One of the contentions of this site is that the "antifascist" movement in the Anglosphere has totally failed. America has never been more anti-Semitic (or Jew obsessed) and Nazi sympathetic than it is today. Indeed, much of this is driven and exacerbated by the efforts of antifa.
The Kanye controversy, and all the forces and tendencies it represents, makes this abundantly clear. So how are actual antifascists taking this?
A Twitter thread by Shane Burley, the author of Fascism Today: What It Is How to End It (LOL) is highly illustrative. Essentially it reads like a tirade of impotent outrage mixed with stunned incomprehension.
Old School Antifa is simply a failed movement that (a) struggles to identify the very thing it is against (No, Kanye is not a Fascist), (b) misunderstands what it is attacking (what Kanye is pushing is a form of Christian "radical inclusion"), and (c) resorts to heavy handed tactics that make the hydra ever stronger while giving it an impetus to distrust and even hate Jews.
Over to "yesterday's antifa," Shane Burley:
Over to "yesterday's antifa," Shane Burley:
Returning to the Ye/Alex Jones/Nick Fuentes video, and honestly I'm having trouble keeping up.He says that the Zionists are actually controlled by Satan, after saying that the Jewish media has corrupted our minds into thinking that Hitler was all bad *2nd Thread*He has started reading antisemitic jokes from Owen Benjamin's website, who is a Holocaust Denier and flat earth activist. These include that Ben Shapiro knows how much change is in someone's pocket from the sound.He says that Planned Parenthood is "Eugenic population control."Fuentes says that he agrees with Ye's views on Jews. He points out that the U.S. is guilty of much of what the Nazis are accused of."Instagram is a prostitution ring." - YeHe owes a lot to Owen Benjamin, and said Dave Chapelle went on a "Jewish platform" and that he "does not believe in God" and that he is controlled by Zionists. He is using the "They Live" goggles analogy common on the alt-right.Fuentes says that "Desantis is mobbed up with Israel and Mossad" and then Kanye asked if that was "mossadanistic" if he says something about Mossad, then he did a whiny Jew voice to mimic Netanyahu. "For now he's just Netan" he sang in his whiney voice"There are practices clearly based on Jewish law and their is some sort of a Jewish mafia" says Fuentes, calling our Ari Emmanuel, who he says is running the show to ban Ye. They connect him to an early Zionist militia. His claim is that his family runs the media and government.Ye suggests George Soros should convert to Christianity.Laura Loomer calls in live, Ye puts him on the air, then tells her to stop trashing Milo Yiannopoulos because he likes him so much.Even Jones admits that Ye has a "Hitler fetish" and says he isn't "on the whole Jew thing." Ye presents himself as a martyr in a war for the future, though he doesn't make it clear what he is actually fighting (except for, apparently, the Jews).Jones says that this is a crazy world that we live in with white guilt making all white people victims. "What kind of world is that?" Jones asks. "Zionists," Ye answers, before leading the crowd on a prayer. What follows is nearly ten minutes of incomprehensible rants.Ye helps Fuentes laugh off the question about whether or not he's a white supremacist. "I do, however, believe there are races...and these differences mean something." He uses "globalism" as a description for race mixing, after which Ye says that Fuentes is the future President.Ye says Trump just loved Fuentes, and that Trump's comments were a lie. Fuentes validates this perception. Ye will rant and then say "tell 'em Nick" and then Fuentes gives the more elaborate and coherent conspiracy theory.There is really no defense of Kanye here, but it is incredibly clear from this that Fuentes is basically manipulating a really unwell (and antisemitic) man who knows almost nothing about what he's saying. Alex Jones looks like he knows he's about to be sued again.
Um, yeh, sue Alex Jones again. See what difference that makes to anything.
This failure to understand and defuse what is going on in America is all rather tragic, as the West's deepening obsession with the Jews is getting in the way of real metapolitics and real politics.
Antifa's chronic failure means that the critique-o-sphere in the West is basically fucked and will continue to degenerate and be colonised by "faith-based" and "obsession-based" actors like Kanye and his gang of idiots. At the very time when our deteriorating civilisation needs clinical analysis and radical reform to stop it dying, everyone will be tweeting Kanye "Nazi" memes.
Not even relatively sensible people like Jon Stewart can stop this:
Not even relatively sensible people like Jon Stewart can stop this:
I think Jon Stewart has a beautiful understanding here of how to truly eliminate hate & find peace more effectively. pic.twitter.com/GNn49UlYQW
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) December 1, 2022
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).
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