Between the Lines

EXCELLENT ARTICLE! Thank you.

Anyone who capitalizes black, but not white, is racist. Period.

Where does it all end? Where is there a society that doesn't have a dominate group? What dominate group doesn't want to stay dominate? And finally, given the many flaws of whites and white america, why do peoples of different colors leave their wonderful Africa and come here? Can they not produce similar political and societal outcomes back in their home countries? Given a choice, what countries of the world would most people choose to live? I believe that there is a preponderance of evidence that all things being equal, some systems of government,(whether by design or by accident, or luck), tend to favor a more robust union. Distroy it if you must. Finally, The U.S. is not the only country having similar cultural difficulties. European society is breaking down too. Most likely in your mind that is a good thing.

Interesting article.

I was walking with a friend once, and a stranger asked what background I was. I said I was born in Canada, but told them where in Asia my parents were originally from. I was a little surprised when after my friend(who is Canadian, with Scottish and English parents) remarked with some annoyance that no one ever asked her about her background. I hadn't thought of that before. I guess with non-white people there is sometimes the tendency to see only a culture or race, and with white people there is the tendency not to ask at all.

Sure, there's a white American culture. It's derived from the values of the Europeans who settled this country. It celebrates the scientific and artistic accomplishments of white Europeans and Americans and subscribes to the values of hard work, independence, innovation, education, self-government, fairness, courage, tolerance, friendliness, and courtesy.

The problem is that white Americans are no longer "allowed" to take pride in those things. Other cultures are encouraged to embrace their ethnic history and values, but whites are not, simply because it's now considered morally repugnant for any cultural group to be "dominant." Yet tribes and nations of all races rose and fell and imposed their cultures on one another for thousands of years. It's only recently that our evolutionary tendency to form hierarchies has become taboo. Given that history, you could say we're doing an exemplary job of coexisting at this point.

It would be nice if we could even the playing field so that everyone had a fair chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from birth. But humans seem to find it next to impossible to create the kinds of economic conditions necessary for that. (The Scandinavian countries come close.) As long as we struggle with this, the defining factor in success will not be race but economic status.

This blog equates white culture with what is really white upper-middle class culture. Among the working poor, there is no advantage to being white, and there is, in fact, reverse discrimination. A white child born into poverty lacks the same opportunities that a lower-income black child lacks but has none of the chances for redress that the black child has through affirmative action programs.

Again, I understand the attempt to level the playing field. But when will it ever be leveled enough? Unless we introduce a much more socialized system, there will always be poor people, and they will always have trouble affording the advantages that come more easily to the middle and upper classes, regardless of the color of their skin. How long must we give special opportunities to some of them based on skin color in order to redeem the sins of our forefathers, who were just doing what all people at that time were doing the world over--conquering and subjugating? Even the African and Native American tribes were doing brutal, unspeakable things to each other back then in their own disputes for land and captives. Europeans just happened to be more successful at it.

If we really want to solve racism in this country, let's work on eradicating poverty in general and encouraging a true meritocracy, as they do in Western Europe. Then there will be no need for anyone to feel disadvantaged from birth.

Thanks Mr. Lyubansky for this article.
It is quite insightful and thought-provoking.
As a half white and half black young women, I believe it is quite important to dicuss these issues.

I don't see where all the complication comes from.

White culture is the product and expression of the European peoples.
White culture is Western culture, which is European culture. White people are Western people.

There is no one uniform White culture. It is simply a blanket term to denote all unique European cultures since European cultures are similar enough in nature to lump them together.

Your arguments are silly and one-sided. I know for a fact that black Americans never refer to each other as "black", but when talking about a white guy they will always use the "white" racial identifier.

This is normal behavior. Humans have evolved into separate, distinct groups. Some groups have more similarities than others. To wish to forcibly remove from one group this evolutionary survival mechanism is wrong, and the fact you think only whites exhibit this behavior is incredibly hypocritical. For example, despite their very European heritage, Jews have always identified as Jewish first. They regularly only add ethnic modifiers when speaking of non-jews.

