Ideology

Supremacism is the belief that a certain group of people is superior to all others.[1] The supposed superior people can be defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, social class, ideology, nation, culture, or belong to any other part of a particular population.

Some feminist theorists[2] have argued that in patriarchy, a standard of male supremacism is enforced through a variety of cultural, political, religious, sexual, and interpersonal strategies.[2][3] Since the 19th century there have been a number of feminist movements opposed to male supremacism, usually aimed at achieving equal legal rights and protections for women in all cultural, political and interpersonal relations.[4][5][6]

Centuries of European colonialism in the Americas, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and Asia were justified by white supremacist attitudes.[7] White European Americans who participated in the slave industry tried to justify their economic exploitation of black people by creating a "scientific" theory of white superiority and black inferiority.[8] Thomas Jefferson, pioneer of scientific racism and enslaver of over 600 black people (regarded as property under the Articles of Confederation),[9] wrote that blacks were "inferior to the whites in the endowments of body and mind."[10] A justification for the conquest and subjugation of Native Americans emanated from their dehumanized perception as "merciless Indian savages", as described in the United States Declaration of Independence.[11][12]

During the 19th century, "The White Man's Burden", the phrase which refers to the thought that whites have the obligation to make the societies of the other peoples more 'civilized', was widely used to justify imperialist policies as a noble enterprise.[13][14] Thomas Carlyle, known for his historical account of the French Revolution, The French Revolution: A History, argued that European supremacist policies were justified on the grounds that they provided the greatest benefit to "inferior" native peoples.[15] However, even at the time of its publication in 1849, Carlyle's main work on the subject, the Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, was poorly received by his contemporaries.[16]

Before the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America was founded with a constitution that contained clauses which restricted the government's ability to limit or interfere with the institution of "negro" slavery.[17] In the Cornerstone Speech, Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens declared that one of the Confederacy's foundational tenets was white supremacy over black slaves.[18] Following the war, a secret society, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in the South. Its purpose was to maintain white, Protestant supremacy after the Reconstruction period, which it did so through violence and intimidation.[19]

According to William Nichols, religious antisemitism can be distinguished from modern antisemitism which is based on racial or ethnic grounds. "The dividing line was the possibility of effective conversion ... a Jew ceased to be a Jew upon baptism." However, with racial antisemitism, "Now the assimilated Jew was still a Jew, even after baptism ... . From the Enlightenment onward, it is no longer possible to draw clear lines of distinction between religious and racial forms of hostility towards Jews... Once Jews have been emancipated and secular thinking makes its appearance, without leaving behind the old Christian hostility towards Jews, the new term antisemitism becomes almost unavoidable, even before explicitly racist doctrines appear."[20]

One of the first typologies which was used to classify various human races was invented by Georges Vacher de Lapouge (18541936), a theoretician of eugenics, who published L'Aryen et son rle social (1899 "The Aryan and his social role") in 1899. In his book, he divides humanity into various, hierarchical races, starting with the highest race which is the "Aryan white race, dolichocephalic", and ending with the lowest race which is the "brachycephalic", "mediocre and inert" race, that race is best represented by Southern European, Catholic peasants".[21] Between these, Vacher de Lapouge identified the "Homo europaeus" (Teutonic, Protestant, etc.), the "Homo alpinus" (Auvergnat, Turkish, etc.), and finally the "Homo mediterraneus" (Neapolitan, Andalus, etc.) Jews were brachycephalic just like the Aryans were, according to Lapouge; but he considered them dangerous for this exact reason; they were the only group, he thought, which was threatening to displace the Aryan aristocracy.[22] Vacher de Lapouge became one of the leading inspirations of Nazi antisemitism and Nazi racist ideology.[23]

The Anti-Defamation League[24] (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Center[25] condemn writings about "Jewish Supremacism" by Holocaust-denier, former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and conspiracy theorist David Duke as antisemitic in particular, his book Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question.[26] Kevin B. MacDonald, known for his theory of Judaism as a "group evolutionary strategy", has also been accused of being "antisemitic" and white supremacist in his writings on the subject by the ADL[27] and his own university psychology department.[28]

Cornel West, an African-American philosopher, writes that black supremacist religious views arose in America as a part of black Muslim theology in response to white supremacism.[29]

In Africa, black Southern Sudanese allege that they are being subjected to a racist form of Arab supremacy, which they equate with the historic white supremacism of South African apartheid.[30] The alleged genocide and ethnic cleansing in the ongoing War in Darfur has been described as an example of Arab racism.[31]For example, in their analysis of the sources of the conflict, Julie Flint and Alex de Waal say that Colonel Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, sponsored "Arab supremacism" across the Sahara during the 1970s. Gaddafi supported the "Islamic Legion" and the Sudanese opposition "National Front, including the Muslim Brothers and the Ansar, the Umma Party's military wing." Gaddafi tried to use such forces to annex Chad from 197981. Gaddafi supported the Sudanese government's war in the South during the early 1980s, and in return, he was allowed to use the Darfur region as a "back door to Chad". As a result, the first signs of an "Arab racist political platform" appeared in Darfur in the early 1980s.[32]

In Asia, ancient Indians considered all foreigners barbarians. The Muslim scholar Al-Biruni wrote that the Indians called foreigners impure.[33] A few centuries later, Dubois observes that "Hindus look upon Europeans as barbarians totally ignorant of all principles of honour and good breeding... In the eyes of a Hindu, a Pariah (outcaste) and a European are on the same level."[33] The Chinese considered the Europeans repulsive, ghost-like creatures, and they even considered them devils. Chinese writers also referred to foreigners as barbarians.[34]

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany, under the rule of Adolf Hitler, promoted the idea of a superior, Aryan Herrenvolk, or master race. The state's propaganda advocated the belief that Germanic peoples, whom they called "Aryans", were a master race or a Herrenvolk whose members were superior to the Jews, Slavs, and Romani people, so-called "gypsies". Arthur de Gobineau, a French racial theorist and aristocrat, blamed the fall of the ancien rgime in France on racial intermixing, which he believed had destroyed the purity of the Nordic race. Gobineau's theories, which attracted a large and strong following in Germany, emphasized the existence of an irreconcilable polarity between Aryan and Jewish cultures.[35]

Academics Carol Lansing and Edward D. English argue that Christian supremacism was a motivation for the Crusades in the Holy Land, as well as crusades against Muslims and pagans throughout Europe.[36] The blood libel is a widespread European conspiracy theory which led to centuries of pogroms and massacres of European Jewish minorities because it alleged that Jews required the pure blood of a Christian child in order to make matzah for Passover; Thomas of Cantimpr writes of the blood curse which the Jews put upon themselves and all of their generations at the court of Pontius Pilate where Jesus was handed a death sentence: "A very learned Jew, who in our day has been converted to the (Christian) faith, informs us that one enjoying the reputation of a prophet among them, toward the close of his life, made the following prediction: 'Be assured that relief from this secret ailment, to which you are exposed, can only be obtained through Christian blood ("solo sanguine Christiano")."[37] The Atlantic slave trade has also been partially attributed to Christian supremacism.[38] The Ku Klux Klan has been described as a white supremacist Christian organization, as are many other white supremacist groups, such as the Posse Comitatus and the Christian Identity and Positive Christianity movements.[39][40]

Academics Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ian Lague, and Joshua Cone note that, while the Quran and other Islamic scriptures express tolerant beliefs, there have also been numerous instances of Muslim or Islamic supremacism.[41] Examples of how supremacists have interpreted Islam include the Muslim participation in the African slave trade, the early-20th-century pan-Islamism promoted by Abdul Hamid II,[42] the jizya and rules of marriage in Muslim countries being imposed on non-Muslims,[43] and the majority Muslim interpretations of the rules of pluralism in Malaysia. According to scholar Bernard Lewis, classical Islamic jurisprudence imposes an open-ended duty on Muslims to expand Muslim rule and Islamic law to all non-Muslims throughout the world.[44]

North Africa has witnessed numerous incidents of massacres and ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians,[45] especially in Morocco, Libya, and Algeria, where eventually Jews were forced to live in ghettos.[46] Decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted during the Middle Ages in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.[47] At certain times in Yemen, Morocco, and Baghdad, Jews were forced to convert to Islam or face the Islamic death penalty.[48] While there were antisemitic incidents before the 20th century, antisemitism increased dramatically as a result of the ArabIsraeli conflict. After the 1948 ArabIsraeli War, the Palestinian exodus, the creation of the State of Israel and Israeli victories during the wars of 1956 and 1967 were a severe humiliation to Israel's opponents primarily Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.[49] However, by the mid-1970s the vast majority of Jews had left Muslim-majority countries, moving primarily to Israel, France, and the United States.[50] The reasons for the Jewish exodus are varied and disputed.[50]

Ilan Papp, an expatriate Israeli historian, writes that the First Aliyah to Israel "established a society based on Jewish supremacy".[51] Joseph Massad, a professor of Arab studies, holds that "Jewish supremacism" has always been a "dominating principle" in religious and secular Zionism.[52][53] Zionism was established with the political goal of creating a sovereign Jewish state where Jews could be the majority, rather than the minority which they were in all nations of the world at that time. Theodor Herzl, the ideological father of Zionism, considered antisemitism to be an eternal feature of all societies in which Jews lived as minorities, and as a result, he believed that only a separation could allow Jews to escape eternal persecution. "Let them give us sovereignty over a piece of the Earth's surface, just sufficient for the needs of our people, then we will do the rest!"[54]

Since the 1990s,[55][56] Orthodox Jewish rabbis from Israel, most notably those affiliated to Chabad-Lubavitch and religious Zionist organizations,[55][56][57] including The Temple Institute,[55][56][57] have set up a modern Noahide movement to proselytize among non-Jews (usually referred to as "Gentiles" or goyim).[55][56][57] These Noahide organizations, led by religious Zionist and Orthodox rabbis, are aimed at non-Jews in order to proselytize among them and commit them to follow the Noahide laws.[55][56][57] However, these religious Zionist and Orthodox rabbis that guide the modern Noahide movement, who are often affiliated with the Third Temple movement,[55][56][57] expound a racist and supremacist ideology which consists in the belief that the Jewish people are God's chosen nation and racially superior to non-Jews,[55][56][57] and mentor Noahides because they believe that the Messianic era will begin with the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to re-institute the Jewish priesthood along with the practice of ritual sacrifices, and the establishment of a Jewish theocracy in Israel, supported by communities of Noahides.[55][56][57] David Novak, professor of Jewish theology and ethics at the University of Toronto, has denounced the modern Noahide movement by stating that "If Jews are telling Gentiles what to do, its a form of imperialism".[58]

In the aftermath of the 2022 Israeli legislative election, the winning right-wing coalition included an alliance known as Religious Zionist Partya grouping of the Religious Zionist, Otzma Yehudit, and Noam parties.[59] Within the context of the 20192022 Israeli political crisis, this was the fifth legislative election in nearly four years, as no party since 2019 had been able to form a stable coalition.[60][61] Jewish-American columnist David E. Rosenberg has stated that the Religious Zionist Party's "platform includes things like annexation of West Bank settlements, expulsion of asylum-seekers, and political control of the judicial system".[59] He further described the Religious Zionist Party as a political party "driven by Jewish supremacy and anti-Arab racism".[59]

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The Power Ape-Man in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Suppose there are organisms in a certain environment. They compete with other organisms and even face the invasion by foreign organisms. Within these native organisms, there are those that react strongly to threats and act accordingly. They fight or build defenses. And then, there are those that are passive, weak, or even welcoming of rivals or invaders. Over time, what will happen? The Law of Survival will weed out the weak members as theyll be conquered and devoured by rivals or invaders. Meanwhile, the strong members will survive with their tenacity and fighting spirit. In time, the organisms will be defined by the survivors with the spirit of warriors. That way, the organisms will remain strong.

