Gritz, by all accounts, is not a personal anti-Black or anti-Asian racist in his interactions with others. He propounds theories rooted in White supremacist legal theory and antisemitic conspiracy theory. He is a political racist, not a personal racist. Thus he can talk about Jews and "Orientals" as part of the vast conspiracy and still be polite to Asians and Jews he meets on the street.
The two can exist quite easily in a person.
-Chip Berlet
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Ideology and "Psychology", was Re: identifying with the enemy
> Michael Pugliese:
> > ...
> > Racism in the US military? What, anarchist Gordon
channelling Charles
> > Moskos? (Low blow!?) ....
>
> All I can tell you about it is what I observed myself.
There
> were plenty of racists and racism, but the official policy
of
> the Army strongly deprecated it. The ranks were
integrated
> -- the company I was in was for quite a while more than
half
> Black -- and the overt racists were risking both their
careers,
> because of official disapproval, and their lives, because
of
> the likelihood of fragging. Therefore, I reasoned that
Gritz
> might have concealed the racist convictions I said he did
not
> display. We're talking about the Infantry; the large part
> of the military who do not anticipate the possibility of
> direct combat may feel freer to exhibit their prejudices.
>