THOUGH I oppose the systematic defamation of the white race that is growing ever more intense by the day, especially now that even “nice whites” are considered racist and lacking in moral legitimacy as human beings, now that even a painting of apples or pears in a bowl is considered an expression of disgraceful domination of humanity, and though I believe it is my absolute duty to oppose this systematic defamation and that those deracinated whites who support it are committing nothing less than treason against their ancestors, I do not consider myself or call myself a “white nationalist.”

Not that anybody cares what this unimportant blogger calls herself. But let me explain. For the record.

To call myself a “white nationalist” would imply that 1) I hold the white race above all else 2) that my devotion to my nation is a kind of religion.

I call myself a patriot. That’s all, a patriot.

Patriotism, as opposed to nationalism, is founded more on love — instinctive love even — than ideology. After religion, the instinctive devotion to tribe, ethnicity, nation or race is the most important motivating factor in human history and the foundation of civilization, as well as the cause of countless wars. These bonds of extended kinship are so inborn, so natural, that they clearly are intended by God to be a force for good, not evil. The project to make us all, but especially whites, rootless citizens of a global community flies in the face of the very best in human nature and has but one inevitable end: the enslavement of all.

Drawn from pater, the Latin for father, patriotism ideally exists within a balanced hierarchy of loves. One’s people are an extended family and the nation as a whole, which is not synonymous with the State, is ideally a benevolent and guiding father, to which one owes not just respect but tender devotion, always recognizing its very human limitations.

I love the nation of America and I love it despite its faults. Americans and Europeans — call them whites if you will — do not have to prove they are somehow faultless in order to deserve their countries. They do not have to be perfect in order to possess the right to their history, national customs, traditions, languages and sovereignty.

I love the land in which I was born, its remarkable beauty along with its language, traditions and customs, and I love my ancestors who came from Ireland, settled here and were honorable citizens. I love my living compatriots — nor are they all white though the vast majority are — who possess the same fidelity and I believe I have serious obligations to them.

But I don’t love my nation more than I love God.

I am a citizen, first and foremost, of that divine society established by Jesus Christ, our Incarnate King, and embodied by his Holy Church on earth, the Catholic Church, which ever holds out its maternal embrace and the infinite rewards of divine life to all.

Needless to say, no one should be coerced to profess this belief. But to those “white nationalists” who expect to preserve their people in America or Europe and yet show a complete indifference, or even a secondary commitment, to their duties to God and his one true Church, I can only say, “You have no right.” You may be successful to some extent, but you have no right.

To those who consider themselves Catholic or call themselves Christian and would rather ignore, and remain silent about, the systematic defamation of the white race, let me say also, “You have no right.” You have no right to the organic habitat in which you and your descendants can best cultivate the higher virtues and fulfill their duties to God.

To those who say the white race doesn’t even exist and that they do not “identify” as white, I greatly sympathize with your desire to forego racial categories and assure you that becoming obsessed with race is wrong, as is seeking a society founded on utopian ideas of racial purity, as dangerous as the ideological cult of racial equality. But this desire at this moment in history is likely to be founded in sloth or timidity and, regardless, other people strongly believe that you and your descendants are white and will act accordingly.

The distinction between patriotism and nationalism is supremely important.

In The Return of the King: Discourses on the Latter Days, (1894) Henry James Coleridge, S.J. eloquently expanded on the difference:

The Christian loves his country for the sake of God’s ordinance, and for the many benefits which he receives from its laws and its protection. He loves it for the sake of conscience, and therefore not more than his conscience. He knows that he must obey God rather than man. He knows that he will lose his soul if he makes his patriotism an excuse for hatred against his fellow-men, for violence, for revengefulness, and other bad passions. He knows that he is a citizen of a higher and nobler unity, the Kingdom of God in this world and in the next. He is a Christian first, and after that, and in harmony with the duties and the charity which that name implies, he is an Englishman or an Irishman or a Frenchman.

The Pagan knew none of these qualifications to his love for his country. His country or his city was to him a divinity, it was the highest unity and polity that he knew. Its interests overrode his conscience, its commands justified sin.

