The “Alternative Right"

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Postby American Dream » Fri Dec 29, 2017 12:42 pm

5 things that emboldened far-right trolls in 2017

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The politics of manufactured outrage that allow the far right to attract attention and drive narratives

Trends of online discourse in 2017 showed that the far-right’s practice of using digital tools to affect change, exercise pressure, and punish perceived enemies is best understood as politics of manufactured outrage. Many trolls raised their profiles and gained relevance by criticizing what they saw as liberal over-sensitivity, seeking to provoke “snowflakes” for the sake of generating outrage and supporting Trump because his war against “political correctness” was an essential part of their ethos. Now they’re using social media platforms to command their followers to decry and condemn their critics over social justice issues they openly dismissed before.

Mike Cernovich, a leading right-wing troll previously known for misogynistic musings and tasteless tweets, including denying the existence of date rape, effectively manufactured outrage to get MSNBC contributor Sam Seder fired from the network for a tasteless joke Seder tweeted in 2008. Though MSNBC rehired Seder, this was not an isolated incident.

On another occasion, Cernovich targeted journalist Josh Barro and campaigned to get him fired from Business Insider by accusing the journalist of ableism after Barro made fun of Cernovich’s lisp, only stopping after Barro publicly apologized. But Cernovich’s own digital fingerprints make it impossible to believe that he suddenly developed a concern for ableism. In a similar fashion, “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec targeted New Republic’s Jeet Heer, accusing him of defending child pornography by taking a few of Heer’s tweets from 2014 and 2016 out of context. Posobiec also interrupted a play under the pretense that he was offended by its contents, and sued a theater for its all-female screening of the movie Wonder Woman. And when he couldn’t find something to be outraged about, he simply created the opportunity by reportedly planting a “rape Melania” sign at an anti-Trump rally. Right-wing trolls followed the same playbook to smear protesters and ignite outrage during protests of an event featuring Cernovich by planting a sign that featured the logo of a practically defunct pro-pedophilia organization.

The trolls are still freely deploying their playbook of haranguing their followers into more campaigns to force media outlets and social media platforms into doing their bidding -- whether to silence journalists and Trump critics by manipulating Twitter’s abuse report protocols and getting them suspended from the platform, or to “weaponize” their followers into harassment campaigns, or to pressure brands into advertising on shows they like.

As BuzzFeed’s Kate Notopoulos wrote, these trolls “have weaponized taking things literally.” These stunts are often just manipulation disguised as false equivalence, since trolls like Cernovich justify their actions by arguing that media “dictate policy and personnel decisions via social shaming/‘news coverage.'" Mainstream right-wing media also dismiss criticism of these harassment campaigns, claiming that they're legitimate.


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Postby American Dream » Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:10 pm

‘Alt-Right’ Turns On ‘Globalist’ Bannon, ‘Jewish’ Breitbart Over Trump Book

January 3, 2018 By Aiden Pink

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One of the most noteworthy outcomes of the publication of journalist Michael Wolff’s scoop-filled book about the first year of the Trump presidency was the criticism of Breitbart News chairman and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon by the “alt-right” white nationalist movement, which Bannon sought to curate as an audience for his website.

Bannon was quoted in the book insulting Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and said that Donald Trump, Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Rodham Clinton was “treasonous.”

The White House quickly fired back, with President Trump saying in a statement that when Bannon was fired from the White House last year, “he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.” But just as notable was the response from the alt-right.

On the social network app Gab, which is favored by alt-right and neo-Nazi supporters for refusing to censor content, one of the most popular users, “Ricky Vaughn,” shared a post responding to Bannon’s seemingly permanent break with Trump by referring to Bannon’s website as (((Breitbart))) — using the “echo” meme often used by the far-right to identify Jews.

Andrew Breitbart, the website’s founder, was Jewish. The site was run by Bannon since shortly after Breitbart’s death in 2012.

The “echo” post came less than a week after Bannon and Breitbart cut ties with Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin congressional candidate who had often used the “echoes,” among other anti-Semitic tropes. Soon after, a Reddit user on a channel devoted to the alt-right sketch comedy troupe “Million Dollar Extreme” shared an article about the news from the white nationalist website Occidental Dissent and titled it, “Steve (((Bannon))) pulled the plug on Paul )))Nehlen(((.”

