New York Times | Jane Austen and the Alt-Right - The New York Times New York Times White Pride and Prejudice, by Ross Douthat (column, March 23), perhaps missed the most obvious reason the alt-right fetishizes Jane Austen without ... |
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The white nationalist who fatally stabbed a black man in New York said he cultivated his worldview online, where he frequented websites like the alt-right neo-Nazi hub the Daily Stormer.
In a Sunday interview with the Daily News, 28-year-old white nationalist James Jackson said he hoped his killing of a black man would discourage interracial mixing and that he believed whites are under attack and forgotten in this country.
The white race is being eroded, Jackson said. No one cares about you. The Chinese dont care about you, the blacks dont care about you.
Jackson said his childhood home was liberal and Democratic. He graduated from a Quaker school in Baltimore. Jackson said he only shared his views with like-minded people online and mentioned the website Daily Stormer by name.
The Daily Stormer takes its name from the Nazi propaganda sheet Der Strmer and is now considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the countrys top hate site.
In a March 23 article on the Daily Stormer, the websites editor Andrew Anglin called last weeks attack a horrible incident.
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In between message board debates about anime girls, racial inferiority, and whose country is the most degenerate, the basement-dwellers who loosely compose the alt-right find time almost every day to discuss a notoriously difficult German existentialist philosopher.
Martin Heidegger, author of Being and Time, followed in the intellectual tradition of Hegel, Marx, and the lesser-known nineteenth-century phenomenologist Edmund Husserl. Heideggers main interest was ontologythe study of beingbut he also spoke to the more material concerns of Germans in the early the twentieth century, such as technologys effects on society and whether Jews are actual people who have DaseinHeideggers termfor the condition of human existence.
You can see why he might appeal superficially to message board Nazis, but I dont mean to reduce Heideggers influence just to anti-Semitism. He was an unrepentant member of the Nazi Party, true, but thats not the only reason the alt-right likes him.
Hes a great object of fascination in the alt-rights academic wingoh yes, it exists, didnt you know? Although exist is a tricky word, some might tell you.
What Heidegger brings to the alt-right is a thick veneer of legitimacy grounded in the seemingly apolitical philosophy of existence itself. Through a rigorous study of ontology from the pre-Socratic Greeks to his own day, Heidegger arrived at a highly studied, very technical basis for what was essentiallyblood-and-soil nationalism.
For those with the nationalist, civilizationist, anti-leftist itch who are nonetheless looking for a critique of Enlightenment rationalism and liberalism along the lines of Marx, Heidegger is your man.
Thats why the American paleoconservative academic Paul Gottfried wrote the preface to a book on Heidegger by Alexander Dugin, a belligerent Russian mystic on the fringe of Kremlin nationalist circles.
Jason Rena Jorjani, a co-founder of altright.com, called Heidegger his point of departure in the introduction to Jorjanis 2016 book Prometheus and Atlas.
This is how Heidegger moves in the higher levels of the alt-right, but does he really have anything more than a kitsch presence among your every-day, basement-dwelling internet Nazis?
Richard Spencer, another prominent alt-right leader, has professed in interviews what VICE called a philosophical alliance to Heidegger.
Its hard to tell the extent of it, and Heidegger does have his detractors among some less scholarly elements. Heidegger was such an autist and even worse, a literal cuck, opined one user on 4chans politics board.
But its easy to see how Heidegger satisfies the needs of the alt-right. Referencing Heidegger sure makes them feel smart, for one. They can assure themselves that theyre deep thinkers grappling with the idea of Being, and not just bored twenty-somethings yelling at black people on the internet.
Heidegger might also fulfill a deeper need. In addition to his criticisms of technological society and his ideas about nation and historical destiny, he provides an alluring metaphysic bordering on mysticism. To a community of internet users for whom atheism is so ten years ago, Heidegger offers a new foundation for belief.
Heidegger can fill a spiritual void. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal, he writes in one essay. It means to dwell. . . . The proper dwelling plight lies in this, that mortals search anew for the essence of dwelling, that they must ever learn to dwell.
Sadly for the alt-right, Heidegger isnt talking about learning to dwell in America as a white minority.
But if youre an internet fascistwho cant get into the Crusades-era Catholicism thats a popular aesthetic now on certain 4chan boards, theres always the Heideggerian tradition. You can sit in your moms basement among your piles of books, railing lines of Mike Cernovichs brain powder and contemplating the mysteries of Being and all the women whove rejected you.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke out against purported connections between the White House and the alt-right movement and white supremacists, citing the "poisonous attitudes we are witnessing now" in a speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference Tuesday.
Pelosi briefly brought up the 2016 election to note the rise of both movements in a jab against President Trump and the White House. Pelosi's comments were likely directed at Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, and his work for Breitbart News prior to joining the Trump campaign last summer.
"We come together in the aftermath of an election that left our country divided, but our democracy is strong and God is always with us," Pelosi said. "Our faith tells us that we have not done enough to rid our nation of poisonous attitudes we are witnessing now.
"A presidential campaign where hate speech went unchallenged, an atmosphere that emboldened anti-Semites to desecrate Jewish cemeteries. Hate crimes continuing to increase. White supremacists and the alt-right that feel empowered and connected to the White House. That is unacceptable," Pelosi said to applause in the crowd.
Throughout Pelosi's speech, she talked up the relationship between the two countries and spoke up against a rise in anti-Semitic threats and attacks.
Pelosi was latest in a long line of congressional leaders to address the conference, along with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Vice President Mike Pence also addressed the conference on Sunday night.
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When CBS correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with Michael Cernovich, founder of alt-right blog Danger and Play, on Sunday night's episode of 60 Minutes to discuss fake news, it quickly became apparent that Cernovich's definition of "truth" was not the same as Pelley's. Cernovich's blog which Pelley noted has "become a magnet for readers with a taste for stories with no basis in fact" was one of several websites that pushed the Pizzagate story, the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was operating a child sex-trafficking operation in the back of a D.C. pizzeria which led a man to open fire in that pizzeria last December.
"These news stories are fakes," Pelley said, right off the bat. "They're definitely not fake," Cernovich said, insisting the stories were "not lies at all" and "100 percent true."
When Pelley asked if Cernovich was just saying that because "it's important for marketing" his website, Cernovich maintained he believed it. "I don't say anything that I don't believe," Cernovich said, claiming that's a "high bar" because he's an attorney.
Pelley pointed to a baseless headline published on Cernovich's blog, "Hillary Clinton has Parkinson's Disease, physician confirms," to see if he could get Cernovich to admit that may have been "misleading." The story was sourced to an anesthesiologist who had never met the Democratic presidential nominee, and was later denied by the National Parkinson Foundation and Clinton's doctor.
But Cernovich stood by it. "I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is gonna say at all as true. I'm not gonna take her on her word," he said. "The media says we're not gonna take Donald Trump on his word. And that's why we are in these different universes."
Watch the 60 Minutes segment below. Becca Stanek
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