Free speech and loss in white nationalist rhetoric. Issue 2 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chebrolu, E.
• Is Part Of: First amendment studies. Volume 54:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 197
• Page End: 208
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Antisemitism -- anti-blackness -- platform studies -- psychoanalysis -- white nationalism; Freedom of speech -- United States -- Periodicals; Freedom of speech -- Periodicals; 323.44
• DOI: 10.1080/21689725.2020.1837652
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2168-1430

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article analyses how anti-blackness structures the desire for free speech within white nationalist ideology. The essay traces the linkages between the rhetoric of a mission statement for a white nationalist webzine edited by a professor of psychology and that professor's published academic work on ethnic identity. The central argument of the essay is that taken together, these texts construct an antisemitic fantasy of a crisis in free speech, in which free speech is an object of desire because of its promise to recuperate a loss rendered unto the white nation, anchored by an attachment to the anti-black bio-evolutionary origin myth of humanness.