Aimee Terese: Contrarian, Marxist — White Advocate?
Chris Roberts, American Renaissance, December 11, 2019
In 2014, James Kirkpatrick wrote a column on the then-looming Scottish Independence vote, and noted that:
Yes, Scottish “nationalism” is less an expression of cultural pride than a Leftist power grab. Yes, yes, it’s supported by hypocritical, unreconstructed socialists who support mass immigration, the European Union, and hatred of the English. Despite all of that . . . I believe that immigration patriots in America and abroad should support a “Yes” vote — because our biggest enemy is not “the Left,” but the status quo. [emphasis added]
I sympathize with the sentiment, and often feel about the same whenever I discover thinkers who, though far from aligning with my views or those of the Right, are heterodox enough to grab my attention. This is especially true of intellectuals who are more-or-less Marxists, but ferociously oppose the hypocrisy, elitism, and double standards of the mainstream Left on race and immigration. I do not support Communism, but I agree that the biggest enemy dissidents face is the status quo. The “anti-anti-white Left” (as I have come to call it) is therefore a force for good.
This political niche rose in 2016 and has largely crested. This is unfortunate, because the anti-anti-white Left causes discord and division within the Left — which is to our advantage. The more power this faction gains, the better for whites. As a white advocate above all else, I hope to see day when both the Left and the Right are pro-white — or at least not overtly hostile to whites. So better a Left whose priority is bolstering union membership and reducing pollution than one whose priority is throwing open the borders and disarming the police. No critique from outside the Left has any chance of changing its view. Self-avowed Marxists have far more power to convert their comrades than I do.
One fine example of this is Aimee Terese, a woman who denounces anti-whiteness and open borders, along with other cruel absurdities, all while staying within the framework of Leftist thinking. Here are just a few highlights from her Twitter feed, which reaches over 11,000 followers:
It will never not disturb me that “white supremacy” discourse has increased almost in tandem with deaths of despair and a declining life expectancy among non-college graduate white people. https://t.co/q21o4VE9jf
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 30, 2019
[👇🏻THIS IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG👇🏻]
Among *social liberals*, learning about white privilege reduces sympathy, increases blame . . . for white people struggling with *poverty*. pic.twitter.com/tdOkwuOxKq
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) May 2, 2019
Miss Terese says censorship and the war on white heritage do not benefit non-whites, but simply let liberal whites show how virtuous they are. Meanwhile, she believes that the economic policies of a President Bernie Sanders would do a great deal of good for poor people, many of whom are non-white. Thus, she concludes that whites who care more about destroying statues of “bad” whites than they do about improving the lot of the poor are, in effect, racist. I generally dislike any argument that calls others “racist” (which is an amorphous and useless word), but this logical Jujutsu is interesting, and must give plenty of Leftists pause.
If you’re more concerned with blackface & statues & deplatforming losers like milo, than with unequivocally going all in on getting Bernie elected, then you’re a racist asshole, no matter how faithfully you scold the unwashed masses with the strictures of intersectional dogma! 💋
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 23, 2019
I don’t think that’s true. They hate poor white people more.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 23, 2019
Here, she notes what James Kirkpatrick said years earlier, that antifa are, “The Dobermans of Political Correctness” in that they violently protect the mainstream’s taboos from criticism:
Antifa working overtime to manufacture consent for centrist neoliberalism, if they didn’t exist the CIA would have to invent them.
