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The ‘It’s Okay To Be White’ Campaign Is Another Byproduct Of Toxic Chan Culture
Recently a slew of flyers have been spotted across the country, all bearing the slogan “It’s Okay To Be White.”
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‘It’s Okay To Be White’: Right-Wing Culture Warriors Seek To Prove Anti-White Racism
The campaign has spread its reach across the web, inspiring numerous posts on a popular Reddit board dedicated to all but worshiping President Trump that has hosted a Q&A sessions with heavy-hitters on the Right such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, and even Trump himself. The campaign has also earned the endorsement of far-right and alt-right influencers on Twitter
Tucker Carlson defends 4chan's "it's okay to be white" campaign
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): The sentiment “it’s okay to be white” is now a hate crime. Ok so what’s the correct position? That it’s not okay to be white? Being white by the way is not something you can control. Like any ethnicity you’re born with it which is why you shouldn’t attack people for it and yet the left does constantly in case you haven’t noticed. So who’s sowing racial division here? They ought to stop. These things never end well.
What are the origins of the alt-right? Hint: It’s not as new as you think
White supremacy is rooted in centuries of white civilization, not a deviation from established norms: Part 1 of 2
ANIS SHIVANI
One way of conceptualizing so-called far right movements since the end of World War II has been to marginalize them sociologically, and view them as “cults.” British social scientist Colin Campbell is a prime exponent of this viewpoint, as he articulates the culture and institutions of what he calls the “cultic milieu,” though he is smart enough to also pose almost unanswerable questions such as these:
How does it (the cultic milieu) manage to survive in face of the continuing disapproval and even outright hostility of the organizations repressing cultural orthodoxy? Through what channels are new cultural items introduced into the milieu? What are the circumstances which facilitate the transformation of deviant cultural items into variant or even dominant ones? What general functions, in fact, does the milieu fulfill?
Campbell rather tamely concludes that “we lack the information to answer such questions,” and no wonder, because it seems to me that an unsustainable normative judgment is implied in the very idea of separating cultural orthodoxy from cultural deviancy, i.e., the cult.
Rustbelt Abolition Radio: Education, Fascism, and Abolition
In this bonus episode, we speak with Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University. Placed on forced leave by Drexel, he is among a growing number of academics subjected to retaliation for their critiques of white supremacy and openly fascist organizing.
Ciccariello-Maher shows us how this university-centered backlash must be situated within the broader resurgence of fascism and white nationalism, which, in turn, cannot be understood apart from the deep structures of white supremacy, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy from which fascism emerges. He also sheds light on the false hope of educational reform within prisons, and how we ought to look instead to the forms of insurgent intellectuality abolitionists are creating both inside and outside prison walls.
Our conversation gestures to the possibility for a renewed anti-racist, anti-fascist resistance, both on university campuses and beyond them.
REVEALED: The white supremacists behind alt-right posters around the city
The posters, reading “It’s okay to be white” in large, sans-serif font are part of a 4chan campaign to “expose the media’s anti-white bias through their reaction to a harmless flyer.” In the 4chan thread, one user posts that “the idea is to hide your fucking powerlevel and insist that it’s just an innocent ‘it’s okay to be white.’ If people start being Nazis and supporting the posters, then liberals can just dismiss it all with dogwhistles and moderates won’t be convinced.”
Here, the user is referring to a strategy the alt-right have adopted after the events of Charlottesville, when it became widely accepted that the alt-right is a racist and white supremacist movement.
‘Hiding your powerlevel’ refers to a strategy of publicly disavowing Nazis and “keep[ing] the long-term goals covert . . . Talking openly about a white ethnostate only leads to failure and the average public turning against you, so disavow anyone who reveals his power level. Leftists will recognize dog whistles and know we’re crypto, but normies won’t listen to them.”
In short, the purpose of these posters is to publish a message that’s hard to disagree with—that it’s okay to be white—and paint any opposition to the message as an example of media bias against white people.
Several different white supremacist posters have been going up on campuses and in neighbourhoods across Toronto and Canada in recent months. They have slogans like, “We have a right to exist,” featuring a sketch of two white people that’s reminiscent of Aryan propaganda, and “Tired of Anti White propaganda? You are not alone.”
Jared Taylor Complains About Lazy ‘Moochers’ Who Live Off ‘Government Handouts’
White nationalist Jared Taylor usually saves his ire for Hispanics, African-Americans, and Muslims.
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Right-Wing YouTube Blabber Carl Benjamin Says White People Face ‘Institutional Discrimination’
In his November 5, 2017 episode of This Week in Stupid, right-wing YouTube personality and Gamergate supporter Carl Benjamin (a.k.a. Sargon of Akkad) decided to mount a defense of 4chan’s #ItsOkayToBeWhite campaign.
