My Appearance On The Rational Space Disputations with Frances Widdowson
Which Thing Did I Say That Pissed You Off?
Anti-woke is losing significance for me. Many anti-woke people are just shuffling ideologies and expressing the same totalitarian tendency to stifle, edit or “correct,” the things that offend their ears and sensibilities.
Frances Widdowson brought me on her podcast The Rational Space Disputations, and I used it as an opportunity to bring up as many taboo subjects as possible. This wasn’t my intention going in. It just happened. I prepared nothing, I like to improvise.
What I like about Frances is you can talk to her about anything. She can handle it. She does not get triggered. Or if she does, she is intellectually mature enough to not react, but instead remain open and thoughtful. That is probably why I felt disarmed enough to bring up such topics.
However, there is a part of me that wants to test everyone for their level of heterodoxy. Most people fail. Even those who claim to be pro-human and anti-woke - sometimes I get the sense from these types, that saying things that offend them, is little different from saying things that offend the woke.
Frances spoke about her co-author Albert Howard. She described him as very confident and totally willing to go it alone. Albert doesn’t need anyone. I like that. However, I do like people, and I enjoy networking and making friends. But unlike the U2 song, I can live with or without them.
So take this to be a trigger warning. This is the only trigger warning I will ever give here on The Turn. When people are uncomfortable with a topic, and I start receiving pushback, my natural inclination is to push-back against the push-back. It’s not about being combative or argumentative - although I’m fed up with people demanding I believe things that deceive my eyes, so there is somewhat of an element of that here.
In this episode of Rational Space Disputations, we discuss tribalism, social media, and Marshall McLuhan in the first bit. This part came out really well I thought. Later we get into the issue of trans-activism and ideological indoctrination in the Canadian school system.
In the second half, I brought up Eric Kaufmann and his harmless idea “ethno traditional nationalism” - that white people lose their shit over - but it was glossed over a bit and I stumbled in my explanation. It is not an easy thing to explain, but what is very easy, and almost a given, is that white people will misunderstand, and be triggered. Not Frances though! In my piece The Dark Side of Colorblindness I do a little better of a job explaining the idea.
I think white people are the victims of psy-ops (or we can say conspiracy, that works too). The critical race theory, the problematizing of white bodies, the talk of eradicating “whiteness,” and on and on. All of this, I believe, has led white people to repress and avoid uncomfortable truths about the insecure nature of white bodies existing in an environment that not only does not recognize their full humanity, but also seeks to erase it. We have been bullied into believing things that are not true about ourselves, the most startling being that we don’t even exist. We do. I’m white. Fully white. Bright fricken white…I’m writing this…these words are not a figment of your imagination and neither are the white hands that typed them.
So I’m prepared to die on this hill. If you think I’m a racist or a white supremacist, I don’t care, you can think what you want. I can, and will, think you are an idiot. We can agree to go our separate ways. I like you, I want you to stay, but I don’t need anything I can’t provide myself…like Albert!
I completely agree. Racism against whiteness and white people is absolutely disgusting, and I simply won't put up with it any more.