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Giantologist Goes Full Nazi, States that Trump Ascendancy "Has Been Positive" for Aryan Fringe Agenda

2/21/2017

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For those of us that pay attention to how "fringe" claims about the human past are related to racist political agendas, the connections are often so obvious as to border on the mundane. The last time I wrote about such things (in my discussion of the cartoon-like ideas about race and prehistory that underpin the Alt-Right's vision of making America great again) I got an earful from people uncomfortable with the notion that there is or could be a real connection between the fake history promulgated by white supremacists and the decisions made by our new government. In my opinion, it's clearly evident that our interpretations of the past matter a great deal to our actions in the present.  And it's incredibly naive to assume that there's some kind of natural firewall that insulates the levers of power from the demonstrably false ideas about the past that are the stock-in-trade of "fringe" theorists.

It's an objective fact that white supremacists were not disappointed that Donald Trump was elected president. Whether they will be disappointed by what the Trump administration actually does, of course, is a different question. Whatever happens, however, it's clear that Trump's ascendancy has encouraged and emboldened white supremacists across the country.

My example today provides another data point illustrating the triangulation of white supremacy, "fringe" history, and contemporary politics.

Patrick Chouinard's book Lost Race of the Giants was published in 2013. I bought it back then as I began working to understand where all this business about giants was coming from. I read the first part of it but then gave up and didn't finish -- my impression was that it was a poorly organized, unoriginal mess that recycled much of the same material as the other books on giants that I had already been through. I got bored, so I stopped reading.

Lost Race of Giants was published by Simon & Schuster, which maintains an author page for Chouinard. Just yesterday, Simon & Schuster announced that it was dropping a book deal with Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulous in the wake of his recent remarks about pedophilia.  

Since the publication of his 2013 book on giants, Chouinard (aka Patrick Fox) has shifted his focus to positioning himself as a vocal proponent of a basket of "lost white superior Aryan giant Atlantean race" ideas that can be sold to and consumed by white supremacists. Here is a flyer, for example, promoting Chouinard's services:
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Here is Chouinard's Twitter page:
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There's no ambiguity about where Chouinard stands on the relationship between his white supremacist agenda and his claims about the human past. 

In this interview from January of 2017, Chouinard (going by the name of Patrick Fox) says that he is "forever dedicated to the pro white cause" and joined the National Socialist Movement in 2016. As far as our current political situation, Chouinard states that
". . . we should promote a reverse or counter youth culture based on NS straight-edge values that could take advantage of the increasing  awareness of pro-white values and ideas that have been launched by the success of Donald Trump. I do not  think Trump is our man by any means, but his effect is clear and has been positive for us. I see NS Straight-edge youth as the shock troops or our movement and can be used the way Tom Metzger used the skinheads several decades ago."
Setting aside questions about the quality of Chouinard's "research" and my feelings about his political views, I find myself oddly appreciative of his decision to clearly identify as a white supremacist. His forthright declaration stands in contrast to the milquetoast evasions of others who have written on a similar set of "fringe" topics in the same publications as Chouinard. Say what you want about his claims, but at least he's clear about where he's coming from. 
9 Comments
Bob Jase
2/21/2017 01:55:34 pm

Again with the multiple identities! What is it with fringers that they have to pretend to be a minimum of three different people?

Deplorable if you ask me.

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Ph
2/22/2017 04:27:58 am

Too bad it is legal to display those flags in the USA.
In most European countries it is illegal as it denotes affilance with an illegal organisation.

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Gunn At Risk
2/22/2017 07:12:12 am

Although I agree with your overall sentiments, I really dislike seeing the word "fringers" used the way it is today--not just here, of course, where that single word is supposed to encapsulate all fringe ideas.

Here's the problem, as I see it: when using the word fringe, there is an imaginary spectrum, from left to right, if you will, which begins from a zone of reality and slowly moves into a zone of perceived fantasy...then we come back out of the spectrum to the right, bright and clean again, shining with truth.