The fact whites think of themselves as the "default" race is normal since this is a primarily white European nation. Go to China and you will see the identical behavior, Kenya and Saudi Arabia the same as well and on and on. Your argument is so laughable I would dismiss the notion except for the dangerous fact so many people take it seriously.

"fundamental tenets: 1. distinction from Black culture, 2. avoidance of self-racialization, and 3. privilege"

How can one claim that these are the "tenets" of White "culture"?

First of all, if one accepts the very definition of culture proposed by the author concerning the sum of ways of living, it becomes clear that those cannot be what constitutes the basis for the ways Whites, live their lives, nor anything specific about the ways of lives coming from the developpement of civilisation among Whites. Or one should accept the concept that Whites live all their lives around their relationship to other races and that this is what constitutes "life" for them... thir core.

Laughing at laud...

What the author emphasises, concerns only a small portion of those ways of living concerning exclusively the interaction with other races, and even that exclusively in the US society.

Therefore calling these the tenets of "culture" in general, is completely wrong and misleading, as it concerns only a very limited dimension inside culture, namely racial identity of Whites and White racial politically correct consensus in US society.

To call these border aspects as the "tenets" of White culture itself is so obviously nonsensical, that it implies a political agenda...

The author seems so opsessed by negating Whiteness, that he cannot conceive White culture in its substance, or that there is one, but ignores it completely and pretends that "White culture" is just certain aspects of mainstream White political ideology concerning relationship with other races.

And this guy is a Ph.D... ?

Well Misha, I will tell you what constitutes the basic principle, not of White culture, but of the White biocultural holism.

It is transcendence.

Transcendence of the current state. This is what the White biocultural holism is all about - its very core.

No other race has transcendence in its core.

Perhaps it would be more beneficial for Dr. Lyubansky to spend his time analyzing the root causes of the genocide that occurred in his own homeland by imposing multicultural based laws on the Russian People through brute force, which resulted in the mass murder of some 40+ million people, and some 20+ million in the Ukraine, the vast majority of these victims being mostly white Christians. This long lasting effects of this evil is still something from which the Russian people still suffering today.

Now, in light of the above historical circumstance, one could rightfully state that not all immigration patterns of the US have been beneficial to this country. The mass immigration of Bolsheviks into the US has been, and through their descendants such as Lyubansky himself, continues to be extremely destructive, and therefore one of history's errors. And, the hypocrisy of Dr. Lyubansky in using the Gramscian 'culture of critic' of White America in order to resurrect the Bolshevik System here, while apparently giving no thought as to the reason his own people left their homeland, that being the failures of Bolshevism, he lowers himself to the status of cheap propagandist.

Dr. Lyubansky contributes nothing of value to this nation, nor to the world at large, and in particular, certainly not to the field of Psychology with his intellectual dishonesty.

So Mikhail, do yo feel the same about Jewish culture as you feel about "White culture"?

I wonder how you would define the "tenets" of Jewish culture in the US and global context now. (And I mean NOW.)

And on a personal note, are you as eager to get rid of your Jewishness as from Whiteness, I wonder?

Not likely we will get any good responses from the author now, being as we have some very good rebuttals to his ridiculous article.

Defining "White culture"?

For the author, the "fundamental tenets of White culture" are: 1. distinction from Black culture, 2. avoidance of self-racialization, and 3. privilege"

How can one claim that these are the fundamental tenets of White "culture"?

First of all, if one accepts the very definition of culture proposed by the author himsef, concerning the sum of ways of living, it becomes clear that those cannot be what constitutes the basis for the ways Whites live their lives, nor anything specific about the ways of life derived from the developpement of civilisation among Whites.

Or... one should accept the weird concept that Whites live all their lives around their relationship to other races and that this is what constitutes "life" for them... their core.

Laughing at loud...

What the author emphasises, concerns only a small portion of those ways of living concerning exclusively the interaction with other races, and even that exclusively in the US society.

