Parallel Polis Podcast

The Choice You Cannot Avoid

Andrew Torba Season 3 Episode 10

Start with a hard claim: politics is ethnic warfare by other means. The speech we unpack insists every community organizes as a bloc, that “demographics are destiny,” and that refusing identity mobilization is a one-way ticket to loss and humiliation. It’s a stark, emotionally charged frame that promises clarity but demands a price: seeing neighbors as demographic threats and treating the public square as ancestral turf. We slow the tape, separate facts from rhetoric, and ask what actually sustains freedom in diverse societies.

Across the hour, we test sweeping generalizations with counterexamples from coalition politics, civil-rights strategy, and institutional design. Do groups truly vote as monoliths? Are advocacy organizations interchangeable with ethnonational projects? Does policy that widens access always imply zero-sum extraction? We explore how trust grows when rules are even-handed, when outcomes are measured and adjusted, and when rights protect individuals regardless of origin. Instead of demographic fatalism, we look at the practical engines of integration: language acquisition, mixed schools, service programs, mobility ladders, and civic rituals that invite newcomers into a shared story. Culture isn’t a fixed substance tied to bloodlines; it’s a system of habits and institutions that can scale if we maintain guardrails.

We also draw a bright line between advocacy that expands equal protection and advocacy that seeks hierarchy. The first belongs in a healthy democracy; the second corrodes it. That distinction gives every coalition a path to organize without turning politics into permanent siege. If you’re tired of performative outrage and want tools that work, we offer a checklist: transparent metrics, sunset clauses on exceptional policy, anti-corruption enforcement, viewpoint diversity in education, family policy that helps parents across backgrounds, and technology norms that reward bridge-building over rage clicks.

