I Hate What You Just Said

It is about time for IHWYJS (that’s what the cool kids call ihatewhatyoujustsaid.com), to make a contribution to our long-awaited “national conversation on race.”

As you already know, the Clinton campaign has already weighed in. Wow. And there’s more. Also this.

But for our money, there is no one quite like Patrick J. Buchanan when it comes to clear-eyed, no-nonsense thinking on the subject of race. Ever the thoughtful commentator, Pat is offering America, and the world, exactly what it needs right now: white paranoia. How could the guy who gave us the culture war be wrong?

Here’s Pat, in all his glory, in his post titled “The Way Our World Ends” (and I swear I am not making this stuff up. Go look at his website! He actually wrote this, and so much other inanity besides):

An Augusta, Ga., group, The National Policy Institute, has meshed the figures on fertility rates with the continents and races on Planet Earth — to visualize what the world will look like in 2060.

In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and Africans 9 percent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25 percent of the world’s population. People of European descent will have fallen to 9.8 percent.

More arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in relative but in real terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth — a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany — will vanish by 2060.

The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans.

White people! Vanishing! (Actually, I guess I’ll be one of those white people who vanishes by 2060, too. But Buchanan will also have vanished by then. So, you know, there’s an upside to all of this).

More Buhcanan-y goodness:

By 2050, a fourth of all the people of Eastern Europe will have vanished. Ukraine will lose one-third of its population. Russia, 150 million at the breakup of the Soviet Union, 142 million today, will be down to 108 million. Such losses dwarf what Hitler and Stalin together did to these countries.

Now I think I must be drunk. Because I could have sworn that PJB just compared falling birth rates based on free will and individual choices to the holocaust and Stalinist repression. (And hey - did you notice? More “vanishing”).

Man - this stuff is really killing Pat:

…Western Europe’s populations are being sustained by immigrants from the Maghreb and Middle East, Asia and Africa — and the baby boom among these black and brown peoples is lifting and changing the face of the Old Continent forever. Islam is returning to Iberia, Italy and the Balkans. The Third World is coming to colonize the mother countries.

It is Pat Buchanan’s worst nightmare coming true: vanishing white people, and booming brown people. And finally:

Hopefully, the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, who are about to inherit the earth as we pass away, will treat us better than our ancestors treated them in the five centuries that Western Man ruled the world.

Otherwise, we all go out with a bang.

Precious.

Thanks, Pat, for giving us the big picture. In part II, we’ll examine Pat’s take on the more immediate racial politics of the day. In the meantime, if you are reading this and you happen to be white, be forewarned that you may vanish at any moment.