If you want to know what a man really thinks, observe how he behaves, do not listen to what he says.
The actions of most modern-day leftists speak so loudly, I cannot hear what they say.
This desire to "appear good" above actually "doing good" makes whites vulnerable to rhetorical tricks like the accusation of "racism" (that enduring alibi for anti-whiteism). The following thought experiment should make the moral dilemma clearer:
You have two mutually exclusive options to choose from:
1. Live a life of virtue and honour, but carry around with you all your days a public reputation for vice and dishonour, or
2. Live a life of vice and dishonour, but carry around with you all your days a public reputation for virtue and honour.
Which would you choose?
I daresay most of our people would choose option two. This is our problem as whites. We're crying out for a "Ring of Gyges" so that we can take our own side with impunity. The key to virtue, however, is to be true to our nature, invisibility ring or no invisibility ring.
Plato's claim was that the man of virtue is the man who acts the same even when granted the cloak of invisibility conferred by the Ring of Gyges. The man of virtue chooses option one over option two.
We must therefore start caring nothing for our reputation. We must be like the lion who does not lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
"Me ne frego" is the correct response to anyone who would try to impugn your moral character. In any case, anyone who would do so is clearly only trying to elevate his own moral standing in relation to yours, which is the antithesis of virtue.
Shakespeare's Hamlet said, "To be, or not to be? That is the question..." In the moral sphere, the question becomes, "To be, or to seem to be?"
We must care nothing for seeming and everything for being.
Below, I have transcribed a few select excerpts from Professor Dutton's edifying video:
There is research that found that those high in virtue signalling are also high in narcissistic & Machiavellian traits. People who are extremely left wing are high in these traits. Narcissists want approval and love & the way they do this in the current year is to signal how left wing they are & how they're more woke than the next man. It's essentially an arms race of "wokeness".
Narcissistic rage is what the narcissist feels when he's confronted with his own imperfections & hypocrisy. That's where the triggering phenomenon originates. Triggering is just another word for "narcissistic rage".
When left wing politicians give speeches to black & white audiences, they will change the nature of the speech such that the speech to black audiences is high in words that relate to warmth, love & empathy, & low in words that relate to competence & systematising, whereas the Republican politician gives basically the same speech.
Another study got white liberals & white conservatives to send hypothetical emails to people with white-sounding names & black-sounding names, inviting them to a book club. The white liberals would change the nature of the email depending on the name of the recipient. For white-sounding names, the white liberal would use competence words, but for black-sounding names they would remove these words & use words that related to warmth and empathy. For the right wing whites, there was basically no difference between the words in the emails sent to white & black recipients.
In another study, white liberals and white conservatives had to make an online avatar to describe themselves. The words were coded based on whether they were "competence" words or whether they were "warmth" words. They then had to present their avatars to white & black people. The right-wingers used the same words in their avatars whether they were presenting them to whites or blacks. Those who were left wing used words that were lower in competence when presenting to black people.
What this all means is that, deep down, white liberals believe (regardless of what they might say) that black people are less intelligent & more child-like than white people, & therefore need to be mollycoddled. They basically believe that blacks are inferior to whites in terms of their intellectual capacities. They express this through their behaviour; by behaving differently in the presence of blacks than in the presence of whites. Right wing whites may well believe that also, but they also have a fundamental ideology that says you should treat people the same and judge them not according to the colour of their skin, but according to the content of their character. "Treat everyone the same". That's what they say, & that's what they do.
Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGib4AnAqo&ab_channel=Prof.EdwardDutton%3ATheJollyHeretic
The source material for much of Dutton's video is Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's book 'Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are'
