It seems to be pretty rampant within alt-right corners [1]. But yes, of course they're interconnected for anyone that spends time reading and thinking about it.
[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-gre...
[1] https://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20919221/alt-right-history-gre...
This doesn't have anything to do with western supremacists, and it very much isn't someone on "the right" talking about themselves.
I'm totally cool with reading history and trying to learn from it.
> The men who consume this stuff — and yes, it’s almost exclusively men — tend to believe two things: that ancient Greek and Roman culture are the basis of Western civilization and that these cultures are the exclusive achievements of white men.
> But the idea isn’t merely to celebrate these ancient cultures. The goal is to turn a phrase like “Western civilization” into code for “white culture” and to cement a narrative about history that glorifies patriarchy and undercuts cultural progressivism.
Your framing of the article is wildly incorrect. It makes it pretty clear that White Supremacists aren’t concerned about history in itself, but in a framing that glorifies white men. Presumably its analogous to how neo nazis revere Hitler and the Nazi party.
The goal in each case is a yearning for “better times in the past” by emulating the past days of “glory”.
It also doesn’t support the original claim: that people talk down about Babylon and Egypt, a claim that never appears in the article.
Celebrating Greece and Rome as European achievements doesn’t denigrate people from other areas. Nor does acknowledging how their philosophy filtered into European and later American thought.
The paragraph you cited sounds like a bad faith “hit piece” unrelated to the claims that are being discussed regarding Babylon and Egypt.
Honest question: isn't that specific part true?