Damned Racists, Vol II

[The Grand Nudger]

I’d be interested in your links Gae, either here or via pm

Ill drop a few paywalled links first on the offchance you have access, but even the abstracts shed a bit of light.

---

This article suggests an interactional approach for analyzing victimization–that is, the social processes through which person come to be known and understood as victims. The authors conceptualize victimization in terms of interactional and descriptive practices through which victim status is assigned to persons and/or groups. Using data from the public media and fieldwork in everyday settings, the authors illustrate some techniques, objectives, and outcomes of victimization. The authors conclude by recommending several issues and directions for study that would be appropriate for victimological research that construes victims as interactionally constituted.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si....b_contents

A recent critique of frame analysis in social movements suggested that future studies (1) be sensitive to bridging micro- and macro-levels of analysis, and (2) attend better to human agency and emotions in the framing process. This paper addresses those and other issues in an examination of the "new racist" (NR) rhetoric of contemporary white separatists (WS's) who focus on legitimating their movement using a cultural pluralist master-frame. In the context of theories about social movements, affect, and the social construction of ethnicity, I describe how NRWS's engage in frame-transformation and frame-alignment by (a) consciously packaging a "hate-free" racism, (b) developing strategies of equivalence and reversal-presenting whites as equivalent to ethnic and racial minorities, and © deploying ideas about "love," "pride," and "heritage-preservation" to evidence both their putative lack of animosity toward others as well as their ethnic credentials. I interpret these ethnic affectations as contextually bound efforts at truth construction that offer an opportunity to explore the role of affect in social movements. I conclude that the product of these claims is Kultural Pluralism: a blurring of distinctions between Cultural Pluralism and white supremacist racism, designed to emotionally appeal broadly to moderate and mainstream conservative whites.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097206?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

In this paper, I examine the ideology of white supremacists and separatists, which portrays Whites as "victims." I first review several convergences in the recent literature on white supremacist discourse. I argue that the "victim ideology" has been discussed frequently, but generally only in passing, and in the service of other arguments. Following the approach to victimology suggested by Holstein and Miller (1990) I present an empirical constructionist analysis of these "victim claims," breaking them down into five themes — (1) discrimination, (2) rights abrogations, (3) stigmatization and the denial of pride, (4) loss of self-esteem, and (5) racial elimination. I conclude with some comments on the theoretical and social role of this ideology, and its use as a recruiting tool for the contemporary white supremacist and separatist movement.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20832074?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

---

Now, for some non paywalled shit, lol.  
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-demograph...-alt-right
https://academicmatters.ca/the-alt-right...on-campus/
https://www.gq.com/story/how-free-speech...premacists

Of particular interest in the first link above are the demographic breakdowns of respondents secure enough to comment on strong opinions regarding white solidarity, white discrimination, and white identity.  They quantify something that we likely already suspected, that NR rhetoric appeals to poor whites with no college education (though I bet that some people would be surprised that females are better represented than males).  The people in flyover country, those oft expressing sentiments about having been left behind, who contextualize the downtrodden state of their lives with respect to their peers (and often even their parents) with a narrative of victimization described by holsten/miller and then at length by berbrier.  The Freeze Peach Grift is a subset of category two, the abrogation of rights.   

NR WS rhetoric, and specifically the terminus of the position - the creation of a white ethnostate in the us, is intellectualized and repackaged as somehow being free of hate or violence, and this circles around a comment made earlier by Ego about how..so long as people don't directly make such calls..then it's a free speech issue.  I leave it to observers to figure out how..sans violence, all the non-whites (and these guys can get pretty damned narrow with their idea of whiteness) are going to be evicted.  

The trouble, also pointed out by Ego, is that white supremacy is heavily stigmatized.  We do laugh at open white supremacists, but it's also a fact that white supremacists manage to get primetime interviews on mainstream networks without the network noting that they -are- white supremacists.  Hell, Tucker Carlsons White Power Hour is a mainline dosefrom the anchor.  So long as NR's can conceptually distance themselves from that stigma they circumvented the main sociological barrier that's kept white supremacy in check all these years.  From that manufactured acceptability they can then employ themes and emotional pleas that strongly resonate with their target demographics.  

White supremacy is rejected, but we build veritable altars to free speech.  As a recruiter, what berbrier calls "the thinking racist", any opportunity to frame the discussion in the intellectual* context of free speech rather than white supremacy is mana from heaven.  Or, put another way, if a white supremacist can spend a half an hour discussing free speech and the hypocrisy of the left they need not directly reference their white supremacist views or even voice them to accomplish their organizational goals.  

Now, if you can't access jstor, and don't feel like sifting those links or any of the references cited in them...you can do a little experiment in your own time which might be eye opening.  There's a silent partner working 24 hours a day towards all of the above.  I'm willing to bet that no one reading this has a web history as full of white supremacist shit and searches as I do - but go to youtube, search for free speech videos, and then let it run tabbed out and auto-suggesting.  You're going to find that youtubes algorithm will inevitably drive you to NR rhetoric and presentations.   This isn't because youtube is a white supremacist, but because sensational content keeps people watching longer.  This has the effect of further laundering rhetoric that has already been..well..cleansed ( ).

That's how the dissemination of modern white supremacist rhetoric was monetized.

(something that won't jump out immediately in berbriers link - or the rest of his copious amount of work on the subject...is the date. The alt rights recruiting strategy, and broadly speaking the alt right itself..aren't actually new. He was cribbing their playbook in the early 90's, and they've been doing this quietly and efficiently outside of the limelight of supremacist stigma for two decades or more, so long that the current crop of media darlings have been listening to their shit since birth.)