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Writing in the December 1991 issue of Academic Questions, Fred Siegel, associate professor of history at Cooper Union and a self-described liberal and Democrat, bemoaned a fashionable trend in history writing. The “New Historians,” he quipped, saw American life as “a story of defeat, despair, and domination. American history became a tragedy in three acts: what we did to the Indians, what we did to the African-Americans, and what we did to everyone else.”

That’s a pretty fair description of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn winds up Act 1 of his book on the oppression of Indians and women only to launch into Act 2 on slavery—beginning with an eight-line description from J. Saunders Redding’s 1950 They Came in Chains of the ship carrying the first slaves to the colonies in 1619: “a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frightening ship, a ship of mystery . . . . through her bulwarks black-mouthed cannon yawned. The flag she flew was Dutch; her crew a motley. Her port of call, an English settlement, Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia . . . . her cargo? Twenty slaves.”

Another good American Greatness article. They really have the intelligence that you used to look for in National Review before NR went crazy.

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/30/defining-nationalist-environmentalism/

Defining Nationalist Environmentalism

If “eco-fascism” ever takes hold in America, it will come from the globalist Left, not the nationalist Right.

Edward Ring

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Earlier this year, an opinion columnist for the left-wing Guardian claimed, “eco-fascism is undergoing a revival in the fetid culture of the extreme right.” His observations were in reaction to the New Zealand massacre, where the alleged shooter identified himself as an “eco-fascist.”

This accusation, that the “fetid culture of the extreme right” includes a significant cohort of genocidal eco-fascists, is gaining traction.

Mother Jones just published a report titled, “Anti-Immigration White Supremacy Has Deep Roots in the Environmental Movement” that “highlights far-right extremists’ budding revival of eco-fascism.” That report reprises a New Yorker article from 2015 headlined “Environmentalism’s Racist History.”

Expect more of this from the establishment media: right-wing equals white supremacist equals genocidal eco-fascist.

But where are they going with this new narrative? If their goal is simply to underscore the alleged danger presented by anyone right-of-center, is this truly the best approach? Because it doesn’t stand up to logic, and it risks exposing the illogic of most conventional environmentalist policies.

A Deplatformmed YouTuber Cut Through the Left-Wing Cant

An interesting online commentator with over 450,000 subscribers on YouTube is 23 year old James Allsup. In only two years, his YouTube videos have been watched over 73 million times, and along with attracting nearly a half-million followers, he managed to get himself stamped as a right-wing extremist and “white nationalist” by the usual suspects, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, Media Matters, and others. YouTube banned Allsup and two other popular channels on Monday. You can still find all his videos on BitChute.

Without watching all of Allsup’s more than 200 videos posted to-date, it’s impossible to know exactly what he may have said that crossed some line, wherever that line is drawn. But in a video posted on August 22, he mocked the “white supremacist” label, correctly noting that virtually every mainstream media outlet in America is referring to President Trump as a white supremacist, and that conventional establishment wisdom holds that Trump’s 100 million supporters are also white supremacists. Allsup also amusingly notes that “white supremacy is not supported by science,” since East Asians consistently score higher than whites on IQ tests.

When it comes to “eco-fascism,” however, Allsup’s recent video (still available on BitChute) “Environmentalism is Now RACIST” not only mocks this new narrative coming from the Left, but offers a four-point summary of what he terms “nationalist environmentalism.”