In that Occidental Dissent article, Hunter Wallace was harshly critical of Bannon, writing, “Steve Bannon’s purge of Paul Nehlen is revealing because it is one of the most vivid illustrations yet that MAGA or the Alt-Lite – we’re talking about the same thing here – is nothing more than the same old conservatism.”

Nehlen would go on to say that he had been targeted by “a coordinated attack by globalists from both parties” — seemingly a veiled reference to Bannon and Breitbart. Both Bannon and his website were known to refer to Kushner as a “globalist,” a term that some saw as having anti-Semitic connotations.

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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Fri Jan 05, 2018 2:11 pm

Review: Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley

"Hawley’s portrait of the Alt-Right is well researched and carefully argued. However, almost all of what he presents has been well covered before by news organs or antifascist researchers. Hawley’s book gives this analysis the imprimatur of a professional academic and the benefit of fresh interviews with a number of Alt-Right activists, such as Richard Spencer, Greg Johnson, Jared Taylor, and Lawrence Murray. Yet I had hoped Hawley would do more to put the Alt-Right in a broader political context. For example, the movement’s profound debt to the ENR [European New Right] and engagement with ENR figures—Alain de Benoist, Guillaume Faye, and Aleksandr Dugin—deserves much more attention than it receives. I also wish that Hawley had probed more deeply into some of the issues he touches on only in passing, for example, the pivotal role that anti-Jewish scapegoating plays in white nationalist ideology, the Alt-Right’s discussions of foreign policy, or its debates around homosexuality or abortion. Exploration of these topics would have given a fuller picture of the movement’s inner dynamics, political philosophies, and interplay with other far-right currents."


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Postby American Dream » Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:12 pm

Seth Rich, Conspiracy Theorists, and Russiagate ‘Truthers’

The murder of a DNC staffer has been shamelessly manipulated by Fox News, WikiLeaks—and possibly the White House.

By Bob Dreyfuss AUGUST 25, 2017

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Sean Hannity accuses mainstream media of “lying” about claims that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, May 24, 2017. (Fox News)


Though dark murmuring about Rich’s possible role in the WikiLeaks-DNC story began on the Internet within days of his murder, the real impetus for the conspiracy-minded came from Julian Assange himself. In a YouTube interview on August 9, 2016, Assange was asked whether WikiLeaks had “an October surprise” coming in regard to Clinton and the DNC, and, unprompted, he brought up Rich. Here’s a partial transcript:

Q: Is an October Surprise sitting in there?

Assange: WikiLeaks never sits on material. Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material, and often very significant risks. A 27-year-old, that works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered, just two weeks ago, for unknown reasons, as he was walking down the street in Washington.

Q: That was just a robbery, I believe, wasn’t it?

Assange: No. There’s no finding.


Q: So what are you suggesting?

Assange: I’m suggesting that our sources take risks, and they become concerned at things occurring like that.

Q: Well, was he one of your sources then?

Assange: We don’t comment on who our sources are.

Q: Then why make the suggestion?

Assange: Because we have to understand how high the stakes are in the United States. Our sources face serious risks…

Q: But it’s quite something to suggest a murder. That’s basically what you’re doing.

Assange: Well, others have suggested that. We are investigating to understand what happened in the situation with Seth Rich.


The implication of Assange’s comments was clear: that Seth Rich may very well have been his source. Days later, WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 reward for information about the murder of Rich. The alt-right’s Mike Cernovich picked it up, Alex Jones’s InfoWars chimed in, and soon thereafter it was being spread on Sean Hannity’s radio show. A disturbing echo of the early 1990s conspiracy theories about Bill and Hillary Clinton, such as the alleged “murder” of Hillary’s former law partner and deputy White House counsel Vince Foster (who, in fact, committed suicide), came from Roger Stone, the Trump-allied provocateur and former business partner of Paul Manafort, who managed Trump’s campaign last year. Citing Rich and other mythical victims of the Clintons, Stone tweeted: “Four more dead bodies in Clinton’s wake. Coincidence? I think not.” Stone’s tweet claimed that Rich was “on his way to meet with the FBI to discuss election fraud,” a claim manufactured out of thin air. The story was off and running.

