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Damon Root: The Freakout Over Politically Incorrect Punk

Damon Root on Agnostic Front:

Unlike some punk acts, Agnostic Front never offered any sort of coherent political message. But the band did sometimes express right-of-center views in their songs and interviews. Their 1986 track “Public Assistance,” for example, was a harsh attack on the welfare state. Sample lyric: “Uncle Sam takes half my pay so you can live for free.”

Miret didn’t write those lyrics. He outsourced the job to Peter Steele, the leader of the Brooklyn metal act Carnivore, who would later go on to fame as the frontman for goth-rockers Type O Negative. But Miret stands firmly behind the sentiment. “I was a minority kid whose mom was on welfare and I saw all the time how other people in our neighborhood abused the system,” he writes in My Riot. “Public assistance was designed to help people better their lives and move on, not to enable the families that used it. Those are the people the song was aimed at.”

Miret and his bandmates also voiced support for President Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy. “We have to stop Communist aggression,” guitarist Vinnie Stigma told the zine Guillotine in a 1984 interview. “I think [Reagan] has guts,” Miret later added. Statements like that definitely ruffled a few mohawks.

Did Agnostic Front sometimes promote conservative or right-wing opinions? Yes. But were they fascists? Nazis? Not unless those terms are drained of all meaning and used to smear any right-leaning point of view.

The sick loonies at Veterans Today push pathetic “punk rock history” talking points

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People did fabricate suffering, but mainly for financial gain, because you received a war pension. But what there was far more of was fake heroism. And this, I think, marks a huge cultural shift. The faking in the First and Second World War, centred on being a hero, whereas the focus now is on being a victim, which leads to an increase in cases of fake suffering and psychological injury.

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During Hurricane Harvey, we’ve witnessed a revival of The Walking Dead meme: “Everybody makes fun of the redneck until the zombie apocalypse.”

But during the L.A. riots, even the redneck — that is, truck driver Reginald Deny — was no match for the ravening hoards.

Who triumphed?

Well, if TWD has taught us anything, it’s that if you can’t get Daryl, you grab hold of Glenn:

He starts out as a wily if unassuming pizza delivery kid, but that Korean guy turns out to be one tough mofo.

I wonder if the guy behind the comic even gave the L.A. riots a thought; if he did, even he’s not rich enough yet to admit it.

But we’ve all been thinking it if we’re old enough to remember. Angelino Adam Carolla has mined this thread for years, and as usual, his musings are belatedly getting the recognition they deserve.

Believe it or not, someone sent me this Reddit link — about a high school’s attempt to ban the flag — this very morning, just before I read this column, with the subject line:

Gen Z gets to vote in 2018. It’s going to be a nasty shock for the Left.

Anyway, here’s someone named Jesse Russell:

But then again, paradoxically, Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option actually is the solution to which conservatives (Christian or otherwise) should turn as a way of regrouping and preparing for a political onslaught on the degenerates and barbarians who have co-opted politics in the West.

The problem with Dreher’s version is that it is too wimpy, too whiny, and, well, too white.

Happily, the true Benedict Option has been unearthed by the enterprising members of Generation Z who populate the /pol/ message boards of 4Chan and alt-right Twitter, and there is another model for conservative survival in the 21st century: the Roof Koreans.

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Who are the Roof Koreans?

Well, that is an interesting story that takes us back to 1992…

Larry Elder calls for reparations for Korean store owners here:

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writes:

So we have gone from “illegal aliens” to “undocumented workers” to “Dreamers”. And Republican voters wonder why they never win anything. Sixty years ago, the US Government was happy to call its “comprehensive immigration reform” plans “Operation Wetback”, and President Eisenhower was willing to use the term in public. Now we expect jelly-spined finger-in-the-windy legislators to stand firm against “Dreamers”. Yeah, right. As for Europe, if Chancellor Merkel and the EU start calling their legions of sturdy young Muslim “refugees” Dreamers, it’s game over.

