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Old October 16th, 2014 #98
Hadding
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Part of the problem these days is that there is no Pope of White Nationalism, such as Dr. William Pierce de facto was. The lack of such an authoritative figure espousing concrete principles makes it hard for many to tell who is right and who is wrong in any intramural dispute. People who came along after Dr. Pierce have been corrupting the standards that he set.

While Dr. Pierce was alive, Greg Johnson's manifold contradictions of Dr. Pierce's precepts -- on Israel, the Holocaust, homosexuality, etc. -- would have put him beyond the pale, and the consensus would have been that Greg Johnson was some weirdo trying to pretend to be a White Nationalist. But today, he gets by with all that, and nobody says: this guy is not one of us.

A dozen years after his death, Dr. Pierce's influence has faded considerably. But there are other principles that one can use to demonstrate who is right and who is wrong.

What I always look for is, which one is lying? Which one is trying to convince people with emotionally manipulative rhetoric rather than facts and logic? Those are, I think, solid criteria for demonstrating who is wrong.

Anybody that values truth should respect those criteria. Anybody that doesn't value truth is an enemy.