A richer life

Listening to Fox News the other day, I was appalled to hear a radio spot sponsored by aRicherLife.org. The site, which is part of the propaganda apparatus of the National Fair Housing Alliance, makes some of its "media materials" available for those who may want to indoctrinate their employees, students, etc. These materials will help them to understand what the thought crimes are, and what they must think and say if they are to keep their jobs, friends, academic careers, and so on. To help analyze this specimen of anti-white propaganda, here is a transcript of the spot. The two speakers in the morality play are a white guy (WG) and a non-white guy (NWG). The latter has a slight Spanish accent.

WG: I grew up in an all-white neighborhood.

NWG: I grew up in a diverse neighborhood.

Both: Everyone I knew ...

WG: ... was just like me.

NWG: ... brought something different to the party.

WG: They looked like me, thought like me, acted like me. So my neighborhood always stayed the same.

NWG: They introduced me to different tastes, different ideas, and different ways of doing things. So my neighborhood always got more interesting.

Both: They definitely helped shape the way I look at things.

NWG: And, they prepared me for the future.

WG: They did?

NWG: They did.

Narrator: A neighborhood rich in diversity can leave its inhabitants better off and more able to succeed in the global community we, and our children, will face in the years to come. To better understand the full range of benefits offered by neighborhood diversity, please log on to ...

Both: I want my kids to live a richer life.

The mind reels. In a sense, it's pure comedy. At once absurd and idiotic, it makes us wonder who's minding the store at Fox (and NFHA, for that matter). Yet it was carefully made and must have cost a considerable amount of money to produce and broadcast. I can see the writers sitting around a table, laughing and daring each other to come up with something even more hackneyed than the other. Let me attempt a commentary:

1. The spot says that an all-white neighborhood is bad. It is worse off and less likely to succeed. All-white neighborhoods will not have the "full range of benefits" promised to diverse ones. Therefore, in essence, this is anti-white propaganda. Just substitute all-black or all-Jewish, and see how it goes over.

2. Here we discover that there is no diversity among white people. We're are all the same. This statement is so outrageous it's amazing Fox could countenance this PC dung hill on its airwaves. The spot implies all whites look the same. Isn't that racist? Again, just substitute black or Asian for white: "we all look the same, think the same, act the same". It's offensive to any ethnic group. Yet white people are unique. We have to sit and take it. Any objection on our part is racist hate speech.

3. Do we have to point out the diversity in white culture? Think of the boring, uncreative, unimaginative, rigidly conformist, and dull writers, artists, architects, philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists that Britain has produced throughout history (never mind all-white Europe at large). Of course, that's the point: the producers of this travesty are too profoundly ignorant of Western culture to conceive that a rich life consists of anything more than living in a multi-racial neighborhood.

4. Since the bad neighborhood is specified as all white, it implies that the diversity we must have is racial. Notice that the non-white guy has a Spanish accent. But here's where things get murky. Why not counter the white guy with another white guy who grew up in a diverse neighborhood? Why give the other speaker an implied non-white ethnicity? His "diverse" neighborhood could have been all non-white. Thus, whites add nothing to a neighborhood. They impart no diversity, no richness.

5. In the real world, ethnic groups tend to auto-segregate. Whites do not force this upon them; it's human nature. So when we hear the guy with a Spanish accent, who grew up in a diverse neighborhood, we understand he grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood. The implication here is that majority Hispanic, black or Chinese neighborhoods are innately diverse. Only white neighborhoods are bad. Indeed, it would be wrong to demand racial diversity in a non-white neighborhood.

6. To reiterate: the required diversity is racial. But then, we learn that racial differences imply differences in tastes, ideas, and "ways of doing things". Really? This is exactly the argument of those who think race is real and that there are significant differences in IQ, character, and behavior among the races. (Hey, I hear American Renaissance is looking for writers ....)

7. Somehow the white guy in the spot has grown up without ever seeing a non-white person. He has never watched television, read books, or learned of other cultures and races in school. Indeed, the white guy depicted here is a functional illiterate, and the other whites in his neighborhood, exact replicas of himself, are stupid too, unable to learn anything about people from different ethnic groups without living in the same room with them.

8. Apparently, white people cannot have "a richer life" by listening to classical music, learning Latin, appreciating the great painters and artists of the West, reading ancient Greek literature, and so on. In short, nothing can be gained from the works of white people. But whites cannot learn, through reading and study, about the great works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or Arab culture either. No. The only way to appreciate diversity is to pack your white neighborhood with as many Hispanics and other non-whites as possible.

9. The diverse neighborhood isn't just richer, it's a party!

10. If mono-racial neighborhoods are bad, if they somehow taint a person ("definitely" shape the way we look at things) and make him unable to succeed in the global community, then why do we allow immigration from practical ethno-states? In most of Asia and other parts of the world, we're not just talking about mono-racial neighborhoods, but entire countries. How then can these people, who must suffer from the same malaise as the white guy (otherwise, the argument is utterly hypocritical and inconsistent), impart the magic of "a richer life"? The learning and accommodation is all one way, from non-white to white. The non-whites injected into the white neighborhood are not expected to change. Otherwise, they would become (horrors!) like white people. They can remain as ethnocentric as they like.

11. Asians and other non-whites who immigrate to the U.S. are often as ignorant of their own traditions as Americans are of the Western tradition. Come up to the next Indian you meet and start up a conversation about the works of Kalidasa, the Upanishads, or ancient Indian philosophy. See where that gets you. In LA, where Chinese, Korean, Armenian, (etc., etc.) neighborhoods encrust a Mexican substrate, one does not automatically gain knowledge of other cultures by virtue of mere propinquity. To learn, you have to pick up a book. Indeed, one can learn more from study and travel than by living within ethnic chaos in his own country.

12. How do racially diverse neighborhoods help a country succeed in the global community? Japan is pretty successful, isn't it? Its industries dominate in many fields; it does an enormous amount of business overseas. Its citizens enjoy a high standard of living. Other Asian countries, like South Korea, China, and Taiwan, also have strong economic growth and export an enormous amount of goods. Thus, they succeed by dealing with the "global community". And guess what: they're ethno-states.

13. Contrary to the claims made in the radio spot, there is no evidence that diversity yields any benefit beyond having more choices when looking for a bite to eat. In Europe, mono-racial states did not impede the creation of science, great music and literature, the Industrial Revolution, modern mathematics, etc. Furthermore, it did not seem to impede the West from producing the dominant world powers, and bestowing the blessings of modern medicine and technology (again, invented Europe and America) to non-white peoples around the globe.