NewsBusters Reviews “Better Off Without ‘Em”
Aug 16th, 2012 by Unamused
NewsBusters has posted a highly negative review of Chuck Thompson’s remarkable new book, “Better Off without ‘Em: A Northern White Manifesto for Southern Separation Racial Segregation.” Well, you can’t please everybody.
Oh, right: I should remind you that I’ve taken the liberty of diversifying the title for your amusement and edification.
I’ve done the same with the review, which is titled “Author Advocates Letting ‘Mouth-breathing, Racist’ South Blacks Secede.”
Liberals really should decide how they feel about the idea of
southern stateswhite peoplesecedingseparating fromthe unionblack people. The MSNBC crowd suddenly wraps itself inOld Glorya dashiki andrediscoversrevises the meaning of“treason”“freedom of association” at the mention of it.Others, like travel writer Chuck Thompson, wish they’d go. He honestly believes
Southern conservativesblacks are standing in the way of progress andsolelylargely responsible forpolitical gridlockthe failure of race relations in contemporary America. The only ‘logical’ way of dealing with it in his mind issecessionvoluntary segregation. Only then canthe Northern stateswhite people have theutopianstable, peaceful society they’re apparently on the verge ofattaininglosing forever.Despite being known for more of a tongue-in-cheek style, he couldn’t have been any more serious. So serious in fact, that he wrote a book called “Better Off without ‘Em: A
NorthernWhite Manifesto forSouthern SecessionRacial Segregation.” He promoted it in a recent radio interview with AlterNet’s Joshua Holland.“We didn’t
let the South goship the emancipated slaves back to Africa when we had the chance. We would have avoided a lot of problems,” Thompson said. “We — meaningthis group in the northEuropean-Americans as we might identify ourselves — could take the country we want into a direction that we think is befitting of America without thispush and pulldragging down that comes from theSouthern statesblack underclass.”The problem, he said, is that “dim-witted, mouth-breathing, racist
rednecksminorities” represent enormous “voting quorums” inthe Southgerrymandered districts across the country. Apparently, they get that way by beingChristianbrainwashed by Progressives, not to mention doomed by genetics.Evangelical ChristiansSelf-proclaimed “civil rights activists” who literally interpretthe Biblethe harebrained theories of cultural Marxism and adhere to its principles are “lunatics” somehow. “In the SouthAmong minorities with a clear sense of racial consciousness coupled with historical grievances, it’s different, because there is no such thing ascompromiseracial harmony,” he said. “If it’sGod’s lawresentment of and malice toward whites that is driving you… then you simply can’tcompromisecoexist, and that’s where I think a lot of the dysfunction of ourpolitical processcollapsing civilization comes into play.”Following that statement, he immediately started rattling off wide-ranging statistics that were supposed to prove how uneducated the population is. “There’s less commitment to the ideal of
publicany sort of educationin the Southern statesamong blacks than there is in the rest of the country,” he said. “TheSouthblack race has the lowest SAT scores, lowest graduation rates, and the most illiteracy.”Holland was so inspired by the
secessionsegregation idea that he started pressing for more details, wanting to know howthe Souththe races would technically be defined, among other things. “Are we losingTexasthe Asians in this deal,” he asked. “Is there any chance we could give them some of thedullermore annoyingstatesminorities (likeSouth Dakotathe Jews)?”Despite an earlier declaration that both sides would be better off without one another, Thompson contradicted himself when he refused to relinquish the highly
conservativeeducatedstate of TexasEast Asian minority. “In the end I decidedTexasthe Asians would stay withthe Norththe whites in large part foreconomicculinary reasons,” he said. “TexasChinese food is reallyone of the economic anchors of this countrydelicious.”Holland got even more vicious when he asked what could be done to ‘rescue’ all the
Democratsurban whites aftersecessionsegregation. “There’s a good chunk of people down there who we would be consigning to basicallyan English-speaking Mexicoa Spanish-speaking Mexico crossed with an Ebonics-speaking Africa,” he said. “Do you just say, here you go, you have to live in a third world country with crappy education systems, no healthcare, and a government ofsnake handlerssnake handlers, witch doctors, cannibals, and much, much more?”The exchange doesn’t end there, but there’s a lot of back pedaling. Holland, for instance said that he has an affinity for
the Southern cultureblack music and the friendliness of the people. Thompson echoed the sentiment, but the damage had already been done.
