According to Wikipedia dysphoria a profound state of unease, dissatisfaction, agitation, and unpleasant mood that serves as the clinical opposite of euphoria
Gender dysphoria is a mismatch between one’s biological sex and one’s gender/cultural identity that results in a profound sense of metal anguish.
Another thing that comes to mind is a form of moral or political dysphoria: a conflict between one’s professed moral principles or political commitments and one’s underlying biological inclinations or social duties.
A great example of this is severe porn addiction by based trad-Christian crusaders who get off to getting hypnotized and sissified by a some second rate e-whore.
One may call this hypocrisy like in the case with a liberal Jew who wants White Christians replaced in the West because they are racist and religiously intolerant while at the same time cheering for the Jewish ethnostate’s attempts to cleanse the Holy Lands from non-Jews but hypocrisy is something which does not necessarily brings you feelings of unease and anguish.
A dysphoria is a distress you experience when your real and ideal selves are misaligned. Imagine a narcissistic person who oscillates between believing she’s beautiful and deserves only the most Chad-looking men, and fearing she’s unattractive, overweight, and has no real romantic prospects beyond settling for some chud loser whose politics she hates.
At the core, it is a question about identity and the competing versions of these identities that are brought into conflict by trying to purposefully align them into some form of coherence.
Politically, it is solved by switching ideologies or just adopting different beliefs over time without necessarily reordering one’s worldview. Sometimes, the person in question never senses the contradictions between various premises and facts and so he never feels the need to get rid of a feeling of cognitive dissonance.
I would say that the majority of people are like this, they hold many contradictory beliefs at once and they don’t care whether or not they make sense across a sample of instances, they keep clinging to them as long as they are useful in a particular setting. They never construct general mental models of the world in their head and they barely have an inner dialogue, let alone engage in a critical self-analysis.
It is estimated that a majority of people have some form of an inner dialogue, but less than a third of the people use it on daily basis.
The people who experience any form of dysphoria, I believe are significantly more likely to have an inner dialogue and most importantly engage in critical self-analysis that would led them to make significant changes about their own identity. It is very much unsurprising to me that the most dysphoric people happen to be autistic and anxious.
For this reason gender dysphoria is very common with autists who have self-analyzed themselves to the extent that they have decided that they are a different gender whereas a person who is not autistic will just jerk off to sissy or trans porn without really thinking about it or evaluating the impact it has on their identity.
Same is with biological women who at some point of their life have decided that they are men. In a small sample of conversations I had with them, they all told me that their decision was motivated by their rejection of female roles and by the perception that their own personality matches men’s. Meanwhile a regular woman with a masculine personality would probably never come to that conclusion. She would either not think about it, say that masculine women exist as category, brush that aside and say ‘so what? Gender and personality are different categories’
This brings us to the core thesis, much like gender dysphoria is a proven phenomenon, many people also experience a form of ethnic dysphoria but it remains undiagnosed.
The most common discussion around people with ethnic dysphoria tends to be as a means to undermine the transgender movement by the Conservatives.
‘wow you say you are a six year old girl? that is like me saying i am chinese hahaha get owned libtard!’
Honestly, while it is a sound counter argument, the leftists always brush it aside by saying that transracials like Rachel Dolezal are a fringe phenomenon who are not accepted by the community, but that is a poor argument because Rachel Dolezal was literally doing Black-face to help herself with ethnic-dyspohoria.
You don’t have to put on Black-face makeup on yourself to be a trans-ethnic. Here is Michael Jackson’s daughter, for instance.
She considers herself Black despite being at least half-White and possibly 100% White because it is likely that Michael Jackson is not her biological dad. Most importantly however is the fact that society also recognizes her as a Black woman.
Because we live in a world in which the upper strata of our society imagines race and identity to be self-constructed and because she despises White people, she is likely not dysphoric, but if she were to do an ancestry DNA test I’d bet good money on her becoming dysphoric.
But, the most common way of becoming trans-ethnic is through marriage or through conversion. The best example is probably a conversion to Judaism, which is a multiple year long process of self-erasure done in order to belong to a new social group that is not your own.
Because Judaism is an ethno-religion, converts to Judaism are expected to renounce their former identity and group membership and prove their worth to join a new one. If they are accepted, the final endpoint of this process is for convert to identify with the biological history of the tribe they are converting to over their own.
