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transition:AN 818With the rise of President Donald Trump, Fox News has drifted toward advocating even more explicitly for a white supremacist ideology. In her latest tirade against immigration Wednesday night, host Laura Ingraham delivered one of the most patently anti-immigrant and racist screeds from the network yet."It does seem like the America we know and love doesn't exist anymore," she said. "Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people. And they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like. From Virginia to California, we see stark examples of how radically, in some ways, the country has changed. Now, much of this is related to both illegal and legal immigration, that of course progressives love."While it's true that the size of the immigrant population in the United States has grown in recent decades, there's simply no evidence that it's causing the kinds of problems Republicans like to imagine and stir up outage about with their fear-mongering. And a large immigrant population is nothing new in American history — the country had similar levels of <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/cspan_fb_slides.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">immigration</a> in the late 19th century.  And despite Ingraham's claims to the contrary, most Americans have no problem with the level of immigration in the country. According to <a href="https://www.people-press.org/2018/06/28/shifting-public-views-on-legal-immigration-into-the-u-s/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pew</a> <a href="https://www.people-press.org/2018/06/28/shifting-public-views-on-legal-immigration-into-the-u-s/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Research Center</a>, 38 percent of Americans want to see immigration continue at present levels, while 32 percent actually want to see immigration increased.Only 24 percent of Americans desire less immigration to the U.S. — down from 53 percent in 2001.Of course, that's not what Ingraham and her ilk would like you to think. They'd like you to think everyone is as terrified of immigrants as they are. And despite what you hear from politicians like Trump, unauthorized entry into the country is not a growing problem. There are fewer undocumented immigrants in the United States now than there were in 2009, and the rate of <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/27/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">net illegal immigration</a> has been about zero for a decade."Fox used to just be sort of the country club style of racism, which is extremely awful....but they've crossed the threshold now. Just straight up white nationalism every single night," tweeted Andrew Lawrence, a senior researcher for Media Matters who first discovered the clip.Watch the clip below:<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump's combination of racism and authoritarianism, made repeatedly clear through his words and deeds, has not been disqualifying for his voters and most Republicans. Indeed it is central to his appeal, and has lured tens of millions of Americans into his movement.In an increasingly diverse and cosmopolitan America, this combination is like a dagger pointed at the heart of the country’s democracy. Whether our republic can survive changing racial demographics and white racial paranoia, and how much Donald Trump’s racist and authoritarian movement is really a deviation from America’s historic norms, is very much in question. It seems clear that white identity politics has helped the Republican Party maintain control over its voters, and that a large number of white Americans value the privilege conferred on them by skin color more than they value democracy.  In an effort to address these questions and many others, I recently spoke with Steven Miller, a professor of political science at Clemson University, and Nicholas Davis, a research scientist at the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University. They are the authors of the new research paper <a href="https://svmiller.com/research/white-outgroup-intolerance-democratic-support/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">“White Outgroup Intolerance and Declining Support for American Democracy.”</a>As the title suggests, Miller and Davis' work reveals a strong and disturbing connection between racial intolerance and potential support for military rule, or a strongman leader who could dispense with inconveniences like elections, courts or legislative oversight. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length.Can you explain how Donald Trump was able to win the 2016 presidential election?Steven Miller: There was a potent cocktail of partisanship and out-group prejudice that, when combined with its geographic concentration in swing states like Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, propelled Trump to the White House with an absolute minority of the popular vote. Trump's electoral win was the end result of a concerted effort to prime opposition to Obama and his policies through a racial filter that ultimately paid off for Republicans in a fairly short turnaround. They had to go four years without a House majority and eight years without control of the Senate or White House to get united government again.I have conducted other research which shows that racial resentment may have had a stronger effect on Democrats than Republicans. In other words, Republicans who scored the lowest on racial resentment still voted for Trump, while Obama voters and registered Democrats who scored the highest started to break for Trump.Miller: I think the simplest answer here is that the bottom line of journalism depends on not addressing the nature of this problem. Our most prominent journalists and journalistic outlets are largely concentrated in major metropolitan areas like New York and Washington, D.C. These are diverse cities in which multiple different groups help these cities thrive and make these cities great. However, the business model for these outlets importantly depends on subscriptions, clicks and ratings from people in far less diverse places who would feel alienated by being called racist or xenophobic, even if it may accurately describe their policy beliefs.One of the dominant narratives was that the 2016 election was a story about "economic anxiety." Given that there is a large and growing amount of empirical, polling, experimental and other work showing that story to be incorrect, why does it linger?To be clear: Not all Trump voters are racist or xenophobic. However, Trump's racism and xenophobia were not enough to dissuade them from voting for him, and even bringing that up is going to alienate potential subscribers, readers and viewers.It's easy to mollycoddle some of the more corrosive aspects of Trump's voting bloc by misdiagnosing the root of their behavior, because the alternative would hit the corporate news media in the pocketbook.How do you define authoritarianism? How is it operationalized in your work?Miller: Authoritarianism can mean different things in different fields of political science. It can refer to a form of governance or a disposition or worldview privileging conformity, submission to authority and aggression toward minorities or out-groups that is activated under a perceived sense of threat.Our analysis measures attitudes in favor of autocratic, non-democratic governance. We leverage three questions widely used in the World Values Survey on attitudes toward democracy that ask whether a particular form of government would be a good way of running the country. The prompts include 1) having a strong leader who does not have to bother with the legislature or regular elections, 2) having the army rule the government, or 3) having a democratic political system. The respondent can say if these are very good, good, bad or very bad ways of running their country. We code responses of "very good" and "good" on the first two as an anti-democratic sentiment and code the "bad" and "very bad" responses in the third item as an opposition to democracy.How do you conceptualize racism as well as racial resentment and racial animus?Miller: We created a measure we label "white out-group intolerance." We select white respondents in the World Values Survey from 1995 to 2011 and leverage questions that probe what kinds of neighbors these white Americans would not like to have. Available responses include criminals, members of a different race, heavy drinkers, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants or foreign workers, people with AIDS, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, people of a different religion, people of the same religion, militant minorities, political extremists, unmarried couples living together and people who speak a different language. The respondent could select all of these as unwelcome neighbors or select none of them.We want to emphasize the variety in the available responses. It does not coerce a response easily construed as prejudiced toward an ethnic or racial minority unless this represented the respondent's earnest preference. Ultimately, we select responses of "people who speak a different language," "immigrants or foreign workers" and "members of a different race." We select for white out-group intolerance if a respondent would not want one or more of those groups as neighbors. We note in the appendix that we experimented with different measures that included responses to Jews, Muslims and "militant minorities," but they ultimately didn't change our findings.How are racism and authoritarianism connected?Miller: We put forward an argument rooted in the social identity framework to link white out-group intolerance, as we measure it, with opposition to democracy among white Americans. We start by identifying that simple attachment to a group is not a sufficient condition for out-group prejudice; i.e., white Americans can self-identify as white with zero implication for how they evaluate minority groups. Instead, other factors like relative status, the context of inter-group relations and other psychological forces shape prejudices to follow.In the case of the United States this would be the demographic shifts that will make the country a "minority-majority" country in the intermediate future, along with the election of the first black president. This constitutes a sense of threat to white Americans with a sufficiently high attachment to their white identity and who also fear what this change in relative status will do to their material well-being.This leads to a negative evaluation of democracy because democracy, by design, empowers the minority with the same opportunity of access to politics and power as the majority, even if the governance that follows is still some form of majority decision-making. Democracy is a compromise that empowers the minority beyond its actual numerical endowment. For the subset of white Americans we describe, democracy ultimately empowers their source of perceived threat.This leads them to abandon "the false dreams of equality and democracy" -- borrowing that expression from noted white supremacist Richard Spencer -- and makes them more open to autocratic alternatives for the country if it would lock in the relative status of whites over nonwhites in the United States.