But what if a different set of dynamics takes hold of this environment? Suppose there is a Power that coddles and protects the weak-willed members of the organism while hampering the strong-willed members that are exposed to constant attacks and invasions. The weak-willed survive because they dont have to fight under the protection of the Power. In contrast, the strong-willed come under ceaseless pressure. Furthermore, they are prevented by the Power from using all means at their disposal to counter the attacks and invasions. What will happen over time? The strong-willed will wither, fade, and eventually be forced to cower before the enemy. After all, even the strongest bear or biggest bull can eventually be brought down by a pack of wolves; even a giant lizard succumbs to a massive killer ant attack. Meanwhile, the weak-willed members survive and even thrive but as pathetic puppets and minions of the Power that protects them(and subverted the defensive capability of the defeated strong-willed members).

Imagine an environment with lots of chimps. Among them, there are strong-willed chimps and weak-willed chimps. Strong-willed chimps are vigilant, always on the lookout, and ready to fight for territory, females, and food. Weak-willed chimps, on the other hand, are passive and kindly toward outsiders, be they rival chimps or dangerous animals(such as leopards). Now, when crisis breaks out, the strong-will chimps will prioritize survival and go into fight-or-flight mode. Fight those that can be defeated, take flight from the stronger, and set up a wall of defense. In contrast, the weak-willed members will be slower to flee from danger. They may even move toward danger as a friend. Theyll act like the dufus scientist in the 1950s sci-fi horror THE THING, a naive brainiac who seeks to commune with and understand the fearsome and ruthless creature from another planet. Over time, as the weak-willed chimps will be weeded out by murderous enemy chimps and predators, the chimp community will have more strong-willed members.

But suppose a Power takes over the chimp community. It creates a well-stocked sanctuary for the weak-willed chimps that thus become favored in the game of existence. Despite possessing traits disadvantageous for survival, they are favored and coddled by the Power. The strong-willed chimps get no such protection and are therefore disadvantaged in survival. They must fight and struggle to survive, and tough as they are, some are destroyed or devoured by rival chimps and predators. But there is worse. The Power decides to make things more difficult for the strong-willed apes. Their fangs are ground down so their bites are far less effective. Also, they are supplied with narcotics, and many succumb to addiction. Under such organizing principles, the weak-willed members survive(but essentially as chattel dependent on the protection/mercy of the Power) while the strong-willed members dwindle in number and eventually become destroyed.

In a way, the favoring of the weak-willed over the strong-willed is the story of civilization. It is also a strategy of power. It can be advantageous to a people if they control the terms of domestication, but it can be disadvantageous(and eventually fatal) if the terms are controlled by another group.

There are parallels between humans and dogs, though some human groups and certain dog breeds became more domesticated than others. The Golden Retriever became more domesticated than the Alaskan Husky that, despite living with man, still came under tremendous natural pressures in freezing climates and in proximity with dangerous predators such as polar bears and wolves. Dogs are weaker and smaller than wolves, their ancestors. They are also weaker-willed and more prone to trust and be friendly with other organisms, especially humans. As such, humans favored and protected dogs. But humans also owned dogs as property, as pets and servants. Thus, even though countless dogs led far safer and happier lives in the protective human realm than wolves did in the wild, they were at the mercy of their human masters. But humans didnt merely favor dogs over wolves but made a concerted effort to make things difficult and often deadly for the wolves. Therefore, even though wolves have greater survival skills than dogs if both were placed in the same wilderness indeed, its likely that most, even all, dogs will be destroyed in the wild , the Power of Man has made it so that weak-willed dogs have far greater chance of survival than wolves in the wild(that has been limited to wilderness preserves). The interference of the Power made it so that the wolfs natural advantage became a disadvantage whereas the natural disadvantage of the dog became an advantage under Man. After all, mankind naturally prefers the trusting, submissive, and friendly dog to the ferocious and proud wolf. Dogs have done better under humans than in the wild but at the loss of all pride, autonomy, and independence. Still, as they are animals, pride doesnt matter much to them. But what about people whove lost pride and independence?

But then, can real pride and independence exist in civilization? After all, if people, as truly free individuals, chose to do as they please, civilization would fall apart. Imagine a world run over by Alexes of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Despite all the talk of freedom and individualism, the main reason why modern civilization holds together and continues is because most or majority of the people support or serve the hierarchy and adhere to the values and narratives pushed by the Power. Also, the Power enforces the same sets of laws, language, and lore over the vast populace. Under communism in the Soviet Union, the law was Marxist-Leninist. The language of the empire was Russian. And all children were raised on the lore of communist saints and heroes. Theres been far more freedom in the West, but the system cannot be sustained unless enough people adhere to the existing Power Structure. For most people in the West, there is a measure of freedom in their personal lives but hardly any freedom or means to change the workings of the existing power structure. Only a handful of people with the means to enter the inner sanctums of power can make a real difference. Also, even personal choices are shaped, even dictated, by a handful of big players. Most movies are made by Hollywood, or Movie Inc. People choose from what is offered to them by mega-corporations, just like voters choose from a bunch of politicians vetted by the ruling power, i.e. people vote for puppets, not leaders. People may select from various media outlets that create the impression of choice, but most of media are controlled by a handful of Jewish oligarchs. People may choose the kind of music they like, but pop trends are dominated by a few entertainment oligopolies. There was talk of how the internet would unleash an era of citizen journalism and alternative views, but the biggest platforms are dominated by Zionist Jews who shut down what they deem as hate speech. Jewish oligarchs at Google also manipulate algorithms so that Jew-run news are favored in search results over voices critical of Jewish Supremacism. Therefore, what is called free press and free speech are highly proscribed and controlled in the Free West. Indeed, paradoxically enough, people in a democracy might be even more clueless as to whats really happening because the conceit of liberty and freedom blinds them to the fact that they arent so free. At least, people in Iran and China know their freedoms are restricted by the State. In the West, many are still under the delusion of living in a liberal democracy when, if anything, they are minions of a Jewish Supremacist Oligarchy. Labels can fool a lot of people. Its like the fat-free label that fools so many people who dont realize that the fat has been replaced by more sugars. Same with progress and conservative. So much of what is nowadays labeled as progressive or conservative is anything but. So-called progressive Democrats are totally in cahoots with Wall Street that push globo-homo to replace May Day with Gay Day. And so-called conservative Republicans are now into chanting gay marriage and trannies-in-washrooms are conservative values. How the world loves a label than the reality.

In a way, this loss of true freedom and independence is the price we all paid for civilization. A civilization can be more free or less free, but when push comes to shove, it must be about most or the great majority submitting to the power, the status quo. Those in power may change American Power went from Wasp Rule to Jewish Rule , but regardless of who are on top, most people must go along. So, Russia went from the people obeying the Czars to obeying the Commissars to obeying the oligarchs. And most Germans went from obeying the Kaiser to obeying the Weimar Republic to obeying the Nazis to obeying the bureaucrats in West Germany or East Germany. Even if many people are cynical about power and disrespect the ruling elites, theyve no choice but to go through the daily motion of working for the system. In other words, even the disobedient find theyve no choice but to obey to make a living.

And even when the people do rise up and overthrow the existing system, as in the case of Shahs Iran, the only way civilization can continue is if most people support or comply with the new order. Civilization cannot tolerate too many wolves. It needs lots of dogs. As for controlling the power, it usually goes to the weasels. George Orwell in ANIMAL FARM illustrated how the banishment of humans only led to the rise of Pig Tyranny. But then, as bad as the pigs are, can the animals govern themselves? Besides domestication means to become part of a system, an order based on organizational principles. It is then the nature of domesticated organisms to long for the iron hand, albeit so-called Liberal Democracy learned to cover it with a velvet glove. As individuals, we can only be so free. After all, we dont want to live in a world of chaos where everyone, as an independent maverick, makes up his or her own rules. This is so many manifestations of rebellion and difference in a liberal democracy are manufactured as a chimera by the Power. Have the rebels conform to officially tolerated or approved forms of rebellion, like cheering loudly at Rock concerts, piercing ones nose, or turning ones hair green, all of which are harmless to the Power(while harmful to the pride of resistance). All these differences lead to new conformist communities than truly independent turns of mind and spirit. Its like the Powers idea of dark web dissident right turned out to be Zionists like Ben Shapiro & Dave Rubin and shills of Zionists like Jordan Peterson. But then, even if dissident rightists were to come to power, wouldnt they prop up their favored Norms and Sacraments as the governing principle in the new order?

Civilization must favor the mild-willed over the strong-willed. While weak-will is too sappy, strong-will is too contentious. While society gains something by having some strong-willed leaders and alphas, most people must be less-strong-willed if people are to get along and go along. (Also, if two civilizations are defined by mild-mannered-ness, they may find ways to co-exist and cooperate than remain locked in terms of conflict. Mild-willed outlooks can serve as roads and bridges between civilizations.)

