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One of the things that really drives me crazy is that the left believes that we came to a cultural consensus on their ideas at some point between the civil war and the civil rights movement. I'm not here to try and say that there wasn't some sort of cultural consensus made on race at that time, but rather that it's not what they say it is. When white people agreed to make racism taboo, they didn't mean what anti-whites mean when they say "racism" today. No sensible white person would agree to be what counts as anti-racist today.

When the case was being made for anti-racism on a social and cultural level, nobody was talking about "abolishing whiteness" or becoming minorities in our own countries. Nobody was talking about making room for Islam in our culture or rewriting our history. Nobody was talking about shattering our sense of identity or demonizing us constantly in our own culture. Nobody was talking about censorship or denying science. What white people agreed to was basic shit like not standing on a street corner shouting racial slurs at black people.

When white Americans came to a cultural consensus not to be racist, they came to a cultural consensus against what are mostly cartoonish behaviors. Nobody defends being an evil cop who arrests someone just for being black. Nobody defends refusing to tip a waiter just for being non-white. Nobody defends committing any number of acts of vandalism with swastikas and shit that always find their way onto /r/hatecrimehoaxes. White people agreed to act civilized towards nonwhites and pretty much all of us have kept that agreement, including the alt right. The alt right is many things but we are not uncivil, regardless of anyone's race.

What I want to stress is that the alt right didn't just show up one day and decide to start pissing people off by violating what are essentially non-governmental treaties between different peoples. We are not the ones who decided to change the rules without telling anybody. Anti-whites did that by aggressively redefining the terms by which we structure social conventions, and they did this without asking us if we'd be okay with it. All that we did was notice what was going on and that our society is being subverted, and now we want to talk about it.

It's okay to be what in 2018 is called "racist." It doesn't make you hateful, it doesn't make you a bigot, and it doesn't make you a barbarian. It doesn't make you un-American and it's not at odds with anything in our culture. What is considered "racist" in the current year is just ordinary white people doing ordinary white people things, and it is okay to be white. I think that all of us have a psychological worm where we hear the term "racist" that used to be reserved for absurd and cartoonish behaviors and there's a natural urge to avoid being called that. However, definitions of words change over time and it no longer makes you a bad person. It just makes you a white person.

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