Thursday, 13 February 2020
Sunday, 2 February 2020
YUKIO MISHIMA, FASCISM AND THE ALT RIGHT
I read Andrew Joyce's article on Yukio Mishima at The Occidental Observer after a friend recommended it, and now I see that someone called Riki Rei has written a riposte over at Counter Currents. Riki Rei does not sound like the most European of names to me, and one is left to wonder yet again about how committed the author of The White Nationalist Manifesto Greg Johnson is to White Nationalism. After all, why the need to defend a non-White East-Asian homosexual? The question is largely rhetorical, of course. The question for Alt Right Mishima-weeaboos is whether it is his racial otherness or his dubious sexuality that is the biggest attraction. There are indeed over twenty articles at Counter Currents dedicated to a man of dubious character who was not even of European ancestry. The famous pose of Mishima as 'the penetrated saint' St Sebastian popular with homosexuals from Oscar Wilde onwards says a lot about the man and his followers. I do not need to iterate further on Mishima, for Joyce's article very much sums up my own thoughts on the Japanese actor, but what Joyce has written regarding Mishima also brings Joyce's own politics into question.
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