Posted on 08/14/2017 12:26:26 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Charlottesville is what happens when the Left empowers extremists.
In Dallas, a black nationalist activist shot and killed 5 police officers at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally. Instead of condemning BLM, Barack Obama defended a racist hate group whose role model is Assata Shakur, a wanted black nationalist cop killer, at the funerals of the murdered officers.
The left killed civil rights and replaced it with black nationalism. The racial supremacism of black nationalism that killed those officers is everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi are lionized as brilliant thinkers instead of hateful racists, Amazon has ordered a black nationalist secessionist fantasy from Aaron McGruder and Showtime aired ‘Guerilla,’ a miniseries glamorizing Black Panther terrorism.
But racism is a two-way street. So is violence. Extremists feed into each other.
You can’t legitimize one form of racism without legitimizing all of them. The media may advance this hypocritical position. Obama used the shameful “reverse racism” euphemism that distinguishes between black and white racism. But propaganda and spin don’t change the physics of human nature.
Either all racism is bad. Or all racism is acceptable.
Charlottesville is what happens when you normalize racism and street violence. Every normalization of extremism equally normalizes the extremism of the opposite side.
A civil society depends on a consensus. ‘Racism is bad’ is an example of such a consensus. If you normalize black nationalism, you will get more white nationalism. If you normalize leftist street violence against Trump supporters, you will also get more street violence against leftists.
Extremists want to eliminate the consensus of civil society. They want to destroy the idea that there’s any solution except violence through confrontations that show the helplessness of civil society.
That’s true of black nationalists and white nationalists, of Communists and Nazis, of Antifa and Vanguard, of the tankies and hipster Nazis of the Alt-Left and the Alt-Right. They’re a set of evil twins and when you unleash one, you unleash the other. Their real enemies aren’t each other, but everyone in the middle. The bourgeois normies who don’t want to replace society with their totalitarian nightmare.
Street violence raises the bar so that only the violent will participate in protests. If you “no platform” campus speakers, then the only speakers you get will be those willing to face bomb threats, arson, and physical assaults. If you fire people for their views, political activism becomes the province of anonymous trolls and unemployed street thugs. Extremism limits political discourse to extremists.
If Democrats really want to stop the rise of Neo-Nazi violence, there’s a very easy way. Stop normalizing black nationalism and the Alt-Left. End the racist witch hunts for white privilege. Make it clear that street violence is unacceptable and that racism is bad no matter who it comes from. Allow people you disagree with to express their views without trying to destroy their lives.
But that’s the opposite of what the Dems will do. They don’t want fewer Neo-Nazis; they want more of them. They don’t want fewer attacks like Charlottesville and Charleston. They want more of them.
The Dems have become an extremist party run by the radical left. Obama, Holder, and Lynch made common cause with black nationalist hate groups against civil society. It began when Obama defended the vile racism of Jeremiah Wright and concluded with DOJ organized race riots. DNC boss Tom Perez addresses La Raza and his deputy Keith Ellison is a veteran of the Nation of Islam.
The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country. It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech. It seeks to eliminate democracy by making the other side appear nightmarishly dangerous. It plots to impose a totalitarian system on the United States by empowering extremists to destroy the current system.
And their opposite numbers waving swastika flags want the same thing. The difference is that they don’t control the Republican Party the way that the Alt-Left and black nationalists control the Democrats.
Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails. And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure.
Conservatives don’t have that kind of power. It’s the left that does.
Liberals, if there are any left on the left, can shut down racism and extremism. Or they can continue normalizing it until it’s mainstream and meaningless.
If you want to understand how we got to Charlottesville, the events at Evergreen State on the other side of the country are as good a place as any to start.
Evergreen’s President Bridges, the progressive who had called for safe spaces and allowed intersectional left-wing racists to terrorize his campus over their demands for racial segregation, was asked in an interview about accusations that he is a white supremacist.
Bridges replied that he doesn’t believe that he is a white supremacist. And then added, “It depends on what you mean by white supremacist.” He concedes, “I am a white person in a position of privilege.”
White privilege is how the intersectional left defines white supremacy. Any white people who aren’t allying with them to destroy Western civilization are defined as white supremacists. And even those who do, like Bridges, can always be accused of white supremacy for not destroying it hard enough.
When you spend enough time accusing everyone who doesn’t share your politics or even your race of racism, you make the term meaningless.
That’s what the left did over eight years of Obama. By the time the election rolled around, Hillary was defining all Trump voters as racists and sexists.
When you spend enough time crying wolf, eventually a real wolf appears. A real wolf showed up in Charlottesville.
The left spent eight years dismantling any meaningful definition of racism for political reasons. The practical effect of their actions was to eliminate social sanctions for actual racists.
And the real racists were happy to take advantage of the new climate.
When the left insists that everyone with white skin is part of white supremacy, that Shakespeare, Beethoven and all of Western civilization embody white supremacy, it’s echoing the actual talking points of white supremacy.
If you tell all Obama critics and Trump supporters that they’re racists often enough, some will decide that maybe they are racists.
If you tell a student who objects to racially segregated areas on campus that she is a white supremacist, she will be more likely to become one.
When you marginalize everyone to the right of you, some of the marginalized will accept the definition.
And when that happens, the left wins, the extremists win, and it becomes harder to maintain any kind of functioning civil society in which we settle conflicts through compromises rather than street violence.
Compromises are uncomfortable.
After the Civil War, the Union was preserved, but Southerners were allowed to honor their cause. It was an uncomfortable compromise, but it helped limit the violence from a conflict that had claimed the lives of 2% of the population. The Taliban campaign by black nationalists to tear down Confederate memorials was a deliberate effort at shattering a compromise that kept civil society working.
And that too led to Charlottesville.
