The Far-Right Continues Imploding
As nations collapse, those who uphold their traditions become increasingly reactionary, which leads to the Stalinist practice of picking those who have dogma over those who are competent. As we see the Klan and other European nationalist groups implode over the next few years — part of which is the FBI trying to “keep the peace” after an Obama election — most of what we will see is moribund groups held together by extreme dogmatism, populated by incompetent drunks who make a living selling trinkets to those who still haven’t figured out these groups just “look” militant and ready, but have no unifying political philosophy and are basically race-hate profiteers.
By 2004, the Southern White Knights had chapters in Savannah, Georgia; Homosassa Springs, Florida; and Marion, Ohio. Its founding chapter relocated to Denham Springs, Louisiana. The group disbanded in early 2005, the center said.
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An argument began, and the group’s leader, Foster, allegedly pushed her to the ground and shot her to death without warning.
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Sheriff’s investigators said they received the initial tip from a convenience store clerk. Two of the group members went into the store and asked the clerk whether he knew how to get bloodstains out of their clothes, Strain said. The clerk told them no and called the sheriff after they left.
This pattern has occurred repeatedly among the far right and far left. The people who are rewarded with public attention are those who speak the loudest dogma, but they are also the people least likely to be competent. Why: competent activists with controversial ideas tend to soften them so others can stomach them long enough to understand them and possibly adopt them, while dogmatists feel self-reinforced from the hatred of others to match what their own dogma-over-reality attitude has whittled down to simple hatred.
A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
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“We look forward to collecting every dime that we can for our client and to putting the Imperial Klans of America out of business,” said SPLC founder and chief trial attorney Morris Dees, who tried the case.
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According to testimony, three members of the Klan group confronted Gruver in July 2006 during a recruiting mission at the Meade County Fair in Brandenberg, Kentucky. They taunted him with ethnic slurs — inaccurate ones — spat on him and doused him with alcohol .Two of the men, including Hensley, knocked Gruver to the ground and repeatedly struck and kicked him.
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Former Klansman Kale Kelly, once a member of Edwards’ inner circle, testified he was told to kill Dees because of the center’s lawsuit in Idaho against the Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi supremacist organization.
The incompetence would be shocking if you took the media at their word when they described the far right as dangerous, but a more apt description is that the far right is a drunken old man with a shotgun. Unable to achieve the revolution they want, they will occasionally open fire on likely victims — people too stupid to avoid the stupid and angry — and self-destruct, because people like Morris Dees are smarter and more competent than they are.
Part of the process of a nation decomposing before death is that its traditions get destroyed by irrelevance; when consensus is gone, trying to uphold “tradition” is like demanding the same effects from different causes, or like trying to step into the same river twice. There is no longer the underlying consensus that enabled those traditions. Smart activists work to get together small secessionist groups who can, by the nature of being under the radar, ride out the next two decades to two centuries of delusional instability; dumb activists open fire.
This commentary floored me:
As we face a new — but old, following the path of other failed civilizations — era, we are going to face the rising anger of the far right: neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, and so on.
When I think of this group, what makes me dislike their existence is that they’re so negative. Instead of affirming racial differences through the positive, like pointing out the traits that make us different and how they point to proud histories, they’re constantly negative. Instead of pointing out the obvious, which is that multiculturalism and pluralism destroy societies, they blame black people — and pretend that our failing civilization would be just peachy keen if it weren’t for the presence of African genetics among us.
That’s negativity, not logic, and it’s highly destructive. It’s not constructing a future, it’s whining. It’s not looking toward something better; it’s affirming what’s worse. In short, even if it weren’t an ideology I disagreed with, I’d say it’s a dumb implementation.
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Keep negative thinking in all forms out of politics. It’s fine to say multiculturalism and pluralism don’t work; it’s stupid to veer off into bigotry, racism, hatred and negativity.