There’s an old proverb that says that the greatest trick ever accomplished by Satan was to make the world believe he doesn’t exist.
I don’t know about mystical theology, but I think that concept is most apt today in relation to what I’m going to start describing as Nu-Fascism. Technically, it’s the same old Fascism, but it likes to pretend it doesn’t exist.
This is exactly what we are now seeing coming from the center of the GOP. You have Nimrata Haley who claims proudly that “America is not a racist nation” while she pretends that her first name is actually “Nikki.” We have Ron DeFascist in Florida pretending that he supports African-American studies while he is blocking and banning an AP African-American curriculum because it dares to mention “Queer theory” — as if Black people can’t also be gay.
Remaining apparently innocent of bigotry is paramount to the Nu-Fascist. Admitting that what they believe in is really White Straight Male Christian Supremacy is simply not allowed. This must be denied at all costs.
You can see this with the blanket denial by those in the GOP that it was actually their own fans and supporters who committed the January 6 attack on the Capitol. They argue that it wasn’t them, it must have been Antifa.
No one from Antifa has been identified in any of the videos from the attack. No one from Antifa has been arrested, charged, or tried for participation in the attack. And yet this delusion persists.
When someone from the far-right stages a racist or bigoted attack, they deny that this person had anything to do with GOP ideology. GOPers repeatedly extoll the Great Replacement Theory that Democrats actually have a secret plot to import brown Latinos from the South to physically replace White people in America. They say we want to dilute their representation and their vote.
We’ve heard this very clearly from Tucker Carlson.
It doesn’t matter that migrants don’t get to vote until they become naturalized citizens, an interminably long and complex process. Or else, until their native-born children turn 18-years old.
So, the great Democratic plan is to decisively win the election of 2042?
This is thinly disguised immigrant hate. It’s racism.
And when a gunman goes out — armed with this theory in his head — and kills a dozen more people they claim they had nothing to do with it. When it happened at the Tree of Life Synagogue, they claim innocence. When it happened at the El Paso Walmart, they claim innocence. When it happened at Buffalo Supermarket, they claim innocence. When it happened in Charlottesville, they claim innocence. When it happened at Charleston — on Nimrata Haley’s watch — she claims innocence.
They are Stochastic Terrorists, stirring up hate and resentment then standing back and letting the mayhem ensue.
They refuse to take responsibility for people like this:
Their second big trick, is claiming that the LEFT is the group that is systematically stirring up “trouble” with their “radical ideology.”
This is the nature of their attack on supposed “CRT” which is a graduate-level analysis of systematic bias in the justice system and other areas. They don’t address the validity of that study where we have Black people stopped, searched, arrested, assaulted and killed by police 2-3 more often even though they have a lower rate of finding drugs and guns on them.
For years, police records have shown that black drivers tend to be less likely than white drivers to turn up with guns or drugs when searched at traffic stops. At the same time, black drivers are three times more likely than white drivers to be subjected to these searches, according to a 2013 federal survey.
You might object (or not) to the idea of racial profiling — officers taking race into account when determining whether to stop and scrutinize someone. But few would endorse racial profiling that clearly doesn't work. It's apparent, though, that ineffectual, biased policing continues in many places — more black people are stopped and searched for contraband, while more white people are found with it.
The police, it seems safe to assume, want to do their job most effectively. So the puzzle is: Why are they continuing to search drivers in an inefficient way?
They say that police aren’t systematically racist — and yet this continues to happen. Similarly when people are brought into court, black people are charged with crimes at a rate that is 5 times higher than whites, and they are prosecuted and sentenced at a rate that is 7 times higher.
The over-representation of black Americans in the nation’s justice system is well documented. Black men comprise about 13 percent of the male population, but about 35 percent of those incarcerated. One in three black men born today can expect to be incarcerated in his lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men and one in 17 white men. Black women are similarly impacted: one in 18 black women born in 2001 is likely to be incarcerated sometime in her life, compared to one in 111 white women. The underlying reasons for this dis-proportionate representation are rooted in the history of the United States and perpetuated by current practices within the nation’s justice system.
The Right and the GOP ignore this. They don't consider the idea that the entire justice system is biased from top to bottom, although in other contexts they claim exactly that it is — against them, they simply blow this off as simply the way that business is done.
Instead of addressing any of this, they argue that CRT is a system of reverse anti-white racism that is designed to make poor innocent white children hate themselves based on the sins of their ancestors.