For months, Seth Rich conspiracy theories bubbled up again and again on Gateway Pundit, Heat Street, the subreddit r/TheDonald, and elsewhere. But they burst into full bloom in mid-May of this year, just days after President Trump had touched off a firestorm by firing FBI Director James Comey, when a Fox News exclusive ran with the Rich story—and it’s that episode that is the subject of the new, and very revealing, lawsuit filed this month.

On May 16, Malia Zimmerman, a Fox reporter in Washington with a questionable track record, published a story on DC’s Fox 5 News outlining a conspiratorial view of the Rich murder. That night, Sean Hannity broadcast a lengthy segment based on Zimmerman’s story. And in both cases, in Zimmerman’s piece and on Hannity’s program, the star witness was Rod Wheeler. But in his lawsuit, Wheeler says that he was a victim of manipulation by others involved in the story, that he had been lied to by others involved in the investigation, that quotes attributed to him were fabricated outright, and—most explosive—that the White House itself was directly involved in helping to engineer a false story. Fox also attributed part of its story to an unnamed “federal investigator,” who appears never to have existed. On May 23, Fox would retract the entire story and purge it from its archives.


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:02 am

The New Reactionaries: Amir Taaki, Alt-Right Entryism, and Rojava Solidarity

By Steven R. D. Henderson

In the wake of the Rojava Revolution, many western leftists have engaged in solidarity actions and other forms of support. As a Communalist residing in Vancouver, I have attempted to support the revolution by working with Kurdish House Vancouver to organise events to raise awareness, such as discussion panels with international volunteers Hanna Böhman and Cody Bergerud, as well as documentary screenings.

Those paying attention to these kinds of efforts have likely heard of Rojava Plan. It was a resource that sought to facilitate bringing internationalists to Rojava to work with civil society groups there, collect donations, and a variety of other projects. This article outlines what I believe to be a case of alt-right entryism into Rojava Plan and Rojava solidarity efforts more generally through the actions of an individual named Amir Taaki. Although focused on the Rojava Solidarity movement, it illustrates a problem that has surfaced in other movements as well.

The New Reactionaries

My concerns regarding Taaki began to surface after noticing their seemingly close association with elements of the alt-right. This alliance is clearly visible in the recently released film The New Radical, which stars Taaki along with Cody Wilson— the primary focus of the documentary—as well as featuring Julian Assange. The film is up front about it’s admiration of the alt-right. While discussing the alt-right, Trump, and Taaki’s involvement with Rojava, Wilson tells us:

I’m fascinated by the Alt-Right. I’ve watched the alt-right develop. I think that the alt-right is the only place that exploration and differentiation is even happening. That’s not happening on the left […] And look, I didn’t vote for the guy [(Trump)], but like, you know, take a good thing when it comes your way […] With Trump’s victory, Amir’s mission can succeed as well […] Rojava is allowed to continue to exist.


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Postby American Dream » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:26 pm

Alt-Right Podcasters Offer Praise For ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski

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On Sunday’s episode of The Godcast, co-hosts Paisios and SuperLutheran invited Jason Kessler on their show for a glowing tribute to the “Unabomber.”

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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:38 pm

Sebastian Gorka was hired by a far-right media outlet. He still works for Fox News.

Gorka is a conspiratorial bigot and frequent Hannity guest

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Sebastian Gorka, former Trump aide, recently-hired Fox News strategist, and frequent Hannity guest, has been hired by Canadian far-right media outlet Rebel media. Gorka is just the latest bigoted commentator to be hired by a network equally known for its hateful anti-Muslim commentary and sympathy for white supremacists. He’s also still employed by Fox News.

On February 1, Rebel media promoted the first episode of Gorka’s new and recurring segment for the network, “The Gorka Briefing.” In the video, Gorka claimed to “untangle” various narratives about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections, something he does regularly as a guest on Fox News. Just last night, Gorka appeared on Fox show Hannity, and helped host Sean Hannity further his long-standing campaign against the validity of the Russia probe when he accused former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia and the media of advancing a “false” narrative about the issue. Since August 2017, Gorka has appeared on Hannity 46 times, making him one of Hannity’s three most frequent guests, according to a Media Matters analysis.

Gorka also briefly advised pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Coalition after he left the White House and, as The Daily Beast reported last night, was paid $40,000 for his work. The MAGA Coalition is a political group founded by “right-wing conspiracy theorists,” and was engaged in spreading the almost deadly “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that falsely accused members of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign of being part of a pedophilia ring operating out of a pizza parlor.

