Richard Spencer

An Alt-right Leader's New Neighbors Are Not Very Happy He's Moved To Town

... neighbor. The city has received at least 25 complaints about Spencer’s new rental in Alexandria, just outside of Washington, DC, city spokesman Craig Fifer told Buzz Feed News. Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist group, told The Atlantic the Alexandria space will serve as a hub for the alt-right movement. View this image ›. ID: 10388188. Flyers have circulated in Alexandria, notifying local residents that Spencer is in town and instructing people who “take issue with this” to call the city manager’s office. Fifer told Buzz Feed News it’s unusual for the city to receive complaints of this nature from residents. (Buzz Feed News reached out to the email address on the flyer but the recipient didn’t immediately grant an interview.). Alexandria, given its proximity to Washington, DC, is home to many who work on Capitol Hill and at federal agencies. “We have people on every place of the ideological spectrum,” Fifer said. ...

Trans-pacific Partnership, Richard Spencer, Cervical Cancer

... the Looking Glass” on Netflix, a recent addition to the company’s database. Having already se…. posted: January 25. This week, Espérer has partnered with the CSJ Center for Reconciliation and Justice to host the service organization's annual Human Traffickin…. Updated: 4:15 pm. Rule of Thumb. Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:00 am | Updated: 7:23 pm, Tue Jan 24, 2017. Rule of Thumb: Trans-Pacific Partnership, Richard Spencer, cervical cancer J. R. Bellavia, Opinion Intern Samantha Davis, Asst. Opinion Editor Clay Sontag, Asst. Opinion Editor Los Angeles Loyolan. Posted on Jan 24, 2017. and Samantha Davis. Thumbs Up: Trump Removes U. S. from Trans-Pacific Partnership. Today, President Trump signed an executive order to remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The United States joined the trade deal during the Obama Administration, and it has been heavily criticized by ...

The Elite Roots Of Richard Spencer’s Racism

... not having the sense of an ant or squirrel in the summer, but having the vote, will ravage the stores of those who have laid up a few nuts when they could. they will tear the whole fabric of civilization to pieces.”. A 1924 world history textbook used in Dallas schools even praised Benito Mussolini for crushing labor unions, restoring law and order, and creating social stability. The Origin Myth. Dallas’s elite racism alone did not nourish Spencer’s worldview. Spencer’s ideas, such as they were, formed more fully after prep school, when he enrolled at the University of Virginia, and later in the master’s program in humanities at the University of Chicago. According to Mother Jones, it was in college that Spencer first encountered the works of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, an anti-egalitarian who saw history as shaped by “great men” who mold events to their will, ...

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

... , an online magazine that regularly features proponents of eugenics and blatanat anti-black racists, and Peter Brimelow , leader of the VDARE, as leaders of the Alt-Right. But his cozy relationship with Brimelow and Taylor may have suffered after his “Heil Trump” salute, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. White nationalists have historically butted heads on Jewish conspiracy theories and Jewish participation within white nationalist circles, and the same holds true now. Taylor, for example, has stayed clear from anti-Semitism for years, claiming in 2006 that his readership has always included “both Jews and people who believe Jews play no useful role in a movement that promotes white interests. It has been my intent to emphasize questions crucial to our interests and on which we agree.”. And Taylor’s position hasn’t changed, even if the leading figurehead of the Alt-Right has changed his views. “I was shocked as anyone by all of that,” Spencer told ...

How Donald Trump's Campaign Chief Created An Online Haven For White Nationalists

... using the supremacist hashtag #whitegenocide follow the National Review, and 10 percent follow the Daily Caller, 31 percent follow Breitbart. The disparities are even starker for the anti-Muslim hashtag #counterjihad: National Review, 26 percent; the Daily Caller, 37 percent; Breitbart News, 62 percent. Bannon's views often echo those of his devoted followers. He describes Islam as "a political ideology" and Sharia law as "like Nazism, fascism, and communism." On his Sirius XM radio show, he heaped praise on Pamela Geller, whose American Freedom Defense Initiative has been labeled an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bannon called her "one of the leading experts in the country, if not the world," on Islam. And he basically endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan's primary challenger, ...

