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Category Archives: Nationalism
Will European Soccer Fans Turn Nationalist Soldiers?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * An example of a soccer fan club turning to militant nationalist politics when the rubber hit the road is early 1990s Yugoslavia. Down in Serbia, a certain unsavory, underworld, and semi-criminal character who called himself … Continue reading
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The West Needs More Ethnocentrism, Less Pathological Altruism
Richard Rorty writes: If we Westerners could get rid of the notion of universal moral obligation created by membership in the species, and substitute the idea of building a community of trust between ourselves and others, we might be in … Continue reading
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Max Blumenthal: How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
Max Blumenthal, a journalist of the left who opposes all ethno-nationalisms including the Israel expression, writes: AlterNet has learned that an amendment to the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have forbidden US assistance, training and weapons to … Continue reading
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LAT: On Web, white supremacists stir up a growing and angry audience
From the Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2015: On July 14, 2013, a white supremacist named Andrew Anglin, bewildered by black Americans’ outrage over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, began typing out thoughts on what he saw as a … Continue reading
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Welcome To Lieth
A friend says: If you can, go see the documentary Welcome to Lieth, if only for the purety of its SPLC propaganda, right down to the ominous music as it discusses white nationalism. Really appalling. I mean, the guy they … Continue reading
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Understanding Hitler’s Hatred Of Jews
Historian Timothy Snyder (author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning): So what Hitler does is he inverts; he reverses the whole way we think about ethics, and for that matter the whole way we think about science. … Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s Rise Sparks Widespread Angst Among Jewish Republicans
Jews fear white nationalism more than anything else in the West. Gentile nationalisms, almost by definition, tend to exclude Jews. Jews love Jewish nationalism, but Jewish groups often prescribe multi-culturalism and diversity for the goyim. Israel, the Jewish state, is … Continue reading
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Spectator: Why does the left care more about Islamophobia than anti-Semitism?
Brendan O’Neill writes: Why do leftists care more about Muslims than they do about Jews? If that sounds confrontational, consider this: this week, the Met Police released the latest hate-crime figures for London. They show that offences against Jews have … Continue reading
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Sociologist James Petras Hates Jews
Anybody who’s a socialist before any other identity is going to hate nationalism, particularly ethno-nationalisms such as Zionism, because socialism, almost universally, has historically denied the importance of race and religion in favor of social class. Jews do best in … Continue reading
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The Origins Of ‘Nazi’
From Wikipedia: The term “Nazi” was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards peasant, characterizing an awkward and clumsy person. It derived from Ignaz, being a shortened version of Ignatius, … Continue reading
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