Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

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Postby American Dream » Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:26 pm

"Occult Politics" in the Trump Era | Nikita Petrov & Gary Lachman


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGxPw4AJ5M

08:46 The rise of "occult politics" in the Trump era
13:32 Pepe the Frog and "willing Trump into office"
17:07 Trickle-down metaphysics from Nietzsche to Trump
28:45 Steve Bannon’s connection to European far-right esoteric philosophy
38:12 "Putin’s Rasputin," Alexander Dugin
50:49 Gary’s new project on the return of "Holy Russia"
1:03:05 Gary's thoughts on Jordan Peterson

Nikita Petrov (nikitapetrov.me) and Gary Lachman (Dark Star Rising)

Recorded July 12, 2018
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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:37 pm

Proud for What? Part 1: On Patriot Prayer, the Proud Boys, and Nationalism

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Patriot Prayer uses dog-whistle politics – thinly-veiled or coded language meant to motivate the base of true believers who understand its references – to mobilize white rage against minorities. They have organized or have been present at a great many of the rallies and demonstrations of the past couple years associated with the term “Alt-Right” (itself an obscurantist euphemism which refers to the adherents of a collection of ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi ideologies), including the high-profile battles of Berkeley which transpired throughout 2017.

In April of that year, an anti-Muslim bigot and frequenter of these events named Jeremy Christian murdered Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and seriously wounded Micah David-Cole Fletcher on a Portland MAX train after they had attempted to deescalate Christian’s harassment of 2 young Muslim girls. Similarly, August 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA saw an anti-racist activist named Heather Heyer murdered (and several more seriously injured) when a fascist drove a car into the assembled counter-demonstrators. In the wake of these and other attacks, Gibson has weakly attempted to distance himself from outright racists and fascists (Patriot Prayer loves parading its token couple of non-white members), and denied that his movement is part of the Alt-Right.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Gibson’s obligatory gestures of disavowal of these murders – motivated in large part by his own light-vs-dark rhetoric and budding militancy – ring hollow. Before and after each new attack, nothing changes with this group. Several supporters of Patriot Prayer can be seen and heard to gloat over these and similar outrages, and go on making brazen threats or actually attacking their opponents in the streets.

The Proud Boys are an aspiring street gang who basically serve as the shock troops of Patriot Prayer, with whom their membership overlaps. According to founder Gavin McInnes (also co-founder of Vice Media), the Proud Boys are a “pro-Western fraternal organization” of men who “refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” That is, they refuse to condemn patriarchy, genocide, colonization, and slavery. These apologists for the world of prisons, parking lots, and date-rape drugs have chapters across the United States and Canada, with several members in the Pacific Northwest. Their members explicitly gain status and advance through the organization by physically attacking anti-fascists and minorities at rallies and other events (such as the recent sexist and anti-choice attacks organized by PP/PB on people seeking clinic services in Olympia, capitol of Washington state) and by refraining from masturbation, an attempt to supercharge with virile energy their attempts to “meet women.” The Proud Boys have recently been alleged to have taken part in a vicious and calculated gang-rape in Portland.


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Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer in Seattle. James Allsup, a white nationalist who attended the neo-Nazi ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville on far left.

The Proud Boys’ barely-hidden propensities for virulent racism, extreme patriarchal violence, and close association with blatant neo-Nazis are all underscored by the existence of their paramilitary wing, “The Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights,” (FOAK), for whom the white nationalist Augustus Sol Invictus once served as second-in-command. Furthermore, Jason Kessler, the white nationalist who organized the first “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 at which Heather Heyer was murdered, is a former Proud Boy. He was expelled after Heather’s murder in order for Proud Boys to save face.

Most recently, on August 4th, Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys held a rally in Portland, OR and hid for several hours behind a massive formation of riot police. They waited it out until the latter dispelled the massive anti-fascist counter-demonstration with extreme force to then prowl the streets and attack random people of color and bystanders. In the clash with the cops, one anti-fascist sustained a severe wound when Portland PD intentionally blasted them in the back of the head with a concussion grenade at close-range. Likely, only the helmet worn by the demonstrator saved their life.

Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys may attempt to distance themselves from overt white nationalists and the Alt-Right, but the writing is on the wall. So far, it remains to be seen if the deaths and the injuries of the victims of these groups and their close allies have been in vain


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:47 pm

Patriot Prayer rally in Seattle: Plenty of guns and shouting
August 20, 2018

Bill Morlin


The far-right group Patriot Prayer, embraced by Proud Boys and a Washington III% militia group, held a noisy, mostly violence-free “Liberty or Death” rally in Seattle over the weekend.

The rally on Saturday on the Seattle City Hall plaza, and similar gatherings in Boston, Austin, Spokane and elsewhere, were billed as pro-gun, pro-free speech events.

But they basically ended up being loud shouting matches with counter-protesters while squads of police officers worked overtime to keep the two sides apart.

The rally organizers largely openly support President Trump and his hard-line anti-immigration policies, while counter-protesters from an assortment of groups expressed anti-Trump sentiment, even calling for his impeachment.

“This nightmare must end: Trump/Pence Must Go!” one large sign at the Seattle rally said.

All the rallies were largely peaceful, but likely will affect city budgets for police overtime.

The Seattle rally, organized by Washington State III% leader Matt Marshall, looked like a downsized rerun of a far-right gathering held two weeks earlier in Portland, just across the Columbia River from Washington state.

But there was a significant difference: Firearms, knives and even flagpoles were prohibited at the Portland rally, while in Seattle they were plentiful.

In Seattle, militia group members were armed with handguns and assault-style semi-automatic rifles — standing alongside riot-equipped Seattle police officers.

Across the street, some counter-protesters, some wearing black masks, also were armed with firearms.

Washington state legally allows everyone except felons to openly carry firearms.

The Seattle rally initially was organized to oppose a Washington state gun-control initiative, but that issue became moot when a state judge earlier in the week declared the proposed legislation invalid.

The Seattle crowd cheered that announcement, with some fist-bumps into the air and flag-waving under sunny and warm skies.

The City Hall plaza on Seattle’s busy Fourth Avenue was lined with portable, metal crowd-control fences and squads of billy club-armed police officers, watching both sides, augmented by roving cops on bikes.

The counter-protesters included members of Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party, the Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club and self-described anarchists and anti-fascists.

“If the far-right is going to show up with weapons, we show up with weapons,” said a man identifying himself as Duke Aaron, who handed out John Brown Gun Club flyers.

“It gives people on the left freedom to speak their minds without intimidation,” said Aaron, who was armed himself with an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle and a 9 mm Glock handgun.

At the Patriot Prayer/Proud Boys rally, organizers said “security protection” was being provided by armed members of the militia-style Washington III% group, headed by Matt Marshall. The pairing seemed to show evidence of strong, increasing ties between Patriot Prayer, its Proud Boys associates and the militia group.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the one of the nation’s largest anti-government groups, the Oath Keepers, was billed as the featured speaker for the Seattle rally, but he cancelled at the last minute, claiming he was ill.

Several of his Oath Keeper supporters were brought to the downtown rally site in a 2 1/2-ton former U.S. Army open-air transport truck, spewing its diesel smoke into the sky as the “Liberty or Death” demonstrators chanted “USA! USA!”

