August 17, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
NEW Essay at The UNZ
Review: The Shooting and the Open War against the Deplorables
Friends,
The Unz Review has
published another essay that I’ve authored, this one based on comments I made
back in the MY CORNER installment of August
11. I did rewrite and edit portions of the original, so in some ways
it is a new piece. Additionally, it
appears that the LewRockwell.com site
will be running the same item in the near future, although I have only seen the
preview
thus far. This will give the essay many additional readers.
So, I pass this essay on to you this morning:
THE UNZ REVIEW
The
Shootings, the Stats, and the Violent War Against the Deplorables
BOYD D. CATHEY • AUGUST 13, 2019
To
listen to almost all the reporters on Fox News—and most of the Establishment
Media experts—after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, you would have
thought that President Donald Trump needed to do exactly what the Reverend
Jimmy Swaggart did back a few years ago: get on TV and cry and bawl, and
emotionally apologize: “I have sinned! I have sinned!” And then add, “I know in
my heart that I am a ‘white nationalist’ and have unleashed all this horrible
violence and murder! And I am deeply, exceedingly, profoundly, eternally, and
unalterably sorry.” And as a final coup de grace:
“From now on I will be a good Establishment Conservative, I will listen to
great thinkers like…hmm…National Review’s David
French, and Ben Shapiro and Jonah Goldberg. And I shall dwell in the House of
Martin Luther King and the NAACP forever!”
Only
Tucker Carlson uttered a demurer, of sorts. According to his nearly lone voice
on national television (“Tucker Carlson Tonight,”
August 6):
“If
you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns of problems this country
faces, where would white supremacy be on the list? Right up there with Russia
probably. It’s actually not a real problem in America,” Carlson noted. He added
that the combined membership of all the white supremacy groups throughout
America could likely fit inside a college football stadium. “This is a country
where the average person is getting poorer where the suicide rate is spiking,”
Carlson said, drawing light on the real pressing problems that face Americans.
With Russian collusion fantasies no longer gaining traction, this is another
attempt by the political establishment to demonize President Donald Trump and
cling to power. “This is a hoax, just like the Russia hoax. It is a conspiracy
theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power. That’s exactly
what’s going on.”
Of
course, being on Fox did not keep Carlson from being attacked by other Fox
personalities, and, unsurprisingly, the most direct hit came from Shepard
Smith, the notoriously open Leftist who handles Fox News in the afternoons.
Without naming Carlson specifically, Smith zeroed in for
the kill:
[I]n
direct contrast to Carlson’s comments, Smith [endorsing Joe Biden’s criticism
of the president as a racist] demanded that we “recognize that white
nationalism is real, that white nationalism is on the rise, that white
nationalism is without question a very serious problem in America and [we
must] beat down those who would help facilitate it
and encourage it.” [Italics mine]
The
usual luminaries from Establishment Conservatism also eagerly jumped in to
trash the president—and his supporters,
those unruly and unwashed “deplorables”—as witness just a couple of selections
from the dozens of our supposed “betters” who lead the “conservative
opposition,” but in actuality normalize and deaden us to the Leftward
progressivist madness that engulfs and destroys more of our historic culture and
heritage each day.
There
was the insufferable David French, senior writer and senior fellow at the
National Review Institute. Here are some of the choice things he said about
Trump and those who have in the past supported him. I quote him at length because
he symbolizes what most major voices of the “Conservative Movement” are saying:
The
United States is now facing a deadly challenge from a connected, radical,
online-organizing community of vicious white-nationalist terrorists. They are
every bit as evil as jihadists, and they radicalize in much the same
way….[W]hite-supremacist terror… a new youth movement of hate…the
‘alt-right’…targeted Jews, it targeted African Americans and Hispanics, and it
targeted critics of Donald Trump. It obsessed over immigrants from south of the
border. It used words like “invasion” to describe immigration, and words such
as “replacement” to describe the imagined fate of white America. It thrilled to
Trump’s rhetoric, and parts of Trump’s movement loved it right back….
Think
of the thrills, energy, and inspiration they’ve experienced from the highest
office in the land…since Trump came down the escalator in 2015. His
announcement speech cast immigrants collectively as dangerous and deficient,
with only “some” exceptions. He has used the language of invasion frequently,
even to the point of invoking a military response….
