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Category Archives: Nationalism
Race & Social Engineering In Africa
Paul Johnson writes in his 1983 book Modern Times: The great temptation of colonialism, the worm in its free-market apple, was the itch to indulge in social engineering. It was so fatally easy for the colonial administrator to persuade himself … Continue reading
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What’s The Point Of Non-Jews?
I talk to an Orthodox friend who grew up in a traditional Orthodox section of New York. Luke: “Have there been any gadolim (great rabbis) who wrote or taught about how non-Jews should organize themselves?” Friend: “No. Why would a … Continue reading
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Burying The Lede, Making The Innocent Guilty: The MSM’s New Trick To Evade Narrative Collapse
Paul Ciotti writes: The New York Times reporter said it was “chilling” that Roof had concluded that no white supremacist groups were doing anything but “talking on the Internet.” Shoot, I would have thought the New York Times would be … Continue reading
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Is It Wrong To Hate A Group?
I don’t believe in any such sin as prejudice, bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, though frequently that hatred can be maladaptive because a more open attitude to out-groups is more in your best interest. In some circumstances, openness to strangers is to … Continue reading
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Yahoo Finance Exclusive: Earl Holt started giving money to GOP pols after marrying the widow of a Jewish businessman
Yahoo: “As president of a white nationalist group linked with the murders of nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. on June 17, Earl P. Holt III is straddling the uneasy boundary between free speech and racial hatred.” How can there be … Continue reading
Jews, Whites & Women
I had a chat this week with two Jewesses and a goy. It went something like this: One Jew got an email from a goy about Jews that read in part: “That they deliberately bred Talmudic scholars may have selected … Continue reading
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Rabbis: An Anti-Semitic Incident Adds to Austria’s Shame
Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein of the Simon Wiesenthal Center write for Newsweek: Now comes word that a landlord in Vienna is “offended” by the display of an Israeli flag inside a window of an apartment first placed there … Continue reading
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When Jews Were Of One Heart
On the first day of Shuvuot, the Torah reading was Exodus 19-20 about the divine revelation at Mount Sinai. Rashi comments on Exodus 19:2 that the Israelites were of one heart before the revelation. Throughout Judaism, Jewish unity is praised. … Continue reading
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White Nationalist Environmentalist Garrett Hardin
The SPLC calls Garrett Hardin a white nationalist. Most of the SPLC’s complaints against him are “hate facts,” unpleasant truths the SPLC can’t refute. Jeff* emails: Dear Luke, It was great to see you mention Garrett Hardin in your blog. … Continue reading
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If I Were A White Nationalist, How Would I Feel About Jews?
I am a convert to Orthodox Judaism and I oscillate between having a God-centered universalist Torah worldview (aka ethical-monotheism) and a naturalistic tribal worldview. Because I know what it is like to belong to a tribe, I expect all groups … Continue reading
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