Category: Activism

Snappy refutation of race denial

Liberal: Humans are all brothers under the skin. After all, based on gene variations, one race differs from another less than individuals differ from each other. We all share over 99% of the same DNA. Race is just a social construct buttressed by racist social mores.

WN: Men and women differ only by one chromosome, or in other words share 99.99999999999999999...% of the same DNA. Does this mean that the biological differences (including the fact that women can have babies and men can’t) between the sexes are just a social construct bolstered by sexist social mores?

Can anyone suggest a way to improve that answer? (Yes, I know there are better scientific counter-arguments, but I’m talking about something that can get the point across to laymen).

[Update: Thanks for the comments pointing out the number of genes on the Y chromosome. ‘Share 99.99999999999999999...% of the same DNA’ is obviously untrue. Aren’t most of these Y chromosome genes determining differences between men though (so the number of genes determining men vs. women is still quite small)?]

Posted by Alex Zeka on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 10:44 AM in Activism
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Thoughts of talking to government

So we have all got well and truly used to the idea that the left is out of office after thirteen long, hard years.  The political class generally has lost the trust of the people, and will not easily win it back.  In Europe the post-national project is in trouble.  The internal inconsistencies of the single currency seem set to tear the Union in two.  Power, it seems to me, is more fluid than it has been for twenty years at least.

Yet at the very moment that political nationalism in England should be rising irresistibly on the back of this and of its European Parliament success of a year ago, it is mired in self-doubt and introspection.  The Labour Party, shamed and defeated on Election Night though it was, out-thought and out-classed it in Stoke and Barking, and the usual squeeze on minor parties did the rest elsewhere.  The same old questions return again and again about the leadership, about the calibre of senior activists, about finances.  There is an inescapable feeling that the BNP has a narrow performance corridor in which it will, from here on, oscillate electorally, but from which it will never escape.  It is not going to shake the ground.  It is not going to destroy the Establishment.

The Establishment, meanwhile, may be tempted into returning to the legal fray to destroy it:

The British National party faces the prospect of renewed legal action from the government’s equalities watchdog over allegations that it has failed to remove potentially racist clauses from its constitution. The court case could potentially see the BNP’s leader, Nick Griffin, jailed or fined for contempt of court, or see party assets seized, lawyers believe.

... The BNP constitution was challenged in court last year by the government’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission. In March, Judge Paul Collins ruled that even after the BNP lifted a direct ban on non-white members, the revised document was indirectly discriminatory because it required applicants to oppose “any form of integration or assimilation of ... the indigenous British”, something the EHRC argued could not be endorsed by those in mixed-race relationships.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 12:06 AM in Activism
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Killer quotes

Like many, I’m sure, I was much taken with Hervé Ryssen’s piece titled The psychopathology of Judaism, translated by John de Nugent and published this month at the reinvigorated TOQ.  It contained the clearest identification I have ever seen of what it is to be Jewish with the dissolution of the world’s distinct peoples.  But it also contained some killer quotes, one of which was this, from Yitzhak Attia, director of French-language seminars at the Yad Vashem Holocaust institute in Tel Aviv, writing in Israel magazine:

Even if reason tells us, even shouts with all its force the very absurdity of this confrontation between the small and insignificant people of Israel [i.e, all Jewry worldwide, not just “the State of Israel”] and the rest of humanity… as absurd, as incoherent and as monstrous as it may seem, we are engaged in close combat between Israel and the Nations – and it can only be genocidal and total because it is about our and their identities.

Quotes of this kind are valuable debating tools, and there are hundreds of them lying around - mostly on our respective hard drives.  So I thought I would create a thread which would enable anyone interested to share similarly precious finds and perhaps build up a useful resource.

