THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

EXPLANATION 2 | 2013-05-10

To rest my eyes, I need something simple to listen to music on.

Sounds easy in the Days of the Internet.

But a Google search assumes I am interested in iPods. There are ads for iPods. There are no doubt interesting discussions of the latest in iPods, what is going on in the World of iPod.

I have told you a number of times that my siblings are even older than I am. They are all able to use the Internet ONLY because I stayed a night with each of them and showed it to them.

I EXPLAINED it.

I explained it, not as entertainment or The Latest Thing, but as a wholly new and different thing.

The first thing I taught them was control-alt-delete. Back then it just plain got you out of anything you were doing, and that is what they wanted to know first.

When you get on a plane, the first thing they tell you about is the escape hatches.

Once they knew how to get out, my siblings were ready to go in.

VERY carefully.

In an age when Kindergarteners use computers, introducing people to them who used to wear earphones to hear crystal radio requires a thousand tons of empathy.

Our job is different, but the problem is the same. We have to talk, not about the best way to put things that a real person in a real world would naturally want to hear. We have to go where THEY are.

Stormfront can talk about the latest in racial solutions and news. That's where their audience is.

We have to go out into the instantly hostile world where the general population is.

They have no interest in our iPod, they have no idea what it is, and they have a suit of armor on against having it explained to them.

It's sort of like teaching a math class to a roomful of juvenile delinquents who still have their handcuffs on.

MARK | 2006-01-19

My entry below, "Peter Appeals to a Higher Court" was a humorous piece which included some bragging about my older sister, who is a thoroughly, Steel Magnolia type of sweet Southern lady.

Mark took it seriously and vowed to abandon me forever. He says:

'This entry has made me quite ill and I'm not kidding in the least.

Bob, but I thought you wanted a real exchange of ideas, not the slobberings of a yes man who licks your boots and tells you you are god. This is my last entry in your blog which I'm sure will not bother you in the least but it will make my day. I'll seek out those with balls enough to actuallly do something more than pontificate for the white race instead of sit out honey for class pet lap dogs. "

Comment by Mark —

I STILL can't understand what he is talking about, and I hope he, like Bob, can just admit he did something silly and go on.

Man is the only animal who laughs. He is also the only animal that knows he will die.

This is not a coincidence. Humor is survival. So real humor always hits at touchy areas, like the King's Fool.

Humor hits very close to the bone, and I am not sure what nerve I touched in Mark. It was certainly not one htat was in my mind.

If Makr is the man I think he is, he will simply say he flew off the handle.

But if Mark has abandoned me forever, it is better thus.

I have warned you, from costly experience, that you should NEVER deal with anybody who uses the words "Lie" and "Liar" freely.

Let me warn you also never to deal with anyone who goes instantly from friend to foe because of one misstep.

That is why I get wary when someone quotes the Bible too much. he is likely one day to find some phrase in that million-word-long scripture which you have violated and declare you a False Prophet. It is only a matter of time.

I deal with loudly proclaiming Old Testament Christians in exactly the same way that I deal with Jews or other minority groups. At arm's length.

I can work with Jews or blacks, but I always keep in mind that they can turn on me in an instant. They can be allies, but never comrades. The same is true of people who think they own The Book.

Any Book. The Bible is just one of them.

Hence Wordism.

Once I said somethig wrong and a female friend, not a girlfriend, said, "I used to like you but now I realize how bad you are."

My reply was, "If your friendship is so easily lost, I would rather not be burdened with it."

You should treat a person who can turn on you in one statement in exactly the same way you should deal with a grenade with the pin pulled. You have to dispose of it while keeping your thumb firmly down on the fuse.

Like a live grenade, the best place for a so-called "Friend" who will turn on you in one statement is in the camp of your enemies. He will blow up there and take some of THEM with him.

BUGS STRATEGY IS BASED ON OUR BEING RIGHT ALL ALONG | 2012-03-17

I have spent over fifty-five years fighting anti-white traitors and predicting what has happened.

I hate the bastards. When I was in my early teens I used to say "Nothing too bad can happen to an integrationist."

