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by American Dream » Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:14 am
by American Dream » Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:47 pm
When They Hate You For Being A Jew
An ancient hatred is rebooted in the internet age.
STEVEN WISHNIA Nov 9
The first things I learned about politics as a child included that we were drinking powdered milk so me and my brothers wouldn’t get leukemia from nuclear fallout like my friend Philip with the nasty dog, that whatever prosperity my parents had was because my grandparents were in labor unions and that people I thought were called the “Knotsies” had murdered our relatives in Europe.
So I was not shocked that some putz in Pittsburgh decided to be a one-man Einsatzgruppe and killed 11 Jews in a synagogue. I was bitterly fatalistic. In 1942, Einsatzgruppe B, one of the Nazi “special action” squads that followed the Wehrmacht east, burned 1,100 Jews alive inside a shul in Slonim, Belarus, including most of my grandfather’s family.
So what else is new? People have wanted to exterminate Jews for millennia, from Haman in ancient Persia to the drunken Russian mobs in the pogroms of 1905. I have lived virtually all my conscious life with the knowledge that there were people who would have loved to smash my newborn-baby self’s soft skull against a wall — with the attitude, as Colonel John Chivington said to justify his 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho children at Sand Creek, Colorado, that “nits make lice.”
The nexus for anti-semitism’s current resurgence is conspiracy theory.
Two things are distinctive about Jew-hating (a term I prefer to “anti-Semitism,” which was a late-19th-century euphemism intended to give it some pseudo-anthropological respectability). It’s far more exterminationist than most other varieties of racism; Latino immigrants face more insults and oppression than American Jews do, but people who hate them say “Send them back,” not “Hitler was right.” And it behaves like a lethal variant of herpes — a virus that is often dormant, but never goes away, and flares up episodically.
That persistence surprises some people. World War II forced Americans to start treating Jews like white people, as Adolf Hitler had shown the logical extreme of things like “restrictive covenants” that prohibited property from being sold or rented “by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic Race.” But it didn’t go away, from Richard Nixon’s Oval Office mutterings about how “the Jews are an irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards” who “totally dominated” the media to the circa-1990 street peddlers with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in between the patchouli oil and The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman.
The nexus for its current resurgence is conspiracy theory. In the Internet era, bizarrely ludicrous ideas have become widespread; you no longer have to write away to an obscure post-office box to find them. A 2016 NBC News poll found 41 percent of Republican respondents believed that President Barack Obama — whose birth announcement was printed in both Honolulu newspapers in August 1961 — was not born in the United States, and only 27 percent accepted that he had been. “Birtherism” is an analogue of Holocaust denial, an obvious falsehood used as a “factual” argument to cover attitudes too blatantly racist to express in public.
The deeper conspiracy-theory worldview is that the world is secretly controlled by an infinitely powerful and infinitely evil cabal. The intellectual template for this comes directly from late-19th-century anti-Semitism, which responded to the rapacious power of robber-baron capitalism by blaming “international Jewish bankers.” Its blaming a despised ethnic-religious minority for systemic exploitation inspired the German social-democrat August Bebel to dub it “the socialism of fools.” That socialism of fools also set the intellectual template for the right-wing demagoguery commonly mislabeled “populism,” which draws mass support with tirades against “elites,” but intensifies the power of the rich while condemning demographic scapegoats.
Codified in the czarist-Russian forgery of The Protocols and later by Nazism, this anti-Semitism’s core myth is that Jews are using their control of finance and media for world domination, as well as manipulating rebellion by inferior races not smart enough to do it on their own. One far-right meme circulating recently is that according to The Protocols, one of their top tactics is undermining Western countries by flooding them with immigrants from inferior nations. That was the Pittsburgh putz’s imagined grievance.
Donald Trump has promoted a diluted version of that myth, with his claims that George Soros — the current avatar for the “international Jewish banker” villain — is financing the caravan of Honduran refugees wending its way through southern Mexico.
Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border was both racist and proudly sadistic, two of the core elements of Nazism. But it was like a local Stage 1 cancer, not an aggressively metastasized Stage 4.
I fear we are entering Stage 2. There are millions of people who are proud to be racist sadists and trumpet any nonsense that backs their beliefs.
“In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil,” wrote Vasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish novelist who covered the battle of Stalingrad and was the first reporter to write about the Treblinka extermination camp. “We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.”
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by American Dream » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:04 am
‘It’s Dire’: Jim Goad Worries About White Supremacists Being Deplatformed And Losing Control Of The Streets
It’s no secret by this point that deplatforming white supremacists by taking down their social media accounts, websites, and podcasts has been an effective strategy for dealing with the alt-right. By disrupting their message, anti-fascists have dealt a serious blow to their ability to organize and spread their propaganda.
During the December 21, 2018 Christmas special on Red Ice TV, author and podcast host Jim Goad admitted as much, calling the situation “dire” and begged his fellow white supremacists to unite in the face of this systematic deplatforming. As he told Henrik and Lana, who lost access to their payment processors earlier this year:Like I said, Gavin [McInnes] is a Neo-Nazi. As hard as Gavin tried not to be a Neo-Nazi, he’s a Neo-Nazi. So yeah, okay, maybe he’s not as up on the [Jewish Question] as you are, but shut up for now. And when the dust settles from whatever war it seems like we’re gonna have, then you can have your little spats. I mean just stop — stop the fighting, guys. … There’s a common enemy. Focus on the common enemy and then we can argue.
by American Dream » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:54 am
Richard Spencer, Backpfeifengesicht, Being Very Angwy About Charlottesville & Jews
Remember Richard Spencer, the man blessed with Backpfeifengesicht? In leaked audio, he sounds off in the aftermath of Charlottesville, the fascist gathering known as ‘Unite The Right’ he helped organise at which a neo-Nazi murdered protester Heather Heyer.
CW : explicit language / racism …
by American Dream » Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:20 pm
by liminalOyster » Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:51 pm
Audio tape reveals Richard Spencer is, as everyone knew, a racist
The recording shows once again that the racism and anti-Semitism of the “alt-right” or “dissident right” is just racism and anti-Semitism.
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Nov 4, 2019, 5:20pm EST
Reporters surround white supremacist Richard Spencer during the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
In audio first put online by right-wing pundit and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Saturday, white nationalist Richard Spencer can allegedly be heard ranting about Jewish people and mixed-race people.
The audio — purportedly from an emergency meeting that took place on August 13, 2017, the day after the far-right “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, disintegrated into violence, resulting in the murder of a counterprotester named Heather Heyer — features Spencer screaming racist and anti-Semitic slurs he has generally avoided using in public in an effort to more politely argue for “the creation of a White Ethno-State.”
Spencer is perhaps the most prominent and arguably the most successful of the so-called “alt-right” white nationalist activists attempting to inject overtly racist ideas into mainstream political thought. In fact, Spencer can be credited (alongside Peter Brimelow and Paul Gottfried) with inventing the term “alt-right,” resulting in the magazine Alternative Right in 2010. I emailed Spencer for comment and will update if I hear back.
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Just in case there was any question of the so-called "dapper white nationalist" being a raged fuelled hateful monster.
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By appearing polite and somewhat well dressed (with multiple ill-fitting waistcoats, for example) and using watered-down terminology like “peaceful ethnic cleansing,” the “self-styled prophet” of the alt-right has waged a media campaign for the last several years to build his own reputation and that of his movement, using Donald Trump’s campaign as a vehicle to make the case for a seemingly kinder, gentler white nationalism.
In interviews Spencer and other white nationalists give to mainstream audiences (like those watching him on CNN and on college campuses), white nationalism is simply a civil rights movement for white people, taking a stand for white Americans in need of defending — at the very least, a differing viewpoint worthy of contemplation and analysis.
That was a lie, as has been blatantly obvious for more than a decade. But now, the mask — or perhaps more aptly, the hood — has dropped, hopefully for good.
“They get ruled by people like me”
The audio of Spencer’s rant from Charlottesville is about 54 seconds long. In the tape, Spencer expresses his ire at the city of Charlottesville and at those he perceives as responsible for why “Unite the Right” became a death knell for a rising alt-right — namely, Jewish people and mixed-race people. The audience can be heard occasionally applauding and saying “yeah!”:We are coming back here like a hundred fucking times. I am so mad. I am so fucking mad at these people. They don’t do this to fucking me. We are going to fucking ritualistically humiliate them. I am coming back here every fucking weekend if I have to. Like this is never over. I win! They fucking lose! That’s how the world fucking works.
Little fucking kikes. They get ruled by people like me. Little fucking octoroons ... I fucking ... my ancestors fucking enslaved those little pieces of fucking shit. I rule the fucking world. Those pieces of fucking shit get ruled by people like me. They look up and see a face like mine looking down at them. That’s how the fucking world works. We are going to destroy this fucking town.
An octoroon is an offensive and extremely dated term for someone who is one-eighth black; another slur he uses is targeted at Jewish people.
