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Dismissing the white nationalists in Charlottesville as simply play-acting amounts to a dangerous flinch in the face of evil.***This is from the middle of the article. To understand you must read it all***
The first is a translation, if not literal then in meaning, of lebensraum, an ideological pillar of the Nazis, who sought a living space for the master race to expand and thrive. That space must either be cleansed of undesirables (via ethnic cleansing or genocide) or the undesirables must be subjugated as slaves. Blood and soil, is an exact translation of a Nazi marching chant that encapsulates this vision of The Nation. Of course, such an undertaking cannot be rationalized without a motive, or rather a provocation, and the provocation expressed by the mob is precisely the same as that expressed by Hitler and other ideological racists: White genocide! Because the nation is culture, and culture is race, and race is biology (Williamson does well to mention the mobs great interest in Darwin and evolutionary biologytoo bad he doesnt pursue it!), what happens to the biology is of the utmost importance. It is no coincidence that Andrew Anglin, who runs the fascist website Daily Stormer, which was the website that officially hosted the parade (again, Williamson fails to mention this!) is quoted as having written that any white woman who has mixed-race children is a traitor to her race and therefore her nation. Its OUR WOMB. It belongs to the males in her society, he wrote. (It goes without saying that white males claiming other racess wombs is certainly not verboten.) White genocide literally refers to the dilution of pure white biology, and therefore white culture and therefore the pure white nation. Political equality of different races achieves the latter, though without miscegenation, and is therefore as virulently opposed.
This is all very cohesive and has been carefully thought out and articulated by generations of thinkers and politicians across the West. Websites like Daily Stormer and the 4/chan/Reddit channels these guys hang out in are often crude, but nonetheless cogent. This is, at the most immediate level, why Dylann Roof wanted to murder black people, and why hundreds of torch-wielding fellow-travelers showed up at Charlottesville to defend the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who would have made such a society possible had he and the boys in gray been victorious.
Now, the question of why did Dylan Roof and all the others in the mob come to believe such murderous things is well worth trying to understand. Williamson is right in recognizing that these boys want to be something they are not, and are suffering from a crisis of confidence in their own manhood. (I dont think it can be over-stressed that the mob was, by and large, made up of rich spoiled brats.) But Williamson confuses these two distinct questions into one and seems to arrive at the conclusion that these boys were merely play-acting.
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Frightening, yet a must read. This is why we are here today 2017.
Warpy
(111,405 posts)There are brown people here because they were already here when white imperialists arrived. There are black people here because the imperialists wanted the cheapest labor possible and kidnapped them to be sold like cattle.
And if you want to terrify any of these white wingers, suggest a DNA ancestry test.
Idiots. Their idol Adolph would spit on them.
sheshe2
(83,984 posts)Yet those whities have their underwear on to tight and think they are superior. Ha! You are right...a DNA test is in order. They would have a coronary if they found out they are not as 'PURE' as they believe.
Fugg em!
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)I was discussing this with my sister about a willfully ignorant friend and roommate of ours from 30 years ago. After she moved my sister found pro-white literature left behind under her bed. She has Italian ancestors like we do. If I ever try to have a rational discussion with her (my sister won't talk to her anymore) about this fact she spews out crazy BS that makes no sense. And she is an intelligent person otherwise. If I try to bring up the other fact that all of our ancestors come from Africa and anthropologists have scientific proof in human fossils she spews out more BS. I must limit my conversations with her to the weather (but not climate change obviously).
sheshe2
(83,984 posts)They are to blinded by hate. It will never stop, yet we need to put a lid on it now.
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