Since when don’t you like the Jews? I thought you were half or quarter Jewish or something like that…
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/330421
New Dawn walks the talk.
“If it’s
God’s lawresentment of and malice toward whites that is driving you… then you simply can’tcompromisecoexist, and that’s where I think a lot of the dysfunction of ourpolitical processcollapsing civilization comes into play.”Liberals have other reasons for hating Christianity, of course, but this is a big one. See, a man’s like a cup. If he already has something in him, well, there’s no room for libtardism. It’s like the old saying about how a many who believes nothing will believe in anything. So libtards have to empty out that cup before they can fill it.
Anything that gets in the way of their boil-the-frog “social engineering” is of course a big problem. “Compromise” is what they call someone with an empty cup; someone who has no values and will slowly accept being boiled like a frog is “compromise.” Someone with “hard” values, i.e., actual values, well, he’s a problem.
Libtardism is a Jealous God.
What’s great about people like the author is their overwhelming cowardice. Pieces like this one really highlight it. I hope his kids find this with G**gle and see what a lying, cowardly piece of shit he is.
Sorry man, I usually love your stuff but the strikethrough thing is annoying even in small doses. I can’t even get through this piece. I guess you disagree with the writer of the book, or maybe the reviewer. Maybe I’ll try again after a few Tylenols.
@random guy #1, for some reason many of us don’t understand jewish groups played a large part in dismantling immigration restriction/promoting multiculturalism in America, working against the White Australia policy down under, and battling Apartheid in South Africa. Apparently it has something to do with kabbalah?
Anyway, I assume this is what Mr. Unamused was referring to, don’t get freaked out.
Kabbalah? Leftist Jews are usually non-religious. It has to do with the long history of European anti-Semitism from the right, which leads Jews to sympathize with the left. Hitler and Stalin were both genocidal mass murderers, but if you were Jewish, only one would kill you for sure. It seems to be changing somewhat in Europe–lots of French Jews went for Sarkozy, out of fear of Muslims, no doubt.
In the USA it makes a lot less sense. But the Right, representing the rural and religious (ie, non-Jewish interests) was naturally less hospitable to a group of urban people with a different religion. Also for a while Jewish groups were able to form alliances with blacks (for example: use the fight against discrimination to go after Harvard Medical School and city construction jobs. Lots of blacks wanted city construction jobs, not too many Jews. Medical school, it is the reverse.) You still see this in all the Jewish culturati obsessed with black culture and thinking black people like them better than other whites. (Crown Heights, anyone?)
Probably they also figure they don’t want to be the only minority around. The few I’m still friends with from my old days in New York (I’m not much of a people person, to be honest, and lousy about keeping friends) are pretty right-wing and would probably agree with a lot of the stuff on your blog that isn’t about Israel.
Now that the politicians are all bought and the political campaigns boil down to the interests of rich people from blue states (more diversity so Democrats win!) versus the interests of rich people from red states (cheap labor for our poultry plant!), well, guess where Jews live.
It’s actually a huge misconception among alt-right types that Jews hate America. They just like the parts of it you don’t, and vice versa.
I may just formally convert to Christianity, get a rhinoplasty, and pretend to be Italian.
