The Problem They Will Not Name
We are living through the tragedies of a country in self-inflicted free fall, a dizzying storm of dread, white, patriarchal supremacist wrath, and manufactured decline
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-problem-they-will-not-name
The problem is white male supremacy and it’s killing us. It’s inspiring mass shooters. Hate crimes. Terrorist attacks. The problem isn’t hard to diagnose, and the continued denial of it is a glaring indictment of the people who are still desperate to hide it.
An old hate goes viral
Attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have surged since the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. This hate has a deeper history.
https://revealnews.org/podcast/an-old-hate-goes-viral/
2018 The Alt-Right’s Asian Fetish
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html
Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, once posted a video of himself with a Filipina he called “my jailbait girlfriend,” the young couple flirting as they sauntered through a megamall in the Philippines. Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, has dated a series of Asian-American women, according to one of his ex-girlfriends. (Mr. Spencer insists that it was before he embraced white nationalism.)
The right-wing agitator Mike Cernovich, the writer John Derbyshire and an alt-right figure named Kyle Chapman (so notorious for swinging a lead-filled stick at Trump opponents at a protest in Berkeley, Calif., that he is now a meme) are all married to women of Asian descent.