Racial Solidarity is Love
And discrimination is part of that.
by Hadding Scott
OXYTOCIN IS A neurotransmitter “intricately involved in social behaviors such as mother-child bonding, feelings of trust and love, and group recognition,” according to social psychologist Dr. Carsten De Dreu of the University of Amsterdam.
A study conducted by Dr. De Dreu and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents a connection between oxytocin and racial discrimination. “Under oxytocin we saw an increase of in-group favoritism, which has the downside of discrimination against people who are not part of your group,” says Dr. De Dreu.
In all of the experiments, men who snorted a dose of oxytocin showed stronger and more frequent favoritism towards their countrymen over rival groups. Men who whiffed a placebo still showed signs of favoritism, but less frequently and at weaker levels. [Dave Mosher, “‘Cuddle Chemical’ Also Fuels Favoritism, Bigotry,” Wired, 12 January 2011]
Dr. De Dreu acknowledges the survival value of such discrimination: “We thought it was odd a neurological system that survived evolution would make people indiscriminately loving toward others.”
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Race as a Biological Reality and Social Construct
by Kevin MacDonald
I WAS pleasantly surprised to see an article on a radical website that actually says something positive about biological approaches to ethnicity, citing Frank Salter (pictured) and me (Jay Knott, “Invention, Imagination, Race, and Nation,” posted on Dissident Voice). A couple comments:
Shlomo Sand: I really don’t know how anyone can take Sand seriously given that he simply dismisses the data on Jewish population genetics. But Knott is right:
Sand accepts that his work has had no effect on Israeli nationalism nor on Jewish identity worldwide. Why is this so? If you expose a delusion, wouldn’t you expect significant numbers to abandon it, and thank you?
Good point. Jewish ethnocentrism is legendary — I use the term ‘hyper-ethnocentrism’ to describe it (here are some contemporary examples from Israel). It’s beyond rational discussion and cries out for a biological explanation. Sand’s rational arguments, whatever their merit, are not going to persuade rabbis who are convinced that non-Jews are a lower life form.
The Ethics of Ethnocentrism: Knott accepts that there is a biology of ethnocentrism, but regards it as immoral. Commenting on Frank Salter’s opposition to immigration to Australia, he writes “Considering how white Australia was founded, it’s unethical to try to stop third world refugees settling there.” And he goes on to note that:
American evolutionary historian professor Kevin MacDonald is also a right-winger. His Evolutionary Strategies of Ethnocentric Behavior argues that “ethnic affiliations are extraordinarily robust” and that this is because racial identity is biologically beneficial to the genes which cause it.
But the notion that racial identity is adaptive does not imply that it is morally justifiable, any more than accepting the obvious fact that heterosexuality is more adaptive than homosexuality has any consequences whatever for one’s views on gay rights.
From an evolutionary point of view, moral idealism is a very dangerous idea because it may well lead to altruism and evolutionary death. A moral idealism that results in displacement-level immigration is obviously an evolutionary dead end. Evolution is a game that, if one decides not to play, one automatically loses.
The reality is that Whites are the only people who have developed moral idealism — in my view a unique feature of Western individualistic culture where groups are constructed less on the basis of kinship than on the basis of ideology and moral reputation (see here, p. 14ff). Whites are loudly encouraged to act on the basis of these moral ideals by elites in the Western media and academic world. But a moral idealism that doesn’t take account of human nature and continues to promote non-White ethnocentrism may well end in a moral disaster — for example, the many millions in the USSR murdered in pursuit of the highest moral ideal of a classless society:
The current multicultural zeitgeist, based as it is on moral idealism and idealized images of human nature, may … suffer a similar fate [to that of societies based on the utopian idealism of Marxism]. While there is no question that the ideology of multiculturalism supported by strong social controls may result in compliance and even a substantial degree of internalization of the ideology, there is accumulating empirical evidence suggesting that, like Marxism, it is based on inadequate science and therefore likely to suffer a similar fate.
Read more:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/07/race-as-a-biological-reality-and-social-construct/
