Fantasy author Theodore “Vox Day” Beale certainly has a rich fantasy life. Beale, who seems to grow ever more flamboyantly racist by the day, has roused himself into what he thinks is righteous fury over reports in far-right media outlets claiming that DHL Express has cut off delivery services to one especially dangerous neighborhood in Berlin.
According to The New Observer, a virulently racist and anti-immigrant “news service” quoted by Beale,
Violent attacks on personnel, robberies, and fraud have forced DHL Express to halt all deliveries in the invader-overrun region of Wedding, north-west Berlin, a statement from the company has announced.
Wedding has a “German-origin” population of only 50 percent, with the rest being made up of Africans, Turks, Arabs, Asians, and Eastern European gypsies.
The implication, of course, is that these terrible brown “invaders” have rendered a portion of formerly white Berlin uninhabitable.
The reality is a teensy bit more nuanced. According to TheLocal.de, an English-language German news site, DHL in fact said that only a handful of people in Wedding had been asked to pick up packages at a DHL facility in a different neighborhood. Dismissing press reports that Wedding had become a “no go” zone due to violent attacks, the company said its main concern was fraud, not violence, “referring to when people falsely pose as the recipient of packages.”
But, damn the fact-checking, full speed ahead! Beale, accepting the New Observer account as gospel, warns his readers that the end is near for Western cities and countries that aren’t majority white. Sorry, majority “European.”
“Forget home delivery,” Beale declares.
A minority-European population in a Western country isn’t even going to have flush toilets or functioning dishwashers for very long. If white workers can’t even drop off a package safely, they sure as Hell aren’t going to enter a stranger’s home and stay there for hours.
Really? When Beale thinks of “minority-European” cities in the United States, he no doubt thinks of deindustrialized basket cases like Detroit, or Flint, or Gary, Indiana.
But there are a lot of other cities in the United States with minority-white populations, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. None of these cities are on the verge of collapse, or even vaguely close to it. Their toilets and dishwashers work fine, and there are many options for delivery of everything from electronics to burritos.
The thing that is so ludicrously stupid about the equalitarian position shared by American liberals and conservatives alike is that it assumes because reasonably digestible numbers of European immigrants were semi-successfully assimilated with only one massive civil war followed by 60 years of virtually no immigration, an unlimited number of non-European immigrants can be permitted to enter the country indefinitely.
This is not merely bad logic. This is insane. There is no way – none – to rationally defend or justify the position, which is why its defenders immediately retreat to abstract ideals and pure rhetoric.
Bullshit. Even setting aside such “abstract ideals” as, you know, equality and fairness, consider this: the US is considerably less white than it was a quarter century ago. It is also a safer place to live, with violent crime rates down considerably nationwide and in many of our largest minority-white cities, including New York and, yes, Chicago, despite a rash of gun deaths mostly linked to gangs and a failed drug war.
Yes, the US faces all sorts of problems and challenges. But it is demonstrably not turning into the dystopian hellhole of Beale’s imagination, where toilets don’t work and roving gangs of “invaders” chase deliverymen out of the inner cities.
The invasion of 60 million immigrants in 50 years, the largest invasion in human history, will lead to war in the United States. There is ZERO question of this, as it is only a matter of time. We can’t know when it will happen, we can’t know exactly why it will happen, but given the fact that the USA is already at a stress level that was last seen in 1856, the odds are against the USA even making it to the 2033 date I had predicted for financial collapse and some form of political dissolution.
If civil war erupts in this country, and at this point I wouldn’t rule it out, it won’t be the fault of immigrants. It’ll be the fault of racists like Beale and the demagogues like Donald Trump who’ve exploited their bigotry to win power in elections in which, due to the bizarre anachronism that is the electoral college, white votes count more than those of minority voters.
Trump won big with whites in majority white areas freaked out about immigration, but whites in cities and states where lots of immigrants actually live went, often overwhelmingly, for Clinton.
Consider Chicago, where Trump got a measly 12.4% of the vote. Chicago has a justified reputation as a severely segregated city, at least when it comes to where people live. But public space is significantly less segregated, and the city is sufficiently diverse that even in the whitest neighborhoods on Chicago’s north side, white residents regularly encounter and interact with and sometimes even become friends with people of all races and nationalities.