The counter-demonstrators used bullhorns to play piercing siren noise, augmenting that with a trombone, cymbals, cowbells and chants of “Nazis Go Home.”

One counter-protester held a homemade sign that read: “Remember Heather Heyer,” who was killed by an extremist at last summer’s violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Across the state of Washington at another rally on Saturday, ultra-conservative state representative Matt Shea told a gun-rights gathering at a city park that journalists — including those at the event — are “dirty, godless, hateful people,” The Spokesman-Review reported.

Those attending the Spokane rally included Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan, Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell and an aide to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the fourth-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, the newspaper reported.

Earlier in the day, at Boston’s City Hall, only about 30 “right-wing activists” showed up for a “free speech rally” on Saturday, facing an estimated 300 counter-demonstrators, the Boston Globe reported.

In Austin, Texas, a 3 1/2-hour free speech rally at the state’s capitol also saw “insults and threats” hurled between opposing sides, leading police to detain several people, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

It appears the Seattle rally drew the biggest crowds on both sides.

With Rhodes and his Oath Keepers bandwagon a no-show in Seattle, one-time aspiring U.S. Senate candidate Joey Gibson became the featured speaker, telling the crowd Saturday that such “rallies are the gateway drug into politics.”

He encouraged those listening to attempt to weave their Libertarian, ultra-conservative, constitutionalist and Christian views into mainstream politics by running for public office. Two other speakers — Jered Gavin Bonneau and Joseph Brumbles — are Republican candidates for the U.S. House representing Washington.

In his speech, Bonneau told the audience they needed to “take back control and crush the opposition.” “They want to fight?” he continued, “Well let’s fight! But let us make sure that when we fight, we bring down hell upon them and wipe them from existence.”

Gibson was more measured and told the crowd they should “fight fascism with solidarity.” Then, with a police escort, he led 150-200 of those gathered on a short march around the city hall building before returning to the plaza.

Squads of Seattle police on bicycles provided a moving screen of protection, and those teams later used their nose-to-nose bikes to establish temporary barricades to keep the two sides apart.

There were three misdemeanor arrests, according to the Seattle Police Department, whose officers were augmented by others from the nearby communities of Bellevue and Redmond, Washington.

In a follow-up Facebook video post, Gibson, who lives in Vancouver, Washington, near Portland, claimed that many “first-time” rally-goers showed up for the Seattle City Hall event.

At one point, a man wearing a pro-Trump shirt snapped photos of his two young sons on the plaza.

“It’s so much fun, you build family,” said Gibson, calling himself a “libertarian and conservative constitutionalist.”

“The key is to get antifa out of the way … and get people to understand that we’re not enemies,” Gibson said.

“Really, at the end of the day, the enemy is at the top. Okay? It’s the elitists, it’s the government. The true fascists are the people who are in power,” said Gibson, offering up a seeming contradiction to his followers who largely idolize Trump.

While Gibson has been the moving force behind several rallies in the Pacific Northwest — some of them violent — they haven’t provided the hype he needed to make the cut for the U.S. Senate race in Washington State.

He got only 2.3 percent of the vote, slightly more than 24,000 votes, in the state’s primary election earlier this month.

But that limp showing doesn’t appear to have dampened Gibson’s desire for attention in far-right circles, and he now may be hoping for a larger presence on the national stage.

He’s scheduled to be a “featured speaker” on September 29 at an “open carry” pro-gun rally at Kent State University in Ohio, event organizer Kaitlin Bennett says in a new Facebook posting. The rally’s backers include “Liberty Hangout, Infowars and Triggered Millennials.”


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:37 am

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Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous ‘Dharma’

ERROL MORRIS, DEBORAH CHASMAN


DC: It’s clear that he’s good at giving voice to a legitimate grievance, at least in some contexts. In the United States there’s the legitimate grievance that a corrupt political machine has left a bunch of people behind. But I’m unclear what he is actually delivering to these people, or even just thinks he is giving them, other than this permission to hate.

EM: I think that’s certainly part of it. He told the French National Front, “Let them call you racist. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativist. Wear it as a badge of honor.”

I also think you see it in his reaction to Charlottesville. He basically says, “You’re making a mountain out of a molehill. The neo-Nazis have no currency in our culture.” In my movie he even says that the neo-Nazis are a creation of the liberal press. Which, of course, is absurd. Yes, the liberal press gets upset by neo-Nazis being coddled by the president, and why shouldn’t they? But that’s not to say that journalists parked them in Charlottesville and caused them to run over people.

Bannon also called Macron “a little Rothschild’s banker.” He said, “The French are realizing how much Macron has become an embarrassment. He’s a Rothschild banker who never made any money, the ultimate definition of a loser. He would sell his soul for nothing.” I did not like that. He doubtlessly would say that his remarks were not anti-Semitic, but I would respectfully disagree. He knew what he was doing. He knows who he’s appealing to.

DC: So why talk to Bannon at all? What’s to be gained?

EM: I think there’s a lot to be gained. I consider myself a journalist, proudly so, and the job of journalism is not to have five pundits sitting around a table on Fox News or CNN. The job of journalists is to report—to go out, look at stuff, and report on it. I went out in the field and this is what I saw, and I would like to present it to you for your consideration.

DC: One of the things I find most disturbing in the film, from your “report,” is seeing a pretty definitive narrative about how he masterminded Trump’s victory. Not only that, but he gives the appearance that it was easy.

“Does he believe in throwing all of the DACA people out of the United States or separating mothers and children at the border? I know he does.”


EM: He certainly has a narrative about how Trump won the 2016 election, and how Hillary lost the 2016 election. And he was actively involved. The movie doesn’t tell the whole story. It can’t. It’s a movie. But he was actively involved in trying to undermine Hillary and the Clintons since 2012. It didn’t start with 2016.

The permission to hate seems to be a really big part of what Bannon offered to voters and to the Trump campaign. Hate black people. Hate Hispanics. Hate Muslims. Hate, hate, hate. A friend of mine years ago was working on a self-help book, Why Be a Kiss-Ass When You Can Be a Kick-Ass? And he used to say, “love is enervating, hate is energizing.” Hate is energizing for a lot of people. It’s exciting.

And it does seem to be the essence, the core, of fascism. One wonders, is it appropriate to call this administration fascist? Is it exactly the same as the fascism of the 1930s and ’40s? No, it isn’t. But is it often racially motivated? Based on fear and hate? Yes. That’s what’s so depressing and horrifying about it. If getting our “sovereignty” back means hating a lot of people, beating up on them, that’s bad. Very, very, very bad.


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Aug 25, 2018 11:45 am

Bannon also called Macron “a little Rothschild’s banker.” He said, “The French are realizing how much Macron has become an embarrassment. He’s a Rothschild banker who never made any money, the ultimate definition of a loser. He would sell his soul for nothing.” I did not like that. He doubtlessly would say that his remarks were not anti-Semitic, but I would respectfully disagree. He knew what he was doing. He knows who he’s appealing to.


You can't say "Rothschild," even when you're talking about Rothschilds, because that's an anti-Semitic dogwhistle. Just like you can't say white farmers are being killed by black mobs in South Africa, or European women are being raped by Islamic migrants. The existence of the victims is not enough -- the narrative is more important.

