shoshin wrote:
> Actually, John, I asked BECAUSE I knew you had a personal
> relationship with Bannon, and wanted your "inside take" on the
> "real Steve Bannon." The fact is that he looks malevolent (or ill?
> is he ok?), and projects a demeanor of "fuck you, I'm right, shut
> the fuck up." But I have no way of knowing if that's what he's
> like. And he did, as he says, "provide a platform for white
> nationalists," which probably was a good business decision, but
> somewhat morally cringe-worthy. Maybe he's just a great
> businessman.
> And as for teaching GD to Trump, I have a hard time envisioning
> Bannon putting his arm around Trump, smiling, and saying "Don't
> worry, politicians are irrelevant, it's the masses that make
> movements. Just keep giving the thumbs up." Really?
> And no, I'm not a black nationalist, Louis Farrakhan drummed me
> out of the nation of Islam when I flunked the DNA test.
I don't know why Bannon made that remark about alt-right, but I assume
what he meant was that the people who hate Muslims can come to
Breitbart and post their comments.
When I started cross-posting on Breitbart in 2010, I quickly became
extremely upset about the hate-filled comments targeting Muslims that
my articles received, and I got into some pretty depressing arguments
with some of these people. I wrote an article about it at the time:
** American xenophobia on the Left and on the Right
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e101107
In addition, I decided that I really had to know if Andrew Breitbart,
who was still alive at the time, felt the same way, because I felt I
couldn't have anything to do with the Breitbart site if so. So I
requested an interview with Breitbart to ask him some general
questions about the web site and news, but my real hidden purpose was
to find out his attitude towards Muslims. Long story short, I was
completely reassured. My article on that interview is still available
on my web site:
** 1-Jan-11 News -- Andrew Breitbart: Even Muslims are afraid to stand up to Islamists
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e110101
So when the mainstream media criticizes Breitbart, they fail to
distinguish between the articles and comments. I don't read many of
the articles on Breitbart, but I'm not aware of any that are "white
supremacist" or that target hate messages at Muslims. In fact, most
of the articles are straight news stories; I'm one of the few
analysts.
However, now I want to distinguish between hate comments directed at
Muslims and blacks. Although there have been hundreds of comments to
my articles directed against Muslims, I don't believe that there have
been even a dozen that could be described as racist towards blacks.
Even when the commenters are describing Obama, they'll frequent use
words like Obummer or Ozero, but only a couple of times have I seen
anything that refers to race.
So I would have to reject the claim that the Breitbart site is "white
supremacist," even in the comments. And of course, I've never heard
from Bannon any sign of white supremacy or hate directed at blacks or
Muslims.
With regard to politicians being irrelevant, that's not what I said.
In the current situation, the world is headed for a world war, and it
makes no difference whether Trump or Clinton is president, because no
politician can either cause or prevent that event.
However, to use an analogy, if your boat is sailing through a storm,
then the boat captain can neither cause nor prevent a storm, but if a
storm is coming, then one captain may do a better job than another in
guiding the boat through the storm.
My personal belief is that America will be best guided through the
coming storm by a president who has the benefit of an understanding of
Generational Dynamics, because that's the only methodology that
describes what's actually going on in the world.