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A section of the Trump administration’s recently released National Security Strategy titled “Promoting European Greatness” warns that Europe faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” making the continent “unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” It blames (among other issues like economic decline) transnational bodies like the European Union for undermining “political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
In a UK Guardian piece last weekend called “The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction,” columnist George Monbiot argued that, contrary to the White House view that European migration policies are “creating strife” and leading to “loss of national identities,” what will save European civilization from erasure is – wait for it – more mass immigration.
Of course Monbiot believes that, because he is a Guardian columnist, after all, holding all the predictable Progressive positions about climate change, Israel’s purported genocide of Gazans, capitalist inequity, and so forth. His new article is full of the usual tired, demonstrably false multiculturalist clichés: there is no such thing as European culture; white people appropriated or outright stole everything from other cultures; Western prosperity is essentially a result of “colonial and post-colonial looting”; and Trump is a “far-right” white supremacist who feels “threatened by Black and Brown people” (by the way, the racist Monbiot leaves “white” uncapitalized but uniformly capitalizes every other racial color – even “Indigenous,” a word he would never apply to white Europeans).
Cultural Marxists like Monbiot see everything through the perverse, reductive “oppressor vs. oppressed” paradigm which not only infantilizes non-Western cultures as helpless victims but is anti-Western, anti-white, and self-loathing (Monbiot is white himself). Everything European or American is corrupt and evil, and all right-leaning politics is racist and “sinister,” as he puts it. Conversely, non-white peoples are noble victims. So naturally Monbiot does not acknowledge what is painfully obvious to everyone with eyes to see – that the greatest civilization in history is being hollowed out from within due to mass immigration from Muslim countries, a tsunami of mostly military-age male Islamic supremacists from a true rape culture, who have no intention of assimilating but have every intention of colonizing and conquering the West. And they will do it with the willful complicity of globalist, anti-white racist Progressives like George Monbiot.
He insists instead that what is really leading the continent toward civilizational erasure is catastrophically low European birth rates. He points out that the EU rate stands at 1.38, the UK’s at 1.44, and Poland’s at 1.2, while “a population’s replacement rate is 2.1.” He concludes that “[w]ithout immigration, there will, within a number of generations, be no Europe and no United Kingdom.”
This is a valid, deeply concerning reality. But Monbiot doesn’t believe in urging the native population to boost its birth rate (to his modest credit, at least he also does not support the extremism of anti-natalists, some of whom go so far as to urge the extinction of the human race in order to save the planet). His solution lies in simply importing an endless stream of immigrants from other cultures, as if rescuing a civilization from extinction is simply a numbers game.
Artificially boosting those numbers by throwing open the gates to millions of Muslim migrants will not ensure the survival of Western civilization, much less its flourishing, because those migrants are not “Western” – nor do they want to be: they were not nurtured philosophically and morally via the intersection of Athens and Jerusalem, nor do they share the traditions, customs, and mores of the civilization formerly known as Christendom. Indeed, they are hostile to them.
That’s not an issue for Monbiot because although he denounces European colonialism, he is fine with the Islamic colonization of Europe, which he no doubt thinks of as “pluralism” and “social justice.” Anyone who objects to this civilization-destroying racial revenge he simply dismisses as racist, because demonizing one’s critics as racist is the Progressive way.
In arguing for his vision of a multicultural utopia, Monbiot reaches all the way back to before the High Middle Ages:
Some rulers once understood the power of pluralism. King Stephen I of Hungary, who reigned from 1001 to 1038, noted that the cultures and knowledge of foreigners enriched the realm, while “a country unified in language and customs is fragile and weak”. A thousand years later, Trump appears to have forgotten this obvious truth.
As evidence of how foreigners “enrich the realm,” Monbiot resorts to the multiculturalist Left’s go-to example: exotic cuisine, without which white people would apparently starve to death. To hear Monbiot tell it, the UK owes even fish-and-chips and roast beef to foreign influence, and the only thing the British ever offered other cultures in return was genocidal exploitation.
There is not a word in this Guardian opinion piece that addresses the havoc that mass Muslim immigration has wrought and continues to wreak on native European citizens, whose whiteness George Monbiot holds in open contempt: soaring rates of rape and sexual assault; rampant knife crime; urban chaos on a level not seen since the French Revolution; metastasizing no-go zones hostile to infidels; the capitulation of Christianity in the face of violent Islamic supremacism; surging antisemitism; terrorism and threats of more terrorism. No mention of any of that. Instead, Monbiot thinks the white victims of all this enriching diversity should just be grateful for the curry.
The notion that “a country unified in language and customs is fragile and weak” is false and even nonsensical. America herself, the greatest superpower in world history, once took pride in being a “melting pot” with the motto “E pluribus unum” – out of many, one nation, indivisible. The multicultural dream, by contrast, is not a melting pot but a tossed salad, in which many ingredients are thrown together but remain distinct. Balkanized societies which are not held together by any unifying glue will either crumble in the first windstorm or turn on each other with tribal fury.
The way of multiculturalism guarantees civilizational fragmentation and collapse. Briefly put, the only way to stabilize and rejuvenate the fading West – to make Western civilization great again – is, first, to reject our current secular disintegration and recover a commitment to faith, family, and nation; and second, to stop tolerating existential threats both internal and external, such as the corrosive toxicity of multiculturalism, and instead confront and defeat them.
This is a tall order, of course. The faltering West is a huge ocean liner to turn around. But the alternative is the end of civilization. Let’s get to work.
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