Because in my book, someone who meets with white supremacists, embraces them, sends them dog-whistle codes and accepts money from them is probably racist. According to Ron Paul fans, however, the information that David Neiwart and “zio-utopian wench” Sara have dug up doesn’t qualify him as a racist. Even this message from a white supremacist leader:
Comrades:
I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn’t see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul’s extensive involvement in white nationalism.
Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.
I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.
For his spokesman to call white racialism a “small ideology” and claim white activists are “wasting their money” trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.
I don’t know that it is necessarily good for Paul to “expose” this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous — and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.
Bill White, Commander
American National Socialist Workers Party
But Ron Paul is most certainly not a racist! Even a racist in the comments says so:
I attend Ron Paul meetups and I keep my White nationalist ideology very quiet. There’s at least one confirmed jew there, a lesbian couple, a black woman, and some run of the mill hetero white folks. And it’s a very nice group. Nobody argues about anything, and we all desperately want Ron Paul to win. When there’s meetings without any children present, I make sure to say “fuck the Iraq war” and everyone agrees, even the jew.
But it made me realize — I’d settle for freedom, and so would these people. And I don’t think that my idea of freedom is so differnet from theirs. I just read an article in “The Occidental Quarterly” that there are plenty of black people that are against forced integration (and always have been) and are perfectly happy with separate but equal.
Ron Paul is not a racist, and the spontaneous movement he created is not racist. It brought people together who would never have known one another.
Well ok then.