White nationalists interrupt author at bookstore event

[JosephZ]

First, the article makes no mention of IE.

That's correct and this is the reason I made this post so those reading the thread would know who they were.

Here's some information about the group these white nationalists are linked to: Identity Evropa

Second, that's from the ADL, not the people the subject of the article, nor can I tell that it's even about the people the subject of the article.

Here's another article that includes everything you're looking for. The term "White Supremacists" and a mention of the American Identity Movement, formerly known as Identity Europa. White supremacist protesters disrupt Vanderbilt professor's book signing

 

[essentialsaltes]

"Honey! Lock the doors! Hide the kids! Some Rightists interrupted an author!"

It certainly doesn't rise to the enormity of the crime of Leftists interrupting a politician at a restaurant, but I still thought it was newsworthy.

 

[Albion]

Yes, Metzl may have a point--if the point is that there are 10 extremists here or there who have no more impact on events than to be able to shout during a press conference.

But the left can surely make out that these people are hiding under every bed and virtually control half the elected officials in the country. Antifa and similar paramilitary gangs who do the dirty work for that other end of the political spectrum are never criticized, of course.

 

[FireDragon76]

I'm curious to read his book now. Clearly it rattled some cages.

 

[Chesterton]

That's correct and this is the reason I made this post so those reading the thread would know who they were.


Here's another article that includes everything you're looking for. The term "White Supremacists" and a mention of the American Identity Movement, formerly known as Identity Europa. White supremacist protesters disrupt Vanderbilt professor's book signing

That's someone calling them supremacists. I can call you a supremacist. So what?

 

[Chesterton]

It certainly doesn't rise to the enormity of the crime of Leftists interrupting a politician at a restaurant, but I still thought it was newsworthy.

Well thank you. Fair-minded of you.

 

[FireDragon76]

Here's an interview with Jonathan Mertzl in Salon. Interesting thoughts, seems to be echoing what alot of other sociologists and analysts have been saying:

How white supremacy is literally killing people -- white people

 

[FireDragon76]

I particularly think this point is insightful:

Liberals did not understand the depth to which many working-class white people were actually putting their bodies on the line in a kind of suicide bargain in support of Trump's right-wing ideology.

These working-class and other white people are not going to be talked out of this bargain through appeals to reason. I am worried that even now when liberals and progressives are talking about "Medicare for All," that there is such a deep well of resentment it will not be possible to reach these people.

Democrat political strategists need to take note of this. They keep assuming everybody is open-minded and intellectually curious like they are (like everybody is just a little Gandhi or King waiting to break out), and that's a mistake.

 

[JosephZ]

That's someone calling them supremacists. I can call you a supremacist. So what?

If you don't want to believe that these people are white supremacist, that's your choice, but there is more than enough evidence available to show that they are.

 

[Chesterton]

If you don't want to believe that these people are white supremacist, that's your choice, but there is more than enough evidence available to show that they are.

You must have a strange definition of "evidence".

 

[FireDragon76]

If you don't want to believe that these people are white supremacist, that's your choice, but there is more than enough evidence available to show that they are.

There's a hilarious video by a video blogger about this sort of "fair-mindedness":

 

[Shiloh Raven]

Edited.

 

[Chesterton]

There's a hilarious video by a video blogger about this sort of "fair-mindedness":

That's excellent! I like how zose two persons spoke truth to zat other person. They really put zim in zis place.

 

[FireDragon76]

That's excellent! I like how zose two persons spoke truth to zat other person. They really put zim in zis place.

I think its more a commentary on how some people risk becomming deluded airheads due to their own arrogance over being the presumed arbiters of decency and fairness.

After all, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

 

[Chesterton]

I think its more a commentary on how some people risk becomming deluded airheads due to their own arrogance over being the presumed arbiters of decency and fairness.

After all, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Exactly.

 

[iluvatar5150]

"Honey! Lock the doors! Hide the kids! Some Rightists interrupted an author!"

I can't read the article, but whoever that individual is is entitled to his opinion. In any event, your reply was irrelevant to my post.

This is funny. All of us lefties are happy to describe these guys with the narrow moniker of "white supremacist", but you want to describe them as "rightists". If any of us were to so overtly equate conservatism with white identity politics, we'd pretty quickly draw the ire of the mods (I say that from personal experience). Yet you willingly make that association yourself. Are you proud of this association between white identity politics and conservatism?

 

[FireDragon76]

Let's just call them nazis and get it over with.

 

[Chesterton]

This is funny. All of us lefties are happy to describe these guys with the narrow moniker of "white supremacist", but you want to describe them as "rightists". If any of us were to so overtly equate conservatism with white identity politics, we'd pretty quickly draw the ire of the mods (I say that from personal experience). Yet you willingly make that association yourself. Are you proud of this association between white identity politics and conservatism?

"Rightists" was a joke.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ironically, wasn't that from an old Woody Guthrie song...a lefty? lol.

That reminds me.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Here's an interview with Jonathan Mertzl in Salon. Interesting thoughts, seems to be echoing what alot of other sociologists and analysts have been saying:

How white supremacy is literally killing people -- white people

If only there were a way to stop people from being white....

Then the left could move on to more important things.