If everyone were strong-willed, itd be an endless battle of egos. Therefore, most people must be mild-willed, somewhere between weak-will and strong-will. And the meritocratic system is geared to favor mild-willed over strong-willed, that is unless the strong-willed happen to be particularly gifted in intellect, creativity, or leadership qualities. After all, what is required to do well in school, gain credentials, and find good jobs? One must be patient and diligent. One must be reasonably obedient to teachers and authority figures. Despite the American mythos of the cool rebel, most people who succeed play by the rules. No wonder women and Asians are favored in the current order. Both are more mild-willed than white males who tend to be a bit more adventurous and cantankerous in spirit. Obama certainly understood whos boss(the Jews) and did as told to be handpicked to be president, or cuck-in-chief of the Jews. One reason why Jews cant stand Donald Trump is the way he became president. He howled too much like a wolf than acted the well-heeled canine in a dog-show. Though a total dog to Jews in substance, he was wolf in style, and the Jewish Masters of America took this very badly, and the whole Russian Collusion Hoax and other nonsense were a means to punish the Bad Doggy.

Anyway, precisely because civilization favors the mild-willed over the strong-willed for most of its managerial positions, there is the real danger of a survival-deficit in elite ranks of society. Consider nations like Sweden. Well-ordered and well-run, peaceful and prosperous Sweden elevated mild-willed individuals to upper levels of government and institutions. Indeed, its military is run by a bunch of mild-willed women who did the homework and did as told in their student days. So, is it any surprise that the Swedish state is so soulless, gutless, and bland? Its managerial class may be well-educated, diligent, and competent on the technical level, but they lack patriotic passion, survival instinct, and requisite ruthlessness toward potential threats and enemies. If anything, it is most triggered by the emergence of strong-willed Swedes who see what is happening and demand that something drastic be done to stop the invasion and great replacement.

Since individuals cant be truly free and independent within a civilization, the only way for a people to be free is as a collective. While Me-the-Person can only be so free within the Order, We-the-People can be free from the control of Other Peoples. Its like Asian Indians gained independence by rising up against British overlords and expelling them. The Vietnamese gained national liberation by resisting French Colonialism and then American Neo-Imperialism. And it was as a collective that Russians pushed back against Napoleonic France in the 19th century and Nazi Germany in the 20th century. Freedom for the Motherland couldnt have been won by Russians as individual wolves. They had to cooperate and fight as Russian dogs in defense of the Order.

While ideally the freedom of we-the-people should expand the freedom of me-the-person within the Order, it hasnt always been so. Textbook examples are Tokugawa Japan, Red China, Castros Cuba, Islamic Iran, and North Korea. Though politically independent and relatively free of foreign influence, their suppression of me-the-person either intensified or hardly eased despite the autonomy. The reason was either for the survival of the Order or survival of the elites. In certain cases, the Order had to suppress considerations of me-the-person because it was under threat and at a great political-economic-military disadvantage. After all, patriotism and willingness to die were essential among the Vietnamese IF Americans were to be driven out. With excessive freedom of me-the-person, too many Viets might choose not to fight or even join with the other side as collaborators. In Sam Peckinpahs STRAW DOGS, David Sumner(Dustin Hoffman) decides he must force his wife to obey him if they are to defend the house from marauders. She is forbidden from collaborating with the Other side. She is forced to choose we-the-people over me-the-person despite her temptation otherwise.

Castros Cuba also had to be repressive in order to survive. As the US had so much more money, it could have bought off so many Cubans to do the bidding of US interests. Indeed, Cuba had essentially been a CIA-mafia-Jewish-run plantation/casino before Castro led an army of spartan patriots to take power. But, of course, the downside of repression in favor of we-the-people over me-the-person has been downright Orwellian. The system threw the baby out with the bathwater in its purge of turncoats, traitors, spies, and collaborators. Worse, over time, the invocation of we-the-people can become an excuse to perpetuate a system of we-the-elites. This is why a system has to find a balance between me-the-person and we-the-people. One thing for sure, history has shown time and time again that an order that is independent of foreign tyranny can be rife with domestic tyranny.

While all systems must maintain order with some degree of repression and control, some take this to extreme measures due to radical ideology, excessive paranoia, or just plain greed of rulers who stingily hog all the power and privilege. As profoundly different as North Korea and the US are in just about every way, if they have anything in common, its that both are ruled by elites who will do ANYTHING to maintain their supremacist or absolute grip on power. Even though North Korea seems like a fossilized hermit kingdom whereas the US seems a dynamic country constantly reinventing itself, both are essentially governed by the principle of elite-stasis. In other words, the reason why Jews are trying to make America so different is to keep same the power equilibrium, i.e. Jewish Supremacism must define American Power. As Jews are a minority-elite, they fear that stability in America will eventually lead to people realizing theyre ruled by Jews. For that reason, Jews stir up the impression of constant upheaval and transformation to misdirect the American Gaze from the one true constant in American Power Politics: JEWS RULE, JEWS GET RICHER, JEWS EXPAND THEIR CONTROLS.

Anyway, if civilization ordains that people must be servile dogs than defiant wolves, at the very least human-dogs can be ruled by their own kind than by another kind. In other words, English dogs should be ruled by English masters, Japanese dogs should be ruled by Japanese masters, German dogs should be ruled by German masters, Italian dogs should be ruled by Italian masters, Russian dogs should be ruled by Russian masters, Iranian dogs should be ruled by Iranian masters, Jewish dogs should be ruled by Jewish masters(though, to be sure, every Jew feels as a master than dog), and etc. After all, there is greater likelihood that master A will feel greater affection and sense of obligation for dogs A, and master B will for dogs B. Granted, it may not always be so. Master A could be cruel and abusive of Dogs A, and its possible Master B has more sympathy and heart for Dogs A. But generally, rulers of Nation A will have more feelings for the people of Nation A than for the peoples of Nation B, C, D, E, F, etc. Do Jewish rulers in Israel have more feelings for Jewish people or the Arab people, the Palestinians?

Now, one may point to white elites who seem to care just as much, if not more, for non-whites as for whites, but his anomaly is the result of Jewish conquest of the white mind/soul. Jews made it anathema among white elites to care about fellow whites because they want white elites to primarily serve and obey Jews. In other words, to convince white elites to favor the Jewish Other over the White Brother, Jews indoctrinated white elites(and even many among the white masses) that there are few things as evil in the world as whites caring for whites. Its NOT OKAY to be white. Another problem with elites of one nation excessively caring for other peoples than for their own is they will end up ill-serving both. After all, it is a full-time job to govern and take care of a nation. A national elite that tries to save the world as well as govern its own people is like a dog that loses the bone in his mouth for the one reflected in the water. Its like a parent who tries to take care of all the kids in the neighborhood. Hell just fail with all the children, including his own. Also, it makes the elites of other nations lazy and corrupt. Suppose if the elites of Nation B came to depend on elites of Nation A to provide food and aid for the people of Nation B. Why would the elites of Nation B clean up their own act when Nation A is providing Nation B with free stuff? And why would the people of Nation B try to replace the existing elites when they get by on handouts from Nation A?

While all of us must be more dogs than wolves within civilization, the ideal should be for the dogs and masters to be of the same identity. English masters for English dogs. That way, even if civilized man cannot be truly free and independent like a wild wolf, he can still be part of a people that are free and independent of rule by other peoples. The problem with the current West is that white folks are not only dogs of civilization a necessary condition for social order but dogs of a foreign master, the Jews. Worse, Jews are not even good masters over the Other. Jews look upon goyim as mere cattle, commodities, or cuck-dogs. The way Jews look upon goyim is far more contemptuous than how British Imperialists looked upon Hindus and Africans. At the very least, the Christian element of Western Civilization reminded whites that non-whites are also precious children of God. In contrast, Jews look upon goyim as barely human. Jews believe a single Jewish life is worth more than a million goy lives. Just Ask the Palestinians! Under Jewish rule, whites dont even have the freedom, pride, and power of We-the-People. Theyve been reduced to We-the-Cucks.

The black African threat to Europe makes things much worse. Blacks are barely domesticated as dogs; they are more like wild dogs, almost like wolves. As such, a sane West will do everything to protect European mild-willed dogs from African wild dogs. But three factors are forestalling this most necessary course of action. (1) Jewish globalist supremacists who control (((Western))) media and academia have elevated Negroes to god-like status. So many whites worship MLK and Mandela more than their own national/racial heroes, even over God and Jesus. And Jewish Power vilified racism as the worst of all sins, and racism is deemed most wicked when harboring negative feelings about blacks. Political Correctness demands that whites must love and honor blacks NO MATTER WHAT blacks do. (2) Even though blacks have thug supremacy over weaker whites and cause havoc in white nations, the fact remains Europe is rich while Africa is poor. Therefore, many Europeans still have this image of themselves as all-powerful and of blacks as helpless/harmless children. Thus, they fail to grasp the threat posed by black thugs on Western Civilization. (3) Even though civilization did wonders for non-black mankind, it also turned robust human-wolves into less impressive human-dogs. Though civilization can be maintained only by human-dogs, there is still the wolfish element in human-dogs that hankers for wolf-like glory and excitement. Because blacks are more impressive in sports, dancing, hollering, and fist-shaking, many white dogs are in state of awe of the wild black dawg that seems so badass.

The result is that the Current West not only favors mild-willed white dogs(those who go-along to get-along) over the strong-willed white dogs(those with the most survival instincts and fight/flight reflexes, problematic in peace time but essential in times of crisis) but also favors wild black dogs over strong-willed white dogs. This fatal alliance of mild-willed white dogs(and weak-willed white dogs) with wild black dogs against strong-willed white dogs will be the lethal formula that will bring down the West. In times of crisis, the strong-willed dogs must come to the fore to defend the order. In such times, the mild-willed dogs must look to the strong-willed dogs. (However, beware of the ultra-strong-willed dogs like Adolf Hitler. While Hitlers strong-will led Germany in its recovery of lost lands and resurgence in pride, he wasnt content with German affairs and embarked on wolf-attacks on OTHER nations to create a Greater Germanic Empire. This is why strong-will must be limited by Universal Nationalism respect other nations as you expect them to respect your nation and humanism that reminds people of their all-too-fragile humanity. Fascism elevated man to mythic hero while communism reduced man to a unit of History. In World War II, the German ubermensch rediscovered their humanity in defeat and humiliation. And the story of communism is the danger of sacrificing human lives as so many units in the service of History.)

