In an
article published in Occidental Observer,
White Identity, Interests and Culture, entitled Moral and Aesthetic Idealism among Whites: The Constant Gardener, Kevin
MacDonald wrote that
‘Although
Tessa gets married to the White diplomat, (Justin Quayle, the Constant
Gardener) her heart is in all things African. We see her flirting with an African doctor,
openly consorting with him at a high-level cocktail party, then opting to have
his baby in a hospital swarming with poor Africans, except for the White nurses
and doctors. The birth of the baby happens as though it is part of the natural
order of things—the husband is just fine with it, acting as if there’s nothing
to notice, while the father of the baby looks on proudly. Tessa’s only thought
is to help the poor African girl in the next room. Oddly, we are given only brief glimpses of
the baby—as if the director didn’t think the audience would be quite ready to
relate to the child of a married White woman and her very African lover.
One can’t help feeling the tension in the scene
with the miscegenated baby. We expect at least that Justin would feel anger and
betrayal, perhaps get a divorce and somehow find a way to get this experience
behind him.
Adopting non-White children and sponsoring poor
and oppressed immigrants to the West is nothing if not fashionable. Again, the power of the media to intensify or
minimize our natural tendencies. Wearing
badges identifying one as an upholder of contemporary moral conventions is an
excellent way to win the respect and adulation of others.
If you have ever seen
the film or read the book you will immediately see how he has failed to grasp
the plot.
MacDonald then goes on
to say that
Everything we know about psychology shows that our rational faculties can suppress our evolved tendencies. Moral and aesthetic universalism are no
different as biological tendencies among Whites that need to be controlled in
order to produce adaptive behavior—no different, say, from controlling
ethnocentrism or our evolved mating psychology. A great deal of psychological research shows
that White people do in fact engage in effortful control of ethnocentrism,
usually to protect their reputation in politically correct environments like
universities.
These biological tendencies can be
controlled. And the fact that such traits are hardly universal among Whites
will make it all the easier. But first we have to obtain a media presence where
we can clearly and articulately make the argument for moral and aesthetic
particularism as a rational necessity in the modern world’.
‘As
if the director didn’t think the audience would be quite ready to relate to the
child of a married White woman and her very African lover?’ And ‘the miscegenated baby? Did you notice that white is always ‘White’
and the word black, or Black, does not appear?
Of course this as racist. In The Occidental Review’s mission
statement I read that
The Occidental Observer will present
original content touching on the themes of white identity, white interests, and
the culture of the West. Such a mission
statement is sure to be dismissed as extremism of the worst sort in today’s
intellectual climate—perhaps even as a sign of psychiatric disorder. Yet there
is a compelling need for such a site. A great many other identifiable groups in
the multicultural West have a strong sense of identity and interest, but overt
expressions of white identity and white interests (or European-American
identity and interests) are rarely found among the peoples who founded these
societies and who continue to make up the majority.
This is a completely
unnatural state of affairs—the result of a prolonged assault on the legitimacy
of these concepts by cultural elites that have dominated public discourse on
issues of race and ethnicity since before World War II. We reject labels such as “white supremacist”
or “racist” that are routinely bestowed on assertions of white identity and
interests as a means of muzzling their expression. All peoples have
ethnic interests and all peoples have a legitimate right to assert their
interests, to construct societies that reflect their culture, and to define the
borders of their kinship group.’
So MacDonald has used The Constant Gardener to illustrate his
theme. He sees But he utterly misunderstood what he had seen. He is wrong about the paternity of the
child – and indeed, even its maternity.
He is wrong about the relationship between Tessa and Albert, her
African colleague, and about Albert’s sexual orientation. Her child is
stillborn, we never see him. The child
she is nursing in the hospital belongs to a sick African girl in the next
bed. We then see the African grandmother
carrying the child at the start of a 40 kilometre trek home. Tessa has no child to take home. Justin is relieved to discover that Albert
is gay – and in a committed relationship
with a man. All of this is clear in the film.
Why do I make such a fuss? Because Kevin MacDonald is Editor of The Occidental Observer a the much published writer an retired Professor Emeritus of
Psychology at California State University–Long Beach. Much of his work has centred on Judaism,
and has been seen as anti-Semitic.
I
am happy to report that according to Wiki
‘The university's psychology
department, as well as the California
State University, Long Beach academic senate, voted to formally
dissociate themselves from his work in 2008. The academic senate issued the following
statement:
"While
the academic senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald’s academic freedom and freedom
of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally
disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has
expressed."
Bur isn’t it strange, and even frightening,
that a man with such academic record and
intelligence cannot even follow the plot of a movie?
As my grandmother used to say ‘there’s none so blind as them as don’t want
to see!’ Or who only see what they
want to see.
On a positive note, the popularity of both
book and film of The Constant Gardener
helped, we are told, to raise consciousness of the Pharma’s behavior in Africa,
and the cause of those campaigning for change in the UN.