This is the exact disappearing act, enforced by the stigmergy of our media culture, that keeps making Bannons and Trumps possible. It is little wonder that Morris gleans this where so many others cannot, but even he cannot give voice to the unspeakable without reciting the litany of caveats.

DC: It’s clear that he’s good at giving voice to a legitimate grievance, at least in some contexts. In the United States there’s the legitimate grievance that a corrupt political machine has left a bunch of people behind. But I’m unclear what he is actually delivering to these people, or even just thinks he is giving them, other than this permission to hate.


Again, Morris nails it. Bannon is an alcoholic avatar, a tribune of the plebs. I doubt any Caesar is waiting to step into that breach, thought, unless Mitt Romney has a dark side. Plebs will keep eating shit, and plebs will keep on hating.
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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:15 pm

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Far-Right Racists Push Fake South Africa ‘White Genocide’ Narrative

Pretoria, South Africa – The narrative of oppressed “white farmers” in South Africa, now being promoted by US President Trump, is a decades-old neo-Nazi and white supremacist talking point. In fact, current proponents of the South African ‘white genocide’ narrative lie at the intersection of international alt-right and white supremacist networks.

Content advisory: explicit racism

Until the early 1990s, South Africa’s whites-only government used a militaristic dictatorship to enforce Apartheid, a colonial system of racial segregation with European settlers at the top.

The racist, authoritarian Afrikaaner government eventually ceded power and allowed open elections after decades of resistance by black protest movements as well as an international divestment and sanctions movement.

Since the end of the apartheid era, neo-Nazis and white supremacists in South Africa as well as North America have clamored about a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in which they claimed black Africans were carrying out mass murder with the goal of exterminating white people.

Recent controversy over land reform in South Africa, along with some armed robbery incidents at isolated rural farms, have been seized upon by peddlers of ‘white genocide’ as the latest proof that descendants of occupying Afrikaaner settlers should be treated as an endangered minority.

Violent white supremacists often identify with long-collapsed racist governments in Africa. Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church in 2015, sported the apartheid-era flags of Rhodesia and South Africa on his Facebook photo.

South African racist groups have spent the last year courting support from the North American far-right, an effort which seems to have paid off as their messaging has now spread from Fox News directly to the President of the United States.


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:29 pm

Precisely: "here's a link so you can stop thinking about that."

Thought-stopping sacraments, the mirror image of what Bannon was doing on Breitbart. Does Trump overstate the danger of illegal immigrants? Does Tommy Robinson overstate the danger of Islam? Of course they do -- it's partisan agitprop and they're both grifters. Same with everyone on staff at Unicorn Riot and all our other content affiliates.

The phenomenon remains real, though - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Afr ... rm_attacks

Meanwhile, the spectacle of this argument, this narrative tug-of-war, only serves to introduce the broader public to problems they didn't know about before. I've watched a lot of old Vermonters find out what "MS-13" is, and boy, now that they know, they aren't ever going to forget. That happened because Trump called them "animals" and Team Blue gave tearful speeches about how all cartel machete rapists are children of god, just like us.

A downward ratchet into atrocity theater. Nobody can disengage, nobody can stop the spiral. D'Souza is really out here paying bills off "Democrats are the real Nazis!" -- can you imagine how much stupider it will get from here? I can!
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Postby American Dream » Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:01 pm

The dangerous myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa

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Narratives about a fictitious campaign to exterminate Afrikaners have the power to produce real violence.

On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted that he was instructing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to look into “the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.”

This is a huge victory for South Africa’s far-right, which has been lobbying foreign governments intensively over the past year. So far, they have managed to find a few sympathetic legislators in Western countries, but Trump is the first head of state to make such overtures.

The president’s statement is troubling because it signifies the mainstreaming of white nationalist narratives about “white genocide,” of which South Africa’s farm murders are an essential component.

Collaborations between the racist “alt-right” and their South African counterparts have ramped up. In the last year, YouTuber Stefan Molyneux has done a series of videos warning of collapse and imminent civil war in which he interviewed some of the most prominent names on South Africa’s far-right, including Simon Roche of the rightwing prepper group Suidlanders. In June, Lauren Southern released a slick documentary called Farmlands starring Roche.

In May, apartheid apologist Ernst Roets, deputy CEO of the white nationalist Afrikaner group AfriForum, met with staffers from Ted Cruz’s office as well as representatives of USAID, and had a photo op with National Security Advisor John Bolton. Roets also appeared on Tucker Carlson, whom Trump referenced in the tweet.

This full-court press has been successful at garnering public support abroad for granting refugee status to white South Africans. Change.org petitions in the United Kingdom and the United States have garnered about 17,500 and 23,000 signatures, respectively.

As it inches closer to the mainstream, the narrative about “white genocide” in South Africa grows more sophisticated. Through their partnership with mature Afrikaner organizations, America’s white nationalist groups gain a host of misleading factoids and talking points that can be dangerously persuasive in the “fake news” era.

‘A white farmer is killed every five days’

The lead from a Newsweek article that appeared in March reads:

Activists say South African authorities are tacitly approving attacks on the country’s white farmers, with one being murdered every five days, and the police turning a blind eye to the violence.

To his credit, the writer points out in the next paragraph that the “activists” are from AfriForum and correctly labels them “white nationalist,” but both the headline and the opening paragraph afford undue weight and credibility to their claims.

The same claim was already found to be erroneous by the fact-checking organization Africa Check when it was made by Steve Hofmeyr in 2013, and the numbers have fallen since. The South African singer, who is notorious for provocative racist stunts, has been aggressively lobbying to gain refugee status for Afrikaners and also appeared in one of Molyneux’s videos.

Africa Check noted that the claim assumes all the victims of farm murders are white, when in reality, annual totals invariably include a significant number of non-white victims — usually black farmhands. The best data available is 15 years old and not reflective of the current situation, but it found that in that year, close to 40 percent of victims were non-white.

But even if all the victims were white, that still comes out to 72 murders annually in a country that averages nearly 50 murders per day. Outside of farms, the overwhelming majority of South Africa’s murder victims are non-white. On a pie chart of total murders, the slice representing the killings of white farmers would look like the second hand of a clock.

Contrary to sensational reports of escalating violence against white farmers, the long-term trend shows decline. Farm murders peaked at 153 in 1998, one year after the government declared them to be a “priority crime” and convened a series of task forces to address the issue.

Violence against farmers hit a 20-year low this year. According to the non-profit AgriSA, 47 farmers were murdered in a one-year period from 2017 to 2018, which equals about one every eight days. By this time tomorrow, it’s probable that at least that many black people will have died violently in South Africa.

White South Africans, who make up 9 percent of the population, are in fact underrepresented among its murder victims. A 2009 police analysis of murder dockets found that 1.8 percent of cases had a white victim.

Though these stats are nearly 10 years old, they are supported by a 2016 Lancet study on non-natural deaths using comprehensive mortality data from the statistical agency StatsSA.

The study’s appendix shows that in the most recent year examined, white deaths due to interpersonal violence numbered about 500, which equals 2.7 percent of the total. This is a 28.5 percent drop from 2000, when white deaths by interpersonal violence approached 700.

