The Biology of Blackolatry: How and Why Leftists Revile Only Whites for the World-Wide Custom of Slavery

A ship in a bottle. It’s an excellent symbol of the cleverness and skill of White craftsmen. But a ship-in-a-bottle doesn’t just symbolize White cognition: it also substantializes White creativity. Obviously it’s a symbol of intelligence and ingenuity, of patience and perserverance. And of individualism, because when we look at a ship-in-a-bottle, we admire the cleverness and skill of the individual craftsman who made it, not of the race that he belongs to. Yet it wasn’t solitary individuals who invented the two things combined in a ship-in-a-bottle. One thing is very obvious: the ship inside the bottle. Another thing is very easy to look through in more ways than one: the glass of the bottle.

Some ships in bottles (images from Wikipedia)

Both ships and glass were central to the rise of the West. And both were collective creations, things that couldn’t have existed without advanced societies that organized labor and applied a set of discoveries and ideas made by many people over much time. I’ll leave the glamor of glass for another day: in this article I want to celebrate the sublimity of ships. Sailing-ships, I mean, the traditional many-masted ship with wide white sails. A ship like that isn’t just ingenious: it’s beautiful. Sailing-ships remind me of giant, white-petalled flowers. Yet unlike flowers they have a dynamism that was skillfully caught and conveyed by the English poet Robert Bridges (1844–1930):

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,
Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.
That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,
Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?
Ah! soon, when Winter has all our vales opprest,
When skies are cold and misty, and hail is hurling,
Wilt thou glide on the blue Pacific, or rest
In a summer haven asleep, thy white sails furling. (“A Passer-By,” 1879)

Traditional wooden sailing-ships are wonderful in many ways. On the one hand, there are the cleverness and collaboration of their design and construction, their crewing, their captaining. On the other hand, there’s the rich, nature-rootedness of the way they combine wood and wind to sweep men across the sea, that ancient object of fear and worship. But saying they’re wonderful isn’t enough: sailing-ships are White and wonderful, because they reached the zenith of their size and beauty, speed and range, under White maritime nations like Britain, America, France, Germany, Spain, Norway and Sweden. In Oswald Spengler’s typology of cultures, sailing-ships are Faustian, expressions and embodiments of the ancient White urge to explore and expand, to discover and conquer new worlds beyond the horizon. Indeed, part of the attraction of a ship-in-a-bottle comes from the contrast between its confinement in cramped glass and its potency as a symbol of energy and exploration.

Ships are sublime: calm and chaos captured by three great White artists (clockwise from top left: Willem van de Velde II, Ivan Aivazovsky #1, Fitz Hugh Lane, Ivan Aivazovsky #2 at Wikipedia)

After all, whose heart is not stirred by the sight of a tall ship in full sail sweeping white-waked across a sapphire sea? Well, I don’t think many leftist hearts are stirred by a sight like that. Leftists don’t see ships as symbols of the Wonderfulness of Whiteness. Instead, they see ships as symbols of the Wickedness of Whiteness. If you want a good example of that anti-nautical leftist mindset, here’s the cover of a book called The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 (2022), which studies the fortunes made by Scottish traders from the sugar plantations worked by enslaved Blacks in the Caribbean:

Ships are sinful: the front-cover of Dr Stephen Mullen’s The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy (2022)

The book is by a Scottish scholar-of-slavery called Dr Stephen Mullen, who “teaches History at the University of Glasgow [and] is the author of numerous studies on the extent and legacy of Caribbean slavery upon eighteenth-century Scotland.” Mullen chose that cover to symbolize the sinfulness of sailing-ships, not to celebrate their beauty and ingenuity. You see, ships like that were used to transport the enslaved bodies of innocent Blacks from pre-lapsarian Africa to the decidedly post-lapsarian Caribbean. And ships like that brought back the sugar, cotton, tobacco and other goods created by those enslaved Blacks under the whips of their White enslavers. But Mullen, as a homeland-hating leftist, devotes his culture of critique most enthusiastically to Scottish enslavers and their legacy. His work is dedicated to proving that Scotland is still steeped in sin, because the cruel and callous commerce of long-dead Scottish enslavers has benefitted Scots to this very day. Mullen’s own university is central to that continuing sin, as he emphasizes in his “Conclusion” to The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy:

