See How Seemingly Tough-Talking White “Conservatives” Have also Surrendered

By Nicholas Stix

Five days ago, I re-posted an essay An Old Friend sent me, by Frenchman Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “A Tocqueville for Our Time: Why Establishment Conservatives Still Miss the Point of Trump.”

blacks, hispanics, and other groups deemed “minority” lead lives of cradle-to-grave privilege. Gobry refuses to acknowledge this. Members of these groups expect to get high grades in school, college, and graduate/professional school, regardless of their output, to get admitted to elite schools, colleges, and graduate/professional school, with race bonuses of 300 or more points on their SATs and GREs, such that they get admitted with scores of 1,000 over Whites and Asians with scores of over 1,300. They similarly expect to get jobs for which they are utterly unqualified and unfit, and will sue, and/or riot, if they don’t get them. Gobry simply ignores these realities.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/13/why-establishment-conservatives-still-miss-the-point-of-trump/

“When it comes to race in America—both discourse and reality—it doesn't seem to me that the most urgent problem is relitigating the Goldwater era. Now, who knows? It didn’t work the last million times, but maybe the millionth-and-first time conservatives apologize for something William F. Buckley wrote in 1963 will cause discourse gatekeepers who plainly hate us to stop weaponizing the charge of racism against us. Somehow I have my doubts.

“At least we should be clear that this is what we are talking about. Actual voters, including minority voters, do not care about this symbolic 60s stuff (except for the ones who are determined to hate us and can't be won over). Many surveys have shown that the prevailing “race discourse” in the United States is really the exclusive discourse of highly-educated white liberals and that the views of ordinary minority citizens are much more moderate. This suggests, surprise surprise, that [N.S.: My emphasis] minorities are normal human beings who care more about the kitchen table issues Roy mentions than about being props in the eternal struggle of the Yankee Puritan to keep the Baptist and the Catholic in his place (as Michael Brendan Dougherty has trenchantly described our culture war).

[N.S.: “minorities are normal human beings who care more about the kitchen table issues Roy mentions than..." They care about racial conquest over Whites and their annihilation.]

“So this sort of racial self-flagellating is a play for the approval of discourse-gatekeeper elites, not of actual voter groups. I don’t think that’s smart politics, but if I’m wrong, I will want to see a political case for it, not a pseudo-moralizing one.

“Certainly on substantive grounds, and arguably on political grounds, the fraudulent racial narrative pushed by woke elites rather than acquiescing to it should be a higher priority.

[N.S.: You mean, denouncing the narrative, whereby blacks and Hispanics have the same average IQ and crime rates as Whites?]

“Of course, it’s possible to overstate the importance of Trump’s gains among minorities, but they are real. Most likely, they are just an avatar of the broader partisan realignment along educational lines—but that is my point: whatever else we might make of Trumpian political incorrectness, the evidence suggests that at the very least it doesn’t hurt us with minorities.”

N.S.: I just left the following comment at Gobry’s essay at American Greatness:

blacks, hispanics, and other groups deemed “minority” lead lives of cradle-to-grave privilege. Gobry refuses to acknowledge this. Members of these groups expect to get high grades in school, college, and graduate/ professional school, regardless of their output; to get admitted to elite schools, colleges, and graduate/ professional school, with race bonuses of 300 or more points on their SATs and GREs, such that they get admitted with scores of 1,000 over Whites and Asians who get rejected with scores of over 1,300. They similarly expect to get jobs for which they are utterly unqualified and unfit, and will sue, and/or riot, if they don’t get them. Gobry simply ignores these realities.