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What Did You Think ‘Final Solution’ Meant? – HotAir

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Stew Peters has nearly a million followers on X, based entirely on his constant antisemitic rants. 

There’s quite a market for that these days. Leftist antisemitism has been going strong for over 2 years, and right-wing antisemitism is slowly catching up, although it is not normalized in the way it is on the left these days. But as the backlash against left identity politics gains steam, the white identity fringe is gaining prominence. 





Unlike some people, I don’t attribute any one act of violence to the “incitement” of extremists, although it is clear that when a climate of hate is created and fostered, an outbreak of violence becomes inevitable. Short of exhorting people to kill some specified group in a specific way, I see no way to prevent people from creating that climate of hate other than arguing against them and ridiculing them. 

That’s why I can’t, in good conscience, even after yet another two senseless murders, argue for censoring Peters or any others in this vile group of bigots. 

Peters is greatly offended that people are accusing him of supporting violence against Jews in the wake of the attack on two Israeli diplomats that left them dead. To which I say, “Come on, man.” Of course you do. There may be an alternative interpretation for “86 47,” but there is no alternative interpretation of “Final Solution.” 

The Final Solution is the genocide of the Jews. There is no ambiguity about that, and while anybody has the perfect right–or should I say the ugly right–to approve of Hitler’s Final Solution, nobody has the right to suggest that it means anything other than that slyly. It serves as a proper name for a particular historical event, not a generic name for the results of an equation. 





Peters makes no bones about being antisemitic–he calls on all pro-America people to be antisemites–and he proudly posts approval of Hitler. Final Solution means Hitler’s Final Solution, obviously. There’s nothing sly or ambiguous about that. 

Should Peters be kicked off the internet for being a hater? Not in my view. It not only validates the “hate speech” exclusion to the First Amendment, but it incentivizes the labeling of all things you don’t like as hate speech and censurable. 

Not to mention, it is important that everybody see reality for what it is. Denouncing hate and haters is what we must do. Expose the Nick Fuentes/Stew Peters crowd, and drown out their vile lies with truths. Driving hatred underground makes it stronger, not weaker, and creates a deeper and stronger grievance culture. 





People like this will always be with us. Losers will always gravitate to grifters who gain money and power by feeding their grievances. While it would be satisfying to silence them, we wind up diminishing ourselves and our culture by doing so, as strange as that seems. 

And, as dispiriting as it is that Peters has 818,000 followers on X, it’s important to remember that in a country with over 330 million people, that is a tiny fraction of the populace. Walk into a room with 100 people, and you will find more than a few execrable people more likely than not. 

So why even talk about Peters? He is part of a small but growing crew of people who are considered on the “Right” becoming open about their antisemitism, or at least creeping close to that line. Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and the people that James Lindsey is calling the “woke Right.” I don’t like that term, but I hate the phenomenon much more than any particular term. 

They have embraced a “right-wing” form of identity politics, and we need to not just reject them, but distance ourselves from them. Their reach isn’t huge, but it isn’t nothing, and our opponents on the left will engage in “whataboutism,” and not be entirely wrong if we don’t draw a line here. 












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