American History - X A Study in Propaganda

THIS MOVIE IS PROPAGANDA. It is promoting its propaganda message, rather than dealing with reality. It takes facts and ties them to violence and other unacceptable behavior, in the mind of the viewing audience. It takes a fictional character, builds him up as "THE skinhead," and then moves him to reject his race. It completely ignores the facts of life, and the unavoidable repercussions of the real changes going on in our society today. It tries to equate or balance the two murders of members of the White Vinyard family -- an unarmed fireman doing his job, and an unarmed kid in school -- with the murder of two Black hooligans, in the process of committing an armed crime.

The movie brushes on the changes that have taken place in Venice beach, California, where this story took place. When the Vinyard family moved there originally, it was mostly a White town. As time went by, just like the rest of America, thanks to the Leftists, it became more and more Nonwhite. This increased the crime and decreased the presence of White culture. Now White kids are attacked in the school rest rooms by Black kids. Now racial tensions blanket all areas where kids live their lives. Now violence is continually just around the corner. But the movie is not about that. In fact, once it brushes against this piece of reality, it pulls back to continue the study of one man's path of hate.

The director of the movie admits that what he wanted to do was to create a character, Derek Vinyard, that skinheads would relate to, someone that they would be excited about and want to be like. Then the director wanted to portray that character giving up his point of view for a "better" one. That way, the skinheads in the audience would do the same. If anyone in the audience is as stupid and controlled as the White characters in the movie were, they should run right out and join the ADL and the Simon Wisenthal Center in trying to destroy our race. Those morons in the movie were going to do nothing but screw things up anyway, and they can do more good for the White race disrupting the enemy camp by joining it than they ever could in ours.

And yet the real implication of the story was to say that there is no positive way to save America. We are told to face up to the fact that America is going to be destroyed, and it is going to become a completely Nonwhite nation, and there is nothing positive that you can do about it. The only "positive" reaction left you, is to curl up and hope they don't beat you too badly as they are kicking you and robbing you of your land and your future. Anything else is "hate."

The propaganda in the movie was out in the open for anyone who cared to look for it:

• Derek made an impassioned speech for the elimination of Nonwhite immigration, even putting out some correct and important facts. Then, in a typical propaganda ploy, all of those facts and all of his points were tied to evil, in the form of violence. No actual rebuttal of the information was used or required because the group he was talking to immediately committed violence. They put on masks (and since they had masks all ready to go, the implication was that it was not the only time this had happened) and then ran into a Korean owned store, beating up the males working there and forcing a female worker down on her back and pouring various liquids onto her face. It appears that we are supposed to forget that Koreans had to break out the guns to protect themselves from Black rioters in LA, not White ones.
  
  What is the real issue is the loss of White neighborhoods and what can be done to stop that process, but that issue is ignored and only the symptoms of the illness is dealt with. It is terrible to see passengers fighting over life rafts, but the real problem is the sinking ship. If you stop the ship from sinking, the fighting will naturally stop.
  
  
• Derek make another speech at the dinner table where he brought out some excellent facts and statistics. He made some very strong points but once again all of his commentary was turned to farce by the director. Derek became obnoxious to a Jewish guest, and very rude and physical with his sister. His mother even threw him out of her house because of it. The emotion, the confrontation, and the bad manners had taken all of the critical points Derek had made and relegated them to the landfill by his later actions. In the future when a member of the viewing audience will be exposed to the same facts, he will not think about the facts, but will instead think about Derek's unacceptable behavior. That is the purpose of propaganda: to destroy a point of view, not with reason, but with emotion.
  
  
• A big stupid fat man named Seth was used as an effective propaganda device. He spewed out racial slurs and stupid sounding ideas, and even Derek had no respect for him. Derek's sister ridiculed him openly for being fat and stupid, something that would be considered "hate" from the leftists who made this movie, if it were not directed at a safe target. Hypocrisy is the main characteristic of the Leftist, and the reason for that is that they feel no need to be honest or honorable. They focus on their goal, and all else is only material to be used in achieving that goal. You can call a handicapped man a cripple if he is a racist. You can call an overweight person a fat pig if he is a racist. You can hate and be as intolerant as you want against a racist. According to the Leftist, the total array of PC condemned activities, up to and including violence with the dreaded handgun, is completely acceptable to be used if you are using it against the enemies of the Left.
  
  The sad thing is that the average White is so brainwashed that he doesn't even see it. In fact, because he is forced to repress his natural feelings of disgust for certain things by the totalitarian Leftists running our society, when he can finally release them against a safe target, his hatred is even more intense. Having a big fat, stupid racist to laugh at, and to feel superior to, makes him feel stronger and more powerful, but it also programs his mind to think of White racial awareness as something that is loathsome and disgusting. From now on, he will have a natural tendency to avoid even listening to what is said by anyone who is even the least bit racist. In other words the propaganda, using emotions rather than reason, works.
  
  
• Derek catches 3 Blacks breaking into his car. One of them is armed, with a loaded gun in his hand. Derek opened fire on them, killing the armed Black instantly and wounding a second fleeing Black. The third one got away in his car. Up to this point there was nothing to fault Derek for. He had killed a Black man armed with a hand gun, which was out and in his hand, standing on Derek's front porch. He had shot another Black man who had shattered a car window, and who had been inside Derek's car trying to find something to steal, and then who tried to run away. It is as American as apple pie to defend yourself and your property. There is nothing at all wrong with that, except in the mind of the disruptive Marxist.
  
