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Den Store Utviskingen En Historisk Og Idéhistorisk Undersøkelse Av Richard Spencers Hvit Identitetspolitikk Den store utviskingen En historisk og idéhistorisk undersøkelse av Richard Spencers hvit identitetspolitikk Sjur Teisbo-Aaserud Masteroppgave i historie Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie UNIVERSITETET I OSLO Høst 2020 1 Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om den ideologiske utviklingen til Richard Bertrand Spencer. Han skapte, ifølge ham selv, begrepet alternativ høyre i 2008 som et forsøk på å skape en motsats til Det republikanske parti. Oppgaven følger hans ideologiske utvikling fra 2000-2020. Spencer må ses på som en enkelt aktør som ønsket å være en ideologisk anfører for en bevegelse. Via hans nettplattform altright.com og hans tenketank National Policy Institute så har han ønsket å renvaske en ny form for hvit nasjonalisme (hvit nasjonalisme 2.0). Spencers posisjoner kan karakteriseres som et produkt av miljøer på ytre høyresiden i amerikansk offentlighet som ble veldig synlige under presidentkandidat Donald Trumps utradisjonelle valgkamp i 2016. Denne oppgaven ønsker å forstå hans ideologiske inspirasjonskilder og se Spencer i sammenheng med noen idéhistoriske kontinuitetslinjer i amerikansk og europeisk politisk filosofihistorie. Hans ideologiske posisjoner kjennetegnes av anti-demokratiske, anti-egalitære, anti-globalistiske, anti-multikulturelle, eurosentriske og raserealistiske standpunkter. Jeg har undersøkt hans tekstproduksjon fra starten av 2000-tallet til det nåværende år og sett på innflytelsesrike inspirasjonskilder han har assosiert seg med og lest. For å forstå konseptet om rasestaten som Spencer forfekter så er forståelsen av hvit identitetspolitikk sentral. 2 Forord (…) the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.1 Tap av identitet og mangel på anerkjennelse i det moderne samfunnet, er høyst reelle problemer for mitt forskningsobjekt i denne oppgaven, Richard B. Spencer. Denne oppgaven forsøker å gå nærmere hans hvit identitetspolitikk og frykt for å bli en minoritet. Som en ideologisk anfører ledet han en protestmarsj gjennom Emancipation Park i Charlottesville, Virginia i 2017. Slagord som «vi vil ikke bli erstattet!» ble ropt ut taktfast. Hva ligger bak denne frykten for å bli visket ut? Et ønske om å forstå dette fenomenet var drivkraften bak masteroppgaven og rettferdiggjøringen av talløse timer i hvit nasjonalistiske webziner og annet kildemateriell. Hva var det Spencer mente når han sa: «Det som fører oss sammen er at vi er hvite, vi er et folk, vi vill ikke bli erstattet» (min oversettelse)? Denne oppgaven hadde ikke vært mulig hadde det ikke vært for professor Thomas J. Mains vennlige mailutvekslinger, veileder og historieprofessor Øystein Sørensen utrettelige og årvåkne blikk for historieskrivning, Lasse Josephsens kildearkiv og kunnskaper om ekstremister, Trond H. Amundsens detaljerte korrektur, pappa Lars Aaseruds positive tilbakemeldinger og ikke minst Vår, Ola og Pil. Takk for at pappa har fått lov til å være mye på kontoret! Og en stor takk til alle andre som har tatt seg tid til en kaffekopp og bidratt til at ideer har manifestert seg i tekst. Sjur Teisbo-Aaserud Oslo, november, 2020 1 Baldwin 1963: 17 3 Innholdsfortegnelse Kapittel 1: The Rebirth of a Nation – en alternativ nasjon av hvite ................................................................... 7 1.1. Oppgavens utgangspunkt og historiske bakgrunn ........................................................................... 8 1.2. Problemstilling .............................................................................................................................. 10 1.3. Avgrensing ................................................................................................................................... 11 1.4. Primærkilder og litteratur ............................................................................................................. 11 1.5. Metode......................................................................................................................................... 14 1.6. Idehistorisk bakgrunn for Richard Spencers alternative høyre og begrepsavklaring ........................ 16 Kapittel 2: Fra privilegert overklassegutt til høykulturelle og europeiske lengsler .......................................... 20 Bakteppe for Spencers ideologiske utvikling i perioden 2000- 2007 .............................................................. 20 2.1 Oppvekst i Dallas .......................................................................................................................... 20 2.2 Nietzsches slave- og herremoral .................................................................................................... 22 2.3 Studieopphold i Europa ................................................................................................................. 24 2.4 Stipendiat i europeisk intellektuell historie .................................................................................... 26 2.5 Nietzsche som forskningsobjekt .................................................................................................... 29 2.6 Oppsummering ............................................................................................................................. 31 Kapitel 3: Samfunnsdebattant og hvit nasjonalist i støpeskjeen ..................................................................... 34 Bakteppet for Spencers ideologiske utvikling i perioden 2007- 2009 ............................................................ 34 3.1. Engasjerer seg som ikke-intervensjonist ........................................................................................ 34 3.2 Paleokonservatives kulturkamp..................................................................................................... 37 3.3 Bedriftsforetaket USA ................................................................................................................... 41 3.4 Redaktør for Taki`s Magazine ....................................................................................................... 44 3.5 Spencer berører kontroversielle temaer ......................................................................................... 45 3.6 Oppsummering ............................................................................................................................. 48 Kapittel 4: Alternativ høyre ............................................................................................................................ 50 Bakteppet for Spencers ideologiske utvikling fra 2010-2014 ........................................................................ 50 4.1 Spencers alternative samlingssted på nettet.................................................................................. 50 4.2 Ideologiske byggesteiner i alternativ høyre ................................................................................... 51 4.3 Radikal tradisjonalisme ................................................................................................................. 53 4.4 Vestlige regimers «underprioritering av hvite» .............................................................................. 55 4.5 Indoeuropeisk imperie .................................................................................................................. 56 4.6 Etnopluralisme og «retten til forskjellighet» .................................................................................. 57 4.7 Nye generasjoner med etnopluralister........................................................................................... 59 4.8 Kulturkrigen mot 68`erne .............................................................................................................. 60 4.9 Hierarkisk raseinndeling ................................................................................................................ 62 4.10 Spencers universitetsforedrag om «hvit diskriminering» ................................................................ 63 4.11 Hvit identitet tenketankleder ........................................................................................................ 65 4 4.12 Den store utskiftningen ................................................................................................................. 66 4.13 Etnostaten som ideal .................................................................................................................... 67 4.14 Oppsummering: ............................................................................................................................ 68 Kapittel 5: Nettverksbyggeren ........................................................................................................................ 72 Bakteppet for Spencer ideologiske utvikling i 2014- 2017 ............................................................................ 72 5.1 Pan-europeisk forbrødring ............................................................................................................ 72 5.2 «Det ekte høyre» .........................................................................................................................
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