The multiple newspaper articles I have read on groups such as The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers never cease engaging in gross generalizations about their members as well as exaggerations of the violent threat they pose to our Western Democracies. When I ask my educated “liberal” friends to cite examples of their widespread disruptive violence, they are invariably unable to cite anything other than the Jan. 6 “insurrection” whose participants, apparently intent on overthrowing the U.S. government, all seem to have forgotten to bring along their firearms.
As The Proud Boys is an exclusively male group, it might of course be accused of being misogynistic. But at the same time, the oft repeated contemporary notion that Masculinity is inherently toxic, that the Western Patriarchy is the source of all evil, suggests that the Boys may in fact have some legitimate issues with Leftist Ideology. Moreover both groups have every right to question what is an effort to demonize and jettison many of the basic Principles and Values of Western Civilization, the Mindless fetish of Inclusiveness entailing precisely such an effort. My point is simply that the ideas informing such groups are not entirely without merit and the notion that all their members are nothing more than ignorant White racists is grossly simplistic.
No one is idealizing The Proud Boys or The Oath Keepers, each of which no doubt harbors ignorant racists prone to violence. But so also does Black Lives Matter. And while the Left loves to demonize everyone on the Right as perpetrators of hatred against various “marginalized” groups, its Neo-Marxist narrative is in fact rooted in nothing but Hatred! The term “systemic” is key to its agenda, implying that racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., pervade every aspect of Western Culture, infecting even decent people utterly unaware of their “contagion.” The duplicity of this indictment is that it conflates perfectly defensible Ideas with Hatred, suggesting, for example, that the defense of Western Rationalism over Indigenous Superstition is rooted in Racism rather than simple common sense. It is why I refer to “inclusiveness” as a mindless religious fetish. And it is why so mush of what is published in our mainstream newspapers today is utter nonsense.
Nazi flags and salutes have been noted at some of the public demonstrations conducted by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. But while no mainstream “conservative” would ever dream of citing Nazism as in any way compatible with his/her politics, I have dozens of articles before me suggesting it to be a natural extension of their world-view. Jews are apparently just another Identity group which we on the “right” love to hate! But those making such claims understand nothing of “conservatism,” indeed have allowed the hatred implicit in their world-view to utterly blind them to its essential nature.
Rather than categorize people in the superficial terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., “conservatives” view the species from the moral/intellectual perspective of traditional Western Humanism. Genuine Human Achievement in its multitude of forms is revered from this perspective rather than attributed, in Neo-Marxist fashion, to matters of oppression, privilege, good fortune, etc.. These are obviously complex issues and I’m not suggesting there is no truth whatsoever to the Leftist narrative. But many of the radical disparities, both historical and contemporary, in the status of various peoples, are clearly a result of their innate, biologically programmed characteristics. Amongst those most blessed in this category are those of Jewish ancestry. Did you know that surveys have shown Ashkenazi Jews to be smarter than 85% of the species. It is no mere quirk of history that Jews such as Freud and Einstein were amongst the most influential intellectuals of the 20th Century and that a significant percent of the most wonderful productions in both Film and TV over the years have been written, produced and directed by Jews. It is also no coincidence that Israel is among the few nations in the Middle East given to truly liberal, Democratic values, many of its Islamic neighbors, for example, continuing to treat Women as second class citizens.
My point, quite simply, is that Antisemitism is fundamentally incompatible with rational “conservatism” which celebrates Man at his very best. Those amongst The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who see themselves as defenders of Western Civilization while waving Nazi flags, are in fact simpletons celebrating the most egregious abomination ever committed by a Western Nation. Even more ironic, however, is the fact that Leftist Egalitarianism or Inclusiveness, call it what you will, implicitly promotes envy and hatred for the accomplished. One wonders how many members of Black Lives Matter see wealthy Jews as the very epitome of White Capitalist greed and oppression.
There is a wonderful irony to the fact that Karl Marx, born of Jewish parents, ultimately became Antisemitic in defense of his historical narrative. If the rich and powerful always become so by oppressing the poor and powerless, then wealthy Jews must be amongst the most vile people on the planet. This is to say that it is the Left that implicitly promotes hatred for any individual or group that has succeeded, while wonderful “conservatives” such Ayaan Hirsi Ali, born a Muslim, and Ben Shapiro, clearly a Jew, see the world from a Humanistic perspective that utterly transcends such superficial criteria.