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The Fall of Michelle Malkin
At an alt-right conference running counter to CPAC, called AFPAC, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin fell further down the rabbit-hole:
.@michellemalkin on "anti-Semitism" pic.twitter.com/oFNMhVqLFj
— Zoomer Clips (@ZoomerClips) February 29, 2020
In this short clip Malkin engages in not just Holocaust denial, but also indiscriminately throws around charges of dual loyalty. It’s part of a trend for Malkin, who also endorsed anti-Semite Paul Nehlen in his contest against Rep. Paul Ryan.
In her opening remarks, Malkin referred to herself as the “Mommy” of the group and thanked the “Groypers,” the alt-right group hosting her, for pushing back against mainstream conservatives.
Today, the ConInc gatekeepers will welcome this lying asshole doxxer who does Antifa & SPLC’s dirty work back to @cpac. All the young culture warriors at @TPUSA & @yaf sit on their hands. Thank you, Groypers, for fighting back & hounding this toxic little menace! #AmericaFirst https://t.co/guZ3oCBmqF
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 29, 2020
It’s hard to overstate Malkin’s influence in the conservative media ecosystem; she is the founder of HotAir, Twitchy, and was a mentor to many up-and-comers over the course of her time at the helm of both.
Really embarrassing for anyone who continues to defend her and has refused to recognize she appeals almost exclusively to bigots now.
Hard for anyone on the right to complain about Omar, Tlaib etc. if we don't call this out.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) March 2, 2020
And because of Malkin’s influence, we (as a conservative movement) need to self-reflect about how reflective Malkin’s views are of our movement as a whole. Has Malkin always questioned the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust? Has Malkin always considered Jews to be agents of the Israeli government? How mainstream are the views she’s professing now in the conservative movement? They are uncomfortable questions, but ones we need to be asking as we continue to (rightly) call out the anti-Semitism on the Left with Omar, Tlaib, etc.
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This is part of the problem that I have with the OP. It was thin on details. I don’t know who Patrick Casey is or Nick Fuentes or what the devil a “goyper” is. With absolutely no background on who anyone involved in this is other than Michelle Malkin. I am not just going to accept as a given that she is an anti-semitic because someone calls her that.
Ms. Malkin is a minority woman married to a Jewish husband. I set the bar pretty high to call her a white nationalist or antisemitic.
Indeed. I didn’t see that quote from her earlier. Clearly winking to the audience of Fuentes and Casey there. Has Fuentes ever mentioned Stalingrad? Does he even know there was a battle there? Again, Michelle’s not anti-semitic……but “dog whistling” really hard.
Googling Nick Fuentes, Patrick Casey, or Groypers will take you places on the internet that you won’t like to go.
The story is getting more exposure now and condemnations are coming in. Pamela Gellar, David French, David Harsanyi, Robert Spencer are among the people that have trashed Malkin so far.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/conservatives-blast-michelle-malkins-anti-semitic-questions-once-admired-her-this-is-disgusting/
I don’t know if I can agree with that.
Fear animates the other side, too. They think they are being dehumanized, vilified, and made a minority in their own country by the importation of people who really are ethno-chauvinists (yes, blacks and Mexicans are ethno-chauvinists). None of these people are going to be ashamed about fighting for their children’s future – who happen to be white, too.
Heck, just saying “it’s ok to be white” in direct opposition to white guilt and white oppression propaganda is considered racist and white-supremacist.
So no, I don’t think being proud of protecting your families from current dogma is going to properly define true white supremacy. If they are white supremacists for mild statements like everyone had a right to self determination (16 words! Oh my!) Then I don’t think pride or lack of it is a decent litmus test.
The arguments need to be dealt with as they are presented. Because right now, as long as they are dismissed as trolling, they will become more entrenched. Why is it ok for Israel to have a wall and not us? Why is it ok for every other race in the world to have their own country but every white country has to open its borders? Why is it ok to dehumanize whites and blame them for all the world’s problems but you point out that wall street is mostly Jews and you are an anti-semite?
Perhaps we should not play this race game at all? I reject it when it comes from the left and when it comes from the right. Others may be playing it, and try to draw us in, but why should we view the world through an us vs. them dynamic when it comes to race? Can’t we break out of that paradigm?