Stage 5: Preparation

A common claim in white nationalist propaganda is that the genocidal nature of the crimes is self-evident from their sheer brutality. Assuming that the most horrific accounts are all authentic, the sad truth is that incredible acts of violence are not so rare in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.

An official committee of inquiry formed to investigate farm murders found that robbery was the motive for the vast majority of the 2,700 attacks studied, whereas racial motives accounted for two percent. According to Afriforum’s own analysis, 13 of the 74 victims in 2017 suffered torture.

But even a much larger number of individual racially motivated murders still would fall short of any existing definition of genocide, which is an organized, systematic attempt at extermination by either the government or non-state actors.

All efforts to prove that the ANC government is complicit in mass killings fall flat. Nevertheless, white nationalists have used South Africa’s ranking on Genocide Watch’s eight-stage system to argue that genocide is imminent or even underway — something the organization’s director Gregory Stanton has explicitly denied.

In 2016, Africa Check criticized Genocide Watch for making determinations based on opaque, subjective criteria. The decision to raise South Africa from Stage 4 “Polarization” to the much more ominous Stage 5 “Preparation” was almost entirely based on the revival of “Dubula Ibhunu,” an apartheid-era struggle song that means “Kill the Boer,” led by Julius Malema, who was the head of the ANC Youth League at the time.

It should be noted that, according to the organization’s own stated criteria, “preparation” means “identification of victims” and the examples it gives are the yellow stars of the Nazi regime and racial IDs — like the ones that were in use for the entire apartheid era.

Without presenting quantitative evidence, Genocide Watch posited a connection between the ANCYL singing the song and a rise in violence against white farmers. This claim is identical to the one made in the book Kill the Farmer recently released by Roets.

In 2011, Malema was brought up on hate speech charges and ordered by a white judge named Colin Lamont to stop singing the song or face penalties. Stanton, who had previously been critical of the ANC for not doing enough to rein in Malema’s inflammatory behavior, reverted South Africa to Stage 4 in 2012 after his expulsion from the party.

Taken as a whole, this episode does not present a picture of a country barreling inexorably toward genocide. Instead we see one that, despite deep historical divisions, nevertheless operates under the rule of law.

The lowest stages of Genocide Watch’s system are classification, symbolization and polarization. While plenty examples of these can be found on South African social media, the same can be said for many countries, including the United States, which the group also places at “polarization.”

White nationalists scour Facebook and Twitter to find instances of violent, inflammatory rhetoric, which they cite as evidence of a widespread genocidal campaign.

What these selections dredged from the bowels of various comment sections fail to show is that black South Africans have at times demonstrated an almost superhuman capacity to forgive — not just whites as a group but specific white people who have done horrible things to them or their kin.

In 2014, Candace Mama forgave her father’s assassin and even advocated for his parole, which was granted shortly thereafter. For his role as leader of the infamous apartheid death squad known as Vlakplaas, Eugene de Kock had been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 214 years on 89 charges, including six counts of murder as well as abduction, assault and conspiracy.

When the nation was reconstituted as a true democracy, forgiveness was institutionalized in the form of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission, whose mission was to bring South Africa out of the shadow of apartheid by unflinchingly confronting and atoning for its past.

As its name implies, the commission placed truth above vengeance. For giving a full, honest account of their crimes, some of apartheid’s worst killers were spared punishment for the stomach-churning horrors they committed in defense of the racist regime.

Nicknamed “the electrician” for his method of electrocuting anti-apartheid activists to death, police officer Paul van Vuuren was allowed to quietly retire to a farm where he could live in peace, drinking white wine and scarfing down big piles of steak. For his cooperation, he was granted amnesty in all but three of his 18 applications, which included torture, assault, kidnapping, arson and bombings.

In his book about apartheid death squads, veteran investigative journalist Jacques Pauw writes that van Vuuren has lost track of how many people he tortured or murdered over the years. His only regret was losing the war and being exposed, according to Pauw. He got a thrill he described as sexual from the killings: “It was exciting days, those years. At times I could not wait to do it. They say to kill is like sleeping with a woman. It’s true.”

The Rainbow Nation began its new life by extending clemency to the some of its worst enemies, including remorseless mass murderers. Is it possible that the pendulum could swing so far in two decades that such a country might be transformed into a genocidal machine intent on collecting apartheid’s debt in blood?

‘We must act as Hitler did to the Jews’

Aside from Malema’s recent sinister remarks, the far-right has struggled to find many damning examples of any high-level government officials openly inciting the genocide of Afrikaners.

The closest they have been able to muster is a disgusting Facebook rant by Velaphi Khumalo, an ANC member working at a government office in Gauteng, who wrote “white people in south Africa deserve to be hacked and killed like Jews. U have the same venom moss. look at Palestine. noo u must be bushed alive and skinned and your off springs used as garden fertiliser [sic]”

White nationalists have capitalized on Khumalo’s words, integrating them into several memes.

The things he said are publicized, but not their consequences. Khumalo is currently awaiting a ruling from an Equality Court on charges of crimen injuria, which is a cross between hate speech and libel.

Cases are usually resolved under the framework of civil law through restitution to the harmed party, but the Equality Court is empowered to refer special cases to a criminal prosecutor. In 2017, real estate agent Vicky Momberg was sentenced to a term of three years, with one suspended, for a hurling a flurry insults at a black police officer that included the racial slur “kaffir.”

Khumalo’s genocidal Facebook rant was actually in response to an earlier high-profile hate speech case where a woman named Penny Sparrow had complained online that Natal beaches were overrun with black “monkeys.” She was ordered to pay 150,000 rand to charity, and in a separate criminal case, convicted of crimen injuria. She was given the option of a 5,000-rand fine or a year in jail.

According to Genocide Watch, a defining feature of a genocidal society is a “culture of impunity.”

But when looked at side by side, the cases of Khumalo and Sparrow show a country acting to impede the progression toward genocide by mitigating polarization as well as punishing classification, dehumanization and symbolization, just like Stanton recommends: “To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden (swastikas in Germany) as can hate speech.”

Slogans that feature so prominently in “white genocide” propaganda — “one settler, one bullet” and “land or death” — are at the center of a hate case scheduled to be decided in September. The radical group Black First Land First (BLF) was brought before the court in mid-July for using these phrases and other violent rhetoric.

Represented by the multiracial South African Human Rights Commission, the plaintiff Lucy Strydom is petitioning to have BLF’s standing as a legitimate political party revoked. BLF has mirrored the right’s allegations of “white genocide” with its own hyperbole, arguing its violent slogans defensible response to a “black holocaust.”

Groot leuen

A lie told often enough becomes the truth, and the same holds for myths.

There’s a complete set of lies told about South Africa that together make up an entire parallel reality, and when incanted regularly in sequence, like a magic spell, the component lies of this myth have the power to manifest it.

Imagined inaction in the face of an imaginary genocide becomes the casus belli for a real race war. False images of carnage fan the flames of polarization until they are actualized as living violence. Paramilitary groups arm themselves to avenge atrocities that never occurred.

