Richard Spencer

Washington Protests Turn Violent As Activists Clash With Police

... of diverse backgrounds who are against US imperialism and we feel Trump will continue that legacy," Ms Mc Cracken said. Trump supporters and opponents clash. Photo: Windows were smashed at several businesses in north-west Washington. (AP: Michael Biesecker). Tensions were high on the streets of Washington ahead of the inauguration, with occasional scuffles breaking out. Trump supporters Chris and Karen Korthaus, who carried a life-size cardboard cut-out of the former reality TV star, crossed paths with an anti-Trump crowd. "A protester came over and ripped off the Don's head," Karen Korthaus said as she showed a reporter a video of the incident. "We ran to a pizza shop and taped his head back on.". External Link: Zoe Daniel's video tweet of smashed limo on K and 13 th in Washington. Carl Beams, 36, from Howell, New Jersey, stood in line with thousands of other Trump supporters waiting to enter the National Mall to view the inauguration. ...

Richard Spencer Launches 'alt-right' Website On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

... “think tank,” will serve as the site’s publisher. Perhaps surprisingly, what connects such disparate extremists is not a unique and particular brand of white nationalism. It’s the emergence of anti-Semitism themes and messages that connects them all. Spencer, for example, danced around anti-Semitic themes through most of his career until his speech at the National Policy Institute’s winter conference last year where he referred to the mainstream media as the “lügenpresse,” a term popularized by the Third Reich, and offered the toast, “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory.”. A month later, Spencer participated in an interview with anti-Semite Andrew Anglin , founder of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, and Michael Peinovich, who operates The Right Stuff podcast under the name Michael Enoch. During the interview, which Anglin billed as a ...

Richard Spencer’s Master’s Thesis Was An Anti-semitic Critique

... the label preferred by contemporary white supremacists. Given that white Europeans colonized America (brutally, we might add), how does he justify thinking the country fundamentally belongs to them? As certain press outlets — in moves of misjudgment that seem almost farcical — recently questioned, how can he be so vile, yet look so dapper? And, seriously, how does an anti-Semite build a philosophy of white nationalism — at least to some extent — on the study of Jewish philosophers. That last question is difficult to answer, because much of Spencer’s writing on those philosophers — Theodore Adorno, on whom he wrote his thesis in a master’s program in the humanities at University of Chicago, Leo Strauss, and the heavily Jewish Frankfurt School of whom Adorno was a part — is inaccessible. What we know comes primarily from Josh Harkinson’s October profile of Spencer for Mother Jones. In Spencer’s eyes, Harkinson wrote, Adorno — a music critic and composer, as well as a philosopher — “was afraid to admit how much he loved the music of Wagner ...

The Alt-right Comes To Washington

... from progressivism, a mix of erudition, flamboyance and charisma that puts an amusing, unthreatening front on a worldview that feeds the America-first, Christian-capitalist prejudices of his largely young male college audiences. Yiannopoulos has retained his title as Breitbart’s tech editor, where his output is reportedly supplemented by the labors of more than 40 interns, and he views social media platforms as the next battlefront in the culture war. In July, he was banned from Twitter after trashing the work of the African-American comedian Leslie Jones, tweeting that she looked like a man and calling her “barely literate,” in response to a tweet she sent him that contained a typo. Yiannopoulos, Johnson and a number of white nationalists have switched to an upstart rival called Gab that promises not to ban users for any speech so long as it is legal. Down the road, Yiannopoulos plans to take on what he sees as the liberal biases of other social media networks, but not yet. “I need to be too big to ban before I can start going for the people who have enabled my popularity,” he said. “I will pick that fight when I know I can ...

An Alt-right Leader Sets Up Shop In Northern Virginia

... I want for this is to be a one-stop shop,” Spencer said. “So basically  if you’re already in the alt-right, this will be a great place to just learn about what’s happening. If you just heard about the alt-right, just because of the URL, hopefully this will be the top hit on Google.”. Quotidian SEO concerns aside, Jorjani and Spencer have more exalted goals for their collaboration. Jorjani, an Iranian American academic, runs Arktos, which bills itself as the main publisher in English of works from the European “New Right.” Arktos has translated works by Alexander Dugin, the right-wing Russian philosopher whose ultra-nationalist views have been influential on the alt-right, and has published Spencer’s former intellectual mentor Paul Gottfried. Jorjani describes Arktos as “the leading press of the alt-right.”. “One important element of the work Richard and I are doing together is a consolidation of these kinds of rubrics,” Jorjani said. “So that we will see hopefully in the next few years, maybe sooner than that, a total integration of the European New Right ...

The Elite Roots Of Richard Spencer’s Racism

... 2016. Spencer, a white nationalist widely credited with coining the term “alt-right,” rocketed to perverse national stardom after delivering a November 19 speech in Washington DC before a likeminded audience of two hundred. At the end of the speech, Spencer proclaimed, “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!” as those in attendance raised their right arms in Nazi salutes. Video of the speech and the Nuremberg rally–style response it provoked went viral, airing repeatedly on social media, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN. The speech also received extensive coverage in the Washington Post and the New York Times. For many, it was their introduction to Spencer’s marginal-but-toxic brand of politics, which he conceives of as a repudiation of mainstream conservatism. Convinced that leftists have seized control of the culture and are determined to wipe out “white racial identity” with “an undifferentiated global population, [a] raceless, genderless, ...

