Stormfront, a popular White Nationalist website offers forum for people to discuss whatever their hearts desire. When it comes to music, there is literally any and everything being discussed related to the topic in the discussion board. A few things stood out to me. One of the first was how many people were asking if people were starting or needing members for White Nationalist bands. I guess like other people wanting to start bands, there is a desire within this community as well, which should come to no surprise but to me I didn’t think there were that many bands or that there was a longing to join one. It just seems very normal, when it is hard to see them as normal people. Another was that there was talk about rap music. There was only one thread that was asking what was the best rap and rock collaboration but it stood out. It sounded like it could have been a joke by someone who wasn’t a White Nationalist because it was obvious to me that it was against their disdain for the genre and I was thinking what are these people going to say about this. Though when reading further the person who posted it was chastised and questioned about why they would even ask such a question being told that they would even be punched in the face if they asked this to one of the commenter’s in person. One even likened the topic to being equivalent to “Opinions on your favorite Black on White gangbang porn.” Also, for me any talk about mainstream music stuck out, such as Lady Gaga and Adele. In the case of Lady Gaga they were discussing whether or not they thought she was white or not. In the end most decided she was a Jew because she has a “Jew nose,” along with other stereotypical features and a “star without talent…which is a typical situation among Jew dominated media”. She was also called a degenerate and even if she was white she was spreading the messages Jews want to spread in media and being destructive to Whites. When it came to Adele a few people were speaking of her amazing voice, which is obvious. However, as you read farther on more and more people say that she sounds like Aretha Franklin, because of her jazz like sound, and that she is promoting the sound of “negro” music because of her deep tone and raspy voice. Few said that she did not appeal to them, which sounds crazy to me because she is an amazing artist, but their opinions reflect their ideology 100 percent. Jews running the media and portraying “Jew messages.” The racial hierarchy, when they talk about Adele and Lady Gaga promoting minority music. Also, they are written off in this discussion, which reminded me that Ferber states, “Feminism is represented as a threat to gender difference because it questions gender stratification and inequality.” Especially for Lady Gaga who promotes equality for all people, focusing a ton of time on gay rights advocacy, I’m sure they see her as an abomination of the White race. But as it always does, everything comes back to their fundamental ideals. There are also posts about which is their favorite White Power band and talk of various white power bands as well.
This is the Adele video that was originally shown. I think she is amazing!
What does the shared focus on both production of music and rap tell us about white nationalist ideology? What sort of imagined community exists through both the music and the conversations about music? Why is much so important?
ReplyDeleteAdele does have a great singing voice, though I am tired of "Rolling in the Deep" it being December and all haha. I enjoyed this piece because your topic is very similar to mine. I talked about white nationalists and movies. There are a lot of correlations, but the main thing is the paranoia of this Jewish run media completely blinds them to anything that doesn't support their message as pro Jewish or pro minority propaganda. Do you think their hate blinds them to the real message of music and movies because they are nitpicking about whether its "controlled" by the Jewish media?
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