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It is no secret that white supremacist groups are racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic. They are also violently homophobic and transphobic. Indeed, sexual orientation and gender identity is the third most common hate crime motivation, behind race, ethnicity, and nationality and religion, with 171 hate crime offenders being motivated by transphobia or homophobia since 1990. This trend is unsurprising when one considers that white supremacists are often conservative Christians who condemn anything but binary sexual identities and extol traditional sex roles for men and women. Additionally, one of the most famous white supremacist slogans, We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children, implies a requirement for heterosexual sex for the purpose of procreation and, in the eyes of white supremacists, strict gender binaries wherein women are responsible for producing and raising the future generations. White supremacists also tend to portray gay men and transgender women, in particular, as being predators who groom children for pedophilia. Therefore, white supremacists ire is directed at the LGBTQ+ community in general and specifically white people within it who are viewed as sexually perverted, a danger to their children, and as failing to do their duty to the race (i.e., maintaining traditional family values and procreating). Of course, all of these hateful ideas are incorporated into these groups overarching ideology which directs most of its hate toward Jews, positing that when Jews are not conducting the great replacement through immigration and interracial marriage, they are doing so by perverting culture and promoting homosexuality and gender fluidity. According to some white supremacist ideologies, turning white men gay also makes them easier to control.

It may be surprising, then, for the outside observer to learn that many far-right violent extremist groups advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and even have openly LGBTQ+ leaders or have embraced certain public faces identifying with the LGBTQ+ community. For example, Milo Yiannopoulos, who has decried feminazis as breaking down (white) male hegemony, is gay and claims Jewish ancestry as well. Indeed, doing so allows these violent groups to mainstream their racist claims and at the same time degrade and demonize cultures they view as backward, namely Islam. Similarly, whereas white supremacist groups typically view women as breeders who should be valued only as wives and mothers, many far-right, ultra-nationalist groups are led by women who feel empowered, albeit often because they feel as though they are exceptional and special in being respected by otherwise misogynistic men. Notably, ISIS, too, engaged in strict enforcement of traditional gender roles as a means of subjugating women while making them feel empowered in their decision to adhere to the strictest interpretation of their religion.

Whether they must hide their true identities for fear of harassment or outright assault, or have their identities exploited for the purpose of degrading and dehumanizing others, there seems to be strong reason for members of the LGBTQ community to steer clear of white supremacism and the alt-right. Yet their participation is not uncommon, particularly among white, cisgender gay men who are perceived as substandard allies, provided they are deemed to be sufficiently masculine and reject all aspects of gay culture, including having a family. Indeed, an unattached gay white man can be seen as having no familial responsibilities and thus having more time and energy to devote to the white supremacist cause. They are even more valuable to these groups if they are antifeminist and willing to verbally abuse women.

The question remains, then, as to why someone who identifies as LGBTQ+ would participate in such a group or movement, if doing so would require them to either hide their identity (to remain in the closet) or to use their identity to hurt others, including to hurt other LGBTQ+ people. Our research using in-depth psychological interviews with 51 current and former members of far-right, white supremacist, and hate groups, five of whom identified as being part of the LGBTQ+ community, participating in white supremacism may be a defense mechanism against negative thoughts about oneself internalized homophobia and transphobia arising out of cultural or familial norms that are intolerant of such identities. We refer to this process as Projected Hate, in which one who has been raised in a family, religious group, or society which rejects LGBTQ+ identities deals with the anxiety caused by being a member of this community by partially or in totality hiding this aspect of their identity and joining a homophobic or transphobic violent extremist group as part of an effort to disavow and split off an unwanted part of ones own identity. The individual subsequently projects that self-hatred onto others holding the LGBTQ+ identity and may even try to destroy them, thereby symbolically vanquishing the hated or disavowed part of the self. A slightly lesser splitting and projection process can also occur in which members of the LGBTQ+ community join such groups and split off part of their self in a less radical way but then use their sexual or gender identity as a weapon in a violent extremist group as a mechanism for building self-esteem and distinguishing oneself as unlike other members of the LGBTQ community whom they vilify. In this case, they are often trying to be the exception that is embraced by the group while hating others from the same community.

Scott E., aged 42, describes themselves as a latch-key kid. Scott recalls of childhood, It was a happy family, but we were not the most loving family in the world. [The] type of family [where] whenever things happen, [its] a suck it up, buttercup type of situation. My dad was a bit abusive when I was a kid. Not extremely. Scott says that the abuse got better as [the] years went, although perhaps this was more due to their being able to defend themselves (I was 15 [and] ended up choking him on the floor to defend myself) than due to his father realizing his wrongdoings. Prior to getting into white nationalism, however, Scott hung out with a number of men along the gender and sexual spectrum, but I realized I wasnt into men. I really dont like masculinity. Later, Scott became highly engaged on the white supremacist web forum Stormfront, where I had to hide some things. Scotts involvement on Stormfront began with the band Prussian Blue, which featured two young girls as singers, who were managed by their mother, April Gaede. Scott saw online that a man claiming to be part of Antifa wanted Black guys to go to April Gaedes house and rape these 11- and 12-year-old girls, because their mother was a white nationalist. He included a map to their house. I contacted the feds. They didnt take it seriously; said they were aware. They told me to make the parents aware of it. I contacted them, told them who I was. I wasnt worldly when it came to white nationalism, and I became a friend of the family. They even made me a moderator on the Prussian Blue forum. Later on, Scott moved to Montana where the Gaede family lived and became involved with Aprils organization, a whites-only community called Pioneer Little Europe [PLE]. Scotts belief in white nationalism ebbed and flowed. Scotts job was to make the PLE ideology more palatable, including by saying that white gay men could be white nationalists. Scott reflects back, I was worse than a Hitler lover [] because I made it more acceptable to be horrible, and thats arguably worse. I was in it for the community [] My mindset was never fully in it. I was trying to make white nationalism what I wanted it to be.

Phoebe Rose was also physically and emotionally abused by her father. Growing up in the body of a boy, Phoebe Rose says her father never understood me. I never fit the narrative he wanted. He couldnt handle me knowing more than him, any defiance, any individuality, not what he expected. Phoebe began a social transition at age 15 but felt misunderstood by doctors, leading her to attempt a male-presenting lifestyle at university and later in the British Army. The psychological strife of remaining closeted as a trans woman contributed to a mental health breakdown, after which she was honorable discharged for medical reasons. Further mental health challenges developed after being raped by a trans woman who had already surgically transitioned. At age 26, Phoebe traveled to Thailand for gender-affirming surgery. She recalls, This trip to Thailand changed my life in more ways than I can imagine. I met an American girl with a very troubled background. She was the most intelligent person I have ever encountered in my life. She started to radicalize me to the extreme right. At the time, Phoebe had been working in an organization in England which served asylum seekers, where she began to harbor Islamophobic thoughts about Albanian Muslim men trying to take the piss out of the system. Afghanis came to the UK to be pedophiles, lying about their age, saying they were children when they werent [] We would see schoolgirls going into this 40-year-olds place. Social services would do an age assessment and say he was 17. Afghanis are fanatics.

Phoebe met white nationalists online and, surprisingly enough, for the first time I found someone interested in me for just being me. [They] didnt give a toss that I [had converted to become] Jewish, that I was trans, that I was in a same-sex relationship. From there, Phoebe was connected with the English Defence League, which wanted what I wanted, Muslims out of Britain. Phoebe admits adopting a zealous, if not extremist, form of Zionism: EDL wanted England for the English. I wanted Israel for the Jews. Who is in the way? Dirty, stinking Muslims. Phoebe Rose became a prominent speaker for the EDL: I got a thrill out of it, I got a rush. Someone gave me a microphone and gave me the stage. I had them in the palm of my hand. I wasnt afraid. I didnt need a script. I knew what I was going to say, how to get them going. By the end of it, they were all standing and cheering, they had come to listen to people, but I dont think they expected a 20-something Jewish, white trans girl to steal it. Later on, she felt even more powerful: The police were scared of me because of who I am. They didnt want to arrest a Jewish woman, a trans woman. Police arrest a Jewish woman at an EDL rally, [theyd] get laughed at, what, are you stupid? That was lovely. They were scared of me. The police, the people Im supposed to be scared of, are scared of me. They have a file on me. I requested it but most is blacked out. Police officers were assigned to just me.

Viktoria, whose mother was in the U.S. Air Force but moved to East Germany after becoming pregnant, grew up in not a happy family. [My] biological father was never in the picture. Another gentleman stepped in. [He was a] pedophile and violent felon. He tried to kill my mother and me several times. We were in the hospital several times due to beatings. He used blunt objects. He signed the birth certificate. I think my mother had slept with a random man at a bar [and] I was conceived. [The] abusive guy stepped in and signed the birth certificate. My mother refused to speak about it. When I investigated, all I can learn is my [step]father is a German nationalist and terrorist. The trauma from her early childhood continued in West Virginia, where her uncle was in a militia. He trained all the kids how to kill people. We would name the hunted animals names of people we didnt like. Hed call them enemies, race traitors. We would hunt and visualize killing them. He was psychologically preparing us for murder. Over time, Viktoria developed a deep and violent commitment to white supremacism, but says that piece by piece over time, there were significant things. I saw how people saw me. I had a girlfriend younger than me. She grew up in an extremely peaceful, sheltered household, saw pieces of things I did, the way she responded. I hadnt seen that because I was surrounded by like-minded people, so unbelievably shattered just by the tip of the iceberg, how far I had gone. My sexuality, gender, queerness interfered as well. I had always known I was queer. I thought I was degenerate. I went to conversion therapy. When Viktoria came out to her family, they sent me death threats and pipe bombs. Viktoria reflects on her experience and highlights what Phoebe and Scott may have experienced in their own groups: I was not queer in the movement. Thats a death sentence. Modern groups will accept [queer people] on the outside, [but] never will make it to the inside. Useful idiots, they throw them away later, no regard for their wellbeing. Being queer in the movement is impossible. Its like being required to work in a factory and cutting off both of your arms, always this inner monologue in the back of your mind that wont stop. I tried every conversion therapy, even electroshock. [It] just builds an unbearable amount of shame. Now, she says, For self-love, coming out as queer was the best thing I ever did.