The contagion crosses oceans where it infects the minds of deranged young men. With visions of the lost glory of Rhodesia in his head, one shoots up a church to stop black people from “raping our women and taking over the country.” Elsewhere, a group of self-proclaimed “Crusaders” looks at Somali refugees and sees the vanguard of a globalist invasion. Convinced their survival is at stake, they plot to exterminate the “cockroaches.”

If these myths are allowed to spread and take hold, our reality could come to resemble the type of bloody fever dream that plays inside the mind of a person who thinks of the Turner Diaries as a bedtime story.

These lies have been told often. How long before it’s often enough?


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Against mirror world: fascists were not socialists

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A couple of excerpts from the work of scholars of fascism against the notion that the fascists were socialists.

Anyone who has ever argued in person or online with Republican, alt-right, fascist, white nationalist, or the myriad overlapping identities of the Right today will recognize a few standard ahistorical moves they use to “win debates.” One is to bring out the “Black Book of Communism” whereby the body counts of state-capitalist, Stalinist, and Maoist, regimes are held up to show that “communism” has killed elevendy jillion people while capitalism has saved an equal amount, and simultaneously spread freedom, democracy, and wealth. The intent is never really to criticize these (state capitalist) regimes, but to prove capitalism is the only possible system a sane person would choose. A supporting argument notes that “capitalism is human nature” so stop pretending anyone who was not brainwashed by cultural Marxists at the University has a legitimate gripe with it. The vast majority of the people defending capitalism as freedom cannot tell you how capitalism works.

Especially popular these days are what I think of as the “mirror world” arguments. In our world we know capitalism is a system in which a ruling/owning class expropriates the surplus value of the labor power of the working class. Capitalism is a redistribution of value and wealth upward to a small dominating class. In mirror world, genius entrepreneurs and business people are “creatives,” “job creators” and “risk takers” whose “work” creates all wealth. The rest of us benefit from the hard work of this “John Galt” class. If you work hard you can be a boss someday, or a useful person like Kylie Jenner or Steve Jobs. Socialists “spend other people’s money” so they can drive the economy into the ground by giving out free stuff no one earned. It’s the people in urban areas, illegal immigrants, spoiled college students, feminists, and intellectuals who contribute nothing to society who get in the way of the normal functioning of such a perfect system.

Coming back to the subject of fascism, today the mirror world arguments depict antifa as violent thugs attacking peaceful marchers who only wanted to celebrate free speech. Antifa, or anyone in the street confronting white-nationalist wildings are the “real fascists.” Stormfronters, KKK, American Guard, Sons of Odin, Proud Boys, Rise Above Movement, White Aryan Resistance, Identity Evropa, Patriot Prayer and other groups who, together, mobilize fighting units to attack cities, terrorize and beat leftists, and demonize immigrants while calling for their deaths, are the Enlightened pro-democracy forces pushing against censorship and for civility. And aren’t the Proud Boys multi-ethnic, thereby proving they can’t be fascists? Never mind that Imperial Japan’s leaders were fascist, or that today’s Hindutva nationalists in India are fascists. Proud Boy Tiny Toese is Samoan! Who cares that he wears a “Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong” shirt? The “Right Wing Death Squad” line of clothing, is of course also not fascist in any way. “Pinochet killed zero people because communists aren’t people” is the Proud Boy line. If you see interviews with Proud Boy fighters, they usually portray themselves as under attack by hysterical communists, with themselves in the familiar Chris Kyle (“American Sniper") role of the “sheep dog” fighting off the wolves to protect the herd (good, normal, Americans).

One of the most popular mirror world arguments posits that fascism has always been a leftist movement, anti-capitalist, and even socialist. These arguments often cite Nazi rhetoric used to appeal to the working class in the 1930s (and Trump also appeals to them today) from speeches on “the workers” or against bankers. They also like to bring up that Mussolini was a socialist (but leave out the part where he rejected socialism for nationalism) as evidence that fascism has always been socialist.

Here is Dinesh D’Souza whose anti-historical “research” often reads like a manifesto from a mass shooter, cherry picking data from left and right sources to make completely unhinged arguments:

“But the most notable thing about, not only Mussolini’s Black Shirts, but about the National Socialists in Germany is that above all, They. Were. Socialists! They were socialists. Mussolini started out as a Marxist. He was the editor of the socialist journal in Italy. And so again, on the issue of fascism, in the 1930s and 40s, fascism and Nazism were widely understood to be left wing. They were understood that way by Mussolini, by Hitler, they were understood that way by FDR and by the New Deal. They were understood that way by reporters writing about the period. But after World War II a very interesting thing happens. Fascism becomes right wing. Right wing. This I want to suggest is another big lie. It is essentially the result of a kind of an intellectual sleight of hand in which after the war, when the horrors of National Socialism are now manifest for the world to see it becomes imperative to move fascism into the right wing column and pretend like it was some sort of excrescence of capitalism. That fascism was some sort of invention of the business community. Whereas in reality it arose out of an argument within socialism.”

-Dinesh D’Souza, “Socialism Into Fascism - The Left Is And Always Was The Problem” from Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPaq86OnJs


So I thought it might be useful just to post what a couple of historical scholars of fascism have to say about whether fascism is either anti-capitalist or socialist. I don’t expect people on the far right to be persuaded by historically grounded arguments, but with such grounded sources, those on the left can better define our own goals in opposition to fascism and its progenitor, capitalism.

Excerpt from Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism:

Another supposed essential character of fascism is its anticapitalist, antibourgeois animus. Early fascist movements flaunted their contempt for bourgeois values and for those who wanted only “to earn money, money, filthy money." They attacked “international finance capitalism" almost as loudly as they attacked socialists. They even promised to expropriate department-store owners in favor of patriotic artisans, and large landowners in favor of peasants.

Whenever fascist parties acquired power, however, they did nothing to carry out these anticapitalist threats. By contrast, they enforced with the utmost violence and thoroughness their threats against socialism. Street fights over turf with young communists were among their most powerful propaganda images. Once in power, fascist regimes banned strikes, dissolved independent labor unions, lowered wage earners’ purchasing power, and showered money on armaments industries, to the immense satisfaction of employers. Faced with these conflicts between words and actions concerning capitalism, scholars have drawn opposite conclusions. Some, taking the words literally, consider fascism a form of radical anticapitalism. Others, and not only Marxists, take the diametrically opposite position that fascists came to the aid of capitalism in trouble, and propped up by emergency means the existing system of property distribution and social hierarchy.

This book takes the position that what fascists did tells us at least as much as what they said. What they said cannot be ignored, of course, for it helps explain their appeal. Even at its most radical, however, fascists’ anticapitalist rhetoric was selective. While they denounced speculative international finance (along with all other forms of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, or globalization—capitalist as well as socialist), they respected the property of national producers, who were to form the social base of the reinvigorated nation. When they denounced the bourgeoisie, it was for being too flabby and individualistic to make a nation strong, not for robbing workers of the value they added. What they criticized in capitalism was not its exploitation but its materialism, its indifference to the nation, its inability to stir souls. More deeply, fascists rejected the notion that economic forces are the prime movers of history. For fascists, the dysfunctional capitalism of the interwar period did not need fundamental reordering; its ills could be cured simply by applying sufficient political will to the creation of full employment and productivity. Once in power, fascist regimes confiscated property only from political opponents, foreigners, or Jews. None altered the social hierarchy, except to catapult a few adventurers into high places. At most, they replaced market forces with state economic management, but, in the trough of the Great Depression, most businessmen initially approved of that. If fascism was “revolutionary," it was so in a special sense, far removed from the word’s meaning as usually understood from 1789 to 1917, as a profound overturning of the social order and the redistribution of social, political, and economic power. (Paxton. The Anatomy of Fascism, P.10-11)


Excerpt from Ian Kershaw’s The Nazi Dictatorship dealing with the continuity of the class system under Nazis:

The emphasis has, therefore, been far more heavily laid upon the essential continuities in the class structure of Nazi Germany, rather than upon incisive changes.

