{"id":116541,"date":"2017-08-16T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116541"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:32:25","slug":"saturday-in-charlottsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116541","title":{"rendered":"Saturday In Charlottsville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

First of all, I find no heroes emerging from these events. The police showed no ability or perhaps no willingness to keep the two sides separated; and when they met it was inevitable that these armed partisans who hated each other\u2019s guts would clash. Although the dismantling of Lee\u2019s statue (in May a judge placed a six-month stay on this outrage) may have been only the pretext for obnoxious youth to raise holy Hell, the removal of Confederate statues and the renaming of parks and streets commemorating Confederate commanders is sheer lunacy. It should be opposed by all possible legal means. The NAACP and leftist cranks like Max Boot who push this agenda are the American equivalent of the Taliban. Are we supposed to do the PC cringe again when the usual pests demand that we remove the names of Jefferson, Madison and Washington from every city in this country because our country\u2019s Founders owned slaves?<\/p>\n

As for the bloody clash in Charlottesville, it\u2019s impossible for me to read the account provided by neocon princeling John Podhoretz in the New York Post this morning without losing my breakfast. The villain for Podhoretz (as it always is these days when\u2019s he\u2019s not attacking critics of the Likud Party) is Donald Trump who refused \u201cto denounce Nazis and white supremacists unqualifiedly and by name.\u201d It seems that Trump had the \u201cshamelessness\u201d to suggest that there were two sides involved in the clash in Charlottesville. (Donald Trump has since unloaded all his fire on Pod\u2019s target.) The anti-fascist and BLM protestors, according to Podhoretz\u2019s doctored narrative, were merely \u201cresponding\u201d to hate; and the president whom Podhoretz wouldn\u2019t back against Hillary and whom he continues to denounce \u201crefused to name the evil in our midst,\u201d thereby showing \u201cthe behavior of a man whose moral sense is stunted.\u201d On Saturday evening, Fox-news offered an interview by Julie Banderas of a Weekly Standard senior editor who scolded Trump for not treating the Altright in the same denunciatory manner as ISIS. Both, according to Ms. Torrance, were equally dangerous terrorist organizations…<\/p>\n

Finally I would observe as a representative of the independent Right that Richard Spencer and his friends did us a horrible disservice by contributing to the confrontation that took place on Saturday. Much of what Richard and other members of the Altright say about the growing indistinguishability of our authorized Right and authorized Left is entirely on the mark. But the way to combat this deplorable situation is not to team up with Nazis and encourage demonstrators to come armed to Charlottesville to protest the leftist Taliban. One has to create a counter-media to what our shared enemies have done and be willing to accept decent people, whatever their race, to combat left-wing totalitarians and fake conservative enablers.<\/p>\n

The war for civilization is almost entirely between groups of whites, in fact mostly white Christians. The white Left has drawn in other groups, but mostly as auxiliary forces. The same battle would be going on, as it has been in much of Europe, if we were only dealing with white opponents. None of the multiculturalists I have known has been black; and calling white multicultural fanatics \u201crace traitors\u201d is a gross oversimplification because the object of leftist hate goes well beyond their own racial group. It now includes all normal people who have not been reconstructed by the managerial therapeutic state or are fighting the scourge of Political Correctness. At the very least, Richard and his comrades have diverted us from this fight and compounded this injury by playing a role in the violence that should not have occurred.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help asking this rhetorical question, at least parenthetically at the end. According to white nationalist protocol, am I supposed to ally with white cultural leftists against the very black African Cardinal Robert Sarah, who spoke yesterday in Brittany? The good cardinal affirmed his reverence for the Vendean martyrs who fought for their king and church against the evil French Revolution. Needless to say the ideology that Cardinal Sarah decried was far less radically leftist than what our fake conservatives proclaim as their global democratic agenda. The struggle to restore a decent society that we\u2019re in cannot and should not be reduced to racial differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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