Monday, November 13, 2017
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White Haze: This American Life
This American Life: #626 White Haze
This American Life is always genius, but this week will win a prize. In revealing a critical difference between the 'White Supremacists' of our past, and the 'Alt-Right' of our present. Unlike the KKK of the 1950's, which sought to simply assert the established social hierarchy, today's 'Proud Boy' perceives themselves as 'disenfranchised minority' under a 'genocidal assault' and seeks to defend their very existence under this delusion.
The insecurity of these mediocre white males makes them feel like victims, incapable of seeing their own reflection, they co-opt the language of the traditionally disenfranchised classes (gender, race, sexuality) to play at identity politics, completely unaware that their ideology depends upon the underlying premise that they are somehow different, that they have some inherent merit, that America is their 'white nation', or a 'Christian' one.
The underlying premise of the Alt-Right is that they have merit that others do not. What they don't tell you is that they have re-defined 'merit' to equal MALE, WHITE, CHRISTIAN, WEALTH. While the Progressive Left defines 'merit' as having empathy & compassion, honesty & integrity, intelligence and wisdom, otherwise known as the content of one's character, or at least a quality mind.
This American Life is always genius, but this week will win a prize. In revealing a critical difference between the 'White Supremacists' of our past, and the 'Alt-Right' of our present. Unlike the KKK of the 1950's, which sought to simply assert the established social hierarchy, today's 'Proud Boy' perceives themselves as 'disenfranchised minority' under a 'genocidal assault' and seeks to defend their very existence under this delusion.
The insecurity of these mediocre white males makes them feel like victims, incapable of seeing their own reflection, they co-opt the language of the traditionally disenfranchised classes (gender, race, sexuality) to play at identity politics, completely unaware that their ideology depends upon the underlying premise that they are somehow different, that they have some inherent merit, that America is their 'white nation', or a 'Christian' one.
The underlying premise of the Alt-Right is that they have merit that others do not. What they don't tell you is that they have re-defined 'merit' to equal MALE, WHITE, CHRISTIAN, WEALTH. While the Progressive Left defines 'merit' as having empathy & compassion, honesty & integrity, intelligence and wisdom, otherwise known as the content of one's character, or at least a quality mind.