ALL POLITICAL factions in Britain, left and right, consider Paul Weston, the founder of the Liberty GB Party, to be racist. In this video, posted at Gates of Vienna, Weston, whom readers of VFR may remember as a commenter, agrees that he is racist. “Why am I a racist? It’s very simple. I wish to preserve the culture of my country. I wish to preserve the people of my country and in doing so that makes me a designated racist in today’s society.”

He continues, “In order to be termed a racist 30 or 40 years ago you had to actively dislike foreign people. Now I don’t dislike foreign people. What I do like, what I love is my country, my people and I see that under a terrible threat at this moment.”

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Sage McLaughlin writes:

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Not that Mr. Weston is embracing actual racism, but the fact that he no longer even cares whether the term is being used to describe him represents significant movement in the direction I have been predicting.  That is, in the direction of people’s growing insouciant about charges of “racism,” “hatred,” or what have you.  At that point, the emergence of movements such as Golden Dawn throughout the Western world are not far off.  And at that point, much worse can be seen gathering on the horizon.

Liberals, though they’ll never accept responsibility, are to blame for whatever comes, by refusing even the most sensible limitations on what they call “tolerance,” and for embracing an explicit agenda for displacing the native peoples of the West and making them and their history objects of scorn.  This is a recipe for bloodshed on an awful scale, and when the cataclysm comes, I wonder whether they will be able to stand upright, blown between the opposing winds of the “multicultural” world they have made.

Laura writes:

I entirely agree with you. There is a disturbing implication to Weston’s statement, despite its reasonableness and civility.

In that VFR entry, you wrote:

My fear is that the left will wind up hastening the very thing they claim to be preventing—the emergence of virulent hatreds, which will find expression through organized political movements. If the left continues to go on insisting that any politically effective preservation of one’s own culture and civilization is tantamount to fascism, then many people might simply grant them the argument and become fascists. If “racist” now means “doesn’t hate one’s own kind” or “isn’t interested in groveling before Muslim interlopers,” then lots of otherwise decent people may simply conclude, “Very well then, God help me, I am racist.”

Liberals never fail to miss this important point. By declaring practically all interest in the maintenance of ethnic integrity and social distinctiveness “fascistic,” “racist,” “hateful,” “xenophobic,” or what have you, they virtually guarantee that normal people will eventually become desensitized to these words and lose their ability to distinguish between love of one’s own and hatred of the Other. If liberals can’t see the difference, and if they are the self-appointed experts on these matters, who is the average man in the street to disagree? Since the average man on the street has no burning desire to be displaced by foreigners and forced to comply with their every demand, he might just conclude that violent hatred is the natural and indispensable companion of ordinary self respect.

The other concern is, though Weston’s statement is a civilized response to the liberal’s hatred for his nation and his people, and in the short term it seems this kind of evocation of love of one’s people is the only possible response to hatred of Britain and its people, it is only a call to nationalism and racialism, and nothing more. Can people — ordinary people — gather over the long term around these causes alone without transforming their nation and their people into idols? They cannot.

Shefali writes:

Paul Weston’s statement is more deep and profound and than it looks at a glance. Racism, has been painted so thoroughly by the liberal media (with a little help from history ) as outright hatred and intolerance of those different from you.

To be racist is to be fond of your own culture and racial identity – of yourself.

Since all psycho-porn pundits out there including Oprah talk on the crisis of low self esteem among women and girls and the lack of real men, surely there has to be some reason for this epidemic of self-esteem. If you don’t love, honour and stand by your own history, culture and people aren’t you effectively striking at your own sense of self ?

Here is where Mr. Auster changed my life and set me free. He made it safe and okay for me to admit that some races and religions make me uneasy – a feeling I repressed whenever I found myself amongst a bunch of burqa-clad women or in a state where the culture is different from my own. But not anymore.

Yes, our faiths and values ask us to be compassionate to all and not bear hatred or intolerance to anyone. But they don’t ask us to be “comfortable” in the midst of differences in culture and race.

Nor do our virtues ask us to abandon our love for own people.

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