Racial Hatred Versus Multi-Racialism Time For Another Choice Werner Olles

"We have no duty to come nearer to each other, no more than has the sun a duty to approach the moon or the sea to become more like the land. Our aim is to recognise one another, to learn to respect our differences." Thus Hermann Hesse, the best known representative of German 'orientalism', writing at the beginning of the century against the cliche-ridden and over-romanticised attitudes of the 'oriental' sub-culture of his time.

For many years now cultists of the 'Western world' have sought religious, spiritual consolation in lands where the individual is not 'locked out' from the mainstream of life. They have taken their sufferings and their obsessions to foreign parts. It is so much easier to abandon the European mind altogether than struggle against the encroaching desert of the Western world, so much easier to let some guru take charge of one's destiny than to live on in a European atmosphere with its traditions of clarity, scepticism and doubt. This flirtation with foreign cultures and religions, the wisdom of the East and the adoption of alien lifestyles and habits conceals a contempt for the cultures concerned, a new kind of racialism: there is no significant difference between the wealthy pleasure seekers in Bangkok and the 'freaks' who arrive in Poona to 'get stoned' with thousands of other neurotic children of the middle and upper classes.

Pascal Bruckner compared the search for exotic cultures to the search for gratification by a promiscuous man: the earth is a temple of pleasure for those who lead a Western lifestyle and what they find they “rape”. At the same time as exploiting what is foreign, simply for the purpose of obtaining novel experiences, Western consumer society has made of the underprivileged an object for their unconditional pity. Nowadays the West enjoys a continual orgy of pity for refugees and immigrants from the Third World, which doesn't stop anyone from accepting them as slaves in all but name. The champions of racial egalitarianism are the first to profit from Black dustmen and Filipino housemaids. So who are the 'despisers of another race'? Those who believe in racial differences or those who use people as mere units of exchange, factory fodder who can be uprooted whenever the labour market dictates, regardless of ethnic, cultural or national identity?

Street scene in London. Multi-racialism has failed, yet most people are hostile to those who try to exploit racial problems. It is time for another choice: a dialogue between all groups that wish to maintain their identity.

The 'melting pot' ideology uses hypocritical calls for human rights and the mask of humanitarianism to treat people like cattle for the sole purpose of material gain all the while crying for universal equality. Whoever objects to this “humanitarian” form of ethnic genocide is immediately labelled a “racist”, a “xenophobe”, a “neo-nazi”. We should throw these insults back in the faces of those who make them: the propagandists of the 'one-world' philosophy; for whoever wishes to kill the soul of a people, whoever wants to uproot peoples spiritually and physically, whoever will trample values and traditions underfoot in the pursuit of a universal plan, whoever seeks to do away with the ethnic variety of the earth, for whatever reason, and whoever defends those who do, is the true “totalitarian”.

One of the things many of us still have to learn is that there is a difference between racial separation and racial hatred. Racial hatred or contempt has always been the means of justifying exploitation and oppression, but where racial differentiation and separation is not practised the results can be disastrous: Australia is a telling example of what happens to a people which is told it has a duty to integrate.

I ask sincere 'anti- racialists' who still fight for “the right” of universal migration: is it really a praiseworthy thing to defend a 'multi-racial society' if by doing so you are serving the industrial business world of today, if you are helping to uproot peoples in the service of multinational companies? Yes, there is the danger of an “alternative” position of moronic racial hatred. The racial contempt of former colonialists is not so far removed from the hypocritical attitudes of 'anti-racialists' today but perhaps not so far removed from the crass racialism of the “Wogs Out!” brigade, who have been accused, not without justification, of helping all opponents of immigration to get tarred with the same brush. Universalism and egalitarianism on the one hand, racial hatred on the other: the champions of both share a common belief that this is the only choice. They are wrong.

To articulate a convincing and logical alternative to the 'one world' of the multinationals is the first step in our cultural struggle. Voltaire's famous dictum: “I disagree entirely with what you say, but I would die to defend your right to say it” should be applied to the whole problem of immigration, so that in a climate of cordiality (which hardly exists today) opponents of immigration and immigrants can discuss the issues without paying any heed to what 'multi-racialists' think or do.

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