Finally, Jason V. spoke about his experience being openly queer while employed by the Oath Keepers as their national spokesperson. Jason explains that he was initially interested in the Oath Keepers when he perceived them as being libertarian, as he was, but became disillusioned with the group when they started courting the alt-right, [Richard] Spencer, the actual Nazis, Proud Boys, I just couldnt do it. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers who hired Jason, knew that he was queer and generally accepted it, though he made clear that Jason, alongside another gay couple providing support to the group, needed to hide their sexual identities from the people whom Jason was reaching and radicalizing through his propaganda. For instance, when covering the Oath Keepers support for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, I wrote it from the perspective of the queer person, [saying] we need to protect same-sex growers growing pot. That was rejected by Stewart. He rewrote it. Jason cynically explains how Alex Jones, the InfoWars conspiracy theorist, made millions selling snake oil and Stewart caters his messaging to where he feels hes going to make the most money and you know, the county clerk obviously was resounding with an anti-queer sentiment within the membership and paying donors. Thus, in contrast to Phoebe and Scotts groups, which exploited members of the LGBTQ+ community in order to mainstream their ideologies, Jasons group, whose core leadership did in fact accept his identity, forced him to hide it in order to appeal to paying donors.

As can be observed from the stories in this article, growing up in an environment which makes one feel as though they do not fit into the expected, traditional gender norms can cause a great deal of emotional strain. The process of Projected Hate can be observed to different extents among the five short case studies described above. Most hid their sexual identity from their groups, knowing that it was viewed as degenerate and an anathema to the groups, unless it could be used by them. Some, like Viktoria, were actively steeped in self-hatred and shame over being gay and tried to vanquish it in themselves while going along with groups that openly and violently targeted the community of which they were a part. Most split off or at least did not publicly acknowledge their LGBTQ+ identity while in the group and supported a group that attacked and even wished to kill LGBTQ members. We saw the same occurring in ISIS, perhaps the most famous case being Omar Mateen, who came from an Afghan background and may have disavowed his homosexuality but then projected his hatred of this community by going to the same nightclub in Orlando he was known to have frequented to kill members of the LGBTQ+ community.

These case studies yield implications for practitioners working to prevent, counter, and intervene in violent extremism. Most importantly, practitioners must understand that hatred toward others can often arise as a defense against self-hatred, which arises particularly in LGBTQ+ individuals who were raised with complete intolerance of this identity. As is clear from the interviewees quoted, learning self-love can also be a pivotal step in turning away from hate groups and movements.

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By Eric George Tauber

CINCINNATI, Ohio Five years ago, on August 11, 2017, in the normally quiet college town of Charlottesville, VA, the peace was disrupted by the Unite the Right rally. The rally brought together Neo-Confederates, Neo-Nazis, the Klan, Patriot Front and other militias espousing White Supremacism. I dont think any of us will ever forget how we felt as we watched a mob of angry, violent men marching through the streets chanting JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US!

That evening, congregants at Beth Israel in Charlottesville were hastily ushered out a back door carrying the Torah scrolls. Thankfully, no violence or vandalism came to the shul, but the precautions were well taken.

The rally also brought together a group of counter-demonstrators who would not let such hateful, bigoted rhetoric go unanswered. Things came to a head when a domestic terrorist, James Fields used his car as a deadly weapon by driving it into the crowd, injuring nineteen and murdering one, a lovely, bright-eyed, idealistic young woman named Heather Heyer.

The next day, the 45th occupant of the Oval Office, mindful of who his most ardent supporters are, said that there were very fine people on both sides.

On August 14, 2017, when a rabbi was a no-show at the hastily organized Unity Vigil, I proudly represented the Jewish community by singing Haveinu Shalom Aleichem.

On the fifth anniversary of this infamous rally, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an online seminar called The Foot Soldiers of White Supremacy. Museum Historian, Dr. Rebecca Erbelding was joined by a fellow historian, Dr. Edna Friedberg and David Mills, a lawyer who sued the groups for the damage and loss of life that they caused.

What were the Alt-Right marchers trying to accomplish?

Ostensibly, they were protesting a recent decision by the Charlottesville City Council to remove a statue lionizing Confederate General Robert E Lee. On their flyers, the organizers purposely called the location Lee Park even though it had been renamed Emancipation Park. The message was clear: their hero was the defender of slavery, not emancipation.

To be pro-White, you are anti-everything else. It wouldnt be murder to kill them because theyre not even human. (Frohlich, a former White Nationalist)

The hate-group Identity Europa has strict rules about looking and sounding presentable. They are to be well-groomed with clean clothes. They want their men looking manly and their women looking feminine and motherly. They are not to use racial slurs and Nazi rhetoric in public. What is said behind closed doors is quite another matter.

Without hatred of Jews, there would be no movement. (Quote by a White Nationalist)

David Mills explained that the American Alt-Right is just the latest version of an old playbook. The imagery of torches and flags with black eagles on red backgrounds is intentionally reminiscent of the Nazis. Interestingly, participants were discouraged from displaying Hooked Crosses (aka Swastikas) as this symbol might hurt recruitment. While there were some Nazi flags among those who didnt get the memo, most White Supremacists rely on other Nordic Viking symbols such as the Black Sun to get their point across.

Why us? What do they mean when they say that Jews will not replace them?

The terrorists who shot up the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and -closer to home- Chabad of Poway both said that Jews represented the greatest threat to the White Race.

Replacement Theory (frequently espoused by Tucker Carlson) is the idea that demographic shifts, intermarriage and the influx of darker skinned immigrants are threatening to replace the White Race as the dominant force in American society. Jews are the ones pulling those strings because HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), which was originally set up to help Jewish refugees of the pogroms, now helps refugees of all faiths from all over the world.

I asked the panel how to combat the move to normalize propaganda. Dr. Friedberg recommended teaching the camouflage. What do the Nordic symbols really mean? What are their slogans really saying?

I would add that the best way to combat these hate groups is to keep up our good work. The Torah teaches us, Cursed is the one who denies justice to the stranger, the orphaned and the widowed. And all of the people shall respond, Amen. (Deut. 27:19) Therefore, HIAS -and all of us- need to continue welcoming immigrants and befriending those who are different from us. Let us continue to speak up for Freedom and Justice for All. Let us engage in interfaith dialog. We must normalize members of different religions working together and supporting one another when we are attacked.

White Supremacists see themselves as soldiers in a Culture War. Well, if thats what they want, lets give it to them. Let all of the people that they are against- immigrants, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, the disabled and the LGBTQ+- band together. Together we are greater and stronger than they. Let us make it abundantly clear that theirs is the losing side and -like their Civil War- their cause is already lost. And let us say, Amen.

The presentation can be viewed in its entirety by clicking here:https://www.facebook.com/holocaustmuseum

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Eric George Tauber, a former San Diegan now residing in Cincinnati, is a teacher, performer, and a drama critic.He may be contacted via eric.tauber@sdjewishworld.com

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At the London premiere of The Northman in early April, the director, Robert Eggers, explained on stage how he was seeking to reclaim Viking history from rightwing groups. Many of these groups thrive on myths of an imagined European past: a time before racial mixing or progressive politics, when men were mighty warriors and women were compliant child-bearers.

As Eggers told the Observer recently, such associations almost put him off making The Northman. The macho stereotype of that history, along with, you know, the rightwing misappropriation of Viking culture, made me sort of allergic to it, and I just never wanted to go there. Eggers has spoken of his scholarly research and commitment to getting Viking history right, down to the smallest details. But as rigorous and accomplished as The Northman is, it might in fact be the kind of movie the alt-right loves.

The Northmans 10th-century society appears to be uniformly white and firmly divided along patriarchal lines. Men do the ruling and killing; women do the scheming and baby-making. Its hero, played by Alexander Skarsgrd, is not a million miles from the macho stereotype Eggers complained of a brawny warrior who settles most disputes with a sword and without a shirt. Skarsgrds love interest, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, could be the far-right males dream woman: beautiful, fair-haired, loyal to her man and committed to bearing his offspring. Even before the films release, far-right voices were giving their approval on the anonymous message board site 4chan: Northman is a based [agreeable] movie, all white cast and shows pure raw masculinity. Robert Eggers. He is restoring pride in our people with his great films. The Northman is going to be epic Hail Odin.

On the face of it, some images of Skarsgrd in The Northman bare-chested, pumped-up with battle rage, wearing a wolfs pelt as headgear are uncomfortably close to those of Jake Angeli, AKA the QAnon Shaman, the abiding mascot of the 6 January assault on the US Capitol. On that day in Washington, Angeli was similarly topless and animal-adorned, his torso bearing tattoos of Nordic symbols now associated with white-supremacist movements, including a stylised Mjlnir (Thors hammer), Ygdrasil (the world tree of Norse mythology) and the Valknut (an ancient symbol of interlocking triangles).

The far rights love of Nordic lore goes back to the Third Reich and beyond, and the connection is stronger than ever. The deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 was full of Nordic symbols on banners and shields. Anders Breivik, the Norwegian extremist who murdered 77 people in 2011, carved the names of Norse gods into his guns. The shooter at the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, drew Norse insignia on his possessions and wrote see you in Valhalla on his Facebook page.

Eggers would doubtless be horrified to be associated with such movements, but The Northman illustrates how cinema can be misappropriated in ways its makers never intended. In the past two decades, the entire cultural landscape and films about European history in particular has been weaponised and politicised by the far right.

A guide to the far-right mindset was created on Stormfront, the notorious white-nationalist site, in 2001. A contributor named Yggdrasil (there is that Norse mythology again) began a thread on content that we can watch repeatedly, laying out guidelines and making and soliciting suggestions. The thread now runs to 154 pages.

Yggdrasils criteria for what qualifies as a good white-nationalist film include: Positive portrayal of whites in defense against the depredations of liberalism, crime, and attack by alien races; Positive portrayal of heterosexual relationships and sex, marriage, procreation and child rearing; Portrayals of white males as intelligent, sensitive and strong in positive leadership roles and or romantic leads; and Particularly intense portrayals of white female beauty, in non-degrading roles. Disqualifying themes include homosexuality, racial mixing, negative portrayals of Christianity and portrayals of white people as inferior.

The Northman pretty much ticks all these boxes, but then so do many other movies. Indeed, if you are looking for a Hollywood movie to support white-supremacist beliefs, you dont have to look very far.

Some of Stormfronts film recommendations are predictable: The Birth of a Nation, Triumph of the Will, Braveheart, Zulu, a lot of Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Clint Eastwood. Few will be surprised to see The Lord of the Rings movies come highly recommended. Neither JRR Tolkien nor Peter Jackson consciously framed the fantasy epic as white-nationalist propaganda, but, as with Nordic mythology, it harks back to an imaginary Eurocentric realm in which the heroes are considered to be white-skinned (and were cast as such in the movies) and the chief enemies, the orcs, are characterised as dark-skinned, ugly and uncivilised.

