Slogans including “Beware the International Jew”
The Guardian tells us a little about that Charlottesville driver.
The man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately driving into her during protests against a far-right rally was photographed earlier in the day standing with the white supremacist, neo-Nazi group Vanguard America.
James Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, allegedly killed Heather Heyer, aged 32, and injured 19 others when he rammed his car into a group peacefully protesting on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Photographs from earlier that day appear to show Fields rallying with Vanguard America and carrying a shield bearing the group’s insignia. He wears the white polo shirt and khaki pants that are the group’s uniform.
Vanguard America were a highly visible presence at the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, where they marched in military-style formation, and the torchlight rally the previous night on the University of Virginia campus. On the group’s Twitter account, and on social media accounts belonging to regional chapters, there was extensive promotion of the Unite the Right rally in the weeks leading up to the event.
The group’s motto, “blood and soil” was a popular chant at both events. It is derived from the Nazi slogan “blut und boden”, which links conceptions of racial purity with a particular national territory.
Nothing like Nazi chants to demonstrate one’s peaceable intentions. Just here to express an opinion, y’all.
Vanguard America’s manifesto, American Fascism, details its desire for a white ethnostate, the restoration of strictly patriarchal families and limiting the influence of “international Jews”.
Of Vanguard America, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says the group “is particularly focused on recruiting young men and has engaged in unprecedented outreach efforts to attract students on American college campuses”. Its leader, military veteran Dillon Irizarry, has said “the future is the youth”.
During the 2016-2017 school year, chapters were active in posting flyers on college campuses in 10 states, from Arkansas to Oregon. On the group’s website, printable flyers bear slogans including “Beware the International Jew”, “Imagine a Muslim-Free America”, and “Fascism: The Next Step for America”.
Just part of the rich tapestry of American life. No chance at all that this kind of thing will spread. It’s all good.
I’ve seen screencaps of a website called The Stormer disclaim the assault as a ‘road rage incident’ and the victim as a ‘fat childless slut’.
At least Islamists have the decency to take credit for their murderous impulses.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1630765810275207/?type=3&theater
I just don’t know why people think they need to use dainty words like “derived from” when “this is the exact same slogan that the Nazis used” would be more accurate.
@3: I guess just because the Nazis didn’t use the English slogan “Blood and Soil.”
But maybe “the English translation of the Nazi slogan Blut und Boden” would be a better way to say it.
Seth – I posted a couple of screenshots from the Daily Stormer on another post, but they weren’t of that. I just saw that one somewhere else. It makes me lose the will to live.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1631031470248641/?type=3&theater¬if_t=notify_me_page¬if_id=1502686192445518
Does it ever occur to them that the soil they value so highly was stolen by the white race from its original owners?
No,
Longer “no”: They don’t regard Native American relation to the Americas as ownership, as ‘ownership’ is conceived of as private, personal, individual possession for intensive, deliberate, permanent usage, and they think of every Native (North at least) American group as practicing a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle with any supposed claim to the land being on a group basis.
Beyond possibly the attribution of a collective claim to land there, I can’t identify any part of their conception as correct, but there you go.
GoDaddy is removing the Daily Stormer website from its servers (finally).
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16142384/daily-stormer-site-go-daddy-hosting-providers-hackers-anonymous