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I submitted an article for the August edition using my pseudo-name. Keep in mind this is aimed at more "normalfag" AnCaps/libertarians. We'll see if it gets published or not, but here's a PDF copy of it for your viewing pleasure. Here's a text version below:

In the aftermath of the Charlottesville Riots, hate and vitriol has been the public message spread among the American political spectrum. Calls for violence have been spread by left and right, and I imagine they will continue to do so as the month goes on. I’ve witnessed many-a-libertarian dick waving back and forth over the “virtues” of punching Nazis or punching Antifa with few truly practicing the underlying values of non-aggression that we should all espouse, but that is another matter and there are likely plenty of those articles in this month’s issue to fulfill your thirst. No, today I’d like to take up a moment of your reading for a cultural & historical lesson.

If you call for punching Fascists or taking away their jobs, you’re feeding the horde.

Small disclaimer. I was a Civic Nationalist and “Race Realist” for some four years of my life before being introduced to the liberty movement back in 2014. I’m a semi-practicing Greek Orthodox Christian, and a firm Agorist if that matters to you now. When I speak about ethnic nationalists, I’d like to think I know a thing or two about them seeing as they were (unfortunately) my main audience and peers for four years of my life. The first thing you need to understand is the history of America’s Nationalist peerage. “Modern” American Nazis can be traced back to George Lincoln Rockwell. You don’t need to know much about him, but he was an excellent orator that was friends with Malcom X and Elijah Muhammad. I suggest you watch some of his speeches on youtube if you want a deeper understanding of the mindset of early Nationalists. These early nationalists, founded around the 1960s, were focused on preventing the exploitation of individuals and ensuring the state remained out of private property, while equally maintaining their racial, tribalistic ties. If it sounds a lot like an “Ethnic Paleoconservatism” it should, as the early Nazis drew a lot of their ideas from those lines of thought. While they made significant political gains in the 60s, eventually they dissipated after George Lincoln Rockwell’s murder. His ideas, however, stuck around, archived on video and in newsletters for future generations that would come and pick them back up at the turn of the century.

So what makes a modern American Nazi? It’s not a hatred of brown people or a desire for power over others, believe it or not. Many modern American fascists associate more with “alt-right libertarians” than they do with statism, which is why so many left-libertarians are foaming at the mouth about the alt-right in the first place. What makes an American Nazi is rather a deep distrust for a globally expansive federal government, lack of in-person social interaction, poor interactions from being raised near minority neighborhoods that have been trashed by market interventionist policies (they call it “Chiraq” for a reason), and most importantly poor living conditions. When dealing with Virginia, we’re dealing with the heart of Appalachia. I’m not sure how much you know about Appalachia, but it used to be an economically and culturally prosperous part of the US before government got increasingly involved and ruined everything. Appalachia has a less than 15% degree attainment rate in 218 of its 420 counties associated with it, and it has a higher-than-average unemployment rate of about 6.5% on average. In 36 of those counties unemployment is above 10% and in 25 of those counties, more than 1 in 5 adults lack a high school education. If the rest of the USA is hurting economically right now with college kids putting off moving out of their parents houses until their mid-late 20s, then Appalachia is a magnified version of this trend. The only thing that is going to end this trend is less statist involvement in the economy allowing for people to climb out of those poor living conditions.

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I want to put you into the shoes of “the founding” of a modern White Nationalist for a moment. You’re 16-19. You’re white, heterosexual, likely male, and you just graduated high school because you’re one of the lucky ones. Either your dad left when you were in your early teens, or your family, while held together, likely experiences domestic issues and your parents are very rarely around since they both have to work in order for you to eat. You might be a lucky one and hold down a part-time job at minimum wage, but chances are you’re either unemployed or underemployed. If your parents are divorced, your mom just got her GED and is going to the community college- she receives more money than you do in federal aid on account of being a single mother. If your parents aren’t divorced, then you can kiss that college dream goodbye- your family makes too much for you to qualify for federal aid despite living in near-poverty or actual poverty conditions. You try to apply for private scholarships, but ½ of them require you to be a minority, ¼ of them require you to maintain a 3.5/4.0 GPA average and score an 80% or better on the SAT, and the other ¼ turns you down. You might be lucky and get into the military, but chances are that diagnosis of ADHD when you were 7 has made you unable to serve in the military. You can’t afford college, you can’t afford to move out, you start to question why everything in life is going wrong, and your time starts to get sucked into the online community. You happened to start out with some normalfag-tier meme groups on facebook or reddit, but then you get involved with a slightly xenophobic private facebook group, or your friend introduces you to a site like 4chan. The Nazi memes on these pages start out as a sort of “dark humor,” but two months into unemployment/underemployment and you start looking at the infographics at 2 in the morning. You start listening to some old George Lincoln Rockwell speeches and think he’s an excellent orator to you. Some of the infographics are of dubious nature, some of them have some truths hidden among the propaganda. It doesn’t matter to you, you start to think that maybe the government is favoring minorities and maybe that’s why you’re in the situation you’re in.