The University of Glasgow is a case in point [of the permanent benefits that accrued to Scotland from Black enslavement]. It has disbursed the equivalent of up to £91m, accrued from donations by those associated with Atlantic slavery. Some, such as the Ewing prizes (based on the £100 donated in 1828 by Jamaica planter James Ewing of Strathleven) are still awarded annually to postgraduates; these specific awards rotate annually between students in Medieval and Modern History. It is almost certain the income from slavery from the eighteenth century onwards benefited almost exclusively staff and students racialized as white British. Other philanthropic funds, such as the Dick Bequest, continue to disburse slavery-derived wealth into Scottish society. The West India ‘spheres of influence’ established then set in place inequalities that continue today, although the relative significance of the effects on society has gradually decreased. This study of Glasgow’s ‘sugar aristocracy’, and Scots across the British West Indies, substantiates and significantly expands upon Eric Williams’ main thesis in Capitalism and Slavery in a Scottish context. Glasgow-West India merchant capital, and its Atlantic operations, were central to the origins and progress of the Scottish Industrial Revolution, helping establish and accelerating the process. Indeed, in the absence of West India merchants, this cataclysmic event that transformed the nation would have begun later and progressed at a much slower pace. In a counter-factual analysis, cotton would have likely been supplied via East India merchants in London in any case, but such an irregular supply could hardly have sustained large-scale manufacturing processes before the end of the East India monopoly in 1813. In actuality, Caribbean slavery underpinned textile manufacturing from 1778, a system which employed many thousands of Scots who often had no knowledge of their complicity. […] West India commerce shaped Glasgow and west central Scotland in a way unparalleled along Britain’s Atlantic seaboard, with large sections of the population dependent on the continuation of the trades and, by extension, Caribbean slavery. Even today, Glasgow-West India merchant capital, and returned Scottish-Caribbean wealth, improves lives in British society. (Stephen Mullen, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838, University of London Press, 2022, “Conclusion,” pp. 301-2)

So Mullen claims that “staff and students” at the University of Glasgow are “racialized as white British.” In other words, he believes that race doesn’t exist, only racialization does: “There’s only one race – the human race!” That’s a core principle of leftism, after all, inspiring the vast network of anti-racist activists and commissars who fight for equality across the West. The University of Glasgow too has its commissars, of course: Mullen assigns a footnote to the phrase “racialized as white British,” which says: “Exactly 1% of the student population of the University of Glasgow in 2017–18 identified as African, Caribbean or Black[, according to my] correspondence with Ms Mhairi Taylor, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Glasgow, 30 Sept. 2019. The author is grateful to Ms Taylor for permission to quote.”

The sinfulness of ships, the wickedness of Whiteness: an image regularly used by the Blackolatric BBC)

It’s obvious that Mullen, like leftists in general, has never drawn the logical conclusion of his belief in the non-existence of race. If race doesn’t exist and we’re all the same under the skin, there is no special horror or significance to the enslavement of African Blacks by European Whites. As I’ve pointed out in articles like “Destroy the Goy” and “The Abomination of Enslavement,” leftists never emphasize how, according to their own ideology, Blacks could and would just as easily have enslaved Whites if the dice of history and geography had rolled in a different way. Of course, leftists do insist that the non-existence of race means that Blacks and other non-Whites are capable of exactly the same high achievements as Whites. But they never add that Blacks and other non-Whites must therefore be capable of exactly the same heinous crimes as Whites. And not just capable, but culpable. As another and much more honest scholar-of-slavery has said: “[The] period of Mamluk rule [in Muslim Egypt] was roughly equivalent in length to that of slavery in the USA, and it is an interesting sign of relative concerns that the attention devoted to slavery in the Mamluk empire and the USA is as a drop of water compared to an ocean.”

