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White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots - A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it


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2019 Mar 19, 3:49am   1,588 views  18 comments

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Robert Bowers wanted everyone to know why he did it.

“I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered,” he posted on the social-media network Gab shortly before allegedly entering the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27 and gunning down 11 worshippers.

He “wanted all Jews to die,” he declared while he was being treated for his wounds. Invoking the specter of white Americans facing “genocide,” he singled out HIAS, a Jewish American refugee-support group, and accused it of bringing “invaders in that kill our people.”

Then–Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announcing that Bowers would face federal charges, was unequivocal in his condemnation: “These alleged crimes are incomprehensibly evil and utterly repugnant to the values of this nation.”

The pogrom in Pittsburgh, occurring just days before the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, seemed fundamentally un-American to many. Sessions’s denunciation spoke to the reality that most Jews have found a welcome home in the United States.

His message also echoed what has become an insistent refrain in the Donald Trump era. Americans want to believe that the surge in white-supremacist violence and recruitment—the march in Charlottesville, Virginia, where neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us”; the hate crimes whose perpetrators invoke the president’s name as a battle cry—has no roots in U.S. soil, that it is racist zealotry with a foreign pedigree and marginal allure.

Warnings from conservative pundits on Fox News about the existential threat facing a country overrun by immigrants meet with a similar response. “Massive demographic changes,” Laura Ingraham has proclaimed, mean that “the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore” in much of the country: Surely this kind of rhetoric reflects mere ignorance. Or it’s just a symptom of partisan anxiety about what those changes may portend for Republicans’ electoral prospects. As for the views and utterances of someone like Congressman Steve King (“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies”), such sentiments are treated as outlandish extremism, best ignored as much as possible.

The concept of “white genocide”—extinction under an onslaught of genetically or culturally inferior nonwhite interlopers—may indeed seem like a fringe conspiracy theory with an alien lineage, the province of neo-Nazis and their fellow travelers. In popular memory, it’s a vestige of a racist ideology that the Greatest Generation did its best to scour from the Earth.

History, though, tells a different story.



King’s recent question, posed in a New York Times interview, may be appalling: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” But it is apt.

“That language” has an American past in need of excavation. Without such an effort, we may fail to appreciate the tenacity of the dogma it expresses, and the difficulty of eradicating it.

The president’s rhetoric about “shithole countries” and “invasion” by immigrants invites dismissal as crude talk, but behind it lie ideas whose power should not be underestimated.

Grant’s purportedly scientific argument that the exalted “Nordic” race that had founded America was in peril, and all of modern society’s accomplishments along with it, helped catalyze nativist legislators in Congress to pass comprehensive restrictionist immigration policies in the early 1920s.

His book went on to become Adolf Hitler’s “bible,” as the führer wrote to tell him.

Grant’s doctrine has since been rejuvenated and rebranded by his ideological descendants as “white genocide” (the term genocide hadn’t yet been coined in Grant’s day).

In an introduction to the 2013 edition of another of Grant’s works, the white nationalist Richard Spencer warns that “one possible outcome of the ongoing demographic transformation is a thoroughly miscegenated, and thus homogeneous and ‘assimilated,’ nation, which would have little resemblance to the White America that came before it.” This language is vintage Grant.

Most Americans, however, quickly forgot who Grant was—but not because the country had grappled with his vision’s dangerous appeal and implications. Reflexive recoil was more like it:

When Nazism reflected back that vision in grotesque form, wartime denial set in. Jonathan Peter Spiro, a historian and the author of Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant (2009), described the backlash to me this way: “Even though the Germans had been directly influenced by Madison Grant and the American eugenics movement, when we fought Germany, because Germany was racist, racism became unacceptable in America. Our enemy was racist; therefore we adopted antiracism as our creed.”

Ever since, a strange kind of historical amnesia has obscured the American lineage of this white-nationalist ideology.

The seed of Nazism’s ultimate objective—the preservation of a pure white race, uncontaminated by foreign blood—was in fact sown with striking success in the United States.

What is judged extremist today was once the consensus of a powerful cadre of the American elite, well-connected men who eagerly seized on a false doctrine of “race suicide” during the immigration scare of the early 20th century. They included wealthy patricians, intellectuals, lawmakers, even several presidents.

Perhaps the most important among them was a blue blood with a very impressive mustache, Madison Grant. He was the author of a 1916 book called The Passing of the Great Race, which spread the doctrine of race purity all over the globe.

Full Article, Longer Read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/

Note: Trump supporters are welcome, as usual, to immediately post a "reaction" to the headlines or the small part of the article that appears above.





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1   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Mar 19, 9:15am  

Because.... we all know Russians are not white nationalists. They take a lot of black and brown refugees.....

Why not attack your dear Putin for being a white nationalist?
2   anonymous   2019 Mar 19, 11:49am  

Heraclitusstudent says
Why not attack your dear Putin for being a white nationalist?


Nice spin and deflection but the subject matter is the roots of white nationalism, in America, especially the part everyone would like to ignore and forget about and then pretend doesn't exist today.
3   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Mar 19, 11:53am  

Sure we can go back to slavery and judge the past through the lens of today's moral.
Why not go further: Vlad the impaler: historical root of white people being bad?

A far more relevant question is: Why are Russian trolls coming here and attacking us when they themselves compare so badly?
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 19, 11:54am  

Hey Kak, didn't Ted Kennedy swear up and down his Immigration Bill wouldn't fundamentally alter the Demographics of the USA?

It could possibly be second order effects, that the importation of millions of unskilled people from shithole countries, most of whom end up benefits and the rest crush wages, might have engendered a blowback?