Therefore calling these limited aspects, the tenets of "culture" in general, is completely falacious and misleading, as they cover only a very limited dimension inside culture, namely racial identity of Whites, or more exactly, the White racial politically correct consensus in US society.

To call these border aspects the "tenets" of White culture itself is so obviously nonsensical, that it implies a political agenda...

The author seems so obsessed with the negation of Whiteness, that he cannot conceive White culture in its substance, or that there is one at all, but ignores it completely and pretends that "White culture" in its whole and in its core is just certain aspects of mainstream White political ideology concerning relationship with other races.

And this guy is a Ph.D... ? He cannot even discriminate the notion of culture from the notion of identity...

What an academic!

And of course, little Mikhail, in his hatred of Whiteness, dismisses all those patterns of life created by Whites trough history, the patterns that created the great Western civilisation, and would like us to believe that "White culture" revolves merely around other races and around Blacks...

From under what leftie, liberal, White hating university did you crawl Misha, you and your diploma, oh great scientific thinker?!

And what about his "tenets", once we have established that Ph.D Misha doesn't understand some elementary sociologic notions?

"Distinction from Black culture" and "Avoidance of self-racialization"?

Wow! Did it occur to you to add the two together? Didn't it occur to you to ASK yourself WHY do Whites avoid self racialisation, or if that it is the case, why do they try to be distinct from Blacks?

No? Oh great scientific mind.

Didn't you notice that any display of White self awareness is, not only discouraged, but demonized? Didn't you notice that Whites are intimidated in displaying any White racial and White cultural pride?
And they have a lot to be proud of, contrary to what your nitwit, White culture negating "tenets" suggest.

But "racial pride" is encouraged in other races, particularly Blacks.
And this is done by the leftie liberal "intelligentsia" in medias and Academia.

The "Distinction from Black culture" is consequently the expression of White awareness in all areas where Whites can manifest the racial consciousness that is being forcibly taken from them, without being vilified.

What about corelating "avoidance of self-racialization" and "privilege"?

If one disregards PC inhibition and intimidation of White awareness at all levels of public and private life, wherever there is a majority, representatives of that majority, particularly if they are the ones whou really shape a country, do not think of themselves in relation to others.

A Chinese in China will not express the fact of his race all the time, but will mention someone's race if it is not Sinoid.
This is the mere contrast principle present in psychology - one emphasises what is different, not what is the same.

As for "Privilege" you suggest that it is a form of racism denying the reality of other races and racial identity, and refusing to take into account the demands for racial awareness of other races.

There is no way to make you happy, you people...

You demand that the White race erases itself, commits racial suicide.
And it is fine when Whites deny themselves, but when in reaction they ask the same thing from others, then they are dirty racists, or "privileged" as you euphemistically call it.

You got it all backwards, you great sociologist. Whites ACTUALLY do incredibly much for the self affirmation of other races, particularly those brainwashed by pathologic guilt building Pavlovian conditioning. But it is because Whites feel pressured to abandon their race, and because their race is demonised all around, that many of them feel that if they must get rid of their own race, the same should apply to others too.
So racist of them, of course - they don't understand that they are the only ones programmed to disappear, in the great liberal scheme of things.

If one sums up your 3 "tenets", they basically all amount to racism, and saying that the tenets of white culture and Whiteness in general is racism.
Tenet #1 = Whites are racist to distinguish themselves from Blacks.
Tenets #2 + #3 (same thing from different angles) = Whites are racist because they want a color blind society, and do not recognise other's racial identity.

So for You, what White culture amounts to is racism. To be White and have White awareness and culture just meanss to be racist.
You camouflage all that in euphemisms, but this is fundamentally what you claim.

The sum of ways of living that is White culture is racicm, according to Mikhail Lyubansky...

On a personal note Mikhail, I would like to ask you what are the US and global fundamental tenets of Jewish culture these days?
I noticed that whenever there is someone or some organisation talking abot the abolition of Whiteness, there are Jews around.
Could you explain that?