How do we locate Trumpism and the resurgence of overt white supremacism and the extreme right in the United States, relative to what is happening in Europe and elsewhere? Miller: Trump successfully launched a minority-scapegoating campaign to win the White House. Marine Le Pen's National Front made it to the presidential runoff in France. The Tories [the British Conservative Party] and UKIP had a symbiotic relationship in which UKIP was able to coerce an in-or-out referendum on the EU from [former Prime Minister] David Cameron, resulting in a successful Brexit campaign animated largely by concerns over immigration. The AfD in Germany [a far-right party] is barely five years old and now has 13 percent of the seats in the Bundestag. Italy's populist parties just got the OK to form a government.These movements share a similar theme. They have outsized views of past glory and target immigrants as responsible for real or perceived downturns in national status. They're targeting the same international governmental organizations and supranational institutions responsible for post-World War II peace and prosperity, to the extent that they coincide with perceived loss of status and increases in immigration.The American case strikes me as anomalous for two reasons. One, the immigration aspect in American populism is recent, at least as a Republican priority. Previous presidents have dog-whistled on the threatening presence of racial out-groups -- Nixon's "law and order" and the "Southern strategy," Reagan's "young bucks" and "welfare queens," George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton ad -- and I'd remiss if I didn't bring up Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" proposal because it's easy to forget how draconian that message was.However, George H.W. Bush signed the Immigration Act of 1990 to bring in more immigrants to the U.S. and Reagan was pro-amnesty and even pro-proto-NAFTA in 1979. He wanted free movement across what would become the NAFTA countries. Contrast this older GOP with, say, the National Front in France, which has been loudly anti-immigrant since its formative years.Second, and most curious: Other right-wing populist parties are trying to bundle anti-immigration measures with greater investments in social spending and welfare. Notice the reason why: White people are getting older everywhere in the West and immigrants are responsible for plugging gaps in the social safety net's spreadsheet, ensuring that governments can afford to pay out these benefits. At some level, voters probably know this and these right-wing parties needing to come up with unequivocal assurances, whether or not they are genuine, to mollify these concerns.Republicans in America kind of stand out by trafficking in the same anti-immigration hysteria while also proposing policies to dismantle social spending and the welfare state. These are incidentally policies that disproportionately benefit rural white Americans. Indeed, most Republican voters hate their party’s fiscal policies, but will vote for them anyway when bundled with the white identity politics the Republican Party has been offering for the past few decades....</div>AN cdv...Trump rode this wave of white rage and fear to the White House. He had many criers on that damnable highway. Extreme right-wing opinion columnist and occasional Republican presidential primary candidate Pat Buchanan was and is one of the loudest and most panicked. Writing in Monday's New York Times, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/america-white-extinction.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Blow observed how</a>:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents.He was not particularly sympathetic to these families’ plights, instead choosing to focus on the demographic danger facing whiteness: “This is the great issue of our time. And, the real question is whether Europe has the will and the capacity, and America has the capacity to halt the invasion of the countries until they change the character — political, social, racial, ethnic — character of the country entirely.”A few days earlier on his blog, he expanded on this point: “The existential question, however, thus remains: How does the West, America included, stop the flood tide of migrants before it alters forever the political and demographic character of our nations and our civilization?”He continued: “You cannot stop these sentiments of people who want to live together with their own and they want their borders protected.” Make no mistake here, Buchanan is talking about protecting white dominance, white culture, white majorities and white power.In describing Western liberals’ aversions to instituting racist, xenophobic immigration policies, he wrote: “We are truly dealing here with an ideology of Western suicide.” He ended with this: “Trump may be on the wrong side politically and emotionally of this issue of separating migrant kids from their parents. But on the mega-issue — the Third World invasion of the West — he is riding the great wave of the future, if the West is to have a future.”</blockquote>Blow continued:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Strip all the other rationales away from this draconian immigration policy. This is at the core: White extinction anxiety, white displacement anxiety, white minority anxiety. This is the fear and anxiety Trump is playing to.</blockquote>Much of this echoes <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/12/23/donald_trump_leads_an_insane_white_cult_and_pat_buchanan_just_explained_how_it_works/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">an observation I made in 2015 where I explained how</a>:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pat Buchanan possesses gifted insight into powerful appeal of Donald Trump for the Republican base. Both men are nativist, xenophobic, r<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/04/437443401/populist-movement-reflected-in-campaigns-of-sanders-and-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ight-wing populists</a> who understand the allure of white alienation and racial resentment in the post civil rights era. Pat Buchanan is more of a “culture warrior” than Donald Trump. But like George Wallace in the 1960s, the Know-Nothings in the 19th century and the Black Legion in the 1930s, Buchanan and Trump are recent iterations in a long history of right-wing demagoguery and false populism in American politics.</blockquote>Stephen Miller, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/family-separation-trump.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">driving force behind the current zero-tolerance border crossing policy</a> and one of Trump's closest advisers, also shares Buchanan's worries and anger about a White America "under siege" by waves of "inassimilable" nonwhites.And in an appearance on Fox News last Friday, Michael Anton (who is one of Donald Trump's other white supremacist advisers) made the Trump administration's de facto crusade of "blood and soil" old fashioned white racism even more clear when he said:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The United States has a huge heart. We’ve welcomed millions of people, including my ancestors, but we’ve got to have limits or we don’t have a country.</blockquote>Anton was in the "safe space" provided by Fox News where he would feel comfortable enough to make such a vile racist comment without being properly challenged.This echoes <a href="https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/americas-leading-authoritarian-intellectual-works-for-trump.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Anton's infamous white supremacist "The Flight 93 Election" screed from 2016</a> where he argued that:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.”</blockquote>Anton's comments on Sunday are just a reflection of how Fox News and its hosts, such as Tucker Carlson and other members of the right-wing commentariat, trade in white supremacist talking points on a near-daily basis.Of course, these claims and worries that whiteness (and white people) in America will be eclipsed or annihilated are ahistorical, lack proper social and political context in the present, and in total are nightmares of shadow and fog without any real substance.Throughout American history the boundaries of who is considered "white" have changed to include new groups of people in response to the demands and needs of white elites to maintain power.The Irish, Italians, the Polish, Jews, Russians, and other Europeans have, over the centuries and decades, completed this journey from the periphery of whiteness to being fully considered white.If American history is any guide, a good number of Hispanics and Latinos (as well as Pacific Islanders and other East Asians) will likely complete some version of that journey from honorary to full whiteness as well.White Americans will not be a "minority" in America. They will still be the single largest group.Moreover, this hysteria about a unified black and brown horde that will act in lockstep to pursue shared interests against white Americans is based on a fiction. Blacks, Hispanics and Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, and other nonwhite groups and individuals do not share a hive mind; they are not the Borg from "Star Trek"; their interests and goals are not always the same.Most importantly, white Americans, regardless of demographic change, will still control every major social, political, economic and cultural institution in the United States.Population numbers may fluctuate, but this deep institutional control of power in America has historically and will continue to remain in the hands of White America.The concept of "race" does not reflect empirical reality as it actually exists.Racism and white supremacy are based on a concept which is a "true lie" that dominant society makes real, both for those who benefit from racial inequality as well as those who suffer under it.In all, Charles Blow's sharp observation that, "This is at the core: White extinction anxiety, white displacement anxiety, white minority anxiety. This is the fear and anxiety Trump is playing to" actually rests up something deeper, more existential, and in many ways more sinister both because of the collective psychology involved and what such a conclusion then mandates as a necessary and reasonable response to an existential threat.It is not just white anxiety about changing demographics which drives Trumpism and the Republican Party's white identity politics. It is actually a fear that black people specifically, and nonwhites more generally, will seek revenge against white people once the former are the numerically larger group. This conclusion is based on a very narrow and distorted understanding of power as a type of zero sum game where it is considered "human nature" for one group to dominate another by any means necessary.Here white racial paranoia — as a function of the absurd race concept — is based on contradictions and hypocrisy that nonetheless somehow cohere together.Social science research, public polling, and other data consistently shows <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states-polls/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a deep divide in America between how whites and nonwhites understand the impact of racism</a>, both in their personal lives and across society as a whole. Many of these differences are truly ridiculous and bizarre.Before the Civil War and through to Reconstruction and afterwards, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/06/19/roots-of-white-rage-americas-clash-of-class-and-race-from-the-civil-war-to-the-rise-of-trump/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">white Americans were afraid of "negro domination"</a> if black slaves and then free people were given access to the vote and other civil rights. During the legal white supremacy of American Apartheid and Jim and Jane Crow, white Americans, by large and consistent margins, told pollsters that black Americans had an equal opportunity to succeed in America.These divides continue into the present with white Americans — despite mountains of empirical research and increasingly also near instantaneous real-time video evidence — are largely still in denial about the impact of racism on nonwhites more generally, and of how cultural institutions such as the police, education, banking, finance, real estate, and the political system through gerrymandering and other voter suppression techniques, discriminate against nonwhites.Against all facts and evidence, matters have become so absurd in the age of Donald Trump that <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/732849/why-white-people-think-theyre-real-victims-racism" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">almost half of white Americans actually believe</a> that they are more likely to be victims of racism than are black and brown people. Moreover, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2016/10/26/white-victims-unite-donald-trump-and-republicans-sing-the-white-male-victimology-blues/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump and the Republican Party's voters are so drunk on white victimology</a> that they think that it is white people and not nonwhites who are the "real victims" of racial discrimination in America.All of these delusions revolve around a basic contradiction: many white Americans have convinced themselves that black and brown people exaggerate, are too sensitive, and outright lie about their experiences as victims of racism and white privilege. Yet, this racism — which according to the white gaze does not really exist except in extreme forms such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis — somehow does exist, but manifests itself in the form of so-called "reverse racism" against white people.Furthermore, if black and brown people have been exaggerating, lying about, and misrepresenting the realities of racism and white supremacy in America, then why would white folks have anything at all to fear from racism themselves, not to mention "revenge" for sins and crimes and transgressions which actually never took place?It all boggles the mind. This does not make the cocktail of white privilege and white supremacy any less potent a social and political drug.What does history actually teach us?In the United States black Americans and other people of color have only wanted full and equal rights with white Americans. For example, from the Civil War to the great experiment in democracy that was Reconstruction, black Americans worked very hard to expand opportunities for all people, including poor and working class whites. This dynamic continues into the present where public opinion polls show that black and brown American consistently support policies which would expand the social safety net, civil rights and economic justice and opportunity for the average American — on both sides of the color line. Black and brown people are also on the frontlines of saving American democracy from the fascism and authoritarianism of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.Black (and brown) Americans, as a group, have never sought to retaliate against white Americans — even when such an act and desire would have been perfectly reasonable, just, and yes, moral. But there are millions of white Americans in Trump's camp and also outside of it who are terrified that with increasing racial and ethnic diversity they will be victims of racially-motivated revenge and violence. This makes these millions of white voters easily manipulated by racist demagogues who use political sadism to stab at the worst parts of human nature. In response, it will take require a united front of black and brown and white folks to save the United States from Donald Trump and the Republican Party's fascist and authoritarian campaign against democracy. Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-effect-new-study-connects-white-american-intolerance-support-authoritarianism-ncna877886" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">too many white Americans would rather live under an authoritarian regime</a> that supposedly empowers white people like them than a real democracy which provides equal opportunities for all people.<a href="https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/7350175/videos/157684261">https://livestream.com/schomburgcenter/events/7350175/videos/157684261</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Beginning-Definitive-History-National/dp/1568585985">https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Beginning-Definitive-History-National/dp/1568585985</a>
