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You're making a bunch of mouth noises, but you haven't really said anything.
You say...
...and i reply that this is manifestly untrue.
If a deep blue state like California is struggling to muster a simple majority, what hope do you think AA and DEI have in the rest of the country?
Point being that Im not trying to "transform" society into being anti-identitarian, im saying that a good chunk of it already is. And that if the dissident/identitarian right wants to expand it's audience and influence it's going to have to grapple with that fact.
I think he’s saying that, in practice, you have a big chunk of “anti-indentitarian normies” who are in fact mildly anti-white, and have been for so long that they don’t consider themselves indentitarian. They support ‘civil rights’ and in practice DEI and AA as long as those aren’t too egregious and they don’t have to actually argue in favour of racial discrimination out loud, which would break the spell. Thus the defeat of explicit AA initiatives in California.
You then have another big chunk of anti-identitarian normies who are mildly racially ingroup biased and have been for so long that they, again, think of themselves as being totally against any form of racial identity.
So the number of “anti-identitarian normies” who are actually anti-identitarian in practice rather than just in the mouth noises they make is much smaller than you think.
Whether true or not I don’t know but from afar it seems plausible. Either way, though, the taboo is still very potent both in America and the UK.
That oposition to DEI, AA, the LGBTQ agenda, and other flavors of woke PMC overreach is mostly motivated by anti-white animus is certainly one of the takes of all time.
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