Charles Johnson Attacks Lawrence Auster

Heads roll in latest LGF purge

Charles Johnson and his troop of toadies at Little Green Footballs have attacked Lawrence Auster of View From the Right.

Following a post called "White Supremacists for Obama," the predictable member thread discussed all the Neo-Nazis, Klan and white supremacists on the Right.

Actually there aren't many except in the minds of Charles Johnson and his amen chorus. But when Charles gets his oh-look-how-liberal-I-am freak on, heads have to roll and virgins sacrificed to the Lizard God.

Among the names of the white supremacists and fascists thrown out were, among others, Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, Gordon Lee Baum and Lawrence Auster. Some of these names are certainly suspect, but Lawrence Auster? The thread quickly focused on Auster when some LGF lizards dared defend him.

Ten or twelve LGF members had their accounts promptly terminated for disagreeing with the group over Auster's alleged fascism. If you disagree that someone is a fascist, it is proof that you too are a fascist, or so CJ seems to think. In any case, LGF has had another of its many purges, with members banned for miniscule reasons. Merely voting up or down on a comment can get your membership instantly deleted if Charles disagrees with your vote. After being a member of LGF for a short time, it becomes obvious that you are not to express opinions of your own, but merely to reflect the great leader's opinion. It reminds me a bit of Stalinist Russia, with ongoing purges and pogroms. Every thread, every link, every vote is a chance to prove your loyalty to Charles; fail to do so and you are likely to be purged.

In this latest pogrom Charles Johnson once again comes off looking petty, mean, intolerant and paranoid, a cyber bully to his own members.

I don't always agree with Lawrence Auster; I think he is unnecessarily antagonistic towards some conservatives I really like, like Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn. Larry and I have had our arguments. But Larry is no fascist or Neo-Nazi or racist. He is a traditional conservative and one of the best critical thinkers I know. He routinely defends Israel.

LGF is still a valuable site to consult, but it has a kind of smell to it for me now. Sort of smells like...liberal mind control. LGF is no place for independent thinkers. I find myself consulting it maybe once a week, where I used to consult it several times a day.

Update: My estimate of three people banned in the latest LGF purge was a bit low. People at the scene are reporting 10 to 12. Here are some comments the purged members made to Lawrence Auster:

Auster: As I said some while ago, by his intolerance Charles has become that which he professes to most loathe.

Kevin V. writes:
Larry--It was good talking to you.... The final total over at LGF's banning party was 12, 7 of which are connected to Discarded Lies. The lizards seem to think that they have overthrown some secret cabal of fascist sympathizers who were this close to discrediting the Great Leader but for his heroic and timely action. It takes a bit to move me to anger on this kind of stuff, but the way in which Johnson is treating people really shocks me.

Evariste writes:
Hi Larry-I thought you would like to read this, since it involves not only Charles Johnson, but some of your correspondents, like Kevin V, me, and the guy Q who defended you on LGF. KevinV, "Q" (who is the same person posting as "solus rex" on my blog and who frequently links to VFR, by the way) and about ten other people got banned by Charles from LGF tonight, as a direct or indirect result of defending you or trying to make a distinction between you and, say, Adolf Hitler. At one point he realized that leaving up all the rational, thoughtful comments to which he replied with hysterical rhetoric, mindless insults and bans was making him look bad, so he deleted all the comments that were posted to protect his flock from cognitive dissonance. I regret that I didn't get a copy of everything that got posted, but some of the comments are reproduced on the thread I've linked.

Stogie's conclusions: As I mentioned before, some of the people discussed in the LGF thread are indeed suspect, Gordon Lee Baum in particular. Baum is a white supremacist. I know, because I've read his newsletter, from his group the Council of Conservative Citizens. Baum once denounced me for having a non-white wife. Jared Taylor is suspect in my mind; his magazine American Renaissance is read by a lot of neo-Nazis who like its racialist reporting. The others mentioned are not that familar to me.

The rule seems to be: be careful in your associations, but don't be paranoid either. When you're the latter, innocent people get hurt.