White Lives Matter has hit the big time, they’ve been noticed and classified by SPLC as a hate group. At first, I was inclined to be dismissive, just another bunch of disgruntled bigots, but it looks more serious than that.
Activists with the “White Lives Matter” movement will be aligned with other white nationalist groups like the KKK or skinheads, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.”
The map is released each year to show hotbeds of racist activity across the United States. Heidi Beirich, head of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told VICE News this week that the “movement” is “clearly white supremacists” who should instead be operating under the slogan “only white lives matter.”
According to an SPLC report from earlier this month, the Black Lives Matter movement came out of a response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and advocates largely for accountability and equal rights by law enforcement.
The White Lives Matter movement, by contrast, goes beyond what mainstream conservatives have advocated as an “all lives matter” position. Instead, their group is lead by 40-year-old Rebecca Barnette of Tennessee. Barnette also serves as the vice president of the women’s division of the racist skinhead group Aryan Strikeforce. They promote a pro-whiteness agenda, claiming that the race is under attack from immigration, integration and other race-mixing.
Barnette’s focus is to create a “new world” for whites, where they can be safe from the dangers of persecution from non-whites and non-Christians. The SPLC cites a post from Barnette on a Russian social networking site used by many white supremacists and neo-Nazis in which she claims Jews and Muslims have formed an alliance “to commit genocide of epic proportions” of the white race. Now is the time, she adds in the same post, for “the blood of our enemies [to] soak our soil to form new mortar to rebuild our landmasses.”
These groups are out in full force, recruiting and advocating for their support of whiteness. Just last week, armed white supremacists stood outside of an NAACP headquarters in protest, waving Confederate flags and “White Lives Matter” banners along with signs with slogans frequently used in the white supremacist movement.
Full story here.
Marcus Ranum says
Barnette’s focus is to create a “new world” for whites, where they can be safe from the dangers of persecution from non-whites and non-Christians.
It’s called “disneyland”
Caine says
Disneyplanet, I think. Where in the hell do they think they are going to build this grand new “world”?
Saad says
I can’t think of a stronger motivation for a multinational space agency collaboration to immediately start work on extraterrestrial colonization.
blf says
Where the B Ark “lands”.
(Thinks about this for a moment…)
“Pssst! What planet is this? … Oh. Ah, er, oops, it has ‘landed’. Hereabouts.”
blf says
As an aside, for anyone who doesn’t know, that racist codephrase for
sign is aCaine says
This ^ struck me as being very odd, but as they are at home using a Russian site, they should really, really take advantage:
Trump Presidency: Forget Canada, Go to Russia! If that land grab deal is still good, they can all leave, and build their world in Russia.
blf says
Also at the SPLC, Black Lives Matter Is Not a Hate Group:
blf says
I just took a look at the SPLC’s ‘White Lives Matter’. It says the “Russian social networking site [is] favored by white supremacists and neo-Nazis for its lack of censorship”. (I won’t name or link-to the site.)
I seem to recall that site is one which frequently hosts links-to illegally ripped DVD / CDs et al.
AlexanderZ says
blf #8
Google has even more links. Every social site has links to ripped IP.
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As someone who knows a thing or two about VKontakte I can give a bit of additional info, particularly since SPLC isn’t going into specifics when it says:
It’s true that VK used to be a kind of deregulated Russian Facebook, and for that it was favored by both neo-Nazis and anti-Putin activists, as well as many other Russian speakers, even from countries that are hostile to Russia. In fact, VK was instrumental in the mass protests of 2011-2013 against Putin’s regime. All that has changed a couple years ago when one of Putin’s cronies acquired the site and forced its founder to flee the country.
Since then the site is very well regulated to insure that there aren’t any opposing views to those of the Kremlin. The reason it’s a safe heaven for neo-Nazis is because neo-Nazism is now sanctioned by the Kremlin. This is why Putin is funding and/or extremely friendly with such individuals and organizations as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, the Greek Golden Dawn, France’s Marie Le Pen and of course, Trump.
We’re currently looking at the formation of a new Axis.
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Back to topic:
I like Rebecca Barnette’s photo in the SPLC article. She wears a t-shirt with a swastika superimposed on the Confederate flag with the initials N.S.M. (National Socialist Movement) and a swastika + Mjolnir necklace. You really can’t get any more Nazi than that without growing a tiny mustache and combing your hair to one side.
I like it because it effectively summarizes the ideas behind the pro-police, anti-BLM and pro-Confederacy movements in one disgusting person.
moarscienceplz says
Excellent idea!
May I recommend Mars?
Nathan says
I’m glad they’ve been named as a hate group by the SPLC, and that the SPLC went on to explain why BLM is the exact opposite.
As for where they could go… I don’t want Mars sullied by their crap (I want to go there, too).
Maybe send them to Venus?