He read his own duty in that bad sense of which our Lord complains in the Sermon on the Mount — “Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy ” — and all outside his city walls were enemies to him. His country could do no wrong, commit no injustice — its gods were his, its religion his, it was a crime to set anything in the world higher than what its service required.

This is the explanation of the conduct of the Pagan persecutors of the Church in the early centuries, many of whom were virtuous men according to the heathen standard; the proconsuls and praetors who ordered the torture or the execution of the Christian martyrs, did so because they saw in them enemies of the divinity of the Empire. And when in this country of ours, three centuries ago, Elizabeth and her Ministers persuaded themselves that it was high treason to offer Mass or to remain firm in allegiance to the Holy See, it was on the same principle of the supremacy of the country over every other right, or law, or person, or institution to which allegiance might be due by the law of God or of man.

My brethren, it is hardly worth while to ask whether the nationalism of the days in which we live is a Pagan nationalism or a Christian nationalism.

[From Sermon VI, “The National Spirit.” Read more here.]

[Note: I have taken the liberty of breaking this text into extra paragraphs to make it easier to read.]

I would rather die than renounce or betray my heritage.

But this desire only exists, indeed we only exist, because a loving Father, the Creator of all, has placed us here, given us the gift of extended kinship as but one expression of his endless, purposeful creativity and put this patriotic love in the deepest recesses of a flawed, human heart.

Not that an obscure blogger would have the privilege of martyrdom, but to die for my people would only be to die for my King. The hatred of whites is, after all, just a pretext for hatred of Him.

— Comments —

Terry Morris writes:

You don’t have the makings of being a “white nationalist,” in my humble estimation. They tend to be pretty horrible people, in my (admittedly limited) experience.

Feb. 20, 2022

S. writes:

First of all, thanks for the content you produce. I have read for many years and have even commented from time to time. I would also like to thank you for sticking up for whites.

I do however have some criticism regarding how you have defined terms.

“To call myself a “white nationalist” would imply that 1) I hold the white race above all else 2) that my devotion to my nation is a kind of religion.”

Is not how any white nationalist I know would define it. They would define it how you go on to not really define patriotism but instead define ethnic nationalism which includes white nationalism.

“After religion, the instinctive devotion to tribe, ethnicity, nation or race is the most important motivating factor in human history and the foundation of civilization, as well as the cause of countless wars. These bonds of extended kinship are so inborn, so natural, that they clearly are intended by God to be a force for good, not evil.”

You further state “Drawn from pater, the Latin for father, patriotism ideally exists within a balanced hierarchy of loves. One’s people are an extended family and the nation as a whole, which is not synonymous with the State, is ideally a benevolent and guiding father, to which one owes not just respect but tender devotion, always recognizing its very human limitations.” But this is only true when the State and the nation are the same thing. Otherwise you get some perverted form of patriotism that doesn’t express a love that comes from your love of your extended family but a patriotism born on some other idea like liberty or some other tripe. After all, God did command that if the Israelites wanted a king that it would be a king from their own people.

I think you understand what white nationalism is as you defined it and also defended it. It just seems like you were trying to avoid the stigma the term was given by the very people who hate whites.

As for how you tried to define white nationalist none of them are accurate for how a white nationalist would define it. They don’t hold race above all as most I know are Christians of some form and they would rightly put God then the whites that are their extended family, then everyone else as God commands us to love everyone; however, there is a hierarchy. And for the few that did put race above the Christian God it would be because they are some form of pagan. And the issue would be with paganism not race.

I think it’s important not not let our enemies define our terms for us. Leon Trotsky should not be given power by buying into his term “racism”. Just as we shouldn’t give power to Mortiz Steinschnelder power by buying into his term “anti-semitism”. All of which are terms to keep people from pointing out other races obnoxious behavior.

A similar term to white nationalist is white supremacist. This is a term that should also be reclaimed. Supreme means “highest in rank or authority; paramount; sovereign; chief.” Whites in their own nation should absolutely be sovereign. Just as any other race in their own nation should be supreme. But instead of insisting on words having their proper meaning we let people who hate us determine what words mean almost always to our own detriment.