Contrary to what people like Beale believe, all this contact with black and brown people — many of them immigrants — hasn’t turned white Chicagoans into white supremacists. As a reporter for one of Chicago’s neighborhood newspapers recently pointed out,
Clinton got 95.4 percent of the vote in Chicago’s 18 black-majority wards, 87.1 percent in the 11 Hispanic-majority wards and 84.6 percent in the seven affluent, mostly white, Lakefront wards.
None of this is to suggest that racism isn’t a problem in Chicago; it has been and remains a huge issue, as does the city’s seemingly intractable racial segregation. But it is striking that white Chicagoans who live in a city teeming with non-white immigrants are a lot less anxious about immigration than whites who live in decidedly un-diverse areas where immigrants are more of an abstract boogeyman, rather than people they interact with every day.
So, cry Racism, Constitution, Declaration, and Proposition Nation all you like. Virtue-signal your color-blindness all you like. Adopt one child of every color if you want. None of that frantic appeal to totem magic will save you from what is to come any more than it would have in 1861, in 1914, or 1939.
An interesting selection of dates there, given that both the Civil War and World War II were caused not by “virtue-signaling” liberals but by, you know, racists — in the first instance, by southerners who refused to give up slaves and slavery, and in the second, by Literally Hitler.
None of that is going to excuse your complicity in the nightmares to come. And regardless of what you think of it, understand that the Alt-Right program is the only one that even has the possibility of averting the coming conflict.
Sorry, dude. I’ll “cry Racism” when it’s completely fucking blatant. The problem isn’t immigrants. It’s the irrational fear and hatred of immigrants being preached by alt-white supremacists and their “God Emperor” Trump.
Update on my package delivery… They also delivered the order I cancelled and now I have two? Woop woop? Contacted them, they assured me I wouldn’t be charged twice, and told me to just keep the extra.
So now I have two steam controllers! :DDD
I spent some time working in a country that had, about 4 years earlier, been an ACTUAL war zone. They were still capturing armed combatants. You know who delivered packages there? DHL. So I have a hard time believing they are scared of Berlin.
Alan, “Ein Zwei Polizei” is sung by an Italian. So we Germans won’t take the blame for that. 🙂
We are still to blame for Scooter, though. Sorry about that.
@ EJ (The Orphic Lizard)
Take a look at Hanns Hörbiger and his Welteislehre.
@ zesty
Heh, now I’m even more confused. 🙂
What?! “Hyper hyper” is an all time classic.
(For some reason it alway reminds me of that guy in the Simpsons who has to get back to Stuttgart to see Kraftwerk)
I love the assumption that dishwashers and flush toilets and package deliveries are the exclusive province of the Great White Saviors who magnanimously bestow them upon grateful urban neighborhoods that never advanced beyond Stone Age technology. And who apparently have the power to take them away again when the “non-whites” get too populous for comfort.
Seems like an easy problem to solve. If angry misogynists can have fembots, why can’t Wedding have package drones?
Red(pill)shift: galaxies going their own way after missing out on the Big Bang.
@Zesty
Scooter’s lyrics have brought me much joy.
”3 AM! The painted cow!”
”Respect to the man in the ice-cream van!”
”It’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. It must be Dave who’s on the train”
He has his own charm. He also has some genuinely good songs, i think.
“war in the United States. There is ZERO question of this, as it is only a matter of time. We can’t know when it will happen, we can’t know exactly why it will happen”
Can we spend just a second examining the idea that at some point between now and the heat-death of the universe there will be some sort of war (we can’t exactly say why or what it’s about!) that we’re going to blame on immigrants who came to this country half a century ago?
There was a DHL cargo plane shot with a missile by combatants whist taking off from Baghdad Airport in 2003… pilots flew it using only engine thrust, landed it with a wing on fire. They don’t need to be afraid of Berliners… they are HARD!!
This is a reference to the US civil war? I can’t see what it has to do with the “assimilation” of 19th century white Americans? Or is it about the assimilation of Irish potato migrants of mid 19th century?
Soooo…”no-go zones” in Europe are not a thing. But Nazi-controlled zones in Britain totally ARE one.
And you may laugh, but yeah, David Hasselhoff is, or was, a huge pop star in Germany. (Don’t know if he still is, it’s been years since I first heard of that and chuckled about it.) Mostly, I think, for the kitsch factor.
