Edgy satires often achieve greatness proportional to the power of the thing they satirize. For example, a novel satirizing Communist Russia in the 1920s, such as Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog, would have lost much of its edge had it been written in, say, 1987, during the final years of Communism. But since it was written in 1925, when Communism was quite vigorous, Bulgakov got cancelled, and the book had to wait until 1987 to see the light of day. (more…)
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Jim Goad’s The Redneck Manifesto is a groundbreaking, irreverent polemic against the stigmatization of the white working class in American culture. It was published by Simon and Schuster in 1997. In pugnacious and often hilarious prose, Goad shreds the racial and political taboos of the era and slaughtered many a sacred cow. The Redneck Manifesto brought a critical eye to then-radical terms like “white supremacy,” racial justice, and “anti-fascism” which had yet to reach widespread exposure outside of Left-wing universities, but would terrorize the American political landscape in subsequent decades. (more…)
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Man Runs Over and Kills Republican “Extremist” With His Car
In case you haven’t heard — because almost no one in the mainstream media has made a peep about it — in the early morning hours of Sunday, September 18, a drunken North Dakota man purposely ran over and killed an 18-year-old male after a “political argument.” He then fled the scene, called 911, and told them he thought his victim was a member of a Republican “extremist group.” A police affidavit states that the perpetrator “admitted to striking the pedestrian with his car because he had a political argument with the pedestrian.” (more…)
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On the latest installment of The Writers’ Bloc, Nick Jeelvy was joined by the world’s boldest hatemonger, the steel-headed Mr. Jim Goad, to review the Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents, as well as answer YOUR QUESTIONS, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)