"Bigots united!" .. or something :D - Ron Unz in classic style puts to bed the lack of "intellectual vigour" permeating accusations of "White Supremacy" - [ENJOY] [PEACE]

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Mon Oct 19 05:55:45 PDT 2020


s/the context is not provided/the context is not provided in that quote/

And Unz' David Duke section provides most of the required context, and the rest of the article provides the rest...


On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:45:41PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> The irony here in the phrase "bigots united" is that Unz unites people by breaking down bigotry in cold hard facts.
> 
> Which is of course a breath of fresh air.
> 
> Unz's piece linked below "White Racialism in America, Then and Now" is massive, and as thorough as he always is.
> 
> If it's too long for you, perhaps search his treatment of David Duke, which contains this gem (amongst many in the article of course):
> 
>    Shockley said that if he were thirty years younger and healthier, he would
>    be campaigning on Duke’s behalf. Consider such a historical tableau: the
>    physicist who had won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor and then
>    created Silicon Valley campaigning in Louisiana on behalf of the former
>    Grand Dragon of the KKK [Duke].
> 
> 
> Unfortunately that quote comes across as sensationalist, as the context is not provided.
> 
> That which we have "been permitted to know" courtesy the 'MSM machine', vis a vis history and other matters, is woeful on many grounds.
> 
> Unz is an author par excellence in so many ways, and rigorous while he's at it.
> 
> Create your world folks,
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:55:55PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Bless thee Unz, for thy words be clear and though thy muffaducking mission be often thankless, it is yet dignified and true.
> > 
> > Folks, when an interluckchewall powerhouse decides it's time to put slurs and generalized ad-homs in their place, you just can't believe it's not comedy.
> > 
> > Ron Unz delivers truth, wrapped in dry wit.
> > 
> > Enjoy,
> > 
> > 
> >    White Racialism in America, Then and Now
> >    https://www.unz.com/runz/white-racialism-in-america-then-and-now/
> > 
> >       One morning a couple of years ago I received an urgent email from
> >       a moderately prominent libertarian figure strongly focused on
> >       antiwar issues. He warned me that our publication had been branded
> >       a “White Supremacist website” by the Washington Post, and urged me
> >       to immediately respond, perhaps by demanding a formal retraction
> >       or even taking legal action lest we be destroyed by that totally
> >       unfair accusation.
> > 
> >       When I looked into the matter, my own perspective was rather
> >       different.  Apparently Max Boot, one of the more agitated Jewish
> >       Neocons, had written a column fiercely denouncing some recent
> >       criticism of pro-Israel policies that Philip Giraldi had published
> >       in our webzine, and the “White Supremacist” slur was merely his
> >       crude means of demonizing the author’s views for those of his
> >       readers who might be less than wholeheartedly enthusiastic about
> >       Benjamin Netanyahu and his policies.
> > 
> >       After pointing this out to my correspondent, I also noted that a
> >       good 10% or more of our writers were probably “White
> >       Nationalists,” and perhaps a few of them might even arguably be
> >       labeled “White Supremacists.” So although Boot’s description of
> >       our website was certainly wrong, it was probably less wrong than
> >       the vast majority of his other writing, which was typically
> >       focused on American military policy and the Middle East.
> >       ...
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > Note the following extract (not in the brief quote above):
> > 
> >    Unz: "today’s WNs are an extremely vilified and marginalized group, with
> >    their ranks therefore necessarily skewed towards eccentrics and misfits"
> > 
> > This quote discloses an insight - that when any particular part of human reality is significantly suppressed/ vilified/ marginalized 'in the public square', the ranks of those willing to discuss that suppressed topic publicly or to be associated with that topic publicly, is "necessarily skewed towards eccentrics and misfits".
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > One of the greatest educational and social crimes against the goyim, is the erasing and rewriting of our history and the demonisation of our actual intellectuals of the past, even (especially I guess) those who were "fulsomely praised" by leftist Jews e.g.:
> > 
> >    "in 1936, a Jewish leftist fulsomely praised E.A. Ross’s long and
> >    distinguished scholarly career in the pages of The New Masses, the
> >    weekly periodical of the American Communist Party, only regretting
> >    that Ross had never been willing to embrace Marxism"
> > 
> >    "Ross was actually one of our greatest early sociologists, and his 26
> >    page discussion of Jewish immigrants published in 1913 was
> >    scrupulously fair-minded and even-handed"
> > 
> >    "E.A. Ross .. now largely forgotten except when portrayed as a racist
> >    cartoon villain by ignorant present-day academics.  Last year, I noted
> >    such crude treatment by Holocaust historian Joseph W. Bendersky in
> >    his book documenting and condemning the views of America’s
> >    Anglo-Saxon elites from a century ago"
> >    https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-secrets-of-military-intelligence/
> > 
> >    "Ross was quite plain-spoken in his views, and his long career was
> >    bracketed by his leading national role in major free speech issues.
> >    As a young academic, he had been fired by Stanford University for his
> >    political beliefs, a celebrated incident that led to the creation of
> >    the American Association of University Professors, while he ended his
> >    life serving for a decade as national chairman of the ACLU."
> > 
> > 
> > Unz's work in restoring and bringing forth our actual intellectuals of the past is a thankless task in many ways in this "modern" climate fomenting White hatred and extreme bipartisanship, extreme (false) dichotomies, and the destruction or inverting of much of our language - as Unz puts it "the severe flaws in our current climate of harsh ideological censorship".
> > 
> > 
> > ---
> > Unz's article linked above is quite long, but naturally worth a full read if you can grant yourself the time for it.
> > 
> > Thank you Ron Unz, you continue to bring your best to us all, a blessing indeed!
> > 


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