The Growing Menace of White Supremacists under Our Beds

Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys

In her farewell speech to the Green Party convention, Elizabeth May warned of the need to stay alert to the growing problem of white supremacy. Trump was asked by the moderator during the recent debate to denounce “white supremacists.”

This to me sounds delusional; while Black Lives Matter and Antifa are burning and looting American cities night after night, complaining of “systemic racism,” the problem is “growing white supremacy”? In recent years, I have never even seen a white supremacist sentiment stated publicly. Or, I think, spoken privately. If there are such things as white supremacists, they have been conspicuous by their absence in the recent rioting, or, if you prefer, for the sake of argument, “mostly peaceful demonstrations.” If they were really such a danger, and such a major group, you’d expect them at least to be out there cracking Antifa and BLM heads in response.

A clue to the puzzle is that, when asked by Trump to name a white supremacist organization, Biden said “The Proud Boys.”

Proud Boys are explicitly not white supremacists.

From what appears to be their official website:

Proud Boys‘ values center on the following tenets:

Minimal Government
Maximum Freedom
Anti-Political Correctness
Anti-Drug War
Closed Borders
Anti-Racial Guilt
Anti-Racism
Pro-Free Speech (1st Amendment)
Pro-Gun Rights (2nd Amendment)
Glorifying the Entrepreneur
Venerating the Housewife
Reinstating a Spirit of Western Chauvinism

Though these are our central tenets, all that is required to become a Proud Boy is that a man declare he is “a Western chauvinist who refuses to apologize for creating the modern world.” We do not discriminate based upon race or sexual orientation/preference.

Totally and explicitly nothing to do with “white supremacy.” In fact, the opposite.

In part, what appears to be happening is that those on the far left are simply labelling anyone to their right as “white supremacists.” Just as they use the term “fascist.”

At the same time, they are conflating culture with race. Anybody who believes in the overall superiority of Western-European culture is a “white supremacist.”

This is a dangerous, indeed an essentially Nazi, thing to do. It leads directly to such conclusions as that black people are genetically incapable of making decisions for themselves, Asians are unsuitable as immigrants, and Jews are not fully human.

The racists have simply redefined terms to make racism mean anti-racism, anti-racism mean racism, and anti-fascism mean fascism.