Tolerating DEI Will Lead to Our Destruction
And My Favorite Articles of this Year
Welcome back, everyone, and Merry Christmas!!! As I mentioned in the article on books that I sent out on Sunday, that was my main article for this week. Christmas is a time to be with family rather than to worry about politics and spend all day writing. That said, I do very much appreciate everyone who subscribes, and so wanted to send out something for y’all today, in case you do want something to read while taking a break from family. I will do something similar this Friday, with a podcast compilation article containing some shows I have appeared on this year that you might find interesting and have not seen.
So, I decided to make a quick comment about a very important article I just read here on Substack, and then share what my favorite articles I have written so far this year are. As many people have subscribed over the past few days, I figured doing so would be a good way to wrap up the year and review some articles everyone might not have yet seen. First, the new article:
The Wages of DEI are Death
One of the more interesting things to come out of Jacob Savage’s recent article on DEI and the commentary that surrounded that article is the focus on the reality of DEI. As Vice President Vance and others noted, DEI is not just “ lame diversity seminars or racial slogans at NFL games”, but rather “a deliberate program of discrimination primarily against white men.”
Still, it is sometimes hard to impress on those who are only peripherally aware of DEI and like programs or laws, from disparate impact to affirmative action, just how destructive it is. It is neither a minor hurdle nor a problem that just afflicts a few in particularly woke industries (the ones on which Savage focuses), but a civilization-destroying force that can and will take us from First World to Third if we let it.
Such is what I was reminded of when reading a recently published article about the Afrikaner-only town of Orania, in South Africa. The author, Jonas Nilsson, describes the camps of impoverished white South Africans that have cropped up across the country as DEI-style policies called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) have intentionally impoverished them and destroyed their lives. He notes:
One family told us they went bankrupt with their business because they refused to follow BEE guidelines, which among other things require you to take on a black partner. When they didn’t comply, they lost many customers and couldn’t make ends meet anymore. It becomes a self-playing piano - companies that bring in black partners do business with other companies that have done the same. Like in many socialist countries, the free market is deeply intertwined with various state subsidies and state companies, and they’re very strict - you can’t participate in public tenders if you don’t meet BEE requirements.
This is also one of the reasons beyond the farm murders and hatred towards white farmers that Trump has opened up a refugee program, and why Musk doesn’t have Starlink in South Africa - it would be forced to follow BEE as well. Far too few people are talking about and problematizing today’s race laws in South Africa. Many people down here see Trump as a godsend.
It cannot be forgotten that such is the point of DEI. It is to dispossess, humiliate, and harass you, chasing all of us into some wretched squatter camp while the former favela dwellers live the high life on the accumulated capital of generations…until they wreck it all in an orgy of frivolity and indolence. Such is what has happened in South Africa, where whites are an increasingly fleeced and dispossessed minority, and it will happen here if we let it. The stakes of tolerating DEI and the DEI collaborators are not more boring meetings, but utter destruction and impoverishment.
My Favorite Articles
For those who would like to read something more (or listen to something, as I did produce audio versions of these articles), here are my five favorite articles I have written this year, along with brief explanations of why each was chosen. Enjoy!
1. The Militarized Recolonization of Detroit
What would it be like to live in a world in which agency, inventiveness, and a penchant for adventurous living are rewarded rather than damned? What could life be like if those who build and accomplish things were put first, rather than the rights of criminals and leeches who do nothing but bleed the body politic dry?
Such is what drew me toward writing this article on recolonizing Detroit, and other ruined cities. The sad fact is that housing is limited and expensive relative to incomes in America not just because of inflation and the like, but because vast swathes of the housing stock have been made too dangerous to live in by the pro-crime policies that have turned our cities into violent hellholes more dangerous than active war zones, and pushed capital out of them.
But that needn’t be the way things always are. Many of the abandoned neighborhoods are still relatively intact, and huge blocks of them sell for next to nothing. Fixing them up would require something like the British South Africa Company: an organization that funnels enterprising and upstanding pioneers into a dangerous area while helping provide them with the tools and opportunities to better themselves, and stay defended while doing it. In short, an armed corporation, if provided with legal cover to do so, could recolonize our blighted cities and, thanks to the low cost of housing available for such plans, draw in people who want to start building capital and living in a home they own…the tradeoff is that they’d be in Indian territory.
This article speculates on what could be done that takes advantage of that, what the practicalities of such a company would be, and how it would provide value to residents and investors. As I am interested in both the American frontier and colonialism, along with how we can reverse the Third Worldification of America, it was quite a fun article to write.
