White Aryan Resistance
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The White Aryan Resistance is a neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader Tom Metzger. It is based in California, USA. The group was originally known as the White American Political Association or WAPA, but was changed briefly to the White American Resistance, and later American was changed to Aryan. They hold views which are self-described as racist, as seen in their website sections "Racist Jokes" and "Racist Videos," and in the tagline for their newspaper The Insurgent, as "the most racist newspaper on earth."
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[edit] Description
Like many other white supremacist and nationalist groups, WAR has a restricted definition of "white" and "Aryans", which includes only non-Jewish Europeans and people of European descent. They view multiracial peoples with partial white ancestry to not really be true whites, but instead represent a new racial type.
WAR wants the population of pure whites to increase for the supremacy of the white race. WAR believes racial populations are the key to global power. WAR believes the white population in the United States must increase to continue white hegemony there. They condemn white/non-white interracial unions equally regardless of gender, since it limits the numbers of pure white births. Since white gays choose not to reproduce, WAR also opposes them.
WAR believes in biological determinism. They view whites as genetically superior to other races and view the varying accomplishments of other races to be causally-linked to their genetic potential.
WAR has general policies on what its members should do. WAR promotes the strategy of leaderless resistance, or "Lone Wolf" activism. WAR does extensive prison organizing and, like the KKK, it claims to be a Christian organization, Christianity is a form of Judaism. They view whites who are against their cause as traitorous to their race.
WAR believes in female empowerment and equal rights for women, believing "White settler women in early America had to shoot or drive off Indians or wild animals. Thus, it must have been with early man. It is illogical to think that as ancient tribes came under attack by others, that women did not join in the fight for survival." However, WAR has advocated antifeminism, claiming it divided the genders rather than united them.
[edit] Legal and financial problems
The WAR organization was effectively bankrupted as the result of a civil lawsuit resulting from WAR's involvement in the death of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college. In 1988, Seraw was murdered by racist skinheads, who were convicted of the crime and sent to prison. Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a civil suit against Metzger, arguing that WAR influenced Seraw's murderers by encouraging the group East Side White Pride to commit violence. The jury returned the largest civil verdict in Oregon history at the time — $12.5 million against Metzger and WAR.[1]
[edit] See also
- Neo-Nazi groups of the United States
- White supremacy
- Racial realism
- White pride
- Biological determinism
[edit] References
- ^ Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. ISBN 0-8050-5098-1 [The definitive account of Seraw's murder and the subsequent legal proceedings against Metzger and WAR.]
[edit] External links
- WAR official website
- Nikzor page An anti-Nazi group.
- Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) ADL page
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