I refuse to entertain the idea of surrendering any area of the U.S. to anyone! The South and caliFOREIGNER cannot be cast aside because of the agricultural capability and the deep water ports. The North East must be kept just BECAUSE! I’m spiteful like that. It’s ours, we built it, we maintain it therefore it is ours! (ours/we being White people)
on its shiny surface, libertardism appears more enlightened & reasonable than alternatives (e.g., we should “co-exist,” & respect the “less fortunate” & help them out, etc.) BUT when confronted with reality (e.g., overlapping normal curves for intelligence — or academic achievement — of different groups) the liberal response is “ve must bend ze reality!” (e.g., “there’s no such thing as races, so there can’t be group differences, so uhh pass me the affirmative action please”) which creates glaring inconsistencies (e.g., “i’m against racial profiling, but affirmative action & disparate impact laws rock!”) hmm, i forget my point. maybe it’s that jews tend to endorse those views that appear rational (rational given the incorrect assumption that everyone’s equal), which misguides them into the libertard camp:)
@sfg, many people who are non-religious nevertheless hold religious views, as remnants from a religious upbringing, or which they’ve picked up by osmosis from their social environment, etc. Also, blaming bad Jewish behavior on mistreatment from people who don’t like their bad behavior is ridiculous.
Anyway, back to the article at hand, this Chuck Thompson fool apparently lives in my town, and if I see him on the street I am going to follow him around making fart noises when he speaks. I think that is the appropriate level of discourse for this snot-nosed brat.
Den: most old hatreds go both ways. Group A does something group B doesn’t like, which leads group B to get annoyed at group A and do something back, which annoys group A even more…and who started it is lost in the mists of history.
I’ve never seen a group that’s totally blameless or totally blameworthy. The blacks have quite reasonable historical grievances in that they were brought over as slaves. Germans were screwed quite badly at the end of World War I by Britain, France, and America. Russia has been invaded many times.
As for red-state whites, well, they’ve been screwed by Democrats looking for votes, Republicans looking for cheap labor for their businesses, minorities looking for turf, Jews reenacting some historical grievance out of Eastern Europe….shall I continue?
You know who your group is, and you fight for them. Morality is used to justify it after the fact. Humanity is tribal.
Also: many of the lefty Jews making all this trouble are quite hostile to the Jewish religion as well. Judaism is actually quite anti-gay, patriarchal, and tribalist if you read the Old Testament.
They really ought to have separate words for the religion and the ethnicity, because even though it’s the same people, plenty of people consider themselves ethnics and reject the faith, and it’s confusing as hell.
And ’cause this is off topic already: the South should have been allowed to secede. No NAMs in the North, and I’m pretty sure the Southerners could have…dealt with their NAM problem.
“The blacks have quite reasonable historical grievances in that they were brought over as slaves.” – Six hundred and fifty thousand Americans died to free them, the south was disenfranchised and occupied, governance of the south was turned over to them, and the whole thing only ended when even northerners couldn’t paper over their gross incompetence and corruption. What is further they were going to be slaves even if they hadn’t been bought by the west, but the middle-east typically demands a different type of slave than we did.
Any legitimate grievance that they had ended over a hundred and fifty years ago, as they have had that time to go to dozens of ethnostates of their very own, at least one of which, Liberia, was untouched by (western) colonization in any way.
They didn’t fight the Civil War to help the blacks. They did it because they didn’t want the South escaping. And there was quite a bit of resistance in the poorer parts of the North (New York Draft Riots anyone?).
I remember quite visibly being scared to walk down the streets of New York after dark. I’ve dealt with incompetent DMV ladies in the hundreds. I’m paying thousands of dollars in taxes to pay for diabetes resulting from feeding Africans a sugar-enriched English and German (where are Hamburg and Frankfurt?) diet.
But I see where they’re coming from. 150 years later and they’re still picking up the white man’s garbage, making his beds, and serving him takeout meals. Yeah, we both know it’s IQ and time preference, but can you imagine telling them that?
Frankly, I think the answer is Christianity. It’s the only thing that seems to make them behave.
“They didn’t fight the Civil War to help the blacks. They did it because they didn’t want the South escaping.” – that may have been the line sold to everyone, but the radical republicans had their way at the end of the war. The south was turned over to the black voter with the force of federal arms behind him.