Be my guest.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 11:59 PM in Activism
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What can be done

I received a circular mail from the Australian National Anarchism activist Welf Herfurth a couple of days ago.  Essentially, he was making an appeal for funds for Andrew Yeoman’s outfit in the Bay Area.  The basis of the appeal was that Andrew’s prodigious energy has been richly rewarded.  But welcome as it is, success and political advancement needs to be funded:

Since he started to get active, Andy’s Bay Area National Anarchists group grew from a few people to the biggest alternative metapolitical group in San Francisco. Here are some of their major achievements in the past few years:

* 44,000+ website hits (http://www.bayareanationalanarchists.com/blog/)
* 22,000+ YouTube video views (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bay+area+national+anarchists&search_type=&aq=0&oq=Bay+area+national+)
* Regularly hosted meetings and recurring events (Monthly Meetings, White Cross Patrols, Folsom Street Fair Protest)
* Speaking events including Emeryville, Orange County, and Sydney Australia
* A large increase in support from groups across the nation and abroad
* Hosting foreign visitors for events and speeches
* The first unofficial BANA housing collective
* Media coverage by a local newspaper and the SPLC
* Flyering runs in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Petaluma
* A continuous presence at street protests
* The formation of sister networks in Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Inland Empire, and Orange County
* Our first online radio interview
* 22 videos produced and 3 more in production
* At least 4 blog posts a month
* A business plan
* An active Facebook presence
* PayPal subscribers (currently numbering at 5)
* A custom graphic banner on the website made by allies in the UK
* A private mail box

I think you agree with me that this is a very impressive list of achievements.

Our ‘friends’ from the SPLC wrote a very interesting article about the BANA that you can find here:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1058

And Spencer Sunshine wrote this for the Public Eye website:
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v23n4/rebranding_fascism.html

Last, but not least, here is an interview with Andy with the well respected and valued ‘The Occidental Quarterly’:
http://www.toqonline.com/2009/08/interview-with-andrew-yeoman-part-i/

So you can see that he is not only promising political activism, but also he is delivering it too. The BANA are a group of dedicated and committed people. I know for sure that Andy not only spends every spare minute in organising events, making videos, networking with likeminded people, etc, but he also puts thousands of dollars of his own money into the cause ...

And what followed was the appeal for funds.  I shan’t copy that out.  But if you know Andrew’s work and want to offer him some support, here’s the link:

http://bayareanationalanarchists.com/blog/2009/09/bana-monthly-donations.html

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 01:24 AM in Activism
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Did Van Jones leave a legacy for European-Americans to profit from?

by Bo Sears, for Resisting Defamation

Van “Well the answer to that is, they’re assholes” Jones has quite a mouth on him.  As the man who brought race to the green agenda with his statements about “white polluters” and “white environmentalists steering poison into the people of color communities,” he didn’t hide his opinions too much.  Thus, in the end, the midnight departure of this supremacist from federal employment.

I hesitate to call him a racist, by the way, because that term has lost all its meaning in both the dominant media culture and the corporate entertainment culture. Besides, anyone who flinches at being called a racist is way behind the times. But the same can’t be said of ...

Supremacist, hypocrite, bigot, divisive

It was clear from his claim that all Euro-Ams are clones of each other and lack diversity, that Jones was a hard-core supremacist. He was, by his own statements, also a bigot and divisive.  His caricature of white Americans pointedly made no reference to nationality (e.g., American) or to continental origins (e.g., Europe).  We happen to know from other sources that to verbally strip blacks of their American nationality and their African origin is regarded by Jones as a wholly bigoted and divisive act.

… liar

And he was a liar for saying that school massacres are only carried out by ‘suburban white kids.’

Most of the dominant media culture, a creature controlled by the urban-coastal class, flinched from reporting Jones’ anti-white rhetoric.  Instead, the emphasis was laid on his remarks about Republicans and the 9/11 Truthers.  Reporting of Jones’ racism was suppressed.  That the dominant media culture on TV and in print acted so uniformly (except for the instance of the article referenced above) tells us all we need to know about the media bosses dislike of “whites” roused by black radical rhetoric.  It also tells me that they definitely do not respect RD’s position that denigration and dehumanization of European Americans is not to be tolerated.

But something good may have came out of Jones’ full-on attack on “whites” as a demographic - most probably, some of us woke up to the fact that, for the Obama Administration, we are marked by the color of our skin.

