A READER writes:

Your recent post, “Rape and Race,” has produced quite a few negative reactions from people who have been offended at what they feel was implied racism on your part. Their reaction, as far as I can tell, may not have been your intent. However, I feel that they are somewhat justified in their response due to the ambiguous nature of the post.

I understand that the original text of your post consisted solely of a quote from another website, and that the quote was probably part of a larger piece, including a thesis and a conclusion. However, in the context of your blog, neither of these were provided, either in the quote, or in the form of analysis by you. This leaves the reader to do the majority of the work determining what your intention was in posting the quote, how the quote fits into the overall worldview presented within your blog, and what your desired response on the part of the reader might be.

It seems like this is the issue that needs to be addressed. Your responses to the recent posts on race seem a little disingenuous. The standard line seems to be “Well, those are just the facts regarding the statistical probability that a a certain amount of random people within a larger group would commit a certain act. I certainly didn’t mean to imply that any specific person actually committed said act.” Basically, your response has been that people are dense for not getting it, without every stating in clear terms what it is you want them to get. 

I’m still a fairly new reader on your site, but in digging through the archives, trying to get caught up, at times I’ve noticed some side discussions of interracial marriage. This, combined with your two recent posts have caused me to wonder what questions of race are in the subtext of the blog. My wife and I both find ourselves in agreement with much of what you write, and value the straightforward and unambiguous nature with which you approach most topics. In this case, however, you have implied much while being clear on little.

Therefore, I ask you to state your thesis from the post “Race and Rape” in a clear manner so that your readers may better have the opportunity to understand and respond to said thesis in a reasonable informed manner.

Laura writes:

Thank you for writing. I appreciate your interest in my views on race and understand your desire for clarification. It was not my intention to draw negative reactions. There is, in my considered opinion, no basis in the previous post for considering me racist.

In the past, I have posted a number of entries on racial issues, particularly with regard to family and sex roles. Some of them can be found here, here, here, here and here. I am doing a poor job of arranging the archives of this site and need to categorize more of the items. There are other posts that are not found under my category of race, but there are no articles summing up my views. These views are generally expressed in those various posts and in a few others that can be found if you use the search term “race.” I have at least one longer piece pending about my own intellectual experience regarding race issues and hope to post it sometime soon.

I had no ulterior motives in posting the piece about rape statistics and no thesis other than agreement with the points Lawrence Auster made. I honestly am confused by your statement that I was being disingenuous in my responses. I saw the entry on Mr. Auster’s site that day and was struck by how well he summarized the matter. I thought he presented the rarely-discussed facts in a fair and balanced way.  I posted it and then responded to criticisms. In the course of the discussion, I did cite a very flawed statistic from an earlier article by Mr. Auster, but I immediately corrected that statistic. The change did not alter the basic argument.

My general approach here is to talk about race when it comes up, particularly as related to family or sex roles, or when I see a particularly interesting item. People often assume that a person who defends whites or takes pride in being white must be obsessed with the subject and if that person brings it up only occasionally he must really be hiding an obsession and have secret motives to make others join in the obsession. I am not obsessed with race. I do consider it one important aspect of identity, though not the most important aspect of identity, and believe that matters of race are related to feminism. Both anti-white racism and feminism are part of liberalism’s revolt against natural distinctions and its flight from created order. 

People automatically presume that anyone who defends whites must bear personal animus toward blacks. This presumption is an expression of antipathy toward whites.

If I had to informally summarize my understandings of race in less than a dozen brief points, they would be the following:

1. The three major races, as well as racial subgroups, show general innate physiological and psychological tendencies that affect their cultural existence. There are many individual exceptions to these tendencies.

2. Race, along with ethnicity, sex, nationality and religion, is one important aspect of human identity, but not the most important aspect of human identity.

3. People generally possess an innate inclination to live and mate with others of their own race. At the same time, most human beings are capable of interacting harmoniously with those of other races and instinctively recognize that the different races are variations on a single theme. That theme is humanity. In the Judeo-Christian view, God intentionally created different races. We do not know why.

4. Blacks and those of mixed race are not morally superior to whites. Whites are not morally superior to other races.

5. Whites have been the target of a conscious campaign to undermine their moral legitimacy. This campaign has been accompanied by some physical violence against whites, violence which is generally tolerated by whites themselves.

6. The cultural and racial defeatism of whites has been disastrous for blacks, contributing dramatically to the modern breakdown of community and family among blacks in America.

7. The cultural and racial defeatism of whites has been disastrous for whites and threatens our future as a people and the continuance of Western civilization. 

8. The desire or intention to harm, shame or vilify others because of their race is evil.

All of the above begs further questions. It’s just a brief summary. By the way, I don’t particularly relish discussing racial issues. Does anyone enjoy relegating themselves to the outer margins of society? I don’t think so. It is difficult and costly. 

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