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Note Sheer Anti-White Sadism of Reporting On Lee Statue Vandalism—Because It’s You Next, by Jason Kessler

4-11-2023 < UNZ 41 813 words
 

As the organizer and permit holder of the legal 2017 Charlottesville VA Unite The Right Rally in defense of the historic Robert E. Lee statue, which was brutally suppressed by elected, uniformed, civilian and paramilitary Democrats/ communists, I’d like to make a further comment on Gregory Hood’s powerful After The Lee Statue: There Must Be A Cost For Anti-White Hate: ICYMI, there was something ominously sadistic about the recent destruction of the Lee statue as celebrated by Washington Post in series of graphic videos and pictures framed like a pornographic snuff film for anti-Whites [ Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace, by Teo Armus and Hadley Green, October 26, 2023].

From the beginning headline, the WaPo article was clearly intended to rub salt in the wounds of our sharply divided country and culture by celebrating this vandalism as a sadistic and ritualistic murder—as if done to the conservative White men that the Woke Left so loathes, rather than a monument of bronze.


As Elon Musk succinctly put it after viewing the video, “They absolutely want your extinction.”


WaPo readers were subjected to a video loop created by Washington Post breaking news video editor Hadley Green [Tweet her/Email her] depicting the head of Robert E Lee, laying prostrate and helpless, as a goon from the foundry cuts through the metal, lacerating his visage like one of the face masks collected by serial killer “Buffalo Bill” in The Silence of the Lambs.




Armus and Green’s piece revels in horror novel prose, describing the act as a “celebration” of a “grim act”.




Counter Currents columnist and author Jim Goad offered this vividly brutal description of the video’s climax: Lee’s visage



…super-heated to the point where it glowed, offering the stark and ghastly image of a military leader — who by multiple accounts was a gracious and noble man — suffering amid hellfire for all eternity.


The Ritualized Defacement of Robert E. Lee, October 30, 2023


Unlike most videos placed onto news sites in 2023, there are no inconvenient ads placed either before or after the Washington Post’s video that might delay anyone from being immediately confronted with the violent act.


Nor does the video player shuffle to other content, as most do these days, so any readers who revere Lee’s memory (“one of the noblest Americans who ever lived, and one of the greatest captains known to the annals of war”—Winston. S. Churchill) will experience the maximum trauma from the deliberately gratuitous sadism of Green’s video.


Since race plays such a large part in the controversy over the Robert E Lee statue and the Unite the Right rally, it is worth asking Green’s racial background. The surname Green has Saxon, Old English origins but, in modern times, often denotes Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Many Ashkenazi Jews have anglicized names. In the case of Green as a Jewish surname it comes from ‘grin’ or ‘Gryn,’ the Yiddish words for “green.” I asked her about this directly, but she declined to comment.



I’ve also asked the black-presenting Jalane Schmidt [Tweet her] director of something called the Memory Project at University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, whose Afrocentric communist nonprofit Swords into Plowshares was given the statue and was quoted gloating over the its destruction, if she is part-Jewish, as her name might suggest.



No answer either.


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