Derek Black, the son of Stormfronts founder, Don Black (a prominent Ku Klux Klan leader), even started a dedicated Lord of the Rings section on the website as a teenager. I figured you could probably get people who liked such a super-white mythos a few of them are probably gonna be turned on by white nationalism, he told the New York Times in 2017 (Black renounced his white-nationalist beliefs in 2013).

More recent medieval sagas have been venerated by the far right for similar reasons. Game of Thrones, for example, also set up a dynamic of white, northern Europeans battling darker-skinned nomadic barbarians (the Dothraki), who come to be led by a pale-skinned, fair-haired woman. The far right heartily approved of Zack Snyders action epic 300, in which heroic, muscular, barely clothed Spartan warriors bravely repel an invading army of Persians. The contrast between these manly action heroes and the anonymous keyboard warriors who idolise them is difficult to ignore.

Other recommendations on Stormfronts list are more surprising, such as Notting Hill. Few would have marked the Richard Curtis romcom as a key white-nationalist text, even if it was criticised at the time for excluding people of colour from its multicultural London neighbourhood. But, from the perspective of a white-nationalist blogger, Notting Hill is a story in which the white victims of culture destruction manage to extricate themselves and find happiness.

In recent years, the far right has been more strident about movies it doesnt like, which is almost everything. On social media and chatrooms such as 4chan and Reddit, far-right posters overwhelmingly white and male vilify Hollywood output, usually for being too inclusive, progressive or woke. Targets have included the all-female remake of Ghostbusters, the new Star Wars movies, Doctor Who and the Marvel films. As well as criticising, the far right has mounted coordinated attacks to lower these movies scores on reviews sites such as Rotten Tomatoes.

Theres a definite element of: The movies that we loved when we were kids are not as good any more, which is partly because youre not a kid, says Alan Finlayson, a professor of political and social theory at the University of East Anglia. He led a three-year research project on the far right and its use of digital platforms. From its point of view, says Finlayson, western culture is being continually corrupted, usually by an ill-defined power base (Jewish people, Marxists, liberals). The paradox of these kind of groups is that, on the one hand, they are claiming theyre deeply attached to western culture and civilisation, but they also hate western culture and civilisation, because its awful and decadent and liberal. So theyve got to kind of maintain these two things at the same time.

Harry Potter is an example of that, says Finlaysons colleague Rob Topinka, a senior lecturer at of Birkbeck, University of London. Referring to Harry Potter fandom is a shorthand way of saying mainstream liberal women and their kind of political thinking. But, at the same time, they call people who have been vaccinated mudbloods and adopt the name pureblood for themselves. So a lot of this is incoherent.

The far right also engages in more in-depth forms of movie commentary, via YouTube videos and podcasts. Far-right figureheads Richard Spencer and Mark Brahmin host a podcast that conducts 90-minute analyses of movies such as Tenet, GoldenEye and Midsommar, parsing their supposedly hidden meanings, often through a male-chauvinist and antisemitic lens. Midsommar, which deals with Scandinavian folklore in the present day, did not go down well. Brahmin described it as a deep insult against our people.

We could see these activities simply as extreme forms of film criticism, but Josh Vandiver, a lecturer at Ball State University in Indiana who studies rightwing appropriations of popular culture, prefers to describe them as metapolitics. If politics is the occupation of territory, metapolitics is the occupation of culture, he says. They are, at some level, creating a community. They comment upon films; they try to interpret them. Thats what they do together, at least publicly. And we could contrast that to more traditional forms of political organising that the far right for decades has not seen itself as able to do: marching in the streets or organising political parties. So, instead, they spend all this time on metapolitics.

It would be easy to blame the far right alone for this situation, but it has been given plenty to work with by Hollywood and academia. By and large, films and the histories from which they draw have been overwhelmingly controlled by people of white, European descent, whose own blind spots might well play into the far rights hands. Especially when it comes to matters of race.

After the Charlottesville rally in 2017, Dorothy Kim, an Asian American medieval literature lecturer at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, argued that medieval studies is intimately entwined with white supremacy and has been so for a long time. Academics had not done enough to counter myths that medieval Europe was a bastion of racial purity, said Kim, who was attacked by academics and the far right as a result. These myths were largely established by 19th-century historians with nationalist agendas, but more recent research reveals that societies such as those in Viking-era Scandinavia were in fact multicultural and multiracial.

These people were travellers. They ranged far across Europe and the Arctic and they engaged and mixed with neighbouring cultures. While they were highly gendered societies, a recent Finnish study also found evidence of gender-transgressing or gender-mixing practices, often of an openly sexual quality, among such societies. Eggers himself pointed to recent DNA analysis of the remains of a high-ranking Viking warrior found in Sweden, which identified them as female. (Apparently, she is briefly included in The Northman, but viewers may struggle to spot her.)

The far rights love of medievalism was never about historical accuracy, says Kim; it was always about constructing narratives. Invoking the medieval past has now become a more generalised sign of the alt-right, she says, pointing to recent far-right terrorists and their scattershot allusions to Nordic lore. The point is not the specifics of the historical detail or what certain medieval things may mean to certain subgroups. Instead, the point is to gather them all for the maximum amount of attention, to plant as many flags to say: I am a white supremacist, and to activate other white-supremacist terrorists globally.

When it comes to movies such as The Northman, considerations of accuracy or research are red herrings, Kim says. Ultimately, these are creative choices. What I am interested in is how to make their vision of the medieval past and, in this case, the medieval Scandinavian past, not some sort of catnip for white supremacists to use for future violent attacks.

Is such a goal achievable? Hollywood can create counternarratives without betraying the history or mythology. Amazons forthcoming Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power, has made a point of casting non-white actors to play elves and dwarves. Going slightly deeper, David Lowerys atmospheric The Green Knight, released last year, reinvigorated Arthurian legend a space as traditionally all-white as Viking history by casting the British-Asian actor Dev Patel as Gawain. (To his credit, Guy Ritchie did something similar, albeit to less acclaim, in his multicultural King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.)

In terms of Norse mythology, look at Marvels handling of its Thor movies. Kenneth Branaghs opening instalment was attacked in 2011 for casting Idris Elba as the Norse god Heimdall. As Elba said at the time: Thor has a hammer that flies to him when he clicks his fingers. Thats OK, but the colour of my skin is wrong? White-supremacist groups attempted to organise a boycott of Thor, but it had no significant impact on the movies box office takings.

Taika Waititi, who is of Mori and Jewish descent, took things even further with part three, Thor: Ragnarok. As well as casting Tessa Thompson, a woman of mixed African, Latino and European heritage as the ostensibly bisexual Norse warrior Valkyrie, Waititis film dealt with narratives of displacement, enslavement, colonialism and white-male fragility. Thors all-powerful hammer, Mjolnir, that beloved symbol of white supremacism, is casually disintegrated by Cate Blanchetts Hela. She then proceeds to bring down the Norse realm of Asgard, figuratively and literally.

Look at these lies, she says, stripping away a ceiling fresco to reveal an older one beneath, detailing how her father, Odin, built Asgard through violent conquest. Proud to have it, ashamed of how he got it. Judging by the trailer for the next instalment, Thor: Love and Thunder, Waititi is continuing down this road. There are hints of homoeroticism, while somehow Natalie Portman now wields Mjolnir. The far right is going to hate it.

In an ideal world, film-makers wouldnt have to give a moments thought to how their films might be co-opted by these groups; we could simply enjoy a movie such as The Northman as a piece of rousing, skilfully made entertainment. The fact that it is no longer possible to do so could be seen as a victory of sorts for the far right, but failing to consider the stories we tell from first principles could be part of the problem that created them in the first place. By this stage, in fact, film-makers ought to have realised that if the far right doesnt hate your film, you might be doing something wrong.

This article was amended on 22 April 2022 to clarify details about the heritages of Tessa Thompson and Dev Patel, the latter of whom was born in the UK, not India.

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Nora Flaherty saw the cross burning in front of St. Dominic Catholic Church in north Denver and ran to her home a block away to get her husband.

He grabbed an ax and helped put the fire out, but the Ku Klux Klan members who constructed the symbol of hate already hadfled, as Dennis Gallagher tells the story thats been passed down by his family.Like other longtime Denver families, dealing with the Ku Klux Klans one-time dominance of the city has been a generational problem for Gallagher and his kin.

His father was bullied by self-identified Klansmen about being an Irish Catholic when he joined the Denver Fire Department in 1938. In 1970, Gallagher was knocking on doors as a candidate for the Colorado House of Representatives and met a man who said he was a member of the Klan and thus would never vote for an Irish Catholic.

Theres never been an apology for what the Klan did, said Gallagher, professor emeritus at Regis University, former city auditor, city councilman, state senator and state representative. I think that has affected the city for generations.

Eli Imadali, Special to The Denver Post

Ripple effects of the Klans takeover of Denvers power structures over the course of just a few years in the mid-1920s are still felt, especially after the release by History Colorado this spring of digital copies of the Klans membership ledgers from that time period.The more than 30,000 names in the documents include those of the men the Klans political machine installed as Colorados governor, Denvers mayor and police chief, judges, state senators and representatives.

But the ledgers also show how pervasive the Klan was in day-to-day life, where the people they persecuted and intimidated would encounter them. The membership rolls show Klansmen worked at banks, pie companies, railroads, grocery stores, pharmacies, the zoo, the parks, the post office, cab companies, cafes, the stockyard, the city jail, the courthouse, laundry businesses, cab companies and this newspaper. They also worked at Denver landmarks, like Elitch Gardens, the Brown Palace Hotel, Union Station and Lakeside Amusement Park.

Those targeted and demonized by the Klan Blacks, Latinos, Catholics, Jews, immigrants of any kind lived in fear, said Robert Goldberg, a history professor at the University of Utah and author of Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. They knew the Klan was pervasive and that many parts of the government charged with protecting them were actively involved in the white supremacist organization.

They were made to be second-class citizens in their home, Goldberg said. Their neighbors were either active antagonists or passive bystanders to their pain.

The stories of that pain and resistance to the Klan have passed down through the generations of families who have lived in Denver over the past 100 years. The work, too, of pushing back against the Klans legacy continues as new groups form to espouse the KKKs brand of white supremacy and public spaces still bear KKK members names.

Many iterations of the Klan and similar groups have appeared in Colorado and the U.S. since the Reconstruction era, Jared Orsi, a professor of history at Colorado State University, said during a recent History Colorado event. Although they do not always have the same stated goals or organization, there is a common thread through them all.

