GOP House hopeful Jim Russell praised racist practices, advocated eugenics in 2001 essay

[meegbear]

A New York Republican hoping to displace the long-serving Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey will face an increasingly steep climb to electoral victory thanks to a revelation by Politico's Maggie Haberman, who dug up some of his published works and noted a number of distinctly racist elements in a 2001 piece published by the right-wing Occidental Quarterly.

Jim Russell, who enjoys the support of his state's Republican Party and conservative establishment, has maintained a strongly anti-immigrant stance in his campaign against Lowey, who defeated him in 2008.

The same could be said of his 2001 essay for Occidental (PDF link), titled "The Western Contribution to World History," which advises parents to establish "appropriate ethnic boundaries" for their children, and criticizes the film "Save the Last Dance" for depicting an interracial relationship.

He also opined against the racial integration of public schools and praised two individuals for their antisemitic ideas on how to limit the spread of Jews.

Russell even lauded some ideas behind the practice of eugenics, a radical ideology most commonly associated with Germany's Third Reich which seeks to preserve racial and ethnic purity.

In his essay, he also writes highly of the book, "The Camp of the Saints," a tome held dear by many white supremacists. First published in France in the mid-70s, "The Camp of the Saints" depicts a mass migration from India into Europe, resulting in a radically altered political reality.

"The book characterizes non-whites as horrific and uncivilized 'monsters' who will stop at nothing to greedily and violently seize what rightfully belongs to the white man," the Southern Poverty Law Center explained.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/republican-house-hopeful-jim-russell-exposed-racist-writings/

[Iterate]

1. Wow. This guy makes Pat Buchanan look like an Anglican minister

He's cut right out of the middle of the white supremacists movement. I don't know how in god's green earth a guy who should be hiding in Idaho and on the SPLC watch list could be running for a major office. Oh yah, the Republicans nominated him.

I can only imagine that the Republican strategy is to nominate people so profoundly horrifying that they make the merely horrifying look sane. Steve King, yer not so bad after all.

[guruoo]

2. Occidental Quarterly: Charles Martel Society publication. Unabashedly racist, terrorist history...

Home page: http://www.toqonline.com/


The Occidental Quarterly: Western Perspectives on Man, Culture, and Politics (ISSN 1539-3925) is
published by The Charles Martel Society four times yearly, in the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.

http://www.toqonline.com/about/

Charles Martel Group
Aliases: Charles Martel Club
Base of Operation: France

Founding Philosophy: The Charles Martel Group, also known as the Charles Martel Club, was an anti-Arab organization that operated in the 1970’s and 1980’s in France. The majority of its attacks were on Algerian government and business installations. Algeria, a former French colony, had fought a bitter war for independence, and many Algerian refugees were settling in France around this time.

Charles Martel, the group’s namesake, is a famous figure in French history, and his defeat of the Arab Moorish armies at Tours in 732 is presumably the motivation for this terrorist group’s invocation of his name. The name Charles Martel has often been invoked by anti-immigrant and anti-Arab groups, both inside and outside France. Members of the Secret Army Organization, a terrorist organization aimed at toppling the French government due to its eventual support for Algerian independence, used this name in the 1960's. In the United States, the Charles Martel Society is a right-wing anti-immigration academic group.

Current Goals: The Charles Martel Group has not carried out an attack since 1983 and is presumed to be inactive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071018155232/http://tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=170

[Hannah Bell]

3. wow.

[guruoo]

4. Wow indeed. If this gets around, Russell's toast. nt