On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I talk to Sunshine, a “Liberal Conservative” half-Asian Zoomer with an expertise in international relations and the philosophy of Sir Roger Scruton. Paywalling spicy content on this one.
Sunshine and I first interacted when he was a teenager and he reached out to me on Twitter asking to use my old handle. We crossed paths again very recently when i started my Substack, and I was extremely impressed by his ability to quickly and accurately intuit the ideological differences between me and Hanania.
Topics include:
Sunshine’s intellectual history and recent political trajectory
Liberal Conservatism
Temperamental conservatism in the tradition of Burke / Scruton / Chesterton
Anti-intellectualism of the American Right
Understated anti-Asian racism of the American Left
Rapid increase of status of Asian men due to K-Pop
Relative growth rates and intermarriage rates of different Asian groups
Relationships between Northeast Asians and Southeast Asians
Are Vietnamese people Northeast or Southeast Asians?
Is there a difference between white mom/Asian dad and Asian mom/white dad
Do half Asians have a distinct identity?
Historical and current voting behavior of different Asian subgroups
Zoomer gender polarization in Korea
How rapid accumulation of wealth in Korea caused a lot of class resentment
Awareness of HBD in Asia
Power of South Korean military
How a North Korea vs. South Korea was would work
Possibility of Korean reunification
Why is Japan more Faustian than China?
Is China on the decline?
Would America win a war over Taiwan?
Lack of data on nature of modern war
How would Chinese Americans deal with consequences of war over Taiwan
Would Korea directly intervene in war over Taiwan?
Can China mobilize any kind of pro-Asian racial sentiment?
China vs. India as long-term rivals to the U.S.
Indian role in supply chains / derisking
Korean beauty standards and plastic surgery
Future of American hegemony
Future of AI development in China vs. US
To beat China we should expand the U.S. or have open borders with Europe
Tenability of colorblindness
Interracial crime statistics
Is it healthy to openly talk about race?
America vs. French assimilation mechanics
Castizo futurism and stupidity of cishajnal maximalism / nordicism
Temperamental differences between whites and Asians in risk aversion, conflict aversion, savings rate, creativity etc.
Stagnation of Europe
American diversity as impetus for a freer market
Competition with other elite ethnic groups makes white people better
Lewontin’s Fallacy
Irish attitude toward “plastic paddies” is unfair to Irish Americans
Why Canada isn’t as racially polarized
Can a multiracial society be “bleached”?
Should Walt become colorblind?
Success of Castizo Futurism in Florida and South Texas
Necessity of disagreeableness
Dylann Roof wasn’t Alt Right
Is the reserve currency problem legit?
Dopamine crisis
Necessity of a “chain of edginess” connecting mainstream with edgier figures
Determinism vs. free will
Can sunshine tell different Asian ethnicities apart?
Potential genetic causes of Asian vs white temperamental differences
Karaoke as an Asian-American thing
Alcoholism in East Asia
People are fine with slavery as long as it’s far away
