I just emailed Gar5 my strong praise for this e-book…I think it’s very good and a lot of it is great…but I also have very strong criticism for one thing and hope he will change it…I’m going to reprint the criticism here because I think it’s important far beyond this one occasion…I’ve written many times about the various forces that I think will work to change and weaken the Mantra and our Mantra phrasings, and now it turns out that just the need to shorten one of our memes (“Diversity is a code word for White Genocide”) for a banner has apparently acted as one of those forces!

My criticism addresses the inclusion of the headings “Anti-racist = anti-white?” and “Diversity = White Genocide?”

I cast a strong vote for “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white” and “Diversity is a code word for White Genocide.” That gives you parallelism just as the way you have it does, and I think that in the long run both of those forms are going to serve us a lot better than using the equal sign. The more I write about this, the stronger I feel about it. I hope you’ll reconsider! Or at least discuss it with me.

But if WE get slack at the core of this effort, what will be on the NEXT banners? God knows.

Gar 5, please forgive me, I hate to write this on the day all your effort should be getting nothing but reward! Which it does from me aside from this one item.

But this kind of maintenance has to be regularly done on anything as finely tuned as our Mantra phrases, and I think a strong point should be made of it every time it’s done. So I beg your forgiveness.

I also love this new book, with the important qualification however that we must always use Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white, and, Diversity is a codeword for White Genocide. But other than that great work Gar.

If however you have to shorten the Diversity is a codeword for White Genocide use the following:

Diversity IS White Genocide

Gar5, my first reaction to what you’re saying is, whew, thank goodness…but hopefully you aren’t saying that you’re going to keep the titles as they are. Better to take two lines for the titles. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying. I must be, since you’re agreeing with me!

There is value is saying Diversity is a code word for White Genocide. There is a reason that code word is important.

@ Laura: I think we’ve agreed in the past that there’s a big difference between these two:

“Diversity” = White Genocide

Diversity = White Genocide

I don’t object strongly to the first one, and I think you should wait to distribute the booklet until Gar5 has added the quotation marks.

As for Anti-racist/anti-white, I don’t think any form of that should be distributed that has an equal sign in it.

Laura and Gar5, if either of you disagree with these two points, could we have some discussion about it here before proceeding?

My mind is always open.

Excellent work Gar5. So many people deserve so many thank yous for what their doing. Its a good thing a BUGSer is pleased enough with the compliment of seeing his stuff being used.