Do you find it weird that Mauricio Garcia, the Texas mass-shooter, might be a neo-Nazi? You’re not alone. Plenty of people, especially on the right side of politics, find it so weird that they’re convinced the whole thing is a psy-op.
For what it’s worth, I get it. My first inclination, too, is doubt. After all, we know for a fact that the Establishment really does run psy-ops. They did it from the late ’50s to the ’70s, with COINTELPRO. The FBI, intent on discrediting every “subversive” group from diehard communists, to feminists, civil rights groups and even the Klan. The Feds forged documents, planted evidence and even staged crimes.
They’re still at it, too. More than a dozen members of the “far-right” group who plotted to kidnap Gov Gretchen Whitmer, including its second-in-command, were FBI agents or informers. Then there’s the mysterious Ray Epps, a key instigator of the January 6 Capitol riot, who’s never even been arrested for his role in the unrest.
And the very idea that a brown Mexican could be a neo-Nazi?
Yep, says David Cole.
You think Mauricio Garcia’s impossible. I know he’s inevitable.
It’s not as if Cole doesn’t know what he’s talking about. In a previous life, Cole was “David Stein”, a bratty young Jewish film-maker who was deeply involved in Holocaust revisionism (or Holocaust denial, depending whose side you’re on). As such, Cole spent a lot more time among the really far-right than most of us ever will or would want.
Cole modified his views and went on to make award-winning, mainstream Holocaust documentaries, but his experiences with the fringe right give him a unique perspective and insight that Byron C Clark could only dream of. So, he’s kind of worth listening to.
I have life experiences that are somewhat unique. For better or worse, I’ve been publicly associated with the fringe right since 1989. There are likely at most seven people reading this who can top me in tenure (probably not you).
So I’ll tell you something from experience. And you can listen, or you can be like a Zoomer and tune out.
First, Cole looks at the objections to Garcia’s alleged neo-Nazism.
Even though Garcia’s ok.ru social media account was clearly neo-Nazi/white nationalist, Ian Miles Cheong dismissed the evidence because “the shooter wasn’t white”, he “wasn’t on Twitter” (apparently, if you don’t use Twitter you don’t exist), he had “zero followers” (yes, mass shooters are never loners) and the neo-Nazi memes he uploaded were “years old” (wait, it’s suspicious if an ideologue posts “years old” memes? Better tell that to the MAGAs who still post “crying libs” memes from November 2016).
But… how on earth could a brown person be a white supremacist? Well, how can Maori gangs sport Nazi regalia?
I’ll tell you, from my 34 years of experience with the fringe right, yeah, there are Hispanic neo-Nazis and white nationalists, and holy shit, they’re nuts. They’re the looniest of the bunch. Completely unstable. During my Holocaust revisionist days, one of the most jarring truths was that all of the nonwhites in that circle – Hispanics, Ay-rabs, even the occasional black – were dangerously psychotic. Brutish, impulsive, simple-minded, no concept of the intricacies of my work. They were the ones everyone was afraid would pop off and start killing.
The real story here, Cole says, the one that the right don’t want to confront, is culpability.
Rather than denying the reality of a guy like Garcia, why not take a moment to stare into that abyss?
This is what the left is not doing, when it denies that Antifa even exists and that the most destructive riots in modern American history were “mostly peaceful”. It’s what they’re not doing when they encourage trannies to believe in “trans genocide”.
I get it; you see leftists being batshit – the Libs of TikTok trannies, the BLM rioters – and you want in. Just a little. “Maybe if we had a few crazies on our side, we could compete better!”
But […] leftists need lunatics; rightists don’t […]
The neo-Nazi/Holocaust denial/white supremacist fringe is a cancer. It kills whatever it touches.
Takimag
And it attracts the worst people in the world.
Including, it just may be, brown-skinned neo-Nazis. Or maybe not. Who knows, but anything is crazy enough to be true, in Clown World.
