The White Guy Gap

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March 13, 2005
The White Guy Gap

By Steve Sailer

I was long baffled by the enormous, ever-growing popularity of the NASCAR stock car racing circuit. Why is watching Chevies go around and around … and around some more … so incredibly popular?

Finally, some readers pointed out that the answer was staring me in the face: because white American guys always win. Heck, the drivers are almost all British-Americans with a sprinkling of German-Americans like the Earnhardts.

In short, NASCAR is an ethnic pride festival for the one group of people who aren't supposed to hold ethnic pride festivals.

After that, I started to notice that some other institutions were in the business of providing covert identity politics for people who aren't allowed to practice identity politics publicly. Indeed, that perspective provided a novel answer to a couple of questions that a lot of people are asking:

"Why do Republicans win so much these days? But why do they then so seldom use their power to do anything recognizably conservative?"

Admittedly, this new theory is more subjective than my recent quantitative articles in VDARE.com and The American Conservative explaining the 2004 red state - blue state gap: "The Baby Gap," "The Marriage Gap," "The Mortgage Gap," and, underneath it all, "The Dirt Gap."

I guess you can call this one the White Guy Gap.

I suspect that liberals are now paying the price for decades of insulting white men. White males make up about one third of the population, but the problem with white guys, from a liberal perspective, is that they happen to be the people who get most of the big things done in this country. That's just unfair, no, that's downright evil of them.

Now, white men are probably the most tolerant and forbearing of any American group—they've been raised to take it like a man—but they are also only human. So, when they finally do get mad, they are a formidable force.

And, increasingly, the Republican Party has become a covert exercise in identity politics for white men. A peculiarly ineffectual exercise because of the Republican determination to camouflage this fact by promoting policies that obviously do white men no good.

Because white men are, on average, the best team players, the best organizers, and the best managers in America, the Republicans are now consistently beating the Democrats in the blocking and tackling departments of politics, even when the Democrats are closer to objectively correct on issues like the Bush Administration lying the country into the War in Error. The GOP can draw on more—and more motivated—white male talent.

The Democrats are largely run by white men, too—70 percent of Democratic Senators, for example, are non-Hispanic whites, even though George W. Bush beat John Kerry 62-37 among that demographic.

But to be a liberal these days, white guys have to be a little self-hating because these poor bastards know they are automatically suspect and unappreciated by much of their own Democratic Party.

Recently feminists have been exploding in rage at white male Democrats, most notoriously former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

Soon after, veteran liberal editor Michael Kinsley, now running the Los Angeles Times' editorial page came under a vituperative, unhinged attack from Susan Estrich, best known for her dismal management of Michael Dukakis's 1988 campaign against the elder George Bush. Estrich told Kinsley that "your illness may have affected your brain" (Kinsley suffers from Parkinson's Disease) because he doesn't run enough columns by women writers, such as—to pick a purely random example—Susan Estrich.

Then, the liberal Washington Monthly's blogger Kevin Drum asked:

"Not to get too obsessed by the whole Estrich-Kinsley thing, but so far no one has attempted any kind of real answer to Estrich's question: why are op-ed pages so completely dominated by men?"

He immediately performed the ritual self-abasement required of white male liberals:

"I suppose the obvious response is that it's for the same reason that practically every other elite profession is dominated by men: we still live in a male-dominated society and probably will for at least another century."

But Drum went on to mischievously point out:

"The political blogosphere provides another clue. … there are still no formal barriers to entry here, no old boys club in the usual meaning of the word. Yet if you take a look at the Blogosphere Ecosystem, which for all its faults is probably the closest thing we have to a consensus measure of popularity for political blogs, you will find exactly three women in the top 30: Michelle Malkin, La Shawn Barber, and Michele Catalano."

"And that nearly led to his eyes being clawed out," reported Howie Kurtz in the Washington Post, as obscure women bloggers denounced Drum in the most vicious terms imaginable, causing Drum to cravenly shill for these talentless harridans.

To be a liberal white male, it helps to be a masochist.

So, the white men the Democrats do attract tend to be less effective than the more straightforward white guys who make the GOP political machine tick, and who have built from scratch a massive alternative media machine.

There's nothing unnatural about the people who keep the country running wanting to have a large say in running the country. The problem, though, is that white male identity politics is the self-love that dares not speak its name.

So, many Republican white men studiously avoid endorsing policies that would actually help white male Republicans, such as immigration restrictions. They are too intimidated by fears of being accused of bias in favor of themselves. Of course, every other group in America is free to be flagrantly biased in favor of its own members' welfare, but white males aren't allowed that freedom.

