White nationalism

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White nationalism is the idea that white people make up a nation that is in need of a nationalism. The fact that white people actually make up several nations does not seem to matter to most racists, nor does the fact that white people have been (for the most part) running the world for a long time, thus negating the need for a nationalism.

A new euphemism is identitarianism, but it's literally the same stuff.

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[edit] In reality

In practice, the term is a code word for "white supremacist" that fools no-one. Most self-described "white nationalist" activists also just happen to take the side of Nazi Germany against Great Britain, the United States, and Russia (all mostly-white nations themselves, supposedly part of their greater Europa), in discussions of World War II.

[edit] But let's pretend

See the main article on this topic: Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white

White nationalists, insofar as they try to define the concept, usually will claim that whites around the world should all see themselves as part of the same nation on the grounds that "your race is your nation." Thus, people from Britain to Russia, Armenia to Australia, France to Finland, all of the nations of the former Yugoslavia, both sides of the Troubles in Ireland, and whites living in the United States, South Africa, South America and elsewhere, even extending to the lighter-skinned Aryan descendants of Iran and India, are all supposed to be viewed as being the same people and show racial solidarity with each other.

For instance, a common copied-and-pasted screed commonly seen on message boards and YouTube comment sections reads:

Africa for the Africans

Asia for the Asians

White countries for everyone

If there was a worldwide effort to flood ALL Black countries and ONLY Black countries with millions of Non-Africans and FORCE integration of every single area in those countries it would be called GENOCIDE. and rightfully so!

But if I point out that reality about MY race, the White race, I'm called a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionje­ws

Say NO to White GeNOcide[1]

This concept is hilariously absurd; the European nations themselves have a long history of wars and longstanding ethnic feuds both with each other and within themselves, not to mention numerous languages, at least three alphabets (Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek), splits over religion (Orthodox-Catholic and Catholic-Protestant being the two major ones), and numerous other differences. White nationalists ignore that groups such as the Irish, Slavs and Italians were not considered "white" until the last hundred years, with Anglo-Saxons even going as far as to pay "naturalists" to "prove" that the Irish were actually not white.[2] Even today, anti-immigration activists in the UK can rant about "job-thieving" Polish immigrants almost as easily as Middle Eastern, Indian and Caribbean immigrants.

There is no evidence for there ever having been a single white ethnicity, culture, or language, just as the same as a distinctly African or Asian one. White nationalists will often try making a claim for this in the form of an origin in the Caucasus region and the proto-Indo-European language, tying it to a belief that their descendants today form a "greater Europa." (Christian Identity, which is also a form of white nationalism, claims a different origin of white peoples in ancient biblical Israel.) Often, white nationalists speak in terms of a group of "white homelands," consisting of all of Europe plus the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and (even though it was never more than 25% white) South Africa; some also include the mostly-white southern South American countries like Argentina and Uruguay.

It is also fascinating to note that most "white nationalists" oppose the integration of the nations of Europe into the European Community.

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. Please downvote this stupid word salad
  2. Racism and Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England in which the Irish were described by some commentators as having descended from Cro-Magnon Man, thus being more closely related to the "Africanoid."
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