Its an episodic phenomenon, Orsi said. Its a periodic welling up of deep and dark waters in the American soul. In that darkness lurks a very narrow and excluding definition of who is an American, and a suspicion and fear even a hatred of anyone who seems to lie outside of that definition.

Denver Public Library, WesternHistory/Genealogy Dept.

Denver was supposed to be a better, safer city in the 1920s. Leaders from the prior decade promised to clean up crime, end corruption and eliminate drinking. Nationally, World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars.

And it all flopped, Denver historian Phil Goodstein said. There is this extreme anxiety, especially in Denver, that something just isnt right.

June 17, 1921: The Colorado KKK announces its presence in Colorado via an open letter published in the the Denver Times newspaper.

May 15, 1923: Klansman Ben Stapleton is elected mayor of Denver. He installs Klansmen at many levels of city government.

Nov. 10, 1923: The KKK lights crosses on fire across Denver, including the steps of the Capitol, to commemorate Armistice Day.

Aug. 15, 1924: Stapleton defeats a recall election to stay in office.

Jan. 16, 1925: Gov. Clarence Morley, a Klansman, takes office.

June 1925: Grand Dragon John Galen Locke is jailed for contempt of court in connection to an investigation of tax evasion.

July 15, 1925: National Klan leadership ousts Locke from the organization. He goes on to form a new, similar group called the Minute Men and splits Denvers KKK.

Sources: History Colorado, In the Shadow of the Klan: When the KKK Ruled Denver by Phil Goodstein, ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org, the Colorado Encyclopedia

It was also a time when Black people in Denver were moving into white neighborhoods and the citys immigrantpopulation was growing, including Jewish and Catholic communities. These changes made the white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants who had long held power in the city nervous, Goodstein said.

Enter the KKK.

The Klan of the 1920s was distinct in some ways from the organization that terrorized the South in the 1860s after the Civil War and was responsible for lynching hundreds and suppressing the Black vote. This Klan largely disappeared from the public view by the 1870s.

The second wave of the Klan, which began in 1915 under new leaders, was inspired in part by the movie The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Reconstruction-era Klans actions and falsely recast the terrorist organization as a patriotic defender of law and order.While still fervent believers in white supremacy, the second iteration of the KKK expanded its targets to include Catholics, Jews and immigrants of any kind. The new Klan also was far more organized.

The Klan had a cafeteria of appeals, Goldberg said. They would go into a community and find out what the problem was and how they could sell themselves to that community.

In Denver, the white Protestant majority saw public safety, bootlegging and immigration as the problem. People joined the Klan for a range of reasons, Goodstein said. Political opportunists from both parties wanted to use membership to their political advantage. Others wanted to be a part of a quasi-secret society and relished the ritualism and feeling of participating in something with a patriotic aura, he said.

They realized that those with great power and fortunes received an inordinate share of societys honors while most politicians were bought puppets of the ruling elite, Goodstein wrote in his book, In the Shadow of the Klan. But they never questioned the essential setup. On the contrary, they turned their wrath on those who sought equality with them. An intense patriotism and religiosity filled voids in their social and psychic makeups.

Denver Public Library, Western History/Genealogy Dept.

Denvers Klan began secretly in well-connected circles but soon went public and spread to thousands of middle-class households, Goldberg said. Working-class neighborhoods tended to have higher membership rates because those people were more likely to live near or work with immigrants, Jews, Catholics and Blacks, said Tom Noel, director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies at the University of Colorado Denver during a discussion hosted by History Colorado.

Although the Klan sometimes painted itself as a volunteer and social organization, its exclusionary and white supremacist ideals were plainly iterated in its writings. The Creed of the Ku Klux Klan, as printed on Jan. 31, 1925, in the Boulder KKK publication The Rocky Mountain American, states that one of the organizations core principles was white supremacy and limitation of foreign immigration.

At its peak, at least 30,000 men were part of the KKK in Denver nearly a third of the 107,000 white, U.S.-born men recorded living in the city at the time of the 1920 census. Chapters opened in other Colorado cities, with Denvers Klan acting as the central hub.

And though their names arent in the ledgers, at least 11,000 women joined Klan groups in Colorado, with the largest chapter in Denver, said Betty Jo Brenner, who is working on a book on the women of the Klan.

Photos courtesy of History Colorado

Under the leadership of John Galen Locke, Grand Dragon in Colorado, the Klan quickly grew in power and took top positions in the city, state and federal governments, as well as rank-and-file jobs in those systems. The ledgers show that at least 186 Klansmen worked for the city of Denver, not including the 53 police officers and 37 firefighters, a Denver Post review found.

Influence extended beyond the government. More than 40 Klan members listed hospitals as their workplace as well as more than a dozen Klansmen who said they worked for public middle and high schools or the school board. At least 45 Klansmen listed a local newspaper as their employer including 19 who said they worked for The Denver Post. It wasnt clear what roles they played.

The Klan met regularly in the foothills outside Denver, where they burned crosses to be seen for miles. They hosted picnics and car races and frequently marched. Few acts of physical violence have been directly tied to the Denver KKK during this time, but the organization waged a campaign of intimidation through letter writing and cross burnings. It also pressured members to not shop at stores not owned by Klansmen and to fire employees who wouldnt, or couldnt, join the KKK.

But the Klan fizzled in the summer of 1925 after Locke was jailed in connection to tax evasion a contradiction to the man of law and order he pretended to be. His downfall and the failure of the Klansmen in the legislature to pass bills related to the KKKs goals, like repealing the state civil rights act, contributed to the KKKs diminishment in Denver.

The Klan was not defeated in Denver, Goldberg said, noting there was never any broad uprising against the group. The Klan died of self-inflicted wounds in Denver.

Its an open wound.

Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

Descendants of Black, Jewish and Catholic families who lived during that time still tell stories their predecessors passed down about the Klans reign and how people stood up to the KKK.

Denvers small Black community countered the Klan through the local branch of the NAACP and its newspapers, the Denver Star and the Denver Statesman, where writers repeatedly condemned the group. At the time of the 1920 census, 6,075 Black people lived in Denver, which had a total population of 256,491.

Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

One Black physician with light skin, Dr. Joseph Westbrook, joined the Klan and was able to keep tabs on the groups plans and share them with the Black community, said Terri Gentry, a docent at Denvers Black American West Museum.

Gentrys family has been telling Westbrooks story for four generations. Westbrook was her great-grandfathers best friend and godfather to her grandmother.

There were threats to the Black community and the Black community still looked after itself and made sure it increased and strengthened, Gentry said.

The Klan sent the NAACP president a letter ordering him to leave town, which he refused, and burned a cross in front of his home, according to History Colorado. The KKK also boycotted companies that hired Black employees.

Gentrys grandmother lived in the Five Points area, like most Black Denverites at the time. Gentrys grandmother loved her neighborhood and neighbors, but leaving the confines of the area could be a threat.

You have this double-edged sword: Your communitys a safe haven, but your radars up all the time, she said. Because if you step outside of your house you have to pay attention. And that hasnt changed. My radar is still up high.

Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post

Even though Bobbi Furer wasnt born until a few years after the KKKs fall, she still felt the fear the group instilled in her parents. They didnt tell her many stories about living as a Jewish family in Denver in the 1920s, but a sense of fear remained even after the Klan fell out of power.

They said to me, Dont talk about it and dont tell anyone youre Jewish, Furer said.

Her family had to walk a difficult line. They needed customers at their downtown gift and frame store and feared that the Klan would boycott them if the group found out they were Jewish or worse. For years, her great uncle bought a Christmas tree for his house so that he would blend in with the Christian majority, Furer said.

It wasnt until she was a teen in the 1940s that she felt comfortable sharing her faith with people who were not Jewish.

The Catholic press issued condemnations of the Klan, which spread conspiracies that all Catholics were allegiant to the pope and not the U.S., said Kevin Jones, a Denver-based staff writer at Catholic News Agency.

Jones great aunt was a ticket taker at a Denver theater who once had to hide in a closet because the theater was hosting a Klan event, he said. His grandma once saw KKK members trying to set up a cross to burn in front of a Catholic church.

We can say there was a lot of anxiety and fear, he said. The Klan was a secret society. There was a concern about who was in the Klan if your employer was in the Klan, you had to watch your step.

Katie Bush, Courtesy of History Colorado

For several nights last month, George Sparks struggled to sleep.

The digitization and release of History Colorados membership ledgers revealed one of Sparks predecessors, the first director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, as a Klansman.

Someone noticed Jesse Figgins name in the ledgers and flagged the museums leadership, who on May 4 issued an acknowledgment of the abhorrent history that influenced the operations of the museums first years.

For the people in this building, learning about Jesse Figgins was a shock to the system, said Sparks, the museums president and CEO.

Since then, the museums archivist has been sifting through Figgins correspondence and papers to figure out what Figgins believed and how those beliefs affected the operations of the museum. Figgins ran the museum from 1910 to 1935 and he wouldve personally been involved in curating and creating exhibits, Sparks said.

The museum took Figgins name off a collections room, took down a plaque that bore his name and hosted a town hall for staff to talk about the news. Personally, the revelation has left Sparks with a sadness, he said.

You dont get to pick your predecessors, but you want to admire them, he said. And I dont admire Jesse Figgins.

A similar review of History Colorado is underway after the states pre-eminent history organization found a former curator, Albert Sanford, and members of the board in the KKK membership rolls. The museum is reviewing Sanfords work and also looking to see if donors or volunteers were Klansmen.

Overall, History Colorado has received only positive feedback about the release of the ledgers, Chief Operating Officer Dawn DiPrince said. The ledgers are the only document of their kind and size in the U.S. known to the museum. People are eager to learn more about issues of systemic racism, she said.

This is the form white supremacy took in the 1920s in Colorado, but its such a powerful force, its got this shape-shifting to it, DiPrince said. It just finds new ways to continue thriving in our society.

Mementos of the old ways of white supremacism remain in Denver, too.

Eli Imadali, Special to The Denver Post

Although a neighborhood named for Klansman mayor Ben Stapleton has a new name Central Park after decades of effort, the group that led the most recent campaign is still working to get his name removed from a street in the area. A portrait of Gov. Clarence Morley, a member of the KKK, still hangs in the state Capitol.

Understanding how the KKK rose to power in Denver and the groups legacy is crucial to making sense of inequalities that continue today, said Nicki Gonzales, an associate professor of history and vice provost for diversity and inclusion at Regis University.