<div class="a-section a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 22px;" amazon="Amazon" ember="Ember" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><h1 id="title" class="a-size-large a-spacing-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-bottom: 0px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important;">Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) Paperback – August 15, 2017</h1></div><div id="byline" class="a-section a-spacing-micro bylineHidden feature" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;" amazon="Amazon" ember="Ember" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">by <span class="a-declarative" data-action="a-popover" data-a-popover="{" closebuttonlabel="closeButtonLabel" close="Close" author="Author" dialog="Dialog" popover="Popover" name="name" contributor-info-b00imum1r0="contributor-info-B00IMUM1R0" position="position" triggerbottom="triggerBottom" popoverlabel="popoverLabel" allowlinkdefault="allowLinkDefault" true="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-asin="B00IMUM1R0" class="a-link-normal contributorNameID" href="https://www.amazon.com/Ibram-X.-Kendi/e/B00IMUM1R0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Ibram X. Kendi</a> </div><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-february-19-2018/">https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-february-19-2018/</a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-trauma/how-trump-trauma-resurrecting-jim-crow-era">https://www.alternet.org/trump-trauma/how-trump-trauma-resurrecting-jim-crow-era</a>While Donald Trump’s behavior has inspired an endless amount of speculation about his mental health (or mental illness, depending on who’s talking), there has been less discussion about the impact of his presidency on our collective mental states. Even as Trump has seemed to wage a sort of psychic war on black and brown communities, America’s psychological organizations have largely remained silent about the potential mental consequences of those attacks.Theopia Jackson, who heads up clinical psychology at Saybrook University in California, has spent more than three decades pushing the psychological field to recognize and address the ways our politics and mental health are intertwined. In late January, the Association of Black Psychologists, of which Jackson is president-elect, published an open letter titled “<a href="https://www.abpsi.org/pdf/NoLongerSilentStatement.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">We Can No Longer Be Silent</a>: Psychological Damage By President Trump.” The missive presented a cursory review of recent Trump insults to black and brown populations the world over, from the infamous “<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shithole-countries-comment-reality-in-africa-maps-charts-2018-1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">sh*thole</a>” remark leveled against an entire continent to the implication that Puerto Rican <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-attacks-puerto-rico-lazy-49cff500c154/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">hurricane survivors are lazy</a> for requesting help, and arrived at the only reasonable conclusion.“Not only do these statements denigrate the humanity of the citizens of these countries,” the organization noted, “they are psychological assaults to our sense of wholeness and wellbeing….While we fully recognize that President Trump does not have the courage or character to apologize for these inflammatory remarks, which is a behavioral stance similar to a psychopath, our continued silence would be enabling and complicit in the psychological damage historically associated with African dehumanization and destruction.”Having worked in multiple areas of psychology, from private practice to pediatrics to academia, Theopia Jackson is an expert in trauma, how it impacts our lives and how we grapple with its long-term affects. I spoke with her about the trauma Trump creates, how people of color can push back and the role of cognitive dissonance in the last election.Kali Holloway: Even before the election, during the campaign season, mental health workers and clinicians said they were seeing signs of politics-related trauma in clients. Did you witness how the election season took a toll on people, especially those in vulnerable communities?Theopia Jackson: First and foremost, I want to clarify how I understand trauma, which is the thing that happens to us, not what's wrong with us. The reality is, every human is exposed to trauma. We're just in various places in terms of how we cope with it, based on a number of different factors, such as accessibility to resources, self-awareness about what's happening, and more. When I think about how trauma played out during the campaign season, I would say many things were being activated in people. Some of [Trump’s] languaging reminded people of past trauma events. And of course, many of those folks were members of communities or groups who have already been targeted—LGBT people, particular religious groups, certain races and ethnicities.I want to say, too, that many communities—in particular communities of color—have always maintained that issues of racism were still happening. Yet in our more dominant discourse, there was the idea that we were "post-racial" because of the election of President Barack Obama; that we were post all these issues, despite the fact that communities of color, particularly African Americans, along with our Hispanic brothers and sisters, kept saying, No, this still exists. But we couldn't hear it. I think [Trump’s] campaign brought all of that to light. The timing of his campaign came on the heels of recent acknowledgements of police violence in communities of color. And again, people did not want to believe that some of those who are charged with being peacekeepers were actually operating from a racist ideology.Let me be very clear: this is not true for all law enforcement. But it's definitely true for too many. I think the heightened national and international awareness of police abuse, along with [Trump’s] rhetoric actually accelerated and exacerbated people's discomfort. Folks could no longer ignore what was happening or pretend that things were cool.KH: This makes me think of the discussion I’ve seen around Trump’s gaslighting of Americans. How he says one thing, then says he never said it, even though we just watched him say it five minutes ago and it’s on video. That’s a sort of collective gaslighting. For me, it's very reminiscent of the gaslighting this country has been doing to folks of color and marginalized communities forever, essentially telling us that issues like racism are a mass delusion of some sort.So an event like the election of Donald Trump definitively states: No, this is real. We're not imagining it, or in some dream state. This is very real, and it's part of the fabric of our country.TJ: Absolutely.KH: Did you personally see election-related trauma among people you were in contact with?TJ: Absolutely. And it's still going on now. For example, the way it would show up in my practice as a clinical psychologist is that I had many clients, particularly children, who were completely scared. They would share that they were fearful, that they felt like they couldn't leave their homes anymore. Within the black community it's sort of resurrecting the time of Jim Crow.......<a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/how-white-nationalists-hide-academia">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/how-white-nationalists-hide-academia</a>Even in the world of academia, a punchy headline can be everything.As subaltern analysis heads from the margins to the center of critical discourse, the kind of post-colonialism that was previously centered on a college campus has been popularized across the left. Within a popular culture shifting to decolonization ideas, someone at the Third World Quarterly likely knew a title like "The Case for Colonialism" was going to gain some traction. The paper, penned by controversial Portland State University faculty member Bruce Gilley, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colonialism-academic-article-bruce-gilley-threats-violence-published-withdrawn-third-world-quarterly-a7996371.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">argued</a> that Western colonial expansion into the Global South, specifically Africa, was a net positive, and that the 20th century liberation struggles were a catastrophe that should be reversed. Ignoring the mountains of scholarship that outlines the brutal cruelty of colonial exploitation, slavery and genocide, Gilley has taken an avenue that is popular amongst the academic segment of the radical right: transvaluation. With a mind towards defending white settler colonialism, Gilley did not deny the tragedies, he just decided they were worth it.While it was shocking to many that a respected Routledge-published journal like Third World Quarterly would publish something so bizarrely angled, there is a precedent for this type of academic literature. While the academy is often viewed as the vanguard of intellectual leftism (a claim that has some merit), this perception hides the fact that far-right -- and often openly fascist -- political actors also have found a place in the classroom.Racial ScienceIn the wake of World War II, and the advancements in the physical and social sciences, the idea of race as a meaningful category had not only been largely abolished, but the cruel consequences of racial pseudo-science were undeniable. This did not completely end this false scholarship, however, but it forced a certain coded language that justified racist thinking while abandoning the cultural baggage that open racialism often carries.Started in 1937 when "racial hygiene" was still a popular concept, the Pioneer Fund was created by industrialist Wickliffe Draper to support scientific research that validated ideas on eugenics, racial segregation and immigration restriction. Their journal, the Mankind Quarterly, has been publishing this race-related research for decades now, and their grants continue to climb off their hefty endowment. In the 1960s, education psychologist Arthur Jensen made a name for himself by arguing racial differences in the capacity of young children to learn, with the term "Jensenism" being coined for his line of thinking. The Jensenist argument was that IQ was largely heritable, and that certain genes found in particular populations were correlative to higher IQs. It was exactly this "hereditarian" concept that drove Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's 1994 touchstone The Bell Curve, which mined Pioneer Fund research to support a radically anti-egalitarian vision of human intellect and wealth acquisition.Evolutionary psychology was plagued by figures like these for decades, constructing the notion that human beings evolved into hierarchical social divisions, and that their abilities were fixed rather than socially malleable. J. Philippe Rushton became one of the most controversial figures in his field when he openly argued for racial differences in innate IQ, using "twin studies" to try and prove that IQ was highly heritable and, therefore, if he could find Black populations with low IQs, they would likewise be deficient as a group. He went on to argue bizarre theories, like Black people have a high