They Won't Leave You Alone

Mark Dice recently released a video (below) about a group that wants to create a whites only community in Arkansas and are looking at expanding the project into a neighboring state. He points out that while there are plenty of blacks-only spaces that receive social and legal approbation, this community has come under attack in the media and is being investigated by state authorities for possible violations of the law. (The Richard the Fourth YouTube channel also has a video on this community, while Sky News did a long news segment about it as well).  

    My intent on posting this is not to address the issue of whether white people should be entitled to their own "safe spaces" but to address a concept that Rod Dreher had advanced which he called "The Benedict Option". (Dreher published a book under that title in 2017 which I reviewed here). Dreher's concern was how to preserve Christianity in a post-Christian world that was becoming increasingly hostile to Christians and their beliefs and life style. In short, he argued, Christians had lost the cultural war, with the legal and social acceptance of gay marriage being our "Waterloo" moment:

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision declaring a constitutional right to same-sex marriage was the Waterloo of religious conservatism. It was the moment that the Sexual Revolution triumphed decisively, and the culture war, as we have known it since the 1960s, came to an end. In the wake of Obergefell, Christian beliefs about the sexual complementarity of marriage are considered to be abominable prejudice—and in a growing number of cases, punishable. The public square has been lost.

He further writes:

[T]he verdict on the overall political strategy is clear: we failed. Fundamental abortion rights remain solidly in place, and Gallup poll numbers from the Roe v. Wade era until today have not meaningfully changed. The traditional marriage and family model has not been protected in either law or custom, and because of that, courts are poised to impose dramatic rollbacks of religious liberty for the sake of antidiscrimination.

Things turned out to not be quite so bleak as he foretold--the Left grasped at too much too quickly resulting in some backlash. Roe v. Wade was overturned (the issue of abortion being delegated to the individual states), DEI is in retreat, and more organizations and states are curbing the tranny invasion of girls sports and the class room. But it hasn't really changed much. Most states have either kept or expanded abortion protections. DEI is only changing its coat and all it will take will be a change in power in Washington to bring it back full force. Gay marriage is still the law of the land, and more people support it than ever. I see our current circumstances more as a slight pause before an even worse storm. Remember, as Peter Turchin's research showed, that public policy and laws follow what the elites want, not what the voters want. And the elites, on whole, want to destroy the family and Christianity. 

    Dreher has several points that he brings on how to fight the influence of the anti-Christian liberalism, but his primary argument--and from where he derives the title of his book--is for Christians to create their own religious communities, writing: "Rather than wasting energy and resources fighting unwinnable political battles, we should instead work on building communities, institutions, and networks of resistance that can outwit, outlast, and eventually overcome the occupation." To this end, Dreher looks back to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, and, in particular, the efforts of St. Benedict in forming strong communities of faith, and tries to apply those lessons to the problem that confronts modern Christians.

    It was never clear to me whether Dreher envisions Christians building literal communities that were physically segregated from the outside world and as self sufficient as possible (like a Benedictine monastery), or just tight knit groups that primarily socialize, work, trade, and hire/promote within their own membership or tribe (like Jews). But he was clear about there being borders or boundaries beyond which the greater world was not allowed.  And that is the problem: what if the liberal world order didn't want to stay out. Certainly the "anti-discrimination" laws have been weaponized against Christian businesses in many states where those businesses did not want to have to create cakes, decorations, or provide other goods or services that would advance LGBTQ causes and messaging. We've even seen in some Western nations where people have been charged with hate crimes simply for expressing Christian beliefs about gay marriage and other LGBTQ issues. 

    That is what this little white community discussed in the video is facing. Just replace "white" with "Christian" and you get an idea of how the liberals could easily choose to not leave Christians alone.   

 VIDEO: "Nice New Little White Village Causing Black and Brown People To Melt Down"
Mark Dice (15 min.)