Here’s an excellent article on The Daily Sceptic, taking a slightly different tack from my recent piece on The Hump on the same phenomena.
Its overarching theme is “oikophobia”, a word coined by the late, and great, Roger Scruton in Fools, Frauds and Firebrands to describe the self-hatred of Western intellectuals that explains why they are determined to trash our entire civilisation (or in my terms, why they formed a new religious death-cult). The word implies a hatred of the oikos, or household, rather than a hatred of oiks, by the way.
I will only add to the article by mentioning that in another piece I saw recently, the myth of white racism (as in “Far Right riots”) is laid bare. It gives statistics to show that every stereotypic racial group exhibits a significant preference for its own “kind” over the others, and that in actual fact white respondents overall show the lowest rate of such preference, making them the least “racist” of all. In fact, they show more or less equal liking for all races.
But that’s not actually the whole story. When the white category is divided into “conservative-leaning” and “liberal-leaning” there is a profound difference. Conservative whites tend to match the broad picture of preferring their own ethnicity (note that for all races this is a measure of comfort-zones, not antagonism or xenophobia). Liberals, on the other hand, actively dislike their own ethnicity, to roughly the same extent that everybody else likes their own.
So the apparent neutrality of whites towards other races (and apologies in this whole piece for taking for granted the crude reality of those simplistic races) is actually the average of the conservatives’ quite normal inclination towards their own people, and the liberals’ distinctly abnormal animosity towards themselves, and their uncritical approval of everyone who isn’t white.
This appears to be independent, and data-based, confirmation that Scruton’s oikophobia is indeed behind the suicide of the West.