predilection for aggression because of their dark skin color, and that penis size is correlative to IQ. Today, scientists like Richard Lynn continue to argue strict racial hierarchies using this logic, arguing that nations have developed more or less wealthy not because of colonial expansion and access to resources, but because of brain size and natural intelligence.The Population BombIn the same vein of coded language, "population" has been doubly loaded to try and strike at liberal sentiments about the environment for radically illiberal conclusions. The fear of population growth is stationed in modernity by environmental movements that rightly see increased industrialism, development and civilizational expansion as potential for violence on the planet. In the 1970s, we began seeing books looking at the "population bomb," the coming expansion in world populations that would overwhelm the Earth's carrying capacity. While this could theoretically have a neutral tone, a large portion of the authors stoking population fears set their eyes on the "Third World," countries still in the process of development and whose cultural features were looked down on by wealthy white nations.Many radical environmentalists from movements like Earth First! went in the direction of the population restriction, with people like Dave Foreman settling in with anti-immigrant groups like Californians for Population Stabilization. The argument first sees non-white immigration as problematic for the sustainability of environmental reserves, suggesting that non-white people are less capable of sustaining the environment and, second, blaming the conditions of many highly polluted nations on their people rather than economic conditions.Inside of the academy, many of these ideas flourished, so much so that when white nationalists took over the journal Population and Environment, few made headlines. From 1989 to 1999, the journal was edited by <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/virginia-abernethy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Virginia Abernethy</a>, one of the most public white separatists in the country. Abernethy focused her career as a sociologist on "population politics," using coded language about "fertility rates" to argue for both the restriction of non-white populations and for white social control. She served on the board of the white nationalist American Freedom Party, serving as their vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 election. Her main political work seemed to be in Arizona working on the anti-immigration Proposition 200 with Protect Arizona Now.Kevin MacDonald, who would also join the board of the American Freedom Party, took up where Abernethy left off and edited Population and Environment from 1999 to 2004. MacDonald rocked evolutionary psychology when he released a series of books arguing that Jews used a "group evolutionary strategy" to infiltrate world systems to destabilize and attack white Western civilization. He has since become a prime figure in the world of white nationalism and the "alt-right," editing the Occidental Observer and becoming a rabid advocate of "white identity." Today, Population and Environment seems to have been taken back from its racialist contingent and appears to have no white nationalist content.Deus VultOver the past several years, as the "alt-right" and "identitarian" strains of white nationalism developed, an obsession with medievalist scholarship abounded. In the circles that celebrated pre-Christian European paganism as a way of essentializing spirituality into race, there was a heavy focus on the social and religious structures that made up Europe. As "traditionalist" forms of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity gained some traction, veneration of medieval Christian institutions, long thought to be an ugly history laced with repression and witch burnings, found an appeal. Some medieval studies professors were even making their way into open romantic nationalism, with white nationalist cultural journals like Mjolnir appearing under the pseudo-anonymous tutelage of a medieval history academic.The world of medieval studies has not been the ripest for controversy historically, largely because its discoveries are often arcane to the general public. The slow progression of the far-right into this world would not have seemed obvious a few years ago, as few see the connection between the "Fuhrer" principle in Eurocentric fascism and the romanticism that some have for a pre-democratic era of European history. Medieval iconography has been a part of fascist movements since interwar Europe, in which fascists try to find heroic images of warriors beset on all sides by invaders who are not like themselves. Over the past several decades, medieval studies has been a stalwart against many deconstructivist trends in academia, focusing heavily on traditional analysis that sees medieval Europe as a place of chivalry, honor and identity.These issues came to a head when the 2017 International Medieval Congress took place and a discussion on "otherness" in the Middle Ages was run by a panel of all white men. After a joke about its monoracial nature, the discussion about the lack of diversity in the discipline and its Eurocentric focus began. The singular lens of the Middle Ages that sees the era as exclusively white and Christian has attracted some from the far right to these departments, which further influences the direction of the scholarship. The presentation of the Middle Ages as a monoracial set of glorious empires is ahistorical: It erases both the horrors of the dominant powers and the actual multicultural diversity that was explicit even in those periods. This is especially true given the late development of race as an essential concept, birthing out of "pre-Adamic" theories about non-white people that did not dominate until after the feudal periods were largely over.Meta-AcademicsThe primary arguments that are made from far-right scholars honing in on particular disciplines is that their work is intellectual and for inquiry, not politics. This is essentially the "apolitical" argument that fascist cultural figures have made since the Second World War, where the traditional model of fascist party violence was proven a losing formula. Instead, many fascist ideologues abandoned orthodox fascist organizing in favor of cultural struggle as a necessary precondition for politics. This model was coined by French fascist academic Alain de Benoist, who labeled them "Gramscians of the right" after the imprisoned Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who theorized a cultural revolution on the left. De Benoist and his Nouvelle Droite movement looked at reshaping cultural attitudes to make their ethnic politics possible in the future, forcing the white public to see themselves and their society differently so they would be able to shift the Overton Window. For many artists and musicians on the right, this meant developing genres like neofolk as a vessel for romantic nationalism and the veneration of a mythological European past -- one that could fill them with the motivating emotions that drive separatist political movements.This shift was a focus on "metapolitics," the cultural modalities that are pre-political in orientation, and the academy is a perfect fit for this strategy of influence. Inside the hard sciences, focusing on items like IQ difference can reframe cultural and economic explanations for IQ scores to ones of fixed essential categories, re-establishing the idea that humans are unequal and that races are biologically defined and profoundly different. In the population restrictionist sector, this has been to reframe legitimate fears about climate change and ecological catastrophe to cast blame on poor communities of color, shifting views of "universal human rights" to instead seeing people as suspect and expendable. Medievalism also presents its own pathway to fascist metapolitics, using a mythological reading of Europe's past as a model for a racialized authoritarian dystopia that creates strictly regulated vertical caste systems. While each of these disciplines is radically different, the motivation that pushed certain far-right people into the classroom was that they found some tract in the study that validated their baser instincts, whether it meant blaming people of color or resurrecting a warrior past that never truly was.The fascist creep into academia is not a recent development, especially for Europeans, but without a conscious response it will only metastasize unchallenged. The strain of thinking that goes along with these far-right interpretations is fundamentally pseudo-intellectualism: They make spurious claims without meeting the burden of proof, choosing ideology over evidence. The counter to this is, in part, to reinforce the factual consensus while also undoing their argumentation by taking those disciplines further into critical analysis. The European Middle Ages was hardly a bastion of "Ethnostates," and was instead much more multiracial than many have imagined. At the same time, the reality of those monarchies was brutal feudal enslavement, a fact that is erased in the reconstruction of these empires in the imaginations of white nationalists. Overpopulation may be an issue in some areas of environmental preservation, but that comes from the overproduction wrought in capitalism, not in the families surviving on few resources in the Global South. If population is a concern, then the proven solution is to increase access to education for women and marginalized members of the community, not closing the border and scapegoating the most vulnerable. The ability of fascists to reframe the academic discourse in these disciplines comes from the absence of these facts being disseminated and made useful in political and social work, the disconnect that academia often has from real world application.The Battle Over IdeasThe threat presented by fascist ideologues hijacking academic courses is more than just the dissolution of facts, it's the weaponization of educational authority to push their own political vision. Fascist public speech is not just discourse, it is the use of demonstrably untrue narratives under the guise of intellectual rigor in an attempt at expanding a nationalist project. As organizations like Vanguard America, Identity Evropa and the Traditionalist Worker Party double down on campus recruitment, this only becomes more critical as academics who mobilize these distortions are opening up the space for an explosion of racialist activism.As "The Case for Colonialism" created a public backlash, 15 members of the editorial board of the Third World Quarterly stepped down in protest of the article's publication. Though the Editor-in-Chief Shahid Qadir insisted that the article had been through a double-blind peer-review process, it was later discovered that it had been rejected by reviewers and the board members who requested copies were not given them. Gilley officially requested to have the article withdrawn as public pressure for him to be fired mounted, though he later rescinded this request and declared that he wanted the article to remain. Gilley's public CV was updated on September 25, well after the controversy had begun, where he placed "The Case for Colonialism" at the top of his list of peer-reviewed articles. While Gilley may leave academia for a cushy life at a conservative think tank, it will be campus anti-racist organizations that will really determine whether or not the Portland State University community will be supportive of work that voluntarily erases the genocide of colonialism in favor of a white supremacist vision of history.<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/invention-white-people">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/invention-white-people</a>...None of these facts have been hidden to us. There is a vast body of scholarly literature on the social construction of race, gender, and ethnicity.In his monumental two-volume study, The Invention of the White Race (Revised edition, 2012), as early as in the 1960s Theodore W. Allen had documented the manner in which the ruling elite in the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">United States</a> had devised the category of "white people" by way of economic exploitation of the African slaves and the social control of the emerging polities. More recently, in her Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today (2013), Jacqueline Battalora has offered an examination of the enduring issue of race in the US tracing it back to when "white people" were invented through legislations and enactment of laws. The problem with this scholarly body of literature is not only the fact that its erudite message does not get through the thick skulls of illiterate racists like <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/people/donald-trump.