Blackolatry, the leftist worship of Blacks

That was the English historian Jeremy Black in his book Slavery: A New Global History (2011) (ch. 1, p. 3). Black has also pointed out that Black males enslaved by Muslims were routinely castrated and so prevented from breeding. That’s why slave-importing Egypt has about 300,000 Blacks today and slave-importing America has about 50 million. Furthermore, while there is nothing unique about Whites practising slavery, there is everything unique about Whites abolishing slavery. The truth is that leftists are not genuinely concerned about the suffering of enslaved Blacks. Blackolatry, the quasi-religious worship of Blacks by leftists, pretends to be an allocentric cult, centered on the uplift of an oppressed Other. In fact, it’s an egocentric cult, centered on the advance of leftists themselves. As I’ve said before, leftists want to tear down Western civilization and rule the ruins. Blackolatry pretends to celebrate Blacks while in truth working to defenestrate Whites. That’s why the Blackolatric Stephen Mullen put sailing-ships on the cover of his book as a symbol of sin, not as a symbol of sublimity.

It’s also why he uses phrases like “racialized as white British.” Leftists like Mullen inhabit a world of words and wind, where not merely biology but the whole of material reality has no true significance. This leftist indifference to reality was cleverly dissected decades ago by the Jewish libertarian Murray Rothbard (1926–95). I don’t like Rothbard’s White-subverting ideology of libertarianism, but I do like his reality-affirming critiques of leftism:

The egalitarian revolt against biological reality, as significant as it is, is only a subset of a deeper revolt: against the ontological structure of reality itself, against the “very organization of nature”; against the universe as such. At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will — in short, that reality can be instantly transformed by the mere wish or whim of human beings. (“Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature,” Modern Age, Fall 1973)

In leftist eyes, that world-shaping “human will” can be benevolent or malevolent. For example, it’s the malevolent will of non-leftist Whites that explains all non-White failure, while the benevolent will of leftists can free those non-Whites from oppression and allow them to fulfil their sky-high potential. But Rothbard should also have stressed that egalitarianism is a Trojan horse, not a sincere ideology. Yes, leftists preach equality, but they practise hierarchy, privileging Blacks, Muslims and translunatics, punishing Whites, Christians and women. Those at the top of the leftist hierarchy, like non-Whites and Muslims, are innately virtuous; those at the bottom, like Whites and Christians, are innately villainous. That belief in innate virtue and villainy contradicts the leftist principle of complete human equality, but contradiction is at the core of leftism. Leftists are dedicated to what George Orwell called doublethink, the “power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

An Austronesian island off Africa

And so leftists can proclaim that we’re all born the same under the skin whilst simultaneously attributing all apparent White achievements to innately villainous Whites stealing from and exploiting innately virtuous non-Whites. Leftists say that race doesn’t exist, only “racialization” does, but they nevertheless maintain a strict racial hierarchy with Blacks at the top and Whites at the bottom. Well, as a wicked White racist who believes in reality rather than rhetoric, I think that race both exists and explains obvious racial patterns. Black biology explains why the Blacks of Africa, with its enormously long coastline, were not the first to reach and settle the huge island of Madagascar, 250 miles off the coast of south-eastern Africa. Blacks weren’t clever and creative enough to invent proper ships. Instead, it was Austronesians from distant Asia who first reached and settled Madagascar, because their biology meant they were clever and creative enough to invent ships, master navigation, and cross that vast stretch of ocean.

Whites too were clever and creative enough to invent ocean-conquering ships, again thanks to their biology. Race is a real and hugely important biological category, because human evolution in different environments has had profoundly different effects on both our bodies and our brains. But human biology doesn’t just explain why Whites were able to sail to Africa and join the long-established Black tradition of enslavement (but not the still-current Black traditions of ritual torture and human sacrifice). Human biology also explains why some Whites today are using White enslavement of Blacks as a weapon against their own nations and institutions. Stephen Mullen says that the University of Glasgow is a “case in point” of how money from enslavement has benefitted people “racialized as white British.” I myself think that Stephen Mullen himself is a case in point of how biology can shape politics and ideology. Is anyone surprised that Mullen looks like this?

