Nick Fuentes has been a rapidly rising star in the online 'alt-right' ecosystem lately. I say 'alt-right' but it's more like just 'the right' these days, isn't it? Tucker Carlson interviewed him a few weeks ago and it was a bit of a boring, softball interview that didn't make much news, besides the fact that Tucker had him on at all. Nick was on Piers Morgan a couple nights ago and it was a much more combative interview and has been making quite a bit of news. So I thought I would touch on Nick and more broadly, why I think he's become popular and what it means.
If you don't know, Nick Fuentes is a young Gen-Z influencer on the right. He was one of the first 'cancelled' guys ever. He's been de-banked, 'de-credit carded', thrown off of every single social media site except for Rumble (X recently let him back on but won't checkmark him), kicked out of Boston University, and even had someone try to assassinate him (the would-be assassin ended up getting shot to death in the act). He's been in the online trenches for a while but he sort of burst onto the mainstream on January 6th when he was at the capitol making speeches. I'm not going to give you a whole background of Nick Fuentes. If you're here, you probably know as much about him as I do, which is whatever is on youtube and X.
His interview with Piers was really good and interesting, definitely worth watching. But there was one moment really early on that I found most interesting and which has the most implications.
It was obvious from the start what Piers' strategy was. The 'matrix's' view of Nick is that he sort of plays both sides. He's bombastic and super edgy with his followers and on live streams, but tones it down a little bit in more mainstream, formal interviews, and this is why he has any following at all. The 'boomer-left-center' coalition thought this was some sort of chink in his armor, a crack in the foundation they could exploit. Piers thought he would get the toned down, genteel version of Nick and then hit him with his 'worst' clips from his streams and make him either defend/explain the 'un-defendable' (in their eyes) or, more likely, squirm out of or back away from them. The 'look, they're just jokes' cop out.
So Piers hits him pretty early on with a clip of Fuentes saying 'yes I am a racist' and asks Nick if he'd like to defend that remark. You can see it in Piers eyes that he thought he had him dead to rights here. And Nick just says 'Yes, I agree with myself, I am racist.' And Piers did the shocked Pikachu face.
'Oh so you're just saying you're racist?'
'Yes.'
'So you openly admit that you're racist?'
'Yes.'
'You just admitted to the world that you're a racist, Nick, correct?'
'Yes.'
The bulk of the interview went like that.
'So you don't think women should be able to vote? Really? You're a misogynist?
'Yes.'
Piers really didn't have a whole lot more than that. He made fun of Nick for being a virgin and never being in love which wasn't exactly the home run that I think he thought it was.
But I just thought that exchange was so illuminating because it goes to show how much all of this nonsense is self-inflicted. Their power only extends for as far as you let it. The struggle sessions, the groveling apologies that never get accepted anyways, the cancellations, that shit is all over, because there was never anything backing it up anyway. It was a self inflicted spell we were under. Like one of those weirdo, old timey monk-priests who self flagellate themselves, the only pain comes from the self. Remember that bizarro 15 minute video of the little indie-musician girl apologizing with the ukelele song? She got more backlash for the apology than anything else.
We have been taught our entire lives that being 'racist' is the worst possible thing you can be. Shoved down out throats at every turn, screeched into our ears: 'diversity is our strength!' 'We're a melting pot!' 'Immigrants built this country!' A wall of angry, bored wine moms with an axe to grind. A tornado of HR ladies looking to jump on a quick zoom call. Bad faith bureaucrats blowing in the wind, parroting whatever they think their most obnoxious Twitter followers want them to. It's like the entire world turned into the worst female middle school teacher you ever had, and for whatever reason, it worked! For like, 30 years! Being considered a racist was about as bad for you socially as just about anything else you can think of. Chris Brown beat the shit of Rhianna, very publicly, and I'm sure Bank of America would happily give him a bank account. He has a blue checkmark. But if you dare say 'ya know, black people sure do commit a lot of crime', or 'I care about Jews and Israel the same amount as they care about me and America' and you are essentially turned into a non-person. This has been the deal for about as long as I can remember.
So for finally a guy sort of in the mainstream, up and coming, to just look straight into the camera and say 'yes' when asked if he stands by his statements that he is a racist (and thinks 'Hitler is cool'), is truly a revolutionary act. It's the first step of many of breaking the spell.
Now for the record, I don't agree with Nick on everything. And what we're talking about when we say 'racist' here probably isn't what you're thinking and you don't need to at all think that 'Hitler was cool' to get what I'm saying here.
The main point here, the reason why I wanted to talk about this at all, is just the breaking of the spell. The slight lifting of the fog.
White people, White men especially, have been beaten the fuck down for most of my life, and if I was 15 years younger, it would have been for my entire life. In government, in business, on TV, on every single fucking commercial that exists, in every movie, in art (how many art pieces have you seen mocking Jesus or Christianity? Have you ever seen one mocking any other religious figure? You make one about Islam and you will literally get your head chopped off and have the Pope defend the killers!) It is so ingrained that you don't even notice it anymore. It's just baked into everything. A black person can say 'I think we should kill all White people' to a nodding White person like they're ordering breakfast. Steven Colbert, Anderson Cooper and Joe Biden can say 'Whites will be a minority in America soon and that's exciting!" to absolutely no pushback whatsoever. Somehow, every single writer of ever single article or caption or subtitle or substack all got the memo, at the same time, that they should always capitalize the B in Black but never capitalize the W in White, even when it's in a headline.
I'm not going to go on and on with this point. I've made more than a couple posts now doing just that and looking at the population numbers and the data and whatnot. We are being erased and they aren't even hiding it anymore. They brag about it!
And the worst part of all it is that it is such an own-goal. It is so unnecessary and evil, to say nothing of the fact that it is entirely baseless.
This is the official beginning of the end of the 'Post WWII consensus', in my view anyway. You may say the ascent of Donald Trump was the real start to the end, and you may be right, but this is kicking it into another gear.
After World War 2, 'The blame for the destruction of the World Wars was placed at the feet of nationalistic fervor and loyalty. The strong love that people feel for their own family, kin, and people, stirred to ambition and greatness by natural leaders among them (i.e., demagogues), must be tamped down and deconstructed. From hence forth, nationalism would be tied to fascism, Nazism, and populist authoritarianism. The only reasonable option open to a freedom-loving people was a politically and economically open global society."
This has largely been the case for nearly 80 years now. One thing this coalition cannot let stand is proud White people. Twenty or more White men gathering? Can't have it! Your God, your leaders, your countries founding fathers, your art, your statues, your history, your culture, your ideas, you, it's all bad and you should be ashamed. So ashamed that we're going to replace you in your own country and if you even notice it, you're bad too. It's honestly amazing that this ever worked at all when you think about it.
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