They'll Never Learn Their Lesson (Connor Tomlinson)

Progressivism operates like a religion.

It has its doctrine of Original Sin with White guilt; its negative foundation myth in the Second World War; its Garden of Eden story with antiracist blank-slate anthropology; and its Fall from grace, with mankind banished from an egalitarian paradise with the imposition of society and the invention of private property.

Its priests are in state institutions, universities, establishment media, and the permanent bureaucracies that shepherd our nations along history’s long arc, bending inexorably toward progress.

The opaque promise of integration is its doctrine of salvation, and its practitioners will persecute any blasphemers who dare suggest that ethnic groups and irreconcilable differences between them exist. If not for the “Far Right”, proximate to the omnipresent secular Satan figure of Adolf Hitler, we would be living in the Heaven on Earth as described in John Lennon’s Imagine.

It is for this reason that Europe’s progressives will not learn their lesson from the French riots. Even as the violent disorder spreads to Germany, Belgium, and Italy, incited by identical populations who admit on camera they just want to loot and destroy things they are incapable of reproducing, liberals in these countries project onto the vandals a noble cause. They cope by insisting this wanton destruction is a sacrament in service of grand revolutionary goals.

The Financial Times cares more about how Marine Le Pen and National Rally might capitalise on the riots than about the riots themselves. The belief that all human beings are of a universal type, and moulded by economic factors and ephemeral systemic forces, leads you to scapegoat the people pointing out the problem as the real problem. Otherwise, you would have to admit your anthropology is false, and renounce your faith in progressivism.

For those hoping this repudiation of blank slate ideology will wake them up: if you wouldn’t renounce your religious beliefs after being the victim of a crime or natural disaster, why would you expect race riots to provoke progressives into abandoning theirs?



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, November 13, 2026.]