There is nothing wrong with being a white nationalist. For “And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation. ” It is a sin however to not treat every race according to God’s law. But saying you are a white nationalist is nothing more than stating you love your family and you care for their well being and want to have a homeland for themselves. If anything this is the secondary story of the ancient Israelites besides their covenant with God.

Laura writes:

Thank you for taking the time to think about what I have said and articulate an intelligent response.

You’re right that we shouldn’t let the enemy define our terms and there is incredible pressure to do that, pressure that I feel intensely so I take seriously your charge.

But when I was writing this I was thinking about obsession. 

There are people who are obsessed with the victimization of whites. There is a darkness and nihilism to their commentary. If that’s “white nationalism,” I don’t want to be part of it.

If someone were to call me a “white supremacist” or a “racist” (which people have, of course), I’d have less of a problem with that than I would with the term “white nationalist.”

Every nation should acknowledge the kingship of Jesus Christ in his true Church and if every nation did people would maintain organic communities. In terms of the defining of a nation, I can’t think of it as first and foremost racial.

S. writes:

I would specifically like to respond to Terry Morris’ comment. “You don’t have the makings of being a “white nationalist,” in my humble estimation. They tend to be pretty horrible people, in my (admittedly limited) experience.”

This is an uncharitable comment regarding white nationalists. I will give you a personal example. My father grew up before the schools were integrated in an America that could truly be called a nation. It was about 90% white and whites were supreme. I am now an adult raising young children in a country, no longer a nation, that is now about 58% white. This number is dropping fast and in a few short decades I and my children will be absolute minorities in the country that my ancestors had built for me. My children as they enter school will actively be discriminated against. They will be taught that all of the bad things in the world are their fault. They will be taught that whites are evil. No other race is taught this, just whites.

I work for a multinational corporation that actively discriminates against whites. They have KPIs (key performance indicators) built for how few whites they have. Leadership is trained to actively discriminate against whites and they are rewarded with bonuses if they hire non-whites. Their new facilities are designed to have at least 50% non-whites as their work force. That is at least half the jobs not even available to whites. Non-whites opinion are worth more. If you say something negative about a non-white you can be fired. If a non-white calls a white a cracker or some other racial slur for whites nothing will happen. If you are a semi-competent non-white you will be promoted over a more competent white with seniority. They also give money to BLM and other anti-white groups.

Almost the entire media promotes anti-white hatred. Nearly all commercials portray a competent non-white but a bumbling, stupid, out of shape white male especially. Professors, media propagandists, government officials, influential people in tech companies, all promote anti-white hatred and they go so far as to call for open genocide against whites.

Most of the white nationalists you so disdain are young men particularly but many young women who have grown up in this disgusting anti-white culture. And your response is not to show these people the love they deserve and you are called to give as a Christian but to heap more scorn on them.

Many of these people discover the greatness that is their race and love for their people and you treat them as evil. They have had their entire country and nation taken from them in the span of a generation and you blame the victim. They have grown up being constantly told they are evil and bad just because of their race and you join in.

Why would you expect people who have gone through this metaphorical hell who have to fight all of this psychological damage, loss of their nation, and concerted genocide of their people to be some what? Perfectly well behaved little church boys?

And speaking of church. They also get it in the churches. I’ve heard many sermons against racism and antisemitism which are just words for anti-white. But never hear any criticism of the jews and the non-whites obnoxious behaviors. I never hear that non-whites should work extra hard at forgiveness and to love whites. And it’s the churches that are taking part in this psychic damage against these kids. Preaching against them in the pulpits while excusing every bad thing a non-white would do. it’s the churches that are engaging in human trafficking to replace the white population in the United States.

And you wonder why some of them might be “horrible”. Sir, your humble estimation is the problem. And its a symptom of this un-Christian hate towards whites. How about instead of condemning these people who are just trying to do their best to find love in this world that they are constantly denied and you actually care not for what the world wants but for what God wants. Perhaps this is an opportunity to show love to these people and to call out the hate against them instead of joining with the world. And maybe when they aren’t constantly being called evil and having to deal with an ongoing genocide they may actually have time to relax and show more love to others as is proper.

Laura writes:

I don’t think Mr. Morris disdains someone like you at all.

You are absolutely right in many of the observations you have made. And I think he would agree wholeheartedly.

