Former "race realist" Richard Hanania recently published an article on The Free Press claiming that all those Nazi salutes the right is waving high in the sky is really "just trolling." Derek disagrees. Show Notes Enough — John Ganz I Can Explain Why the Nazi Salute Is Back — Richard Hanania Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| Growing up, you looked for pain points in your friends. | |
| Jabs you could throw at your disposal. | |
| Sometimes to get over on someone. | |
| Sometimes to react to a jab coming your way. | |
| I don't want to say it was only a boy thing because some of the nastiest jabs were thrown by girls. | |
| And I also, with the hindsight of decades now, realized that this was cultural. | |
| Not that ribbing friends as a form of camaraderie is exclusive to the 80s in Jersey. | |
| I personally believe the British have some of the best sarcasm in the world and mercilessly wield it, but there are people from other times and places where such a form of bonding is not currency and who, to be frank, loathe it. | |
| I can't help people from other times and places, which is to say we haven't really caught up to the internet yet. | |
| So many people madly typing into the sky can't possibly coordinate well, much less understand one another. | |
| The results of someone tone-policing how many fucks I employ only results in more fucks being used and less fucks given, which has nothing to do with malice. | |
| The language just isn't for you. | |
| Which is fine, but that doesn't mean that that form of language isn't fine. | |
| Which, if that's your assumption... | |
| Definitely isn't fine. | |
| And yet, even with all the ways we relate to one another, and all the ways we fail to relate to one another, I imagine there are certain communication styles that, even on a global level, we can all understand. | |
| And I know that's a rough demand. | |
| An old friend of mine was traveling through North Africa decades ago. | |
| And she wanted to show the village shopkeeper her sign of approval for the goods on display. | |
| She put her index finger and thumb together in a circle, with the three remaining digits flailed out like a peacock. | |
| You know, the sign for nice back in New York City, only later to learn that she had told the woman to fuck off. | |
| Even simple pantomimes can inadvertently be weaponized. | |
| But I would expect... | |
| Or at least hope that we'd all agree on the function of Nazi salutes. | |
| I mean, if there was ever a gimme in the broad spectrum of bodily contortions, this would be it. | |
| But even here I'm apparently wrong. | |
| Or so I learned after reading Richard Hanani's recent article in the Free Press. | |
| I can explain why the Nazi salute is back. | |
| I learned about the article because someone screenshotted Free Press founder Barry Weiss Positively promoting it. | |
| Now, Weiss only copy-pasted the first line of the article, which is, Nazi, excuse me, Roman, salutes have become all the rage on the American right, before concluding with a question, What's going on? | |
| Fine if you want to pretend to transcend politics or reality for the sake of the vaunted opinion section of a newspaper. | |
| Something that we learned Jeff Bezos is unwilling to do with his new magified op-ed section of the Washington Post. | |
| But coming from the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism, this tweet seemed rather rich. | |
| I mean, poor, but the fuck I know. | |
| I take that back. | |
| This one should be obvious. | |
| But to Hanania, who at the very least does come out on the side of Nazis aren't good, this is all really just a troll. | |
| First off, Hanania used to write race realism under the pen name Richard Host over a decade ago. | |
| What is race realism? | |
| Things like eugenics and forced sterilization for low-IQ folk who just happen to be black. | |
| He didn't want any race mixing. | |
| He was also a fan of a forthcoming sci-fi race war written by a neo-Nazi to justify his belief that black people can't govern themselves. | |
| But now, he's supposedly reformed, which is how he can write an article claiming Nazi salutes really aren't that bad. | |
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