“150 years later and they’re still picking up the white man’s garbage, making his beds, and serving him takeout meals. Yeah, we both know it’s IQ and time preference, but can you imagine telling them that?” – On the contrary, most of the food prep workers in this country are white (beating out even hispanic migrants in this particular case for reasons that should be obvious to all). Likewise garbage trucking is a desirable blue collar job that I’d rather went to working class whites. Blacks still have lower status in this country due to their own lack of ability, and that isn’t ever going to change. BUT, if they want their own nation where they can be on top of the status market, they have dozens of explicitly ethnic nations to choose from. that is not a legitimate grievance.
The problem with Christianity is that we’d have to force our solution down their throat regardless which gets back to their having lower status. And that problem has no solution but either separation or violence.
Can someone tell me what NAM stands for?
NAM = “Non-Asian Minority” — in the US, primarily blacks and Hispanics.
Non-Asian Minority
‘The Race War Of Black Against White’ by Paul Sheehan
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, 20 May 1995
The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year’s congressional election.
Yet the American news media do not want to talk about the Dirty War, which remains between the lines and unreported. In fact, to even suggest that the war exists is to be discredited. So let’s start suggesting, immediately.
No matter how crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a large segment of black America has waged a war of violent retribution against white America.
And the problem is getting worse, not better. In the past 20 years, violent crime has increased more than four times faster than the population. Young blacks (under 18) are more violent than previous generations and are 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than young whites.
Nearly all the following figures, which speak for themselves, have not been reported in America:
• According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.
• Most victims of race crime—about 90 per cent—are white, according to the survey “Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims”, published in 1993.
• Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.
• Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.
• According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
These breathtaking disparities began to emerge in the mid-1960′s, when there was a sharp increase in black crime against whites, an upsurge which, not coincidentally, corresponds exactly with the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.
Over time, the cumulative effect has been staggering. Justice Department and FBI statistics indicate that between 1964 and 1994 more than 25 million violent inter-racial crimes were committed, overwhelmingly involving black offenders and white victims, and more than 45,000 people were killed in inter-racial murders. By comparisons 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, and 34,000 were killed in the Korean war.
When non-violent crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft and personal theft) are included, the cumulative totals become prodigious. The Bureau of Justice Statistics says 27 million non-violent crimes were committed in the US in 1992, and the survey found that 31 per cent of the robberies involved black offenders and white victims (while only 2 per cent in the reverse).
When all the crime figures are calculated, it appears that black Americans have committed at least 170 million crimes against white Americans in the past 30 years. It is the great defining disaster of American life and American ideals since World War II.
All these are facts, yet by simply writing this story, by assembling the facts in this way, I would be deemed a racist by the American news media. It prefers to maintain a paternalistic double-standard in its coverage of black America, a lower standard.
[Unamused: see here, here, or here.]
Good statistics, but I’m still looking for a crystal I haven’t found: how many Whites are killed by Blacks per year.
(Just found it: “Black-on-white killings grew from 8,503 to 8,530, while white-on-black slayings dropped from 4,745 to 4,380. Homicides involving all other racial combinations, including Asians and American Indians, rose from 3,854 to 4,981.”)
“Probably they also figure they don’t want to be the only minority around. ”
Ding ding ding!
Jews, being very motivated, smart and cliquish, since ancient times active in the financial sector, do very well indeed in almost any country they are in.
Trouble comes when the natives recognize how much success and how well off Jews are relative to the rest of the population.
The solution, of course, is multiculturalism – many, many people, fighting for scraps at the bottom (low and middle class) while the elite class imports more diversity into a country.
This is not the problem only for the Jews – the Chinese in Asia have the same blessing and curse.
And Asians have dealt with Chinese in the same vein as Europeans with Jews – pogroms.
Not entirely different and not all the time. Google the four letter word “Zanj” some time. There’s a strong argument that this is what started it all.
But nowadays – yeah, the Middle East is mainly on the lookout for cheap domestics and drugged-out blondes.
