Gee’s Reviews > Nationalism: The Politics of Identity > Status Update

in 2023 it was reported that Africans are responsible for 42% of crimes on public transport in France while making up just 3.2% of the population. In the Paris region, this climbed to 52%, and 69% of violent crimes on public transport, including sexual assault. Such consistent trends of overrepresentation simply cannot be explained with purely environmental explanations

In the UK, blacks make up only 3% of the population, but 13% of murder suspects, a similar overrepresentation to the United States. London offers an even better example for comparison, as Blacks comprise 13% of its population, the same as their share of the United States. As of 2018, Blacks made up 48% of murder suspects

Crime rates in America fell by about one third between 1934 and 1938 in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Studies that have found a relation between poverty and crime have generally found the relation to be quite small – nowhere near enough to explain the vast disparities between races

Modern globalist civilization is failing to create more humans because it's fundamentally inhuman, misanthropic, and hostile to human life at any age. The very fact that its administrators only understand the crisis of people not having children through the lens of consumer spending, pension funding, and bond market speculation modeling speaks to its inhumanity

It’s not that financial incentives don’t matter, but it’s social capital that really counts. And the two great sources of social capital outside of liberalism come from religion and national pride

both high openness and low disgust sensitivity are strong predictors of leftist social views. The more fundamental difference though, is that liberals are more individualistic than conservatives. Ideals like liberty and fairness are rather abstract, individualist-oriented values. Loyalty and authority are important to maintain group cohesion

We should therefore expect populism to continue on an upward trend, as Western elites lack any vision or will to answer this crisis other than hoping the market can provide the innovation and growth needed to lift everyone up, while turning in the short-term to unpopular mass-immigration policies to supplement the population loss

Without a disaffected elite willing to provide narrative and organisation, it doesn’t matter how hard done by the masses feel, this will only translate to undirected outbreaks of violence and protest which can be easily dealt with by the organisational capacity of the state

Ideological politics are a luxury: debate about the right level of income tax or the size of the military only mean something when there’s a shared sense of a national interest. As soon as identity politics become a reality, ideology takes a backseat