Uncomfortable compromises are how we learn to live with each other. It means that there can be memorials of Robert E. Lee and streets named after Malcolm X. Tolerating people whose views we don’t like is one of the best ways to marginalize domestic extremists. When one set of extremists is empowered to wipe out the other, we end up with a civil war. Just ask Edmund Ruffin and John Brown.
Democrats claim a mandate from the “Right Side of History” to eliminate all the compromises. Catholic nuns must pay for abortions and birth control, Christian bakers and florists must participate in gay weddings, every white person must confess their racism, and every left-wing extremist must get their way.
That’s how you tear a society apart.
The Bill of Rights is an uncomfortable compromise. It says that we have to put up with people we don’t like. The Democrats, under the influence of the left, are rejecting that idea. But that goes both ways too.
You can have a liberal society or an illiberal one. But you can’t have a society that is selectively liberal when it comes to your bigotry, but illiberal of the bigotry of others, that believes you have the right to say anything you please without consequences, but that no one else does, that you can punch, but not be punched. That’s a totalitarian state. And the only way to realize it is through violence.
Democrats need to take an honest look at the street violence in Seattle, in Portland, in Berkeley and Charlottesville, and decide if this is what they really want. If they don’t, it’s time for them to stop normalizing left-wing extremism. If they do, then they are to blame for the next Dallas or Charlottesville.
This is a much better article on the subject than Matt Walsh’s. I get tired of people virtue signalling their way into the subject like Walsh and many others have been lately. It does nothing to really address the problem but only serves to elevate these people into the spotlight, like they are above it all and talking down to the peons.
Well done Daniel Greenfield!
We should remove the legal fig leafs that whites have full legal protection or freedom to advocate as a group.
Trump needs to come out and call for a ban on white identity politics.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Hell, the Democrats don’t want to stop neo-nazis. They want them doing their seditious work.
“Learn This One Simple Trick To Stop Neo-Nazis: Democrats Hate Him!”
Trump needs to come out and call for a ban on white identity politics.
Actually, some white identity politics is perfectly respectable because it is left wing (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Manx, Cornish, Basque, Catalan, Quebec). I don't know why the Cajuns don't grab a piece of the pie. An awful lot of them supported Jerry Brown back when he ran for President.
Right white identity politics has one big problem: it is anti-Jewish. Even small government, anti-totalitarian, anti-national socialist right white identity politics is not only explicitly anti-Jewish--it identifies the Jews as THE enemy and the source of all evil in the world. I personally would have no problem with simple white identitarianism per se (provided it didn't begin claiming prerogatives that belong Halakhically only to `Am Yisra'el), but so long as white identitarianism declares itself an enemy of the Chosen People it is my deadly enemy, and though I condemn its leftist opponents equally (or more, when they cause the whole situation in the first place), I will never make peace with it. Do any white identitarians think they can cut out the Jew-hatred???
The mildest "identitarian" white right blames the Jews not only for Communism, but for homosexuality, abortion, pornography and obscenity, pedophilia (the Jews' alleged current project), but now even for moslems. There was actually a time when the anti-Jewish right supported Arabs/moslems (even the Communist ones) because anyone who kills Jews is their hero. But now that they are the ones on the receiving end of their pets' predations, suddenly "the Jews" brought the moslems here. Hey . . . maybe Arafat was a Jewish Communist after all!
The reason for my philo-Semitism has absolutely nothing to do with the Borscht Belt, Ellis Island, The Jazz Singer, "democracy," "pluralism," "multiculturalism," secularism, or anything else. It is based on one thing and one thing only: loyalty and submission to the Jewish G-d Who created the universe and from Whom alone we know right from wrong. (This is another crime of the white identitarians: they pretend they invented morality and that it comes from Indo-European chromosomes rather than from HaShem.) The white race can kiss my tail. The "west" is a direction on a map. And the Jacobinical Thomas Jefferson should have been beheaded in the Terror he so enthusiastically supported.
Anyone who holds a conservative or traditionalist position on any issue whatsoever can only be a quasi-ally--never an ally--because to do otherwise would be putting something else ahead of G-d A-mighty.
The greatest society in history existed over three thousand years ago, and the greatest and most pressing issue of our time is that all the events described in Genesis 1-11 actually happened. Anyone who puts "European man" or "western civilization" ahead of those things will inevitably become an enemy in time.
FTR much I admire about the zionists and if you are in Israel and ready to defend your people and their culture I respect that.
“We should be better neighbors” goes both ways
Stole my thunder, but you’re exactly right.
I'm not Jewish and don't live in Israel (though I've been there). I live in my native Bible Belt.
This is not about "culture." This is about G-d. G-d is not a part of anyone's "culture." G-d is the sovereign King of all existence, whether people believe it or not. Any "gxd" that evolved as a symbol of anyone's "culture" is a fraud.
“We should be better neighbors” goes both ways
The mania against Jews by even mild white identitarians is certainly insane.
Well written article! If the political parties don’t want to take Greenfield’s advice, we’ll see how it all comes out. Our academic, business and political leaders have been striving to take technological tendencies out of us for over 40 years now by taking away our manufacturing base and tools.
When they are ready, we’ll find out if their efforts turned technically inclined people away from technologies for any meaningful duration.
“Dr. Zaius [to humans]: You are a menace. A walking pestilence” (Planet of the Apes, 1968).
Seriously?
The world has been insane ever since the Beit HaMiqdash was destroyed.
Trump needs to come out and call for a ban on white identity politics.
Seriously?
I think junta was being sarcastic.
I like Greenfield.
But he and other pundits insist on indulging the conceit that the Democrats (and RINOs) in any way want to do the right and moral thing - about anything.
There’s more to Oral Law than Talmud. There’s more to Creation with instructions included.
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