Haunting the normies on the right with their ridiculous behaviour. Haunting liberal normies with a spectre of “nazism” so they vote for Biden.— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) June 30, 2019
If you talk a big game about “democratising the economy” at the same time as advocating open borders, you understand neither, and you’re a propagandist for capital.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) November 28, 2019
Here she attacks the Left for being slimy, while retweeting the very popular right-wing account Bronze Age Pervert:
The professional left rewards treachery and encourages hyper-individualistic capital accumulation. They’re the ideological handmaidens of neoliberal acceleration and alienation. https://t.co/kpK5FDYgRP
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 5, 2019
I did not know about either of these two polls — and seeing them in my Twitter feed was welcome news:
Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are both less popular nationwide than the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Only 33% of voters in the Economist
YouGov poll released Wednesday had a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez, while 41% had an unfavorable view. pic.twitter.com/UNem1XzITL— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) July 19, 2019
Re wages, immigration impact is multifactorial and complicated. But short term costs are born by the working class and gains consolidated among upper class. The working class is at historically low levels of unionisation i.e. esp vulnerable re increased labor supply. pic.twitter.com/06sk9GpAz8
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) August 10, 2019
He is easily the best on immigration, so we must push Bernie, until he’s in line with George Mason University, the Koch bro’s and Reason magazine, making him totally unelectable. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/EHfZ5eVCm3
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 31, 2019
She has defended Tucker Carlson — whom much of the Left smears as a “white nationalist” – and more than once:
Tucker was on msnbc just a few years ago but now he’s kkk!? Lmao everything he’s saying here is absolutely correct. pic.twitter.com/2O5MvisGX7
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 30, 2019
“Tulsi never denied being a Russian asset.”- msnbc
But yeah boycott Fox because racism… (only anti war voice on cable = Tucker)
pic.twitter.com/enzlv0GVVB https://t.co/OiCyNjkM8m
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 20, 2019
The new face of empire is going to be woke as fuck. It will be laundered through photo shoots with “grass roots” activists, incorporating authentic voices™, adopting an anti-imperialist, intersectional vernacular & will use climate & “anti-fascism” etc as pretexts for invasion.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) November 17, 2019
[1979] playboy exploiting naked women, “radically progressive”.
[2019] playboy exploiting shitty woke tropes to advance progressive neoliberalism, “radically progressive”. pic.twitter.com/zmCVGf8NNo
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) May 4, 2019
Honestly me being woke scolded on Twitter by Hugh Heffner’s kid is the perfect analogy for the vacuous core of cultural liberalism. Sex work is work & it’s empowering, but laughing at playboy articles about the ‘inherent white supremacy of pop music’?
That’s fashism folx 🤡
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 15, 2019
Miss Terese has the right view of “cancel culture,” the practice of ganging up cruelly, often on Twitter, against anyone — prominent or otherwise — who has violated fashionable taboos.
You people do realise that the legacy of cancel culture is the death of art, you get that right? All the great artists, poets, intellectual provocateurs, were depressives, melancholics, freaks misfits and weirdos. Millennials are suffocating them, they need air to breathe. 😢
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 26, 2019
Cancel culture is the culture of an elite media mafia. Any dissent = mutually assured destruction. Kiss the ring of the Capo, take out a few hits, look the other way when the bodies are buried — you’re a made man.
“Nice career you got here. Boy it’d be a real shame if….”
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 30, 2019
“Cancel culture”
– doesn’t exist
– has never existed
– has always existed
– is good actually
– more cancellations are more good
– anti cancellation = Hitler— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 1, 2019
As with all progressive liberal shibboleths, “cancel culture” is a container term – its definition left ambiguous by design. Conceptual slipperiness is a feature not a bug.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 14, 2019
Just like censorship, the harm of cancel culture is felt most brutally by societies most vulnerable and dissident subjects. For those who already have power, the attention can just be leveraged into profit & opportunity. This is why we must object to it as a matter of principle.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 14, 2019
I am envious that I did not come up with this quip first:
Cancel culture is affirmative action for mediocrity.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) July 20, 2019
That is why so many non-whites benefit from it.
Aside from race and immigration, Miss Terese is also keenly aware of Leftist hypocrisy on relations between the sexes, and sees how the Left uses accusations of sexual misconduct for its own gain:
Much like #metoo, cancel culture is a political weapon. And like all political weapons, it’s wielded selectively. It’s successes inevitably reflect existing power relations and the existing normative consensus.
This is why leftists should wield that weapon with extreme caution.— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) February 9, 2019
This is why they couldn’t #metoo Biden out of the Dem primary, nor can you “cancel” pewdiepie or bari weiss or ben shapiro. The presence of totally safe “radical” villains = politically very helpful for maintaining hegemonic ideology. But you don’t hear from cancelled dissidents. https://t.co/EmzmjoRLle
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 14, 2019
#metoo https://t.co/yYRh1Myz2q
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 20, 2019
“…a bigger backlash than…anticipated.
