Luke Ford

Comments at Forward.com:

* Breitbart is not alt-right because it does not accept race as being of any importance. Increasingly, Breitbart is noticing race, but it still cannot see it or understand it outside of the moral-framework which the left has set up.

The alt-right operates outside of the moral-framework which the left has set up. An alt-rightist does not bristle with indignation when called a racist — he shrugs and smugly responds, ‘what of it?’

The alt-rightist, like the Breitbart reader, values Western civiization. But the alt-rightist has a better understanding of the origins of western civilization than the breitbart reader. Yes, Christianity was important (as Fukuyama explained in his book ‘the origins of political order’) but race was important too — and still is.

The global south is on the move. Without a unified white response, the white race will be overwhelmed and fall, and with it western civilization. Science, rule of law, entrepreneurship — these are aspects of white culture and will vanish from the face of the earth should the white race fall.

* Europeans will never become minorities in Europe, that’s outrageous and ridiculous and far-fetched and anyway what’s wrong with such an outcome? There shouldn’t be a problem with that. To object would be racist. Actually, it would be great – just think of the diversity! I want it to happen. It is happening, and we should welcome it. It’s everything we have ever desired. And remember, it’s outrageous and ridiculous and far-fetched to suggest it’s happening.

* The Jewish Daily Forward is also a beloved Alt-Right site.

* If you say pseudo-scientific one more time they’re going to shut down the research into Jewish genetic diseases.

* Is it a conspiracy theory to suggest that Jews are overrepresented in positions of power and put their ethnic interests before those of others?

For example, Jewish organizations — and indeed, many Jewish individuals as well — overwhelmingly push for diversity in the West but oppose it in Israel.

Also, is it a conspiracy theory to suggest that Jewish intellectuals have had a significant effect on society? As an ethnic European in the West, many of these intellectuals have advocated things contrary to our interests. The Frankfurt School is a good example.

* Why is it acceptable for Jews to have an ethno-state and advocate for their ethnic interests but not white people?

* Whites have never been threatened with extermination for being white, Jews have suffered attempts to exterminate them for being Jews–that’s the difference.

* Oy Vey whites looking out for their own interests. Shut these sites down.

Ari Feldman writes for the Forward:

The alt-right may bill itself as something new, but its roots are in the white supremacist politicians of the late 20th century.

The movement embraces much of the racism and xenophobia of this elder generation, generating racist cartoons, hosting discussions of “the Jewish question,” and engaging in a passionate online discussion about the scientific justification for racism.

And while some of the “alt-right’s” leaders are maneuvering away from figures that once defined the American extreme right, such as David Duke, he also created the political and ideological road map on which the newer movement has set its course. A former leader of the Klu Klux Klan, Duke once defined white supremacy in the American consciousness.

White supremacist movements have often oscillated between imagining themselves purely as vehicles of hate — carrying out lynchings, church bombings and voter intimidation — and as more benign, “pro-white” organizations. Since at least 1954, the year of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, white supremacists have called for the specific protection of white rights. In October of that year, the leader of a fledgling organization called National Association for the Advancement of White People held a rally in Delaware to protest the rising tide of desegregation. The ostensibly nonviolent NAAWP, started by a “onetime Baltimore contractor who has brushed with the law over bogus checks,” according to Time magazine, was “not anti-Negro but just prowhite [sic].”

Though the original NAAWP petered out within a year, the name was resurrected in 1980 by David Duke after his exit from the KKK. The ambitious former Grand Wizard had decided that the Klan was not the organization from which to launch a political campaign.

“The Klan had gained too much reputation of being violent,” said Tyler Bridges, author of The Rise of David Duke. “What he hoped to do was continue to get the media attention by forming the NAAWP without the baggage of the violence.”

Over the course of his many runs for elected office throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, Duke spoke to the anxieties of working class whites in his home state of Louisiana with rhetoric that would be quite familiar to us in 2016.

“In certain ways Duke was ahead of his time by tapping into the concerns of working class white people — that they were losing their country, that blacks were getting their places in school and at the workplace, and illegal aliens crossing the border took positions that really belonged to them,” said Bridges.

“It was a really a message tapping into grievances — a sense that the country, and the country and the state of Louisiana, were heading in the wrong direction. That the elites were against them,” Bridges added.

Duke turned white supremacy into a vehicle for advocacy, mixing politics with protection of the “sacred white gene pool.” At the same time, white nationalist groups like the New Century Foundation, founded in 1994 by Jared Taylor, sought to help put a respectable face on white supremacy.

They were “suit-and-tie Nazis,” Beirich said. “They wanted to look like respectable characters who were making ‘rational’ arguments about IQ and genetics.”

David Duke’s downfall came when it became clear that his true preoccupation was not race relations, but Jewish control of the world economy and America’s minorities.

“He was branded as an ‘anti-Semitic loser,’” Tyler Bridges said. “If he didn’t have the Jewish part of it he might have had more success in a national way.”

Until this year, Duke’s last campaign was in 1999, which saw him once again repudiated by Republicans across the country. Without another nationally recognized face, American white supremacy seemed to be on a downward spiral for much of the 2000s.

The idea of racial supremacy is unknown among Jews as is racism and xenophobia. Jews never feel the need to dominate anyone.