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s white supremacist supporters. The problem is that such archaeology of hatred does not erase the fact that a massive body of humanity has suffered precisely because they have been branded as "black" or "red," or "yellow" or "brown." Racially constituted to divide and rule, those colorful delusions have become social facts.Central to all such socially constructed delusions are the relations of power they entail and sustain - whether color-coded, classed, racialized, or gendered. "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman," Simone de Beauvoir declared in her path-breaking book The Second Sex (1949). In later, critical expansion of this idea, scholars like Judith Butler have shown how varied social practices are definitive to the social constitution of gender. The same is true about race or ethnicity. One is not born, we may extend de Beauvoir's insight, but rather becomes white, or black, etc. The gross spectacle of <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/charlottesville-attack-170813081045115.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">racist terrorists</a> in August in Charlottesville, US, and President Trump's <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/welcomes-trump-charlottesville-reaction-170816040107587.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unabashed siding</a> with the proto-Fascist white supremacists have now brought this solid streak in American politics to global attention. However limited or extensive this "base" of Donald Trump's presidency might be, the politics of white supremacy has now become openly integral to the racial imagination of the US.Taking their cues from their president and his chief advisers like (until recently) Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Sebastian Gorka in the White House, a small but increasingly vocal armed militia calling itself "white nationalists" (a euphemism for white supremacists) march with torches like the KKK, saluting like Nazis, and chant <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/xenophobia.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">xenophobic</a> and anti-Semitic slogans through Charlottesville. These are the driest and deepest layers of racial hatred from the time of the first slaughter of Native Americans, from the time of mass slavery of African Americans, now finding the right environment to come up to surface. As a society and a polity, the US has never been cured, never been treated, and it has never resolved its murderous racist history. It has just kept shoving it under a thin veneer of liberal hypocrisy and bourgeois etiquette at home and projected it outward in the form of warmongering abroad. From the Korean, to Vietnam, to Afghan and Iraq wars the US invasions and occupation of other countries are underwritten by racial hatred. The Israeli occupation and systemic land theft of <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/palestine.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Palestine</a> is an extended chapter in the same book. The Racist Nexus of US/IsraelThe affinity of neo-Nazi white supremacists for Zionism and <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/israel.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Israel</a> is a match made in the racists' heaven. Self-delusional liberal Zionists act surprised that a nefarious white supremacist like <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-talks-al-jazeera-161209184916999.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Spencer</a> has openly admitted on an Israeli TV show that Israelis "should respect him" for he is "a white Zionist". But the world at large is not surprised at all. Of course, he and his ilk are all "white Zionists" - a phrase that is in fact redundant. What the liberal Zionists do not wish to admit (for it exposes their own racism) is that the white supremacists' Zionism is integral to their anti-Semitism and vice-versa. The roots of Zionism as the dominant ideology of a settler colony are in European white supremacy, evident in their much more universal colonial culture in <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/asia.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Asia</a>, Africa, and Latin America - to all of which Israel is now a last bastion. <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/israel.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Israel</a> today is a perfect model, an aspiration in fact, for neo-Nazi white supremacists in the US and <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/europe.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Europe</a>. That these neo-Nazis are also anti-Semitic and Zionist is exactly the recognition that now stares American Jews in the eye.Today, American Jews find themselves at a momentous crossroads where their historic struggles against racism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism place them face to face with Israel and the racist ideology on the basis of which it was founded. Benjamin Netanyahu's son openly calling Black Lives Matter and the Antifa "thugs" and "scum" and dismissing the significance of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville speaks voluminously of the racist foundation of Israel. The young Mr. Yair Netanyahu speaks openly and without the diplomatic finesse of liberal Zionists or the intellectual sophistication of a New York Times columnist. He says it as it is: the structural hostility of Zionism to any emancipatory civil rights movement, and its equally foundational affinity with <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/xenophobia.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">xenophobic</a> anti-Semites.Today, Israelis have absolutely no moral authority, not an iota, to denounce the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, for the neo-Nazis intend to do in the United States what the Zionists have already done in Israel: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is a model for the white supremacists in the United States. Mass expulsion of Palestinians, the massacre of Palestinians in Deir Yasin and elsewhere: those are the Zionist trademarks the Neo-Nazis hope and wish and strive to replicate in the United States."Charlottesville," as a result, "is moment of truth for empowered US Zionists," as it has been <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/charlottesville-empowered-children/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pointedly suggested</a>, especially for those boldfaced conquerors of Palestine "who name their children after Israeli generals." The militant nexus of US/Israel is today the transatlantic prototype of racist white supremacy that sustains and advances the murderous myth of the white people civilizing the world. ...
http://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2017/02/03/age-of-anger-pankaj-mishra-review...<div class="art-storycontent-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 1400px; max-width: 87.5rem;" arial="Arial" unicode="Unicode" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="art-storytext-wrapper row-m row-l row-xl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -1.375rem; margin-right: -1.375rem;"><div class="art-storytext" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" margin-top="margin-top" rem="rem" padding-left="padding-left" padding-right="padding-right" margin-left="margin-left" px="px" width="width" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height">In Rousseau's ongoing quarrels with the emerging spirit of modernity, Mishra finds the roots of a seething and now transnational ressentiment, a toxic cocktail of envy, humiliation and powerlessness that fuels the rage of populists and terrorists worldwide. (Nietzsche, Mishra notes, called the battle between Voltaire and Rousseau "the unfinished problem of civilization.") Just as Rousseau felt alienated from the cosmopolitan Paris salons in which Voltaire ruled, today's apostles of anger — including not just Islamic radicals but, Mishra says, Indian politicians, Brexiteers and American-bred terrorists like Timothy McVeigh — confront and condemn a world in which "the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership." While he in no way justifies violence and terror, Mishra has the courage to pose deeply disturbing questions: What if al-Qaeda and ISIS, for all their savagery, are inevitable products of a world order in which the forces of individualism and self-seeking global capitalism are destroying older, settled ways of being without delivering a better life for millions? </div></div></div><div class="art-storycontent-wrapper art-storycontent-wrapper--image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: calc(92% + 2.75rem); max-width: 90.25rem;" arial="Arial" unicode="Unicode" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="art-storycontent-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 1400px; max-width: 87.5rem;" arial="Arial" unicode="Unicode" lucida="Lucida" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="art-storytext-wrapper row-m row-l row-xl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -1.375rem; margin-right: -1.375rem;"><div class="art-storytext" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" margin-top="margin-top" rem="rem" padding-left="padding-left" padding-right="padding-right" margin-left="margin-left" px="px" width="width" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height">Those forces, set in motion by the Enlightenment, the growth of secular science and the Industrial Revolution, have now generated a backlash whose power many Western governments have yet to comprehend. Political life in advanced nations has become "clamorous with unlimited demands for individual freedoms and satisfactions." As once-comforting structures of religious faith, family ties and local traditions weaken and fade away, the naked individual can feel abandoned in a perplexing new world. Such dilemmas make the strongman rhetoric of a Donald Trump ("I alone can fix it") alluring to many. </div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="25" data-ved="0ahUKEwiO05_d5vnSAhWirVQKHZRfAM8QFQgZKAAwAA" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/15/515441794/age-of-anger-chronicles-rise-of-populist-backlash" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">'Age Of Anger' Chronicles Rise Of Populist Backlash : NPR</a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;">www.npr.org/2017/02/15/.../age-of-anger-chronicles-rise-of-populist-backlash</cite></div>Feb 15, 2017 - NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger, about the relationship between populist movements and governments ...<div class="Tib">Missing: <s>booktv</s> ‎<s>mcveigh</s> ‎<s>supermax</s></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; 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margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 715px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;">“I didn’t know he was elderly,” Jackson told the paper. He added that he would have rather killed <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/james-jackson-terrorism-charge-timothy-caughman-murder-article-1.3010731" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" a="a" young="young" thug="thug" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.nydailynews.com="www.nydailynews.com" news="news" national="national" james-jackson-terrorism-charge-timothy-caughman-murder-article-1.3010731="james-jackson-terrorism-charge-timothy-caughman-murder-article-1.3010731" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“a young thug”</a> or “a successful older black man with blonds ... people you see in Midtown. These younger guys that put white girls on the wrong path.”</div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 715px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;">Vance’s statement said a crime like this is a reminder that New York’s “remarkable diversity” can’t be taken for granted. “We must celebrate it, protect it, and refuse to let violence and hate undermine the progress we have made as a city, a state, and a nation.”</div><div class="content-list-component bn-content-list-text text" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" citation="citation" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 715px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/james-jackson-indicted-on-terrorism-hate-charges-in-fatal-stabbing-1.13323949" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" lnid="lnid" jackson="Jackson" s="s" lawyer="lawyer" sanford="Sanford" talkin="Talkin" declined="declined" to="to" comment="comment" monday="Monday" mpid="mpid" plid="plid" http="http" www.newsday.com="www.newsday.com" long-island="long-island" james-jackson-indicted-on-terrorism-hate-charges-in-fatal-stabbing-1.13323949="james-jackson-indicted-on-terrorism-hate-charges-in-fatal-stabbing-1.13323949" data-beacon-parsed="true" class="bn-clickable" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Jackson’s lawyer, Sanford Talkin, declined to comment Monday,</a> according to Newsday. His next court date is scheduled for April 13.</div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/meet-paul-ryans-inner-city-expert-who-claims-blacks-and-latinos-have-lower-iqs

