In Saturday's Press under the title "Racial bigots damage Christchurch's reputation" the following letter was published about a small white nationalist turnout in the town square. In between the author's description of events, I've included my interpretation from my own (albeit very brief) observations and reports from others.
"Saturday was the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, held to spread the message of peace and tolerance.
I found it hard to tolerate that the white pride constituent of Christchurch hijacked what is supposed to be a harmonious event for their own sick means: a white pride day.
(There is such a thing as racial discrimination towards whites. Many western countries have affirmative action laws that discriminate against whites, and schools and universities regularly prescribe textbooks with a clear anti-white bias. There is even an anti-white academic discipline called whiteness studies).
A clan of white supremacists descended on Cathedral Square, clad in barely disguised neo-Nazi outfits: steel-capped boots, army boots, army uniforms, white pride T-shirts, shaven heads, swastika tattoos.
(A small group of perhaps 20 white nationalists, wearing army boots and white-cross, white pride t-shirts, stood in an unoccupied corner of the square for about 30 minutes. I don't know if any had Nazi tattoos.
They carried New Zealand flags and signs: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." They were extremely intimidating.
(Their appearance was slightly intimidating, but they were pretty much sticking to themselves and weren't engaging with the general public.)
The presence of these people and what they stand for filled me with disgust and embarrassment: they made me feel sick to the stomach. I felt ashamed to be white.
Hundreds of tourists from all over the world came to the square on Saturday and were meet by this sight. They were scared and intimidated I found myself apologising profusely to them in an effort to salvage their impression of Christchurch.
Is this the image we want to present to visitors? An un-welcoming place for hatred for non-whites?"
(It was a cool, wet morning and there were relatively few tourists or shoppers in the Square at the time, nor did they threaten or shout down any members of the public. They were not doing anything that could be construed as "hatred" to other races. Also you would have had to get up very close to them to see if they Nazi tattoos or not).
For a description of ethnomasocism check this link from Mild Colonial Boy.
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"Is this the image we want to present to visitors? An un-welcoming place for hatred for non-whites?"
Perhaps these "White Nationalists" are only trying to preserve a little corner of the world where their own demographic numbers are rapidly declining due to an exponentially increasing non-white population. From my own visits to N.Z., I could see a progressive increase of non-whites in Auckland and Christchurch over a period of 20 years....and the vast majority were not visitors.
....and by what percentage of the world's population do Whites represent?? See HERE.
....also, here is a short 4 minute video.
....and this video graphically illustrates the situation in the U.S. where the White population has diminished to about 65%.
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