That said, a close reading of Jones’ comments yields something even more useful.  It’s ironic of course, given his racism, but some of his claims we can build on.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 11:42 PM in Activism
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Boycotting the 2010 Census

by Don Miller, for Resisting Defamation

A “small but vocal” group of American Latino radicals has called for a boycott of the US Census unless and until the US government moves forward with federal legislation to legalize all the illegal aliens in the USA.

A small but vocal group of advocates is urging illegal immigrants and their supporters nationwide to boycott the 2010 Census to protest the government’s inaction on immigration legislation, a move that, if successful, could cost Massachusetts and other states millions of dollars.

The campaign is setting off alarms across the United States because census figures are crucial to determining how much federal funding cities and towns receive. A large-scale boycott, state officials and prominent pro-immigrant groups warn, could force Massachusetts to cut services from school lunch programs to highway construction, and heighten its chances of losing a seat in Congress.

... Participation in the census is required by law every 10 years so the government can obtain an accurate count of every resident in the United States. But the fine for failure to register is only $100, and the Census Bureau has generally not pursued violators.

... proponents of a boycott say it is a chance to grab the attention of politicians who have failed to pass legislation addressing illegal immigrants, even as their numbers have swelled to 12 million nationwide and 190,000 in Massachusetts - or about 1 in 5 immigrants. Overall, 14 percent of the state’s population is foreign born; most are here legally.

I don’t see any reason why European Americans shouldn’t just attach themselves to this boycott proposal.  My reasoning is that the federal government would have a hard time convicting us of a federal violation without going after the American Latinos leading the fight.

Here are some possible grounds for a boycott.  Obviously anything like this would have to have support from a significant number of Euro-Am activists who would pick & choose the most appropriate grounds.

Suggestions:

1.  We will boycott without clear & convincing legislation & appropriations for completing the wall along the southern border, for verifying every applicant for every job in the USA, and for commencing a sweep of illegal immigrants before January 2010, in order to protect job opportunities for the diverse white American peoples.

2.  We will boycott unless the 2010 census offers opportunity to European Americans to express their national origin, continental origin, and ethnicity on the face of the census form, to let the USA know about the depth and richness of our internal diversity.

3.  We will boycott the 2010 census unless the federal government offers clear & convincing commitments to fund local programs governed by members of the diverse white American peoples to rescue young white boys and girls from the three principal social ills in which they are over-represented— binge drinking, meth use, and tobacco smoking.  The federal government has utterly failed young Euro-Am kids.

Well, that’s a start.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 08:07 AM in Activism
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White and heard

by Bo Sears, director, ResistingDefamation

A disturbing meme was recently re-introduced to the debate on the future of our people by Prof Kevin MacDonald.  A hero to many among the diverse white American peoples, he claimed that we lack the capacity or opportunity to make our case for a particular white political or social identity.  His statement was dated 8/20/09 and appeared on The Occidental Observer in an essay titled, Fundraising Appeal: Why support The Occidental Observer.

Western societies have become cauldrons of competing ethnic groups where only one group — White people of European descent — cannot be heard. Where only one group cannot even articulate its interests. Where only one group seems to think that self-destruction and abdication of political power are moral imperatives.

Whilst it is true that The Occidental Observer has done a good job and earned its financial support from European Americans or Euro-Americans, not every syllable Prof MacDonald or The Occidental Observer is helpful or even true.  The above three-sentence statement is a case in point.  There are so many errors and flawed assumptions in it that unpacking the statement is no easy matter.  But it’s not impossible.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Friday, August 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM in Activism
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The English Defence League march in Birmingham, 4th July 2009

This is an outgrowth of the Luton anti-Islamist protest from two months back - itself a result of the al Muhajiroun protest in Luton during the homecoming parade of the Royal Anglian Regiment in March.

More details of the Birmingham protest here.

By way of some background on the general immigrant situation in Birmingham, the Ken Livingstone supporter and pudgy-faced Guardian blogger Simon Fletcher put up an anti-BNP piece today about the party’s claims of anti-white bias in the provision of council (or social) housing.  One commenter named zacsmith had the drop on him, however.  This was his comment:

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Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 03:37 PM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations - Exercise 8

These are getting harder to find now.  But ... late last night a man named Michael Keith, who is a director of the execrable Centre for Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS for short), posted his first journalistic offering online at the Guardian.  It is temptingly titled Don’t leave migration policy to the BNP.

