There’s some hypothetical version of white pride that matches this description but getting from literally anywhere in history including now to there would be a heroic process. I mean yeah, there is something charming about Rockwell dialoguing with Malcolm X. But remember that in the picture, they were wearing the uniform of a regime that butchered over 11 million captive civilians and killed probably as many civilians in other places through war. That wasn’t just an aesthetic choice. That reflected, at the most charitable, the conviction that such actions were within the realm of permissible strategies. And even if you’re willing to devil’s advocate that, which sure, why not, we’re in hell, why rule anything out a priori, it with almost equivalent certainty reflected the conviction that such actions were permissible as a response to the conditions of Weimar Germany, which is just not true, and a conviction immediately worthy of violence.
There’s some hypothetical version of white pride that matches this description but getting from literally anywhere in history including now to there would be a heroic process. I mean yeah, there is something charming about Rockwell dialoguing with Malcolm X. But remember that in the picture, they were wearing the uniform of a regime that butchered over 11 million captive civilians and killed probably as many civilians in other places through war. That wasn’t just an aesthetic choice. That reflected, at the most charitable, the conviction that such actions were within the realm of permissible strategies. And even if you’re willing to devil’s advocate that, which sure, why not, we’re in hell, why rule anything out a priori, it with almost equivalent certainty reflected the conviction that such actions were permissible as a response to the conditions of Weimar Germany, which is just not true, and a conviction immediately worthy of violence.