Comment To A Racist Right Wingnut:

I may be a masochist. Today I went to Laurence Auster’s website, A View From The Right. I know that I really should know better, but I am just a glutton for punishment. What kept me on the site was his feelings towards Glenn Beck. It seems Mr. Auster could, quite possibly, dislike Glenn Beck more than I do.

Anyway, I was reading his entries, and he had one that was entitled, “Black woman throws acid in face of white woman.”  (Do we italicize online articles or put them in quotes?  I don’t know the protocol.)  I really wanted to respond to his entry, but he only accepts email comments and selectively adds comments at his discretion.  I figured, since he has already tried to dismiss me as a “knee-jerk liberal blogger,” that I would be better suited addressing my concerns here.

So, there’s an article on MSNBC.com about the “Acid attacker,” in which a woman in Oregon had acid thrown on her face.  It was an especially heinous crime because the girl who received the acid was particularly pretty.

Mr. Auster only added this as a preface to the article on his site:

The assailant was a stranger and the attack was unprovoked. MSNBC does not mention the race of the assailant until the last sentence of the article.

When you read the article, this is indeed correct.  The last line of the article states:

Police said the assailant was described as a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts, The Columbian reported. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back.

[If you are wondering, The Columbian is the newspaper name.  It is not an olive skinned man with an impeccable suit and shoes that sits at the end of the bar with an unlit cigarette dangling from his lip and manages to observe, through his Latin mistique, all types of things that other people tend to miss.]

They described her race as part of her physical description.  Where is the problem with this?  Well, my problem with this is simple:  The same people who claim minorities are always “pulling the race card” tend to have the same things to say in these situations.  How can we win?  Do you want us to judge people as individuals, or be predisposed of racial judgments?

Mr. Auster contends that he is not a racist.  He was rather upset that I compared him to Stormfront.  (The Nazi website.)  But, my comment to Mr. Auster is this:

Mr. Auster,
Why are you bothered that MSNBC did not mention the woman’s race until the end of the article and why do you feel the need to headline race in the topic?  Is it not possible that the acid attacker was just a mentally deranged person?  Do you really want a world without preferences to race?  Or do you just want people to stop challenging white preference?

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Tags: America, black, Glenn Beck, Islam, lawrence auster, Muslim, racism, White
Category Racism |

America: The Communist Dream

“Communism” has special significance in American parlance.  In reality, the ideology of Communism entails a variety of ideals.  There are “Communist” states, that are self-proclaimed Communists, such as the former Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of China, Cuba, and North Korea.  But Communism is rooted in the writings of Karl Marx, although many can contend that he did not specifically originate the concept itself.  For the intent of this entry, “Communism” means “Marxism” and not the Soviet style of governance.  For this reason, I will refer to the ideology as Marxism, rather than Communism.

If there is any polity in the world that should be ideal for Marxist ideology, it is the United States. Is it because of the proposed socialized health care, like many on the New Right claim?  No.  Is it because of extended government control of the private sector?  No.  Is it because of entitlement programs controlled by the government?  No.  It is precisely the opposite.

Any true Marxist has to acknowledge that Marx did not claim to be a leader, nor did he claim to actually have a solution.  Rather, Marx foresaw a solution.  He claimed to want better treatment for laborers during the Industrial Revolution.  What Marx had foreseen was a society in which there was no more class separation.  No more need for “have’s” and “have not’s.”

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Tags: America, communism, Communist, England, Europe, France, karl marx, Marxism, Norway, sarah palin, United States
Category Definitions |

Brown Shirts and Bullshit – American Political Gumbo

In honor of the planned Tea Party protests tomorrow, I decided to finally put down some observations.  I find this situation is both tremendously horrifying, inane and just plain stupid.

We begin with the American “Left” and “Right.”  These labels are misleading in themselves.  When looking at the political strata of the world, Left and Right mean certain things.

• Right-wing, or Conservative, politics support social stratification, classism, tradition, nationalism, aristocracy and, often, monarchy.  Generally supporting “free market capitalism.”
• Left-wing politics are in support of egalitarian society.  They generally support equality under the law, labor laws, “fair market” and Keynesian economics.
• Ultra-Left is often used to refer to radical socialism, communism, and other far left movements.

In the United States, these terms have been mangled and abused.  THERE ARE NO ULTRA-LEFT POLITICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES! That is just the way it is.  McCarthyism pretty much destroyed any potential for far-left politics in America for at least a century.  The American Right would likely not get on a podium and espouse views of aristocracy, monarchs and reinforcing social stratification.  (In fact, Americans generally dislike monarchs, except the butterflies.)  That said, there is no “Far Right” wing in American politics, either.  I would contend, aside from claiming to support “free market” economics, there is NO Right in American politics.  I also would venture to say most of those who claim to support the “free market” do it verbally while not truly believing that no economic interference is acceptable.  Think about it.  Do Republicans claim they want corporations to run unfettered?  Do they want to destroy labor unions, fair trade agreements, fair wage laws?  (Maybe they do personally, because they stand to profit, but that would be political suicide.)

