It's not everyday that the insanity that is the system you so blithely accept without considering the deeper ramifications of your apathy.
Each day you get up, do your business, go to bed, all without wondering if something in your environment isn't sustainable.
Why would you?
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS APPROPRIATE INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES FOR VIOLENT ENDS
FROM NAZI GERMANY TO NORWAY AND EL PASO, WHITE NATIONALISTS USE INDIGENOUS IMAGERY TO JUSTIFY RACIST VIOLENCE.
Kalen Goodluck, High Country News
September 2, 2019
Just minutes before a massacre at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart earlier this month left 22 people dead, a hate-filled anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online.
In it, the author, whom authorities believe to be the alleged shooter, claims to be defending his country from white American “replacement” and an “invasion” at the U.S. border as well as from environmental destruction and corporate power.
In 2011, for instance, a far-right terrorist in Norway killed eight people in a bombing and another 69 at a youth camp. In his 1,500-page manifesto, the killer argued that the rhetoric of white nationalism was ultimately doomed to fail due to its connections to Hitler.
Instead of using language and ideas associated with Nazis, the author chose to exploit an “untapped goldmine” of Indigenous rights language.“We are no more terrorists than Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse or Chief Gall who fought for their people against the imperialist General Armstrong Custer,” reads the manifesto.
“Our struggle will be a lot easier if European nationalist use smart and defusing arguments instead of using supremacist arguments which can be efficiently squashed through psychological warfare propaganda or by anti-Nazi policies.”
To the author, embracing the language of Indigenous rights and victimhood was a softer, even sympathetic, strategy that would embolden efforts to reclaim European land and culture from immigrants.
I don't know who thought this stuff up, but it sure is making for some strange bedfellows.