Mark Steyn catches up with Christopher Caldwell, author of 2009’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Islam, Immigration, and the West”

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Steve Sailer: “No justification for Diamond’s hypothesis has emerged in the two decades since Guns, Germs, and Steel was published”

writes, on the 20th anniversary of a somewhat unlikely bestseller — only “somewhat” because, however dry the book’s contents, liberals who don’t believe in “race” love to read and think about it almost as much as “Nazis”…

Diamond marketed Guns, Germs, and Steel as the definitive politically correct answer to the query that must trouble anyone with much awareness of the world: Why are some races of humans so much more economically and scientifically productive than other races? (…)

And, of course, Diamond’s readers assumed that the racial disparities in accomplishment couldn’t be because some races had been evolving under conditions that select more for, say, foresight or cooperation. In contrast, New Guineans, living on the equator, have less need to worry about how to prepare for onrushing winter than do, say, Swedes or Koreans.

No, that just couldn’t be true. (…)

After Diamond’s rather eye-rolling opening about high-IQ Papuans, his book settled down into a productive groove, working what has become the dominant trait of intellectual conventional wisdom in the 21st century: antiquarianism. (…)

When I met Diamond a few years later at financier Michael Milken’s annual confab in Beverly Hills, we were chatting amiably until I haltingly alluded to this fundamental paradox in his book. A worried look came over his face; he grabbed his lecture notes and took off out of the auditorium at about 5 mph.

“The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read”

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David Cole: “ProPublica has been using its ‘moral force’ to get “hate sites” dropped by the tech companies…”

Now, I don’t have a ton of time for Holocaust “revisionism,” which is what the grandly named Institute for Historical Review trades in.

David Cole writes that the IHR has “been around for almost forty years.” So, for that matter, has AIDS.

And calling the IHR an “educational nonprofit publishing house” reminds me of those Valachi Papers types who’d testify with the straightest faces they could pull that they were “in the cement business.”

But far, far more dangerous than even the IHR and their ilk are the powerful, well-financed, self-appointed do-gooders bullying them off the internet — which, need I even point out, is not actually their private property to so police…

Anyway, do read the whole thing:

Kirchner’s article (co-written with fellow “journalists” Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, and Madeleine Varner) was posted on Aug. 19. On the 21st, TransFirst/TSYS, the IHR’s credit-card processing company, sent a letter to Weber informing him that the IHR was being dropped and its merchant account closed. The reason? “The review of your website revealed that your business is excluded per our credit policy, materials promoting hate, etc.”

For the record, several years ago it was TransFirst that actively sought the IHR’s business. (…)

So just what is ProPublica? ProPublica is the malformed child of Herb and Marion Sandler, the infamous and corrupt left-wing billionaire Democrat donors. Even liberal press outlets admit that they were among the most prominent driving forces behind the Great Recession of the late 2000s (Time magazine included them on its list of the “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis”).

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The Sandlers are also the farbissiners who used their influence to force NBC to censor a sketch on Saturday Night Live, after they were described on the show as being “people who should be shot” (yes, the Sandlers are so vile that even the leftists at SNL hate them).

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The group with the most chapters on the SPLC list is the Nation of Islam. Did ProPublica go after its tech providers? Of course not. Same with the New Black Panther Party. Why? Bias, of course, but also remember, we’re dealing with cowards here.

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More proof that class warfare, against lower-class writes, is very real:

PS:

“On September 16, 2017, horror-core rap group Insane Clown Posse will lead the Juggalos in a march on the National Mall in Washington D.C.”

But it gets better:

It took Nazis to get people excited about Juggalos. Because Juggalos are scheduled to march in D.C on September 16th and so is the Alt-Right…

Uh… huh(?!):

Insane Clown Posse’s music and lyrics have always, but always, been anti-racist, anti-redneck, anti-rich and intensely class-conscious, so they are by default also strongly anti-Alt-Right.

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