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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