By Steve Sailer
04/09/2019
Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage. https://t.co/7NyMDgojd7
â Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 8, 2019
Congresswoman Omar went on to point out that nobody could call her a ânationalistâ because her extended family helped drive Somalia into anarchy.
iSteve commenter Prime Noticer notes:
âRacistâ has lost its sting. Enter â White Nationalistâ.
I think weâre onto something here.
âNaziâ has similarly lost some of itâs punch due to wild overuse.
Theyâve heard âwhite supremacistâ before, but itâs obvious the democratsâ political opponents are not white supremacists and that term is of limited attack value.
âWhite nationalistâ however sounds scary. Itâs almost never used in mainstream discourse and the average person has probably literally never heard the term.
So they had to thread the needle here in the language war. And it looks like theyâve come up with a winner.