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Category Archives: Nationalism
Ethno-Nationalism Vs Civic Nationalism (7-9-18)
I moderate this debate: MP3. From MSU: Ethnic nationalism 1. Nationhood is defined by language, religion, customs & traditions 2. According to ethnic nationalists, –it is not the state that creates the nation but the nation that creates the state … Continue reading
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How the white power movement uses cell-style terrorism
Amazon: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating … Continue reading
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NYT: Friendship’s Dark Side: ‘We Need a Common Enemy’
MP3 From the New York Times: Take the new evidence that people choose friends who resemble themselves, right down to the moment-to-moment pattern of blood flow in the brain. The tendency toward homophily, toward flocking together with birds of your … Continue reading
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Tabletmag: ‘Eagles Fans, the NFL’s Most Notorious, Have an Important Spiritual Lesson to Teach Us – We need a little rowdy tribalism’
I think this is the first time I’ve liked anything Liel Liebovitz had to say. He writes: Why would anyone put up with this behavior, let alone revel in it? Why tolerate such boorishness, inflected as it is with violence … Continue reading
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White Nationalism Is Spreading In The Orthodox Community
Listen. Anti-Trump activist Elad Nahori writes for the Forward: Something disturbing has been happening in the Orthodox world. White Nationalist language is infiltrating our public spaces. It’s happening in our shuls, in our communities, in our schools, and of course, … Continue reading
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
All victimologies fuel nationalism and all nationalisms contain the capacity for genocide. As Maj. Kong noted: “Anti-Semitism is as natural to Western civilization as anti-Christianity is to Jewish civilization, Islamic civilization and Japanese civilization.” Different groups have different interests. Much … Continue reading
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JF, LUKE FORD & VEE: Race, Immigration, Nationalism, and the future of Western Civilization
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They’ll Explain When They’re Done
Don’t pay too much attention to which white nationalists (WNs) are for mass genocide and which are for expatriation and which are for incentives and separate homelands. They’ll explain when they’re done, when they’ve created their homogeneous white homelands and … Continue reading
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Jewish Nationalist David Brooks Is Appalled By Tribalism
According to Wikipedia: Brooks met his first wife, the former Jane Hughes, while both were students at the University of Chicago. She converted to Judaism[90] and changed her given name to Sarah.[91] In November 2013, David and Sarah Brooks divorced.[92][93] … Continue reading
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How Does Jewish Nationalism Compare With White Nationalism?
“Nationalism is all about creating myths about how wonderful your country is,” says John Mearsheimer in a recent video. In many ways, Jewish nationalism and white nationalism have more in common with each other than either do with Christianity. Both … Continue reading
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