Aside from Gorka’s penchant for conspiracy theories, he boasts a long history of bigoted and incendiary rhetoric, aimed at Muslims in particular, and has apparent ties to a Hungarian Nazi-allied group called Vitézi Rend. He was also reportedly fired from the FBI for his “over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric” and was apparently ousted from his role in the Trump administration for partly the same reason.

With his extreme anti-Muslim views and reported ties to a Nazi-allied group, Gorka may be a perfect match for Rebel media, an outlet that once employed someone who published a “satirical video” titled “Ten Things I Hate About Jews.” After the Canadian outlet lost several other high-profile contributors in the wake of its sympathetic coverage of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, it is now seeking to re-establish its brand and further expand its global platform of anti-Muslim ideology.

In addition to hiring Gorka, the outlet recently hired former Daily Mail columnist turned far-right agitator Katie Hopkins. Most recently, Hopkins was apparently banned from South Africa for fomenting racial hatred while in the country reporting for The Rebel. But she is perhaps best known for her shameless anti-Muslim rhetoric. Hopkins once called for the use of “gunships to stop migrants,” actively supported a mission to disrupt humanitarian rescues of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea, and floated the idea on Fox News of putting Muslims in internment camps in the wake of the Manchester terror attack.

Rebel media is also slated to hire extreme “Muslim reform” activist Raheel Raza, who has cheered Trump’s Muslim ban, is affiliated with SPLC-designated anti-Muslim hate groups ACT for America and The Clarion Project, and serves as a senior fellow for The Gatestone Institute, whose founder is a major funder of anti-Muslim activism.

Despite Gorka’s long history of bigotry and, now, open affiliation with a far-right outlet, one of America’s top cable networks still considers him a trusted "strategist." Gorka’s joint employment is just the latest evidence that Fox News has no interest in distancing itself from the network’s most extreme voices.


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Postby American Dream » Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:46 pm

A top NRATV commentator keeps promoting the work of a racist YouTube conspiracy theorist

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Holton has also replied to a Molyneux tweet to say “apparently white lives don't matter” in reference to South Africa. In recent years, white nationalists including Molyneux have promoted false claims of “white genocide” in South Africa.

Molyneux has been described as a libertarian blogger but in recent years has branched out to promoting racist commentary as well, drawing plaudits from white nationalists and neo-Nazis. He has also been accused of leading a cult that urges people to cut off all contact with their friends and family members. In particular, Molyneux is a promoter of scientific racism, an approach that attempts to cloak discredited arguments that certain races are inferior in an academic veneer.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Molyneux as a commentator who “amplifies ‘scientific racism,’ eugenics and white supremacism to a massive new audience” and “has encouraged thousands of people to adopt his belief in biological determinism, social Darwinism and non-white racial inferiority.”

A recent profile of NRATV in The New York Times noted that the outlet’s “hosts are not shy of trading in racially charged language and imagery,” before citing a racist tweet about former President Obama sent by Holton.

Holton has written that “there is plenty of proof that black culture is inherently more violent than other cultures.” During an August 2016 appearance on the NRA’s talk radio program, Holton made a number of racist statements and told people to watch a Molyneux video that had been well-received in the white nationalist community.

“You know my definition of white privilege?” Holton asked. “It’s just simply the culture that we have created, that our fathers and grandfathers have worked hard to create.” He went on to claim white privilege is “a culture of individual responsibility, where you take responsibility for your own actions, a culture that respects authority,” while adding that “if you live in that inner-city community and you don't like it, you are welcome to join our community and take advantage of this ‘privilege’ that we have any time you want” and that “you're welcome to come. All you have to do is join us in respecting authority and taking responsibility for your own actions.”

More recently, Holton has used his NRATV platform to whip up fear that the group Black Lives Matter is prepared to commit mass rape and murder against white people.

NRATV previously employed another Molyneux proponent, conservative commentator Bill Whittle, who went on Molyneux’s program to promote scientific racism and make other racist claims. Whittle left NRATV in September 2017. An Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate's campaign recently rescinded an invitation for Whittle to serve as keynote speaker at a fundraiser after learning about his history of racist commentary on Molyneux’s show.

