As I stated in my previous article, https://steemit.com/politics/@daft/the-west-will-never-be-broken, Donald Trump presented a speech with the world as his stage in defense of Western Society and Values. Predictably, the left reacted with the tired and usual responses. Racism.
In The Atlantic Peter Beinert responded:
In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to “the West” and five times to “our civilization.” His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It’s important that other Americans do, too.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/trump-speech-poland/532866/
Amanda Marcotte in Salon.com responded:
That this is true should hardly be worth debating. Trump argued that Western (read: white) nations are “the fastest and the greatest community” and the “world has never known anything like our community of nations.” He crowed about how Westerners (read: white people) “write symphonies,” “pursue innovation” and “always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers,” as if these were unique qualities to white-dominated nations, instead of universal truths of the human race across all cultures.
I could cite more examples ad nauseam but the message from the left is clear. If your heritage is Western European (read: white people) and you have a modicum of pride in your heritage and show even the slightest of interest in perpetuating you heritage, you are racist and something is horribly wrong with you.
The left is beginning to struggle because they have married themselves to these identity politics. Sure they will always be strong with the true believers and identity groups but the left is continually losing hold with the average white person because their litmus is, “You are not welcome, unless you bend the knee and profess your white guilt.” Unfortunately there are many white people that will do this, whether they realize it or not but increasingly many people of Western Heritage are turning away from the radical left. And make no mistake there is increasingly little distinction between the left and the radical left today.
So if you are of European heritage the question you need to ask yourself is, is being Pro West racist and if so are you going to bend the knee to the left?
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