Comments on: UPDATE II: Pat Buchanan And MSNBC’s Pygmy (Like Snakes Crawling Out of Hibernation)

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:35:57 +0000

To add to my previous comment, if I remember history correctly, the English early Puritans were initially intolerant of other Christian groups in Massachussetts that were somewhat more liberal, such as Baptists; but the Dutch Calvinists in New York were more tolerant than the Puritans, as were Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and further immigration brought greater numbers of tolerant religious people, who eventually became more numerous than the Puritans, until the new religious liberty and freedom decayed after decades or generations into libertine irreligion and immorality among some of the people, the antithesis of the Puritans; while a political minority retained their Puritan conservative religion and morality, but were unable to politically defeat the more liberal political majority who were not Puritans, leading to further tolerance of liberalism, until the liberals themselves became intolerant of conservative religion.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:32:29 +0000

Many of the leading Puritans in early New England were descendants of the English landed gentry, and probably also earlier descended from younger sons or daughters of the English nobility. The early Dutch in America were often merchants and tradesmen. Calvinism has a belief in the sovereignty of God, and the people as the agents of God; and perhaps manifest destiny. I don’t know the details about the ancestral social background of the Afrikaners.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:32:06 +0000

Mr. Buchanan’s (or anyone’s) forays into the fringes of national dialogue will always be unwelcome. The sinner on the fringes, whether religious or (especially) secular, will always be reminded that with sin comes expiation. Our present purgatories are forged for white sins against people of color, men’s sins against women, Euro sins of genocide – Holocaust certainly, Holodomor… not so much – and so on.

Lost upon the sheep is; those who would build the Shining City upon a Hill have built a hell to go with it. And just now, hell prevails.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:24:18 +0000

As far as Mr buchanan is concerned I have occaisionally been left scratching my head but on the whole I have always thought him to be pretty well on the ball. To find out that Mercer is for him is high praise indeed. As far as the Afrikaners are concerned I wonder how long they could have continued to buck public condemnation and governmental interference from the propagandized, ill informed people of the US and western Europe.

By: David Smith

David Smith — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:19:58 +0000

I think you’re analysis, Miss Ilana, regarding the roots of our joint demise being found in our shared Calvinism (a decayed form at least), is brilliant. Thanks!

By: derek

derek — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:37:55 +0000

Apparently MSNBC did not like that he wrote a chapter on the end of White America. However, the media seems to run celebratory pieces each month, footnoted with the latest census figures, counting down the years to the end of White America.

Apparently, this topic is fit for national discourse provided one welcomes, not laments, it.

By: Rob S

Rob S — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:22:17 +0000

Tell you what, though, it’s an even worse situation in Western countries (the vast majority of them) that don’t have anything resembling a First Amendment …

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:13:34 +0000

Free speech and dialogue is OK provided it is “appropriate”. Sounds like something that Goebbels or Beria would advocate:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda

Funny thing when an Obama or a Holder talk about “cowards” or the need for an “honest dialogue” on race that they really mean a North Korean style indoctrination….

And what else is new!