It’s not just your generation that has grown up under this constant defamation. It started a long time ago and Mr. Morris has been resisting it for many years.

S. writes:

I don’t think he does either. And I’m not trying to be uncharitable. I’m just trying to illustrate how comments like that are symptoms of the hate in this world. It may not have been intentional. I also wanted to help enlighten him on why he may see white nationalists like the comment purports and that perhaps more care should be done with regards to charity for these suffering people.

S. writes (in response to my comment to him):

I think my comment to Mr. Morris speaks to any hints of nihilism. That should be expected. Remember they’re also getting hate in the churches which should be building them up.

Every nation should acknowledge the kingship of Christ. That’s literally the next part of the Acts that I quoted supporting ethnic nationalism. “that they should seek God, if happily they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us:” but this only strengthens the need for ethnic nationalism, it’s literally God’s design. I can’t think of the study but there was some research that showed it’s easier to convert someone to Christianity when they share the same race. In other words, it makes it easier to seek God!

So I think you might slightly be looking at it backwards. God creates the separate races, puts them in a certain place, to seek God! That’s race, nation, God in that order. it’s not saying race/nation is more important than God. It’s that God gave us those traits as a condition in helping us discover and worship Him. It makes sense when you think about it. If you have a racially homogeneous society, one extended family, you are more likely to take care of each other and because you’re not dealing with inter-ethnic strife you can focus on God. And every nation should be doing that! And when you have strong nations that are God fearing you can have better relationships among them. And you should also treat any strangers or sojourners traveling trough your lands equally by God’s law.

Laura writes:

But you see, I’m not discounting race.

When a nation or community truly loves God and his revelation of an indivisible Church, it can’t afford to erect a Tower of Babel. It can’t preserve its relationship with God amid so much confusion. But a people could put race first and become alienated from God — that has clearly happened many times, most prominently in the case of the Talmudists.

Yes, people can more easily find God within their own extended family.

Laura writes:

Do you agree that no group has more racial pride than the Jews?

Do you think they have a good relationship with God?

S. writes:

I agree with that statement. With God, no? With Satan, yes. However, having racial “pride” (or rather love) in and of itself isn’t a sin. Just like drinking alcohol isn’t a sin. Or having sex isn’t a sin. If you put your race above God it is. If you drink in access it is. If you have relations outside of marriage then it is. The Jews go out of their way to circumvent God. Whites are magnified mostly because they glorify God (not so much today). And I think they suffer in large part because they don’t glorify God like they used to.

Supposedly whites are descendants of Japheth which can mean to extend or beauty, which I think are two lovely traits we have. They will dwell in the tent of Shem that is the tribe that Christ came from. So we will be Christians. And we have certainly extended the beauty of Christianity to all nations. We suffer in large part because we don’t practice our faith anymore. Including calling out the Jews for their unfaith and their promotion of every sort of sin. And God does send other nations to visit justice against those who are no longer faithful to them. So I think following our faith is the answer; however, I don’t think it wise to discount our race. God blesses and curses both individually and corporately. To fail to follow him and also to love the race that he made us fails the greatest commandment on both ends.

Laura writes:

Thanks for your comments.

Of course racial pride, properly understood, is not sinful. That is what I have maintained in both this post and my recent post “On Racial Peace and Separation.” But Jews are a perfect example of why race should not come first.

I reject the label of “white nationalist” to avoid that error. I also know hatred is heaped on anyone defending whites and the term “white nationalist” is demonized in a way I do not intend.

Whites have rejected abundant graces, increasingly so over the centuries, and God is righteously angry with us. We must approach these issues with great humility, charity and penance. At the same time we must defend ourselves and our countries.

Terry Morris writes:

You are right that I am mostly in agreement with Mr. S.’s points. Indeed, I think he has (inadvertently perhaps) laid out a pretty good argument for homeschooling his children. I mean, obviously he knows what kind of self-loathing hatred of his and his childrens’ people they will be incessantly and mercilessly subjected to in the public schools; why put them in such a damnable institution, is the obvious question, where the attempt at least will be made to turn their brains into mush and their souls into, to borrow from Dr. Dabney, ‘more resembling those of demons than of human beings.’

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