Alt-right Leader Richard Spencer Says Trump Is 'first Step' Toward Identity Politics

... same, the ideology is the same, the words are a little more massaged, more palatable.". So incredibly humbled to tour @Barack Obama 's @White House. 25 yrs ago I wanted to burn it down, last night I felt ashamed of old me and cried __link__/5 dt PVKYMBA. — @cpicciolini. Picciolini says Trump had the perfect opportunity to disavow those of his followers who promote intolerance in his name when he was pressed about it on 60 Minutes in November. But Trump only issued a mild rebuke. "When we have a president … that just turned to camera and said 'Don't do that' instead of replying with a very thought-out, positive response to really try to quell something that's really happening in our country, that could be disastrous," said Picciolini. "We have an issue.". 'America belongs to white men'. Spencer, meanwhile, is keen to use his newfound attention to spread his ...

What I Found In A Small Montana Town At The Center Of A White Nationalist Troll Storm

... circulating online: an "armed protest" featuring neo-Nazis with "high-powered rifles" marching through town on Spencer's behalf. Soon a date for the protest would be set: January 16. Spencer was in Whitefish for the holidays, according to one of the news accounts I'd read in the car. I intended to keep an eye out for him. In winter, the main drag of Whitefish looks a lot like the main drag of Bedford Falls in the Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life. Small storefronts, festooned lampposts, people constantly running into friends and neighbors and coworkers on the sidewalk. An arrival from urban, liberal America might notice the number of pickup trucks parked in town and, in the same moment, the familiarity of the town's offerings: espresso from single-origin beans, crystals, Pilates, stage and movie theaters, a farmers market, a Cross Fit gym, crepes, fresh sushi, acupuncture, naturopathic remedies, locally brewed beer and spirits, an independent bookstore. The town sits on the floor of the Flathead Valley, surrounded on three sides by mountains, including, to the northeast, the high peaks of Glacier National Park. From the top of Whitefish Mountain, the nearby ...

Alt-right, White Nationalist, Anti-semite

... he’d be offended by my saying that. We have different styles. But this is one thing I will say, and I will say this with confidence – Andrew Anglin is a rational person.”. In contrast to Anglin’s “rational person” anti-Semitism, Spencer tries to walk a line between American Renaissance-style and neo-Nazi white nationalism. Spencer avoids the crass rhetoric of Anglin, preferring to cast the effect of an imagined Jewish power on “Western civilization” as “tragic.” Spencer masks his anti-Semitism in the “academic” veneer deployed by Kevin Mc Donald, casting his budding obsession with Jewish power in a language of cultural psychology and ethnic group politics. It is, however, a thin veil easily pierced by a quick read. Spencer further elaborated on his view of Jews during the TRS podcast. “The left always wants to believe that they are the underdog… This interesting elite class that we have now, it’s like elite that wants to pretend that it’s ...

White Nationalist Richard Spencer Tries To Distance The ‘alt-right’ From Trump

... with the incoming Trump administration have recently found themselves disillusioned with the president-elect. After Trump publicly disavowed them in late November, the self-styled “alt-right” was left disappointed, even though Trump refused to back down from hiring one of their own, Steve Bannon of Breitbart. On Tuesday night, white nationalist leader Richard Spencer said on Twitter that the “alt-right” would no longer align itself with “Trump cheerleaders,” and would instead “succeed as an independent vanguard.”. So far, whatever frustrations the white nationalists may have are largely unfounded. While he hasn’t overtly endorsed ethnic cleansing, Trump has doubled down on other extreme measures. On the subject of registering and banning Muslims, he recently said , “You know my plans all along.” He hasn’t backed down on his pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico either, although that plan would have to clear some serious hurdles in Congress. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General CREDIT: AP Photos/Molly Riley. Even more important than his campaign promises are Trump’s nominees for his cabinet. The current roster is a veritable “who’s who” ...

From Wahoo To White Nationalist

... should associate them with my political views which can be very controversial.”. His controversial views, however, may be why when The Cavalier Daily reached out to numerous Shakespeare on the Lawn alumni from Spencer’s time at the University, many of them either did not respond to inquiries or declined to comment. One alumna who ran in similar friend groups to Spencer said she was stunned to see her fellow Shakespeare on the Lawn alumnus appear in headlines last fall. “The thing about Richard Spencer, like anybody in undergrad, you know, kids can be kind of thoughtless,” 2004 College graduate Elisabeth Seng said. “They can kind of lack empathy, they can kind of just do dumb things, but he never did anything that seemed. like racism or any kind of hate or bigotry.”. Before he moved from his on-Grounds stage to a national political one, Spencer’s time at ...