Keith Woods: Factions Of The Dissident Right

I identify as a White Southern Christian, specifically as an Anglo-Protestant from a Deep South small town and rural background, a husband, father and activist, a nationalist and a populist with a Jeffersonian states rights background. Ideally, I would like to live in an independent Southern Republic with a strong Christian culture in which White people are less deracinated and degenerate than they are now. I look around and I see all kinds of sick people toppling statues of our heroes, mutilating their genitals, living immoral hedonistic lifestyles, celebrating criminals. I’m against all that which is “mainstream” in our culture.

I agree that race is real, race matters and that race is an aspect of my identity. I’m proud to be White. I identify with my own people who I believe have legitimate interests. I would like to see the White race carry on and move forward and rebound from this period of decadence. Obviously, I don’t believe that race is everything, but it isn’t nothing either. I’m not obsessed with race. It is just one aspect of life that I take for granted. It is one topic among others that I write about. More than anything, I hate the lying about race. I believe our society would be better off acknowledging that race and sex are immutable biological realities instead of going along with insane people who are out of touch with reality.

I’ve lived over half of my life in one of the blackest parts of the United States. I don’t really have a visceral reaction to racial diversity. I’m numb to it because I am so accustomed to it. It is the erosion of all kinds of boundaries that bothers me with the gender fluid fad being the most recent unwelcome introduction into my area. I’m not sure how I relate to all the other exotic factions of the DR: Alt-MSNBC, BAPists, AmNat incels, conspiracy theorists, third positionists, pagans, racist liberals, violent accelerationists and so on. There is a lot of stuff that is going on out there which I don’t understand or relate to.

I want to see White people flourish in this country. You’re not allowed to say that in public or anything positive about White people. This is what makes me a dangerous extremist.

23 Comments

  1. Very good selection, thanks! Woods’ list of dissident factions is not exhaustive, because it covers only the dissident RIGHT. I don’t fit any of those categories, not even the “Ethnonationalists” category because it misses socialism that is fundamental to genuine ethnonationalism. “No republic without the peasants.”

  2. > I identify as a White Southern Christian, specifically as an Anglo-Protestant from a Deep South small town and rural background, a husband, father and activist, a nationalist and a populist with a Jeffersonian states rights background.

    I identify the same way, except the Upper South, and the opposite of an “activist.”

    > Ideally, I would like to live in an independent Southern Republic with a strong Christian culture in which White people less deracinated and degenerate than they are now.

    I’d settle for an end to immigration, devolution of power to the states, and a mainstream culture that is not anti-white.

    > toppling statues of our heroes,

    It’s too bad so few Southerners focused on stopping that.

    > I agree that race is real …

    I share these views more or less.

    > I’ve lived over half of my life in one of the blackest parts of the United States. I don’t really have a visceral reaction to racial diversity. I’m numb to it because I am so accustomed to it. It is the erosion of all kinds of boundaries that bothers me with the gender fluid fad being the most recent unwelcome introduction into my area.

    I’ve always lived in areas that were majority white, but had enough blacks I also don’t hae any sort of visceral reaction. The reaction to the “gender fluid” stuff is probably just from watching the media. I’ve lived in some of the most liberal areas in America, and even there I rarely, if ever, actually faced any sort of that sort of thing – maybe some butch looking barista at Starbucks with a nose piercing and purple hair. That’s about it.

    Turn off the media and you’d hardly know any of it exists.

    > I’m not sure how I relate to all the other exotic factions of the DR: Alt-MSNBC, BAPists, AmNat incels, conspiracy theorists, third positionists, pagans, racist liberals, violent accelerationists and so on.

    You’d never know about them except for the Internet. Except for racist liberals – you live in Alabama and you’ve never met racist liberals? You’ve never been to Mobile?

  3. I try to briefly tell my story: I’m near 30 years old and i’ve been interested, more than ivolved, in politic since 2011. I was born and grew in small village in northern Italy, in a family whith traditional catholic education (I know that many on this blog don’t like it) as a lot of others family in my countries. I am not particularly a believer, but I think religion plays an important role in people’s lives and in regulating society. In 2011 the problem started or better began to be more intense: the rise of mass immigration, the insistence on gay issues (gay marriage, gay adoption and gender and transgender theories), the economic crisis and the cultural crisis, all welded together by the unbearable rise of political correctness. When they started tearing down monuments in America in 2015, I started following American politics more than Italian politics. I remember it disgusted me to see monuments destroyed and kicked down, it bothered me tremendously, probably also because I have a degree in history and so I give history a huge importance as an enthusiast. From there I started getting closer and closer to the dissident right in Europe and America. I started by following Jared Taylor, Jeff Schoep (although I am not a Nazi), Richard Spencer, the League of the South, and finally for some time I watched that group called Patriot Prayer. In 2016 I was happy because with the Brexit, the rise of the right in Europe, Italy and America, and the victory of the right in the latter two countries, I thought people like us had managed to stop or slow down the political correctness that had been plaguing, harassing and nagging us since 2008/2010. Ultimately I came to this website and appreciate Brad Griffin’s reasoning, militancy, consistency, intelligence and rationality. In these years as an observer and supporter of the American dissident right I have noticed two things: in America they know how to do demonstrations and protests well (spectacular torch march at University of Virginia), defense of monuments, marches in Charlottesville, in short they know how to make their presence felt in an excellent way. On the other side, however, I saw the other side of the coin, something that is rare here in Europe, which is some old right-wing family members who have abandoned and in the worst cases jumped to the side of the left. I have always tried to study the wickedness of the characters of the left that has been nagging us for years and my task online, but also in life has always been to make it clear how the left is much more extremist than the right and also really bad ( not for satanic bullshit or stuff like that) for reasons of ideological fanaticism. By the way I am attaching this link, where a leftist journalist criticizes Jeff Schoep and others for leaving extremism but not jumping to the side of the left or extreme left and for daring to criticize antifa and say that many times the right is right anyway. This article makes you realize how fanatical those on the left like this journalist are.

    https://politicalresearch.org/2022/05/11/can-you-ever-trust-former-white-nationalist

    • From the point of view of a jew writer for Haaretz like Shane Burley, it’s absolutely true to say that you can’t trust a ‘former white nationalist’.