The real surprise is how little violence there has been from Whites. Whereas 1% of the population is killing people all the time relative to their tiny proportion of the population.

And, the Left is encouraging non-Assimilation and demanding more and more sacrifice from the native population on the importee's behalf, making a joke of the Social Contract.

It's also hilarious how the Left thinks the immigrants are going to be dirt cheap workers that stay 25 years old until the day they die and pretends they'll never demand disability & other benefits 20-30 years from now, or that the Left won't fall over itself to extend benefits - which many of these off-the-books workers never paid - to them when the time comes.

Another form of Cloward-Pilven (thanks @AD)
5   AD   2019 Mar 19, 12:06pm  

Kakistocracy says
Heraclitusstudent says
Why not attack your dear Putin for being a white nationalist?


It depends on which Russian Intel Officer (or KGB operator), or perhaps foreign actor, is behind the keyboard and typing under the username Kakistrocracy.

I think there may be multiple foreign actors using Kaki's account. This time around, it seems we got the more bipolar and dark version to post this thread about white nationalism in the USA.
6   anonymous   2019 Mar 19, 12:19pm  

Nice spins guys - very well done.

Lets go back now and talk about the White Nationalist Movement that doesn't exist, the violence that increasing form these groups, the thinly veiled threats from Potus about his armed backers...

How about talking in the spike in White Nationalist Violence (look it up yourselves) that has been reported on the last few months that has occurred in the last 12-18 months

Try to spin this over to the left did this, the left did that, immigrants and everything else and ignore the ugly truth - white America and white people everywhere are shitting themselves they will soon be the minority and eventually they will lose control of the "machine".
7   AD   2019 Mar 19, 12:21pm  

MisterLearnToCode says
Another form of Cloward-Pilven (thanks @AD)


It is called "what is the net effect of an oversupply of 3rd world indigenous to the USA in a 21st century (i.e., automated, technology based) economy" ?

Case in point, LA Times has reported that there is on average going to be a 7% increase in Los Angeles county property taxes due to the agreement to end the public school teacher strike. Now what is driving up the costs and enrollment in the LA public schools while tax revenue seems to not be able to keep up with it ? Perhaps due to 3 immigrant families living in 1 household ?
8   AD   2019 Mar 19, 12:23pm  

Kakistocracy says
Lets go back now and talk about the White Nationalist Movement that doesn't exist,


Lets face the fact that it is very small compared to AntiFa, and other militant Left wing movements, as well as Islam-based terrorist activity.

Stop putting out strawman arguments against the USA white population to promote your (or the Kremlin's, Tel Aviv's, Beijing's, Tehran's, etc.) agenda.
9   anonymous   2019 Mar 19, 12:30pm  

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Kakistocracy says

Lets go back now and talk about the White Nationalist Movement that doesn't exist,

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Lets face the fact that it is very small compared to AntiFa, and other militant Left wing movements, as well as Islam-based terrorist activity.

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Let's face the fact you do not need large numbers, just dedicated people. Less than two dozen people brought this country and the economy to it's knees once before, it can and will happen again.

This time the terror will come from the inside and be disguised as patriotism.

Stop the deflection and address the issue and the danger it poses which is far greater than most realize.
10   AD   2019 Mar 19, 12:39pm  

Kakistocracy says
This time the terror will come from the inside and be disguised as patriotism.


Or it could be financed by, encouraged by, or carried out by foreign actors in a false flag operation.
11   anonymous   2019 Mar 19, 12:55pm  

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Kakistocracy says

This time the terror will come from the inside and be disguised as patriotism.
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Or it could be financed by, encouraged by, or carried out by foreign actors in a false flag operation.

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It will be financed from within, encouraged from within with or without foreign actors (they do provide great distractions and a built in enemy to attack though) and will be done in the name of Patriotism to save the country from the evils that want to destroy us.

Once the country is paralyzed and the opening exists to "save" it, the real terror and destruction begins.
12   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Mar 19, 2:52pm  

Kakistocracy says
This time the terror will come from the inside and be disguised as patriotism.

... and the propaganda will keep coming from Russian trolls.
13   MrMagic   2019 Mar 19, 3:10pm  

Kakistocracy says
Adolf Hitler’s


Kakistocracy says
Nazism


Kakistocracy says
WhiteNationalism


Kakistocracy says
Trump supporters


TDS Folks.... It's real.
14   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 19, 5:11pm  

Kakistocracy says
This time the terror will come from the inside and be disguised as patriotism.


Not as patriotism, but as "Global Citizenship"



15   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 19, 5:13pm  



The Norwegian Gal who posted this to Zuckbook was beheaded in North Africa visiting the Most Peaceful People a few years later.
16   AD   2019 Mar 19, 5:15pm  

Yes Maren Ueland who posted that to Facebook died at the hands of Islamic terrorists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Louisa_Vesterager_Jespersen_and_Maren_Ueland
17   anonymous   2019 Mar 20, 4:56am  

MisterLearnToCode says

Not as patriotism, but as "Global Citizenship"


And all wrapped up under the guise of "National Security" and keeping the country free of religious persecution as long as someone believes in the correct religion and denomination.
18   AD   2019 Mar 20, 12:40pm  

Kakistocracy says
"Global Citizenship"


Yes, and that is what is going to drive the USA government spending.

You are seeing the impacts now if you are in Los Angeles. No one wanting to point to the influx of ESL students.

LA Times says the LA County Public School System, once the crown jewel of the USA public education system, is operating under poor conditions. So now they propose a 7% property tax increase.

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