Who's the Victim?

All white nationalist organizations, websites, and blogs work to combat the supposed truths that threaten the white race, and the purity of “whiteness”. One of the largest “truths” white nationalists take issue with is the Jewish manipulation of society on a global and domestic scale.  While stormfront.org serves as a venue for all white nationalist rhetoric and discourse, anti-semitism accounts for a significant portion of the blogs content. This post will examine how stormfront.org and its active members work to construct Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as Jewish instruments of control and benefit.

I dont think that there will ever be a day when they claim that there is no anti-semitism, that it's gone away. Anti-semitism, real or imagined (most usually the latter of the two), is their "meal ticket", their tool for making gains upon others, and helps them keep pushing their eternal "victim" status.

This post by “Bulldog43” provides observers with numerous intriguing implications.  This notion of a “meal ticket” and the Jewish embrace of being a victim only to benefit themselves gives prudence to this idea of Jewish Manipulation.  Jewish people using the atrocities that happened to them as a means of furthering their own selfish goals.  Rather than viewing Anti-Semitism as a behavior which is prejudicial towards Jew’s, members of stormfront.org have framed the conversation in a manner which implicates Jews as conspirators.  These notions of “ZOG” Zionist Occupied Government are very popular in the white nationalist imagination.  Not only have Jewish people found a way to introduce multiculturalism into society in order to destroy the white race, but they have also found a way to turn the genocide of their people into a benefit.  Once again an attempt to legitimize this idea of a behind the scenes Jewish conspiracy.  This post and the overall idea behind it really shows the Jewish paranoia that exists within the white nationalist movement.

Another important aspect of this post is the two distinct paradoxes that “Bulldog43” has created.  As the forum user writes about Anti-Semitism as a means for Jews to benefit, “Bulldog43” himself is engaging in Anti-Semitism while posting.  In essence the user is complaining about the false results of Anti-Semitism while simultaneously contributing to the perpetuation of that in which he is fighting.

"Global elites view the White Western world as the main obstacle standing in the way of a future world government. Multiculturalism is a tool used by such elites to dismantle White Western civilization." Pat Buchanan (from a 2004 speech given in Falls Church, VA)

The second interesting paradox is the notion of victimization.  While white nationalists claim Jews have used the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism to victimize themselves and then in turn receive benefit from it, White nationalists have also implicated themselves as the victims of Jewish conspiracies.  As white nationalists blame Jews for calling themselves victims, white nationalists use there own supposed victimization from the Jews to support and legitimize their movement.  The second post citing a quote from Pat Buchanan displays this perspective.

Extreme and Mainstream.

Intersection between extreme ideals and mainstream ideals is an inevitable consequence of modernized society, sometimes its difficult to tell which is which. This post will examine the dichotomy between extreme and mainstream in comparative societies, for this example we will be looking at Australia and the United States.

The video clip posted above displays an Australian television show, on this particular show performers came on and did their own rendition of the Jackson Five, which sounds innocent enough.  The only issue comes with their offensive use of black-face in their representation.  For those of you who who are unaware of the historical significance of black-face in the U.S. allow me to enlighten you.  Black-face describes a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, these shows would perform common African American stereotypes for comedic purposes.  Shows like these dehumanized African Americans in contemporary American society and perpetuated notions of white supremacy and black inferiority. Black-face shows were practiced in American theatre for around 100 years beginning in the 1830’s. As America became more progressive with the birth of the civil rights movement Black-face became taboo and is a serious matter today.
 
In contemporary Australia this clearly is not the case, how is it that two modernized societies can have such polarized views on issues such as race?  Specifically racially sensitivity and awareness. American judge Harry Connick Jr. (Independence Day) displays the mainstream American perspective on black-face when he discusses how hard America has worked to overcome racial issues, while mentioning how offensive black-face is in the United States. This conflict between extreme and mainstream in societies provides interesting discussion on the global racial lens. Whereas something in Australia is deemed totally acceptable (see audience reaction) in America it is frowned upon and taken seriously.  This instance is similar to European soccer matches in which members of the audience will racially taunt black players even throwing bananas on the field. While both of these practices are taboo in the United States, they are deemed acceptable on their specific nations.  Even though America frowns upon these actions, we are not without criticism from the rest of the globe.  For example Europe is much more restrictive of hate speech on the Internet when compared to America.  Many European nations have created legislation outlawing hate speech on the Internet, where the U.S. has allowed hate speech based upon First Amendment privileges.

      What does this all tell us? All three examples perfectly display the paradoxical relationship that modern societies have with race, it shows how being racially appropriate can differ based upon the ground in which you stand.  These examples really give prudence to the idea that a societies racial lens is based upon cultural perspective.  This gray area in global racism blurs the line between extreme and mainstream in different global societies.  There is no one size fits all solution, each culture is different therefore each solution must also be different. In order to reduce and hopefully one day eliminate racism from the world race problems must be looked at on an individual level varying across cultures and borders.

