Ideology and "Psychology", was Re: identifying with the enemy

[Gordon Fitch]

Chip Berlet:
> 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.

I hadn't intended to become Gritz's lbo-talk advocate,
especially since he was dragged in (as far as I can see)
only to taint the POW/MIA myth and cult, but I have to note
that, again, the material posted fails to make a case beyond
guilt by association -- that is, Gritz is not quoted or
described in an explicitly racist act or utterance, even in
venues where such acts and utterances might be applauded.
As far as I know, the only person we have noticed condemning
an entire nation was Tim O'Brien.  I don't know if this
constitutes racism or not -- O'Brien may mentally exclude
minorities as well as elites from the "public" who would
then comprise only the great White trailer-trash residue,
a pretty racial concept.

In any case, Gritz is almost completely irrelevant to the
issues I was actually discussing, and perhaps the flogging
has now earned him a rest.