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At the time of the first world war, all western powers upheld a racial hierarchy built around a shared project of territorial expansion. In 1917, the US president, Woodrow Wilson, baldly stated his intention, “to keep the white race strong against the yellow” and to preserve “white civilisation and its domination of the planet”. Eugenicist ideas of racial selection were everywhere in the mainstream, and the anxiety expressed in papers like the Daily Mail, which worried about white women coming into contact with “natives who are worse than brutes when their passions are aroused”, was widely shared across the west. Anti-miscegenation laws existed in most US states. In the years leading up to 1914, prohibitions on sexual relations between European women and black men (though not between European men and African women) were enforced across European colonies in Africa. The presence of the “dirty Negroes” in Europe after 1914 seemed to be violating a firm taboo.
...But the global racial order that for centuries bestowed power, identity, security and status on its beneficiaries has finally begun to break down. Not even war with China, or ethnic cleansing in the west, will restore to whiteness its ownership of the Earth for ever and ever. Regaining imperial power and glory has already proven to be a treacherous escapist fantasy – devastating the Middle East and parts of Asia and Africa while bringing terrorism back to the streets of Europe and America – not to mention ushering Britain towards Brexit.
No rousing quasi-imperialist ventures abroad can mask the chasms of class and education, or divert the masses, at home. Consequently, the social problem appears insoluble; acrimoniously polarised societies seem to verge on the civil war that Rhodes feared; and, as Brexit and Trump show, the capacity for self-harm has grown ominously.
This is also why whiteness, first turned into a religion during the economic and social uncertainty that preceded the violence of 1914, is the world’s most dangerous cult today. Racial supremacy has been historically exercised through colonialism, slavery, segregation, ghettoisation, militarised border controls and mass incarceration. It has now entered its last and most desperate phase with Trump in power.
— Pankaj Mishra, How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war
Far-right conspiracists stir up hysteria about nonexistent 'civil war' plot by 'antifa'
This is not the first time conspiracist “Patriot” Trump supporters have come unglued over a Refuse Fascism protest. Back in January, many of the same people called out the “Patriot” troops for Trump’s inauguration, claiming that a mass of “Communist” protesters were plotting a coup to prevent the newly elected president from taking the oath.
Among the people beating this drum were Alex Jones and his Infowars operation, as well as the Oath Keepers and their founder, Rhodes. (This was before the word “antifa” had become the newest word in their lexicon as the object of their deepest loathing; it did not appear in any of the pre-inauguration fearmongering about Refuse Fascism.)
So on January 20, a collection of bikers, conspiracists and militiamen came to Washington, D.C., ostensibly to prevent violence, but they did not encounter the massive coup attempt that they had anticipated; instead, Refuse Fascism’s rallies wound up attracting a couple dozen people and resulted in zero rioting. Their protest was overwhelmed in any event the next day by the hundreds of thousands of people participating in the long-organized Women’s March, which again was thoroughly nonviolent.
Neither Jones nor the Oath Keepers seemed to recall that previous outcome while whipping up hysteria over Refuse Fascism’s latest protests. Jones’ Infowars began hyping the supposed “threat” posed by antifascists shortly after the inauguration, and began intensifying over the spring as clashes between black-clad “antifa” protesters and pro-Trump “alt-right” rallygoers intensified.
Following a Refuse Fascism rally in Los Angeles in late September, where marchers carried a banner reading “November 4 It Begins,” Infowars reporter Paul Joseph Watson filed a piece headlined “Antifa Plans ‘Civil War’ To Overthrow Government,” warning that “antifa” groups had targeted November 4 as a day of nationwide civil unrest and violence, “part of a plot to start a ‘civil war’.”
Soon the John Birch Society, one of the hoariest of conspiracy-theory mills, began chiming in; their CEO, Arthur Thompson, posted a video warning society members about the looming “antifa” violence and offering helpful tips about what they could do about it.
Jones began stepping up the hysteria with fresh theories. He claimed that financier George Soros had poured $18 billion in resources into the operation, and that the protests would be led by Women’s March organizer Linda Sasour, who he described as “the pro-sexual-mutilation Muslim.”
He also claimed that his critics accused him of “making up” the events, and then held up Refuse Fascism’s full-page ad in the New York Times as “proof,” though he neglected to note that the ad buy had nothing to do with the Times’ news operations and its existence only proved that the group had enough money to pay for the ad.
Amateur conspiracy theorists began piling on. A man named Jordan Peltz who self-identified as a “deputy” (although he is seen wearing a badge from the “United States Warrant Service,” a private company) posted a popular YouTube video (with over a million views) warning about the nefarious “antifa” plans: “They will start off by attacking police officers, first responders, anybody that’s in uniform,” he said. “And after they have disrupted that enough in the nation, and us first responders are literally going everywhere, trying to resolve things, they will then go after the citizens and the people and the government and all of that. So if you’re white, you’re a Trump supporter, you’re a Nazi then, to them. And it will be open game on you.”
“Make sure you got enough ammo, make sure your guns are ready,” another YouTuber advised in a popular clip. “You have to understand these are vicious, vicious people. Your life means nothing to them. In fact, if you’re a white man, you don’t deserve to live.”
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