Also, are you as eager to get rid of your Jewishness as you are for "your" Whiteness?

And Misha, what world do you envision then? A world where White identity would disappear for Whites, but all other races get to keep their racial identity and develop it? Why do you think that they will not be racist between themselves or against the self negating Whites?

And what identity should those self negating Whites adopt then? Just a negative self negating one? Or should it be human universalist?
But I forgot, that universalist human identity would be rasis... ooops.. "privileged" against other races...

Do you understand how inconsistent and contradictory your theses are, if one pushes further their logical implications just a bit?

And in the end Misha, I will tell you what constitutes the basic principle, not of White culture, but of the White biocultural holism.

It is transcendence.

Transcendence of the current state.
This is what the White biocultural holism is all about - its very core.

No other race has transcendence in its core.

This transcendence is present in all White groups in different forms and emphasis, material, artistic, spiritual, geographic - always aspiring to something more, further away, higher, exploring, searching, creating...

This is the unique promethean attribute of the White race, always striving to take more light from the gods, always in search of something new, or something going beyond, new paradigmatic change. That is the core of any White culture emerging from it, its basic fundamental tenet.
Biology and culture are two sides of the same coin.

And you criminals want to destroy that!

And for all of you brainwashed reading this, I would like you to ask yourselves why do you so much want to erase the White race?

Because they convinced you that it is evil, and that you would be an evil racist if you embrace your own race?

If you don't wan't to be racist, fine, but there is no justification to destroy your own race. Racism will not disappear if the White race is erased, particularly if, like this nitwit Mikhail suggests, only the white race erases itself and the others get to keep their racial identity.

Or did you think that racism is the exclusive property of Whiteness?

Please don't buy the self negating, guilt building propaganda.
Embrace your race and its unique great achievements.

Help others if you want, but do not destroy the best, most succesful biocultural holism that this planet has created, just because it is the most successful.

What is the best can do the most evil, precisely because it is the best.
Others did less evil in the absolute sense, but just as much or more in the relative sense - AND DID MUCH LESS GOOD in absolute or relative terms, precisely because they were less successful and less capable, that's all.

But the solution is not to destroy what is the best because it can also do bad things "better" than others. The solution for it is to become self aware of itself at a new higher level of responsibility FOR ITSELF, AND the rest of the planet.
YOU must do that!

Self destroying it would do no good, only depriving the planet of the best achievement it has attained.

While this article is a beginning, it falls far short of the realities of today.

White culture is definable and quantifiable; guilt and fear of this subject does nothing but create an even bigger problem.

In this culture of critique, Whites are beginning their sense of critique, and are becoming aware of their own Identity.

http://www.whitenewsnow.com/forums/philosophy-ideology/1162-way-western-...

Multiculturalism and diversity is a LIE. are intentionally whipped up into a frenzy because blacks use to be in the back of the bus and slaves. Alphabet organizations like the ADL, SPLC, NAACP, Illegal Alien and Spanish special interest groups continue to erode away America. These groups do not flourish in other third world countries they are needed here for the final destruction of America.Today Whites cannot even ride the bus or inner act in cities anymore and that goes largely unreported. I do not believe diversity is a strength. In fact I would like to see segregation. Do not get too upset the media has seen to it that views like mine will be no more. Many White children today are taught guilt and to act like wiggers and practice miscegenation. Most Whites are so overwhelmed with bias race propaganda from the 96% Jewish owned media they are unable to make rational conclusions. Any other view is quick to be branded. Whites are active participants in their own rape, robbing and murder. Illegal alien crime and inner city gangs claim more real estate each day as we pontificate the joys of multiculturalism. Every major US city is a bankrupt lethal toilet and White people are not the problem but the solution. Seldom do these bleeding hearts have the words flow from their penny pencil for Charlotte Parker, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. It is a shame more of these elite writers are not able to take the place of the Charlotte Parkers of the world.