Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy
From: Matthew and Julie Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, The Fool wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist? How about buying lists of subscribers to anti-semitic and white supremecist magazines?: http://alternet.org/rights/35403/ For eight years, a major direct-mail firm specializing in the Christian and conservative markets has been selling lists of the readers of America's leading anti-Semitic newspaper and, since about 2001, its successor publication. Response Unlimited, based in Waynesboro, Va., and headed by Christian Right activist Philip Zodhiates, charges $100 for the rental of every 1,000 names of subscribers to the now-defunct Spotlight newspaper. Founded by veteran anti-Semite Willis Carto, The Spotlight carried anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic and wildly conspiracist articles interspersed with ads for Klan, neo-Nazi and related hate groups. According to Response Unlimited's website, Spotlight list purchasers have included the *Republican Governors Association*; the National Right to Work Foundation; the Mountain States Legal Foundation; U.S. English, an English-only group; and the hard-right *Washington Times* newspaper. - If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and the smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in 43 had come immediately after the German Firm stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in 33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D. --They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 --by Milton Mayer ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy
I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. This is a war that was first justified by false intelligence, then justified by the idea that liberating Iraq's people from its opressors. And we're supposed to believe that some sort of white guilt is holding us back from following through on liberating the good people of Iraq from the insurgents? How can race have anything do to with *this* war when the people we are liberating and the people we are liberating them from are racially indistinguishable? This guy is just arguing for empire, Pax Americana. As always, it is self-serving to the wealthy and powerful, most of whom just happen to still be white. If this is how they hold *themselves* back, God help us if they decide to stop doing so. But I don't think they are the ones holding themselves back. I think it is people who disagree with them who are restraining them, as our system of government intended. They're made it fairly clear how they'd behave if the opposition would just disappear. Sadly, the more I think about this, the more I see his point about guilt. I have come to feel great sadness and occasional anger when I hear the self-righteousness of those who oppose the war and the leaders who got us into it. I believe that self-righteousness is rooted in guilt, but I'm not convinced it is white guilt. Perhaps it is guilt appropriate to a nation that consumes far, far more than its share of the world's resources and pretends that it is even possible to bring our extravagant way of life to the rest of the world. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy [L3]
From: Matthew and Julie Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, The Fool wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 The Opinion Journal is part of the Wall Street Journal. I *said* that, Or can't you read? But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist? If you need some background info on Shelby Steele, you could start here: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=57 the Times is the only major American newspaper that still features a weekly Civil War page. They know the Times has become a reliable source for extremist views on race, religion, immigration and Dixie. In 1998, Pruden, whose newspaper is the only major daily in America that runs a weekly page about a war that ended 138 years ago, spoke to the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the Manassas Battlefield Park. He began by making the kind of promise most editors avoid at any cost: I will never fail to respond to you when you call on me for help, because I believe in what you are doing to cherish and protect and preserve the heritage of our great Southern people. Concluding with a flourish, Pruden said Southerners ... hold loyalty to two countries in our hearts. The second country is one baptized 137 years ago on this very field in the blood of First Manassas, a country no longer at the mercy of the vicissitudes in the tangled affairs of men, a country that lives within us, a country that will endure for as long as men and women know love. ... God bless America, God bless the Confederate States of America, and God bless you all. McCain, who wrote the story about Democrats and Dixie, has covered the group's biannual conferences in 1998, 2000 and 2002, making the Times the only major American newspaper to devote news stories to American Renaissance. Since 1999, the Times has also reprinted at least six excerpts from American Renaissance in its page-2 culture section, never acknowledging the highly controversial nature of the source. McCain has made no bones about being a fan of American Renaissance, writing a letter of warm congratulations to the magazine in 1997. Something else about McCain is even rarer: he belongs to a hate group the League of the South (LOS) that shares some of American Renaissance's views on race. http://www.hoover.org/bios/steele.html I know who he is thank you very much. In 2006, Steele received the Bradley Prize for his contributions to the study of race in America. Hmm. Where have I heard that name before? But that would be too easy. Always Follow the Money. You can tell a lot about an entity if you look at the people and groups who fund them. Who funds the Hoover Institute (and gives the 'Bradley Prize'): http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1 Other Bradley grantees include the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation; the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution, and Peace; A man with extreme right-wing views, he was an early financial supporter of the John Birch Society, one of the country's leading far-right organizations Allen-Bradley was one of the last major Milwaukee employers to racially integrate, and then only through public and legal pressure. The New York-based John M. Olin Foundation grew out of a family manufacturing business in chemicals and munitions. It funds nationally influential right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace. In response to intense criticism of Losing Ground, Bradley president Michael Joyce said, Charles Murray, in my opinion, is one of the foremost social thinkers in the country. After writing Losing Ground, Murray teamed up with the late Harvard psychologist Richard Hernstein to write the book The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. The book was widely seen as a piece of profoundly racist and classist pseudo-science, and was denounced by the American Psychological Association. It had relied heavily on studies financed by the Pioneer Fund, a neo-Nazi organization that promoted eugenicist research. Nope, no racism evident there. http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=6 A study by the grassroots organizing group A Job is a Right Campaign has concluded that the Wisconsin welfare reform program known as W-2 was developed under the guidance of the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation. Bradley is the country's leading ultra-conservative foundation, which, among other things, funded the nortoriously racist book The Bell Curve, by authors Charles Murray and Richard Hernstein. Murray was actually brought in as a consultant by the task force that developed W-2 for the state of Wisconsin. The following are some of the highlights of the report:I - The Racist Agenda of the Lynde and
WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy
What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 It began, I believe, in a late-20th-century event that transformed the world more profoundly than the collapse of communism: the world-wide collapse of white supremacy as a source of moral authority, political legitimacy and even sovereignty. This idea had organized the entire world, divided up its resources, imposed the nation-state system across the globe, and delivered the majority of the world's population into servitude and oppression. After World War II, revolutions across the globe, from India to Algeria and from Indonesia to the American civil rights revolution, defeated the authority inherent in white supremacy, if not the idea itself. And this defeat exacted a price: the West was left stigmatized by its sins. Today, the white West--like Germany after the Nazi defeat--lives in a kind of secular penitence in which the slightest echo of past sins brings down withering condemnation. There is now a cloud over white skin where there once was unquestioned authority. -- In Japan, rape is how you say hello. I am Learn custom from Hentais. --Jack Chick Parody ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy
On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 The Opinion Journal is part of the Wall Street Journal. But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist? If you need some background info on Shelby Steele, you could start here: http://www.hoover.org/bios/steele.html But that would be too easy. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