  Of course the director of the movie knew that this would not be an effective propaganda piece if he let it go at that. If the wounded man had just been killed outright, the audience just might rightly be sympathetic to Derek, and that would never do. So, the vandal was made to appear to be only wounded, and then Derek slid him out into the street, put the Black man's open mouth against the curb, and then stomped the back of his head with his boot, crushing the skull. Now the audience could react the way they should. Now they could be properly repulsed by a man who had been roused from his bed to defend himself and his property from some Black thugs who had come to his house with criminal intent. Now, instead of rightly appearing as the victim, this action made him appear as the villain, which was the desired result. With this one addition, all of the things that Derek had said, or believed in, were suddenly made to appear to be the ideas of a mad man. Yet he was shown to be driven mad, not because of any physiological disorder, but merely because of his beliefs. All he had to do was change his beliefs and he would be restored to total mental health. The propaganda here used the emotions created by watching a brutal, hateful action, to convey the concept that complete insanity controls any White who might even dream of being racially aware.
  
  
• In prison Derek was raped by the White gang. It was clearly indicated in the movie that the only reason that Derek was not raped or murdered by the Blacks in the prison was, at first because the White gang protected him, and later because a Black guy had interceded for him. The audience was supposed to ignore this fact of normal Black violence, being spared actually seeing it in action, and was instead expected to dwell on the cannibalistic Whites who would prey on their own. (Another point ignored is the fact that the Whites only attacked him once as a punishment for what they perceived as an bad behavior, and never bothered him again, while Derek's actual survival was said to be threatened by the Blacks.) The movie strove to convey the idea that since these Whites were animals and unthinking, all Whites who are supposedly in support of their own race are just like that. No reason, just emotion. No thought about the fact that these were convicts, who often have attitudes that are contrary to the mainstream of society. Do we judge how we are going to believe and act in any other facet of life based upon the beliefs and activities of prisoners?
  
  
• After the White gang raped Derek, he was visited by a Black teacher. Only a Black man could save him from his hatred. Only a Black man could console his troubled soul. There was no White on earth that cared for him, but this Black man did. And another Black man, the one he worked with in the laundry every day, talked with the other Blacks, and saved him from a Black attack for an entire 6 months later on. All of the Whites that Derek dealt with in prison were complete jerks with no redeeming qualities. The two Blacks we saw him dealing with were wonderful human beings. The Black convict was said to even be wrongly imprisoned, as if to try and explain the huge number of Blacks in our prisons today as nothing but racial injustice. Propaganda, the emotion ruling over the intellect. Whites as a group are evil and untrustworthy, Blacks are honorable and caring, even though they are put upon by the evil White man.
  
  
• The leader of the racist group that Derek and his younger brother Daniel belonged to, was run by a slimy character, Cameron Alexander, who had turned on his friends years ago to avoid prison and who was using a bunch of loser kids to further his own aims. He was phony and a user. He was using Daniel during the time that Derek was in prison and when Derek got out of prison, he went after Cameron, in order to get Daniel out of the group. The final confrontation between these two was intended to show how crazy the whole pro-White idea is and how the only sane reaction is to meet it with violence and revulsion. Once you have rid yourself of any pro-White feelings then everything will be fine and you can return to the mental health of your sheeply existence. This sleazeball, Alexander, was someone anyone would despise. He had no backbone and was using kids to further his own private aims. He did not believe in what he was doing, he was merely using it to gain money and power. He inspired the kids to violence, while keeping himself safe in the background. When Derek left him laying on the floor bleeding and cursing, the audience was given an image of how to treat those who would promote anything White. They were left with the idea that anyone who is interested in saving his race and his nation is as despicable as Cameron Alexander. It is very much like portraying Benedict Arnold as the image of all Americans. It is easy to hate an image like that, and it works on emotions, not intellect, just like all real propaganda does.
  
  
• The final scene of the movie was the last opportunity for propaganda, and the director did not waste his chance. Daniel was fatally shot in the boys rest room in school, and Derek ran in and held his dead body in his arms rocking back and forth in tears. The audience was given the idea that Derek was finally paying the real price for his previous insanity, and he just might be forgiven for it, if only he will use the rest of his life to combat the evils of being White. That is what the emotion of the scene was crying out for, and that was the propaganda aspect of it. However...
  
  For someone who stepped back from the bloody and heart wrenching scene for a moment and thought about it, they would see that that Daniel was shot by a little Black thug who was in the school because of forced integration, and society's move towards diversity. Earlier Derek's father had been murdered because of Blacks in their society, and now, so was his brother. His own prison sentence was as a result of his own reaction to Black criminals, and none of this would have happened at all if he had lived in a White society like almost all of America was before 1965. If the movie had been slanted to show this reality instead of the forced and phony message that it intended, the movie would have been decried as a hate mongering piece of trash, and would never even have made it into production, let alone distribution.

There were other points of propaganda in the movie, like the absurd and phony looking swastika on Derek's chest, and the scene where he is having sex with is girlfriend while she has her combat boots on. If you wish to go through the movie with a fine toothed comb, you will see a number of subtle and not so subtle brain manipulating tactics all intended to lead the viewer away from thinking, and instead towards emotionally hating any White who would be so brazen as to stand up for his people and his nation.

One of the most amazing things in our society today is that such a one sided view of the world is portrayed from all media outlets. However, everyone goes around ignoring that "elephant in their living room." In a free society, where people can really think their own thoughts, there cannot be only one point of view expressed. It is only in a controlled society where just one point of view is tolerated in general discussion. It is only in a controlled media where only one voice is heard. Such is the society where we live, and just like in all movies and television programming today, that one view is clearly shown in the movie, American History-X.

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