{"id":105808,"date":"2016-09-07T07:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105808"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:59:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T02:59:22","slug":"the-alt-right-is-political-punk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105808","title":{"rendered":"The Alt-right Is Political Punk Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026 Hillary\u2019s recent speech denouncing the alt-right has raised eyebrows. It was as if in 1976 progressive-rock titans Emerson, Lake & Palmer had released a double album devoted to excoriating this new band nobody had ever heard of before called the Ramones.<\/p>\n

If you can remember back four decades, it might strike you that the alt-right phenomenon of 2016 is basically political punk rock: loud, abrasive, hostile, white, back to basics, and fun.<\/p>\n

Johnny Ramone was not as talented a musician as Keith Emerson, but a decade after Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper\u2019s he had some timely ideas about how rock should get on track again. \u2026<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t seem that way to many at the time. The punk rockers struck most nice people then as barbaric.<\/p>\n

Which they sort of were. That was the point of picking up an electric guitar: to make a lot of noise.<\/p>\n

Even the most deplorable habit of a few on the alt-right\u2014the use of Nazi imagery\u2014has its punk predecessors. The Ramones\u2019 greatest song was \u201cBlitzkrieg Bop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"crzj3fgxyaa1zwk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"crzj3fgwgaehxfk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"crzj3fiwiaa1x5h\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"crzj3fiweaea_6m\"<\/a><\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* Don\u2019t forget the original first lines to \u201cToday your love tomorrow the world\u201d were \u201cI\u2019m a nazi baby a nazi yes I am\u201d<\/p>\n

* The Clash had White Riot. I think they were pretty explicit about being a white identify movement.<\/p>\n

* Along those lines, some snips from a 2006 NYT article<\/a> about the post-punk American hardcore scene:<\/p>\n

\n

How Hard Was Their Core? Looking Back at Anger<\/b><\/p>\n

A new documentary, \u201cAmerican Hardcore,\u201d tells the story of Minor Threat and like-minded bands. And it begins with hardcore veterans talking about the guy Mr. MacKaye wouldn\u2019t sing about. Vic Bondi, from Chicago\u2019s Articles of Faith, talks about the genre as a reaction to Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cwhite man order.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film also hints at an underlying anxiety about race. As one former hardcore kid puts it, the genre was one of the few that \u201cfelt like it wasn\u2019t totally ripping off black culture,\u201d which might be another way of saying it felt white.<\/p>\n

Mr. MacKaye mentions another out-of-step experience \u2014 his years as a white kid in a majority-black school \u2014 by way of explaining his song \u201cGuilty of Being White.\u201d It\u2019s an anti-racist song, he says, meaning anti-anti-white: \u201cYou blame me for slavery\/A hundred years before I was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Flag had a similar song, \u201cWhite Minority,\u201d which promised, \u201cGonna be a white minority.\u201d (It was sung by a Latino singer, Ron Reyes, emphasizing the sarcasm.) Hardcore is, among other things, the sound of whiteness under siege, and in an odd way it\u2019s a joyful noise. In the early 80\u2019s, thanks in part to these bands, even white suburban kids could feel like righteous underdogs.<\/p>\n

All those [desecrated] Reagan heads on flyers seem pretty spiteful, but maybe there\u2019s also a hint of envy: tough young white guys paying grudging tribute to a tough old one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

* If Trump wrote the first Ramones album\u2026..<\/p>\n

1. Blitzkrieg Bop (No change. You don\u2019t mess with the classics.)
\n2. Beat on the Blacks
\n3. Hillary is a Hag
\n4. I Wanna Be Your God-Emperor
\n5. Chain Saw (one of the tools I\u2019ll use to build The Wall)
\n6. Now I Wanna Make America Great Again
\n7. I Don\u2019t Wanna Start a Land War with Russia
\n8. Loudmouth (No change, just a dedication to Megyn Kelly, Lyin\u2019 Hillary and that fat-disgusting-pig Rosie O\u2019Donnell in the liner notes.)
\n9. Havana Affair w\/ an Eastern-European Super Model
\n10. Listen to My 10-Point Plan on Immigration Reform
\n11. (I own all the property on) 53rd & 3rd
\n12. Let\u2019s (not) Dance (around the issue of abolishing birthright citizenship)
\n13. I Don\u2019t Wanna Fight a War for Jews
\n14. Today The Wall, Tomorrow The World<\/p>\n

