at the publisher’s request). Still, I recommend it.
Now reading
- Patrick J. Buchanan, “Suicide of a Superpower“
Will America Survive to 2025? I’ve already read three of Buchanan’s last four books (“The Death of the West,” “Where the Right Went Wrong,” and “Day of Reckoning”), and I enjoyed them all. This one is just as good. I can’t understand why Chapter 4, “The End of White America,” is so controversial. It’s pretty mild stuff — as far as a big ol’ raciss is concerned.
- Tom Wolfe, “The Bonfire of the Vanities”
I can’t believe we’re allowed to like this book. Don’t the Powers That Be realize how raciss it is? It’s all about race: Whites, Blacks and Jews fighting it out in New York City. Cops, lawyers, thugs, reporters, millionaires and race hustlers — it’s all quite funny and amazingly prescient.
I suspect Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho” was inspired by Sherman McCoy of “Bonfire.”
- H.G. Wells, “The Time Machine”
Wells imagined a future in which the human race split into two subspecies: savage, subterranean Morlocks and the pathologically peaceful Eloi on whom they prey. There’s an excellent reason some people (raciss people, that is) on the New Right characterize modern Whites, those designated victims of minority mischief, mayhem and murder, as “Eloi” (see here and here).
Anyway, it’s short, it’s free, and it’s a classic.
Soon to read
- Lothrop Stoddard, “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy”
At the end of the First World War, the author (a famous raciss White person — redundant, I know) predicted Japan’s rise to power and war with America, a second major war in Europe, the collapse of the Western empires (e.g., Britain giving up its colonies), and the rise of Islam as a threat to the West. Smart cookie.
Free for Kindle. I like cookies.
- Winfield H. Collins, “The Truth about Lynching and the Negro in the South”
In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race. Way back in 1918, Collins already perceived that the left (that is, the North) was fabricating an alternative history of raciss-ness in the South. This was his response.
Practically free.
- W.G. Sebald, “On the Natural History of Destruction”
“Sebald’s final work, which roused many Germans to anger, investigates the consequences of the huge civilian loss Germany endured during World War II.” I understand this book is raciss because it fails to blame the Germans, meaning all Germans (you know, the Bad Guys™?), for forcing America and Britain and the Soviet Union (you know, the Good Guys™?) to massacre them at the end of the Second World War.
Recently finished reading Albion’s Seed. I highly recommend it if you are interested in American history. Currently making my way through Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment.
Note that anyone can read “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy” and “The Truth about Lynching and the Negro in the South” on google books for free. This is generally true of all works that predate the copyright cutoff date (Jan 1 1923), with isolated exceptions that are victims of copyright fraud.
All you need read is
The Time Machine
How many more 632 pp. arguments do we need
on the obvious From Pat Buke
to make him rich.
http://www.lolcats.com/view/8727/
Mark Steyn’s “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”. As fine a narrative of the mess we are in as I’ve ever read. He makes frequent reference to the eloi and the morlocks. But in a sly move to retain his ability to earn a living, he never associates the morlocks with the negro.
I agree with your points on “Into the Cannibal’s Pot”. A little too heavy on the “oh, it was also real cruel back in those apartheid days”.
You must really crave depressing books.
I’ve got “Into the Cannibal’s Pot” on my Kindle too. It’s good.
And I’ve got some Charles Murray.
I’ve also got most of Paul Kersey’s (SBPDL) books. They are good, but the Kindle formatting isn’t very good, and they can be a bit repetitive if you follow the site. Still, I recommend buying them, even if you don’t read them.
But currently I’m reading Game of Thrones. I also enjoyed L E Modesitt Jr.’s Corean Chronicles recently.
By the way, do you make money from those links?
Don’t be too quick to assume that disclaimers about “awful racism” are in Ilana Mercer’s book at the publisher’s request. Mercer and her father were anti-apartheid activists; once they had fouled the South African next they had been guests in, they left it (and the White South Africans) behind and proceeded to bemoan their plight at the hands of the blacks.
She’s a fraud.
Jay Santos
Mark Steyn’s “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”. … He makes frequent reference to the eloi and the morlocks. But in a sly move … he never associates the morlocks with the negro.
Possibly because the Morlocks also did the work of that society? Present day Eloi are workers and prey.
Sheila – spot on. Mercer is just one of the anti-Apartheid agitators who didn’t like the predictable – predicted! – results of their efforts and left them for others to enjoy. These people are now passing themselves off as conservatives and “libertarians” in countries they haven’t already ruined, but they’ve learned nothing. Don’t trust them.
Another one of these frauds that now lives and blogs in the USA goes by the name of Kim du Toit.
I’m constantly amazed, though, at how many South Africans flee to other countries, and immediately take on protective colouring. They become DWLs. Racist? Me? Nope. Never supported Apartheid, never voted for it, despise it.
It reminds me of the days of the world-wide boycotts of SA. Sportsmen who wanted to compete overseas had to do a ritual condemnation of Apartheid for the news media. When Gerrie Coetzee went to America to fight Leon Spinks for the world heavyweight title (he won), he was asked the rote question and went into the ritual denunciation:
“No, I hate Apartheid. And I don’t keep quiet about it; I call a spade a spade.”
Embarrassed silence. A reporter says “uh, Mr Coetzee, are you aware that in America, a spade is a derogatory term for a black person?”
To his credit, Gerrie responded, not with a grovelling apology, but a huge belly laugh.
Unumused, don’t waste your time reading about the problem. We all know the problem. So why not read about the solution:
http://foseti.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/review-of-from-third-world-to-first-by-lee-kuan-yew/
Of course, to implement the solution we must first gain political power. I can’t think of any good books on the subject with the possible exception of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134/ref=cm_rdp_product
Exactly right.
I was a regular reader of Mercer’s for a few years. Not only has she explicitly stated that she is an “individualist, not a racialist,” but she is also enamored of Amy Chua and speaks about her latest host country (Mercer is a serial immigrant who fled Israel, SA, and Canada) with incredible bitterness. She loves to bitch about how she’s constantly being mistreated by those stupid Americans. AM is correct that whatever solutions Mercer and her ilk provide will be highly suspect.
Jay: I don’t know why I do these things to myself, I really don’t.
Black Power White Power: I’m a Game of Thrones fan myself — the books only, so far. I don’t get any money from those links.
Sheila: this is no secret proving her to be a fraud. Mercer states several times in her book that her father was an anti-Apartheid activist and that her family eventually had to leave the country. My conclusion: it’s possible to do a lot of damage before you take the “red pill.” Shall we get revenge on the Mercer family for helping to end Apartheid by not reading the book?
AnalogMan: while you may not trust the woman’s motives, her motives don’t change the book’s content, which is all about what she’s learned from the experience, and what (she claims) she wants America to learn from it.
Silent Running: if I stopped reading everyone who admired an Asian, criticized America, and didn’t refer to themselves as “racialist” in public, I wouldn’t have a lot to read.
Absolutely. Ideally she should be made an example of and deported back to SA. But many people think me unnecessarily vicious, so take that for what it’s worth.
I suggest you read her blog. She doesn’t just admire Chua, she proclaims herself an “Asian Mother” and touts Chua’s book as a step in the right direction for raising your kids.
She doesn’t just criticize America, she talks up China as a counterpoint. I don’t need to tell you that there’s quite a difference between criticism and contempt.
There’s also quite a difference between not refering to one’s self as racialist in public, and publicly denouncing racialism in favor of some bizarre paleolib philosophy that nonetheless borrows heavily from racialism. So, perhaps it was a mistake for Sheila to refer to Mercer as a fraud; she’s a fraud and a coward.
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