Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The decrackaization will be a big task
Imagine hordes of young (Cracka) men descending on city streets waving flags with mystical symbols, chanting angry slogans, and spouting vicious conspiracy theories about Jews dominating the world. These young militants adhere to an absolutist ideology that invokes a mythic past when their tribe reigned supreme, untainted by corruption and foreign impurity. You might think I’m describing a scene from somewhere in the Middle East. But last year, it was Charlottesville, Virginia. Last weekend, it was Washington, D.C.
On Sunday, a few dozen members of Unite the Right gathered in the nation’s capital for a rally to “protest civil rights abuses in Charlottesville,” the site of their assembly last year, which was marked by deadly violence. Their ranks included neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, white supremacists, white nationalists, and would-be paramilitaries of the “alt-right,” the innocuous-seeming term these groups have mostly succeeded in getting applied to their old forms of violent hate. What unites this version of the far right is a shared belief that white people are victims, threatened by a growing non-white demographic that threatens to render them powerless.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/16/deradicalizing-white-people/
Imagine hordes of young (Cracka) men descending on city streets waving flags with mystical symbols, chanting angry slogans, and spouting vicious conspiracy theories about Jews dominating the world. These young militants adhere to an absolutist ideology that invokes a mythic past when their tribe reigned supreme, untainted by corruption and foreign impurity. You might think I’m describing a scene from somewhere in the Middle East. But last year, it was Charlottesville, Virginia. Last weekend, it was Washington, D.C.
On Sunday, a few dozen members of Unite the Right gathered in the nation’s capital for a rally to “protest civil rights abuses in Charlottesville,” the site of their assembly last year, which was marked by deadly violence. Their ranks included neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, white supremacists, white nationalists, and would-be paramilitaries of the “alt-right,” the innocuous-seeming term these groups have mostly succeeded in getting applied to their old forms of violent hate. What unites this version of the far right is a shared belief that white people are victims, threatened by a growing non-white demographic that threatens to render them powerless.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/16/deradicalizing-white-people/