Schoenbaum himself had accepted that the social position of the elites remained relatively unscathed down to the last phase of the war. He may, however, have rather exaggerated the extent of the fluidity in social structures and the amount of upward mobility which took place. Of course, it is true that thrusting, energetic, ruthless, and often highly efficient ‘technocrats of power’ such as Heydrich or Speer pushed their way to the top. And the war certainly accelerated changes in the high ranks of the Wehrmacht. But the new political elite co-existed and merged with the old elites rather than supplanting them.

Non-Party preserves such as big business, the civil service, and the army recruited their leadership for the most part from the same social strata as before 1933. Education remained overwhelmingly dominated by the middle and upper classes. The most important and powerful Party affiliation, the SS, recruited heavily from the elite sectors of society. If the traditional ruling class had to make some room for social upstarts from lower ranks of society who had gained advancement through positions of power and political influence, such changes amounted to little more than a slight acceleration of changes already perceptible in the Weimar Republic.

At the other end of the social scale, the working class-- deprived of a political voice, its social gains of the Weimar Republic reversed, and exposed in the shadow of mass unemployment to the brutal exploitation of employers backed by the repressive apparatus of the police state-- had its living standard reduced in the first years of the Third Reich even from the lowly level of the depression era. The slight rise in real wages in the later 1930s was a by-product of the armaments boom, and was accompanied by intensified pressure-- physical and mental-- upon the industrial workforce. The class position of workers remained basically unchanged into the middle of the war-- except that the most extreme exploitation now fell upon foreign workers.

The most significant changes in the nature and composition of German labour occurred in the last phase of the war and were, in the main, the consequences of military service, losses at the Front, destruction of industries, dislocation of the workforce, evacuation and homelessness, and ultimately foreign conquest. Whatever changes had taken place by 1945 were, therefore, a product of Nazism’s collapse more than of its policies while in power. (Ian Kershaw, Nazi Dictatorship, 175-176)
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Postby American Dream » Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:20 pm

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Established in the midst of the 2016 presidential election by VICE Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, the Proud Boys are self-described “western chauvinists” who adamantly deny any connection to the racist “alt-right,” insisting they are simply a fraternal group spreading an “anti-political correctness” and “anti-white guilt” agenda.

Their disavowals of bigotry are belied by their actions: rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists. They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. Indeed, former Proud Boys member Jason Kessler helped to organize the event, which brought together Klansmen, antisemites, Southern racists, and militias. Kessler was only “expelled” from the group after the violence and near-universal condemnation of the Charlottesville rally-goers. Other hardcore members of the so-called "alt-right" have argued that the “western chauvinist” label is just a “PR cuck term” McInnes crafted to gain mainstream acceptance. “Let’s not bullshit,” Brian Brathovd, aka Caeralus Rex, told his co-hosts on the antisemitic The Daily Shoah — one of the most popular alt-right podcasts. If the Proud Boys “were pressed on the issue, I guarantee you that like 90% of them would tell you something along the lines of ‘Hitler was right. Gas the Jews.’”

McInnes himself has ties to the racist right and has contributed to hate sites like VDare.com and American Renaissance, both of which publish the work of white supremacists and so-called “race realists.” He even used Taki’s Magazine — a far-right publication whose contributors include Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor — to announce the founding of the Proud Boys. McInnes plays a duplicitous rhetorical game: rejecting white nationalism and, in particular, the term “alt-right” while espousing some of its central tenets. For example, McInnes has himself said it is fair to call him Islamophobic.

In its own words

"It’s such a rape culture with these immigrants, I don’t even think these women see it as rape. They see it as just like having a teeth [sic] pulled. ‘It’s a Monday. I don’t really enjoy it,’ but that’s what you do. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t have the same trauma as it would for a middle-class white girl in the suburbs because it’s so entrenched into their culture.” — Gavin McInnes, Get Off My Lawn, June 19, 2018

"Muslims have a problem with inbreeding. They tend to marry their first cousins…and that is a major problem here because when you have mentally damaged inbreds — which not all Muslims are, but a disproportionate number are — and you have a hate book called the Koran…you end up with a perfect recipe for mass murder." — Gavin McInnes, Get Off My Lawn, April 24, 2018

“We brought roads and infrastructure to India and they are still using them as toilets. Our criminals built nice roads in Australia but aboriginals keep using them as a bed. The next time someone bitches about colonization, the correct response is ‘You’re welcome.’”
Gavin McInnes, “10 Things I like About White Guys,” Taki’s Magazine, March 2, 2017

“Well look at the canary in the coal mine called Britain. We see guys get away with raping children regularly, and they have excuses like ‘I didn’t understand the word ‘no.’’ We have a woman raped several times in one night. All these guys seem to…they don’t all get away but they seem to get away way too often. And then you have people being jailed for rude tweets and comments when they’re white, so…people in America say ‘Muslim are what? One or two percent of the population? There’s never gonna be sharia law here.’ And I say have a look at Britain. Have a look at Europe. That’s where we’re headed.”
Gavin McInnes, “Get Off My Lawn”, November 4, 2017

“Maybe the reason I’m sexist is because women are dumb. No, I’m just kidding, ladies. But you do tend to not thrive in certain areas — like writing.”
Gavin McInnes, The Gavin McInnes Show, June 28, 2017

“I just realized something. Cory Booker is kind of like Sambo. He’s kind of shucking and jiving for the white man. Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-white suburb. He’s basically a white guy. His parents were very wealthy executives at IBM… .But he wants to be a black dude, so he pretends that he’s down with the brothers and he acts outraged about racism all the time — for white people. That gets him votes from whites.”
Gavin McInnes on his CRTV show “Get Off My Lawn,” January 17, 2018

“The white liberal ethos tells us blacks aren’t at MIT because of racism. They say blacks dominate the prison population for the same reason. They insist America is a racist hellhole where ‘people of color’ have no future. This does way more damage to black youth than the KKK. When you strip people of culpability and tell them the odds are stacked against them, they don’t feel like trying. White liberals make this worse by then using affirmative action to “correct” society’s mistakes. When blacks are forced into schools they aren’t qualified for they have no choice but to drop out. Instead of going back a step to a school they can handle, they tend to give up on higher education entirely. Thanks to the Marxist myth of ubiquitous equality, this ‘mismatch’ leaves blacks less educated than they would have been had they been left to their own devices.”
Gavin McInnes, “America in 2034,” American Renaissance, June 17, 2014

