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The Angry White Boys Know What They Want
Dismissing the white nationalists in Charlottesville as simply play-acting amounts to a dangerous flinch in the face of evil.***This is from the middle of the article. To understand you must read it all***
Yes, very good, but why did Dylann Roof want to murder black people? Williamson rather glibly dismisses a couple of slogans issued by the Charlottesville torch-wielders that have very real and well-documented ideological roots: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” “White genocide.” “You will not replaces us.” Williamson noticeably leaves out two of the mob’s favorite chants: “Blood and soil!” and “Jews will not replace us.”
The first is a translation, if not literal then in meaning, of lebensraum, an ideological pillar of the Nazis, who sought a “living space” for the master race to expand and thrive. That space must either be cleansed of undesirables (via ethnic cleansing or genocide) or the undesirables must be subjugated as slaves. “Blood and soil,” is an exact translation of a Nazi marching chant that encapsulates this vision of “The Nation.” Of course, such an undertaking cannot be rationalized without a motive, or rather a provocation, and the provocation expressed by the mob is precisely the same as that expressed by Hitler and other ideological racists: “White genocide!” Because the nation is culture, and culture is race, and race is biology (Williamson does well to mention the mob’s great interest in Darwin and evolutionary biology—too bad he doesn’t pursue it!), what happens to the biology is of the utmost importance. It is no coincidence that Andrew Anglin, who runs the fascist website Daily Stormer, which was the website that officially hosted the parade (again, Williamson fails to mention this!) is quoted as having written that any white woman who has mixed-race children is a traitor to her race and therefore her nation. “It’s OUR WOMB. It belongs to the males in her society,” he wrote. (It goes without saying that white males claiming other races’s wombs is certainly not verboten.) White genocide literally refers to the dilution of pure white biology, and therefore white culture and therefore the pure white nation. Political equality of different races achieves the latter, though without miscegenation, and is therefore as virulently opposed.
This is all very cohesive and has been carefully thought out and articulated by generations of thinkers and politicians across the West. Websites like Daily Stormer and the 4/chan/Reddit channels these guys hang out in are often crude, but nonetheless cogent. This is, at the most immediate level, why Dylann Roof wanted to murder black people, and why hundreds of torch-wielding fellow-travelers showed up at Charlottesville to defend the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who would have made such a society possible had he and “the boys in gray” been victorious.
Now, the question of why did Dylan Roof and all the others in the mob come to believe such murderous things is well worth trying to understand. Williamson is right in recognizing that these boys want to be something they are not, and are suffering from a crisis of confidence in their own manhood. (I don’t think it can be over-stressed that the mob was, by and large, made up of rich spoiled brats.) But Williamson confuses these two distinct questions into one and seems to arrive at the conclusion that these boys were merely play-acting.
The first is a translation, if not literal then in meaning, of lebensraum, an ideological pillar of the Nazis, who sought a “living space” for the master race to expand and thrive. That space must either be cleansed of undesirables (via ethnic cleansing or genocide) or the undesirables must be subjugated as slaves. “Blood and soil,” is an exact translation of a Nazi marching chant that encapsulates this vision of “The Nation.” Of course, such an undertaking cannot be rationalized without a motive, or rather a provocation, and the provocation expressed by the mob is precisely the same as that expressed by Hitler and other ideological racists: “White genocide!” Because the nation is culture, and culture is race, and race is biology (Williamson does well to mention the mob’s great interest in Darwin and evolutionary biology—too bad he doesn’t pursue it!), what happens to the biology is of the utmost importance. It is no coincidence that Andrew Anglin, who runs the fascist website Daily Stormer, which was the website that officially hosted the parade (again, Williamson fails to mention this!) is quoted as having written that any white woman who has mixed-race children is a traitor to her race and therefore her nation. “It’s OUR WOMB. It belongs to the males in her society,” he wrote. (It goes without saying that white males claiming other races’s wombs is certainly not verboten.) White genocide literally refers to the dilution of pure white biology, and therefore white culture and therefore the pure white nation. Political equality of different races achieves the latter, though without miscegenation, and is therefore as virulently opposed.
This is all very cohesive and has been carefully thought out and articulated by generations of thinkers and politicians across the West. Websites like Daily Stormer and the 4/chan/Reddit channels these guys hang out in are often crude, but nonetheless cogent. This is, at the most immediate level, why Dylann Roof wanted to murder black people, and why hundreds of torch-wielding fellow-travelers showed up at Charlottesville to defend the statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who would have made such a society possible had he and “the boys in gray” been victorious.
Now, the question of why did Dylan Roof and all the others in the mob come to believe such murderous things is well worth trying to understand. Williamson is right in recognizing that these boys want to be something they are not, and are suffering from a crisis of confidence in their own manhood. (I don’t think it can be over-stressed that the mob was, by and large, made up of rich spoiled brats.) But Williamson confuses these two distinct questions into one and seems to arrive at the conclusion that these boys were merely play-acting.
Read More: http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/08/17/the-angry-white-boys-know-what-they-want/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29
Frightening, yet a must read. This is why we are here today 2017.
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