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The choice you cannot avoid. Every other group is playing the game, and you're losing because you refuse to play. There is a peculiar pathology that afflicts white Americans and white Europeans alone among all peoples of the earth. It is the belief that identity politics is beneath them, that engaging in explicit ethnic advocacy is somehow shameful, distasteful, or morally compromised. They have been taught to believe that the highest virtue is to transcend their own identity, to judge everyone as individuals, to refuse to see patterns or advocate for their own collective interests. Meanwhile, every other group on the planet organizes along ethnic lines, advances ethnic interests, and celebrates ethnic identity without a shred of guilt or hesitation. This is not a sustainable arrangement. In fact, it is a formula for extinction. Let us be clear about what is actually happening in America and throughout the Western world. Every major demographic group except one practices explicit identity politics. This is how politics works. It's how it has always worked. They have advocacy organizations, legal defense funds, congressional caucuses, scholarships, hiring preferences, and media outlets dedicated to advancing their own collective interests. They vote as blocks. They network and hire their own. They celebrate their heritage and teach their children to be proud of who they are. None of this is controversial. None of it is condemned. It is understood as natural, healthy, and good because it is. Black Americans have the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Entertainment Television, historically black colleges, and an entire cultural infrastructure devoted to black advancement. When they advocate for their collective interests, they are celebrated as civil rights heroes, continuing a noble legacy. When black politicians openly say they will represent, quote, their people, no one blinks. Jewish Americans have the ADL, APAC, the American Jewish Committee, and countless other organizations devoted to Jewish identity, Jewish continuity, and Jewish interests. Jewish in-group preference in academia, media, finance, and law is well documented and openly discussed in Jewish publications. When Jewish groups advocate for Israel or against antisemitism, they are exercising ethnic solidarity, and no one is permitted to criticize it. Hispanic Americans have La Raza, they have the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and an entire political movement around ethnic identity and ethnic interests. When Hispanic activists openly advocate for more immigration from Latin America to increase Hispanic political power, this is considered legitimate political organizing. Asian Americans have their own advocacy organizations, their own congressional cockrax, and their own identity-based scholarships and hiring networks. When Asian parents organize to oppose policies that disadvantage their children, they are exercising ethnic advocacy. Only one group is forbidden from doing any of this. Only one group is told that organizing along ethnic lines is inherently evil, and that advocating for their collective interests is quote white supremacy, that even noticing that they are being systematically disadvantaged is proof of moral failure. Only one group has been convinced that they must unilaterally disarm in a world where everyone else is armed to the teeth. And that group, of course, is white people. What happens when one group refuses to play identity politics while every other group plays it aggressively? The answer is simple. The group that refuses to organize gets organized against. The group that refuses to advocate for its interests sees its interest systematically sacrificed. The group that refuses to see itself as a group gets treated as a group anyway, but only when it comes time to assign blame, extract resources, and diminish power. Look around and see the consequences of your noble refusal to engage in ethnic advocacy. Affirmative action programs explicitly discriminate against white applicants in university admissions and corporate hiring. DEI departments exist to reduce white representation in every institution they control. The explicit purpose of diversity initiatives is to replace you. Diversity is just a code word for less white people, and everyone knows it, even if no one is allowed to say it out loud. Immigration policy has been engineered for 60 years to reduce the white percentage of the population. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is openly celebrated by those who designed and implemented it. They write books and articles boasting about how the browning of America is a good thing. They gleefully anticipate the day when white Americans become a minority in the country their ancestors built. And they tell you that noticing this, let alone objecting to it, makes you a Nazi. The political system is explicitly organized against your interests. Both parties court ethnic every ethnic bloc with targeted appeals except one. Republicans can't even say the word white, and they're terrified of being called a racist, so they bend over backwards to avoid any appeal to white interests, even as they hemorrhage white working class voters who have nowhere else to go. Democrats have built their entire coalition around explicitly anti-white messaging, promising to transfer resources and power from white Americans to everyone else. You have no political home if you're white because you refuse to demand one. The culture relentlessly demonizes you. White people, and only white people, are subjected to constant messaging about their historical guilt, their privilege, their inherent racism. Your children are taught in school to be ashamed of their ancestors and suspicious of their own instincts. Every movie, every advertisement, every corporate training session reinforces the same message. White people are the problem, and the solution is fewer of them in positions of power and influence. This is what happens when you refuse to practice identity politics. You don't transcend the game, you just lose it. The ideology that has disarmed white Americans is a particular form of individualism, and the belief that only individuals matter, that groups are morally irrelevant, and that advocating for collective interest is a primitive tribalism that enlightened people have transcended. This ideology was sold as a universal truth, applicable to all peoples everywhere. In fact, it was targeted. It was a targeted weapon deployed against only one group. Every other group understood this instinctively. When white liberals preached individualism and colorblindness, black activists smiled and kept organizing as a block. When conservatives praised the content of their character, Hispanic lobbying groups kept pushing for ethnic preferences. When libertarians celebrated the free market of atomized individuals, Jewish networks kept hiring and promoting their own. The ideology of individualism was for suckers, a unilateral disarmament treaty that only one party ever signed. And here's the bitter irony. The same people who preach colorblind individualism to white Americans have always seen whites as a group. When it's time to assign collective guilt for slavery or for colonialism, for systemic racism, suddenly you're not individuals anymore. Suddenly you inherit the sins of your ancestors. Suddenly your group identity matters very much indeed, but only when it's time to punish you for it. You are treated as a group when it comes time to blame and dispossess. You were forbidden from acting as a group when it comes time to organize and defend. This is the arrangement that you have accepted. It is, to put it plainly, insane. Let us be clear about what is on the line here. This is not just about politics. This is not just about the next election. This is about whether your people will exist in any meaningful sense 100 years from now. Demographics are destiny. This is not a slogan, it's a mathematical certainty. A people that does not reproduce, that does not defend its territory, that does not pass on its identity to the next generation, simply ceases to exist. It is replaced by those who do. This is the iron law of history, and no amount of moralizing about individualism will change it. The birth rates of white Americans and Europeans are catastrophically below replacement. This alone would be a slow motion extinction, but it is dramatically accelerated by mass immigration policies that deliberately import millions of people from the third world to replace the native population. The combination of suicidal birth rates and open borders is not a policy mistake. It is a policy of erasure. Consider a strange coincidence that demands some explanation. There is one nation in the Western sphere that maintains a healthy birth rate, a closed border, and an explicit ethnic identity enshrined in law. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. It restricts immigration of those to Jewish ancestry, it builds walls to keep out foreigners, and celebrates its demographic vitality. No one calls this racist, no one demands that they diversify, no one insists that they become multicultural. Yet members of this tribe, when operating in your countries, are vastly overrepresented among the loudest voices demanding open borders, celebrating demographic replacement, writing anti-white books and movies and TV shows, pushing sexual degeneracy that destroys family formation, promoting feminism that suppresses birth rates, and advocating for money printing that makes it impossible for young families to afford children. They maintain a nation for themselves, a homogenous nation for themselves, while preaching multiculturalism for you. They secure their border while funding NGOs that help migrants cross into yours. They celebrate their fertility while promoting ideologies that sterilize your children chemically, ideologically, and spiritually. One standard is for them and another is for you. Their population grows while yours shrinks. And if you notice this pattern, you are the one who is called hateful. The Boers of South Africa face farm murders and explicit anti-white discrimination. The whites of Zimbabwe were violently dispossessed and driven from their country that their ancestors built. The Christian minorities of the Middle East have been reduced to remnant populations clinging to survival. The lesson is clear. A people that becomes a powerless minority in its own homeland is not treated with tolerance and respect that it showed others. It is exploited, dispossessed, and destroyed. This is your future if you refuse to organize. This is the future for your children, for your grandchildren, and for the entire white race. There is no neutral ground here. There is no safe position above the fray. There is no middle ground. There is no enlightened individualism that exempts you from the brutal reality of an ethnic competition. You are in the arena whether you choose to be or not. The only question is whether you will fight or submit. Those who hate you are organized. They have institutions, they have funding, they have a clear vision of the future they want. A future in which your people are despised and a minority with no power, no voice, and no future in their own countries. They are working towards this goal every single day with focus and determination, and they are winning because you have refused to oppose them. So it's time to choose. You can continue to believe the comfortable lies. You can tell yourself that identity politics is beneath you and that you're quote better than that, that your principles prevent you from organizing along ethnic lines. You congratulate yourself on your moral superiority as your children become minorities in their own country, taught to hate their ancestors and themselves and you. You can maintain your principled individualism all the way to the grave and beyond it as your people fade from history entirely. Or you can wake up. You can accept the reality that every other group already knows that in a diverse society, ethnic solidarity is survival. Those who organize win and those who don't lose. There is no moral prize for unilateral disarmament, only extinction. You can start building networks, supporting your own, creating institutions that serve your people's interests. You can vote as a block for candidates who will represent you. You can create communities where your children can grow up proud and strong of who they are, and you can stop apologizing for your existence and start fighting for your future. The choice is stark and it is final. Choose your people or watch them disappear forever. Everyone else has already chosen. What's stopping you?