Glenn Greenwald: "The Cynical and Dangerous Weaponization of the 'White Supremacist' Label"
(greenwald.substack.com)
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Good article. Plus the term has become meaningless. As you and I have been called white supremacists. Now it basically means anyone who states the truth nobody wants to hear.
Here is a picture of OP falsely calling someone else on this very board, this very day, a white supremacist in an attempt to silence them.
https://imgur.com/a/rstPiqv
He does this frequently. OP is a lying, Marxist hypocrite.
He's got a lot of built up ego issues.
AoV has built his identity up around a rather hardcore take on civic nationalism.
For example; he acknowledges that whites are under attack, yet cannot ever accept that there is a racial group that acts as a conglomerate function to attack whites.
Surface level takes are fine but the moment you start to dig deeper and notice patterns or connections you've gone too far and are now a stormfag and are evil, for some reason.
I still consider myself a civnat but understand the utility of race realism. I feel like AoV and people like him are doing this to protect the image of this forum for the typical rando who stumbles here from reddit. A noble effort, if perhaps misguided. I can't say.
Personally I've found that the key is to not give a shit about racism. That doesn't make you racist. And if it does, who cares? The only thing of importance is Truth. It may sting the sleepy normie at first, and cause them to flee, but at the end of the day truth will win out.
Since when are we reddit? Since when do we want reddit jannies, who are actual Marxists, policing what we say?
He's doing it for the same reason Shapiro and Peterson do it. Because they're shills and fake right, who are trying to infiltrate, take over and subvert.
But you are a leftist... You worship national socialism, who uses MArxist ideas.
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Don't worry I'll color within the lines ;)
I know you did (and likely will).
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Comment Approved: This doesn't really do this, it's not the same as making a post solely for the purposes of attacking someone else. Even though OP is not a Marxist, he just hates white sectarians.
Oh, you're calling people 'them' now, eh?
Also, you did not show what comment I replied too, with good reason, cause he is a Stormfag.
Seethe.
Marx was an anti-semite. And you sound hurt over the hard facts AoV said.
Marx was a Jew, and so were most of his Bolshevik followers for the last hundred and fifty years.
Cry more, socialist scum.
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You lying socialist scum, Marx had Jewish ancestry but was raised a christian and was an anti-semite. The bolsheviks were overwhelmingly white.
Cry more socialist!
The end.
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In other words, you believe in monolithism, and therefore you believe Robin diAngelo speaks for all whites.
The Washington Post recently admitted that there is absolutely no evidence to support the claim that Kyle is a 'white supremacist', only to publish a piece by the odious and execrable Robert P. Jones four days later, claiming exactly that.
Read it all.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Whites having a positive sense of community is bad and must be undone.
Federal agencies are already captured and so therefore are now okay to adhere to.
There's no destruction of the terminology in my eyes. It has always and will continue to morph to meet the ever changing needs of anti-white ideology.
What is white supremacy? What is racist? What is white nationalism?
It's very simple:
Anything that appears to benefit the white race in the long term.
Accusations of anti-semitism are no different, but something tells me he won't be dying on that hill.
Edit because I have more thoughts: the problem we have is the euphemism treadmill itself. They're going to run "white supremacist" into the ground eventually, same as every other leftist buzzword. But how many scalps will they have collected in the process? How much political ground will they have gained before blunting their latest and greatest tool? And what does it matter if they can simply exchange it for another? We need to destroy this tactic at the source. We need to meme the concept of gullibility into prominence again. People should be ruthlessly mocked and ridiculed for trying to adopt the semantic attacks from the left.
You didn't read the piece, because he did exactly that...
Something lied to you.
I suppose this article is aimed at his fellow non-woke liberals. To those on the right or media critics, this is very old news, and all it offers is some recent (admittedly appalling) examples of media smears.
Perhaps this explains why he refers to "the George Floyd killing" (he wasn't killed) and warns that the overuse of labels will harm the stigmatization and ostracization of "actual racists", as though actual racists are a real problem. It would be as if it were common to label political opponents "cannibals". Isn't the important part that the accusation is untrue, not that it might cause the tiny number of actual cannibals to escape notice?
It's quite nice to have someone like Greenwald say what we have long known.
I also think that GG believes that Floyd was actually killed. The overwhelming majority of people do, even of critical thinkers.
I agree GG probably believes that Floyd was killed, since, as of now, I generally trust him to say what he really thinks. But he didn't have to write it here. It's not important to his thesis, and he must know it's controversial in some quarters, yet he consciously decided to phrase it this way in this piece.
So, my speculation was that this was a signal to other liberals that he's still one of them. Otherwise (GG thinks) they might dismiss him as far-right.
I doubt he knows it's 'controversial' in respectable circles. It mostly isn't. He probably (ironically) thinks that it's just racist white nationalists who think that. The difference between him and the rest of the crowd is that if someone he knows is respectable makes that claim, he'll listen rather than concluding that you are a racist white supremacist.
Tons of stuff are there to provide context, which nearly everyone knows.