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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
 

Good Housekeeping

First, blogging may fall off some in September; I start a bit of work for Spiegel Online, editing, translating, and writing. But when I publish something good, I'll link to it.

Second, my novel. Just, you know, it's there. Links to Amazon in Britain and Deutschland have been added.

Third, the neo-Nazi piece gets debated, sort of, on a Southern kinist site. Just search for the word Salon to find the 3 comments. Kinists are (mostly) American neo-Confederates who think people should keep with their own kind. What else they believe you can read for yourselves.

posted by Michael Scott Moore | 11:49 PM
Comments:
I went and read the kinist thing. Now I must wash. Those people irritate me as much as the MRA's who overran my blog last month.

Why shouldn't we let all the white people be together who want to be? And put up a nice sturdy fence around them? Back in Whitelandia? Seriously, where do they get off talking about the dark-skinned people overrunning their nice white communities IN NORTH AMERICA?

Don't get me started on what they say about Jews. Just don't.

But I really like the way that guy slams your piece without reading it, and then talks about how much he believes in honest debate.

As long as, apprently, he doesn't have to make an effort to educate himself on what is being said.
 
Ew, I couldn't stop myself, I went and looked at another one of their sites... The Kinist Review... did you notice that they advocate for a rollback in suffrage? Namely, that only landed white men over the age of 21 should be able to vote?
 
No, I hadn't seen that. Good idea, though. This democracy thing has gotten kind of out of hand.
 
Read your story at salon.com and liked it a lot. However, you write that it's the "first time in more than three decades, (that) Germany faces a national election with neo-Nazis sitting in a regional parliament." That's not quite right. In 1992 and 1996, the "Republikaner", arguably just as right-wing as the DVU, had members of the Baden-Württemberg parliament, and the DVU has had one or more seats in the Bremer Bürgerschaft since 1987 (www.wahlrecht.de). Are you familiar with Toralf Staud's study of the NPD, "Moderne Nazis", which was published this month?
 
I knew about the Republikaner, but they're just "arguably" neo-Nazi. I didn't know about the DVU presence in Bremen. The correct thing to say was: no NPD members in regional parliaments in almost 3 decades.

The Toralf Staud book sounds sharp; I'll have to take a look.
 
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