The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

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The idea that people don’t study Shakespeare or Roman history or the Tudors or the American Revolution or the Enlightenment or any other topic you can name is laughable. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the "America is a racist country" bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and "pro-justice" movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests.

It may not be a perfect way of redressing the balance but there’s no denying that something was amiss). The War on the West, Douglas Murray ( paperback March 2023) €13,95 In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it? This work, as Murray movingly relates, was conceived as a protest against Kristallnacht, by a Jewish-American composer so deeply affected by the plangent music of the African-American tradition that he once wept at a performance in 1960s Baltimore, at which the largely black audience recognised the spirituals and began, spontaneously, to sing them. The mantle of shame and self loathing I have worn purely on the basis of having white skin has become heavy.Nevertheless, Murray makes some decent points here about black and white thinking about geopolitical history, such as the idea that colonialism can only have brought bad things and the failure of nation’s since can always be levelled wholly at the colonial powers.

In that moment, and for the only time in this book, Murray accurately describes his war on the west.The rest of the volume is dedicated to whether he should have or even could have forgiven the SS guard, and the broad conclusion according to Murray is that Wiesenthal could not have offered forgiveness even if he wanted to because the question of forgiveness was between the guard and the people he killed, or perhaps their surviving relatives. CRT and most race scholars talk about systems, and while talking about a white system might be opening oneself up to misinterpretation, I don’t think it’s hard to discern that they don’t mean every individual white person so much as they mean a white system.