“I’m not a fan of Islam. I think it’s fair to call me Islamophobic.”
Gavin McInnes, NBC interview, 2017

“Palestinians are stupid. Muslims are stupid. And the only thing they really respect is violence and being tough.”
Gavin McInnes, The Gavin McInnes Show, March 8, 2017

“Why don’t we take back Bethlehem? Why don’t we take back Northern Iraq? Why don’t we start our own Crusades? That’s what the Crusades were. They weren’t just someone picking on Muslims for no reason — they were a reaction to Muslim tyranny. We finally fought back.”
Gavin McInnes, The Gavin McInnes Show, March 8, 2017

“Buying woman parts from a hospital and calling yourself a broad trivializes what it is to be a woman. Womanhood is not on a shelf next to wigs and makeup. Similarly, being a dude is quite involved. Ripping your vaginal canal out of your fly doesn’t mean you are going to start inventing shit and knowing how cement works. Being a man is awesome. So is being a woman. We should revere these creations, not revel in their bastardization.”
Gavin McInnes, “Transphobia is Perfectly Natural,” Thought Catalog, August 8, 2014

“I am not afraid to speak out about the atrocities that whites and people of European descent face not only here in this country but in Western nations across the world. The war against whites, and Europeans and Western society is very real and it’s time we all started talking about it and stopped worrying about political correctness and optics.”
Kyle Chapman, who formed the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, a wing of the Proud Boys, Unite America First Peace Rally, Sacramento, California, July 8, 2017

“Put something on the table! Give us a reason to accept you, because you know what? Sharia law ain’t it. Raping women ain’t it. Cutting off clits ain’t it. Throwing gay people of roofs ain’t it. You are a disgrace.”
Pawl Bazile, a production director of Proud Boys’ magazine, on Muslims, March against Sharia rally, New York City, New York, June 10, 2017

Background

Canadian Gavin McInnes has been flaunting his contempt for PC culture for decades. Before entering the fray of right-wing politics, McInnes co-founded VICE Magazine, a publication that came to epitomize hipster culture in the late 1990s and 2000s. While the magazine tended to dabble in provocative and taboo topics — generally under a veneer of irony — McInnes took pleasure in stepping over the line. In 2002, for instance, when a New York Press reporter asked McInnes what he thought about his neighbors in New York’s Williamsburg neighborhood, he responded, “Well, at least they’re not niggers or Puerto Ricans. At least they’re white.”

While presenting his observation as a joke and revenue-generating ruse (“incendiary political statements garnered endless publicity for us,” he later told Gawker), McInnes seems to have meant its underlying sentiment sincerely. “I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of,” he told The New York Times a year later, revealing an ideology that would later form the foundation of the Proud Boys. “I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.” McInnes also started writing for VDare.com, a white nationalist hate site. In one 2005 article, he railed against Canadian multiculturalism and lamented that Jared Taylor, the editor of the race-science newsletter American Renaissance, had not been invited to speak at the University of Ottawa. Ten years later, McInnes would welcome Taylor onto his own show, where the white nationalist spent more than an hour explaining why he believes white people are “better” than African Americans.

McInnes left VICE in 2008, citing creative differences, and pursued a variety of other media projects. But his relationship with mainstream outlets started to erode in 2014 as he began to swap irony for earnestness. As part of an American Renaissance series featuring “race-realist commentators on the future of American race relations,” McInnes offered his predictions alongside fellow contributors like John Derbyshire, Paul Gottfried, Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor. In his piece, McInnes wrote that while he didn’t harbor any hate for minorities, he did for white liberals who subscribed to a “Marxist myth of ubiquitous equally” and refused to acknowledge innate disparities between people of different races — a notion he supported using the long-discredited work of Charles Murray. McInnes insisted he held out hope for the future of American race relations: once “we’re all forced to live side by side, we’ll quickly realize we’re incompatible, and agree to disagree,” he concluded. “The blind utopians at The New York Times will be crushed and the rest of us realists will be dancing in the streets.”

Only months later, McInnes published an article titled “Transphobia is perfectly natural” that prompted his then-employer, the ad agency Rooster, to indefinitely sever ties with him. “We’re all transphobic,” he wrote in the Thought Catalog piece. “We see there are no old trannies. They die of drug overdoses and suicide way before they’re 40 and nobody notices because nobody knows them. They are mentally ill gays who need help, and that doesn’t include being maimed by physicians.” McInnes has also referred to transgender people as “gender niggers” and “stupid lunatics.” McInnes’ repugnant rhetoric extends to women, too. He’s written that “through trial and error, I learned that women want to be downright abused” by men, and, in a tweet, that “Every guy I’ve ever known to be involved in a ‘domestic’ was the result of some cunt trying to ruin his life.”

With former business partners turning him away, in the spring of 2015 McInnes formed a partnership with the Canadian far-right video channel Rebel Media and, a couple months later, launched “The Gavin McInnes Show” with Compound Media. On both platforms, he regularly chatted with right-wing guests (his first show featured the far-right provocateur and former Breitbart reporter Milo Yiannopoulos) and carved out an ideological space for frustrated young men to rally around: western culture is superior to all others, racism is a myth created by guilty white liberals, Islam is a culture of violence, and feminism “is about de-masculinizing men,” he told his audience. A group of like-minded men at Compound Media — who bonded over their shared frustration with PC culture — began to meet in New York City dive bars. From these gatherings, the Proud Boys were born, and McInnes officially introduced the group in Taki’s in September 2016.

There are three degrees of membership within the Proud Boys, and to become a first degree in the “pro-West fraternal organization” a prospective member simply has to declare “I am a western chauvinist, and I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” To enter the second degree, a Proud Boy has to endure a beating until they can yell out the names of five breakfast cereals (in order to demonstrate “adrenaline control”) and give up masturbation because, in theory, it will leave them more inclined to go out and meet women. Those who enter the third degree have demonstrated their commitment by getting a Proud Boys tattoo. Any man — no matter his race or sexual-orientation — can join the fraternal organization as long as they “recognize that white men are not the problem.” Women have their own contingent called the Proud Boys’ Girls.

Members are identifiable by more than ink: they sport yellow-trimmed black Fred Perry polos and yell the tongue-in-cheek catchphrase “Uhuru!” — a Swahili word they picked up from a YouTube video in which an activist talks to white people about reparations. Their name comes from an Aladdin song, “Proud of Your Boy.” They adhere to a list of libertarian-leaning principles, including opposition to the drug war, racial guilt, and political correctness, and support for small government, closed borders, and “Venerating the Housewife.”

The oddball humor that tinges Proud Boys culture, and creates a set of references incomprehensible to those on the outside, has attracted a surprisingly large number of men. There is an obvious overlap between their views and those of President Donald Trump, whose election in 2016 played a clear role in increasing Proud Boys’ membership. A red MAGA hat is nearly as prominent at Proud Boys gatherings as their Fred Perry polos, and, in fact, one of their first public outings was at a pro-Trump art show – called #DaddyWillSaveUS – where McInnes displayed photos of himself as a white slave. It’s a favorite mythical reference of his as well as neo-Nazis and white nationalists; one episode of his Rebel Media show centered on the notion that the “history of slavery is rife with white slaves.”