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Censorship of books is increasing across the United States.  A new report by the Kids’ Right to Read Project (KRRP), an initiative of the National Coalition Against Censorship, shows that an increasing number of books dealing with race and sexuality or written by authors of color are being withdrawn from classrooms, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/23/book-bannings-rise-us-censorship">The Guardian notes.</a> [3]

In November, the project, which fights against such censorship, dealt with three times their normal caseload.  In 2013, the Kids’ Right to Read Project looked into 49 book bannings or removals from the classroom.  That was a 53 percent increase in bannings from last year.  Many of the challenges to books came from parents, though some also came from local government officials.

The banned books include classics like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man; Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye; and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

“Whether or not patterns like this are the result of co-ordination between would-be censors across the country is impossible to say,” KRRP’s Acacia O'Connor told The Guardian.  “But there are moments, when a half-dozen or so challenges regarding race or LGBT content hit within a couple weeks, where you just have to ask 'what is going on out there?'"

On the other hand, KRRP can count some success stories.  For instance, this months,  Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima was unbanned from classrooms in Driggs, Idaho. Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits was also unbanned from schools in Boone, North Carolina.

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<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/9/author_sikh_temple_massacre_the_outgrowth">http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/9/author_sikh_temple_massacre_the_outgrowth</a>

journalist Matt Kennard, who details the rise of the far-right radicals in the armed forces in his forthcoming book, "Irregular Army: How the U.S. Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror," out next month. "

<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/11/white_power_usa_the_rise_of">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/11/white_power_usa_the_rise_of</a>

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While many were shocked by the massacre at the Sikh temple, our guest, Daryl Johnson, had warned years ago that such an attack was imminent. While working as a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009, Johnson authored a report warning about the increasing dangers of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, sparking a political firestorm in the process. Under pressure from Republican lawmakers and popular talk show hosts, DHS ultimately repudiated Johnson’s paper. Johnson drew his conclusion on his 15 years of experience studying domestic terrorist groups — particularly white supremacists and neo-Nazis. "Leading up to this report … we received numerous accolades from law enforcement [and] intelligence officials, talking about the great work we were doing in the fight against domestic terrorism," Johnson says. "And then in lieu of the political backlash, the Department not only decided to stop all of our work, but they also disbanded the unit, reassigned us to other areas within the office, " Johnson, now the owner of a private consultancy firm, has authored a new book, "Right Wing Resurgence: How a Domestic Terrorist Threat is Being Ignored."and then made life increasingly difficult for us.  SHIFTED TO ANTI-MUSLIM (and maybe eco-terror?)  milita killed cops in NW w/ bombs?

Daryl Johnson, former analyst for the Department of Homeland Security, called attention to the threat of far right extremist groups back in 2009 and sparked a political firestorm in the process. He was the principal author of a report called, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” The report noted that the election of the first African-American president, combined with recession-year economic anxieties, could fuel a rise in far-right violence. It went on to say right wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities. Johnson drew his conclusion on his 15 years of experience studying domestic terrorist groups — particularly white supremacists and Neo-Nazis. The report set off a maelstrom of discontent among conservatives. The media watch group, Media Matters, produced a video featuring the numerous TV personalities who slammed the report, including CNN’s Lou Dobbs, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Fox New’s Sean Hannity, Fox News national political commentator Andrea Tantaros and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin. also Boehner

<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/9/former_dhs_analyst_daryl_johnson_on">http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/9/former_dhs_analyst_daryl_johnson_on</a>

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/right_wing_militias

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<h2><a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/05/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-terrorism/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism">What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Terrorism</a></h2>

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DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.” – (“Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” – 4/7/2009

- pg. 7 – “<a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/05/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-terrorism/www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf">Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment</a>

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About <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/homeland-security-department-curtails-home-grown-terror-analysis/2011/06/02/AGQEaDLH_story_1.html">that report</a>…

The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism, according to current and former department officials, even though law enforcement and civil rights experts have warned of rising extremist threats.

The department has cut the number of personnel studying domestic terrorism unrelated to Islam, canceled numerous state and local law enforcement briefings, and held up dissemination of nearly a dozen reports on extremist groups, the officials and others said.

The decision to reduce the department’s role was provoked by conservative criticism of an intelligence report on “Rightwing Extremism” issued four months into the Obama administration, the officials said. The report warned that the poor economy and Obama’s election could stir “violent radicalization,” but it was <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/04/napolitano_comments_on_right_w.html">pilloried</a> as an attack on conservative ideologies, including opponents of abortion and immigration.

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Daryl Johnson, formerly the senior domestic terrorism analyst at DHS and a principal author of the disputed report, confirmed in an interview that he left in frustration last year after his office was “gutted” in response to complaints.

“Other reports written by DHS about Muslim extremists … got through without any major problems,” Johnson said. “Ours went through endless reviews and edits, and nothing came out.”

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Michelle Malkin on <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/15/you-might-be-a-radicalized-rightwing-extremist-if/">the report</a> when it was issued back in 2009:  April 15, 2009

You cannot ignore the context or the timing of this DHS report. It’s no small coincidence that Napolitano’s agency disseminated the assessment just a week before the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party protests. The grass-roots events organized by fiscal conservatives, independents, Libertarians, and yes, even some blue Dog Democrats were fueled by the “current economic and political climate” of bipartisan profligate spending and endless taxpayer-funded bailouts. The growing success of the loose-knit movement has invited scorn, ridicule, and fear-mongering from Obama’s supporters. Liberal bloggers have likened the Tea Party movement to neo-Nazis, militias, and even Weather Underground terrorists.

These attempts to demonize the Tea Party movement come on the heels of widespread conservative-bashing over the recent shooting sprees in Pittsburgh and Binghamton, New York. Taking Hillary Clinton’s advice to “never waste a good crisis,” left-wing pundits and analysts have blamed the tragedies on everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the NRA.

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Back to being mau-maued by the Malkinites:

When the DHS report on “rightwing extremism” was leaked, Napolitano — who Johnson and other officials say had requested the report and heard a briefing in advance on its conclusions — initially defended it, saying “we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown.”

But after 20 conservative groups sponsored ads calling for Napolitano’s ouster, she said it was disseminated without regular review, and apologized to the American Legion for its warning that veterans could be targeted by militias for recruitment.

The DHS civil rights office subsequently was granted veto rights over all DHS reports on domestic terrorists, Johnson said.

Johnson and others said intelligence reports on the resurgence of militia groups in Michigan and Kentucky are among those being withheld by the agency, which he said was “screening for politically sensitive phrases or topics that might be objectionable to certain groups.”

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interesting mirror strategy: reverse racism around for a while (see book on RW paranoia style) but BO a racist?

revisionst history of CRMovement:  <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/conservative-fantasy-history-of-civil-rights.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/conservative-fantasy-history-of-civil-rights.html</a>

The civil rights movement, once a controversial left-wing fringe, has grown deeply embedded into the fabric of our national story. This is a salutary development, but a problematic one for conservatives, who are the direct political descendants of (and, in the case of some of the older members of the movement, the exact same people as) the strident opponents of the civil rights movement. It has thus become necessary for conservatives to craft an alternative story, one that absolves their own ideology of any guilt. The right has dutifully set itself to its task, circulating its convoluted version of history, honing it to the point where it can be repeated by any defensive College Republican in his dorm room. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/300432">Kevin Williamson’s cover story in National Review</a> is the latest version of what is rapidly congealing into conservatism’s revisionist dogma.

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The mainstream, and correct, history of the politics of civil rights is as follows. Southern white supremacy operated out of the Democratic Party beginning in the nineteenth century, but the party began attracting northern liberals, including African-Americans, into an ideologically cumbersome coalition. Over time the liberals prevailed, forcing the Democratic Party to support civil rights, and driving conservative (and especially southern) whites out, where they realigned with the Republican Party.

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Williamson crafts a tale in which the Republican Party is and always has been the greatest friend the civil rights cause ever had. The Republican takeover of the white South had absolutely nothing to do with civil rights, the revisionist case proclaims, except insofar as white Southerners supported Republicans because they were more pro-civil rights.

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One factoid undergirding this bizarre interpretation is that the partisan realignment obviously took a long time to complete — Southerners still frequently voted Democratic into the seventies and eighties. This proves, according to Williamson, that a backlash against civil rights could not have driven southern whites out of the Democratic Party. “They say things move slower in the South — but not that slow,” he insists.

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Kyle Bristow — the pugnacious chair of the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=869">Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom</a> (MSU-YAF), a student organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — <a href="http://www.spartanspectator.com">announced</a> Sunday that he’s resigning “so that the next generation of YAFers can replace me.”

<img src="/4325b60e-a8fa-521e-b1ce-244ab45145ad.jpg"/><div style="text-align: left;">Bristow (right) also confirmed that an MSU-YAF-sponsored lecture by <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=215#34">Jared Taylor</a>, the editor of the academic racist journal American Renaissance, would not occur on the MSU campus in March as originally planned. “Though MSU-YAF is not officially hosting Jared Taylor as a speaker this semester, I did see to it that he will be able to speak at a location near MSU and be hosted by another organization (the show will go on!),” Bristow wrote. (As it happens, the three-day <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022301918.html">biannual conference of American Renaissance</a>, held in Herndon, Va., and featuring former Klan leaders and other assorted white supremacists, wrapped up the same day he spoke.)</div>

MSU-YAF was added to the SPLC list in early 2007, after MSU-YAF attempted to organize a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day” contest, held a “Koran Desecration” competition, joked about distributing smallpox-infested blankets to Native American students, and hosted a series of lectures by hate group leaders such as Nick Griffin that drew skinheads and other white supremacists to the MSU campus. Griffin is the Holocaust-denying leader of the extreme-right British National Party. <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/02/26/campus-hatemonger-lays-down-%e2%80%98torch-of-freedom%e2%80%99/#more-238" class="more-link">( continue to full post… )</a>

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Dinesh D'Souza

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http://www.nndb.com/people/810/000049663/  ex girl coulter

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Editor’s Note: This lengthy story is slated for publication in a future issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, but is published early here because the group it focuses on, Youth for Western Civilization, is holding its first national conference this Friday through Sunday at an undisclosed location in the Washington, D.C., area. To read a summary of the report’s key findings, see <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-campus-group-has-history-of-associating-with-racist-leaders">here</a>.

By Mark Potok and Evelyn Schlatter

Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) — a 5-year-old ultraconservative student group whose national conference in Washington, D.C., this Friday is being billed by its leader as the organization’s “real birth” — asserts that it is “not a racist group.” Its only purpose, says the group that claims a swelling presence on U.S. campuses and even abroad, is to defend “Western civilization.”

But what exactly does YWC mean by that?

The answer to that question was never clearer than this April, when racist ideologue <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/jared-taylor">Jared Taylor</a> wrote a cover letter to his subscribers asking for support for YWC and its leader, Kevin DeAnna (pictured at right), who Taylor described as “an eloquent and distinguished young man who knows how important our cultural identity is.”

After reminding his backers that “race and race conflict” are at the core of the problems the West faces, Taylor said DeAnna “has agreed to continue our struggle on college campuses throughout the nation and dedicated himself to reaching our children and grandchildren.” For his part, DeAnna warned in an accompanying letter of the perils of “radical multiculturalism,” boasting that he had “defended western culture” against the “far left” that is trying to “destroy our people and culture.”

DeAnna’s fundraising partner, Jared Taylor, edits <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/american-renaissance">American Renaissance</a>, a journal that specializes in issues of race, intelligence and the “psychopathology” of black people. In it, Taylor once mused: “When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.” Taylor’s biannual conferences have featured a Who’s Who of radical-right leaders, including former Klan boss <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/david-duke">David Duke</a> and an array of leading neo-Nazi activists.

YWC is not some tiny Klan group on the margins of society. It claims a presence at nearly a dozen American universities, along with others in Canada and the United Kingdom. It appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a key Washington political venue, in 2009 and 2011, when it sponsored a panel on immigration. In 2010, it launched its own Internet radio show, “Western Resistance Radio.” Its honorary chairman is former Colorado congressman <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/spring/electoral-extremism-23-candidates-on-radical-right">Tom Tancredo</a>, a well-known immigration opponent and Tea Party favorite. Perhaps most worrying of all are YWC’s close ties to The Leadership Institute, an organization with a budget of some $10 million that claims to have trained close to 100,000 “future conservative leaders” — people like top Bush advisor Karl Rove — and that now employs DeAnna as a leading official of its campus leadership program.

The key question, as YWC attempts to organize new campus chapters through this week’s national conference, is whether it will continue to grow. <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/16/major-campus-group-holding-national-debut-tomorrow-has-racist-roots/#more-6873" class="more-link">( continue to full post… )</a>

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<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance_%28magazine%29" title="American Renaissance (magazine)">American Renaissance</a>, is a monthly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racialist" title="Racialist" class="mw-redirect">racialist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> published by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Foundation" title="New Century Foundation">New Century Foundation</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-30">[31]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Third_Position_Party" title="American Third Position Party">American Third Position Party</a>, is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States" title="Political parties in the United States">American political party</a> which promotes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacy</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-31">[32]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-32">[33]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-33">[34]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-34">[35]</a>. It was founded in 2010, and defines its principal mission as representing the political interests of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American" title="White American">white Americans</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-35">[36]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nazi_Party" title="American Nazi Party">American Nazi Party</a>, is an antisemitic, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a> organization based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP" title="NSDAP" class="mw-redirect">NSDAP</a> in Germany during the Third Reich but claims that it is in conformance with the Constitutional principles of the U.S.'s Founding Fathers. It also supports Holocaust denial.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations" title="Aryan Nations">Aryan Nations</a>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacism" title="White supremacism" class="mw-redirect">white supremacist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a> organization founded in the 1970s by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Girnt_Butler" title="Richard Girnt Butler">Richard Girnt Butler</a> as an arm of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity" title="Christian Identity">Christian Identity</a> group known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Jesus_Christ-Christian" title="Church of Jesus Christ-Christian" class="mw-redirect">Church of Jesus Christ-Christian</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens" title="Council of Conservative Citizens">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>, is an American political organization that supports a large variety of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoconservatism" title="Paleoconservatism">paleoconservative</a> causes in addition to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_separatism" title="White separatism">white separatism</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-Statement_of_Principles-36">[37]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_Movement" title="Creativity Movement" class="mw-redirect">Creativity Movement</a>, (formerly known as the World Church of the Creator) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist" title="White supremacist" class="mw-redirect">white supremacist</a> politico organization that advocates the racialist religion, Creativity. Mainly religious rather than political, the radical Creativity Movement, founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Klassen" title="Ben Klassen">Ben Klassen</a> in 1973, worships the white race itself rather than any deity, and advocates a radical form of white supremacism known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Holy_War" title="Racial Holy War" class="mw-redirect">RAHOWA</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European-American_Unity_and_Rights_Organization" title="European-American Unity and Rights Organization">EURO</a>, is a white separatist organization in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. Led by former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_legislature_%28United_States%29" title="State legislature (United States)">state representative</a> and presidential primary candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke" title="David Duke">David Duke</a>, it was founded in 2000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-37">[38]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=European_Americans_United&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="European Americans United (page does not exist)">European Americans United</a>, is a white separatist organization founded in January 2007. Professing to stress an incremental approach to social change and moderate stances, European Americans United rejects <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a>, and hatred.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-38">[39]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing" title="Right-wing" class="mw-redirect">right-wing</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-39">[40]</a> organizations in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacy</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">nationalism</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance%28United_States%29" title="National Alliance (United States)">National Alliance</a>, is a white supremacist political organization. It was founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luther_Pierce" title="William Luther Pierce">William Luther Pierce</a>, and is based in the Pierce family's compound in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsboro,West_Virginia" title="Hillsboro, West Virginia">Hillsboro</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_White_People" title="National Association for the Advancement of White People">National Association for the Advancement of White People</a>, is a white supremacist organization in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> incorporated on December 14, 1953 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> by Bryant Bowles which presents itself as a civil rights organization such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP" class="mw-redirect">NAACP</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Policy_Institute" title="National Policy Institute">National Policy Institute</a>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a> based in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta, Georgia</a> in the United States. It describes itself as the right's answer to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_%28United_States%29" title="National Socialist Movement (United States)">National Socialist Movement (United States)</a>, a party founded in 1974. Since 2005 the party has become very active, staging many marches and demonstrations.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vanguard%28American_organization%29" title="National Vanguard (American organization)">National Vanguard</a>, was an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">National Socialist</a> organization based in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom" title="Kevin Alfred Strom">Kevin Alfred Strom</a> and former members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_%28United_States%29" title="National Alliance (United States)">National Alliance</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Movement" title="Nationalist Movement">Nationalist Movement</a>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>-based, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist" title="White supremacist" class="mw-redirect">white supremacist</a> organization that advocates what it calls a "pro-majority" position. It has been called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist" title="White supremacist" class="mw-redirect">white supremacist</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a>, among others.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-40">[41]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-41">[42]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Quarterly" title="Occidental Quarterly" class="mw-redirect">Occidental Quarterly</a>, is a printed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right" title="Far-right" class="mw-redirect">far-right</a> quarterly journal with a web segment, TOQ Online, including interviews, essays and reviews on the website.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-42">[43]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_%28group%29" title="The Order (group)">The Order</a>, or Brüder Schweigen ("Silent Brotherhood") was a white supremacist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary" title="Revolutionary">Revolutionary</a> organization founded by Robert Jay Matthews, active 1983-1984, probably best known for the 1984 murder of talk show host <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Berg" title="Alan Berg">Alan Berg</a>. Berg's killing was to be the first in a planned series of assassinations, followed by attacks on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government" title="United States government" class="mw-redirect">United States government</a>, all meant to bring about a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_war" title="Race war">race war</a> which would result in fulfillment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Separatist" title="White Separatist" class="mw-redirect">White Separatist</a> ideals (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territorial_Imperative" title="Northwest Territorial Imperative">Northwest Territorial Imperative</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifica_Forum" title="Pacifica Forum">Pacifica Forum</a>, is a controversial discussion group in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>, United States. It has been listed as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalist" title="White nationalist" class="mw-redirect">white nationalist</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-rguard-43">[44]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group" title="Hate group">hate group</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> (SPLC).</li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Priesthood" title="Phineas Priesthood">Phineas Priesthood</a>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity" title="Christian Identity">Christian Identity</a> movement that opposes interracial intercourse, the mixing of races, homosexuality, and abortion. It is also marked by its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism" title="Anti-Semitism" class="mw-redirect">anti-Semitism</a>, anti-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multiculturalism</a>, and opposition to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation" title="Taxation" class="mw-redirect">taxation</a>.</li>

