Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 2, 2015
When I say “we’re taking over the narrative,” I generally mean “look at what Fox News is being forced to admit,” or some such thing.
Never did I expect that the Huffington Post would publish an article entitled “Wanting to Preserve Your Way of Life Does Not Make You Racist or Fascist.”
But that has now actually happened in real life.
I have been trying to find the language to express my discomfort with the presumption that anyone who does not welcome very large numbers of refugees into Europe with widely opened arms is somehow resurrecting the ghost of Hitler. Or the right language to express the proscribed thought that those in Eastern Europe who want to settle only Christian refugees might have appropriate reservations about the very real difficulties of integrating very different cultural and religious practices into their distinct way of life.
Some years ago I published a conversation with the great pluralist thinker Isaiah Berlin in the New York Review of Books entitled “Two Concepts of Nationalism.” In that discussion we addressed the attachment to one’s way of life as the very stuff of cultural pluralism that liberal civilization is meant to protect.
After examining aggressive nationalism of the kind we associate with Nazism that results from the wounds of humiliation — “like a bent twig, forced down so severely that when released, it lashes back with fury” in Berlin’s phrase — we spoke about “non-aggressive nationalism.”
Don’t know about that, or even what it means.
And the article goes on with some gibberish, heavily citing the top gibberish-monger Slavoj Žižek. Go read it if you want. The basic argument is “yes, we need these immigrants, but we need to be a little bit more reasonable in the way we are dealing with this situation.”
So, it is just damage control.
But the fact that they are now being forced to do damage control by telling the people that yes, they do indeed have a right to preserve their cultural heritage, is fantastic. Even while they are clearly being disingenuous in their statements.