* I would have considered myself alt-right six or nine months ago, but I\u2019m distancing myself from the label now. Milo, Steve and other sympathetic journalists say that the Nazi stuff is mostly \u201ctrolling\u201d for shock value, but I\u2019m starting to doubt that. If you\u2019ve spend any significant amount of time on sites like TRS you know that plenty of the posters there are dead serious about it. Check out the comments under that article by the Jewish guy claiming he was alt-right. The most popular alt-right podcast is Fash the Nation, which recently featured this song<\/a>. Are they trolling or serious? At a certain point, what difference does it make?<\/p>\n

Hello Merchant you old fiend
\nWe have grown tired of your greed
\nIn the darkness always creeping
\nLooting our nations while we’re sleeping
\nAnd though the cattle-cars lie empty on the line
\nWe’ll bide our time
\nHeating the Ovens of Auschwitz<\/p>\n

In restless dreams I walked alone
\nMunich streets of cobblestone
\n‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp
\nI raised my right arm and began Mein Kampf
\nThen our backs were stabbed by the flames of the Reichstag fire
\nA funeral pyre
\nThat lit the Ovens of Auschwitz<\/p>\n

And in the fire’s light I saw
\nSix Million Hebrews, maybe more
\nLying even when not speaking
\nPoisoning young minds with false teachings
\nCommies telling us that we all had to share
\nYet no one dared
\nTo send the trains to Auschwitz<\/p>\n

“Fools,” said I, “You do not know”
\nJewry like a cancer grows
\nHear my words that I might teach you
\nRaise right arms and I might reach you
\nBut the Allied bombs like heavy raindrops fell…
\nAnd cooled the Ovens of Auschwitz<\/p>\n

And the people bowed and prayed
\nTo the Volcano God enslaved
\nBut one man left us his warning
\nAnd in our hearts still lives his yearning
\nAnd the man said “The lies of the Rabbi’s can only be stopped by<\/p>\n

force
\nAnd gas of course (of coursh)
\nAnd in the Ovens of Auschwitz”<\/p>\n

* It was a lot harder to accuse someone of being a Nazi in the 1970\u2032s because many of my generation had fathers, uncles, or family friends who fought against them. The memory was much more fresh and no one (((ethnic))) group claimed it as their unique experience. In fact, one was constantly reminded that is was Americans (now we would call them whites) who saved the Jews from the ovens. Collecting militaria was not nearly as stigmatized especially if someone you knew brought it back as war booty. reading books on WW2, military board games, soldiers occupying Germany were something that could be reflected upon by living memory (for instance now you could not read a new book on ww2 where anyone other than the most junior officer or enlisted man could be interviewed because every higher up is long since dead).The fact that the US and the USSR won the war meant that there was a more casual attitude towards their vanquished foe. Nazism was not something to be feared. In fact, everything that diminished our enemy diminished our efforts. So something like the Ramone\u2019s video is more of a joke than it is a glorification of the Nazis in it because everyone in it were all long dead. We killed them.<\/p>\n

* See Lester Bangs\u2019s \u201cWhite Noise Supremacists\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d point out that turn of the century indie rock was also very much an implicit white identity movement. It was arty white suburban guys moving to the city and creating a kind of cool that had nothing to do with hip-hop.<\/p>\n

* White Riot \u2013 a response to blacks rioting at the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival, and the Clash getting mugged by a black gang. \u201cThey can do it, why can\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n

White Man In Hammersmith Palais \u2013 Joe Strummer goes to a reggae concert and feels alienated and out of place. All his assumptions about \u2018the black struggle\u2019 are proven naive and wrong.<\/p>\n

Safe European Home \u2013 Strummer gets back home from a holiday in Jamaica and says, \u201cThank God I don\u2019t live there\u201d. Another song about disillusionment with black culture.<\/p>\n

Fun fact \u2013 I knew Strummer towards the end of his life, and he told me he voted Ukip in the 1999 European elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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