Tag: mass shootings

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When I was younger — and what a great, sweet, innocent, unrealistically wonderful time it was — nostalgia was often seen as a crutch for people who can’t enjoy the modern world. But since there’s nothing to enjoy about the modern world, nostalgia now seems like the wiser option.

I was born, weaned, whelped, and reared — though not necessarily in that order — in the greater Philadelphia area, and I will never apologize for this, despite the fact that it would be the prudent thing to do. (more…)

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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. (more…)

Salvador Ramos

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This spring has yielded a bumper crop of high-profile mass shootings motivated by fearlessly robust racial and ethnic animus. It was only a little over a month ago that a white-hating black man shot up a Brooklyn subway car. On May 11, an Asian-hating black man allegedly shot three at a Dallas hair salon. Three days after that, a black-hating white man killed ten at a Buffalo supermarket. The next day, a Taiwanese-hating former Chinese mainlander shot up a California church. (more…)

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Talk about bad timing.

As springtime blooms and summer looms, as everyone tries to keep their brains from overheating after two-plus years of COVID theatrics, race riots, alleged insurrections, an emergent Third World War, and hundred-dollar hamburgers, the last thing we needed was another one of those once-in-a-blue-moon white-supremacist racial massacres. (more…)

Frank R. James

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Early Wednesday afternoon — nearly 30 hours after he allegedly detonated a pair of smoke bombs on a Manhattan-bound Brooklyn subway car before blindly firing an estimated 33 rounds from a Glock pistol at passengers, hitting ten but killing no one — a fat little frog-faced black man named Frank R. James was finally taken into custody. (more…)

Jack Murphy, aka John Goldman, an allegedly conservative “masculinity coach” who will get very angry with you if you suggest he’s gay, even though he’s said publicly that he’s had sex with men and has made videos while using a dildo on himself. He also used to frequently interact with a recent mass shooter on Twitter.

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Lyndon McLeod, Jack Murphy, & the Perils of Performative Masculinity

As a wee beardless youth in the brick-and-cement ’burbs of Philadelphia, I found myself watching an old Robert Mitchum film on TV one night and wondering how he managed to be so cool. Then it suddenly occurred to me that his secret was that he didn’t think about being cool; he simply was cool. To become conscious about being cool was to take a long leap away from even hoping to be cool. (more…)

Samuel Little, the most murderous serial killer in American history.

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The Cost of N-Bombs: $137 Million

How much money would you accept to be called a nigger for nine months?

Even if I agreed to a $10,000 settlement, I’d feel as if I was stealing from the person who kept calling me a nigger. It doesn’t even matter if they kept telling me to go back to Africa and drew the occasional swastika in a shared bathroom. (more…)

Variety show host “Ziwe” Fumudoh

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Shooting at White People With Intent to Kill Is Clearly a Mental Health Crisis

Justin Tyran Roberts has short dreadlocks, a scowling face, and a dumb tattoo between his eyebrows. The convicted felon has reportedly confessed to a shooting spree in Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama last weekend that either involved three incidents where five white men were injured or four incidents where six white men were injured. (more…)

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Those money-makers and power-seekers who would sacrifice anybody and anything — the whole world — to their personal ends. . . hide their cynical self-centredness under a noisy lip-adherence to the dogma of the “dignity of all men” . . . while bus[il]y causing, directly or indirectly, in view of their goal, the suffering and death of any number of human beings. . . (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Rules of the Game 2021.

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In the immediate wake of 2013’s Boston Marathon bombing, writer David Sirota — a skinny dork with delusions of being a tough guy — wrote an article for Salon.com called “I Hope the Bomber is a White American.”

I hope that Sirota was disappointed to the point of lifelong fecal incontinence that the bombers turned out to be a pair of foreign-born Chechen Muslim brothers with an axe to grind against all things white and American. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Rubbed the Wrong Way, 2021.

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If there’s anything to be learned from the shooting sprees at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday afternoon that left eight people dead, it’s that the massage-parlor industry is disproportionately Asian to a degree that would be comical if, you know, it hadn’t led to this unacceptable tragedy.

Since the shooter is white, WHITE SUPREMACY became the immediate narrative. (more…)

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Jeff Sparrow
Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications, 2019

This short book claims to be “[t]he first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre’s fascist roots and what it represents.”[1] The author, Jeff Sparrow, links a specific ideology (viz. fascism) to the event and tries to account for this ideology’s evolution from its original form to the present day.

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