fred never fails to educate and entertain; 

In the media there is much noise about “white extremists,” a  group said to be a threat to our (largely imaginary) democracy. There indeed exists  an ill-defined collection of racial advocates covering  a spectrum from militias in the woods of Idaho to groups calling themselves the Dissident Right, Alt Right, Race Realists (they are not), and White Nationalists (hereinafter WhyNats, not too accurately to indicate all collectively).

As things stand now, they are hardly a threat to anything. The militias are too few to amount to much and the rest a cross between a hobby and a social club. Their websites, such as Vdare.com have substantial circulation but advocate neither crime nor violence. Their  intellectual leaders, highly intelligent and of academic respectability,  are much given to conservative romanticism, dreaming of an impossible  “white imperium.” Dangerous, these latter, I think are not.

The appeal of White Nationalism is clear. It is a reaction against horrific rates of crime by blacks, cities made into no-go zones, unnecessary immigration from the south, imposed social engineering, degradation of standards, destruction of a valued culture, and the racial discrimination embodied in “affirmative action.”

WhyNats point out, correctly enough, that an all-white country would not have had slavery, perhaps the Civil War, Jim Crow, race riots, burning cities, rates of crime a wonder of the world, degraded education, and so on. The elders of the movement remember a white world in which children could play blocks-wide hide-and-seek after dark in safety, leave their bikes anywhere and find them on return. This world existed. I was there...........more.........