Stephan: There is a concerted effort to turn your children into white Supremacist christofascists. College professors are cheap and surprisingly available. The literature, as this report describes, is readily available.
The country is being take away from us one little step at a time. Only massive wellbeing oriented voting, and a concerted effort to remold the government is going to stop this. At this point I'd say it's a toss up whether that will happen.
ADL’s Center on Extremism continues to track a growing number of white supremacist propaganda efforts targeting college campuses, including the distribution of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic fliers, stickers, banners and posters. The 2017-18 data shows a 77 percent increase of incidents from the previous academic year, with 292 cases reported, compared to 165 in 2016-2017.
White supremacists have been actively targeting U.S. college campuses since January 2016, but the practice failed to gain any real traction until the fall semester of that year. Since then, propaganda efforts have steadily increased.
Since September 1, 2016, ADL has recorded 478 incidents of white supremacist propaganda appearing on college and university campuses. These campaigns have targeted 287 college campuses in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
This continues to be a favorite tactic among groups within the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement. Identity Evropa was responsible for nearly half (230 of 478) of the incidents while Patriot Front (which formed only nine months ago) is responsible for 70 incidents. Andrew Anglin’s Daily […]
Stephan: Hitler had the Sturmabteilung, and Mussolini his Black Shirts. Trump has this. And like the German's and Italians before us a large segment of Americans are quite complacent about this. According to fivethrityeight as I write this amongst registered and likely voters Trump rates 43% approval.
Kathleen Belew’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America is an unquestionably powerful, well-researched and must-read addition to the post-2016 upsurge in analysis and investigation of the foundations of modern fascism. Anyone seeking to understand the origins of the modern far right in the US should include this work at the top of their reading list.
The backbone of Belew’s argument is that the roots of the modern white power movement, as it is understood today, can be found in a myth that emerged in the US right in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. This story claims the US lost the war because of betrayal at home by incompetent, unpatriotic politicians, as well as the “traitorous” antiwar movement which was widely claimed to be riddled with communist agents. This narrative eerily parallels the claims made by German fascists to explain defeat in the First World War, which adherents to this myth used to scapegoat Jews and leftist Germans, and recruit disaffected veterans to their cause. This argument is not new, having been previously suggested in Alexander Reid Ross’s Against the Fascist Creep and other anti-fascist works.
But what sets Belew’s work apart from previous discussions of this theory is how […]
Stephan: The superficial criticism of this woman is how could any political party put someone this ignorant out as a national spokesperson? But you have to reach deeper than that to really understand what Kayleigh McEnany represents. Second level, how could the media allow their time to to be filled with her nonsense? Third level, what does it say about the American public that they don't mock her and laugh her off the public stage? Is it possible they think as she does?
RNC spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany on MSNBC
The national spokesperson for the Republican Party had a public meltdown on CNN while attempting to defend President Donald Trump.
Republican National Committee national spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany lashed out after being informed, possibly for the first time in her life, of the fact the Founding Father’s original views on women and race.
Shortly after stating her contempt for women’s right to choice, McEnany said it was “scare tactics” for Democrats to warn of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee overturning Roe v. Wade.
“I think it is a scare tactic to dissuade us from picking Constitution-loving, conservative judges,” McEnany argued.
Later in the segment, longtime Democratic strategist Peter Emerson gave the GOP spokesperson a quick history lesson on the history of the Constitution.
“I will say something, that Kayleigh’s response is one of the most disingenuous responses,” Emerson suggested. “Constitutionalists and Federalists would take us back to the Constitution, which was for white property owners, men.”
“It’s not for blacks, it’s not for Hispanics and it’s not for women,” Emerson reminded.
ADL’s Center on Extremism continues to track a growing number of white supremacist propaganda efforts targeting college campuses, including the distribution of racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic fliers, stickers, banners and posters. The 2017-18 data shows a 77 percent increase of incidents from the previous academic year, with 292 cases reported, compared to 165 in 2016-2017.
