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The New Revisionism: Michelle Malkin?s legitimisation of American Racicialism
by Rev. Sequoyah Ade
August 2004
?That the barbarians recede or are conquered, with the attendant fact that peace follows their retrogression or conquest, is due solely to the power of the mighty civilised races which have not lost their fighting instinct, and which by their expansion are gradually bringing peace in the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway.?
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1901
Once successfully established as an independent republic, the United States of America has zealously sought to define itself as a socio-political archetype of human freedom and intellectual liberty. The fact that the whole of U.S. history from front to back is literally riddled with racialist driven physical and economic dispossessions, socio-political marginalisation and state sponsored genocide in one form or another is ostensibly beside the point. Not unlike conjectures supporting the existence of angels, flat-Earth theory and Creationist science, the aggressively chauvinistic philosophy of American Exceptionalism purports to provide a theoretical explanation for why the United States is exempt from any criticism that made shed light on it?s internal as well as external contradictions.
Enter Michelle Malkin. A syndicated columnist and former editorial writer for the GOP-leaning Seattle Times, Ms. Malkin, (or is Ms. too politically correct for conservatives?) has raised a considerable storm of controversy recently within the Asian community by proposing in her new book, ?In Defence of Internment? that the concentration-camp imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two was justified on the grounds of immediate national security concerns and reasonable suspicions in light of the ethnicity of the suspected internees. Conservative historians, David Duke and the FOX News Republican propaganda goon squad have redundantly raised the exact same security excuses before, so there is really nothing in Ms. Malkin book that is particularly refreshing. What is novel however is that in writing it she has like other non-White American archconservatives actively ignored the American racial question by denouncing the reality of the issue itself. Ms. Malkin?s book is merely the latest philosophical manifestation of a Dubya-era non-European American racial apologist expressly dedicated to explaining why such ethnic marginalisations are necessary and constructive to U.S. and global society.
With her frequent cable media appearances and nationally syndicated columns, Ms. Malkin appears to be making an earnest bid to eclipse former GOP darling and incessant flibbertigibbet Ann Coulter as the most prominent female propagandist of the Conservative right. Like Dinesh D?Souza, Ward Connelly and Dicky Wilson before her, Ms. Malkin is building a career on perpetuating and legitimising institutional arguments for what used to be called in more honest days White Power. ?In Defence of Internment? ideologically ranks alongside D?Souza?s ?The End of Racism?, Murray and Herrenstein?s ?The Bell Curve?, Thomas Jefferson?s ?Notes on the State of Virginia? and the works of Alfred Rosenburg. More significantly it is perhaps one of the most racialist tomes ever authored by a person of colour. As a political and social commentator Ms. Malkin goes to great lengths to appear objective and scholarly unbiased. By projecting herself as an arbiter of reason sincerely attracted to the common sense of ultra conservative ideals, she attempts to illustrate the logic of far-right racial arguments in a way no White person could undertake without risking the ubiquitous charge of racism. With pats to the head from the likes of the Bradley Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute and the Bush administration, Ms. Malkin and the rest of her internally colonialised self-serving flock represent a bewildering phenomenon within modern conservative discourse, non-Whites willing to cast their lot exclusively with the more racialist elements of the White power structure.
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