Alt-right
support for Trump wasn’t random. It wasn’t arbitrary. It was directly related
to his rhetoric, and it was cultivated by his allies,
and it was cultivated in part because it was a new way to fight….[O]ur nation’s
leaders need to focus on reconciliation and unity, and if
they are not up to that most basic and fundamental aspect of their job, then
they must be replaced. [Italics mine]
Then,
there was little Ben Shapiro who fancies himself an up-and-coming major player
in the moldering and pallid Movement. Shapiro did not employ the colorfully
Leftist vocabulary that French utilized, but he still managed to get in his
licks against the “Chief-white-nationalist-in-charge.”
Trump,
wrote Shapiro, is a flaming “xenophobe” whose
tweets “All too often…are bad, both morally and politically.”
The
comments by French and Shapiro represent a range of “conservative” response,
and in between you will find exhortations by such worthies as Steve Hayes,
Martha MacCallum, Matthew Continetti (married to zealous NeverTrumper Bill
Kristol’s daughter), Karl Rove, and a long list of others, most of whom are
Neoconservatives.
At
the very least, as a first step, they demanded that the president roundly
condemn “white nationalism.” So President Trump did come out and condemn it,
generically. He should not have done so. Such a cave in was never
going to be enough to satisfy his critics on the Democratic Left or many in the
weak-kneed, ideologically poisoned “conservative movement.”
As
Tucker Carlson almost alone pointed out: the issue of white nationalism is a
politically-motivated charge and a hoax. And the statistics—which you will
never hear quoted by the media, including on Fox—confirm this.
Christopher DeGroot has researched this
question, and he discovered the actual figures, and they contradict what you
have heard. From the Mass Shooting Tracker,
here is the information (reported by writer Daniel Greenfield)
that should, but isn’t, being discussed:
The
perception that mass shootings are a “white man’s problem” lingers around the
country because white mass shooters tend to get more publicity. And, the
twisted young male who goes on a public shooting spree fits a certain kind of
media narrative. But when we actually study the mass shootings that took place
in 2019, it’s clear that Patrick Crusius and Connor Betts are not the norm, but
aberrations.
Mass
shooters have no particular ideology. Crusius and Betts were opposites
ideologically. (Though both cared deeply about the environment.) Nor are mass
shooters a white problem or a black problem. Over the same bloody weekend,
William Patrick Williams, who is African-American, appeared in court
after being arrested by the FBI for
planning to shoot up a Texas hotel with an AK-47 rifle.
Looking
at the data from the Mass
Shooting Tracker, widely utilized by the media,
as of this writing, of the 72 mass shooters, perpetrators in shootings that
killed or wounded 4 or more people, whose race is known, 21 were white, 37 were
black, 8 were Latino, and 6 were members of other groups.
51% of mass shooters in 2019 were black, 29% were white, and 11%
were Latino.
In
the two-week run-up to Gilroy there were 36 other mass shootings from coast to
coast—and 34 of those shooters were black. One was white and one Hispanic.
These results echo a ‘New York Times’ story from 2016 that stated, much to the
surprise and chagrin of the reporters, that whenever there are three or more
victims of gunfire, 75 percent of shooters in America are black.
Notice
the extreme discrepancies between the real statistics and what you hear
broadcast uniformly by the media—a media which engages in a not-so-subtle
effort to foist on a gullible public a fake, highly ideological narrative that:
(1) all or almost all “domestic terrorism” is by white males, (2) white
nationalism (and white supremacy) is the root cause of it, and (3) Donald Trump
gives go-ahead “dog whistles” to white nationalists. It is a narrative that the
Establishment “movement conservatives” fully participate in, even if they
protest that they don’t go quite as far as, for example, the loony Beto
O’Rourke.
Whence
comes the greatest danger of domestic terrorism, from whom comes the greatest
danger to our already profoundly threatened liberties and our heritage as a
people? What—who—is the, by far, major threat not only to what remains of the
shredded American Constitution, but also to us, individually and in family?
Just
as the perfervid conversations about the shootings in Dayton and El Paso were
reaching a fever pitch, news came from NBC Universal Studios that it would be
releasing a major motion picture nationwide in September. Titled “The Hunt,” the
film graphically depicts a “killing game” in which rich, limousine Leftist
millionaires take weekends off at a posh resort and engage in the sport of
hunting down, brutally torturing, and murdering “deplorables”—that is, folks
like you and me who oppose the aberrant progressivist assault on and perversion
of our culture.
