She knows WN in the Who's Who sense, not the philosophy. She's not prepared to take on white nationalism intellectually, she's prepared to go after its players and parties as hate groups.
We saw the same thing with Carol Swain years ago, the black Vanderbilt law professor. Woman writes a 500-page book on white nationalism and never comes to grips with any of its arguments. (My review
here.) Beirich's no deeper, if anything even shallower. She's operating purely at the descriptive level -
these are the WN people and these are their groups. We'll divide them in crude ways: klan, neo-confederates, religious traditionalists, neo-nazis. There the intellectual work ends. She can't operate on any deeper level than that. I highly doubt it's even she that carried out the modest intellectual task of dividing evilhaters into subcategories.
She's obviously heard it. But has she considered it? I don't think so. Ask Rounder.
If she has a Ph.D. in this stuff, she ought to be ready to jump in the ring and crush someone like me, who is much less formally educated than she is. She can easily best me, and prove to whatever following I have what an idiot I am. Right?
Wrong. Because she can't actually debate this stuff. She knows it purely at the level of bad guys/good guys. Her professional expertise is not in ideas but in digging up dirt and spreading gossip and rumors.
Maybe, but laziness is a simpler explanation. These groups with hundreds of millions in the bank, and lists of top X haters, keep stuff in their profiles that is decades out of date. After all, they have no pressure to be right. Like it says in the Protocols, quoted in my essay linked above, from 2004, they only want the appearance of debate. If they were to go any deeper, they'd lose. That's how someone like Beirich becomes their frontman - because her mind isn't strong enough to see through the cause. She accepts without thinking that her side are the good guys and ours the bad. She has a brain at about the wattage of a human German shepherd. It's told who to attack, and trained how to attack. It doesn't ask why.