When White Rabbit got going for a while, he asked me how I had stayed sane after all these years of dealing with the people he had suffered from in a short time.

I have had two nervous breakdowns and two heart attacks. And I have forced myself to do, for over half a century, the greatest feat possible of MORAL COURAGE:

I have CHANNELED my anger. Those five words contain more suffering over half a century than you could get in a torture chamber.

One of the first lessons I brought over from Stormfront was that SF is not a weapon of war, it is a VENTING device. Conventions were also good VENTING places. It was wonderful to hear speeches which told the truth.

I bitch about Stormfront all the time, but Stormfront was a major turning point for BUGS, which was Whitakeronline before it evolved into BUGS. To my mind, BUGS is not a contradiction to Stormfront or the Conventions. Instead BUGS is a the next step.

When younger people -- at least younger in the movement, read Stormfront and heard the speeches at Conventions, it was major relief to them to see people telling the truth despite our Thought Police.

I had heard those truths in my youth, when I lived where a solid segregationist viewpoint was regularly aired. But I also came from a fight where they had integrated us and forced us to say we LIKED it.

So where newer people felt that conventions and Stormfront were naturally leading somewhere, I had the advantage -- if you call something that horrible an advantage -- of seeing that telling the truth is not enough.

But I saw another advantage. We are in a different era from the one in which segregationists were trying to explain what this ruling integrationist mentality would LEAD TO. The disaster and the genocide of our kind that we pointed to then are now not only real, they are established doctrine that we have Thought Police to enforce.

They used to chuckle at us for saying integration was aimed at intermarriage. They chuckled at our statement that a country which has no race soon has no borders.

I faithfully attended the conventions and wrote in Stormfront, but I had been through all this before, and we LOST. Most former segregationists have sold out partly because they have been here before and LOST before.

But I saw the GIANT advantage we now have: Everything we predicted is not happening, it is DOCTRINE. Now what we were trying to say then can be stated in 222 words and no one can deny it.

OUR BLOG | 2010-09-09

A commenter with good taste said he or she was getting a lot out of backbaygrouch, (BBG)'s comments and asked if BBG had a blog a of his own. He does. It is the blog you are reading now.

Take it from me, it would be a lot of work for BBG to set up his own blog. And tiny blogs tend to get tinier. I don't think anybody but a monomaniacal would want a columnist's job of writing a new piece each day for free.

This is Dave'S and Simmons' and Sheri's blog, too. They do more writing here than most private bloggers do on their own sites.

This group's comments on the daily article helps, but I get a lot of joy looking at General Comments IV. There we have BUGSers who are actually out there in the field, trying out sites and different approaches.

White Rabbit and Trucker Roy are out there TRYING it, not whining at the rest of us.

White Rabbit, who is out competing for a more general audience, kindly reports to me from time to time. I hope he is not disappointed in my lack of replies, but his reports show that he is going about it in the best way, so what's to comment on?

White Rabbit is surprised to discover that his site is getting to be "hep" among a lot of young people. I've seen that before, as when the conservative movement grew up in the early sixties.

Those responsible for the growth of conservatism brought in young people because they didn't do the same old bitching about balanced budgets conservative losers repeated endlessly to earn their salaries.

White Rabbit is trying out new approaches, each of them involving a lot of talent and practice. He found that his audience doesn't grow if he hammers on one issue, so he sticks in Mantra Thinking a lot where he can fit it in.

Which is the way all professional media get their political message across. And it can only be done by practice and experimentation.

After seeing me rail endlessly at News and Jews, WR was almost apologetic in saying that he had found that news sells, so he uses a lot of it. He does that White Rabbit and gets young folks because, his readers say, he delivers hope with his news. His spin on the news gives young people hope and attracts them.

There is no way I will mix WR's work up with the News and Jews obsessives on SF.

I wear the White Rabbit tee-shirt and act like a proud grandpa, "This is one of MAH granchillen." The fact that the baby had three other grandparents never comes up, at least in my dialogue.

It is due to my efforts that WE have a blog. So when the commenter asked whether BBG has a blog of his own, it is a compliment to the success of BUGS that he does.

In a team effort, you don't have to take anything from another team member to feel good about what YOU did to make it possible.