Who’s behind Obama?

by contested-terrain, 19 May 2008

Three-Way Fight blog just posted an interesting article about the views by white supremacists/nationalists on Barack Obama: “Post-racial: Even white supremacists don’t hate Obama.”

The author, Michael Crowley, wrote:

…for every instance of loony racist paranoia, one finds a countervailing explanation [by the white supremacist far-Right] for why Obama’s rise is not a story about black America rising up. White supremacists are less inclined to hate Obama than the white race-traitors who are enabling him. “If you are a white supremacist who is dedicated to a biological understanding of racism that says blacks are inferior, the only way [Obama] could be elected is with the conniving of unseen forces,” explains Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates, a Boston-based expert on white supremacists.

You can see where this is leading. Crowley continues:

There’s an even bigger culprit in this world than white liberals, however. Naturally, we speak here of the Jews. It turns out that what truly animates the white supremacist contingent these days is not racism but anti-Semitism. The black man is of trifling concern next to the “Zionist Occupation Government,” or ZOG, a term that describes puppet regimes of the global Zionist conspiracy. As one commenter on the popular white-power Web forum Stormfront explains it: “The blacks would be a non-factor if it weren’t for the ZOG’s legislations and skullduggery (civil rights act, hate crime laws, affirmative action, welfare, forced integration, etc etc …), allied with a compliant media that promotes black worship.” Thus, when the Jewish Telegraphic Agency published an anodyne article on Obama’s support among American Jews, white-power sites like National Alliance News (”your single source for worldwide pro-White news”) quickly pounced. “Barack Obama: The Jewish Connection” came the breathless headline. (Never mind that Obama has had a rockier relationship with the American Jewish community than has Clinton.) “[U]ltimately he’s just another Jew puppet,” concludes another Stormfront commenter. “I look at his foreign advisers,” adds David Duke. “[They’re] Israeli supremacists. He’s even got Dennis Ross!”

Comments

  1. Flea

    It turns out that what truly animates the white supremacist contingent these days is not racism but anti-Semitism.

    Hence the support for Arab Nazi parties including and especially the Ba’ath party. The “extreme left” and the “extreme right” are, as ever, united in their hatred of Jews, individual liberty and the United States of America.

  2. dirigible

    Can Big Pharma not come up with a tablet to alleviate Judeo-politico-dismorphic syndrome in its many chronic sufferers? It’s a large market just waiting to be monetized…

  3. contested-terrain

    Dear Flea,
    What are you talking about? If DSTPFWAANOH (or whatever the initials would be for this crazy website) gave out weekly awards for “most off-subject, baseless, generalized rant,” I would nominate your post. I wasted a couple seconds of my life checking out your blog, and found your disgruntled anti-French rant pretty ridiculous. Why did bathroom graffiti politics ever have to go online?

    Dear dirigible,
    I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about *and* thought I should say it.