Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Sunday, 21 January 2018
MJOLNIR AT THE MOVIES INTERMISSION: THE LAST JEDI IN CHINA
It's the intermission at Mjolnir at the Movies during my partner in thoughtcrime Neil Westwood's absence, in which I fill in with my thoughts on why The Last Jedi failed in China. Please subscribe to our Youtube channel and follow us on Twitter, as we have just set up an account: @MjolnirMagazine
Saturday, 20 January 2018
'WHITEWASHING' AND THE HUFFINGTON POST'S ANTI-WHITE AGENDA
Catherine Zeta Jones is the latest actor to come under fire for so-called 'whitewashing', where a White actor plays a character who is ethnically Other. Jones plays Colombian 'Cocaine Godmother' Griselda Blanco in the biopic of that name airing tonight on Lifetime. As usual, the blatantly anti-White Huffington Post has led the charge, with Latina journalist Carolina Moreno screaming for the casting of someone from her own ethnicity. Moreno claims it has caused an angry backlash and shows a handful of social media comments to prove it. It is not the first time this furore at 'whitewashing' has been manufactured in the media, with the likes of Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence and the cast of Gods of Egypt all having come under fire in recent years (even though the Egyptian Gods were White).
Friday, 19 January 2018
HOLLY HAZELTREE'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL
There are a lot of Youtube channels on the Rightist side of metapolitics. Very few of them offer much in the way of original content and rely on bad news porn and endless chit-chat wherein the same tired dialogues and monologues are endlessly repeated. It is therefore very refreshing when one finds a little gem amongst the broken glass. Holly Hazeltree offers a much-needed look at forgotten rites, rituals and cultural festivals, the manipulation of language and culture by antagonistic elites, and what the effects of cultural change have been on society. Her first video deals with the various permutations of the word 'consume', the associations that have been imprinted on the word since its etymological beginnings and how it has helped to shape consciousness. I have mentioned cognitive linguistics before, and it is something very underappreciated by the Right.
Sunday, 14 January 2018
WHAT THE H&M DEBACLE SAYS ABOUT RACE
This will be a relatively short article, but it raises some important philosophical questions for those who believe in the false dogma of either race blindness or race as a social contruct. Both deny the physical nature of race as a reality. A few days ago, the clothing retail chain H&M released the advert below featuring a black child wearing one of their hoodies that bore the inscription 'Coolest monkey in the jungle'. This has now resulted in Blacks in South Africa organising and mobilising against H&M stores, which have been trashed and looted. The Blacks, as ever, claim their actions are justified because H&M are 'racist' because of the word monkey being in close proximity to the black child. The question as to quite why a company that wants their custom would wish to insult them has not occurred to them, nor has the fact that their reaction resembles the behaviour of lower primates, but these points rather disguise the main issue regarding the whole notion of 'racist' insults of this nature.
Saturday, 13 January 2018
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI'S GOBLIN MARKET: Shut it down!
Christina Rossetti is best remembered as one of the Pre-Raphaelites. While technically not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood herself (she was, after all, a woman), her brother Dante Gabriel was one of its founders and she remains one of the biggest names in the Pre-Raphaelite movement as a whole. As well as modelling for several famous paintings, she was a poet of distinction in her own right and served to renew the lessons and themes from the classics, folk tale and faerytale in her own time, drawing from both her Italian roots and adopted English culture. This adoption of English culture included High Anglicanism, although she tended towards Anglo-Catholicism not as a return to Roman Catholicism, but as a rejection of liberalism within the church. Indeed, she rejected a marriage proposal by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter James Collinson after he reverted back to Roman Catholicism, having converted to High Anglicanism for the engagement with Rossetti.
Cover illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |