Quote: (02-10-2016 12:25 PM)Requiem Wrote:
From what I read/heard from him, Mike is an upstanding guy who I like but I'm not sure if he's really Alt-Right? Haven't looked at his stuff for a while so can't tell for sure.
https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/658176013793390592
I look at Mike's stuff regularly and I can tell you that Mike gives Ramzpaul a lot of credit for enlightening him and taking him from calling himself libertarian to calling himself alt-right. There are a lot of tweets in Mike's TL to this effect.
Quote: (02-10-2016 12:25 PM)Requiem Wrote:
As for the rest of your comment, since I'm not protected by a first amendment in my country and since I want to keep being a part of this forum but feel like every other post of mine brings me closer to the edge, the only way I see fit to respond to what you wrote is by asking you the following questions:
1) You say you had to look it up... so then - is what you say about Rockwell (him being a supremacist) something that you read about him (like the world read about Roosh that he supposedly advocates rape), or did you come to that conclusion by your own critical thinking after having read some of what he wrote/listened to his speeches on youtube? I don't know much about him but saw a speech of him once on /pol/ and it didn't seem supremacist to me, so I'm skeptical.
I'm assuming that since he lived from 1918 to 1967 and founded the American Nazi Party in 1959 (a pretty bold thing to do at THAT time), that Rockwell himself would welcome the label "white supremacist". So I'm not sure what you're getting at by doubting that he is one. I'm sure the man would call himself that were he alive today. I think what you are questioning is whether or not being a white supremacist is evil or not. I think it is certainly evil if it is done disingenuously as a false flag move, and I suspect that is precisely what Rockwell was doing. Either that or he was just trolling for attention. And either way, it was misguided and it got him shot and killed. And so that leaves the remaining question as to whether or not white supremacy is evil when it is not done disingenuously, but rather done in honest belief in the supremacy of the white race. In that case I think it's more stupid than evil. Current statistics show that Asians outscore whites in all the metrics that seem to count for the arguments of racial supremacy: academic grades; financial success; IQ; etc., etc. So the honest white supremacist that bases his arguments on racial DNA is clearly ignoring the data, and is therefore an idiot. Hopefully that answers your question about my assessment of Rockwell. He was either a troll or he was an idiot. He seems to have been quite talented though, so I think we can rule out the latter.
Quote: (02-10-2016 12:25 PM)Requiem Wrote:
2) How do you interpret the 14 words? Do these words - without thinking about who has supposedly coined them - in and of themselves express any idea that could be seen as an attack against any other kinds of people living on this planet? Or do you interpret them in the way that those using them want to make sure that their descendants can have a good life for themselves? And is that a bad thing to wish for?
I interpret the words to be an expression of fear. I think they represent the fear of the loss of one's race. Since I don't feel that fear, I find the words to be useless to me personally, though I understand perfectly the sentiment of those who cling to them. Quincy Jones once said that the motivation for every single human action can be reduced down to one of two emotions: fear or love. Because I know this, I tend to try to govern myself such that I am motivated by the latter and not the former. All the races on the earth are a mixture. The racial spectrum is, mathematically speaking, continuous, not discrete. I'm white, but my daughter is mulatto. Her mother is black, originally from Haiti. My daughter is one of the most brilliant people I know and she is going to light this world on fire one day. You see, hybrids take the best traits from their parents, any biologist can explain this to you. So my answers to your questions are:
- No I don't think the words are an attack, but I think they are motivated by fear, and as such the sentiments they stimulate could very well lead to attacks. It would be better to find a slogan that promotes winning, rather than worries about losing. Like "Make America Great Again". Trump 2016!
- The people that use these words are hung up on race. They should rather focus on culture. Some cultures are better than others. America's culture is great and we should fight to preserve the culture that was handed down to us by the founding fathers. That culture belongs to the people that are descended from the English, the Scots, the French, the Irish, the Italians, the blacks, the native Indians, the Armenians, and the all the rest. It doesn't matter. If you played football you learned out on the gridiron that we all bleed the same colour and we're all brothers that should be judged by the content of our character, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt.
- It's great to want a great future for your children. But why does that have to mean ONLY white children? Let's make America great again for ALL of America's children. And let America's great culture spread all over the world.
Quote: (02-10-2016 12:25 PM)Requiem Wrote:
3) What do you personally think does the "88-sign" represent to the people who use it? Are you aware that there are a lot of people out there who have a much different understanding of history than what is usually taught? Do you believe the people who use it are all in favour of everything that is said to have happened during the time in which the respective person was in power? Or do you mediate that these people might think of something completely different than what you have in mind when talking about the subject? How intensively have you studied and researched the history of Europe of the last 150 years?
I personally think Hitler was a piece of shit. I think Stalin was an even worse piece of shit and I think Mao and Che Guevara and Napoleon were all also pieces of shit. I think all these pieces of shit took advantage of the tyrannical power that socialism bestows on its leaders and I think that is why America is so great fundamentally... because her founding fathers foresaw the evil tyranny of socialism and created a republic that had a chance to resist it. God bless America. Whatever anyone's understanding is of European history, he will not change my mind about Hitler. I have indeed studied said history and am ready to debate the subject intensely and openly in this forum. Come at me bro!
Quote: (02-10-2016 12:25 PM)Requiem Wrote:
I haven't actually seen Ramzpaul actively distance himself from the 14/88ers who follow him.
He does so regularly on Twitter. It was actually FROM HIM that I got the idea that most of these guys are false flags. I think you and I agree more than we disagree, but I am certainly willing to answer your questions and debate these subjects. I think this is precisely where this forum shows its greatest value.
Cheers