– 19% of men reluctant to hire attractive women
– 21% reluctant to hire women for jobs involving close interpersonal interactions with men
– 27% avoiding one-on-one meetings with female colleagues…”#MeToo https://t.co/eUnMEbdVLy
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 10, 2019
I just don’t know what world she lives in!? In the real world, young men’s lives are increasingly alienated & disposable, esp. working class men. Women are doing better than men along a number of life metrics, and we’ve had two years of non-stop sharing of #metoo trauma porn. pic.twitter.com/rWNxo4XTEI
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) September 6, 2019
It’s worse than simply being ignored, there’s a vicious defensive moralism enacted to silence leftists who speak with compassion, or even pragmatism, re problems faced by young men.
It’s something I’ve observed whenever I speak of incels, lone-wolf terror or critique #metoo. https://t.co/GXy6nIu7Ts— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) August 5, 2019
It takes a very special kind of wilful blindness (class position) to believe that the #metoo dragnet was tailored exclusively to instances of sexual assault. https://t.co/6EzoCEwBAi
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) July 22, 2019
Tired: war on drugs
Wired: war on hugs #metoo— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) June 28, 2019
“the presumption of innocence has been undermined by the #MeToo movement.”
– it’s really depressing that the National Review has a more principled stance than a liberal fetishising institution like Harvard. https://t.co/3atxlwKpCO
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) May 16, 2019
I’ve said it a thousand times, #metoo was a political weapon by which wealthy women leveraged career opportunities, it had nothing to do with justice, equity, or harassment. pic.twitter.com/sjlVekbe5O
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) March 23, 2019
Here is another quip I am envious of. If American Renaissance were to ever publish a book of quotations, I would want to include it, though without the f-bomb.
Liberalism is just an endless fucking loop of cliches and condescension. #metoo pic.twitter.com/Rumjp6zXlK
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) January 27, 2019
Is nothing sacred? #metoo pic.twitter.com/vwxQRyPsZD
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) January 17, 2019
“How could I defend a man accused of rape without appearing insensitive to the #MeToo movement?”
This sentiment from an experienced criminal defence attorney scares the life out of me. https://t.co/g0pzhQGVzA
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) December 11, 2018
Apparently the ethnonarcissists are getting around to whining about my observation re social conservatism not being an ascendant threat to left politics in the year 2019. They do this because they are paid to write or revoke permission slips on the basis of identity.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) October 8, 2019
There’s a curious irony in the way identitarian discourse is deployed and policed. In the absence any identitarian bona fides themselves, elite white liberal men are incentivised to act as hypervigilant boundary police, vitriolic guardians of the virtue galaxy.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) April 10, 2019
Am I the only one getting bored with this neo-Victorian age of woke men tone policing other men’s language for the ‘benefit’ of women? Enough with the white knight bullshit, our delicate lady ears have enough agency to handle a little smut . . . .
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) November 22, 2017
All working people are hurting, especially rural people, many of whom *happen to be white*. Progressive social justice rhetoric is objectionable in calling poor white people privileged, however, this all benefits the capital owning class. It’s a divide and conquer strategy.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) August 27, 2019
Imagine presenting yourself as a Marxist podcast and joking about white genocide whilst deaths of despair continue to rise, and the life expectancy of white people decreases.
This type of elitist drivel helps generate the white supremacist enemy it purports to condemn. https://t.co/kICrTI3Ff3
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) August 22, 2019
No literally the hegemonic position among the emergent leftoid tastemakers is that white people are intractably racist, that a mainstream tv station causes mass shootings, and that the police, prison and borders should be abolished in favour of wing nut antifa vigilantes. 🤯🤯🤯
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) August 16, 2019
all the coastal elites who complain about powerless poor white people and their dumb flags whilst 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 drones kill brown kids everyday and you celebrate Kaepernick, social justice and the tick on your nikes that actually symbolises a sweatshop worker chained to a machine!
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) July 7, 2019
The actually existing left is not recognisably left at all. They’re rich liberals acting in their material interests. It’s in their material interests to denigrate poor white people and fetishise poor brown people so they can provide nothing to the working class of any colour.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) November 1, 2019
Hahahahaha white people are more “progressive on race” than racialised people. This is woke liberalism in all its condescending glory. pic.twitter.com/5X25vqPz1C
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) April 3, 2019
As I have noted of other anti-anti-white Leftists, Miss Terese is no “white advocate.” She calls herself “a woman of mixed ethnic background.” But we have common enemies and I wish her the best.