The Deracination Dilemma: Why Whites Are Being Stripped of Identity While Others Aren't, By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Lurking in the shadowy corners of cultural commentary, J.H. Adler's Amerika.org piece on "The Deracination of Whites" pulls no punches: Equality, that noble-sounding Trojan horse, isn't about lifting all boats, it's about sinking the ones that float highest. Whites, as the West's founding stock, are systematically stripped of ethnic pride, history, and cohesion, while other groups rally under banners of solidarity. This raw insight cuts to the chase: "Whites are being, or are deracinated, but not other races; hard not to get conspiratorial about this, but regardless it is justified for whites to defend their kind, like for everyone else." The point lands like a gauntlet: In a world preaching "diversity," why the asymmetric assault on one group's roots? It's tempting to don the tinfoil hat, but even without conspiracy, the imbalance screams foul. This essay unpacks the deracination double standard, probes the "why" without diving into paranoia, and affirms: Self-preservation isn't supremacy, it's survival, and whites deserve it as much as anyone.

Deracination Defined: Roots Uprooted, But Selectively

Deracination, literally "uprooting," isn't just a buzzword; it's cultural euthanasia. Adler nails it: Equality demands no one rises above the herd, so the "strong" (historically dominant groups) get levelled. For whites, ethnic Western Europeans of Nordic/Cro-Magnid stock, this means erasing heritage to subsidise Great Replacement newcomers. Examples abound: Confederate statues toppled (130+ since 2020), schools renamed (San Francisco's 2021 purge of Washington and Lincoln), and curricula scrubbed of "Eurocentric" bias (CRT in 35 states emphasising oppression over achievement).

But flip the script: Other races? Their identities are celebrated, not castrated. Black History Month thrives unchallenged; Indigenous Peoples' Day replaces Columbus in 15 states. Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month spotlights achievements without apology. Hispanic Heritage Month? Vibrant, with no calls to "de-Latinoize." X buzzes with pride: #BlackExcellence trends at 100k posts yearly; #AAPIHeritage amplifies voices. Yet #WhiteHistoryMonth? Mocked as racist, with zero institutional backing. In Australia, Australia Day constantly attacked by the lobbies.

The asymmetry's stark. In 2025, DEI programs ($7.5B corporate spend) mandate "allyship" training that frames white culture as "problematic," from "toxic masculinity" (APA 2019 guidelines) to "white fragility" workshops. Meanwhile, affinity groups for POC flourish: Google's Black Googler Network, Meta's Latin@. Whites? No "European Heritage ERG," that'd be "divisive." Adler's point: This slow genocide, cultural, not kinetic, aims to replace whites with "enlightened" diversity, echoing China's "de-ethnicisation" of Tibet (renamed Xizang, 2023).

Data backs the disparity. U.S. fertility? Whites at 1.6 (below replacement), while Hispanics hold 2.0, Blacks 1.8 (CDC 2023). Why? Economic squeeze, migration-driven housing spikes (rents +70% vs. wages in UK), hits whites hardest.X post (50k likes): "Whites pay taxes for diversity that prices them out of families — deracination by design?"

The Conspiratorial Temptation: Patterns, Not Plots

It's "hard not to get conspiratorial," and who wouldn't? Patterns scream coordination: Media's "white supremacy" fixation (CNN 2024: 500+ segments) while downplaying minority crimes; academia's "whiteness studies" framing European heritage as pathology (Harvard's 2023 course drew fire). Global echo: UK's "decolonise" curriculum erases British empire positives; France's Macron calls colonialism a "crime against humanity" (2017), fuelling reparations demands.

But conspiracy? Not necessarily. Adler blames equality's logic: It levels the playing field by hamstringing the "privileged." Progressives, per Coyner, see whites as history's villains, genocidal, patriarchal, so deracination "corrects" imbalance. No shadowy cabal needed; it's ideological inertia. X debates rage: "It's not conspiracy — it's CRT gospel," one thread (40k retweets) argues. Still, the point is right: The effect's the same, whites derooted, others empowered. China's Tibet playbook (cultural erasure via renaming, assimilation) mirrors it, without overt plot.

Truth-seeking: This isn't unique to whites historically: Rome deracinated conquered tribes; Soviets Russified minorities. But in 2025's "equity" era, the double standard's glaring. Why no "de-Blackification" or "de-Latinoisation"? Because equality's sword swings one way: Against the "oppressor."

Justification for Defence: Survival, Not Supremacy

"Regardless," one may assert, "it is justified for whites to defend their kind, like for everyone else." Spot-on. Self-preservation isn't supremacy, it's a human right. Blacks defend via BLM (2020 protests); Hispanics through La Raza; Indigenous via land rights fights (Dakota Access, 2016). Asians combat hate (Stop AAPI Hate, 2021). Whites? Labelled "racist" for similar solidarity, e.g., European Heritage Month proposals shot down as "white nationalist" (Canada, 2023).