The usual mud-wrestling proceeded.  But in the course of it a southern European gentleman going under the soubriquet of JorgeG offered an argument which I paraphrase thus:-

The English can emigrate wherever they please, and have done so in their millions over the centuries, ‘race-replacing’ not just cities but whole continents, eg. North America, Oceania.  But Jonny Foreigner is not welcome here.

So, does one defend the right of the intelligent to prosper wherever they please, including their own homeland of course?  Does one argue that native-Amercians, Aboriginal Australians, Maoris, etc had a natural right to resist, very often did so but lost, and we have a natural right to resist also?  Does one take the judo option that race-replacement is not morally sustainable under any circumstances?

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 03:13 PM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations, Exercise 7

Here’s an interesting one, again from the Guardian - a recent thread on homosexual marriage.  Some bright spark objected to the appeal to Nature used by a supporter of traditional marriage.  He said:-

“Define Nature for me and I’ll cede your point.”

Define Nature?  Can’t be too difficult, surely.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 11:40 PM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations, Exercise 6

In between doing other things, I’ve been debating for a couple of days with a Guardian liberal of a scientific bent here.  He came up with the following definitons of the dreaded r-thing, claiming that I qualify on both counts.

They are:-

1. The belief that certain races are superior/inferior to others.

2. The belief that people’s race is more significant than their individuality.

Now, I answered this person in the least snappy way I could, putting both racial superiority and Man as individual and tribalist into their proper contexts.  But I can’t say that it worked any better than a well-chosen, sharp riposte could have.

So what should I have said?  Is there even such a thing as “evil racism”?  Or is it all just a handy exaggeration, a silencer and an ethnic smear?

Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM in Activism
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Snap!

You—are a moral monster!

Refute this accusation, freely constructing the conversation in which it arose.

This actually happened to me.

Posted by Søren Renner on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 01:18 AM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations, Exercise 5

By exPF

Refute (or counter) the following.

You have made a statement - it could be any statement - about non-whites generally, and the reply comes back:

That’s racist! Its fundamentally racist, what you’re saying.

One of the most common arguments used in real life. I’m curious to see what ideas you have for turning this one around with minimal argumentation.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 08:33 AM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations, Exercise 4

I’ve noticed that the Guardianistas are clueing up on the availability of DNA testing, and are endeavouring to use it as a challenge to the argument that my succession of thread phenotypes at CiF are members of a genetically distinct European people.  As tactics go, it’s a smear really, the unspoken inference being that somewhere lurking in my ancestral history are a whole stack of Somalis and Afghans.  And it’s a variation on the old tactic of claiming that our people don’t exist or can’t be defined, and so there’s nothing to preserve.

Of course, it could just be that the folks who use this tactic are mixed-race self-haters.  Anyway, it goes like this:-

Go and take a DNA test then publish the result here so we can all see if you are as English as you think you are.

Another version concentrates on genealogy instead of the DNA test, but the inference is the same.  You are invited to snap back.

By the way, a couple of days ago I constructed a comment out of material in the second and third threads of this series, and it was bloody good.  Too bloody good for the CiF moderators, in fact.  It got deleted.  But it shows that this exercise is worth doing, and my thanks go to PF who thought of it.

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, April 10, 2009 at 11:42 PM in Activism
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ENR

Posted by Søren Renner on Friday, April 3, 2009 at 04:32 PM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations, Exercise 3

By Ex-PF

Refute (or counter) the following:

(said in a discussion with another white in a coffee shop)

So basically all you care about is that your children, and your great-grandchildren and so on and so on, will have blue eyes and fair skin? Thats all that matters to you? Because I really don’t care.

Statements will be evaluated for conciseness and overall “snappiness”.

A brief addendum: It was suggested on the last Snappy thread that these posts be continued in the likely event of ex-PF being called away.  That seems like a worthwhile aim.  But since we all encounter the other side’s arguments, many of us on a daily basis, I’d like to invite offerings from any readers who come across a particularly well-engineered one.  Just mail me through the contact button under the banner.
Thanks very much, GW

Posted by Guest Blogger on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 11:34 PM in Activism
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Snappy Refutations Project, Exercise 2

By Ex-PF

Refute (or counter) the following, while maintaining conversational tone and diction and a minimum of verbiage (preferably several sentences length).

