Anti-Racism as the Bearer of Racism

by Guillaume Faye

Guillaume Faye critically examines the paradox where anti-racism inadvertently fosters racism, arguing for the recognition of ethnic consciousness and identity as legitimate for all peoples to combat racism.

This is the fourth part of Guillaume Faye’s essay ‘The New Ideological Challenges’, published in 1988. Also read parts one, two, and three.

Racist thought, which has gained the strength and form of an archetype, now remains in the pantheon of values as a possible recourse. Just as Christians give cause for black masses and demonic cults, so our dear democrats and those obsessed with anti-racist fraternalism have given cause for the emergence of a racist ‘culture’. In many cases today, anti-racism creates racism, not the other way around. More precisely, by unjustly and systematically branding as ‘racist’ either classic xenophobic behaviours that originally do not contain racial hatred or everyday social attitudes that are free from any racism, it ultimately contributes to making the said behaviours truly racist. The atmosphere of racial suspicion created by the obsessed racism hunters leads people of colour to suspect that they are exposed to discrimination everywhere, which sociologically drives them to behave in a racially discriminatory manner themselves.