Before it started getting pumped full of Russian money from 2014 onwards, the populist right-wing backlash against globalism, multiculturalism, defeminization, mass immigration, etc. was very much a genuine grassroots phenomenon. It was powered by dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of individuals, who were enabled to express their dissidence with the direction in which we were being driven, thanks in part to the greater opportunities for expression offered by the internet.
Needless to say, I was something of an early starter in all this. Perhaps this was due to my South African background or possibly connected to the fact that I was living in a foreign land at the time (Japan). Whatever the reason, I got my feet wet early and was producing copious amounts of what could be called "Proto-Alt-Right content" well before the Alt-Right and the wider Dissident Right was launched.
One of my most productive phases was in 2007 to 2008 when the Daily Telegraph newspaper decided to give their brand a boost by encouraging their readers not just to comment and interact in comment threads under articles but actually set up a blog site, linked to the paper, where anyone could blog about news stories and interact. They decided to give it the name "MyTelegraph" (written like this with no space).
Needless to say, I was not a Daily Telegraph reader, but I was more than happy to take advantage of "MyTelegraph" and the ready audience it provided for my edgy takes and snappy short articles.
Now, much of that glorious expression of vox populi has been lost to the avaricious memory hole. Few even know that something as gloriously freewheeling and open-to-debate as MyTelegraph existed. But I am sure it had a profound influence in seeding certain "right wing," nationalist, anti-globalist, and even conspiritard ideas among the wider populace, and was in fact a precursor to the later Alt and Dissident Right, right down to the sock names employed. My own choice was "Enoch's Revenge," a suitable monicker to serve as conduit for all my criticisms of the smug, liberal- leftist platitudes we were expected to swallow at the time.
Here I am in May 2008 expressing my raw and unbridled views on the London stabbing epidemic then going on (as it still is). The style and sentiments expressed were rare at the time to the point of outright novelty, but are now tediously commonplace on the modern internet:
The Elephant in the Room has a Knife"Recently, I've heard moans and complaints from our ethnic communities on two issues: (1) Not enough Blacks being fast-tracked (i.e. promoted through racism) in our police forces to make them 'racially reflect' the new Black and Asian colonies they have to police. (2) Not enough Black managers in the football leagues. Just because 25% of the players are Black they now feel this entitles them to lucrative guaranteed post-player positions as football managers, regardless of ability. It's fascinating how quick they are to use statistics in their favour and raise complaints about under-representation. But what about areas where they are over-represented such as Terrorism and Crime?How certain alienated elements of our society view usJust the other day, a promising young actor, 18-year-old Robert Knox, who appeared in the latest Harry Potter film, was stabbed to death by a Black in yet another London stabbing. The mainstream media and the authorities have been careful to 'under-represent' the ethnicity of the assailant, but elsewhere it has been revealed that he was in fact Black. This fits the pattern of a Black Afro-Caribbean knife crime wave that no one in authority is seriously addressing because the only way to successfully address it would be to admit its racial character. Instead we get meaningless platitudes about 'youth crime' and 'our young people killing each other,' etc.QUESTION: Of the 60,000 people prosecuted for possessing knives since 1997, how many were Black?QUESTION: How many of the 14 teenagers stabbed to death in London this year were killed by Blacks?QUESTION: How many of the 934 knives, guns and other lethal weapons seized from children in schools between 2005 and 2007 were taken from Blacks?We have a right to know the answers to questions like these instead of being lied to. Once we know the answers to these questions, we can take effective steps to solve the problem. This would involve targeting the groups most likely to commit the crimes (i.e. young urban Blacks of a certain anti-social demeanour and their pathetic White imitators), and severer sentences for those convicted, instead of sentencing them or letting them off according to the principle of misplaced 'White guilt.'It would also mean attacking the drug and rap culture that encourages young Blacks to act in this aggressive way, even to the extent of taxing and fining record companies and closing down night clubs and other associated venues. We would also do well to recognize the insurmountable problem of alienation that many young Blacks feel in our society, an alienation that removes any moral inhibitions about sticking knives in their fellow citizens, and an alienation that can best be cured by repatriating them to societies where they can develop a sense of belonging."
But what of the traces of "MyT" (as it was also known)? There is little mention in the history books but an online search revealed this Guardian article from the same period, which lays down some of the background info:
"Launched in May 2007 after just 17 days' development, MyTelegraph offers blog, comment and community tools to Telegraph readers. The original system offers a pared-down, three-click blogging system for readers and has 18,000 registered users, said Richmond."
"Shane Richmond told the PPA Magazines 2008 conference that the site had suffered periodic downtime, slow page-loads and instability since the company which built it, Interesource, went in to administration late last year. A new version being developed with US firm ONEsite will launch this summer, replacing the core elements and then adding new features to deal with photo and video and back-end tools to help with site management. Richmond said the priority for the MyTelegraph relaunch would be to make sure existing users felt confident with the site. He added that TMG expected a "significant increase" in user numbers after the relaunch."
"'It's a different community to the main site. We recognised a group of users that felt in some way that they were excluded from British life, that felt they could see things going wrong with the way the country was being run, with taxes or the war on terror,' Richmond said. 'We could see they were far from a minority and so MyTelegraph was about giving those people a space to talk about their lives.' The site averages 2,000 comments a day, he added, with all comments pre-moderated apart from those posted by registered users."
One of the good things about MyTelegraph was the interaction, much of it uncivil, downright rude, and hostile, with other readers. But "The Elephant in the Room has a Knife" drew a surprisingly positive response, as you can see from the following comments:
"if they (blacks, moslems, chinese, indians etc) don't feel guilty for making our life a misery, why should we feel guilty for not being able to help them."~wendy
"I'm never visiting the UK. Ya'll just let me know that everything I've heard about it is true."~Psychictwat
"We, as a Nation, didn't listen to the first Enoch. I doubt this one will get much support either."~The Wise One
But they weren't all like that:
"Enoch the asshole wants, in a later blog, to de-Yank MyT. He says we ain't got all that much in common. Here he disproves his case. The US is condemned for having a massive black prison population. I wonder why that is? Add guns and shootings to the above questions (keep in the knives, we've that problem, too) and ask 'em in the US. The expected answers will be similar in both countries...~TerribleTurk
"Tim" came rapidly to my defence:
"Why castigate Enoch - he makes a statement and poses the question. The fact is that he DOES have a valid point. The other question is WHY. Why are minorities involved in a greater proportion of crime and violence than the settled population?..."
To which TerribleTurk replied:
"I don't castigate his questions; I agree with him. I differ with his other blog--that there is little in common between the UK and US. This blog disproves his other by showing an exact similarity in our common problems..."
Yes, even in those days, the putative internet was full of rude, argumentative, hair-splitting twats who had to argue with you and name call even if they agreed with you, LOL.
I am not sure what happened to MyT, but I assume that sometime in 2008, or possibly early 2009, it became increasingly censored or limited to subscribers of the Daily Telegraph. All I know is that my Enoch's Revenge career ceased sometime after December 2008.
But by then the damage had already been done, the genie had already been let out of the bottle, and the fall or Western Global Liberalism was already an historical inevitability.
But by then the damage had already been done, the genie had already been let out of the bottle, and the fall or Western Global Liberalism was already an historical inevitability.
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