(said by an Indian student in a western University setting):

The British conquered us and ruled over us. They came to our lands. What goes around comes around.

Refutations are evaluated for conciseness and “snappiness” i.e. ease of wielding them.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 04:05 PM in Activism
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The Snappy Refutations Project, Exercise 1

By Ex-PF

Refute the following, while maintaining conversational tone and diction and a minimum of verbiage (preferably several sentences length).

(related in a dinner table discussion of miscegenation):

The Anglo-Saxon people are actually a mongrel nation anyway. All those Jutes, Angles, Normans and Celts, we’re all such mixed up mongrels.

Refutations will be evaluated for conciseness and overall “snappiness”, i.e. the ease of wielding them in everyday convos with average people.

Maybe, after all entries are submitted, we’ll take a vote as to whose was best.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 01:37 PM in Activism
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Street-Fighting, Forum-Fighting, And Reporter-Fighting Discourse

By Stanley Womack

At Resisting Defamation, we have been mystified by the tendency in many awakening Euro-Americans to use hateful language about other demographics, to indulge in uniforms or dead dictators, or to become centered on other demographics without understanding that the development of a defensive white-centric political identity is our key need.

Some Euro-Americans have fallen into the trap of believing that their anger and their new understandings are an appropriate basis for their message.  That is, they believe that their anger at African-Americans is an appropriate emotional context to use to convey statements about African-Americans.  But only very rare is revealing your personal insights or emotional responses the best line to use to accomplish change in society or among the diverse white American peoples.

Examples From Other Demographics

Consider some examples. If you ask Jews how they justify violent ethnic cleansing in south-west Asia, they will usually quietly claim that they are merely reclaiming the territory God gave their ancestors.  It’s so breath-takingly dishonest that it stuns reality-based hearers and leaves little room for counter-response.  They win.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 12:24 AM in Activism
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Some Suggestions on Etiquette, or, How to not be a ‘Sewer.’

Some suggestions to commenters and posters, in the interest of making this site a better experience for everyone:

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 06:11 AM in Activism
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Collective Wisdom

By The Narrator

The following is a “meat and potatoes” type of list illustrating some basic concepts and counterpoints to arguments we commonly see.

We’ve all had experiences linguistically dueling with others, so, by all means, add your own talking points to the list.

1. Don‘t waste your time converting atheists.

It has been said that C.S. Lewis’s classic Christian Apologetic, ‘Mere Christianity’ never converted a true atheist but convinced a multitude of agnostics to finally come off of the fence into the believer’s camp. In regards to the issues surrounding race there are similar divisions of people. Those being, True Believes (us), Racial Agnostics and Racial Atheists.  And as with Lewis’s work being most effective at moving the agnostics, likewise we should concentrate our efforts and arguments towards the Racial Agnostics instead of Racial Atheists, who are likely to reject Racialism no matter how compelling the facts presented.

You can generally distinguish between the two through basic conversation.

2. Basic facts.

Most people have no idea about the demographic predicament the White race is in. So tell them that Whites today are in fact no more than around 13% of the world’s population and dropping fast. And what that means is that minorities (non-Whites) are nearly 90% of the worlds population and growing.  Who is the minority here?

Now if they reply with, “Yeah but non-Whites are a minority in The West (or specific countries therein),” you can point out that that argument is simply compartmentalizing the issue.  Two can play that game.  Blacks are a minority in the United States … yeah, and ... Whites are a minority in the Americas.  Hispanics are a minority in America …. yeah, and … Whites are a minority in Chicago, New York, etc …

And often along the same lines we hear that, “It’s an ever-changing world.”

Well, no.  New Technological toys aside, large swaths of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the middle-east (where the majority of humans live) have seen very little to no change in the last one hundred years (or more).  Only in The West is the ever-changing world, ever-changing.  Other areas have been able to integrate new technologies into theirsocieties without much alteration to their day-to-day lives.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 12:37 PM in Activism
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Fighting their discourse with ours

By Bo Sears

We had an executive committee meeting yesterday to discuss the issue of teaching readers how to process these strange, defeatist, misleading essays that populate the mainstream media daily.  The concepts we have developed to that end have been scattered here and there.  This, actually, is the first time we have brought them together in what is, to be fair, a pretty cynical approach to discourse warfare. We hope you find it useful.

DEALING WITH VERBAL ATTACKS

One of the difficulties that we have in face-to-face encounters, when we find ourselves under verbal attack, is to be ready with a reasonable strategy. This essay is to address this situation and to provide tools to you to respond effectively.

REJECT MEMES & THEMES TELLING YOU HOW TO THINK

Watch out for the various memes and themes that float through the Internet intended to guide your thinking. One theme is quite famous, and it laments that “when you call me white boy, I can’t call you black boy, because then you’ll call me a racist.” Any time you read an essay that implicitly or explicitly tells you that you cannot answer back for any reason is a fraud, floated by our demographic adversaries to help silence us. You will see that meme frequently, and it can usually be summed up by saying, “I’ve been silenced, there is no way to break into the sphere of propaganda that surrounds me and drowns us.” It’s designed for you to incorporate it into your own thinking.

REJECT MODELING PROPAGANDA TELLING YOU HOW TO ACT

“Modeling” is a verbal or written phrase or sentence meant to be implanted into your mind to tell you how to conduct yourself in a variety of situations. You see a modeling exercise any time you read a news story about the white victim of a hate crime forgiving the perpetrator—it’s just to plant an idea in our minds about how to act in difficult situations. Same goes for many sit-com plots and characters. They’re played out the way they are in order to teach us how to act. Modeling is a very powerful tool that our adversaries have mastered and which the diverse white American peoples are mostly completely unaware of. Now that you know its name, you’ll notice modeling all over the Internet.

STUDYING TECHNIQUES

It is also important to realize that many of our adversaries, especially the ones who seem extremely skilled with the put-down, the short unanswerable phrase, and the cutting shut-up line, study their phrases and lines of argument in college club meetings, ethnic media conferences, consciousness-raising events, and a variety of other events that seem innocent on the surface, but are really nasty little schools for teaching our adversaries how to talk in rapid-fire face-to-face encounters to humiliate us.

DON’T DO NAME-CALLING YOURSELF

Never respond to name-calling with name-calling for two reasons. First, it is important that you never be quoted as using slurs or negative stereotypes in future events. Second, it is completely unnecessary and definitely not part of our diverse white American cultures to do so.

WINNING THE IMPLICIT CONTEST COUNTS

Distinguish in your own mind between winning a rapid-fire face-to-face encounter, on the one hand, and laying out all the facts and history you can, on the other hand, to defeat an attack. If Americans of European origins have a fault, it is to take the insults and derogatory statements on the level of an explicit serious public discourse. Not at all, they are all about winning and humiliating European Americans in the discussion. At Resisting Defamation, we have been frequently surprised by people failing to understand that our online syllabus is a toolbox, rather than a history of the world and the role of European Americans therein. This confusion is understandable because almost all commenters on the dire situation confronting our demographic respond with “global analyses” meaning lengthy web sites that really get into history, culture, who invented what, white contributions, etc. A global analysis is good and interesting, but it is not a toolbox of techniquesto win the implicit battle. European and American histories and cultures can be used as tools, however.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 11:39 PM in Activism
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Taking RD to our people

By Bo Sears

MR readers will be aware of the work our organisation, ResistingDefamation.org, undertakes and the strategies we employ to combat the flow of routine media slurring and negative depiction of white Americans.

White boy, white privilege, wasp, nerdy, white flight, redneck, hillbilly, cracker, white trash, geek, white bread, lily-white, typical white person, goober, Yankee dog, white resentment, acting white, and Wonder Bread hardly scratch the surface.  But this is a surface beneath which lurks a deep and arrogant hostility and a moral supremacism that we are absolutely determined to scratch.

To that end, and as has been pretty widely discussed elsewhere, we launched a counter-action this month with a full-page ad in a major print medium in Santa Clara County (the fifth largest industrial county in the USA).