Why the hypocrisy? Adler: Equality's endgame demands white erasure to "subsidise" others. But defence is legit: Cultural pride sustains communities, Irish festivals, Italian parades thrive without backlash. Whites reclaiming roots, via genealogy apps (Ancestry.com's 20M users) or heritage groups, bolsters identity without harm. X's #WhitePride (controversial, but 30k posts) mixes toxicity with calls for fair play: "If Black pride's ok, why not white?"

Legally: UN's Indigenous Rights Declaration (2007) protects cultural integrity, extend to all? Morally: Incommensurability (races unrankable) means no group's superior; all deserve defence. Without it, whites fade, fertility dips signal cultural despair.

Whites' deracination, while others flourish, is a rigged game, tempting conspiracy but rooted in equality's flawed logic. Adler's "slow genocide" warns: History's erased, pride's pathologised, futures foreclosed. But defence isn't optional, it's equitable. Celebrate roots like all groups: Festivals, education, advocacy. Defend or deracinate … and perish!

https://www.amerika.org/politics/de-ethnicization-of-whites-fulfills-the-equality-quest/

"Average humans live in a world of effects. They do not understand the causes of things, but they feel that if enough goodwill is generated, everyone will get along and that is enough. This is why we needed kings instead of commoners, because commoners understand very little.

They are barely able to parse basic concepts like "equality." To their minds, it means that everyone is treated the same way, but that makes no sense because it does not arrive at a state of equality. Equality is both a method and goal, like all ideologies, and it does not stop until everyone is equal in power, wealth, and status.

It was originally designed to remove the kings. Aristocrats, descended from the founding population of a society, have a vested interest in making it succeed; everyone else simply wants to take from it and do as little as possible. If you let the latter group lead, your civilization declines, but they will claim they are acting to achieve "equality."

Equality means that no one can have more power simply by virtue of being correct, more intelligent, more experienced, or wiser. Only those who are vested in the state system are viewed as having the right qualifications, and this is because the system itself has vetted them.

Equality therefore does a few things: first, it takes from the strong, because the weaker have a claim to whatever the strong have; second, it creates an inner party elite who because they memorized things in school, were obedient at work, and made the right social connections, are presumed to have godlike wisdom.

As part of taking from the strong to give to the weak, it destroys the founding population in order to subsidize newcomers. Apparently every civilization does this once it is sufficiently bloated and disorganized to require foreign labor.

In America, we see this because the founding majority of Whites are paying the taxes to subsidize the diversity, as they do in Europe, while bearing the brunt of the crime and disorder. Whites have stopped reproducing at replacement levels because they believe their society to be hostile and too expensive to raise children in.

This process, called de-ethnicization, is a type of slow genocide designed to remove an undesirable population by destroying their culture, future, hopes, and behaviors, so that they can be replaced with another. We see de-ethnicization at work in China:

The Chinese government recently renamed "Tibet" as "Xizang" in official diplomatic documents. The move was the latest in a series of measures that critics of China say are aimed at erasing Tibetan national identity and culture.

"These are political actions of 'de-ethnicization,'" Yang Haiying, a Mongolian-born humanities professor at Shizuoka University in Japan, told Radio Free Asia. "'De-ethnicization' is equivalent to the idea of resolving ethnic issues. It is an approach to deny ethnicity by emphasizing 'de-ethnicization' of regions."

Others, like Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, likened these policies to "cultural genocide."

This "cultural genocide" begins with the renaming of everything sacred to a group, then the destruction of their history and monuments, and finally the erasure of their identity, followed by their ethnic absorption by another group. You do not want this to happen to your group; it will cease to exist very rapidly.

However, because of the notion of equality, people in America see this as not just normal and natural, but good. They want to replace those nasty genocidal Whites with enlightened third world people, much as how every "intellectual" in postwar Europe found profundity in far-off places without plumbing or literacy.

The de-ethnicization of actual Whites — ethnic Western Europeans of the Nordid/Cro-Magnid variety — has been going on for some time, as we can see from how the population responded to the rising tide of ethnic competitors:

The rise of industrial white bread mirrored World War II-era fears of immigrants, many of whom owned small bakeries at the time.

The goal of the egalitarians is always to blame whoever is on top for the problems of those who have difficulties, then to remove that group and take what they have, which restarts the cycle as the new top group gets blamed and then removed over time.

First they came for the Kings. Then they came for the Anglo-Saxons. Now they are coming for all people who are whitish or White. Next they will come for the rich. It only ends when everyone is equally impoverished, and White de-ethnicization is the most important tool of achieving this egalitarian paradise."