Setting the record straight…again. “The greatest danger to the cultural establishment is the existence of intelligent, well-written, well-documented, and fundamentally honest articles arguing for the importance of white identity and white interests.”
by Kevin McDonald, PhD.
One of the charges repeatedly leveled against me by the Southern Poverty Law center and others who would silence my research is that I write for The Occidental Quarterly and serve on its Editorial Board. Thus I want to explain here why I write for TOQ, and why I think this journal is so important.
I like to think of The Occidental Quarterly on the model of the Partisan Review in the 1940s and 50s. Partisan Review was an important leftist intellectual publication that gradually became anti-communist with increasing evidence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. The editors, writers, and readers of Partisan Review saw themselves as alienated, marginalized figures. As Norman Podhoretz put it, “They did not feel that they belonged to America or that America belonged to them.” But times have changed, and now that the ideas championed by Partisan Review, and the left in general, predominate, it is we who don’t feel that we belong to America or that America belongs to us. But the good news is that change can happen fairly quickly—within the lifetimes of individuals.
An encouraging sign is that it’s beginning to be respectable to talk openly about Jewish power and influence.We must begin by recruiting well-educated, intelligent, and honest people who are willing to write material supporting white identity and interests and to honestly discuss the ethnic tactics and influence of other groups. This is going to be a long process, and a huge disincentive is that people who do so are subjected to all sorts of attacks on their character and—more importantly—their livelihood.
The Occidental Quarterly represents a unique vision on the right. It is the only outlet for article-length, high-quality publications aimed at an educated readership. Any serious history of the changes in the United States must acknowledge the importance of top-down changes. It’s not going to come from skinheads and disaffected working class people. Having said that, it is also true that once we start to get some traction there is every reason to think that change will come rapidly.