An Alt-right Leader Sets Up Shop In Northern Virginia

... would launch on Monday. The loft “is symbolic in that it is a headquarters of sorts,” Spencer said. The fact that Spencer and Jorjani are attempting to take ownership of the term alt-right is likely to raise hackles in a movement whose membership is nebulous and disorganized, but often territorial and disputatious. Two factions have been battling over the Deploraball, a party planned for the night before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Spencer was uninvited from the Deploraball, which is being organized by a group called Maga 3 X. That group is associated with Mike Cernovich, who now prefers the label “new right.” He cast out one of the party’s co-organizers, known as “Baked Alaska,” after he wouldn’t stop tweeting about Jews. Baked Alaska then accused Cernovich of being a “cuck” in a Periscope video. Spencer expects his registration of __link__ may prove similarly contentious. ...

Thousands Raised In Effort To Identify Alt-right Founder’s Assailant

... about the identity of the assailant has emerged. The crowdfunding website We Searchr has garnered $4,530 in donations from 113 contributors as of Tuesday afternoon amid its quest for information for the assault on Mr. Spencer , the president of a white nationalist think tank. “The very First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution protects the right of every American to speak their mind. That was Richard Spencer ’s only crime when he was violently targeted by left-wing thugs,” reads a post on We Searchr, a website described upon its launch last year by co-founder and chief technical officer Pax Dickinson as an “information marketplace”. “Violent criminals who try to shut down the First Amendment rights of Americans need to be exposed, not coddled and then forgotten,” the post says. The website intends to accept donations through mid-April, and will award 75 percent of the final amount to whomever provides “fully-documented evidence or investigation identifying beyond a reasonable doubt the unknown criminal who sucker punched Richard Bertrand Spencer in the head.”. The ...

Richard Spencer Gets Dragged On Twitter After Tweet To Aziz Ansari

... 22, 2017. Wrong move, Spence. The internet exploded at this, causing nearly 3,000 people to respond to the tweet. Most with the same general idea. @Richard BSpencer everyone saw you cry on tv. — Joe Berkowitz (@Joe Berkowitz) January 23, 2017. @Richard BSpencer everyone saw you cry on TV. — Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) January 23, 2017. . @Richard BSpencer Everyone saw you cry on tv. — Theodore Leo (@tedleo) January 23, 2017. @Richard BSpencer @azizansari @You Tube Everyone saw you cry on TV, Richard, and it was pretty funny imho. — J Crowley (@jdcrowley) January 23, 2017. @Richard BSpencer @azizansari Richard everyone saw you cry on TV. — K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) January 23, 2017. @Richard BSpencer everyone saw you cry on tv including China __link__/RMQ 2 kzc 8 sr. — Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) January 23, 2017. . @Richard BSpencer everyone saw you cry on tv. — brad esposito ...

Before You Cheer The Attack On Richard Spencer, Consider The Strategy

... The Menace of the Underman. I’ve seen no references to him advocating genocide, but a slippery-slope argument would be easy to make. Many cheered the assault. But what, precisely, is the strategy here? Mussolini’s fascism was famously incoherent as an ideology, as he insisted on willpower being enough to force reality to work as the people would desire. It was a grittier, more intense version of President Obama’s “Yes, We Can!” But if slippery slopes can take us from racist arguments to full-blown genocide, they work in other ways as well. We live in an age where “fascist,” “Nazi,” “racist,” “isolationist,” and “KKK” are regarded as synonymous. Yet far more southern racists than urban feminists fought Hitler and his legions during World War II. The current claim is that everyone who voted for Donald Trump effectively endorses a white supremacist agenda. Are 63 million Americans deserving of a punch to the face? Perhaps. But how would ...

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

... 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 because Wagner was an anti-Semite championed by the Nazis.”. “If you looked at what I was doing, there was a clear interest in radical traditionalist right-wing German philosophy, a semi-fascist type thing,” Harkinson quoted Spencer as saying. “But there was always plausible deniability to it all.”. Ditto for Strauss, a German Jew of purportedly fascist inclination to whom, Harkinson passingly mentioned, Spencer was ...

Temple Alum Tim Heidecker Celebrates White Nationalist Richard Spencer's Face-punching With New Song

... “ain’t no one gonna cry” if you “give [Spencer] a big black eye.” The song is the latest politically charged track from Heidecker following " Trump’s Pilot ,” which the comedian released in November 2016 for the “ 30 Days, 50 Songs ” campaign. Spencer, a self-proclaimed white nationalist, infamously led a chant of “Hail Trump” during a rally last year , and currently serves as president of the National Policy Institute, an organization that  describes itself as “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States.”. Heidecker will reportedly also contribute music to Our First 100 Days , a compilation that aims to release one new song for each of the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. The comedian has since issued a tongue-in-cheek apology for “Richard Spencer,” writing on Twitter that he will soon record a full-band version of the track. I'm very sorry if ...