But, who will preside over this history-rainbow to determine what is actually fringe or not...I mean, to the point of unacceptibility? We must move along the spectrum and end up somewhere...at a point of acceptance then...yes, yes, and then who are the final judges? We end up with the same problem Jason is parsing over on his blog:

Who will be the arbitrators when officially deciding who to allow movement along the imaginary fringe spectrum? Who will be "The Deciders," as a very goofy man once said?

The Deciders are those who call the academic shots, the one's who will decide what is worthy of future study or not...they are the people who might be seen as being in collusion with skeptics, errant professors and others who could actually believe that the Newport Tower is a wind-mill and that medieval Norse stoneholes in and around Minnesota stem from massive forgetfulness associated with Scandinavian DNA...a mean point I like to bring up once in a while.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to peacefully mosey along on this colorful, wonderful spectrum of so-called fringe history, trying to make my way over to Academic Respectibility and Scientific Exactitude. As one can readily see, this is hard to do while also kissing the sky....

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Andy White
2/22/2017 08:02:06 am

Bob,

I distinctly remember dis-inviting you from commenting on my blog after our interactions over stone holes. That still holds. Please move on.

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E.P. Grondine
2/25/2017 09:58:59 am

Hi Andy -

It is interesting to watch how some of these folks avoid your challenge of proving that any of the holes are not of "modern" manufacture.

I would like to add that besides clearing fields and providing building materials, some of the "modern" stone holes may have been used to hold traps.

Joe Scales
2/22/2017 10:27:51 am

"I got an earful from people uncomfortable with the notion that there is or could be a real connection between the fake history promulgated by white supremacists and the decisions made by our new government."

The earful from me was because you were, perhaps unwittingly, simply using your blog to make a political smear being faced with an elected president not of your choosing; and engaging in association fallacy in doing so. Your stand on this is clear however and I don't wish to revisit my plea. Just save the strawman for someone else.

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E.P. Grondine
2/26/2017 09:01:41 am

Joe -

Whatever you personally think of Trump, this NS racist nut needed to be exposed.

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A.D.
2/28/2017 11:42:30 am

Andy, I found these blogs that is filled with racist pseudo history:

http://fjamger.blogspot.com/2016/07/14rann.html
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/16/the-solutrean-hypothesis/

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Normandie Kent
12/8/2019 01:14:11 pm

The White Supremists and fringe movements cater to the anti-Immigrant movements going on in the Americas. The Founding of the Americas by the Ancient Ancestors of the American Natives, was the Most genetically and evolutionary elegant migration in the world . The NAs Amerindians descend from one main branch of humanity that traveled the furthest away from the cradle of humanity into two empty continents and land not touched by any other population. The modern Native Americans descend from a small population of 250 people, to 100,000,000 people at the time of first contact. Everything the Native Americans accomplished was done solely by their highly accomplished ancestors. Modern Europeans don’t have that kind of isolated history, but is deeply intertwined with the histories, inventions, migrations, and invasions by Asia, and Africa. The Ancient Eurasian continent and Europe has been populated and repopulated and replaced by their own ancestors fairly recently. Even though their own history and languages were brought in by their immigrant ancestors, they now pretend otherwise, that they themselves are not descended from invaders and immigrants in Europe and especially in the Americas. I’m sorry but people who are proud of their own history and content with their own heritage, and accomplishments do not try and appropriate all others non-white indigenous continents heritage, history, identity.They are insecure in their own identity and history of mass immigration and invasion of countless non-White homelands. Hitler the Aryanist was ashamed of the history of Northern and Western Europe, used the myth of the White Aryan Superman as a salve for low self-esteem. Aryanism was born of shame, not pride! White Supremists want what the Native peoples have, a meaningful history, ancestors, and deep ties to the lands the WS now occupy by invasion and immigration, and are now trying to colonize the Native American past.

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