NRATV’s incendiary content is currently making headlines, with The Hill noting that “multiple online petitions are calling on Apple, Amazon and other streaming services to cut ties” with the outlet.


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Postby American Dream » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:14 pm

Ayla Stewart Leaves A Message Of Support For White Nationalist Teacher Dayanna Volitich

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Last week news broke that a Crystal River Middle School social studies teacher named Dayanna Volitich was not-so-secretly hosting a white nationalist podcast called Unapologetic. Since then Volitich has been removed from the classroom while the Citrus County school district conducts an investigation.

Volitich, under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov,” made racist remarks about non-whites, suggested that Muslims should be “eradicat[ed]…from the face of the earth,” claimed feminism was cannibalizing itself, and promoted the work of anti-Semitic author Kevin MacDonald.

In one Unapologetic episode Volitich said that African-Americans were “unprepared” for Hurricane Katrina due to their “hunter-gatherer culture.” One parent whose student is in Volitich’s class claimed the teacher expressed support for racial segregation.

What little reaction there has been from the white nationalist community has been almost entirely positive. Lana Lokteff, who was Volitich’s last podcast guest, called it a “witch hunt” by “delusional religious zealots who hate nature:


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:56 pm

​Pepe the Frog creator brings copyright lawsuit

March 08, 2018 Bill Morlin

The case of Pepe the Frog — a meme widely used without permission by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, conspiracist radio host Alex Jones and Donald Trump — appears headed to a federal court jury.

The anthropomorphic frog’s creator, artist Matt Furie, filed suit this week in U.S. District Court in California, alleging copyright infringement and seeking unspecified damages. He also seeks a permanent injunction barring unauthorized use of the image by assorted alt-right factions.

Furie claims he filed suit because he’s “dismayed by Pepe’s association with white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and the alt-right,” including unauthorized use of the image by Trump and his supporters, including Alex Jones.

Defendants named in the action are Infowars, LLC, and Free Speech Systems, LLC, two Texas-based companies managed by Jones, a far-right radio host and promoter of assorted conspiracy theories.

While Jones is not named personally as a defendant, he is described in the suit as “America’s leading conspiracy theorist” [and] a member of “an antigovernment far-right that blames the world’s ills on a grand global conspiracy.”

In a posting today on his web site, Jones said he “will not tolerate having Infowars’ name dragged through the mud” by attempting to equate his operation with “white supremacists and the alt-right, which adopted Pepe as a mascot.” The post was accompanied by an image of Jones with Pepe.

His Alex Jones Show is syndicated to over 100 radio stations nationwide, and is simulcasted on YouTube and his website, infowars.com, the suit says.

Revenue from the radio show and its companion Infowars web site — estimated at more than $7 million a year — comes from products sold through radio programming and items offered for sale, the suit says.

Among items offered for sale by Jones’ companies is a copyright-infringing poster, prominently featuring a copy of Pepe. The poster now sells for $29.95, with Jones claiming sales help “support Infowars in the fight for free speech.”

Jones claims Infowars “didn’t even design or produce the poster and is completely protected as a third party.”

Furie doesn’t specify a specific amount of damages, but says he’s prepared to ask a jury to award him “his actual damages,” statutory damages and/or an amount equal to the “unlawful profits” Jones’ companies have made from illegal use of Pepe.

In the unauthorized poster sold by Jones’ companies, “Pepe appears alongside Jones, Trump, conservative commentator Matt Drudge, strategist Roger Stone, and other individuals associated with the Trump 2016 campaign,” the suit says.

Also depicted on the poster are infowars.com editor Paul Joseph Watson and Milo Yiannopoulos, former editor of Breitbart News, “both of whom have been associated with alt-right and nativist or white nationalist viewpoints,” the suit says.

In his response, Jones says he intends to counter-sue, claiming in his typical conspiracy-mindset that he will demand Furie “give up the name of the individual or group that put him up to” filing the suit.

Jones claims Infowars “didn’t even design or produce the poster and is completely protected as a third party.”

At no time, the suit claims, did Furie give his consent for the cartoon frog he created in the early 2000s to be used by Trump, white nationalists or any one associated with the racist alt-right.

His attorney, Rebecca Girolamo, of Los Angeles, did not immediately return a call from Hatewatch seeking comment.

