This morning I was reading “The Redneck Manifesto”. It focuses on the history and sources of the racial tensions in the US, proposing the theory that since originally slaves were of mixed race, and that since slave uprisings in the 1600s were multicultural, that much of US racism was manipulated into existence by the wealthy in order to weaken the power of the lower classes.
(And given that the modern US government is entirely run by the rich, and that US citizens are taxed far more heavily than feudal lords ever taxed their serfs, one could argue they won).
It also offers up some very interesting arguments about reverse-racism as well as the futility of many leftist notions about racial harmony and balance. I worry that it could spark more racism if an idiot were to read it, but read with balance it's fairly compelling. Anyway, as an interesting co-incidence the following TOS happened about five minutes after finishing the book:
shay - I really don't care if a person has "white pride". There's nothing wrong with being "proud" of your race (although it seems a little lame considering the amount of effort it took to get it), but there's a LOT wrong with racism. Signing your messages and diary entries here with "Heil Hitler" and quoting extreme white supremacists isn't going to be tolerated.
I have very little contact with racist culture, so when I saw her tagline, “14 we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” I just assumed that she was 14 years old and repeating what her church had told her (one can make valid and non-racist arguments that without conscious effort the “white race” could disappear, although to me they seem rather foolish). Then I noticed that she'd also signed many of her entries with 88.
So now to briefly explain what that means. The 14 actually refers to the number of words in that sentence, a quote from David Lane, a white supramecist and terrorist leader (of The Order). The 8's in 88 stand for H, the eighth letter of the alphabet, as in “HH”, “Heil Hitler”. It's sort of like a “secret handshake” for neo-Nazis to oversimplify things.
Oh, and she was also sending messages to anyone else she thought was “pure” and trying to organize Nazi action via IAM. Not cool at all.
Let me be clear on a few things:
- No one will be deleted for being proud of their race. Don't expect anyone to take you seriously, but if you want to write “white pride” or “black pride” or whatever the hell you want along those lines, I really don't care.
- People WILL be deleted for attacking other people for their race. If you are a Neo-Nazi, you'll be removed. If you are a violent black power advocate, you'll be removed. And so on.
It's not that fucking hard to be a decent person. And clue in that race is nothing to be proud of. It's like being “proud” of having red hair. You didn't do anything to “earn” being white. It's a fact of life. Be proud of what you do, be proud of being a good person, be proud of what you and your kin accomplish. Skin colour has no relevance on acheivement — by being a racist, and engendering a culture of racism, all you prove is that the blacks that beat you out of a job are ten times better than you are because they've smashed through every roadblock you've given them.
PS. The update is still uploading, but from my end of things it's done. Sorry it's taking so long.