Metro is a free weekly advertiser, but enormously popular and widely distributed. It’s distribution is second only to the San Jose Mercury News which has, itself, almost become a thinner tabloid.

The ad, which was headlined A river of sludge from the San Jose Mercury News, offered white American Metro readers the chance to get a handle on the problem:-

At ResistingDefamation, we believe that a slur-free society is possible, and we have established free two-hour seminars to teach about this river of sludge and how to combat it.

Well, over 220 email responses have followed.  So we are sorting them and setting up 27 sessions to service demand!  We’ll have desktop computers, an after-hours cop, and up to 10 people present at each seminar.  We’ll cover negative stereotypes and slurs first and in that order, then 90 mins of discussion, etc.  The seminars start this week.  They have excited a good deal of comment, but not in the daily newspaper.

The ad will be re-tooled and re-run every month until Christmas.

We did send the actual page from the hard-copy edition to the eighteen top corporate officers in Colorado so they know about it.  And we complained to the county Board of Supervisors about our having to do this when they have an Office of Human Relations which is supposed to do these things.

Not that we don’t think we can’t do a far better job.

Posted by Guest Blogger on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 04:32 PM in Activism
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Humour as a Weapon

I wouldn’t normally run two pieces sent to me by Welf Herfurth in quite such proximity.  But this one by Andreas Faust, a Tasmanian writer of the New Right, gave me a good laugh, and reminded me that political activism is often most effective when it is most irreverent.
GW

This article has been researched and compiled for the purposes of educating New Right and N-A activists in the use of humour as a political weapon. There is a paranoid feeling amongst many on the New Right that the mass media is our greatest enemy. Not so. This article looks at the ways in which activists can use and manipulate the media, rather than the other way around.

As an example: mention the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to any older Australian, and the first image that will spring to their mind is a man on horseback, galloping forward to slash the ribbon with his sword, before the ‘official’ representative could get to it. The swordsman was a member of a political group called the New Guard. And while this stunt was not especially humorous, it was certainly eye-catching – it remains in the mass mind to this day. In that same city in 2007, the crew of television show The Chaser made world headlines when they infiltrated the APEC forum (one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden), making a complete mockery of the forum’s expensive security measures.

In general, the media doesn’t give coverage to alternative politics (the recent 9/11 Truth Forum in Sydney was completely ignored, even though one of the speakers was a prominent Japanese MP). But ‘fringe’ views can get past the editors if they are presented by means of some humorous prank or stunt. Humour equals saleability...it’s as simple as that. People like to laugh, and the editors know it. For the mass media, the dollar is the bottom line...and the skilled prankster can actually make this work in his or her favour. A prankster called Mark Pauline claimed that “the media can never deny coverage to a good spectacle. No matter how ridiculous, absurd, insane or illogical something is, if it achieves a certain identity as a spectacle, the media has to deal with it.” In other words, instead of letting the mainstream media pigeonhole and stereotype them, activists using humour and spectacle can turn this around and actually use the media.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 11:16 AM in Activism
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People Before Profits - the May Day March in Melbourne

By Welf Herfurth

The global May Day events by workers the world over stand for the rights of the people to determine their own destiny as workers or students, it also stands against Corporations and Government standing over working families struggling to make a living. To demonstrate our support for a fair go for Australian workers, some local National-Anarchists decided to mobilise in the Melbourne CBD and join the planned march.

We had discussed our aims and tactics a week or so previous to the date of action and comrades were designated tasks. Our banner was designed and made with the help of a local fabric business and read “People Before Profits,” the people are more than worker bee’s or economic beings, we have an identity and spirit much deeper than our careers or petty consumerism.

Once the day arrived, we met at a designated location with time before the march to discuss in more detail what our “plan of action” would be. The conversation became more casual as we waited for the neo-Communist and Unionist groups to begin their march from Trades Hall. Our main goal was to make a presence representing National-Anarchist ideas in support of struggling working folk, our secondary aim fell in line with the Strategy of Tension; showing the traditional Left that they no longer had a monopoly on their sacred May Day and we have as much a right as they do to march.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM in Activism
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