Nietzsche
described Christianity as having a "slave morality";
essentially because it lionizes a murder victim as a god, reveres
martyrs, and rewards those who submit. Christianity asserts "Christ
conquered death"; that our god did not die, and transcended
death. The Alt-Right and neo-Nazis fall victim to the same "slave
morality" for which Nietzsche criticized Christians for falling,
however.
The
Alt-Right see Nazi sympathizers and white nationalists as victims,
and characterize anyone and everyone in conflict with them as "the
real fascists". Including by pointing to their tactics,
which they baselessly use as evidence to connote ideological
agreement between the two groups. The use of violence alone does not
make one a Nazi.
The
Alt-Right gives in to the "slave morality" concept, by
endorsing its swapping of the positions of master and slave. They are
every bit as willing to look like the victim, as are the "leftists"
and "social justice warriors" whom they criticize. And they
do this while claiming that the real victimizers are the
people who admit that some people have been victimized, and those who
try to draw attention to it. Additionally, those who admit that even
when institutional, governmental discrimination ended in one sector,
the effects last until this day.
Most
perplexingly of all, it seems that the Alt-Right are so committed to
reinforcing this master / slave relationship, that they are not even
willing to dismantle it, nor create a state of classlessness, even if
solely to prevent themselves from becoming the underclass. That's
because the “slave morality” rewards both submission and
dominance.
When
the white nationalists marched on Charlottesville, Virginia in August
2018 - shouting "the Jews will not replace us" - they
weren't saying "we refuse to let the Jews replace white people
as the race that controls America". "The Jews will not
replace us" means that they don't want the Jewish people, whom
they believe to be controlling the U.S., to replace white people
with non-white people, as the Jews' favored race of non-Jews.
The idea is that whites would earn a place high in the racial
hierarchy, and that then, as the Jews' favored non-Jewish race, they
would be inferior to Jewish people, but otherwise in
charge of the country, and allowed to keep the other races down.
That's what they think.
Of
course, some of them do want to defeat and destroy and replace Jewish
people, and it would be naive to suggest that many of them don't want
to do that. But the Alt-Right are so cucked by their own ideology,
that they seem more willing to assent to a place in the middle
of the racial hierarchy which they perceive, than to destroy it
altogether.
As
confusing as it seems, I think the rationale for this is fairly
simple: it would be too difficult for them to admit that there is a
racial hierarchy without using Jewish people in positions of power
and influence as the evidence, without exposing white
dominance of avenues of control at the same time. Additionally, if,
by the phrase, they had meant “Jews will not replace white people
as the dominant race”, then that would have been to admit that they
are afraid of a Jewish take-over. That shows fear, and showing fear
is not acceptable to people whose ideology is based on control.
On
the other hand, the Alt-Right is also unable to claim that
whites are in control. They would like to do this,
because that would be a way to express dominance. However, to say
that whites are in control would be to admit that Jewish people have
not taken over white society. It would dismantle the whole crux
of their argument; which is that whites need to be in control,
and therefore need to do something. They also believe that "cultural
Marxism" is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy nations, by
introducing multiculturalism and immigration, as a way to make them
homogenous. This, the Alt-Right believes, leads to the erosion of
social cohesiveness - which they believe to be based on common
nation, heritage, and/or language – and also leads to the breakdown
of welfare states. Which, for some reason, many of them support;
just not for everybody, of course, only for white people.
In
a society which respects and protects individual rights, the whims of
fleeting majorities can change constantly, without threatening the
most important of anyone's natural rights.
In
the sense that they refuse to challenge the racial hierarchy which
they oppose, even when it could benefit them, the Alt-Right are just
like the Republicans. The Alt-Right and Republicans both refuse to
recognize individual rights, and the illegitimacy of hierarchy, even
if only as a way to prevent the disaster they fear, which is that
America will get overtaken by a non-white majority.
Likewise,
the Republicans are just like the Democrats, because
they too refuse to recognize individual rights, but also
oppose stronger supermajoritarian measures to prevent the oppression
of minorities by majorities. And Democrats refuse to do so, even if
only as a way to prevent the disaster they fear, which is that
America will get taken over by Republicans (which happens every
several years, and which, for all intents and purposes, is
unavoidable).
In
a way, the Democrats, Republicans, and the Alt-Right, are all
enabling each other; by subscribing to the same master / slave
system; the same hierarchical system, whether racialized or not, and
the same reckless disregard for individuals' natural rights to be
free from control by majority and minority alike. They even support
the same economic system; a right-wing system uniting aspects of
capitalism, mercantilism, Keynesianism, liberal-conservatism and a
neoliberal market economy, and “state socialism” (which is really
just capitalism, but with a welfare system which benefits the select
few).
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