Theodore Dalrymple Coincidence

Some time back I discovered Theodore Dalrymple and wrote THIS, and more or less forgot about it. Today, as is my usual practice, I visited several blogs (so you don't have to!) and ran across Steve Sailer's post about Robert Mugabe, which includes a long Theodore Dalrymple quote.  Read it all HERE.  As you can see, it's a quite informative, insightful quote about Rhodesia.  And then, lo and behold, over at http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/ I run across a piece by Tobias Langdon that is in part about Dalrymple, and it contrasts him and Mark Steyn unfavorably with Laurence Auster.  All this might be rather esoteric to you, but it's all about the extent to which the three view reality through their ethnic lens, and to what extent reality is therefore distorted.  This is important stuff. It explains why so many conservative/libertarians make perfect sense on almost every subject, except for the Middle East, when they become disturbingly aggressive and unable to listen to any dissenters. Langton begins:

In Praise of Austerity: Remembering A Patriot and Prophet

August 3, 2013 | Author: Tobias Langdon

Obstacle to Success

I have to face facts: if I were Jewish, I’d probably be a devout liberal. If I were Jewish and American, I would have voted twice for Barack Obama, demanded justice for St. Trayvon (whose hoodie, like the relic of  a medieval saint, will likely be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC) and be fully in support of open borders. This helps explain why I admire the lateLarry Auster. He did something I don’t think I could have done. He was born Jewish but he refused to join the White-hating, West-destroying Jewish establishment. He never accepted the fame and wealth that were his for the asking. He could have imitated men like Mark Steyn and Theodore Dalrymple. Then he would have been hugely successful and well-rewarded in that branch of liberal pathology known as neo-conservatism. But something got in the way: his respect for the truth.

Steyn and Dalrymple don’t care much for the truth. Both are part Jewish and both follow the rule of Pas devant les goyim – “Not in the front of the gentiles.” Dalrymple’s shtick is to endlessly criticize the pathology of modern British life without mentioning crucial factors like race. Here he is hard at work, suppressing facts and concealing reality:

Last June in Paris, a young Englishman walked into a bar frequented by Britons, having agreed to meet his girlfriend there. A row had been brewing between them all day, and he asked her to leave with him. She was enjoying herself, however, and demurred; whereupon he dragged her into the adjoining room, punched her to the ground, and kicked her so viciously that he left her head and stomach covered in bruises. The bar staff pulled him off and threw him out, but not before he had received a Glasgow kiss — a head-butt — from a chivalrous patron of the bar.

Only two months earlier, a court had acquitted the young Englishman of an assault on his previous girlfriend, the mother of his two-year-old child. … Apart from its Parisian setting, every aspect of the story seems familiar to the student of English underclass life: the easily inflamed ego, the quick loss of temper, the violence, the scattering of illegitimate children, the self-exculpation by use of impersonal language. But the young Englishman was not a member of the underclass, nor was the woman he assaulted. His salary alone was $1.25 million a year, and she was a well-known weather-girl-turned-talk-show-host. Poverty was not the explanation of their behavior. The young Englishman was a famous professional soccer player. (Uncouth Chic, City Journal, Autumn 1998)

(He most definitely makes a point with this. Read the rest HERE.)