So, instead, Republican white men meekly accept their leaders' Invade-the-World-Invite-the-World policies to show how unprejudiced, how self-sacrificing they are. They send their sons to die in Iraq so that some medieval anti-American Ayatollah can win an election. Bush and Rove push affirmative action at colleges and flooding the country with immigrants to prove that their party isn't really what it obviously is: the white guy's party.

Look how many white Republican men back the racial quota-supporting and obviously unqualified Condoleezza Rice for President in 2008 as part of their Sisyphean struggle to prove to the world that they don't favor themselves.

From Rove's point of view, this all makes a certain amount of twisted sense. The more insults get piled upon white men by the immigration-driven growth of the diversity industry, the more motivated they are to practice identity politics of their own through the Republican Party. And the more the Republican leadership betrays its main base, the angrier that base gets - at the Democrats.

It's a political perpetual motion machine.

[Steve Sailer [email him] is founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute and movie critic for The American Conservative. His website www.iSteve.blogspot.com features his daily blog.]

[Zan de Man]

Why does he hate America so much?

[Dufrel]

Finally, some readers pointed out that the answer was staring me in the face: because white American guys always win.

After this line it became clear to me that the author doesn't have a fucking clue.

[Suraklin]

What a whiny little twit.

Are there really lots of white men out there in western democracies feeling oppressed... ahhh, let me wipe those tears away sissy boys.

Or... FFS man up!

[Hobo]

Good job, good story, right on target in many areas. When I entered college, women still had to stay in dormitories for women and had a curfew. By the time I left college, women were burning their bra for some unknown reason.

I have lived my whole life in the shadow of "political correctness" and "womens liberation". I've been married and divorced three times which kind of tells you I put up with only so much of that bullshit.

In business or in any other competition I have never been afraid of being "aced out" by women or other American ethnicities. Because it is true, "white American guys always win".

I don't know if I agree so much about the Republican vs. Democrat theories. In my view, politics is about power. So white guys will go where ever necessary to win the power - but no question they would like to vote true conservative values if given half a chance. Unfortunately, other white guys tipped the tables by bring in guys like Bush. I guess you could call that a white guy civil war - but it still was about white guys - all the rest were just bystanders.

Here's a book that everyone should read: "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" by Nicholas Wade. It traces the genetic evolution of the human race since Homo sapiens emerged from Africa. Very interesting genetic explanation for many things.

But one things stands out... women have never had a commanding role in the population - and have never developed the genes to take this role. Now they are fighting with one hand tied behind their back because they are ill-equipped to compete with white guys. It is just like saying men can raise children the same as women - that statement is laughable.

This book has a lot of explanations for things you always knew were true, but didn't know why. How white guys from Europe and China had to get smart and aggressive just to survive - but often people of color lived in places where the weather was good and mother earth provided everything for them - so they stayed kind of dumb and lazy. That's not a put-down, it is simply an explanation of what happened. If life is tough you get tough or you die. If life is easy, well then all sorts of people can survive and your race does not evolve.

I think proof of this theory of evolution lies with Barak Obama. Half white - so he already has a leg up on his genetic structure. But also, his father was from Kenya - which most people see as being more clever than other Africans. Obama's brother in Kenya seems to have his act together.

I am not convinced Obama can make the best decisions in a crisis, but he is smart enough to surround himself with smart white guys and isn't afraid to ask for advise. If white guy's in politics have a problem it is with hubris. Look at George Bush - the guy never believed anyone but his own "gut level feeling" - and it got him into a lot of trouble.

I know a lot of women and non-white guys will just shine off on this post as someone talking arrogant. I have one question, "Why are you afraid to think about this subject" - perhaps you are afraid it is true. Well, here's some consolation... your weren't born to take on the world of the white guy. Be happy raising your kids, cooking for your husband and enjoy the freedom that God gave you from worrying about all that stuff that you are not equipped to worry about anyway.

[Suraklin]

I'm a white guy and I am fairly confident that I can hold my own even if the playing field is level - I don't need to vote for 'conservative values' to keep my potential competitors at an unfair disadvantage.

As I said - man up.

Mostly I see this stuff as inadequate whiny little boys with no ability trying to keep old fashioned laws and customs that made them undisputed bosses... those days are gone folks, time to get by on your talents...

[Zan de Man]

Originally Posted by Hobo

I've been married and divorced three times which kind of tells you I put up with only so much of that bullshit.

That's not what it tells me.

