"We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it"
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The line isn’t a call to “preservation” so much as a blunt blueprint for segregationist violence dressed up as grit. “Through thick and thin” borrows the language of loyalty and perseverance, the stuff of sports slogans and romantic vows, to launder an extremist agenda in familiar, emotionally sticky phrasing. It’s recruitment copy: make the mission sound honorable, make the target sound existential.
“Race destruction” is the key euphemism. It smuggles a conspiracy theory into a single phrase, implying a deliberate plot to erase a group rather than the mundane realities of demographic change, interracial marriage, immigration, or civil rights. That framing does two things at once: it turns pluralistic society into an attack, and it recasts bigotry as self-defense. The capitalization in “CO exist” reads like a shouted stage direction, a typographic jab meant to harden the boundary. Coexistence isn’t portrayed as difficult; it’s portrayed as a moral surrender.
Context matters because Metzger wasn’t floating an abstract opinion. As a prominent white supremacist organizer, his rhetoric sits in the ecosystem of late-20th-century American extremist movements that sought to mainstream their message by swapping explicit slurs for apocalyptic keywords: “destruction,” “survival,” “voluntary.” That last word is especially slippery. If coexistence won’t happen “voluntarily,” the implied alternative is coercion. The sentence performs a neat trick: it denies aggression while quietly authorizing it, positioning intolerance not as a choice but as a necessary response to a manufactured emergency.
“Race destruction” is the key euphemism. It smuggles a conspiracy theory into a single phrase, implying a deliberate plot to erase a group rather than the mundane realities of demographic change, interracial marriage, immigration, or civil rights. That framing does two things at once: it turns pluralistic society into an attack, and it recasts bigotry as self-defense. The capitalization in “CO exist” reads like a shouted stage direction, a typographic jab meant to harden the boundary. Coexistence isn’t portrayed as difficult; it’s portrayed as a moral surrender.
Context matters because Metzger wasn’t floating an abstract opinion. As a prominent white supremacist organizer, his rhetoric sits in the ecosystem of late-20th-century American extremist movements that sought to mainstream their message by swapping explicit slurs for apocalyptic keywords: “destruction,” “survival,” “voluntary.” That last word is especially slippery. If coexistence won’t happen “voluntarily,” the implied alternative is coercion. The sentence performs a neat trick: it denies aggression while quietly authorizing it, positioning intolerance not as a choice but as a necessary response to a manufactured emergency.
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