The Blackolatric scholar-of-slavery Dr Stephen Mullen (image from BBC)

Mullen is overweight and looks unhealthy, unathletic and unattractive. He may be one of the “spiteful mutants” identified by Edward Dutton, that is, one of those with deleterious, psychology-warping mutations who wouldn’t have survived in a harsher environment but do survive in the modern West. According to Dutton, spiteful mutants power the malevolence and mendacity of leftism. But whether or not Stephen Mullen is a spiteful mutant, I certainly think his biology is behind his ideology. That’s why he’s waging war on his own country, city and university. Another of his books is called It Wisnae Us: The Truth about Glasgow and Slavery (2009):

A Scottish city steeped in sin: the front-cover of Stephen Mullen’s It Wisnae Us (2009)

The main title is Scottish English for “It Wasn’t Us” and mocks Scots who attempt to shuffle the sin of slavery off on the Sassenachs, the wicked English down south. No, says Mullen, we Scots too are steeped in the sin of slavery. Leftists like him don’t celebrate the greatness of White Scotland and of White Scottish achievements in a huge number of fields, from literature and art to science and technology, from exploration and endeavour to sport and entertainment. Instead, leftists like Mullen condemn the wickedness of White Scotland. It’s easy to understand why: acknowledging Scotland’s greatness wouldn’t advance the cause of leftism and wouldn’t justify the rule of leftists. But Mullen himself undermines Scotland in a plodding academic way. He isn’t a good writer or a noisy rhetorician. However, a Scottish leftist called Susan Aitken is certainly a noisy rhetorician. Here she is using the plodding scholarship of Stephen Mullen to cast the great city of Glasgow in the worst possible light:

Glasgow apologises for role in slave trade, saying its ‘tentacles’ are in every corner of city

Glasgow authorities have apologised for the city’s role in the Atlantic slave trade, saying the “tentacles” of money from the practice reached every corner of Scotland’s biggest metropolis. The apology comes as Britain increasingly reckons with the legacy of its colonial past in the wake of global Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests.

It follows the release of an academic study [by Dr Stephen Mullen that] Glasgow city council commissioned about the city’s connections to the trade in human beings. “Follow the Atlantic slavery money trail and its tentacles reach into every corner of Glasgow,” council leader Susan Aitken told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday. “It’s clear what this report tells is that the blood of trafficked and enslaved African people, their children and their children’s children is built into the very bones of this city.”

One of the report’s main findings was that 40 out of 79 lord provosts or mayors from Glasgow were connected to the Atlantic slave trade between 1636 and 1834. Some sat in office while owning enslaved people. At least 11 buildings in Glasgow are connected to individuals who were involved with the trade, while eight implicated individuals have monuments or other memorials to them in the city. A total of 62 Glasgow streets are named after slave owners who built their fortunes on tobacco plantations.

These include Buchanan Street and Glassford Street, named after the “tobacco lords” Andrew Buchanan and John Glassford. James Watt, whose improvements to the steam engine drove the Industrial Revolution, was personally involved in trafficking a black child for sale to a family in north-east Scotland, the report said. “It can no longer be ignored and the amendment that I am moving today asks us to do three things: to acknowledge, apologise and to act,” Aitken said.