Robert in Arabia: indeed, those statistics go uncited in Thompson’s book. But Thompson is very careful to note every white-on-black crime, including – you guessed it – the murder of the unarmed, skittle-bearing Trayvon at the hands of a white-Hispanic.
Thanks to those who filled me in on what NAM means.
Well, Blogger finally took down The N*gger Times. I’m crushed. I wanted to keep it going ’til election day. Now what? Maybe it’s a good thing. I spend far too much time stewing over social and political b.s. Anyway, keep up the good work, Unamused.
BTW … the figures I cited were for a ten-year period, not annual (which, upon re-reading, it looks like I implied, above).
It looks like homicides between Whites and Blacks equal one September 11th every two years and four months.
Olave d’Estienne, I have considered how many are killed by illegals [2000?] EVERY YEAR. And how its not ‘news’!
Imagine adding in legal thugs who move to the USA.
A significant # of killers are, immigrants.
Brown skinned or otherwise.
Leftist Jews are usually non-religious. It has to do with the long history of European anti-Semitism from the right, which leads Jews to sympathize with the left. Hitler and Stalin were both genocidal mass murderers, but if you were Jewish, only one would kill you for sure.
Rightist Euro “ANTI-SEMITISM!!!” has to do with the long history of Ashkenazis turning everything they touch to shit. Communism’s Willing Executioners (Ashkenazis) long preceded Nazism’s Willing Executioners.
You still see this in all the Jewish culturati obsessed with black culture and thinking black people like them better than other whites. (Crown Heights, anyone?)
Jews in Israel don’t seem to be too obsessed with blacks. Except keeping/getting them out, that is. And the American Jewish “obsession” with blacks doesn’t seem to be an up close and personal thing, either.
It’s actually a huge misconception among alt-right types that Jews hate America. They just like the parts of it you don’t, and vice versa.
That huge misconception sounds a lot like a distinction without a difference.
I may just formally convert to Christianity, get a rhinoplasty, and pretend to be Italian.
I don’t know what I’d do if I were born to the tribe. Probably go full Protocols on Gentile ass, lol. :)
maybe it’s that jews tend to endorse those views that appear rational (rational given the incorrect assumption that everyone’s equal), which misguides them into the libertard camp:)
If Jews are just “misguided” into libtardism, why does it look so much like naked self-interest? I.e., join the coalition to keep YT prostrate, but sure as hell don’t actually buy into libtardism and diversify their Fatherland on the Levant, as real libtards would?
Jews are not liberals. They’re faux BS liberals who never get called on their BS because they run the circus.
The blacks have quite reasonable historical grievances in that they were brought over as slaves.
“I won the lotto (being born in YT country) but I’m mad because my ggggrandaddy wuz in chains!” Gimme a break already. They’re mad because they’re inferior, end of story.
But I see where they’re coming from. 150 years later and they’re still picking up the white man’s garbage, making his beds, and serving him takeout meals. Yeah, we both know it’s IQ and time preference, but can you imagine telling them that?
Yes, I can absolutely imagine telling them that. We were telling them that until pretty recently.
I can’t imagine a black asking me a question that would lead me to tell them that, but if one did, I’d be doing more than imagining telling them the truth. I’m not going to sugarcoat anything for them.
90404, I think I agree with you, but I don’t know where to get good statistics on how many people get iced by foreign scofflaws each year. It’s a good point though–Black kills White is very much “dog bites man” and the news media tell themselves they ignore it for that reason. Infiltrators killing US citizens sounds pretty newsworthy to me. I’d say the media are ignoring for ideological reasons–”screw whitey” in other words.
Olave, have you read Brimelows ‘Alien Nation’?.
That is a place to start.
‘Immigration Time Bomb’, ‘Immigration Invasion’. etc.
The news will not mention when Immigrants kill.
As in…..Sanctuary Cities [the Bologna Family in SF, on Thanksgiving].
The Chandra Levy case. etc.