The audio was put online by Yiannopoulos, whose own racist and offensive remarks and past resulted in his excision from movement conservatism writ large and his removal from Twitter and other social media platforms (a point that Yiannopoulos references in his blog post about Spencer, as Spencer still remains on Twitter.)
Yiannopoulos told me in a statement that the audio was recorded by someone whose identity he has verified, and a second witness verified being in the room for Spencer’s rant while three other people told Yiannopoulos that the “voice is unmistakably (Spencer’s).”
He said, “As for why I published it. I have always publicly hated Spencer, and he has always publicly hated me. He thinks I’m a degenerate racemixing kike and I think he’s a knuckledragging racist in a cheap suit. As you will recall, he was paid to sneak into a bar I was singing karaoke in and throw up Nazi salutes and film it without my knowledge. So it has been very satisfying for me to draw a crisp bright red line between the two of us.”
Yiannopoulos is referencing a BuzzFeed News article investigating Yiannapolous and Breitbart’s ties to white nationalism, which featured 2016 video of Yiannapolous singing “America the Beautiful” at a karaoke bar while Richard Spencer and others gave Nazi salutes in the audience. In a statement to Buzzfeed News at the time, Yiannapolous blamed his “severe myopia” for why he didn’t see the salutes. Spencer was also in attendance for Yiannopoulos’ “Gays for Trump” event during the 2016 Republican National Convention.
The tempest in an alt-right teapot
The release of this audio is impossible to understand without some context: A civil war of sorts is taking place within the far-right over what strategy is necessary to take white nationalist views mainstream and whether or not to do so within the MAGA or Trumpist movement.
It’s a battle that’s both personality-driven and ideological, between supporters of Spencer and the “alt-right” more generally and supporters of the “dissident right” or the so-called “America First” movement, led in part by 22-year-old Nick Fuentes, a former conservative radio host and Unite the Right attendee who is growing in popularity with the white nationalist movement. The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer has semi-ironically termed him the “leader blessed by Christ to save America,” and neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wrote on the site that he was a “VERY EARLY supporter of Nick Fuentes” because of his “nationalist” views.
Fuentes has recently become better known outside of white nationalist circles as his “Groyper Army” — “groyper” being an alt-right term referencing the Pepe the Frog meme — have been filmed bombarding Charlie Kirk of the right-leaning student organization Turning Point USA with questions about gay conservatives, Israel and immigration, gaining supportive retweets and messages from right-leaning pundits like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin who want to push the MAGA movement further right.
To the Daily Stormer and the “dissident right” and white nationalist movement at large, Spencer is “another boring boomer meme,” while Fuentes is young and exciting. Spencer has been one of Fuentes’s biggest critics — and a critic of the youth-driven “dissident right” more broadly — and so left-wing observers have argued that the audio dump is an effort by Yiannopoulos to silence Spencer and help Fuentes.
In fact, the first half of the video released by Yiannopoulos is an interview hosted by a French Canadian alt-right YouTuber in which Spencer references Fuentes explicitly, saying he’s not sure he’s the right person to lead the “Zoomer” generation of white nationalists. I emailed Yiannopoulos a second time to ask about Fuentes, but he did not respond.
On his Telegram account, Fuentes told his followers not to be distracted by the Spencer audio dump. “It just seems like a big diversion from the Groyper War which is productive and attacking the real problem. Like yea Richard Spencer is a retarded idiot uhhh what else is new? The guy is irrelevant anyway.”
He added, “We have to keep our message focused but we cannot moderate for the sake of mass appeal. America is NOT a propositional nation. We have NO ALLEGIANCE to Israel. We are CHRISTIANS and we don’t promote degeneracy. Demographic replacement is REAL and it will be CATASTROPHIC.”
This is what white nationalism was; this is what white nationalism is
Richard Spencer’s rant is not at all surprising. This is, after all, the same white nationalist who led a torch-lit march through Lee Park in Charlottesville several months before the “Unite the Right” rally where attendees chanted “you will not replace us” and “blood and soil” — both specific references to racist ideologies that Spencer and others have attempted to push into movement conservatism and mainstream politics. Alongside white nationalist Jason Kessler, Spencer organized “Unite the Right” as well, an event that one attendee described as an effort to defend white people and the South against “the Jew and his dark-skinned allies.”
“You will not replace us” refers to the idea that white Americans are being “replaced” by non-white people through “demographic replacement,” while “blood and soil” is perhaps better known in its original German, “Blut und boden,” the concept that “blood” (meaning racial identity) and “soil” (referencing the land) are inextricably linked and that peasants and farmers were the most racially “German,” while urban dwellers were racially suspicious. In 1933, “blood and soil” even became an official Nazi policy, requiring that farmers were certifiably “Aryan” in order to receive certain benefits from the state.