But the suit says her client “did not authorize the use of the Pepe image or character in [the] poster and does not approve of the association of Pepe with Alex Jones or any of the other figures shown in this poster, or with [Trump’s] ‘Make America Great Again’ (MAGA) slogan,” the suit says.

In October 2016, Furie partnered with the Anti-Defamation League to launch the #SavePepe campaign, to “reclaim Pepe as a symbol for peace, love, and acceptance.” The previous month, the ADL added Pepe the Frog to their database of General Hate Symbols.

But even after Trump’s election, his alt-right and white nationalist supporters have continued unauthorized use of his copyrighted image, Furie claims.

Disappointed with the continued unauthorized use of Pepe in connection with hateful imagery and themes, Furie posted an online comic last May in which Pepe has died. The meme, however, continues to be used by a hate groups.

Furie is described in the suit as an artist residing in San Luis Obispo County, California, whose art includes “children’s book illustrations for adults,” that blend child-like characters and adult situations. He is well known for, among other things, his comic book series Boy’s Club and his wordless children’s book The Night Riders.

Jones’ companies have “committed acts of direct infringement” in violation of Furie’s intellectual property rights, the suit says.

Pepe often depicted with large, rounded, brownish-red lips, bulging eyes, puffy eyelids, and a human-shaped body. Before he was hijacked as a hate meme, the suit says, Pepe “was a peaceful frog-dude -- a kind and blissful cartoon character, who lived alongside three animal roommates.”

The meme became famous in part, the suit says, because of his catchphrase, “feels good man.” By 2014, Pepe was featured prominently in internet memes.

“But beginning in 2015, various fringe groups connected with the alt-right attempted to co-opt Pepe by mixing images of Pepe with images of hate, including white supremacist language and symbols, Nazi symbols, and other offensive imagery,” the suit says.

In 2015, Pepe was the most retweeted meme on Twitter. In October of that year, an “unauthorized image of Pepe dressed as Donald Trump and standing behind the Presidential seal appeared on Twitter,’ the suit says.

“During the 2016 presidential campaign, the number of memes juxtaposing Pepe with racist, anti-Semitic, and other bigoted imagery and themes grew,” the suit says.

Two months before the 2016 presidential election, Trump posted an Instagram image labeled “The Deplorables,” featuring Pepe standing behind Trump, alongside other supporters of his presidential campaign, the suit says.

Despite Furie’s efforts, Jones’ companies and others have misused Furie’s character and copied Pepe images for use in products sold online to promote messages of hate.

Jones’ companies “not only copied Furie’s original creation, but also freeloaded off Pepe’s popularity and Furie’s labor,” the suit says.


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:34 am


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Wed Mar 14, 2018 3:44 pm

A White Supremacist Group Is Crashing And Burning In Real Time

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As we noted last year, the alt-right movement as originally envisioned is on a path to self-destruction and is splintering into a handful of spin-off movements that hyper-focus on various dogmas of the alt-right. Although the Traditionalist Worker Party appears to be dissolving and the founding infrastructure of the alt-right is crumbling, the hate the alt-right movement inspired is still alive.


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:40 pm

Fascism Depends Upon a Belief in Human Inequality

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A member of an anti-government militia holds an assault rifle as he stands guard at a checkpoint in front of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters on January 5, 2016 near Burns, Oregon.


What is the relationship of misogyny to the right-wing followers of Trump?

Misogyny is a deep part of the motivating impulses of the right, both of the reactionary segment of the GOP that went for Trump and of the far-right. Part of the appeal of Trump was that he gave leeway to the id of a male demographic that feels slighted by anti-oppression movements. The anti-feminist backlash is a huge part of this, especially given an era where men are seeing the paradigm of their interpersonal power shift. It is a lot easier to turn towards a reactionary element that validates their baser instincts rather than the side that challenges them to grow.

Hatred of women, of femininity broadly, has been mobilized viscerally by the Trumpian movement. It is distrustful of women, especially those raising their voices about sexual assault, and instead he presents himself as the archetype of "toxic masculinity": a man who indulges the worst interpretation of masculinity. In this way impulsive violence, control over women, and the dominance of men in the social sphere has created a sense of tribal unity in the Trumpian circle, and this internal culture helped to mobilize his base in a way that few beltway pundits could have predicted.

