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Subtext to J6 Reign of Terror: War On Confederate Battle Flag. But It’s Not Working
• August 8, 2022
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Nothing strikes greater fear and loathing into our communist rulers than the sight of the Confederate Battle Flag. So it was on January 6 2021 when hundreds of patriots besieged the US Capitol to protest fraud in the 2020 election. Two of those Mostly Peaceful Protesters, David Alan Blair and Kevin Seefried, recently landed sentences... Read More
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What Would Obama, Left Have Said If Dylann Roof Were Muslim?
• June 14, 2016
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Almost one year ago, Dylann Roof killed nine blacks at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Imagine if a political hack like Hillary Clinton or a Main Stream Media Cultural Marxist like CNN’s Sally Kohn had said this: This was an act of hate and intolerance against Christians. We need to see this in the context... Read More
The Death of the First Amendment
More Legal Lynchings of White Men
• October 13, 2015
• 1,900 Words • 62 Comments • Reply
Nick Bromwell recently engaged in the kind of unintentional parody Salonspecializes in by calling for the simple display of the Confederate flag to be a Hate Crime [Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime, July 10, 2015]. Today comes news that in what The New York Times delicately called an “unusual legal maneuver,” the... Read More
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The Intellectual Roots of the American Left’s Emerging Totalitarianism
• July 21, 2015
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A recent incident in Wallingford, Connecticut, not far from where I grew up, caused VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow to comment: “Cultural Marxist totalitarianism is coming to an America near you.” A complaint was lodged with the local police that “hate” merchandise— Nazi and Confederate memorabilia—was being publicly exhibited and sold at a popular flea market.... Read More
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The NeoCons’ Confederate Problem—and America’s
• June 28, 2015
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Since the Charleston shootings, GOP officials have been scrambling to complywith Leftist demands that Southern Whites be stripped of visible signs of their Confederate heritage. The GOP has actually been downplaying the Confederacyfor years—Jeb Bush conspicuously removed Confederate banners and insignias from the Florida statehouse back in 2001. [Jeb Bush Ordered The Confederate Flag Removed... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): The Logic of the Attack On Southern Symbols
• July 10, 2003
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Having pulled the Confederate flag down from nearly every pole on which it fluttered, the anti-white lobby still isn't quite finished. The most recent symbol of the Old South to be reconstructed is the University of Mississippi's traditional mascot, a Confederate soldier called "Colonel Reb." The university is still run by whites, but the abolition... Read More
Southern Heritage Issues Still Winnable
• February 10, 2003
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In the spirit of their profound commitment to democracy, the nation's civil rights lobbies are pondering whether to launch a boycott if, as Georgia's new governor has promised, the state holds a referendumon restoring a Confederate symbol to its state flag. It used to be these lobbies would boycott a state if it dared defy... Read More
Georgia's Flag Referendum: Economic Man (And Friends) vs. American Man
• February 3, 2003
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Just in time for Black History Month, Southern heritage activists in Georgia are resurrecting a little white history of their own, and predictably the anti-white lobby doesn't much care for it. But beyond the possibility that something out of the white past might actually be honored, what the white-haters also hate is the prospect of... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): The War On the South Intensifies
• January 20, 2003
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With Trent Lott booted downstairs for implying, however innocently, that forced racial egalitarianism might have caused certain problems, it is now open season on the entire white Southern heritage. The New Year has kicked off with a Republican official in California being disciplined for pro-Confederate remarks he circulated four years ago, with official U.S. government... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): Will Georgia's New GOP Governor Forget His Own Lesson?
• November 18, 2002
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Not the least of the lessons in political reality that popped out of the ballot box earlier this month was taught in Georgia, where an old controversy over the Confederate flag design in the state's official flag suddenly descended on a promising political career like a headsman's ax. But even as anti-flag politicians learned one... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): War On Southern Symbols Has Hidden Agenda
• September 5, 2002
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Just because Confederate flags and similar symbols have been ripped down from most public places, don't imagine the crusade against them is over. Now that the battle against Confederate symbols on public property has been largely won, the battle against the same symbols on private property is just starting. For South Carolina restaurateur Maurice Bessinger,... Read More
Diversity 101 In Damascus, Md.
• July 8, 2002
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Ever on the alert for the persistence of "racism," The Washington Postcouldn't find space for a story about the attempted mass murder of whites by a New York black man who told police he "was bent on killing as many white people as he could," but it devoted the center of its front page last... Read More
Dismantling America (Contd.): Guess What Flag's Not Coming to Dinner
• July 2, 2001
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Just over a year ago, in a column about the Confederate Flag controversy in South Carolina, I wrote the following sentences: "... the blunt truth is that racial slavery existed for a far longer time under the American flag than under the brief four years of the Confederacy. If the NAACP denounces the Confederate flag... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): What Gilmore's Latest Grovel Means About the "European-American" Place In the Multicultural N...
• May 21, 2001
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In a rare fit of courage, Virginia Gov. James Gilmore last week put his name to a proclamation declaring May to be "European-American Heritage Month," but alas, the fit did not endure. [VDARE note: the Proclamation has now vanished from the gubernatorial website, although Virginia Beer Month and white canes – for the blind –... Read More
Abolishing America (Not Contd.)! Mississippi Defies National Ruling Class
• April 26, 2001
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Perhaps the most revealing comment about last week's Mississippi referendum that overwhelmingly endorsed keeping the state's 107-year-old flag with a Confederate flag design in it came from the editorial page of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which supported getting rid of the old flag, the day after Mississippians went to the polls. "The vote also exposed... Read More
Mississippi and the Flag: Abolishing America (Not Contd!)
• April 12, 2001
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To the disgruntlement of Mississippi's business leaders and political establishment, it looks as though the vast majority of the state's voters next week will reject a proposed new state flag that drops the Confederate Battle Flag design of the current one. Depending on which poll you cite, voters favor the current state banner to the... Read More
Abolishing America (Contd.): GOP's Gilmore Surrenders Over Confederate History Month
• April 1, 2001
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"I didn't surrender any heritage," Virginia Gov. James Gilmore whined to the press last week after discarding Virginia's annual proclamation of April as "Confederate History Month" and replacing it with a tribute to black as well as white and Union as well as Confederate participants in his state's civil war. If that's what he does... Read More
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