Comments on: A Night at the Ritz: White Supremacists, a Knife Fight and a Holocaust Denier

By: QE

QE — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:29:50 +0000

I had the extreme misfortune of dating a guy in his 40s who told me he was Christian, graduated from grad school and was starting a business. He ended up being an old skinhead who aged into what is called a “tea sipping nazi.” It was not pleasant and was very hard to get away from that. He, like most, was an Odinist. Many are Satanists or atheists. A small percentage are Christian Identity. An even smaller number are regular Christians who don’t last long in the movement.

Don’t bash Christians, It was my Christian faith that gave me the strength to crawl out of that cesspool.

By: Kershaw Chive

Kershaw Chive — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:28:25 +0000

Firstly, a holocaust denier? Who even cares about this stuff anymore? I don’t quite understand what the big deal with the whole denial versus belief thing is; people should be entitled to their opinion or their belief, and that’s all there is to it. The fact of the matter is that history is only a “fable agreed upon”, as per Napoleon even.

By: c. davis

c. davis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:45:45 +0000

Thank you for your part in the CNN/Lou Dobbs removal. I have been very upset with his comments for months now. Just hope you are working on Glen Beck and Sean Hannity of the Fox News organization. These people are vile and speak pure treason. This upsets me so that this kind of talk about our own country and our president is being beamed into the countries of our enemies. These people seem to me to be out of bounds….freedom of speech or not. When a major news organizations lets their commentators call the president of the United States names and says our country is weak…..it’s time to pull their license or tell them to shape up.
Thanks,
C.Davis

By: Tom Shelley

Tom Shelley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:41:36 +0000

As far as the fash ruining Norse culture…

A friend of mine who is a member of Irish Anti-Fascist Action turned me onto the idea of reclaiming Valhalla from the fash. Based on what he said I have now done four poems where I refer to leaders of antifascist/left/Irish republican and other such forces, going to Valhalla. They’re all at http://devlin-mcaliskey.blogsp.....l/Valhalla .

Tom

By: Tezuka fan

Tezuka fan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:23:54 +0000

@ Tom,

I think that Odinism indirectly plays the largest role, at least for the racist skinhead population as well as Neo-Nazis.
Side-note: Is there no culture Nazis won’t screw up, as in, turn from a culture worth studying, respecting, and being proud of, (Norse and Ancient Indian) to one that evokes accidental racist attitudes that were not there (runes and svástika). Some anthropologists and historians can’t even hear the words swastika and Aryan without thinking of Nazis.

By: Tom Shelley

Tom Shelley — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:48:12 +0000

As far as the comment about Christianity, I’ve gotten the impression that only some minority of White supremacists call themselves Christian. There are strong atheist tendencies in the racist movement, and then there’s odinism, and Satanism and maybe 1-2 other religions I can’t remember now..

Tom

By: Tezuka fan

Tezuka fan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:03:51 +0000

@Fredric,

Not to diminish the events explained in the article, but what the hell does this have to do with Christianity?

By: texasgomer

texasgomer — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:48:42 +0000

To the moderator: This has nothing to do with the article above so I wont be too disturbed if it doesn’t appear. What is SPLC’s take on Stetson Kennedy as told by the book “Freakonomics?” Also do you think any part of that book gives comfort and assistance to the racists?

By: Reginald

Reginald — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:45:37 +0000

Skinhead behavior indicates massive frontal brain damage. Thus there is a biological origin of the evil they do.

By: Fredric L. Rice

Fredric L. Rice — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:57:45 +0000

Isn’t Christanity just lovely?

By: Matt Janovic

Matt Janovic — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:02:23 +0000

Ah! But was his Girl Friday, Jaenelle Antas there?