Much of Spencer’s efforts, and that of the alt-right and white nationalist movement more broadly, has been to make these ideas palatable to mainstream audiences, attempting to destigmatize them and strip them of both their historical roots and their real meaning.
Even terms like “racist” are replaced with phrases meant to sound less offensive, like “racial realist,” and to posit that racist and anti-Semitic invective is simply asking tough questions about the alleged harms of diversity and immigration and America’s relationship with Israel. As long as white nationalists and alt-right advocates avoid saying certain words out loud, it seems they can continue to put their views forward in mainstream culture and in Congress as real ideas worthy of contentious debate.
But underneath the complicated wording and fake concern about how interracial marriage is harmful because, as Fuentes told me earlier this year, “Race can be a difficult barrier for compatibility” — underneath all that, the alt-right’s racism is just racism. It’s the same racism so evidently obvious on websites like the Daily Stormer, which has “race war” and “Jewish Problem” tabs on the masthead. It’s the same racism screamed in audio from Richard Spencer, who rants about Jews and black people using slurs and how he should get to rule them because “that’s how the fucking world works.”
Richard Spencer has spent a decade attempting to edge his views into the mainstream, the same effort the alt-right and so-called “America First” movement is taking on as we speak. But thinly veiled or ironic, wearing a suit or khakis or arguing for “traditional values” against “degeneracy” racism is racism. And Richard Spencer’s racism and anti-Semitism have helpfully been made clear — and undeniable.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/ ... -alt-right
by American Dream » Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:55 pm
Opinion// Richard Spencer Screams He's a Nazi. When Will CNN Book Him Next?
The mainstream media is noisily shocked at alt-right Spencer’s racist, anti-Semitic tirade. But it serially platformed him – and his boosters from the left
Alexander Reid Ross
Nov 05, 2019
White nationalist Richard Spencer speaking in Texas in 2016.
The popular anti-establishment podcaster, "The War Nerd" (John Dolan), did not just interview Spencer; he wrote for Spencer in the far-right Taki's Mag during the inception of the alt-right 10 years ago. Of the "anti-war" Dolan, Spencer confessed, "his taste for blood and guts surpasses mine."
Dolan’s articles included typical white nationalist, "Great Replacement" tropes about demography, including one titled “War of the Babies” that ranted against the supposed "conquest-by-immigration we’re seeing now in Europe and North America."
In this case, a prominent member of the contemporary left was not simply smugly interviewing an emerging leader of the alt-right; he was helping the alt-right shape its supposedly "irreverent" content at its very birth.
Dolan’s podcast is shared with cohost Mark Ames, and the two co-edit a site called The eXile, which stemmed from an English-language tabloid published in Moscow featuring a regular column written by a Russian fascist, whose partner would find an eager translator in Spencer’s then-wife.
Yet Dolan continues to gain a large audience from his appearances on popular left-wing podcasts like the million-dollar grossing Chapo Trap House, whose own entrepreneurial hosts have defended the bloodthirsty regime of Bashar Assad just as Spencer and the alt-right have done.
Another Chapo guest, an anti-PC opponent of open borders from Ireland, Angela Nagle, sat with Spencer just a year ago for a smooth interview in a cool, outdoors setting at under a big tent. Spencer said of Nagle's book on the alt-right, Kill All Normies, "she ‘gets’ us more than any conservative critic."
Perhaps that's due to the unfavorable way Nagle views campus activism, her advancement of a "conservative leftism," and her chummy relationship with the "Marxist libertarians" of Spiked, the site founded by Living Marxism contributors, now funded by the hard right Koch brothers, which has been characterized as operating "as handmaidens of the alt-right."
Although Nagle fell out of favor on the left after journalists uncovered sloppy plagiarism in "Kill All Normies," the tendency to downplay the vitriol and tacit, deep-seated violence of the alt-right remains.
For instance, when the Proud Boys bussed to Portland, Oregon, with a gang of fascist skinheads this summer, Nagle fan and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald denounced the grassroots protestors for targeting "the easiest and least powerful targets" instead of the "CIA, NSA, huge corporations, Silicon Valley masters of the universe," which he termed “the most powerful centers of neo-fascist power.”
Greenwald’s criticism of anti-fascist protestors reflects a misunderstanding of how fascism views itself, a failure common among important parts of the left. One can oppose major nodes of the U.S.’s corporate power and security state, on one hand, while simultaneously opposing major fascist groups organizing on the streets and on campuses on the other. It is not either/or.
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