Listen here as Ted Cruz proclaims that CRT is a racist as a “Klansman in the sheets” at the Faith and Freedom coalition.
He argues that our Founding Fathers were “extraordinary patriots”, that “Police keep us safe”, children do best when raised by a “mother and a father”, the Wuhan virus “came from Wuhan” and there is a “difference between boys and girls.”
He says that now saying those words can get you fired, “canceled” and erased. He immediately makes his position that of the victimized, not of the victimizer.
All of the foundations of this country are under assault” he proclaims. “The eternal principles America was built on, are being attacked. The Left are like the Terminator. They’re soulless, have no heart, no brain and red eyes.”
They control the airwaves, they control media, they control journalism, they control education, they control Hollywood, they control culture, and they try to tell us “Nobody else thinks like you.”
Geez. If only we had all that power. Could you”imagine?
But of course, we don't. Most Newspaper owners, Cable News owners, Hollywood Producers and Owners — are Republicans. Chris Licht at CNN, Jerry Bruckheimer, Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Willis, James Woods, Stacey Dash, Gary Sinise, Dr Oz, John Voight, Tim Allen, Robert Duvall, and Kelsey Grammer are all Republicans.
They don't have power in Hollywood? They don’t have power in the culture?
It’s a theory that derives from Marxism, Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of Capitol and the worker proletariat. A fundamental battle in society. CRT takes that same Marxist concept except it replaces class with race. And it says all of America, and all of the world is a battle between the races.
Critical Race Theory says every white person is a racist. Critical Race Theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical Race Theory seeks to turn us against each other, and if someone has a different color skin seeks to make us hate that person. And let me tell you right now that Critical Race theory is bigoted, it is a lie, and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in White Sheets.
Again, the play here is that a form of study that is against systematic racism — is itself racist in construction. People that are pointing out racism are somehow themselves racist for doing so.
It deflects from actual racism happening to actual people and instead superimposes theoretical racism against white people in its stead.
As if white people are being attacked in the street the way that elder Asians have been. As if random gatherings of white people are being targeted with guns and firebombs the way that gay nightclubs or women’s clinics are. As if white kids are being harassed, attacked and more harshly punished and suspended at schools — or white women are more wrongly diagnosed in hospitals on a regular basis, have a higher infant and maternal mortality rate, have to live in areas rife with industrial pollution and have had their home loans redirected into predatory subprime lending which ultimately has cost their homes and life savings.
Uh huh. Well, the FBI Hate Crime stats for 2019 are as follows:
Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders
by Bias Motivation, 2019
Bias motivation |
Incidents |
Offenses |
Victims1 |
Known
offenders2 |
Total |
7,314 |
8,559 |
8,812 |
6,406 |
Single-Bias Incidents |
7,103 |
8,302 |
8,552 |
6,268 |
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry: |
3,963 |
4,784 |
4,930 |
3,550 |
Anti-White |
666 |
755 |
775 |
645 |
Anti-Black or African American |
1,930 |
2,314 |
2,391 |
1,682 |
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native |
119 |
126 |
135 |
101 |
Anti-Asian |
158 |
205 |
215 |
153 |
Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander |
21 |
25 |
26 |
26 |
Anti-Multiple Races, Group |
134 |
171 |
173 |
82 |
Anti-Arab |
95 |
122 |
126 |
86 |
Anti-Hispanic or Latino |
527 |
676 |
693 |
547 |
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry |
313 |
390 |
396 |
228 |
Religion: |
1,521 |
1,650 |
1,715 |
1,012 |
Anti-Jewish |
953 |
995 |
1,032 |
602 |
Anti-Catholic |
64 |
66 |
66 |
42 |
Anti-Protestant |
24 |
24 |
24 |
19 |
Anti-Islamic (Muslim) |
176 |
219 |
227 |
145 |
Anti-Other Religion |
88 |
108 |
108 |
56 |
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group |
37 |
42 |
44 |
26 |
Anti-Mormon |
12 |
14 |
15 |
8 |
Anti-Jehovah's Witness |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) |
44 |
47 |
49 |
34 |
Anti-Other Christian |
49 |
60 |
65 |
23 |
Anti-Buddhist |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
Anti-Hindu |
7 |
7 |
7 |
4 |
Anti-Sikh |
49 |
50 |
60 |
36 |
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. |
6 |
6 |
6 |
5 |
Sexual Orientation: |
1,195 |
1,395 |
1,429 |
1,250 |
Anti-Gay (Male) |
746 |
867 |
883 |
828 |
Anti-Lesbian |
115 |
142 |
143 |
107 |
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) |
291 |
342 |
357 |
279 |
Anti-Heterosexual |
17 |
17 |
19 |
14 |
Anti-Bisexual |
26 |
27 |
27 |
22 |
Disability: |
157 |
169 |
170 |
156 |
Anti-Physical |
49 |
53 |
53 |
33 |
Anti-Mental |
108 |
116 |
117 |
123 |
Gender: |
69 |
80 |
81 |
67 |
Anti-Male |
17 |
18 |
18 |
17 |
Anti-Female |
52 |
62 |
63 |
50 |
Gender Identity: |
198 |
224 |
227 |
233 |
Anti-Transgender |
151 |
173 |
175 |
190 |
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming |
47 |
51 |
52 |
43 |
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 |
211 |
257 |
260 |
138 |
White people and Christians are by far the majority of those in the nation. If bias were totally even you would naturally expect that White people and Christians would be the majority of those being victimized by bias.