2. Why the CIA Aided the Communists and Destroyed Rhodesia
The Cold War is endlessly fascinating, particularly because much of it is not what it seemed. We were told it was a war against communism, on behalf of “liberal democracy”. That’s not really true, however: often as not, America was on the same side as the communists, and generally those we supported were bloodthirsty dictators rather than free democracies of any sort. So, what was really going on?
What was really going on, as shown in particularly stark light by the war in Indochina and the American response to the Rhodesian Bush War, is that we were fighting a war against natural hierarchy, the Old World, and colonialism. Fighting communism was generally a secondary goal, and the war on the old order took precedence. Hence why we were aiding Ho Chi Minh up until the early 50s, pressured the French to leave Algeria, forced the British and French to give up Suez and leave their empires behind, refused to aid Salazar’s Portugal in defeating FRELIMO, and so on. The purpose was not really fighting communism, at least when doing so would aid what remained of the European presence in the wider world.
And why did we do so? Egalitarian sentiments, essentially. For much the same reason as we let the Civil Rights Act’s consequences gut our cities, we were unwilling to defend—or even tolerate—civilization abroad. It had to go, in the name of equality.
Little shows that as well, or as openly, as the memo discussed in this article. The CIA knew Rhodesia was fighting communism. It knew the Ian Smith government was running the country well. It knew Rhodesia didn’t have apartheid, and that Smith’s government was generally supported by the tribal chiefs. Yet it agitated against helping the Rhodesians anyway, instead arguing that it was a “racist” country that had to be destroyed, even if the cost of doing so was the spread of communism, merely because it wasn’t an egalitarian mass democracy. That shows what the Cold War was really about, what the CIA was really up to, and sheds a whole new light of much of what happened in that decades-long conflict, and why we are now in such an awful state despite having “won” it.
3. How John Brown Started the Civil War, and Why His Acolytes Will Start the Next One
What started the American Civil War? Was it the confidence created in the breasts of the South’s ruling class by “King Cotton”? A dispute over states’ rights? Lincoln being a budding tyrant?
Such are the conventional explanations, but what they leave out is the central role of the murderous terrorist John Brown in starting the struggle: without the “disease in the public mind” created by the abolitionists and solidified by Brown’s murderous raid on Harper’s Ferry, the war probably wouldn’t have happened, as tensions wouldn’t have been as high as they were. But because of Brown and what he represented—the bringing of a Haitian-style white genocide to America, sponsored by abolitionist radicals in Boston—the war had to happen. Tempers were too fierce, the stakes too high, and violence the only solution.
Such is what author Thomas Fleming shows quite well in the book that served of the basis of this article, one that opened my eyes to what the war was really precipitated by, and how it is relevant today.
4. The Belgian Congo Was a Paradise, Not a Hell
Most who have heard of the Belgian Congo have heard of two things: the chaos in the 1960s, in which Mad Mike Hoare and the famous Congo mercenaries were involved, and the supposed atrocities committed by King Leopold II of Belgium. The resultant impression is one of misery, chaos, and horror little better than the state of constant anarchy and atrocity-filled war that exists in the present Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But that impression is a lie. The lie-filled King Leopold’s Ghost, a ridiculous book written by a leftist academic who did little real research and merely spewed old propaganda from the envious British, serves as the basis for most of it, and ignorance serves as the basis for the rest. The reality is that the Belgian Congo, both under Leopold II’s personal rule and the Belgian state generally, was a gem of the colonial world and one in which the Congolese received the only good governance they have ever gotten.
The Belgians brought justice to the country, built huge tracts of modern infrastructure across it, stamped out the rule of atrocious slavers and cannibals who had ruled before them, and did their best to modernize and civilize it, quite to the benefit of those there. That only ended because decolonization was foisted upon them by the communists and Americans.
Such is what Bruce Gilley shows in his flawed but still good The Case for Colonialism, the book that served as the basis for this article. In the article, I show what life was really like in the Belgian Congo, and how their legacy should be one of good governance and justice rather than the opposite.
5. We Need More Hangings
Perhaps the most exciting work-related moment of this year was when Elon Musk quote-tweeted my post on X about capital punishment and the need for much more of it to deal with the crime problem.
This is the article that served as the basis of that post. In it, I delve into the research of how many executions occurred, on average, in Western Europe, and how the end result of that was massively beneficial for the states that engaged in it. It’s an interesting subject, and one I quite liked delving into in this article.
Enjoy reading, and Merry Christmas!
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Brilliant breakdown of how DEI functions as institutional dispossession. The South African parallel is chilling becasue it shows the endpoint isnt just uncomfortable workplace meetings but actual economc collapse. I worked in consulting and saw how BEE reqirements forced competent businesses to either comply or die, exactly like the family you mentioned. The self-reinforcing network effect where only compliant firms survive is something nobody talks about enough.