Some people on the Right have gotten some of the points of the El Paso nutjob’s manifesto twisted around, reading meaning into it incorrectly (provided it was actually his). The killer was a raving nutjob who did not like Republicans or Democrats, nor Trump. But, along comes Mother Jones/HuffPost to highlight that he was totally out there, and an eco-extremist. If we’re comparing the Cult of Climastrology to Islam, he’d be a part of small number of jihadists
The El Paso Manifesto: Where Racism and Eco-Facism Meet
It proposed genocide as a pathway to ecological sustainability.
A manifesto posted online shortly before Saturday’s massacre at a Walmart in El Paso that the suspected shooter may have written blamed immigrants for hastening the environmental destruction of the United States and proposed genocide as a pathway to ecological sustainability.
Filled with white nationalist diatribes against “race-mixing†and the “Hispanic invasion of Texas,†the manifesto highlights far-right extremists’ budding revival of eco-fascism.
Titled “The Inconvenient Truth,†an allusion to Al Gore’s landmark climate change documentary, the ranting four-page document appeared on the extremist forum 8chan shortly before the shooting. Authorities have yet to confirm whether Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old Dallas-area white man arrested in connection with the shooting that left at least 22 dead, is the author.
“The environment is getting worse by the year,†the manifesto reads. “Most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.â€
Very interesting. This is a position pushed by many in the Cult of Climastrology, ranging from contraception and abortion for people (especially those pesky black and brown people in Africa and other 3rd world areas) to forced population reduction. Eco-fascism is the default position of the Cult. And is being embraced by Democrats. Huh
But as planet-heating emissions continue surging and scientists’ projections grow more dire, eco-fascism is experiencing a revival in a subculture of far-right extremism online. It comes amid a rekindled interest in Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber.
Kaczynski—like his newfound online fandom, who often distinguish themselves with pine-tree emoji on social media—subscribes to “lifeboat ethics.†The term, coined in the 1970s by the neoconservative ecologist Garrett Hardin, denotes the idea that “traditional humanitarian views of the ‘guilt-ridden,’ ‘conscience-stricken’ liberal†threatens the balance of nature. The belief traces its lineage back to 18th-century English philosopher Thomas Malthus, who theorized that population growth would eclipse the availability of resources to meet basic human needs without moral restraint or widespread disease, famine or war to thin the herd.
Interesting that this attempts to place this on the almost mainstream Right. Does this mean that white supremacists are actually joined at the hip with Democrats?
Also interesting that this came up when it was mentioned in the post earlier today (totally unintentional. I ran across this afterwards)
In September 2017, the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance asked its readers a question: “What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?†The bombastic essay wondered whether the “population explosion in the global south combined with climate change†demonstrated “the single greatest external threat to Western civilizationâ€â€”even “more serious than Islamic terrorism or Hispanic illegal immigration.â€
“If continued global change makes the poor, non-white parts of the world even more unpleasant to live in than they are now, it will certainly drive more non-whites north,†Jared Taylor, the publication’s editor and an influential white nationalist, wrote in an email to the magazine Jewish Currents. “I make no apology for…urging white nations to muster the will to guard their borders and maintain white majorities.â€
Two years later, white, male gunmen appear to be heeding his call.
Eco-fascism, like most of those claiming to be on the Left, even calling themselves Socialists, is actually on the far right of the political spectrum per basic Political Theory, beyond the Democratic model, into Authoritarianism. It’s about government authority. It’s cute, though, the attempt to shift blame away from their own eco-nutbag belief set.
As a sidebar, if you’ve read American Renaissance and Jared Taylor (I read everything from left and right), you see that they actually call for non-violence. They want to be separated from non-Whites. They refer to themselves as white separatists. This segment doesn’t advocate for murder, for violence, for even racial tension. They just want to be left alone.
