Friendly neighbourhood white supremacist

We went in to Shinjuku today, and while waiting for the train at our home station we happened to sit down next to a fellow gaijin (moderately uncommon in our little corner of Kanto suburbia). He was reading some printouts from some website or another, and when I glanced over I caught the title "American Renaissance", and some discussion about the portrayal of whites as subservient to non-whites in the popular media (like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon?), and how this is part of an attempt to establish a cultural hegemony of non-whites over whites. (The reader, if you are wondering, was of the caucasian persuasion.)

It seems rather unlikely that he actually believed what he was reading, since someone of that frame of mind probably wouldn't much enjoy life in Japan. Probably he was reading it for some other purpose--he's a sociologist, or he has a throwback uncle back home who disapproves of his choice to work in a foreign land and demanded that he enlighten himself with some literature... but who knows.

For a while I considered asking him about his choice of reading material, but Kate thought that, just in case, we shouldn't pick a fight with someone who could turn out to be our friendly neighbourhood white supremacist.

To be precise, though, American Renaissance doesn't really seem to be a white supremacist organization--it advocates the idea that America is a white nation, but doesn't seem to base this explicitly upon the idea that the white race is superior to all others. Thinking about white nationalism gets me feeling all nostalgic, as I have fond memories of the summer (a few years ago?) I spent dispensing righteous rhetorical smackdowns concerning the subject on this happy little board.