{"id":61390,"date":"2014-12-30T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=61390"},"modified":"2014-12-31T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:50:40","slug":"wp-house-majority-whip-scalise-confirms-he-spoke-to-white-supremacists-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=61390","title":{"rendered":"WP: House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white supremacists in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a scary story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nRep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002, thrusting a racial controversy into House Republican ranks days before the party assumes control of both congressional chambers.<\/p>\n

Scalise, 49, who ascended to the House GOP\u2019s third-ranking post this year, confirmed through an adviser that he once appeared at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO. But the adviser said the congressman didn\u2019t know at the time about the group\u2019s affiliation with racists and neo-Nazi activists.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor anyone to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and ludicrous,\u201d Scalise told the Times-Picayune on Monday night. The organization, founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, has been called a hate group by several civil rights organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do these white supremacists believe they are supreme at? These articles never say. They just throw around the slur “white supremacist.” I am well acquainted with all of the leaders of what the MSM call “white supremacy” and none of them are white supremacists. What they are is the white equivalent of Zionists. They want a homeland for their people so they can work out their destiny for themselves without interference from outsiders. When Jews establish their own country, that’s a wonderful thing, but when whites try to do the same thing, that’s evil.<\/p>\n

And what do these “white supremacists” believe whites are supreme at? Playing cornerback? There hasn’t been a starting white cornerback in the NFL since Jason Sehorn with the New York Giants. I can’t remember the last starting white tailback in the NFL. There are many areas of life where “white supremacists” would have no problem admitting whites are not supreme at. <\/p>\n

John Derbyshire writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I actually think \u201cWhite Supremacist\u201d is not bad semantically. White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up with. There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don`t see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and stable societies than has any other group.<\/p>\n

Even non-whites acknowledge this in unguarded moments: this Zimbabwean blogger, for example, or the American high school student in this exchange with his teacher:<\/p>\n

“One day I asked the bored, black faces staring back at me: \u201cWhat would happen if all the white people in America disappeared tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe screwed,\u201d a young, pitch-black boy screamed back. The rest of the blacks laughed.[ A White Teacher Speaks Out, American Renaissance, July 2009]”<\/p>\n

Non-white supremacy is after all the rule over much of the world, from entire continental spaces like sub-Saharan Africa to individual black-run or mestizo-run municipalities in the U.S.A. I see no great floods into these places by refugees desperate to escape the horrors of white supremacy.<\/p>\n

We should not let our enemies dictate vocabulary to us, though. In any case, the Whatever Right contains many separatists\u2014who, far from wanting to lord it over nonwhites, just want to get away from them.<\/p>\n

No, \u201cWhite Supremacist\u201d really won`t do, even in an owning-the-insult spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Nationalist,\u201d which has a fairly healthy currency here on the Whadda-We-Call-Ourselves Right, strikes me as even more problematical. What is the nation to which \u201cnationalist\u201d is the referent? \u201cWhite\u201d isn`t a nation, nor likely to become one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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