It’s a little-known fact, but when the Learned Elders of Zion met in the Jewish cemetery in Prague in the mid-nineteenth century to formulate their Protocols, they kept one footnote secret.
Until now.
PROTOCOL No.9
9. In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.*
*TO THIS END, THE HIDDEN HAND SHALL ORGANISE A GATHERING TO TAKE PLACE IN MELBOURNE IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS HENCE. There the virtues of Multicuturalism will be EXTOLLED, whiteness PROCLAIMED as operating through institutions, ideology and identity formation to secure political, legal and economic privileges for white people as a collective, leaving many Indigenous and other people racialised as ‘non white’, collectively disadvantaged and dispossessed of material, cultural and intellectual resources, and the GOYIM made GUILTY. Do not suppose for a moment this statement is empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism (Evolution), Marxism (Communism), Nietzsche-ism (Socialism). To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM. This gathering shall create DIS-UNITY and OBSCURE our Agenda for the GOYIM.
And it shall be called…
Re-orientating Whiteness
Melbourne, 3-5 December 2008
Keynote Speakers:
* ANN LAURA STOLER, New School for Social Research
* AILEEN MORETON-ROBINSON, Queensland University of Technology
* LYNETTE RUSSELL, Monash University
* PATRICK WOLFE, La Trobe University
* MATT WRAY, Harvard UniversityFollowing the success of the Historicising Whiteness conference of 2006, Re-Orienting Whiteness continues the critical engagement with whiteness studies. In conjunction with the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, Re-Orienting Whiteness 2008 invites scholars to explore the potential, or otherwise, of ‘whiteness’ to analyse the operations of ‘race’, past and present.
Our central aim is to bring whiteness studies into a closer conversation with other approaches to ‘race’, particularly those which have emerged from studies of colonialism and postcolonial theory. There has been remarkably little cross fertilisation between these areas of scholarship, despite the many obvious synergies between them. We seek to foreground this tension as a fundamental challenge for the field. We envision the conference traversing a variety of countries, periods, methodologies and theoretical concepts, bringing together scholars of diverse backgrounds and interests. Broadening out from the (settler colonial) context of the United States, we wish to explore how whiteness operated in colonial and non-colonial contexts across the globe.
Possible themes include:
* Indigenous perspectives on whiteness
* The politics of apology/assimilation/sovereignty/restitution/power
* Whiteness in the colonial/settler colonial encounter
* Whiteness in non-colonial contexts
* The gendered privileges of whiteness
* The chronology of whiteness: visibility/invisibility
* Cultures, representations, borderlands, bodies, transformations
* How important were global imperial processes to the operation of white power?
* Does whiteness even matter?Please send 200 word abstracts, along with a brief half-page CV, by 29 August 2008 to: reorientingwhiteness[at]gmail[dot]com
Proposals for panels of up to three speakers are most welcome. Website coming soon…
Conference Convenors:
* Leigh Boucher (Monash University),
* Jane Carey (University of Melbourne),
* Kat Ellinghaus (Monash University).In association with the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. Supported by the School of Historical Studies, Monash University and the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
Fortunately, the brave men and women of Stormfront Down Under have not let ZOG‘s cunning plan slip under the radar, and are encouraging one another to protest this affront to White Civilization. ‘White_Australian’, a keen advocate of further education, proclaims “As Australian White Nationalists it is our DUTY to go to this conference”. Another racist meathead, ‘Prometheus’, whinges that “Our primary enemy isn’t the Islamics, or the Vietnamese, or the Sudanese, it is these whites who will attend this meeting to advocate deconstructing whiteness, that is, deconstructing our own race. This is a rare opportunity to attack the belly of the beast. Going there to argue intellectually would only legitimise their argument and politicize what is essentially an … issue of self preservation. Events like this can only be dealt with [by] protests and brute force.” Similarly, ‘Kindred_Loyalist’ is of the opinion that “This is a Communist initiative. The war against the concept of race was largely initiated and sustained by Jews and Communists. Boas, Lewontin, and Gould were all Jewish anthropologists who made no secret of their hatred of “racism” and their belief that a scientist doesn’t have to approach his work objectively. Lewontin was also a Marxist. Many Jews working in academic areas outside anthropology have contributed to the destruction of race as a concept too. Professor and sociologist, Steven Seidman … stated “Whiteness is assumed…It is the default condition”. Noel Ignatiev is a Communist Jew and his site bears the heading “Abolish the White Race by any means possible”. Maurice Berger and Eric Foner, both Jews, are also active in “whiteness studies”. Kevin MacDonald‘s The Culture of Critique explains all this in much detail.” Paul Innes, the US-appointed moderator of SFDU, reckons that repeating the nutty performance of the Aryan Guard in Calgary, Canada last year would be a neat idea (although Paul admits he may not have the opportunity to grace the event with his own presence).