The "alt-right," including the "manosphere" and other online movements that fused starting in 2015, had misogyny as a key component of their ideological flavor. They have perception that women, and all the qualities they erroneously ascribed to women, are bringing down the Western Civilization that their white maleness built. Just as they throw blanket claims of guilt at Jews, they often will simply line up qualities they despise and ascribe them to women. Consumerism, materialism, liberalism, etc., are all seen as essentially feminine, part of the destruction of society that evolved from the extension of rights to women. What leads these men to this movement is variable, but their own outsider nature should not be ignored, and their inability to connect with women on a personal level has led to many joining movements like the men's rights movement. As these movements coalesced, they helped to forge a political identity and a way of interpreting politics that were suspicious of women and celebrated those that openly rebuked them. Trump is the perfect figure for this perspective.

What is your definition of "alt-right"?

To define the "alt-right" we should go directly to the "alt-right" itself. What has been so irritating about so many media outlets getting the politics of the "alt-right" so incorrect is that the major figures of the "alt-right," such as Richard Spencer, have been prolific in explaining themselves and their ideas.

The "alt-right" existed for a few years before its major surge in 2015. Much of the attention around the "alt-right" focused on message boards like 4Chan, memes and their troll behavior, but all of this is less than defining. The years that came before, when the hardcore "alt-right" white nationalist believers were forming their ideology, gives us a window into exactly who they are. From their mouths, in publications like the original AlternativeRight.com, the first "alt-right" podcast Vanguard Radio, or the early "alt-right" publishers like Counter-Currents or Arktos, the "alt-right" is both about identity and inequality. First, identity is something that a person does not choose, but instead chooses them in a sense. This primarily means race, but also includes gender and other qualities. They believe that these elements are bio-spiritually what define us, and that we need to return to very rigid notions of determinism, tribal ingroup and outgroup thinking, and barriers between groups. Second, the belief that human beings are not created equal, that inequality is sacred and profoundly human. Those two qualities together define the "alt-right," manifesting in the US as a pseudo-academic form of white nationalism whose culture just happened to be developed in a vicious online cauldron.

A lot of what is often referred to as the "alt-right" is better called the "alt-light." Radical right provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos, Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, Ann Coulter and others, often get within proximity to the white nationalists of the "alt-right." They may enjoy the trolling culture, they may mainstream their positions, they even might prop up some of their most appalling arguments, but they also do not commit to the ideology in an open and honest way.... The "alt-right," on the flip side, used them as a gateway to a larger conservative audience, just as white nationalists used figures like Pat Buchanan and the paleoconservative movement to mainstream their views in the 1980s and 1990s.

Today, the "alt-right" has been alienated from its more moderate counterparts and has reverted to what it always was. The best line to describe the "alt-right" comes from Greg Johnson, the founder of the neo-fascist Counter-Currents Publishing. "The "alt-right" means white nationalism, or it means nothing."


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Re: The “Alternative Right"

Postby American Dream » Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:40 pm

Lauren Southern Gave A Speech At A Conference For The Ultranationalist Vlaams Belang Party

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Suffice it to say Vlaams Belang, like Southern, wants to resurrect a whole host of old ideas, including ideas of cultural, religious, and ethnic homogeneity. And the idea that transgender people — and perhaps the rest of the LGB community — should be erased.

Southern also claimed that more young people haven’t identified with extreme nationalist ideas isn’t because those ideas are wrong, but rather that young people never knew those ideas were an option. As she put it, nationalism has “only been defined for them by our enemies.”

“Nationalist thought has been all but erased,” she continued, “with a few people trying to revive it, some of them in this room of course. But all it takes, really, is a few. Because when you bring up questions that the establishment can’t answer, that sparks a curiosity in people longing for explanations to their discontentment with the current state of things.”

There is some truth in this. Surely people would rather choose a bad answer to a question than none at all. If people are sufficiently discontent they may turn to demagogues like Southern who scapegoat migrants, Muslims, feminism, transgender people, etc. In some regions in Europe these “forgotten” ideas are gaining traction once again.

This is why Southern told her audience to pitch nationalism to disaffected Millennials in the first place. The older crop of white nationalists and fascists is dying out, and far-right movements need fresh blood. Therefore, she said, “we need to present [nationalism] that way, as a positive thing. Something to fill a void searching for meaning and belonging.”


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