But there are also other examples of ethnic-dysphoria besides self-erasure, a common one is having an unbalanced identity.
That is, a person who has multiple loyalties at once, so someone who is either ethnically mixed or is a citizen of multiple countries. They typically feel greater affinity with one side of themselves over another, often times refusing to acknowledge it.
Indians who are trying to look White are one such example. I often stumble across some Indian women on Twitter pretending like they’re White or just signaling a White girl aesthetic. Showing their appreciation for the Edwardian Era, Victorian literature and Dark-Academy vibes. Obviously not many of them think that they are literally White but they are definitely adopting a culture that is not their own.
That is often the source of dysphoria: coming to see another culture as superior to your own and finding yourself drawn to it. You’re not necessarily claiming that you are something you aren’t but you begin to despise your own culture and sometimes even your own people.
It is, like said in the beginning, a feeling of mental anguish after realizing that the collective real does not match to the collective ideal. Then a subject typically imagines a couple of options in front of them:
Convert to the superior culture
Continue to live in distress (or just not think about it)
Cope by emphasizing the positive aspects of your culture and negative aspects of the culture of the other
Most third world nationalists (especially Indian ones) typically go with option number three, while existing dangerously close to option number two. It becomes funny when they are reversing historic power relations or talking about the ‘Chinese’ or ‘American caste system’, but obviously that is just one example, an example that is not relatable to the absolute majority of my readers.
The vast majority of my readers are Western and typically suffer from lacking an understanding that they have a culture, and thus become prone to identify with other people’s cultures or ethnic interests.
If I were to psychoanalyze the discourse on White Privilege, a good deal of it comes from the transition from self-erasure into self-humiliation.
While most liberal Westerners are born without an identity, they by default do not identify with White people and when you remind them that they are in-fact White and possess privilege or are being socially and institutionally disadvantaged because they are White, they get defensive, because they are not accustomed to seeing themselves in that way. They grew up viewing themselves as human, or as their nationality and whenever their race becomes salient, they typically either:
Turn self-erasure into self-humiliation or eventual transitioning into something else (intermarriage, conversion, activism to escape feelings of ethnic dysphoria being ‘biologically’ evil and socially good).
Understanding that you have a collective identity and start thinking yourself as a member of an ethnic tribe with genealogy. Thus also, escaping dysphoria.
Anatoly Karlin's Blog is probably on stage one of this process, that is, pretending like he is rootless goy freak but if he found himself somewhere in Ukraine, he’d be gently reminded of who he really is.
The funny thing is that, even outside of Ukraine everyone else perceives him as Russian no matter how he identifies as and at the end of the day, by interacting with him one would form a collective opinion of the Russians as a whole.
Karloid knows this and often disparages the Baltics, Ukraine and other russophobic countries so he is still more closely aligned with (2) over (1) like the truly ‘good Russians’ like Denis Kapustin who has married a Ukrainian woman and says that their battalion is now integrating inside of Ukraine and that they are fighting for Ukraine and not to ‘liberate’ Russia.
The identity composition of the RVC is also incredibly funny, it has a bunch of people like Ilya Bogdanov who was a Russian nationalist, anti-religious FSB officer, who has recently (like 5 years ago) discovered himself to be an ethnic Ukrainian Nationalist Catholic whose goal is total destruction of Russia as a state.
This biography is fairly typical of the average RVC member (or any other Russian group supportive of Ukraine), the group is composed out of Russians who feel an immense self of guilt for Russia’s actions in Ukraine and so they escape it by killing other Russians or switching their identity to Ukrainian.
The Russian liberals who have fled into the European Union post 2022 are a similar case study. Either they try to forget that they are Russian like Anatoly Karlin or that their entire Russian identity is constructed upon their opposition to the Putin’s regime, as opposed to the biological reality of themselves being Russian.
Distancing oneself from a hated or a backward community can signal sophistication, moral refinement or social advancement and there are certainly many incentives for these people to behave this way.
If one accepts the framing, the conclusion is obvious:
Self-erasure
Self-embracement
In the section that is behind the paywall I purpose a strategy of how to overcome the feeling of dysphoria and while keeping contradictory ideas of one’s self.
