An Invitation To The Far Right
I just read this article about a journalist who took a closer look at the NSM (National Socialist Movement), and spent a year living with their members, exposing the internal conflicts that lends fuel to their fire. At the end, the author mentioned that within a span of a year after her visit, seven members of the NSM either committed suicide or killed their family members. These were people she had met personally, all of whom knew each other, and many of whom were blood-relatives.
In light of this, I want people to know where I’m coming from when I enter discussions about the far left and far right.
Reactionary rhetoric will get you killed.
Contrary to what conservatives and centrist liberals think about us, we on the left don’t advocate for genocide, destruction of culture, or oppression of any group of people based on an undecided aspect of their identity. We just don’t think any of those things are dangers to white people and white “culture” (which doesn’t exist).
But I want to recognize that many white Western males really do feel in danger. They feel disenfranchised, threatened materially and psychologically, they make accurate observations about equalizing factors gradually influencing demographics and international economic standing, and they generally want to possess a narrative to live by, like they see most other people groups doing.
And I want to make it clear that I care about white lives, I care about men’s lives, and I care about European lives (I’ll leave Christian lives for another post).
Because I care about these lives, I want to reiterate that nazism, and any other forms of white nationalism, is not good for the soul. If untreated, it will kill you.
We saw how far right rhetoric tore the world apart, and ended in the deaths of 6 million Jews and another 6 million Roma, lgbt people, and others. What many of us younger folks (who didn’t live through WWII) are seeing now are the consequences far right rhetoric has on those who espouse it.
Because I care about white lives, I want to educate fellow white folks about what happens when we perpetuate systems of power based on race. I want to talk about the eviscerating effects on our own bodies of the ideology that our bodies are worth more than those with more melanin in their skin.
Because I care about men’s lives, I want to educate fellow men on how enforcing the patriarchy actually harms us, and how masculinity is used not only as a measure of the worth of other genders, but also as an unattainable and undesirable measure of our own worth.
Because I care about European (Western) lives, I want to do all I can to help people see what happens when we perpetuate “us vs. them” narratives and base our foreign and domestic policy on exclusion, isolation, and insulation, rather than opening ourselves to the global market, and not just goods, but also culture and labor.
I’m not sure if this is enough to establish common ground with people flirting with white nationalism.
But lest it be said that those beta-cucked leftists just hide in their echo-chambers and are literally out to commit white genocide, and emasculation of all men, and further ~the Great Replacement~ of Europeans, let the record show that this leftist, a white male European (don’t tell them I’m gay), is more than willing to approach the table in gracious, rational good faith.