      Such a person is sometimes someone who still believes in the truth but wants the pressure to come off (at least temporarily) like Heimbach. In which case they’ll be right back to telling the truth about jews as soon as possible.

      Or more often, someone who never was any sort of useful WN at all- an insane schizo like Katie McHugh, or a violent sociopath like Christian Piccolini. Regardless of whether they’re true jew believers or just looking to enrich themselves, this second type is likely to be as useful to the jews as they were to whites- i.e. worthless or worse than worthless.

      • I talked with Schoep with email and assure you that yes, he’s out but he has not become a woke nor a leftist. Heimbach now has is National Bolscevik radio which is still a white suprematist podcast. People like McLaren (who shared this article about formers on twitter) and Picciolini are only bipolar people or false people.

    • >I remember it disgusted me to see monuments destroyed and kicked down, …

      You’re not alone — more than disgusting, it is alarming, because as I have said it marks the beginning of the physical elimination phase of ‘diversity’ — it shows the contempt non-whites have for Whites due to the weakness shown by Whites in allowing their countries to be invaded.

      I’ve seen a bit of Italy: Rome, Tuscany, Pisa, Naples — I remember the sight of a multitude of just-off-the-boat Africans in Naples, loitering near the train station, trying to get money by washing the windshields of Italian drivers stopped at traffic lights, or selling trinkets spread out on the ground at tourist attractions — try not having a ‘visceral’ reaction to something like that.

      Thanks for your story Marcel.

      • Africans came here in my country not to try to get a serious job, as perhaps Indians do, but to live on benefits given to them by the state. Most Africans get into the drug trade and are used by the mafia to deal, so they are not resources for us.
        P.s i’m always near my american and european brothers who suffer(as we here in Italy) due to the madness and violence of woke ideology.

  4. @ Hunter Wallace. I voted for Mo Brooks today. I figure anyone back stabbed by Trump can’t be all bad. It will be interesting how Neil Kumar does in Arkansas.

    • Cheetohead’s solipsistic hissy-fit was over Brooks not wanting to make the stolen 2020 election the entire platform of his campaign. Brooks does not even deny the election fraud, but simply regards other issues as more important. Yes the election was stolen, but the fact that they were able to do so is mainly Cheetohead’s own fault. If you hire nothing except swamp-creatures to drain a swamp, you shouldn’t be surprised to see the swamp getting bigger.

  5. A very large group is the anons, that mostly don’t seem to have shared ideology outside being pro-white. When something is clearly pro-white or anti-white, or just funny enough, this group is large enough to make it somebody all the public pro-white factions pick up. 2016 Trump is one example.

    Most of the time, nobody agrees what is pro-white, so nothing gets done, and Trump 2020 had a pro-Trump faction, an anti-Trump faction, while the largest group DGAF, and was tired of the whole Trump affair. A good thing with the constant feuding and shilling though, is that there is an evolution of memes to mock your opponent to shut up, and that these filter out to the larger pro-white community to be used against their political enemies. (for instance the NPC memes)

  6. “I identify as a White Southern Christian, specifically as an Anglo-Protestant from a Deep South small town and rural background, a husband, father and activist, a nationalist and a populist with a Jeffersonian states rights background. Ideally, I would like to live in an independent Southern Republic with a strong Christian culture in which White people are less deracinated and degenerate than they are now.”

    Your southern republic will doubtless have a lot of “Christian Zionists” citing some Bible verses to back up their demands. You’ll argue against them, citing Bible versus of your own. But from my perspective, you’ll just be sinking to their level. I want to live in a state in which people can have whatever personal religious beliefs they want, but public policy is concerned with only one question: what is best for our people? Anyone who makes the argument that we must do this or that because some ancient religious text written by non-whites commands it will get laughed out of the room.

    • That’s fine.

      They are still our people. They are also good people even if they have listened to too much John Hagee

  7. What really sickened me regarding the statues’ toppling was when Stonewall Jackson’s great grandsons dissed him on TV.

    It was simply nauseating.

  8. The biggest problem with Woods’ commentary is that he can’t see beyond his own biases, mostly notably, those of his region and those of his generation:

    Generationally, like a zoomer, he thinks in terms of social-media influencers-as-power-structures. This is an inherent bias he’s probably not even aware of. Someone who analyzes the so-called “dissident right” from, say, a theologically-consistent Christian perspective may realize deeper nuance to the shifting sands of “movement” drama and may re-evaluate which personage was more influential (and in what ways).

    Regionally, he thinks like a typical European, with all the condescending disrespect for American pop-conservatism, which, however wonky of late, has a noble pedigree. “The Ron Paul stuff is still out there…” um, yeah; rugged individualism, mistrust of the state, and unwillingness to knuckle under bureaucratic “smart men”, as they’re seen by those of us who were raised watching John Wayne and reading Louis L’amour, aren’t going away. This aesthetic is a fundamental part of our identity, whether or not some Irish kid realizes it or appreciates it.

    By the way – to the pompous Europeans – you may think the average rural American is an uneducated, conspiracy loon, but we think the average European can’t change a car tire or start fires without gasoline and a lighter. We have our stereotypes of you as well.

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