Lol. Except that’s EXACTLY what the OP did.
So sure… let’s start with the minorities doing the propaganda. Fyi, by today’s standards, your comment was racist. Ta da, you are a racist, too.
The OP identified someone who is playing the antisemitism game in front of an audience sympathetic to white nationalism and antisemitism.
Like I said, I reject the tactics of both the far left and the far right when it comes to race. Call me what you will.
No. She didnt.
Bethany played the anti-Semitism card against someone asking questions that that someone believes are reasonable questions and shared them in front of a crowd that also believes they are reasonable questions.
And I don’t like the left or the right playing the “race” card in order to get out of addressing arguments.
All I hear is that these questions aren’t made in good faith. How on earth do you know that? You don’t.
Knowing who the other speakers are and knowing the language of Holocaust denial, yes, I can say that she is not asking those questions in good faith. Unless she is that naive, which I do not think she is.
Wise words.
No. Nations and race are historically linked. The only partial recent exception was the mass inculcation of a European Protestant flavored civic religion that was part of public education for immigrants in the US for less than a hundred years. It began to die with “ethnic studies” and the fallout of the Vietnam war.
The genie is out of the bottle. The US needs basically closed borders and time to come to an equilibrium. Just think of large scale immigration as an invasion. The fact that there is a 5th column in Washington that dominates one political party and has strong influence on the other that wants the invasion makes it worse.
An invasion? Sometimes it’s obvious:
Is that so? You are playing identity politics.
There is a lot to unpack here. I would just point out that the states of most of the Western hemisphere also have a history of immigration from across the globe. I don’t think we can necessarily capture their experiences, as well as our own, in a classic European nation-state sense.
No, I’m not.
Well said.
Identity politics is about prioritizing your identity over other identities. That does not really apply here when I am criticizing a group of white nationalists and their keynote speaker who thought she would play with the words of Holocaust denial.
This actually makes me want to cry. European nations are so ill-defined it’s pointless to defend them.
Everyone has a right to the West.
Mind reading.
The JEWS promote their identity over other identities. How have you not seen that? You are doing it right here!
Bethany did it! Ben Shapiro does it. Everyone who defends the Jewish identity while claiming the west has no identity is promoting jewish identity over all other identities!
This is a lovely example of the Streisand Effect. I bet there are a lot more people acquainted with Mrs Malkin’s and the Groypers’ views than before this post was written.
#irony
I did not say the West has no identity. I do not conflate West with “White.” The definition of whiteness has been so nebulous over the past few centuries anyways. People are entitled to their identity, but identity politics is a different game altogether because it relies on blaming “the other” for all of your problems. This then makes it possible to promote your identity at the expense of others.
It is possible to criticize Michelle Malkin and her behavior and her associations.
For my own edification, I’ve been attempting to get some documented specifics as to the “other speakers” and their “language of Holocaust denial” almost since the start of this thread. I remain unsuccessful.
The other speakers included Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey (link here). Antisemites like to parse the statistics of the Holocaust, which is why she used the euphemism. You can have a David Irving level of Holocaust denial, or you can have the quibbling over the deaths of 5,500,000 people or 6,000,000. What it does create is a distraction from the antisemitism itself as we all start arguing over statistics when likely none of us have ever done any archival research on the matter.
You don’t need to be mind reader. You can be judged by the company you keep. Do we really think they were there to listen to a history seminar on the proper recording of WWII fatalities from all theaters of the war?
Why would she even mention this if it didn’t apply to the audience?
I appreciate the answer but it’s essentially non-responsive in terms of specifics. I’m aware who the other speakers were BTW. I just know little about them save for second-hand characterizations, which I’ve been conditioned to distrust in this day and age. There is an interesting discussion of the numbers, above in the thread. For the record, I really wasn’t directing my inquiry to you in particular (or as a challenge), but only as to a problem in the thread. I would’ve preferred that it be addressed in long form by the O/P as I indicated in #39, above.
The technical term is guilt by association.
If you hang out with Groypers and call yourself their mom, I can judge your chosen association with them.
If you choose to attend a conference organized by a supporter of Groypers, you can expect to be judged for that choice.