Glasgow council’s chief executive, Annemarie O’Donnell, said the city acknowledged that black, Asian and minority ethnic citizens wished the council to “recognise the historic legacy of chattel slavery based on the exploitation of enslaved Africans”. The report, by the University of Glasgow academic Stephen Mullen, who has written extensively on the city’s links to slavery, was “a step towards healing the anger and frustration” felt by these citizens, she added. (“Glasgow apologises for role in slave trade, saying its ‘tentacles’ are in every corner of city,” The Guardian, 1st April 2022)

The unrepentant Black Ugandan enslaver Lydia Mugambe in her judge’s wig

So the leftist Annemarie O’Donnell claims that the “black, Asian and minority ethnic citizens” of Glasgow feel “anger and frustration” at the centuries-old history of slavery by White Scots. She’s both lying and colluding with non-White grievance grifters. After all, slavery isn’t centuries-old history in Africa and Asia: it’s a vibrant living culture that modern Africans and Asians often import into the West. See my article “The Abomination of Enslavement,” which discusses Lydia Mugambe, the highly respected Black Ugandan judge who enslaved and abused another Black Ugandan woman whilst studying for a law doctorate in England. Also see the article “My Family’s Slave” by the journalist Alex Tizon, which is a moving and disturbing account of how Tizon’s Filipino parents enslaved and abused a fellow Filipina for decades in America. Leftists like Susan Aitken and Annemarie O’Donnell ignore that living tradition of enslavement by non-Whites. Instead, they focus exclusively on the long-dead tradition of enslavement by Whites. Yes, hate-thinkers like me will find it easy to laugh at the hyperbole and hysteria of Aitken’s claim that “blood of trafficked and enslaved African people” is “built into the very bones” of Glasgow. But there is no doubt that she is deadly serious.

Ugly racist past, glorious leftist future

However, just like Annemarie O’Donnell. she’s not serious about helping Blacks and other non-Whites: she’s serious about helping herself. If you want to understand O’Donnell’s lies and Aitken’s hyperbole, I recommend the work of another hate-thinker, the Australian scholar Lorenzo Warby, who distills his abundant learning in biology, economics, politics and history into fascinating and insightful essays at the website Lorenzo from Oz. His essay “Politics Blocked from Learning” doesn’t mention Susan Aitken by name, but does explain her by type. In her rhetoric about “blood,” “bones” and “tentacles,” Aitken was playing what Warby calls a “status game,” advancing her own status within her leftist party and emphasizing her conformity to its anti-White, pro-minority ideology. Aitken is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), which would be much better called the Scottish Nullification Party. Just like so-called “nationalists” in Wales and Ireland, the SNP want to flood their nation with low-IQ, high-criminality non-Whites from the corrupt, primitive and diseased Third World. In other words, they want to ruin Scotland’s future. And to do that most efficiently, they have to revile Scotland’s past. Recall how Stephen Mullen’s report for Glasgow city council indicted the great Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt (1736–1819) for “trafficking a black child for sale to a family in north-east Scotland.” The envious dwarves of the SNP want to topple and trample giants like Watt. This leftist denigration of the past is again insightfully analyzed by Lorenzo Warby. Leftists condemn the ugly past created by non-leftists in order to proclaim the glorious future that leftists will create:

Under the Critical Theory magisterium, the imagined future becomes the realm of trumping (i.e. divine) authority — there being no information from the future to contradict such — while various claims about, and on behalf, of “marginalised/oppressed” groups become sacred. That is, no trade-offs from outside the realm of the sacred are permitted against such claims: which is how we get to contesting the claims of Trans folk is Transphobic.

The Critical Theory magisterium does indeed provide a substitute Theology — a catastrophically corrupting one. The research grant innovation cargo cult that I analysed in a previous post has, via academic status games, selected for a set of ideas, a substitute Theology, that provides academics with the strongest sense of moral and cognitive grandiosity. This has been exported across Western institutions as a shared status game. (“Politics Blocked from Learning,” Lorenzo from Oz, 8th November 2026)

But Warby’s insights into leftists like Susan Aitken don’t stop there. After I broadcast my own blasphemous ideas about the links between Jewish ugliness and Jewish ideology, I was pleased to see Warby use a photograph of the Frankfurt School to buttress similar blasphemy of his own:

The ugly Jewish ideologues of the Frankfurt School (image via Lorenzo from Oz from Marxists.org

Physical attractiveness is associated with more conservative political views, though one can see how a lack of physical attractiveness would encourage feelings of alienation from society. Note, however, such alienation is not grounded in how positive (or not) one’s society is for human flourishing. On the contrary, the more people are insulated — due to mass prosperity — from the consequences of their ideas, or from making things work, the more salient such alienation is likely to be. (“Why Social Science Mostly Isn’t Science,” 2nd August 2026)

The ideology of Susan Aitken is ugly and alienated, so are you surprised by this photograph of Susan Aitken?

