Left Hook

Close readers will have discerned that we slip sometimes from our exacting “white voice” and “white-centricity” standards, and this essay will be about some partial successes with really annoying usages that are difficult to grapple with, but which we have to some extent triumphed over so far as the San Jose region is concerned.

Regional Wins Help Everywhere

Those are meaningful wins because San Jose is the 10th largest city in the USA, and the 3rd largest city in California. And, of course, the County of Santa Clara is the 5th most important manufacturing and industrial county in the USA. In addition, because San Jose is quite evenly divided among Asian Americans (1/3), American Latinos (1/3), and European Americans (1/3), whatever we do here gets out to more demographic groups than one might think.

Yanking On The Virtual Web

We believe, also, that there is a virtual web lying over America which any yank on any of the web’s strands gets transmitted to the urban-coastal class organizations in one or two days. So let’s say we want to communicate with ADL, AJC, AJC, WJC, UJC, PAW, SPLC, or even the local community relations bureau, all we have to do is yank on one of the strands and word goes forth.

In fact, the propaganda sphere has been so carelessly woven around our lives, minds, and speech that it has hundreds of loose ends, any one of which may be grasped and yanked to weaken it as a demonstration to the diverse white American peoples that walls can come down.

Don’t Be Afraid

Don’t be afraid of moving away from our traditional vocabularies and rhetoric, and exploring different ways to rip down the strands of lies we encounter every day. Resisting Defamation has come to believe that in the world of large-scale communications and columnist drive-bys, as well as in the world of street-level insults, there is a way to rebut every slur we have ever heard.

Attacking from the Left

Sometimes we find it easiest to counterattack by adopting the views of the left–although I hesitate to use this term, since we have decided that left-right, liberal-conservative, and Republican-Democratic are disordered categories of discourse. As examples, let’s look at three of the many memes used to denigrate diverse white American peoples.

“Judeo-Christian”

We view the term “Judeo-Christian” as an attack, for that tiny hyphen obliterates awareness of nearly two thousand years of separate historical development, in which Jews defined themselves by their hatred of and opposition to Christianity. Constructions like Judeo-Christianity enable the Jewish tail to wag the Christian dog, to the detriment of our people, no matter what their religious beliefs.

We counterattack using the techniques described in “A White American Success Story,” denouncing the writer for a clear expression of anti-Islamic bigotry for leaving the word “Islamo” out of the formula. For some reason, this silences those who like the two-word phrase. Possibly those who like the term so much don’t relish the idea of being part of an open-face pork sandwich if Islamo is made a new prefix. (If we ever saw Islamo-Judeo-Christian in use, we would denounce the writer for Hindu-hatred.) We’ve seen Judeo-Christian a lot less around here than during the ’90s and early 2000s. Our goal is to drive this hate term out of public usage in this area.

The high-minded may object to this hasty and shallow assault on the term Judeo-Christian and want to delve into its historical, biblical, and theological underpinnings. Unfortunately, things move far too fast for such a studied assault to land more than a glancing blow on the mendacious claim of an identity between Judaism and Christianity. And we intend to win a bruising encounter, not write a 20 page thesis and send it in three weeks after spotting the phrase. Besides, no matter how well-argued a response might be, we will never change the minds of our enemies. Thus our goal is not to persuade, but to intimidate.

“Righteous Gentile”

The term, “righteous gentile,” may in fact be worse than Judeo-Christian. We view it as an attack, and we attack back against both parts of the term. We denounce the writer for the “righteous” part (a) as simply a way to denounce the rest of us as evil to demonstrate the writer’s bigotry, and (b) as an expression of supremacy in claiming the right to judge the Other’s value. “Righteous” also carries a whiff of the old phrase “a credit to his race,” which we thought had been interred by thoughtful people. We wish to pathologize the use of “righteous” to modify “gentile.”

“Gentile” as a term is even more disgusting. We view it as an attack, and we attack back by denouncing the Manichean world view that divides all the world’s peoples into only two classes, the gentiles and the non-gentiles. The term is extraordinarily divisive, and the naming involved certainly renders usage as an act of supremacy (unless it is used in parody, irony, or mean-spirited rancorous humor).

We carry our dislike over to the newer replacement denigration, “righteous among the nations,” and similarly denounce it. We’ve been pretty successful in driving these terms out of public usage in this area.

“The New Colossus”

The dishonest poem, “The New Colossus,” was illegally placed at the base of the Statue of Liberty 17 years after the statue was dedicated in 1886.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

These three lines have ruined countless lives by turning a the Statue into a symbol not of a free society of strivers and producers from Europe, but of a welfare state welcoming the poor and needy of the entire globe.

So whenever we see “The New Colossus” dragged into public discourse in support of unlimited immigration, we attack back by denouncing the writer for calling immigrants “wretched refuse” and “huddled masses.” We have noted a great disinclination to quote “The New Colossus” around here since we began our campaign.

Once again, the high-minded may object to this hasty and shallow assault on The New Colossus and want to write a scholarly footnoted memo about the history and purpose of the Statue of Liberty, and send it to the propagandist who was braying about the sentiments embedded in the poem, but we want to win, not bandy deep thoughts.

Remember, most of our true adversaries’ thinking is muzzy and confused. They tend to go on automatic once they have developed a phrase or political line that shuts us up. They are suffused with a kind of overall romantic attachment to sentimental messages about immigration in particular, and have quite forgotten that meanings of specific words change over time. Plus they are pretty cocky about their ability to silence us. But we have found that by vigorously protesting with whatever tools are available that we can silence them too.