From Russia with Hate.

People are not born with hate, it is not something we acquire from our genetic compositions, it is not passed down biologically through our parents or other relatives, hatred, is learned.  Reading the Frank Meeink story one begins to get a feel for how hatred is indoctrinated into the youth of the world.  Frank Meeink’s story is not singular to disenfranchised American youth, white nationalists across the globe indoctrinate young people into the movement and fill them with hate. This unyielding hatred for those who are different than you serves as the main catalyst for the white nationalist movement, and it is with this hatred that the movement brainwashes young people to commit horrific unprovoked acts of violence in hopes of destructing multiculturalism and ensuring a future for the white race.

The above video displays this hatred in Russia, the same hatred was shared by Frank Meeink and his American counterparts.  Watching the clip detailing the Russian Neo-Nazi movement it was easy to see the similarities between what is going on in Russia and how Frank Meeink was in America.  In both instances the main perpetrators of violence were the youngest members of the group, older members prey on the youths insecurities and ignorance to the world,  the leaders of these groups use the hate that the youth already feel, and channel it  towards people of color and Jewish descent.  The groups provide a face, and a target for these young people to channel their  hatred and aggression towards a world that has treated them unfairly.  

Frank Meeink was not raised to hate blacks, Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, and Jews. Frank Meeink was raised to hate himself, between the neglect of his parents, the constant beatings from his step father, and the overall culture of violence Frank was raised in he was destined to hate.  Frank began to feel this hatred at a young age,  not towards tangible ideals or people but towards the world.  His cousin and other members of the movement used the hatred in Franks life to convert him into their world of hate, indoctrinating him into a place where hate is cherished and celebrated, showing Frank that hate is okay to feel, and more importantly hate is okay to act upon.

This same indoctrination that Frank went through exists across the globe. Frank and his crew made a name for themselves from committing random and unprovoked acts of violence, violence almost exactly the same as the violence shown in the clip.  The video clip displays a random attack on a minority in Russia which subsequently resulted in the mans death, yet another victim of the senseless hatred in which the white nationalist movement has used to transform children into race warriors.

It is with this senseless hatred that we as a global community can find our solution.  Without hatred the white nationalist movement cannot exist, Frank Meeink showed us this when he left the movement.  Once he lost his hate and became friends with his fellow black inmates his world changed.  I am not saying the removal of hatred will come easy, but Frank Meeink gives the world hope, he displays the common denominator that unites all white nationalists.  With collective hatred the movement is united, without collective hatred they are simply individuals.

Remove the hate, stop the violence, end the movement.

Boers? or Klansmen? Is there a difference?

The attached video displays BBC documentary maker Louis Theroux interviewing Eugene Terre’ Blanche a South African “Boer” leader.  Terre’Blanche describes what it means to be a “boer” essentially stating that a Boer is a white South African patriot. This interview brings up two international elements of white supremacy and white nationalism: white blood is superior, and multi-cultural societies should not exist, rather we should be segregated.  Groups across the globe are steadfast in these beliefs and both are regular components of white nationalist rhetoric.

In the interview Terre’Blanche and Louis go back and forth numerous times debating the necessary racial qualities for Boer people.  Louis repeatedly asks Terre’Blanche if a non white person who displays all necessary boer characteristics could become a boer, after heated exchange Terre’Blanche concedes that in order do be a boer one must be of European descent.  This notion by Terre’Blanche gives continued prudence to the idea that white blood and white people in general across the globe are superior to all other races.

Terre’Blanche begins the interview by detailing a segregated society within South African borders, claiming that these lands were intended for Boers and now they have been taken from them, this being despite the fact that white people were actually not in the continent of Africa first. But I digress, what does all this mean? Why is it important?  This interview and the perspectives expressed in it really show the transnational relationship that white nationalist ideals have with one another.  No matter where you go the same issues are brought up, certain names may be different such as “boers” or “klansmen” but the key rhetoric remains the same.  I view this information to be of extreme importance because it should change the scale in which we look at white nationalism.  

Prior to enrolling in CES 444 I thought that issues of white supremacy and white hate were singluar to the United States, I obviously knew that other countries had and still have problems with race relations but for some reason I always viewed the U.S. as the main perpetrators.  

This is proving to be completely untrue.

Notions of white supremacy resonate all across the globe, white supremacy is not a cultural problem singular to certain misconstrued cultures with a history of poor race relation.  Rather white supremacy is a human problem in which fears and insecurities are rationalized by blaming the racial “other” in society.  White supremacy exists on a global scale, it is collective effort by many humans indigenous to no specific land or culture.  

White Supremacy transcends borders.