{"title":"Blut und Boden","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the famous alt-right American supremacists chant “Blood and Soil,” which translates to Blut und Boden in German. It explains that Blut und Boden paid tribute to idealized pure German blood and the organic connection of pure German blood to the physical German landscape. Blut und Boden was appropriated by the Nazis and used to invoke an almost supernatural union between the authentic German–Nordic race and the territorial state of Germany, which contemplated those who were not of pure German blood as invading nomadic races, such as Jews. Jews were the worst of the invaders. The chapter also provides information on a book published in 1930 called Neuadel aus Blut und Boden (A new nobility based on blood and soil) by Richard Walther Darré who argued that Germany should pursue a systematic eugenics program to purify the German race and strengthen the nation.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128016645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Channels of Communication","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/CORNELL/9781501749650.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/CORNELL/9781501749650.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the massive television audiences for the Super Bowl, for presidential debates, for natural disasters, for horrific mass shootings, for royal weddings, and important funerals. It emphasizes that in the present there is more than one medium other than television. It also points out the availability of messages everywhere, such as on flat screens, computer screens, phone screens, or tablet screens. The chapter clarifies how people expect everything to be at their fingertips at every moment and are largely uncertain as to how exactly the job gets done. It references scholars that argues that the proliferation of modern media has led to fragmentation and self-selection.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128261525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9. The Monuments Debate","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130617826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129532798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"23. The Day of the Cross","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/9781501749674-024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501749674-024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116063598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aftermath","authors":"Rodney A. Smolla","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter highlights the national outpouring of grief and anger over the death of Heather Heyer. It discloses how Heyer's ashes were buried in a secret location in order to protect the grave from desecration by neo-Nazis. It also mentions the placement of Heather Heyer's name on a memorial wall at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama that honors martyrs of the civil rights movement. The chapter recalls Martin Luther King Jr. and his civil rights organization that staged demonstrations in Alabama and Jimmy Lee Jackson, an African American participant in the protest demonstrations, who was fatally shot by a white Alabama state trooper. It reviews the infamous “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965 that was stimulated by Jackson's shooting.","PeriodicalId":112876,"journal":{"name":"Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132168389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}