You know, one of the things I keep forgetting is how reasonable people tend to be over here. My flinch-instinct is still very much tuned to other corners of the internet.
Basically, everything you’ve said is consistent and reasonable and utterly dissimilar to most of the progressive stuff I’ve ever seen. My sociology prof’s lectures, articles I read on Jstor, friends/family back home in my yellow dog democrat hometown, the feminist / progressive christian blogs I lurk on, politicians I follow (and often vote for. My options are bad in that sense.). Its obviously the same general pedigree, but a different breed. I’m not particularly sure what to make of it.
I never heard of Timmy McVeigh.before today. His wikipedia page doesn’t match your description—it does not mention any “divinely ordained race war”. Do I have the wrong McVeigh?
You have to scroll a bit; his whole plan was based on a white-supremacist novel called The Turner Diaries. It’s pretty much Battlefield Earth with Psychiatry find-and-replaced with Judaism, even down to the “nuke ’em all” ending. I’ve never read it myself but it’s supposedly very popular in those circles.
You know, one of the things I keep forgetting is how reasonable people tend to be over here. My flinch-instinct is still very much tuned to other corners of the internet.
Basically, everything you’ve said is consistent and reasonable and utterly dissimilar to most of the progressive stuff I’ve ever seen. My sociology prof’s lectures, articles I read on Jstor, friends/family back home in my yellow dog democrat hometown, the feminist / progressive christian blogs I lurk on, politicians I follow (and often vote for. My options are bad in that sense.). Its obviously the same general pedigree, but a different breed. I’m not particularly sure what to make of it.
You have to scroll a bit; his whole plan was based on a white-supremacist novel called The Turner Diaries. It’s pretty much Battlefield Earth with Psychiatry find-and-replaced with Judaism, even down to the “nuke ’em all” ending. I’ve never read it myself but it’s supposedly very popular in those circles.