9 - Lisa Turner
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
Summary
All of the people interviewed in the present volume up to this point have been males. This is no accident or selection bias, but reflects the simple fact that the most activist members of white protest, white nationalist, and white supremacy organizations have almost always been males, and despite important changes in recent years, the gender composition of such groups seems to have changed very little over time. Lisa Turner, the Women's Information Coordinator of the World Church of the Creator, is clearly an exception to the general rule here. Ms. Turner is a dedicated and zealous adherent to the philosophy of Creativity described in the previous interview with Matthew Hale, and her views on white superiority and white supremacy are among the most extreme of any expressed by those profiled in this volume. Turner's views are of particular interest to students of the racist right in America as a prime illustration of how many of the ideas and ideals that motivated the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930s can continue to exert a powerful fascination and attraction for certain disaffected Americans today. White humanity, Turner claims, represents the highest of nature's creations, and whites have both a right and a moral imperative to preserve themselves and to expand their influence around the globe. Drawing much of her inspiration from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and from the classics of the Creativity religion, Turner adopts a Social Darwinian model of interethnic relations where stark choices are seen to exist for the white race between either domination or being dominated by others.
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- Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America , pp. 246 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003