Psy

Génération Identitaire has a video out, and it’s worth a look. They speak in French, but there are subtitles:

We are the generation of ethnic fracture, total failure of coexistence, and forced mixing of the races.

We are the generation doubly punished: condemned to pay into a social system so generous with strangers it becomes unsustainable for our own people.

We no longer believe that “€œKhader”€ [a generic Muslim] could ever be our brother, we have stopped believing in a “€œGlobal Village”€ and the “€œFamily of Man.”€

Our heritage is our land, our blood, our identity….

We are 25 percent unemployment, social debt, multicultural collapse, and an explosion of anti-white racism.

…and more in the same vein. I responded positively to this, seeing it as a glimmer of hope that I may perhaps have taken too gloomy a view in my September 6th Taki’s Mag column; that perhaps in France at least, not all white people are pussies. My feelings toward Génération Identitaire warmed even further when I saw the nonsense being written about them on leftist websites“€”gibberish about “€œhate,”€ “€œsupremacy,”€ and the rest of the threadbare canting leftist vocabulary.

But then I started thinking about Exhibit A and Exhibit B together”€”always a hazardous procedure if you want to stay comfortable in your prejudices. If I can approve of Génération Identitaire wanting their country back, why am I mad at Psy for wanting his country back? We have 28,500 troops stationed there, and of course they occasionally misbehave, as troops will. And we have supported some unsavory dictators in South Korea across the decades.

Psy’s 2004 lyrics contain real hate for us, unlike anything Génération Identitaire expresses. You can discount some of that as just Korean-ness, though. They are a famously obstreperous people, prickly about their nationhood”€””€The Irish of Asia,”€ old Asia hands say. Not pussies.

If I”€™m open to Psy plea-bargaining down on the follies-of-youth clause (which I am), what of the Génération Identitaire people, some of whom look to be less than twenty years old? Might it be that their pride of identity, which I find admirable, is just another folly of youth? What, after all (my inner geezer grumbles), do kids know?

The heck with it. We should get out of South Korea. What are we doing there, anyway? They have a big, well-equipped conscript army of their own (in which Psy served, reluctantly). The Muslims should get out of France and all other non-Muslim countries. They have 57 of their own in which to wander around.

Now if you don”€™t mind, I”€™ll sign off. A new book arrived today, a best seller; I really want to get into it. It’s titled Back to Blood.