Your sense of normalcy is so much shaped by the attitudes that are around you, the institutions that are supported by those attitudes, she said.

The historians who spoke to The Post for this story said there are corollary groups today that espouse white supremacy and prey on peoples insecurities.

What was said at the KKK rallies in the 1920s is almost word for word what is being said today by the alt-right, William Wei, a University of Colorado Boulder history professor, said during a History Colorado event.

The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is an example of the continuation of the KKKs white supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant beliefs, said Sue Parker Gerson, senior associate director with the Anti-Defamation Leagues Mountain States office and a community adviser to History Colorados ledger project. People at the rally chanted Jews will not replace us and Nazi nationalist slogans.

We need to pay attention, especially when we have this treasure trove of data, to look at it and see if it speaks to things that were seeing now, Gersen said. Does it speak primarily to a blip in history, or are we seeing similar patterns now that we can correct?

The KKK is on the decline now, but there are other groups that are here to fill the void.

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The left-leaning website Vox looked at the explosion of anti-Semitic assaults during the Israel-Gaza conflict and came away with no definitive explanation whatsoever, but hints that blame may lie with followers of former President Donald Trump.

Vox writer Zack Beauchamp, who is Jewish, has noted that anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from harassment to vandalism to assault, increased by 75 percent during the recent Israel-Gaza conflict. Despite overheated rhetoric pouring out of certain members of Congress and video footage that unambiguously shows roving bands of assailants waving the Palestinian flag as they target Jewish diners, Vox concludes that its positively perplexed about why hate crimes rose during that time.

Violent anti-Semitism spiked in America during the Israel-Hamas war. And we dont know why, says the articles subheadline.

Authors often do not write their headlines but, in this case, it accurately reflects the content of Beauchamps argument.

He begins by acknowledging the undeniable uptick in violence during Israels conflict with the terrorist group Hamas.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded that anti-Semitic attacks in the United States surged 75% during the Israel-Gaza conflict. An accompanying graphic of overall anti-Semitic incidents shows that such events more than doubled between April 26 and May 23. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that spike was more drastic and frankly, more dangerous than during previous Middle Eastern tensions.

But Beauchamp muddies the waters, writing, Whats less clear is why these incidents are happening.

Its entirely possible that its random chance, he claims.

Beauchamp begins by trying to Fisk the data, asserting that a well-known problem with the ADLs data is its expansive definition of anti-Semitism, which includes anti-Zionism.

He cites an article by Mari Cohen in the left-wing Jewish Currents, which blithely shrugs away many of the 193 reports of anti-Semitic incidents the ADL received in the week that hostilities broke out an increase of one-third in just seven days.

Eight entries are cases of vandalism with no explicit connection to Israel/Palestine (like swastikas drawn on a synagogue or building, one of the most common types of incident reported by the ADL), Cohen wrote.

But these are precisely the sorts of charges leveled against Israel during its retaliation against Hamas attack on Jewish civilians.

MSNBC aired pro-Palestinian rhetoric which closely echoed former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. MSNBC host Joy Reid sat silently as foreign policy academic Rula Jebreal whom she introduced as my friend said that Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel [sic] apartheid government.(Duke wrote a book titled Jewish Supremacism.)

Both public and private sector condemnations of Israels war of self-defense grew so grim that four Democratic congressmen wrote a letter to reject comments from Members of Congress accusing Israel of being an apartheid state and committing act[s] of terrorism. These statements are antisemitic at their core and contribute to a climate that is hostile to many Jews.

Rather than draw attention to the incendiary rhetoric of Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others, Vox says the Palestinian beatings of random Jews may be the fault of President Donald Trump.

Beauchamp writes that the beatings could be a reflection of an upswing in anti-Semitism that began during the Trump campaign and presidency. There is little doubt that anti-Semitic sentiment in America began spiking in 2016 most commonly linked to the alt-rights rise on Trumps coattails.

The FBIs hate crimes statistics show that the number of anti-Jewish attacks have risen since 2016 returning to the equally high rates of such crimes in the years following 9/11.

Beauchamp also holds out the possibility that America is becoming more like Europe, where anti-Semitic violence during military conflicts involving Israel routinely rises, particularly in areas with large Muslim populations. But he says this is not likely.

Vox, which has a problematic history of jaundiced Middle Eastern coverage, concludes, Its far from clear which, if any, of the three explanations presented above will turn out to be the correct one.

The articles conclusion seemed so ludicrous that Ben Domenech hosted a segment about it on Thursdays episode of Fox News Primetime.

His guest, Rep.Maria Salazar(R-FL), noted that her district holds the second-largest Jewish community in the United States.

We have an immense problem in this country with this democratic socialism that some people within the Democratic Party are peddling to our youth, she said.

When you say socialism, youre talking about anti-Semitism in the same phrase, even though it may not be mentioned, she continued. She added that in Marxist societies like Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea, everybody [who] is a socialist or a communist is anti-Jew[ish].

Some of historys worst anti-Semitism took place in Marxist nations, which springs from the secularist philosophy of its founder. Karl Marx, who was ethnically Jewish, spread common anti-Semitic tropes in his monograph On the Jewish Question:

What is the secular basis of Judaism?Practicalneed,self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew?Huckstering. What is his worldly God?Money.

Very well then! Emancipation fromhucksteringandmoney, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.

Instead of considering this legacy of socialism, past and present, the media savaged Congresswoman Salazar.

Beauchamp posted on social media that he was incensed that two non-Jews in this Fox segment think they understand anti-Semitism better than I do, claiming that they did not appear to actually read the article.

You think you can mock my work on anti-Semitism that addresses the very point you claim it doesnt? Beauchamp added. I expect an apology.

The problem is not that Domenech and Salazar had the temerity to critique Beauchamps work. The problem is that he seemed so focused on absolving members of the Houses democratic socialist caucus of their role in emotionally inciting the people, elevating the severity of the situation on the ground, and flooding left-wing media with hateful tropes activated against peaceful Jewish Americans by enraged mobs.

For that, Beauchamp and Vox owe their readers an apology.

The views expressed in this piece are the authors own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Abigail Shriers Irreversible Damage is a superb piece of investigative journalism that exposes the damage done to teenage girls by transgender ideology, but it divides opinion. Should controversial books ever be censored?

The public library in Halifax, Nova Scotia had come under pressure for stocking Shriers book. Transgender campaigners had made the usual hyperbolic accusations that it presented a safety issue, one claiming, the impact of this book on, like, even one kid is potentially their life. Utter nonsense, of course, but those campaigners will stoop very low to get their own way.

Last week, the library announced it was not going to be removing the book from its shelves. In a statement it said, Public libraries exist to provide equal access to resources for everyone and support individuals freedom to seek information and form their own opinions. When we act to suppress access, we engage in censorship.

Perhaps with a view to the inevitable outrage that it knew would follow, it quickly re-committed itself to support trans people and the broader LGBTQ2S+ community before suggesting not one but 18 books that take an approach that is different from Shriers.

However, nothing short of total capitulation is ever good enough for the transgender thought police. Halifax Pride promptly announced its decision to end its partnership with the Halifax Public Library, including events planned for the 2021 festival. Let them go, would be my advice to the library. The trans community needs far better representation than Halifax Pride and their assertion that Shriers book could possibly put local trans youth in immediate harm. It is Shrier who is calling out the real and tangible threat to transgender-identified youth. They are being captivated by a dangerous ideology that pushes them into unnecessary medical treatment that could leave them sterile and medicated for life.

Sadly, we have got far too used to the petulant moaning of groups such as Halifax Pride. It doesnt help transgender people like me, but the damage may be limited if we pay no attention to it. But thats harder when the Canadian state broadcaster CBC publishes a news report that reads more like an op-ed. It started with the pull quote This book is definitely debating the existence of trans people, and quoted Halifax Pride and the author of one of two petitions that had called for the books removal. In a ludicrous non-attempt to balance the piece, the report quoted a professor of health promotion, whose research includes LGBTQ health and gender. She saw the book as harmful junk science that should be openly discussed, but not pulled from the library.

I dont know that taking the book out of the collection is necessarily going to resolve the bigger problem, which is transphobia and trans hatred.

CBC might not have given Abigail Shrier a right of reply, but RT.com was keen to hear from her. Shrier told me, My book does nothing more than point out the medical risks of hasty transition for teen girls. The notion that that makes anyone feel unsafe is a lie that the activists are using, very effectively, to silence all debate over the medical protocols of transition. I dont know whats more disgraceful, the attempt to suppress a book, or all the people who have fallen for it. But Im grateful to the Halifax Library for standing up to this madness.

But the madness runs deeper than local issues in Halifax, Nova Scotia. CBC appears to have been captured. It cited author Tom Ryan, who said he now plans to cancel his upcoming library-sponsored presentation out of concern for the LGBTQ teens he writes about. However, in an atrocious failure of editorial judgment, the original piece illustrated Ryans quote with two of his tweets. In them, he likened Shriers concern for transgender-identified girls with the anti-Semitic writings of David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Without criticism or comment, CBC embedded two tweets in which Ryan had written the following:

A quick search tells me that Halifax Public Library does not carry Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question by David Duke. Is it censorship of HPL so [sic] choose not to carry this book? Would people crawl out of the woodwork to defend the library if they did carry Dukes book? If you answered no, ask yourself why so many people are quick to defend this book. Its not about free speech its about granting transphobia a veneer of respectability.

Ryan later withdrew those appalling remarks and they also disappeared from the CBC report but what was a state broadcaster thinking when it selected them for publication? Its far too easy for libellous accusations to be propagated on social media, but that doesnt excuse professionals who should know better than to repeat them. To link Shrier to Duke is not only potentially defamatory, it misleads the Canadian public. Either CBC is hopelessly nave and does not know what it is doing, or this was a deliberate attempt to discredit Shriers book by the most scurrilous tactics imaginable.

Ive read Shriers book. Last year, RT.com published my review. Irreversible Damage is neither transphobic nor anti-trans, whatever those terms might mean, and it is not definitely debating the existence of trans people. It is controversial only because some people seem determined to suppress it at all costs.

If Shrier is right and I think she is we are witnessing an appalling failure of safeguarding, which is leading to the systematic abuse of vulnerable girls. Her claims need to be investigated, and therefore her book needs to be read. If CBC is trying to actively suppress this book, Canada has a very serious problem indeed.

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Trans activists tried to censor a book on potential harm of hasty transitions for children - RT