Rick Dirtwater, an alumnus of Virginia Military Institute and an occasional opinion writer for Identity Dixie, gives us a deep dive into the cultural genocide happening at the historic school, which used to be the proving ground for making modern cavaliers and gentlemen warriors. So, Dirtwater shares his personal experience with the former VMI ethos and its Spartan lifestyle of regimented training used to build men of strong character. Unfortunately (and predictably), the institution has finally fallen victim to the cancer of wokeness.

We discuss how the devolution has occurred, including the abolition of the “old corps” via SCOTUS’s United States v. Virginia some 25 years ago, “turncoat” Ralph Northam’s totalitarian reconstruction of the Old Dominion and its premiere military school, and the fourth-estate hit pieces insisting that the college has a “racist and sexist culture.” Whereas “Save the males” used to be the rallying cry around VMI, the progressive precept is now death by 1,000 cuts and you’d better damn like it. Such barbaric times leave little room for honor, which is precisely by design.

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Some further reading on VMI and Virginians’ roots as a martial and dutiful people:
• “Death of the American Prussia: Virginia” by Padraig Martin
• “Say ‘No’ From the Start” by Tom Shackleford
• “Stonewall Jackson and VMI” by H.V. Traywick, Jr.
• “‘Chesty’ Puller and the Southern Military Tradition” by Michael Martin
• “Pseudo Shame at VMI” and other related content by Phil Leigh
• “The Real VMI: A Little Meritocracy 1839-2021?” and three other VMI essays by Forrest L. Marion
• “Citizen Soldiers of Dixie” by Anonymous
• “Grit and Grace Are What We Need” by Dissident Mama

Source: Dissident Mama – Dissident Mama, episode 41 – Rick Dirtwater

Neil Kumar is a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress, representing Arkansas’s Third District. He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Sons of the American Revolution, with blood that has been Southern since the 17th century. Kumar, who is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a native Arkansan, has written for numerous publications, including the Abbeville Institute, American Renaissance, Identity Dixie, The Political Cesspool, Clyde Wilson’s Reckonin‘, and VDare.

Kumar and I talk about his ancestry, his “rightist” political awakening, and his Christian conversion, how whites have racially disarmed themselves, how the power-hungry left has pathologized whiteness, how too many Southerners are on the defensive (instead of on the offensive and rightfully taking command of the moral high ground), and how his bold congressional platform aims to remedy these very deep and dangerous problems.

With a degree in anthropology and now knee-deep in law school, one wouldn’t think that such a young man could be so common-sense and so wise. But Kumar is and his writing proves it.

Here are some of my favorites:
• “Reconstruction in Arkansas“
• “All that is ugly, broken, and foul“
• “An open letter to Walmart“
• “White open spaces“
• “John Brown’s body: A review of ‘The Secret Six’ by Otto Scott“
• “You reap what you sow“

Also mentioned in our conversation are my interview with Lauren Witzke and the progressive and predictable hack job inventing an SCV “leak” along with its gaslit “aggressive neo-Confederates” narrative. I say, damn straight we’re aggressive!

So, on this 158th anniversary of Pickett’s Charge (the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, which waged from July 1-3, 1863), let’s consider Kumar’s message and his candidacy as a much-needed frontal assault against the undeniable Southern genocide, the pathologization of whiteness, the destruction of the family, and the mass proliferation of godlessness and globohomo. “Come on, boys! Give them the cold steel!”

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Source: Dissident Mama – Dissident Mama, episode 40 – Neil Kumar

Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo is a former professor of economics from Loyola University Maryland. DiLorenzo, who received his Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is a member of the Senior Faculty of the Mises Institute, a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and an Associate at the Abbeville Institute.

He is the author of numerous books, including “The Real Lincoln: A New Look a Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War,” “Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe,” “The Problem with Lincoln,” “Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution – and What It Means for Americans Today,” and “The Problem with Socialism,” and his articles have appeared in publications such as Public Choice, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and USA Today. DiLorenzo and I discuss everything from Dishonest Abe, mercantilism, and libertarianism, to Juneteenth, Thomas Sowell, and cats.

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A few links pertaining to our conversation:
• “Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government“
• “How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present“
• The Abraham Lincoln Problem
• Misesian Destructionism Then and Now
• The Last Time the D.C. Establishment Labeled its Political Opposition as “Insurrectionists” (And How It Taught Them About “National Unity”)
• “Civil War, Volumes 1-3” by Shelby Foote
• “Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream” by Lerone Bennett Jr.

Source: Dissident Mama – Dissident Mama, episode 39 – Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo