Absent a Common Culture: C-Realm Interviews James Howard Kunstler

By Nicholas Stix

I found this via Mindweapons in Ragnarok, who writes (today),

At the beginning, [host] KMO says, “If you say anything besides voice unqualified support for the most politically correct party line, you can lose your job or your speaking engagements.”

There is a note of frustration and cognitive dissonance in his voice, as though he wishes he had a little more leeway to be honest about his opinions on race. And he’s a big time liberal! This is, of course, good to see.

Kunstler, in short, says that blacks want to have black-only everything, such as black student unions, UMOJA et cetera and choose to be oppositional and adversarial, then complain about being left out of the mainstream.

Of course, Mindweapons are very glad that blacks when blacks are oppositional, adversarial and want separate institutions. We want them too!

KMO had had two racist blacks on his show, including one “Renaissance man” in his late fifties or early sixties who was a member of a food co-op in rich, smugly leftwing, Park Slope, Brooklyn, who had condemned Kunstler as a racist, for his failure to submit to the racial socialist party line. KMO was giving Kunstler a chance to rebut them.

(During the late 1980s, my girlfriend, who was attending Columbia, quoted a lesbian Zionist who worked with her in the school library and who lived in Park Slope, which the lesbian proudly called, “Dyke Slope.”

For seven months, when I first returned to the States in ‘85, I lived next door to Park Slope in Prospect Heights) and often entered it, and it was a hostile place. Half of the women were married, and half were lesbians, but all were rich, grubby yet snobbish materialists. Although many of them dressed like bums, almost all of them sized up your assets when they first laid eyes on you, and treated you based on their estimate.

One practice of social sorting was bragging about how much money one had spent, getting one’s co-op kitchen re-habbed.)

How can one be pc with a vengeance, and yet be a “Renaissance man”? I guess that tells us more about KMO than it does about his racist black ally.

The two racist blacks had been angry that Kunstler had pointed out that in the mid-1960s blacks had gotten the landmark civil rights laws passed legislation that they had demanded, demolishing segregation, and responded by demanding … segregation (at least for blacks)!

In lieu of any argument, the “Renaissance man” had pointed and spluttered about “300 years of slavery.”

I suppose it could have been worse. Usually, they point and splutter about “400” or even “500 years of slavery”!

Yes, they.

Rather than blacks being enslaved by whites for 400 or 500 years, blacks were not enslaved by whites, but whites emancipated the slaves.
 


 

KMO talks with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and Too Much Magic, about race, racism, black separatism, the drug war, and the need for a common culture with universally accepted standards of behavior for all members of that culture. This conversation makes explicit reference to C-Realm podcast episodes 279: Overvaluing Genius and 313: Peak Oil and the White "We." KMO concludes the episode by reading a post from the Friends the C-Realm Group on Facebook about how obsessing over 9/11 conspiracy theories directs attention away from much greater crimes. Music by Hobotech.

Kunstler sees in gangster rap, “The war chants of a warrior class that had not yet committed to war.”

Conversely, KMO sees gangster rap as the most aesthetically vital part of rap.

Kunstler also said, among other things, that the time for black whining is over.

Kunstler sees Southern black sharecroppers who moved North to work in factories in time for the jobs to “evaporate” 20 or so years later, as they were outsourced, and then “marooned.”

I think Kunstler has the causality backwards. The jobs didn’t “evaporate”; blacks chased them away through their own violent racism and crime. A factory owner is in business to make money, not to be a prisoner to racist extortionists, to have his best workers robbed, maimed, and murdered, and his factories burned down. If he can't make money in Detroit, he'll move elsewhere. And so they did.

On Kunstler previously at WEJB/NSU:

“Novelist James Howard Kunstler Tap Dances Around Jim Snow and the Trayvon Martin Hoax.”