So, what are we left with?  We are left with center-left moderates who agree to disagree with each other and bicker about minutia.  The American Left is no more Left than the Conservative Party in England.  If the Obama Administration were true leftists, their actions would have been as follows:

• Instead of bailing out failing automotive companies, General Motors would have been seized by the government and turned into the American People’s Motors.  Jobs would have been created to build automobiles.  Government technology would have been used to perfect the vehicles.  Honestly, with the technology the government has, I’m sure they can make a kick-ass car that would destroy German and Japanese cars in the open market, instead of these antiquated Studebakers the American car companies continue to create.
• Instead of bailing out the banks – the government would have seized the banks.  Told them, “you can’t seem to manage this on your own and you fucked up things for the rest of us.”  Made it THE Bank of America.  Employed thousands of people. Guaranteed small business loans.  Set its own interest rates.  And given every citizen the opportunity to use their local, government bank/credit union without having to deal with predatory lenders.
• My final example, some people might take issue with, but I propose a true left government would settle the illegal immigration issue once and for all.  In reality, who do the illegal immigrants benefit?  Who benefits from the drug wars in Mexico?  It’s the conservative elite.  Middle class white people in Texas who live paycheck to paycheck don’t have an illegal immigrant nanny to watch and raise their children.  They aren’t profiting from slave labor conditions that cannot be reported.  Illegal immigrants are cheap labor that undermine unions and labor demands.  It is the “Right” that wants the illegal immigration to continue, not the left.

So, what’s the point of all this?  The point is that all this misinformation results in something that can be very volatile and dangerous – The Tea Party movement.  This movement is so similar to the Brown Shirts in Germany that it is frightening.  It is too simplistic to state that the Tea Party are simply racists.  It is not overly simplistic to state they are reactionary.

Before I go any father, I want to state, I am in no way supporting any Nazi propaganda.  These summaries of events are simplistic and in no way are meant to demean anyone.

The Sturmabteilung (Brown Shirts) existed before the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi movement. I do contend that the Tea Party movement is less like the Sturmabteilung and more like the general population, but I really do not know who is “in charge” with the TP movement.  It seems to me like it is more then some spontaneous reaction to current situations.  There are too many common threads of misinformation.

The Brown Shirts used different tactics than previously to control situations, breaking into smaller groups and infiltrating them to disrupt them.  As Europe was feeling it’s Industrial growing pains in the turn of the 20th century, the fear of “Communists” to depose aristocracy was rampant.  In the Weimar Republic, they had already seen the Marxists creating havoc in France, England, and so on… they found someone to assure them a bit of security from this chaos.  (It should be noted that Germany was a feudal state at this point.)  The Brown Shirts created havoc in the streets while shrewd politicians crafted dialogue on nationalist lines about “freedom” and “opportunity,” while really being the fascist movement.  I think everyone besides Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows what happened next.

Let’s examine the situation of Germany prior to the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.  They were in a situation of economic dire straits.  The people of Germany were literally starving economically and they had just been crushed in a war.  They were also forced into a world in which the Industrial Revolution was in full swing, with little means of production.

Now we have the United States, who has practically fallen into the economic well.  People are losing their homes left and right.  The US has been attacked and tragically injured by foreigners and continues to wage unending war.  The United States is falling behind in the Technology Revolution.

And then comes the rallying cry!  “It’s other people’s fault!”  “They don’t look like us!”  “Limited government and more freedom!”  These are all the things the German people were screaming as the Nazi party enacted a campaign of fascism and brutality across Europe.  The scary thing about it, is that Hitler was a nobody with no future, and his followers were few.  Hitler was probably as respected as Sarah Palin at prior to his appointment as Chancellor of Germany.

So, my point is… The Tea Party is dangerous.

They are not dangerous because they oppose taxes and “big government.”  They are dangerous because they encapsulate everything dark about America.  These are people getting government stipend checks, complaining about the government giving people stipend checks.  They are racist.  They are ignorant.  They are nationalistic.  But its much more complex then just one of these things: they are the foot soldiers of fascism.

Let’s not be too mean, though.  Sympathy and empathy are what makes us better.  These people are scared.  They have been left behind by the world.  WWII was the height of industrial production for the United States.  No one could produce more, faster, than the United States.  Manufacturing jobs could be obtained without a higher education and could provide means to raise a family.  Technology moved so fast, it became cheaper to manufacture in other places.  (Again, this is overly simplistic)  Education became a necessity in America and brown people became citizens.  Now we have a brown skinned president and a phone that can react to touch.  We can read editorials from a newspaper in Moscow or Beijing the same day it was published.

The world got smaller and the American fascist movement was born.

Tags: America, brown shirts, nazi, Neo-Fascism
Category Neo-Fascism |