NB. The video above depicts the Aryan Guard goosestepping about Calgary on March 21, 2008. The soundtrack is provided by the Californian neo-Nazi band Final War, who played at the Melbourne Croatia Social Club in September last year for the annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig. This year the gig is scheduled for September 13, and will * Blood Red Eagle (Newcastle), Ravenous, and at least one other group of struggling neo-Nazi string-pluckers and tub-thumpers from overseas. Of last year’s affair, which ended up being a relative success for the neo-Nazis, but a PR failure for the Social Club, one anonymous bonehead remarked:
The Chairman of M.K.F.C. has been reported as calling supporters of the B&H Movement and S.C.H.S as “scum”. Perhaps that term would better apply to those such as G.Roberts and C.Smith (aka Cam Sexenheimer) in regards to their efforts to attack, vilify and divide Australian-Croatians via their poorly researched and truth-challenged article; “Neo-Nazis split Croat Community”. The only apology we will make regarding this entire matter is to the innocents of the M.C.S.C., caught in what amounts to a “beat up” orchestrated by anarchist and extreme left misfits. Frustrated by their impotence and inability to halt a meeting of White Nationalists they chose the easiest target they could find and made up a scapegoat in the name of the M.C.S.C. Absolutely reprehensible!
On reflection, there’s probably some truth to this. That is, it’s quite likely that, even if the venue for the neo-Nazi gathering had been known in advance, the possibility of there being any direct confrontation between those in attendance and those who object to such gatherings was, and remains, very low, Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice being one of many groups content to sit on the fence regarding neo-Nazi infiltration into punk and skinhead subcultures. Nevertheless, the two neo-Nazi groups responsible for organising the gig — both local franchises of US-based groups — aren’t taking any chances, and the venue remains a closely-guarded secret until the day of the event. To give some flavour as to the quality of its supporters:
ozwick14 : that was a fucking awesome gig! Rock on 28!
mason20 : Sure was, No offence to Final War but come on sbs….Fortress was the bloody headliners.
ozwick14 : fortress made the night for sure
[Paul Innes] : This report was vilificatory, discriminatory and false – let alone poorly done. Still, it is SBS that did the report and was a Non-White presenter, so it was the usual crap propaganda to be expected.
dirtyboy830 : Australia a multi-cultural society? WTF? Why doesn’t he go to the Congo and preach that bullshit.
Berserker88 : Reporter: “this is their message of hatred” Final War: “People only hate us for only being proud” So SBS are finally admitting its racist to be proud of being white these days, yet its fine if your anything but white… what a suprise.
xXxKIBBLESxXx : All i have to say is a big FUCK YOU MAN to the bloke that called us white folk skum, we aint skum you arsehole. let people beleive in what they want to, dont call us skum just cause you dont agree.
Predator1888 : haha ur calling us scum.. We are proud to be white! And yet u call us scum for being proud… Its nigger lovers like you that are turning our beautiful country to shit! I doubt ud call us scum to our faces u piece of shit!
47Cyanide47 : I’m not a Nazi and I don’t agree with nationalism, but people cant say that Nazis have to be stopped, its a point of political view, its not something people can just stamp out and forget about.
14greek88 : Fuck all these race trading scum bags fuck all you scum. predator1888 Said it great. white power 14/88!!! Also Final War is a great band! ARYAN PRIDE!
ozwick14 : [snip] this whole report is full of shit and who gives a fuck what that fat cunt thinks? He’ll get his
bigroly : fuck the jew fire up the ovens lets make it six million +
On methodology:
When do you think violence is a legitimate means of protest/struggle/resistance? In Australia, now, I mean?
I do not intend this as a Bolt-esque ‘gotcha’ question. When?
Um…
In general, I think that violence — assuming a standard definition of the term, and in this case applying it to violence against persons — may be justified, ethically, when refraining from its use is likely to result in greater violence being enacted. Well, that’s what a utilitarian might say, anyway. A rights-based approach would, perhaps, result in some different conclusions being drawn, especially where ‘political violence’ is concerned. Beyond this…
Your question is posed as a comment on a post concerning the potential actions of white supremacists at a forthcoming academic conference on ‘re-orienting’ (re-orientating) whiteness. In which context, it’s important to note that, in general, this mob couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery. That said, it’s certainly possible that a handful of racist twerps might rock up to protest. In this instance, I’d leave it up to the conference organisers to decide upon a response. Presumably, they’d simply wish for the conference to go ahead uninterrupted, and if thought necessary, inform the police that a handful of blokes are lurking around the entrance. And that would likely be the end of the story: the conference goes ahead, and the racist meatheads can boast on Stormfront about how they braved the Red Menace et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
More generally, on the one hand, I think violence should be avoided. On the other, I think there’s a legitimate right to self-defence. Both these positions I think are fairly conventional ones. Where I might depart from others’ understanding is locating the principal forms of violence in state structures, and calling for their abolition. Further, in recognising this as a radical shift in social structure and human consciousness, but a necessary one. Finally, in understanding that violence is not an exceptional state of affairs, but an omnipresent one.
So… yeah!
:LOL:
PS. Ted Honderich, Political Violence, Cornell University Press, New York, 1976, is useful, especially in terms of locating a ‘philosophical analysis of terrorism’ — that is, ‘political violence’ — in the context of a discussion of inequality and oppression.
Tuesday week?
Cam:
Sorry. Doing my hair. And nails.
THR:
The short version: when I run outta bubblegum is when the blood begins to flow.