[LiberalNation]

lol

[Neko]

Hobo's obviously a moderate conservative attempting satire, and as usual he's overdone it. No one could possibly be that stupid in reality, they simply wouldn't survive into adulthood.

[Hobo]

Originally Posted by Neko

Hobo's obviously a moderate conservative attempting satire, and as usual he's overdone it. No one could possibly be that stupid in reality, they simply wouldn't survive into adulthood.

Hardly the case. You are obviously ignorant of the recent genetic research that is revealing many differences in all cultures and between sexes. It shouldn't come as a great surprise that a huge generic difference exists between men and women - a simple look at anatomy will tell you this. Why should you believe that women are equal in all other capacities as men - it is illogical.

The same difference can be seen between white men and men of color. Their is obvious physical differences caused by genetic evolution - why shouldn't other genetic differences exist which make one culture superior to another in specific areas - such as sports and business competition?

I have already given you a book reference to prove my point. However, you may wish to read Infidelity linked to genetic make-up for another example of genetic differences. You can do your own research and quickly discover the importance genetic evolution has made on society. It will quickly answer your questions why in government and in business, white men are superior. They are genetically created to perform better under these circumstances.

Everybody gets tensed up even at the slightest hint that behavior (and success or failure) may be caused by genetic factors - nobody wants to talk about it. Sorry guys and gals, nobody can put their head in the sand around me without getting your butt kicked!

[Zan de Man]

I've just put a book down the back of my trousers, so I think I'm safe in saying that the semi-literate bluster you've just posted is the only demonstration I need of the disutility of your argument.

[Neko]

But one things stands out... women have never had a commanding role in the population

Off hand? The Dahomey, some Polynesian societies, central Asian nomads, ourselves...

- and have never developed the genes to take this role.

Hmm... While its true that I don't always keep right up to date with genetic research, I've never heard of any "leadership genes". Which ones are they? Please provide the scientific classification so that I can look them up.

This book has a lot of explanations for things you always knew were true, but didn't know why. How white guys from Europe and China

White guys from China. Riiiiight... Got any photos?

but often people of color lived in places where the weather was good and mother earth provided everything for them - so they stayed kind of dumb and lazy.

I'm guessing that you've not spent a whole lot of time in Africa...

Kenya - which most people see as being more clever than other Africans.

I think I'd like some IQ test results to back this up, from a sizeable sample of the general population.

[Suraklin]

Hobo: If, as you seem to assert, the white male is genetically superior to both other races and to the female sex then regardless of what equality laws are enacted the white male will rise to the top through inherent superiority and therefore should have no reason whatsoever to oppose progressive laws.

However as it is normally white males that one sees trying desperately to fight against laws that level the playing field one wonders if, unlike your good self of course, they are concerned that they will not be able to measure up if they have to compete fairly?

[toolman846]

"White guys from China. Riiiiight... Got any photos?"

Well, you know the old saying - two Wongs don't make a white.

[toolman846]

"That's not what it tells me."

Yeah - me either. But this guy's a veritable piker, a rank amateur. My sister-in-law is working on number five. Or is it six? Hard to keep up without a scorecard. Me, I'm still working on Number One - 28 years later.

[Gilles de Rais]

[Gilles de Rais]

Oh and by the by, the argument about weather/character was totally dismissed. It is said that the weather did influence societal organisation(s) but that has nothing to do with genes...

[toolman846]

"Hmm... While its true that I don't always keep right up to date with genetic research, I've never heard of any "leadership genes". Which ones are they? Please provide the scientific classification so that I can look them up."

"Leadership genes"? Silly girl! Every guy knows what those are, and right where they're kept. They're in that little thingy that sticks out in the front, about half-way from your nose to your toes. And we all know how fast they get stale, so we always try to keep generating a fresh supply.

You don't look UP to find them - you look DOWN.

[Neko]

Originally Posted by toolman846

"Leadership genes"? Silly girl! Every guy knows what those are, and right where they're kept. They're in that little thingy that sticks out in the front, about half-way from your nose to your toes. And we all know how fast they get stale, so we always try to keep generating a fresh supply.

Ah, I never realised that the beer-belly played such an important role in directing society...

[toolman846]

Silly! It's not the beer belly, it's what's just beneath it. You have to lift up the beer belly to see it. I believe most larger department stores carry the Handy-Dandy Patented Beer Belly Lifter, to give one the necessary leverage, and so you don't get your hands dirty. No telling what's grown there since that area last saw the light of day.

I mean, besides more leadership genes, of course.