But that isn’t the case.
The greatest number of incidents (2,315) are Anti-African American even though we are only 13% of the nation. The greatest number of victims of religious bias are Jewish (1,032) even though they are only 2.4% of the nation. The greatest number of victims based on sexual orientation are Gay Male (883) even though only 7% of the nation identifies as LGBTQ.
They repeatedly attack the “global elites” as being somehow magically in control of everything everywhere. They constantly criticize George Soros as being behind it all. Yet, somehow, they ignore Sheldon Adelson. They ignore the Mercers. They ignore Murdoch. They ignore the Scaifs. That is peak Anti-Semitism.
They pretend that teaching about racism causes white kids to hate themselves, nevermind just what living through racism does to black kids. They pretend that teaching about people who are gay will make kids gay. They treat the idea that LGBTQ people exist as if it is a contagious virus more dangerous and deadly than Covid. They treat teachers who are LGBTQ or simply Gay friendly as if they are dangerous predators. Groomers attempting to turn straight kids gay — as if that were possible or it was somehow a happy and romantic existence. They ban books, they ban AP courses — but they also make it far more easier for these exact same kids to access guns.
And even when a 3-year-old shoots himself with a 9mm gun he found in his home, they do not flinch. It doesn’t matter how many times the real predator turns out to be a member of the clergy or a relative of the child. The ideas from a book, and the words of a teacher are more dangerous than the bullet from a gun. That is peak Fascism.
We can look back at the history of Nazi Germany and see the parallels, where they also banned books. Then they banned people. Obviously, Jews, but also Gypsy and LGBTQ were persecuted, rounded up and murdered. They did it by painting these people as not just the other, but as the enemy. As dangerous. They slowly stripped them of their humanity, accused them falsely of crimes and atrocities. By the time they were marching them into train cars, many of the regular public cheered. Just as they expect “Real America” to cheer as the blood continues to flow.
This is not an idea that is alien to the modern GOP. Within Qanon, they call this great rounding up and mass murder of immigrants and undesirables — The Storm.
The goal of the Nu-Fascist is to make you not notice this. They want you to forget this. They don’t want you to pay attention to the fact that their ideology feeds this. It empowers this.
Are the situations where white people are victimized? Yes. Of course. Are there situations where Christians or Straight people are victimized? Yes. Absolutely.
Are those cases greater than those where Black people, Gay people and Jewish people are being regularly victimized in this nation?
Absolutely not.
The goal of Nu-Fascism is to make you believe that White people are the true victims of discrimination. That Men are being torn down and dehumanized. That Christians are being ripped to shreds. The Straight people are under assault.
None of that is the case.
Nimrata Haley, Ron DeSantis, Elise Stefanik and Ted Cruz can claim that they are somehow different from the Patriot Front, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Boogaloo Bois. But they are not.
They sing from the same hymnal. They traffic in the same Great Replacement Theory. They traffic in the same hate.
They are trying to convince White America that they are somehow victims of something or the other. Arguably, they are victims of corporate greed. They are victims of the hollowing out of America by mining interests, and by retail interests such as Walmart. They have lost much.
But it’s not the fault of migrants. It’s not the fault of black people. It’s not the fault of Jews. It's not the fault of Gays.
The Anti-Woke movement is playing the greatest trick on America. It’s trying to tell them that it’s not what it really is.
It’s Fascism. It's Nazism. It’s Hate.
And it’s a threat to America.