The Nationalists convince you to get into a trade school, skilled trades being typically extremely conservative and majority male, but the Unions involved, licensing, and economic halts will keep you grounded as an apprentice until your mid to late 20s. You maybe decide to virtue signal one day to your “normal” friends that you don’t hate minorities, but you think what the federal government is doing is wrong, and is responsible for the situation you’re in. If you’re lucky, you get laughed at. If you’re unlucky, you get accused of being a racist, a Nazi, etc. Doubly so if you happen to have “big L” Libertarian friends. Hell, you might have turned to Libertarianism as a source of escape from all of this, and have been shooed out by the virtue-signaling of Gary Johnson supporters and left-libertarians. Eventually, you start cutting off contact with those friends (if they don’t cut off contact with you), and increasingly turn to the online community or to a handful of similar “racists” and “Nazis” that you’ve met in real life. You get together, talk shit, and one day a news article appears about “White Supremacists” at an Oregon standoff. You immediately point out there was nothing “white supremacist” about it, or how they didn’t label BLM riots as “black supremacist,” and get scoffed at by those outside of your in-group. You start to see businesses like a tech company in California get sued for not being inclusive enough even though they were hiring on merit and not on race or gender, or a baker being forced to bake a gay wedding cake. This whole time, Obama refuses to call out the BLM movement for its racist ties, and keeps trying to grab your guns on the stupidest shit. You might even suspect certain tragedies like 9/11 and Sandy Hook were false flags orchestrated by the government if you happen to watch infowars or similar streams. Sites like Huffington Post and Salon post articles that would look like they came out of Hitler’s mouth if the word “white” was replaced with “jew,” and mainstream media increasingly takes these sorts of sites seriously.

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Then comes the Charleston Church Shooting. You rightfully point out that Dylann Roof was a nut job, but racial tensions are so high thanks to Obama and BLM that your peers just point out the Rhodesian and Confederate flags as an excuse to have them banned. You don’t have time to explain the intricacies of slavery or apartheid South Africa because you know they’ll just accuse you of being a revisionist or racist (not that the word bothers you any more), and Wal-Mart just took down all of their Confederate items. You hope this will just breeze over as another leftist fad, but now people are calling to tear down monuments left and right in Southern States. Then comes along Trump. Trump is a symptom, not a cause, but he’s also an accelerationist catalyst in many regards. He makes one comment about building a wall among his various moderate conservative policies, and everyone flips shit about him being racist, transphobic, xenophobic, and every other word they can throw out there. You’re used to it by now, the same people have been screeching the same shit for four years while you watched them lose the house and senate to Republicans. A sort of “silent majority” of people fed up with them remains silent and ready to vote as these “SJWs” gloat about the end of conservatism and how Hillary will become president, take away your guns, etc. You watch as reasonable conservatives in blue states are beaten and bloodied simply for not supporting Hillary, and how Antifa runs rampant, accusing anyone who disagrees with them of being a fascist. Enough is enough. It’s nearly election time, and if “the left” is going to treat you as a fascist and punch you for wearing a Trump hat, then you’re prepared to fight back for what you believe in. If the left is going to misconstrue you as a Nazi anyways, then you’re prepared to give them their loosely interpreted “Nazi” because the word has been watered down from constant use and doesn’t mean anything anymore. Trump wins and the riots continue. Tensions grow worse.

It’s March of 2017 now. You see Based Stickman (Kyle Chapman) hit a leftist over the head with a stick after watching an old man get pepper sprayed by Antifa. He’s a libertarian by-and-large who quickly gets corrupted on social media into a Civic Nationalist after “big L” Libertarians denounced him, and he’s the caricature hero the right needs, not the one it deserves. Based Stickman policy of “carrying a big stick” to rallies to defend yourself from leftists willing to throw feces-filled water balloons at you becomes the norm, others are prepared to imitate him if needed because fighting back and fear of being doxed scares off all but the most hardcore lefties. Even they know they’re being violent ideologues. You aren’t afraid of being doxed any more since you can’t hold down a job and can’t get the education needed for skilled labor anyways, so you proudly show your face as a form of accelerationism- as a sign that you are proud of your ideals and aren’t afraid of the hate and vitriol you know you’ll face. By showing your face, you hope to inspire others to join your cause, you consider yourself a sort of “social sacrifice” for achieving what you believe in. You might not even be a Nazi, but by default you’re now associated with them and you don’t honestly care because everything is a Nazi to the left, much how everything is a Jew to a Nazi. A Unite the Right rally is formed to protest the taking down of a Robert E. Lee statue, one of the most progressive figures of the Confederacy, and while actual white nationalists might have co-opted it, you know that’s not why it was started. You don’t care though when Antifa and similar groups decide to pick a fight with you, but after taking your advice from Based Stickman in California, you’re prepared and in some ways you’ve set up your outfit to look like riot police to “goad” the left into action. After all, the more violent they become, the more reasonable you look to everyone else.

If you happen to know a white nationalist or someone leaning towards the “Alt-Right,” please don’t socially isolate them or try to get them fired. You’re just encouraging the process of radicalization. Take them with you camping or hunting, have a few beers with them this Halloween, start talking with them in-person more. Listen to what they have to say in-person and suggest libertarian alternatives and how the state is disempowering them, don’t just ridicule them. “Nazis” aren’t made from being empowered, they’re made from being disempowered, poor, mocked, shown no empathy, and socially isolated- much as the left and many libertarians are promoting them to remain right now. Nazis might be made from those circumstances, but they can be unmade by basic human compassion, dignity, empathy, and respect, much how I was when I was introduced to libertarianism via SFL/YAL, and encouraged to speak my mind (even if they disagreed) back in 2014.