“The
violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse [production company]
follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being
stalked for sport by elite liberals,” The Hollywood Reporter noted.
Characters in the movie that are considered prey for the hunters are referred
to as “deplorables,” a term former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used to
describe supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016
election.
“Did
anyone see what our ratf—-er-in-chief just did?” one character in the movie
asks, making an apparent reference to President Trump. “At least the hunt’s
coming up. Nothing better than going out to the manor and slaughtering a dozen
deplorables,” another character replies.
When
the news of the film—and its trailer—surfaced, there was outrage. NBC Universal
tried to explain it away; the trailer was withdrawn, and finally the September
release date was postponed indefinitely, but significantly, the film was not
permanently deep-sixed. And Universal, caught with its zealously ideological
pants down, sheepishly tried to explain that, well, you see, it is just a
satire, not really THAT serious (just like Kathy Griffin holding a model of a
bloody, severed head of Donald Trump, remember that “satire”?). Even the
conservative National Review bought into the weak satire explanation,
and, once again, blamed the president for this film, “[which is actually]
sympathetic to Trump voters,” being put aside.
Alas,
those 600 movie screens across the nation and those thousands of unaccompanied
teens and Millennials will just have to wait to see all the gore and mayhem
maybe later on…and learn how to treat that neighbor up the street who is a
“deplorable”?
But
the very thought…the idea conveyed by the film, satire or not…was already there
in vivid and disgusting color, ready to go, and if no one had noticed, if there
had not been a popular reaction, it would have
been released.
And
why not? After all, a major reporter, Frank Figliuzzi, NBC’s national security
expert contributor, had figured it all out and explained it to
NBC anchor Brian Williams (who, of course, took it all in):
I
have a piece out just tonight in the New York Times on what, sadly, I think is
going to happen next if we don’t disrupt the chain of radicalization…. We have
to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don’t
understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to encounter them. So
it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The president said
that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That`s 8/8. Now, I’m
not going to imply that he did this deliberately but I am using it as an
example of the ignorance of the adversary that`s being demonstrated by the
White House.
The
numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacist movement.
Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet and to them, the
numbers 88 together stand for “Heil Hitler.” So we’re going to be raising the
flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one is thinking about this. No one is giving
him advice or he’s rejecting the advice. So, understand your adversary to
counter the adversary.
The
logic here, of course, is thus inescapable and follows directly on from the
message of “The Hunt,” all the talk of putting illegals in Nazi-style
concentration camps, and similar Nazi and white nationalist memes over the past
two and half years:
1.
President Trump and the “deplorables” are Nazis or at least
implicitly Nazi supporters (as well as “white nationalists”—there is no
difference);
2.
Nazis, of course, are the ultimate evil and can only be dealt
with by extinguishing and eliminating them;
3.
Therefore, Trump—but even more so, the “deplorables”—must be
“dealt with,” and ALL methods are licit, from shaming, doxxing, in-your-face
and violent demonstrations, banning on the Internet (happening as we speak),
legal action and lawsuits, and, yes, even to physical violence. “Nazis” cannot
be allowed in the new globalist America.
Isn’t
this exactly what Willem van Spronsen was attempting to
do on July 13, 2019, when he attacked the ICE offices in Tacoma, Washington,
with incendiaries (and was celebrated as a martyr by the Left)? Or, the
attempted murder of Representative Steve Scalise in June 2017, and the dozens of violent leftist assaults since
January 2017?
The
sooner those of us who qualify as “deplorables” understand that, the sooner we
comprehend that there is no compromise possible whatsoever with those
progressivists and Leftists—the sooner we understand that the self-appointed
leaders of the Establishment “Conservative Movement” are not our defenders but
5th Column
collaborationists, then, the sooner we come to the sobering realization
that we hold our destiny and the future in our hands.
“Ecrasez
L’infame!” –“Crush the loathsome beast!” said Voltaire about Church-State
authority in pre-Revolutionary France. And, while I am, as a staunch
traditionalist, definitely 100% on the other side of
that historical issue, the phrase fits here: either we somehow crush the other
side, or they will most assuredly crush us. It’s no longer a “cold civil
war”—“total war” has begun.
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