The Proud Boys took off after the presidential election. Each of their official Facebook and Twitter pages had over 20,000 followers at the end of 2017. The website Rewire estimates there are roughly 6,000 members. Group meetings, according to McInnes, “usually consist of drinking, fighting, and reading aloud from Pat Buchanan’s Death of the West.”


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby Karmamatterz » Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:50 pm

Plebs will keep eating shit, and plebs will keep on hating.


It's a breath of fresh air that you're no longer a mod and have relaxed into writing and not moderating.
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Postby 82_28 » Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:10 pm

Shit be fucked. Bannon is about to drop this.



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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Tue Sep 11, 2018 12:55 am

Faith Goldy's Book Club: "The Turner Diaries" and Julius Evola

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No doubt many readers will justifiably focus on Goldy "liking" the recommendation of "The Turner Diaries":

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An excerpt from the novel is as follows:

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Interesting she brings up Christianity in relation to Evola:

The Alt-Right's Intellectual Darling Hated Christianity

So who is Julius Evola?
Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974), better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher, painter, and esotericist. He has been described as a "fascist intellectual," a "radical traditionalist," "antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular," and as having been "the leading philosopher of Europe's neofascist movement."

Evola is popular in fringe circles, largely because of his extreme metaphysical, magical, and supernatural beliefs (including belief in ghosts, telepathy, and alchemy), and his extreme traditionalism and misogyny. He himself termed his philosophy "magical idealism." Many of Evola's theories and writings were centered on his idiosyncratic mysticism, occultism, and esoteric religious studies, and this aspect of his work has influenced occultists and esotericists. Evola also justified rape (among other forms of male domination of women) because he saw it "as a natural expression of male desire". This misogynistic outlook stemmed from his extreme right views on gender roles, which demanded absolute submission from women.

According to the scholar Franco Ferraresi, "Evola's thought can be considered one of the most radical and consistent anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-popular systems in the twentieth century. It is a singular (though not necessarily original) blend of several schools and traditions, including German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism, and the all-embracing Weltanschauung of the interwar conservative revolutionary movement with which Evola had a deep personal involvement". Historian Aaron Gillette described Evola as "one of the most influential fascist racists in Italian history". He admired SS head Heinrich Himmler, whom he once met. Evola spent World War II working for the Sicherheitsdienst. During his trial in 1951, Evola denied being a fascist and instead referred to himself as a "superfascist". Concerning this statement, historian Elisabetta Cassina Wolff wrote that "It is unclear whether this meant that Evola was placing himself above or beyond Fascism".

Evola was the "chief ideologue" of Italy's radical right after World War II. He continues to influence contemporary traditionalist and neo-fascist movements.

Evola was also the 1930s version of Tinder in helping hook Mussolini up with Hitler:

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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:09 pm

Fascist fight clubs: how white nationalists use MMA as a recruiting tool

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Mixed martial arts provides a unique platform for white supremacists to promote their ideology and recruit new members. It allows far-right extremists to draw parallels between their training regimens and the appropriation of faux-medieval culture and history to suit their racist aims. Many such groups, including White Rex and RAM, view their MMA gyms as training grounds for upcoming race wars. They use Roman and Germanic mythology to romanticize their nationalist fervour, while brainwashing youth into “defending” their homeland against a common threat.

“As far as I can tell, it is basically this idea that they need to come together – essentially like an army – to protect their race, which they see as being attacked.” Schatz explained.

RAM is not the only group in the United States engaging in MMA and street fighting. A group of young, pro-Trump white men recently formed the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights (FOAK) and announced that it would serve as the “tactical defensive arm” of the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization started by Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes. Kyle Chapman, the founder of FOAK, revealed that his group plans to “protect and defend our right-wing brethren when the police and government fail to do so.” Other similar groups have since sprouted in Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

It is likely that white-nationalist fight gyms will continue to sprout across North America and Europe for the foreseeable future. Their ability to not only operate in the open, but to also establish a worldwide network of violent, well-trained white supremacists, emphasizes the extent of the problems facing Western society.


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Re: Fight Club, Evola and Secret Societies

Postby American Dream » Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:32 pm

Nazis in Wolves Clothing, Part 2: I am Jack’s Borderline Personality Disorder

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Jack exudes confidence because he has become adept at finding his way into a group or subculture, studying its social hierarchy, then exploiting it for his own pleasure. The Wolves aren’t the first group he has done this to, yet this grift has been the most stable due to the confines of the Wolves’ own ignorance, as well as the relative newness and malleability of their organization. Jack really isn’t Jack at all. His given name is Sean Grady. From what I can glean, Jack’s first foray into infiltration began in the early nineties via the gay night club scene in New York. By his own admission, Jack worked directly for Michael Alig, often as a go-go dancer.

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Alig plead guilty to first degree manslaughter in 1997 after murdering, dismembering and dumping the body of an associate into the Hudson River over a delinquent drug debt. Alig remained incarcerated until his parole in 2014. The movie Party Monster was based on Michael Alig’s life. I’m certainly not linking Jack to Alig’s actions. However, I’m saying this was the beginning of a pattern of behavior wherein Jack seeks out bizarrely bright flames of human attention, then hitches himself to them.

Jack shows up again in the late nineties, now sporting his first pseudonym Jack Malebranche, as a member of The Church of Satan. His choice of the surname Malebranche wasn’t surprising. Malebranche means, “evil claws” and is the title given to the demons of Dante’s Inferno. Disappointingly, his self given first name, “Jack” was ripped directly from, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. In the book, and movie, the abandoned house where Tyler Durden squats is filled with pamphlets explaining maladies by ascribing them to a fictional character named Jack. For example, “I am Jack’s colon.” and so on. Jack Donovan is quite fond of Chuck Palahniuk, mentioning him often as an influence on his own work. Chuck’s idea of a male only club, where men can challenge themselves, physically fight and obtain a place in an insular tribal hierarchy plays heavily into Jack’s work. None of these things are inherently bad, per se, but as time progressed Jack began weaving this idea into a wider philosophy of White Tribalism.


In the past year, Jack and Paul have taken their pseudo-fight club to the next level by implementing Operation Werewolf, which is obviously snatched directly from Fight Club’s, “Operation Mayhem.” The section of their web page entitled, “What is Operation Werewolf” even states the following,

“Mixing together equal parts Fight Club, strength regimen, motorcycle club and esoteric order,”

The Fight Club worship is rather sad, as these adult men have taken a piece of fiction and attempted to turn it into reality. However, the motorcycle gang reference is troubling. Like a motorcycle gang their initiation is brutal and long. Pledges must be sponsored, and it takes years of devotion to be granted access to the inner circle. Criminal motorcycle gangs engage in this extreme hazing to insure they aren’t infiltrated by government agents because they are often major suppliers of drugs, gun running and human trafficking. Are the Wolves involved in this? Probably not. But why all the secrecy? Wide open Nazism is still taboo, despite a glut of, “red pilled” idiots anonymously pushing its ideas into the mainstream via, Twitter, 4 Chan and Reddit. How does Chuck Palaniuk feel about Jack Donovan? From what I can tell, down right chummy. Chuck can be seen with Jack in the picture below from August 17, 2015.

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