<li style="text-align: left;">* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksfront" title="Volksfront">Volksfront</a>, describes itself as an international fraternal organization for persons of European descent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-smh-44">[45]</a> It has been called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a>" and a "racist-skinhead group" in press reports.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-45">[46]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-46">[47]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-47">[48]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> has called the group "one of the most active <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_skinhead" title="White power skinhead">skinhead</a> groups in the United States."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-ADL-48">[49]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> (SPLC) has added Volksfront to its list of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group" title="Hate group">hate groups</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_white_nationalist_organizations#cite_note-SPLC-49">[50]</a></li>

<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Aryan_Resistance" title="White Aryan Resistance">White Aryan Resistance</a>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazi" title="Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect">neo-Nazi</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist" title="White supremacist" class="mw-redirect">white supremacist</a> organization founded and led by former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Metzger_%28white_supremacist%29" title="Tom Metzger (white supremacist)">Tom Metzger</a>.</li>

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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><h2 style="line-height: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 9px 0px 3px !important;"><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/03/18/mainstream-scholars-attend-racist-conference-hosted-by-jewish-astrophysicist/" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration: none;">Mainstream Scholars Attend Racist Conference Hosted By Jewish Astrophysicist</a></h2><div class="meta" style="padding: 2px; line-height: 16.25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Janet Smith on March 18, 2009 - 9:47 am, Posted in <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/topics/anti-black/" title="View all posts in Anti-Black" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Anti-Black</a>, <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/topics/anti-immigrant/" title="View all posts in Anti-Immigrant" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Anti-Immigrant</a>, <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/topics/anti-muslim/" title="View all posts in Anti-Muslim" rel="category tag" style="text-decoration: none;">Anti-Muslim</a></div><div class="socnet" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: both; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 6px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; height: 29px; line-height: 16.25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important;"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style ">Seventy people, including a few well-known mainstream academics, joined prominent white nationalists and academic racists gathered in the Four Points Sheraton at the Baltimore/Washington International airport last month for the first-ever “Preserving Western Civilization Conference.” Its aim: to defend “America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity.” But not much civilized was said there. Rather, the discussion centered around claims that blacks are not as intelligent as whites, immigrants are destroying America, and Islam is no religion of peace — it’s expansionist, intolerant, militant, and seeks to destroy.</div></div><div class="main" style="line-height: 16.25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The conference was convened by Jewish astrophysicist Michael Hart, author of the racist bookUnderstanding Human History, which focuses on alleged differences in intelligence between various ethnic and racial groups. In the past, Hart was a regular at the biannual conferences put on byAmerican Renaissance, a racist publication that wrote, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, that “[w]hen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.” Though few in number, Jewish academic racists were active in American Renaissanceright from the start, welcomed by that group’s leader, Jared Taylor, who even once arranged for kosher meals. But Taylor has also welcomed as speakers outspoken anti-Semites, including Holocaust denier Sam Dickson and neo-Nazi activist Steven Barry, making for a potentially volatile situation.In 2006, <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=644" style="text-decoration: none;">the explosion went off</a>, and the façade of civility that Taylor had tried to maintain by requiring polite language and professional attire shattered. The conflict was trigged by former Klan boss and professional anti-Semite David Duke, who attacked Jews, telling the crowd, “There is a power in the world that dominates our media, influences our government and that has led to the internal destruction of our will and spirit.” Though Duke didn’t directly say Jews were that power, everyone in the crowd, which included several members of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, knew exactly who he meant, and many cried for more.Hart couldn’t take it. He stood up and yelled at Duke, “You fucking Nazi, you’ve disgraced this meeting!” and stormed out. As many as 50 people at the conference then began to jeer and point at the rapidly disappearing Hart.Hart and other Jewish academic racists left American Renaissance shortly thereafter, when Taylor declined to explicitly ban anti-Semites. But Hart was apparently not ready to give up public discussion of the superiority of the white race. Hence, “Preserving Western Civilization,” Hart’s Jewish-friendly replacement for the American Renaissance conference.Hart’s event drew some heavy hitters from mainstream academia. Among the speakers was Lino Graglia, the current A. Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas. A longtime critic of affirmative action, Graglia contends that the children of undocumented workers born in the U.S. should not be granted American citizenship. According to Graglia, making an argument popular in white nationalist circles, the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted civil rights to former slaves, was not meant to grant citizenship to children of the undocumented.Graglia also said that the Fourteenth Amendment wasn’t properly ratified, because the Southern states were coerced into passing it after the Civil War. Citing the Fourteenth Amendment’s clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” Graglia alleges that since the parents are subject to the jurisdiction of the Mexican government, so, too, should their children be. A one-time attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Graglia suggested that birthright citizenship is subject to challenge in the courts and that Congress can revoke it by statute.Roger McGrath, a former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and commentator for History Channel documentaries, also talked about the evils of illegal immigration. A native Californian, McGrath depicted California as “paradise lost” and the U.S. as suffering “nothing less than a foreign invasion.”McGrath, who claimed whites were being ethnically cleansed from their own country, blamed the civil rights laws of the 1960s for driving whites into the minority. And with non-whites come trouble, said McGrath, citing California’s collapsing bond rating, state prisons crowded with “illegal aliens,” and billions a year in benefits to immigrants. Recalling the good old days of the infamously named Operation Wetback, McGrath pointed out that back then “we rounded up and deported illegal aliens back to where they came from.”“Do we not have a right to preserve our way of life?” McGrath asked, reflecting a common sentiment at the conference.The Latino bashing was rounded out with a presentation by Peter Brimelow, who runs the anti-immigrant hate site VDARE.com, named for the first white child born in the English colonies, Virginia Dare. “There is no benefit to the native-born from immigration,” Brimelow said, adding without a hint of irony that immigration “only destroys national community.” (Brimelow is himself a naturalized immigrant from Britain.) Calling the Obama administration an “occupation government,” Brimelow warned darkly of a future in which the First Amendment would be abrogated in the name of curtailing hate speech and secession movements would arise throughout the country. Brimelow had one suggestion for putting a stop to this possible future: a new, all-white political party.Some of the most inflammatory presentations of the conference came from regulars on the academic racist circuit, particularly those into race and IQ studies. Steve Farron, author of The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character, and other Lies, is a former classics professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nowadays he specializes in “proving” the inferiority of blacks. According to Farron, “Any black 12th grader solves problems at the same level of a 6th grade white child.” Farron alleges that blacks with post-graduate degrees have IQs equal to whites with high school diplomas. Farron said his “research” showed that only 18% of blacks understand bus schedules, while just 14% can make change or figure a tip on a simple luncheon bill. Farron also claimed that another study had shown more black police officers means more violent crime in a community.Farron’s claims were abetted by J. Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, who also heads the New York City-based Pioneer Fund, a racist foundation set up in 1937 to funnel money to the study of “race betterment.” Hauling out his PowerPoint presentation on “The Heritability of IQ Differences,” which he also used at the 2008 American Renaissance conference, Rushton said that IQ research is an important part of science and claimed that IQ tests can predict almost everything — the speed of learning a new job, job performance, dropout/welfare rates, brain size, and longevity. But his main interest is his claim that the average IQ of whites is substantially higher than that of blacks. Bringing up age-old and thoroughly debunked assertions, Rushton also claimed that brain size and IQ are related and that blacks have smaller brains. And he asserted that blacks are more aggressive than other races and that aggressive, closed-minded people have lower IQs.It wasn’t just minorities who were slammed at Hart’s conference. Muslims came in for some serious drubbing, too. Brenda Walker, an anti-immigrant activist in California who writes frequently for VDARE.com, warned that Western civilization is being destroyed by “immigrants and multiculturalism.” She argued that Islam suppresses women’s rights and that Islamic culture includes honor killing, wife beating, female circumcision, and the production of deformed babies because of marriages between cousins. Walker then spread out to describe the abominable aspects of various other immigrants, saying that “sex with children in Mexico is accepted,” the Chinese kidnap and sell women, and East Asian Indians practice indentured servitude and dowry murders.Lawrence Auster, a right-wing blogger and essayist who has spoken in the past to American Renaissance and who is of Jewish descent, told the audience that the U.S. needs a constitutional amendment to prohibit Islam, which would encourage Muslims to leave on their own. Auster’s other suggestion for our nation’s leaders: “Go to Saudi Arabia, seize the oil, operate the oil fields and adjacent transportation facilities until we get our own energy.” For Auster, Islam, political correctness and multiculturism are a toxic trio. “If a society can’t distinguish itself, it will not continue to exist,” he told those assembled. “If we open ourselves to threats, we go out of existence.”Hart, having compared the Koran to Mein Kampf and Islam to Nazism, no doubt agreed with Auster.The lowlight of the conference was a banquet on Saturday night featuring entertainment in the form of Jewish comedienne Julia Gorin, a self-proclaimed “conservative” joker who also writes for Jewish World Review. Gorin’s routine was filled with anti-Muslim and anti-Obama jokes, which were real crowd pleasers. To wit: “But you see, to a Jew there is no greater accomplishment than getting a black man into the White House.  The thinking goes: ‘Our work is done.  It’s OK if the Muslims come kill us now.’” In another skit, Gorin joked that Osama bin Laden was probably already dead — “from laughing his ass off.” Fittingly, many of Gorin’s jokes are featured in the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

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