As for German-language pop songs that ARE trenchant political/social commentary, this one still tops them all for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4Xulsjo5I
And the kicker is, it’s based on a children’s nursery rhyme that took on sinister connotations during the Nazi era, when the “game” was “played” by adults, with real death involved.
I love when racists say there are areas where white people can’t go, and then lots of white people who live there call them on their bullshit.
The leader of the EDL (far right UK based group) used to live really near me and said there were areas that were Muslim only. It was total nonsense and everyone that wasn’t a massive racist knew it.
@ArcticApe:
What, did you think the Civil War was about slavery? /sarcasm
Can we just get on the stick with a one hitter time machine to send Vox back to the Crusades where he will immediately die in France for being rude to someone higher up the fuedal pecking order? Or kicked by a horse, whatever. I just want to give Vox the gift of seeing the world he dreams of. I’ll give up my dishwasher for this.
Funny how the only immigrants and invaders that manage to destroy the areas they immigrate to and spark longlasting conflict are colonizing white people. It probably has something to do with the vicioussness they use to tear apart extant social and infrastructures, or something. Bad at integrating, white invaders.
We’re talking about a bunch of guys who literally believe that Obama was secretly behind all of ISIS, the recession, 9/11 and WWII. The black holes in their heads are matched only by the black holes they apparently live in.
Vancouver has a roughly 50% Caucasian population (and falling), and it’s consistently rated as one of the best cities in the world to live. We have our share of problems, but lack of working toilets is not one of them.
@NicolaLuna
Yeah. I live in an area that is often claimed by racists to be a no-go zone. It’s by far the best place I’ve ever lived.
…As someone studying WWI, and tangentially its origins and the runup to it, I’m curious to know just what he thinks happened in 1914. (I would also wonder, on a related note, whether he thinks imperialism counts as immigration, which is the only way I can think of that WWI was in any way linked to immigration – except I am 100% sure he’s only considered WWI in the European and American theatres.)
That aside, I do think it’s interesting to see you say that about racism being more widespread in areas where racial integration isn’t a thing, because that’s been my experience as a rural English person – in the parts I’m from, where I never met more than a couple of non-white people, racism is incredibly widespread, whereas in places like London it tends to at least be more subtle.
@ImaginaryPetal:
It does help when the racists don’t go there.
Actually, I’m reading this more as a threat: “Join us in our racist opinions and purge the country, or we’ll start a civil war with you so that we can take control and do it”
In other words, it’s thinly veiled terrorism >_>
Why does VD keep coming up with stupidly convoluted words. “Dyscivilizational”… if you really need a word for that.
Oh wait, he’s going to come back with, “Well, if you can’t understand what I wrote, that’s clearly a reading comprehension issue”
Vox Day needs to actually do some research, off course bigots, especially racists, never actually do that. I wonder why?
FenrisChained
It seems to be a universal rule. One day back in the dim dark recesses of the early 70s, I was working on the enquiry counter of my public service agency. An American guy came in, all hot under the collar about something he’d not been allowed. (His surname was kind of bland, nondescript Anglo like Williams or George.) He kept on working himself up into a right lather until he got to his real point, that we were discriminating against him because he was Jewish. I didn’t laugh, I managed to calm him down and explain whatever it was to his (grudging) satisfaction.
However, once he’d gone, I went back to the office area separated from the counter area, sat down and had a good chortle. One of the guys I worked with wanted to know what was so funny. I said how would we know someone was Jewish when we don’t ask for details of religion and their name is Jones or Smith. Even if we did know, why on earth would our legislation discriminate against Jews? His answer. A very grim, well, we ought to discriminate against them.
Stopped me laughing. More importantly, this guy was from a country region of South Australia. I very much doubt that he’d ever seen a Jew in his life let alone walked past a synagogue.
Utterly weird.
@hottotrotsky:
I’ll volunteer to remodel it into a time machine if any engineers out there come up with a workable plan for it…
BTW, fun fact: The dishwasher was invented by a woman. So if Beale thinks women have no ingenuity, I hereby invite him to give up everything a woman ever invented that touched his life. There are loads of them.
@JS
It’s not even a real word, googling it only gives their links.