[Fwd: Re: Wenn ich Kultur hoere (was Re: Invention of the white race // Rakeshon eugenics)]

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Justin comments on Wojtek Sokolowski:
>
>> I am pretty sure that many 'militia types' belong to the same category.
>> These folks did not read Freud or Habermas to learn the proper language to
>> express their discontent.  They are unhappy, and they express their
>> unhappiness with the canned words they find around.  And what they find
>> around is racist, sexist, or just plain crazy.    Mainly because the only
>
>I agree with WS on this. Here in Ohio the militia types toy with a lot of
>crackpot theories, but don't seem, for the most part, to be convinced
>ideoological antisemite protofascist conspiracy nuts. They are angfry and
>alienated and need a vocabulary to express their rage, which they lack. If
>you listen to them for a while, they won't even flip out if you are you're
>a socialist, as long as you explain that means for you taht ordinary
>people should run the government and stop the big corporations from
>exploiting you. They are sort of fixated on the subject of guns, though,
>and if you say that their AR 15s won't domuch good against the 101st
>Airborne, they tend to say that the Vietnamese beat the US Army with AK
>47s. You hear this from Vietnam Vets, bitterly. There are Black Ohio
>Militiamen and women.

They seem to often mention the Black Panthers as well.

I'm not as sanguin about the militia folks as Wojtek, Justin, Alexander
Cockburn, etc. appear to be, though.

Among the crackpot theories they toy with, I must add that some of them get
taken in by UFO sightings and government conspiracies to hide evidence of
them and stuff like that. Paranoid imagination seems rampant, probably due
to the lack of theories and energetic left movements that would allow them
to make sense of their rage.

I don't mind that they are well armed, as long as they aim their guns in
the correct direction, but I fear that their paranoid imagination might
skew their aims.

Yoshie