Thanks for visiting Narrative Nation! Some of the material I post in this column will be incorporated into the book I’m developing with the working title “Loads of Heresy”: Far Right Revisions of the American Narrative. This story in particular is part of that larger project examining the American far right’s interactions with texts—some self-authored and some misappropriated from mainstream culture—to build a new national narrative.
This is such an important project, Laura. I look forward to reading the book. I hope, however, to avoid reading more of the just plain bad bad racist poetry.
I knew how insidious this cabal (and others like it) was but was blissfully unaware of the insipid poetry. Bad writing ability aside, the educated racists are the most dangerous, offering bigoted "intellectuals" an avenue that feels less "white trash" (for lack of a better term) than joining a "Trump train" or adorning a boat with tacky flags. I'm on hyper-alert but feeling rather discouraged at the lack of concern for where we're openly headed again in this country. It's never not been here, it's just worming its way into so many corners, instead of shrinking back into the black hole from whence it came. I may have to compose some woke haikus in defiance.
Yes please with the wok-us! This is the tip of the iceberg with the absolute ratchet white supremacist poetry. I’ve been staring at it for years in one venue or another.
Thank you so much for this, laura. I have had a hard time understanding how people could fall for the idea of rounding up all the brown people and putting them in concentration camps for deportation. I mean, I've never seen any statistics that show that undocumented aliens commit any more rapes and murders then the general population. But when you reveal it as an actual solution to this "replacement theory" garbage, then it makes sense the way it's sold to the population. I mean reading the country of rapist and murderers is a lot easier to support and understand then this whole "replacement theory" thing.
Written in 1978, it's all right there, all the ideals and motivations for the Trump administration. There's even an attack on Washington DC just like January 6th.
Sorry, "reading" = "ridding". I mean, the Turner Diaries even open with the government taking away all the firearms from white citizens, the thing your rank and file conservative fears the most.
This is such an important project, Laura. I look forward to reading the book. I hope, however, to avoid reading more of the just plain bad bad racist poetry.
Oh there’s always more!
I knew how insidious this cabal (and others like it) was but was blissfully unaware of the insipid poetry. Bad writing ability aside, the educated racists are the most dangerous, offering bigoted "intellectuals" an avenue that feels less "white trash" (for lack of a better term) than joining a "Trump train" or adorning a boat with tacky flags. I'm on hyper-alert but feeling rather discouraged at the lack of concern for where we're openly headed again in this country. It's never not been here, it's just worming its way into so many corners, instead of shrinking back into the black hole from whence it came. I may have to compose some woke haikus in defiance.
Yes please with the wok-us! This is the tip of the iceberg with the absolute ratchet white supremacist poetry. I’ve been staring at it for years in one venue or another.
Thank you so much for this, laura. I have had a hard time understanding how people could fall for the idea of rounding up all the brown people and putting them in concentration camps for deportation. I mean, I've never seen any statistics that show that undocumented aliens commit any more rapes and murders then the general population. But when you reveal it as an actual solution to this "replacement theory" garbage, then it makes sense the way it's sold to the population. I mean reading the country of rapist and murderers is a lot easier to support and understand then this whole "replacement theory" thing.
If you aren't familiar with it, you should take a look at the plot for the book The Turner Diaries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries
Written in 1978, it's all right there, all the ideals and motivations for the Trump administration. There's even an attack on Washington DC just like January 6th.
Sorry, "reading" = "ridding". I mean, the Turner Diaries even open with the government taking away all the firearms from white citizens, the thing your rank and file conservative fears the most.