Aryan Odes & White Power Ballads

Selected readings from Stormfront’s poetry section

The people who frequent the white nationalist Stormfront forum aren’t exactly what you would call “cultured”— but they aspire to be. Being a member of the Master Race is a huge responsibility. You can’t simply ride on the coattails of of your pasty forebears, reminiscing about their cultural accomplishments. It’s your duty as a white man to make some of your own.

Stormfront’s “Poetry and Creative Writing” subform provides “inspiration and motivation” for members, a place to “expand your vocabulary and discover the secrets of our language.”

The subforum and its offerings point to an interesting contradiction. A defining characteristic of fascism is anti-intellectualism. Italian writer Umberto Eco described fascism as a “cult of action for action’s sake.” To the fascist, action is beautiful in its own right and should be undertaken with little thought before or after because “thinking is emasculation,” he wrote.

Still from a video of the Rudyard Kipling poem “Wrath of the Awakened Saxon” narrated by alt-right Youtuber Stefan Molyneux

But at the same time, the case for white supremacy rests in part on a claim of intellectual superiority. The scribes of Stormfront don’t look at poetry as something with intrinsic value. It’s symbolic of the mental prowess they believe to be their birthright. When a bunch of racist goons who are fundamentally hostile to thinking write poems to show how smart they are, the result is comically pretentious.

In an untitled entry, the user SMR1488 breaks up a banal statement about his own supposed superiority into separate lines, thereby making it “poetic:”

i would never ask

them

to be anything more

than

what they are



so never expect

me

to be anything less

than

what i am

He then drives it home with a non-sequitur sequence of SAT words: