Learning to Speak Alt-Right

9/19/2017

White liberals who are appalled by Charlottesville need to lean into the kinds of stories white nationalists use, not recoil from them.On August 12th, 2017 the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA ended with the murder of a counter-protester and injuries to many others. Since then, I’ve been watching the shocked reactions of white liberals and shaking my head.
Most want to dismiss the Charlottesville tiki-torchers as hate-filled bigots. If those guys are bigoted assholes, maybe some of that’s because we, the “good” white people, failed to build relationships with them? We were too busy feeling superior maybe?
But we can still learn. There may not be much hope for coaxing back dedicated white nationalists, but there are a LOT of white guys who are still stuck in neutral; they won’t show up to an alt-right rally (not yet, at least), but they also won’t show up to the BLM march.
We damn sure had better learn how to get to those guys first. And the white nationalists already have a head start.

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Abe Lateiner

If real change requires people to take risks, what would it mean for a straight, White, cisgender male, tall, thin, able-bodied, English-speaking US citizen with class privilege to take risks?

Marian Ring

9/20/2017 05:09:49 pm

Hello

I found your article interesting. Unfortunately, while the original video is close captioned, your response video is not, so I am not able to receive its message. I hope that you will consider your Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing audience in the future.

Thank you,

Marian

Sherry Gordon

9/25/2017 02:33:27 pm

Dear Abraham,

Well, hi, there, Abraham! What a beautiful, brilliantly beautiful and honest blog post article this is by absolutely AWESOME YOU, my marvelous white brother! And what a very empowering blog and website this is for certain, my dear brother! WOW, I've been so, so very teary-eyed and just so moved and touched in this black woman's very heart, mind, soul, and spirit from this very powerful blog post article. Abraham, you've made such very true and vitally necessary and urgent points here about yourself as a white man and regarding other very splendid white men. Your points need to be taken very seriously with all of your great sharing on yourself and other superb white men and that even with the vile, racist message of the white nationalists and supremacists that they strike an interesting chord with the very need many white men feel as many white men face, endure, and experience a crisis within themselves with such a personal, emotional, and spiritual dearth, my amazing white brother, Abraham. The accompanying video is just remarkable and great here It is so very true that many white Americans in the past and through the present have benn assimilated into a generic whiteness losing their connections to your specific, beautiful European ancestries and heritages from a wide variety of European countries. It is very urgent and vitally necessary and important that white American reconnect to your very wonderful and specific European ancestries and heritages. WOW, Abraham, I just so love here how you and this great video tell of how it's very needed for white men, and also so, so very right on, wondrously wonderful white women must find themselves, and how white men need to connect to a more cohesive, tangible, and workable sense of yourselves which each and every one of you as such astounding white men deserve very much to connect to! WOW, what a great blog post article here, my brother, and what an outstanding blog and website, Abraham!!!! Please have such a very nice day, my brother Abraham!!!!!

Peace and Love For YOU For Always, my so very dear white brother, Abraham,

Your sister in the great unity of the spirit and solidarity, For Always,

Sherry Gordon in Iowa City, Iowa

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