White Aryan Resistance
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The
White Aryan Resistance is a
white supremacist organization founded and led by former
Ku Klux Klan leader
Tom Metzger. It is based in
California,
USA. The group was originally known as the White American Political Association or WAPA, but was changed briefly to the White American Resistance, and later American was changed to
Aryan. They hold views which are self-described as
racist, as seen in their website sections "Racist Jokes" and "Racist Videos," and in the tagline for their newspaper
The Insurgent, as "the most racist newspaper on earth."
Like many other other white supremacist and
nationalist groups, WAR has a restricted definition of "
white" and
"Aryans", which includes only non-Jewish
Europeans and people of European descent. They view multiracial peoples with partial white ancestry to not really be true whites, but instead represent a new racial type.
WAR wants the population of pure whites to increase for the supremacy of the white race. WAR believes racial populations are the key to global power. WAR believes the white population in the United States must increase to continue white hegemony there. They condemn white/non-white interracial unions equally regardless of gender, since it limits the numbers of pure white births. Since white
gays choose not to reproduce, WAR is against them too.
WAR believes in
biological determinism. They view whites as genetically superior to other races and view the varying accomplishments of other races to be causally-linked to their genetic potential.
WAR has general policies on what its members should do. WAR promotes the strategy of
leaderless resistance, or "
Lone Wolf" activism. WAR does extensive
prison organizing and, unlike the KKK, does not claim to be a
Christian organization, condemning Christianity as a form of
Judaism. They view whites who are against their cause as traitorous to their race.
The WAR organization was effectively
bankrupted as the result of a civil
lawsuit resulting from WAR's involvement in the death of
Mulugeta Seraw, an
Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college. In 1988, Seraw was murdered by
racist skinheads, who were convicted of the crime and sent to prison.
Morris Dees and the
Southern Poverty Law Center filed a civil suit against Metzger, arguing that WAR influenced Seraw's murderers by encouraging the group East Side White Pride to commit violence. The jury returned the largest civil verdict in Oregon history at the time — $12.5 million against Metzger and WAR.
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Neo-Nazi groups of the United States*
White supremacy*
Racial realism*
White pride*
Biological determinism*
WAR official website*
Nikzor page An anti-Nazi group.
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Tom Metzger and White Aryan Resistance (WAR) ADL page
