"White Ethnicists" and Boston in the 1980s: Note to Self:

Note to Self: "White Ethnicists" and Boston in the 1980s: Whenever I look at pictures of America���s ���white ethnicists��� (one thing they certainly ain���t is American nationalists) on parade, from the openly neo-Nazi to the more "genteel" Atlantic Monthly ���the Democrats triggered this by pushing civil rights too far��� and all the flavors in between, I am, quite frankly, gobsmacked:

They ain���t the sons of Aryas���new not a Persian or an Indian claiming fictitious descent from the cattle owning immigrants of the third millennium BC among them.

They ain���t those whom Adolf Hitler would call ���Aryans��� either���neither Goth nor Viking nor Saxon Saxon nor Anglo-Saxon faces are a particularly strong current among them.

Rather, they remind me of Boston in the 1980s. Boston in the 1980s was a weird place, and a divided place, with no sense whatever of a single non-African-American non-Hispanic white American ethnos.

Recall that it was a place where the local FBI allies with Whitey Bulger because the Irish Mafia ���keeps the drugs out of Southie���, while the Italian mafia are not quite Americans and really bad guys. Recall that it was a place where, when an Italian Catholic married an Irish Catholic, it was called a ���mixed marriage���...