Cis-Susan and trans-sister: the SNP’s Susan Aitken compared with the Black translunatic “Iris” Duane of the Scottish Greens

Aitken is overweight like Stephen Mullen, but I think she looks more masculine than Mullen does. She’s a cis-woman who looks like a transwoman; that is, she’s a real woman who looks like a fake woman. She’s an aggressive, high-testosterone fem-pol like the similarly masculinized and anti-White English politician Emily Thornberry, whose typically leftist “politics of contempt” for the White working-class led to her sacking in 2014 by Ed Miliband, the ugly Jewish leader of the Labour party. “Politics of contempt” is another of Warby’s insights, as is his observation that “increased prosperity and social complexity leads to more dysfunctional alienation, increasing tendencies to civilisational suicide. An implication is that (for instance) academe — [where scholars] don’t have to make things work and are highly insulated from the consequences of their ideas — becomes increasingly the domain of the dysfunctionally weird.”

Soar skyward, surge seaward

Talk of “academe” brings us back to Stephen Mullen, the Blackolatric scholar-of-slavery who is certainly insulated, for the time being, from the consequences of his anti-White and anti-Scottish ideas about slavery. I’ve already suggested that his biology helps explain his Blackolatry. I think it also helps explain his bad prose. The only beauty in The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy is the image of the port of Glasgow on the front cover, which Mullen intends as a sneer at sinfulness. But I see it as it truly is: a celebration of sublimity. The ships are beautiful and so is the architecture, which soars skyward even as the ships prepare to surge seaward. The intelligence, ingenuity and inventiveness of White men are all there, and not just in the objects portrayed but in the mechanisms of the portrayal too. The image is an engraving that was reproduced en masse by printing.ⁱ It was an art-work that reached and elevated many minds thanks to the precision engineering celebrated by Simon Winchester in his aptly titled book The Perfectionists (2018).

I reviewed that book at the Occidental Observer in my article “The Pale Male Paradox: How White Men Achieve Most and Are Vilified Worst.” Sadly, Simon Winchester too is a leftist and in another of his books he both celebrates the great White polymath Francis Galton for his pioneering work in meteorology and condemns Galton for racism and believing in eugenics. And Winchester too doesn’t write very well. All the same, I highly recommend The Perfectionists (known as Precision in Britain). For one thing, it’s full of fascinating stories about unjustly obscure and neglected White geniuses. For another, it’s a useful corrective to the anti-White Blackolatry of leftists like Stephen Mullen and Susan Aitken. If you read The Perfectionists, you’ll encounter an inanimate object that’s also unjustly neglected: the humble screw. How often do we think about, let alone celebrate, the screws that literally hold our houses, vehicles and civilization together? I’ve never seen them celebrated at all.

Screws for youse (image from Wikipedia)

Yet screws have been far more important in Western industries and economies than slavery ever was. They were invented by White men like Archytas and Archimedes in ancient Greece, then later perfected and brought to mass production in north-western Europe. Without screws, the world falls apart in more ways than one. And they’re just one of the gifts bestowed on the world by White men whose unique achievements are never celebrated by leftists as they benefit from them daily, but whose universally shared imperfections are daily denounced. After all, denunciation and destruction are what dwarves like Stephen Mullen and Susan Aitken delight in. They’re Scottish Whites who hate White Scotland and feel, as Lorenzo Warby said, “insulated from the consequences” of their ugly, anti-White ideology. Indeed, they personally benefit from and feel elevated by their ugly, anti-White ideology. Looking at and listening to leftists like those, I’m very happy to know they’re my enemies, not my allies.

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