The New Neo Nazis. Charlie Bauer PhD. GScene magazine. July 2013

The New Neo Nazis.


Ok, I admit it. I have more than one problem with the English Defense league.

One is that they’re a rebranding of the old tired racist groups that pop up now and again throughout time under another moniker. But these days, things are taking a more dangerous turn. You also know that I’ve bleated on for some time about thinly veiled homophobia and political issues on same sex marriage. But boy, have I been busy recently.  

You probably also know that fundamentally I’m against any sort of ‘branded’ imagining of who the gayers are - particularly the 2.2. children / Prius driving version, which are nearly always untrue. At least they are with the prickly scumbags I hang around with. Apart from the marketing and money opportunities attached to this imagery, it’s also there because the straight world needs a normalized image to mask the ‘ikky’ things we do to each other in bed. This sanitized version of what we apparently are, has become known as Homo-normativity - the presentation of some marketing idiots version of the new homo version of some far-off domestic life.

It’s been sold to heterosexual people for decades and I’ve yet to meet anyone who has stemmed, emotionally intact, from this polished, faux happy model. The family snapshots in my own head never resemble a Littlewoods catalogue. We have to admit that we all know it’s a fallacy and there is no 100% happy-ever-after version of domesticity in any form, gay, straight, trans, inter, monogo,

We also have to remind ourselves that the global, same-sex marriage debate is not just about this. Any legislation in place at the moment is about freedom and the human right to legally chose whichever partner you want. Of course, when it’s all finally legal THEN you will have the ability to go Ikea mad, buy cars together and have joint mortgages and the like. You can even invite same-sex married couples around for dinner and exclude the sad, singleton ex-friends you no longer have anything in common with. You’ll be able to have ‘couples’ drinks parties. Then, when you finally have children, by whatever means, you can narrow your social scene down to just the other same-sex children owners and rant about how anyone who has no children has no idea how hard life is. And when one of the couples split up and someone becomes a single parent, you can then cross them off the social calendar because they have nothing left to offer than their miserable daily stories of their struggle to bring up a child single-handed. Yes, you too will have these and more choices to live a ‘normal’ life. Same sex marriage is a big ‘up’ for the global normal.

But this homoginisation (sic, lol, rofl with a DILF) has a dangerous undercurrent.

On the global dawning of same-sex marriage becoming legal, the EDL proudly state that they now also have gay members. They also state that they now have black members too. Who are they against? Hang on a minute – I was crap at subtraction at school, but it doesn’t take a statistician to see what’s going on here…

I was unfortunate to have lived through the rein of terror by the predecessor or the EDL – The National Front. Back then we joined The Anti-Nazi league and had rallies and huge festivals where The Clash sometimes played. The NF was similar to the EDL in that they were very disorganized and fragmented and crush them we did. But at least with the National Front, you knew where you stood. They were against everyone who was not white and heterosexual. The unspoken requirement of a low IQ was an (obviously unwritten) necessity. Even the police were deemed to have racist elements in those dark times - elements that were eventually weeded out in the post Stephen Lawrence ‘institutional racism’ scandal. We’re not perfect today, but as a society we’re in a better place than those god-awful days, and nobody can use the strong-arm tactics of the NF (seemingly with the law on their side), anymore. This was progression.

Nowadays, the Global uber-right has to suppress their desire to stamp on peoples heads and approach everything in a very different and more inclusive manner. Since the Macpherson report (Stephen Lawrence) and the soon to be Gay marriage rulings, they now need to appeal to the very people they once oppressed and publically tortured. They need to caress the darker side of their own pigeon-holing of the gay and black communities to give the impression of inclusive support of a hateful end.

Inclusivity within the gay community, after the fight for same sex marriage, could begin to fracture as the laws are passed and everyone settles down into their newly emancipated lives. Then, our minority status will no longer be challenged and if we’re not careful, we’ll become so ‘normalized’ that we’ll forget what an equality fight actually is - and the EDL take hold and demonise the only minority left on their hit-list. And if you don’t know who that is by now, you’re already halfway into believing their poison rhetoric and already becoming ‘Normal’.

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The new neo nazis