Whitopias

A White House speech writer, Darren Beattie, was fired over the weekend because word got out that he spoke at a 2016 conference attended by white nationalists.

Retired UIUC professor Robert Weissberg, a proponent of “whitopias,” is connected to Beattie, having spoken on the same program in 2016.

Weissberg was terminated as a contributor by the conservative journal, National Review, in 2012. Editor Rich Lowry explained, “Unbeknowst to us, occasional Phi Beta Cons contributor Robert Weissberg participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism. He will no longer be posting here.”

The controversial 2016 conference was sponsored by the H.L. Mencken Club, named for a prominent writer who pushed white supremacist views. Mencken described the “negro” as a “low-caste man” who will “remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.”

Mencken called Jewish people “the most unpleasant race ever heard of.”

Prof. Weissberg has argued that liberals are beyond reason when it comes to race, that explaining the facts of IQ or the necessity of racial consciousness for whites “is like trying to explain to an eight-year-old why sex is more fun than chocolate ice cream.” (This gives us some idea of Weissberg’s IQ, low by any standard.)

As reported in Think Progress, “Prof. Weissberg … pointed out that there are still many ‘Whitopias’ in America and that there are many ways to keep them white, such as zoning that requires large houses, and a cultural ambiance or classical music and refined demeanor that repels undesirables. This approach to maintaining whiteness has the advantage that people can make a living catering to whites in their enclaves.”

PS: “Searching for Whitopia” is a book authored by an African American, Rich Benjamin. His book documents his journeys to find out why more and more white Americans move to small towns and areas that are, for the most part, white, and to explain why Whitopias are growing and what it means for the United States.