They're Not Left-Wing, They're Anti-White
Imagine a runaway trolley hurtling down a track toward five people. You stand at the switch; by pulling it, you can divert the trolley onto a side track where only one person is tied down. Do you flip the switch, sacrificing one life to save five?...
In this case, liberals' judgment was apparently driven by an out-group preference, a desire, perhaps unspoken, to protect the minority individual even at the expense of the majority individual...
Conservatives, on the other hand, showed a more familiar in-group preference, expressing more willingness to save their own perceived group at the expense of the "other."..
Patriotism vs. "Pathological Altruism"
... "pathological altruism." It's an altruism that many would consider excessive or misapplied, sacrificing one's own people out of concern for others...Liberals in these studies weren't neutral or colour-blind, they actively favoured the out-group...
The Obsolescence of "Left" and "Right"
... The familiar labels "left-wing" and "right-wing" come from another era and increasingly serve as cognitive traps rather than aids to understanding.
Historically, these terms were coined quite literally: they referred to the seating arrangement of the 1789 French National Assembly. Reformist, anti-royalist revolutionaries sat to the presiding officer's left, while the conservative supporters of the monarchy clustered on the right...Over the 19th and 20th centuries, this spatial metaphor evolved into an entire ideological spectrum. Being on the Left came to mean favouring change, reform and egalitarianism, from the liberal push for greater social and economic equality to the radical dreams of socialism and communism. Being on the Right meant favouring tradition, hierarchy, and stability, from conservative defence of existing institutions to nationalist or even fascist urges to restore a glorified past...
In a multiracial, globalised society, race and cultural identity have become inescapably salient political factors...
It becomes a zero-sum contest of group interests, whether openly acknowledged or not...
...in fact many so-called right-wing movements today are populist rebellions of the working class against a globalist elite...
...every policy choice in a society asks who gains and who loses. Should a country prioritise its own citizens, or humanity at large?...
The left implicitly answers that we owe our loyalty to humanity as a whole, or at least to every other group besides the traditionally powerful one. The right implicitly answers that charity begins at home, that we owe our first loyalty to our own people, however defined...
Identity Loyalty: The New Political Spectrum
In today's parlance, the "Right wing" is characterised not necessarily by devotion to kings or laissez-faire economics, but by devotion to one's own people, in Western nations, this often means advocating for the interests of the historical European-descended majority.
...the "Left wing" position is often characterised by a skepticism or even hostility toward that majority, frequently framing its decline as a moral necessity or simply a non-issue...
On one side, we have a worldview that regards strong in-group loyalty as outdated at best or evil at worst, and thus elevates out-group concerns as a higher moral calling. On the other side, we have a worldview that sees in-group loyalty as natural and even noble, a continuation of the time-honoured duty to one's family and ancestors, now transposed to the scale of peoples and nations...
Choosing Sides in the New Dilemma
It would be more transparent to speak in terms of particularism vs. universalism, or nationalism vs. globalism, or perhaps loyalty vs. levelling. But until such terms become commonplace, we must at least clarify what we mean by left or right in 2025. Increasingly, to be on the Left means to prioritise abstract principles of equality and global humanity over the attachments of tribe, nation, or ethnicity, even if that means, paradoxically, endorsing favouritism toward other tribes as a way to check the power of one's own. And to be on the Right means to stand for one's own people first, to see one's primary moral duty as lying with the historical and cultural community that nurtured you, and to view skepticism toward mass immigration, multiculturalism, and "anti-majority" policies not as bigotry but as loyalty...
So the next time you hear "left-wing" or "right-wing," ask yourself not what economic policy or historical position that implies, but who is inside that speaker's circle of "us," and who is outside?...