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Marcus Epstein complains of a guilt-by-association argument:

“I approving cite Jared Taylor, who publishes a newsletter that has an article by a man who wrote a book (which was not entirely sympathetic by the way) about a man who is a allegedly a neo-Nazi.”

Let’s get something straight. William Pierce was not “allegedly” a neo-Nazi. He was the founder and “Leader” of the “National Alliance”, a virulently anti-Semitic, racist, and explicitly fascist group whose members have made no bones about flying Nazi flags at rallies. Mr. Pierce himself was an explicit admirer of Adolf Hitler, who wrote several articles arguing the claim that civilizations without strong, dictatorial rulers inevitably degenerate; that Jewish culture is essentially parasitic and that Jews foster the decline of other civilizations wherever they go; and that Mr. Hitler’s policies towards the Jews (otherwise known as “the Holocaust”) were reasonable and defensible.

If Mr. Pierce is not, in fact, a neo-Nazi, then I don’t know who is. Obfuscating about his ideology does no-one any good.