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"Which way, western man?
That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley
Simpson, a former leftist Christian pastor turned one of the most influential
neo-Nazi ideologues in American history. The book helped radicalize an entire
generation of white supremacists in the US, with its vicious antisemitism,
opposition to all forms of immigration and open praise for Hitler. The purpose
of the book, wrote Simpson, was “to reveal organized Jewry as a world power
entrenched in every country of the white man’s world, operating freely across
every nation’s frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of
them all”.
In recent decades, Which way, western man? has become a popular meme – but only
on the far-right fringes of the internet.
Until, that is, the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Last August, the
X account of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted an ICE
recruitment poster featuring an Uncle Sam figure holding a “law and order” sign
while standing by a crossroads post featuring arrows reading “invasion” and
“cultural decline”. The DHS caption? “Which way, American man?”
Shocking? Yes. Coincidence? Nope. Earlier this month, the official White House
Twitter account posted a cartoon of Greenlandic huskies with Danish flags on
their sleds facing a choice between the White House on one side and China’s
Great Wall and Russia’s Red Square on the other. The White House’s caption?
“Which way, Greenland man?”
It should be one of the biggest stories in the United States, if not the world.
Eighty years after the death of Hitler and the defeat of Nazi Germany, the US
government, in the form of the Trump administration, has a
Nazi problem."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
