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by coffin_dodger » Wed Oct 19, 2016 6:57 pm
by American Dream » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:13 pm
Corey Stewart Spills the Beans To An Alt-Right Periscope Show
October 21, 2016
Corey Stewart loves to trash his GOP compatriots
The same day Prince William county supervisor Corey Stewart was fired from the Virginia Trump campaign, he went on a Periscope show hosted by “Alternative Right” rape apologist Mike Cernovich in order to trash his fellow GOP compatriots. But first, a little background…
One week ago we posted our coverage of an anti-National Republican Committee rally that was put on by then-Trump Virginia Campaign Chairman Corey Stewart. Stewart was one of Trump’s top operatives, and had been incensed by the negative reaction to the “Trump Tapes” showing Trump and former Today Show host Billy Bush engaging in a dehumanizing, sexually explicit conversation. The reactions of many of Republicans were to withdraw their support for Trump. As Trump’s campaign and the RNC were trying to mend fences, Stewart decided to throw gas on the fire and organized an anti-RNC rally even though the Trump campaign told him not to do it. Corey was then fired by the Trump campaign.
The rally was interesting; it attracted about 30-35 people, mostly women from the Virginia Women for Trump organization, headed by Alice Butler Short .
What we didn’t see at the time were some other interesting people in attendance, like White Nationalist Devin Saucier– who was holding a sign that said “Better to Grab a P***y Then to Be One”.
White Nationalist Devin Saucier makes an appearance
at Corey Stewart’s anti-RNC rally.
by American Dream » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:39 pm
Fear of a Feminist Future
The alt-right hopes to be saved by the apocalypse
LAURIE PENNY October 17, 2016
America under Donald Trump would be a safe space for the most abject anti-feminists. / thierry ehrmann
To imagine the future is a political practice, which means that it’s both strangely awful and awfully strange. In 1990, a team of scientists and researchers was given the task of mapping far-future scenarios for the disposal of nuclear waste. Their dilemma: how to design a warning system to make sure humans in twenty centuries’ time don’t dig in the wrong place and kill the world. As part of the report, a group of academics—all men—came up with a set of “generic scenarios” for how these future humans might live. Their most terrifying scenario? “A feminist world.”
According to this bizarre piece of nuclear science fan-fiction, in the “feminist world” reached in the year 2091:Women dominated in society, numerically through the choice of having girl babies and socially. Extreme feminist values and perspectives also dominated. Twentieth-century science was discredited as misguided male aggressive epistemological arrogance. The Feminist Alternative Potash Corporation began mining in the WIPP site. Although the miners saw the markers, they dismissed the warnings as another example of inferior, inadequate, and muddled masculine thinking.
It goes on to describe how “extreme feminists” reject the entire concept of knowledge as “masculine,” and instead “put values and practices of attention to the feelings and emotions of particular individuals,” dooming the world in the process.
Why is it that mainstream culture is either afraid of a feminist future—a world where women have equal power at all levels of politics and society, a world beyond the violent stereotypes that squash all of us into narrow boxes of behavior and strangle our selfhood—or unable to envision it at all? The types of future we can conceive of say a great deal about the limits of our political imagination. From alt-right hate-sites and hysterical pulp novels to revered works of literature, male visions of a post-collapse civilization have traditionally fallen along two lines: a cozy Wild West where men can be real men, or a living nightmare where dangerously confident females have ruined everything after someone let them out of the kitchen long enough to think they deserved power.
Fredric Jameson famously observed (in 2003) that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, and that was the slogan that ricocheted around the left in the early years of the Great Recession. In fact, however, the two are linked: capitalist patriarchy has always justified its own existence by insisting that there is no alternative but chaos, destruction, the end of civilization as we know it. The explosion of dystopian literature in this low, dishonest decade emerges from our inability to imagine the end of capitalism without also imagining the end of the world. And for many writers and readers, that comes with a curious sense of relief.
It has become commonplace to speak of a modern “crisis in masculinity,” often when we’re trying to avoid talking about the broader crisis of capitalism. According to this “mancession” theory, the rise of feminism combined with the collapse in the job market means that men can no longer be certain of their role as providers and husbands, and begin to feel irrelevant. Apocalyptic dystopia plays directly into that sense of irrelevance, comforting men with the assurance that they will always be useful in a world that needs men to rebuild it.
Since female enfranchisement is a relatively late development, it counts alongside nylon stockings and air conditioning as one of those modern luxuries that will have to be done without in the post-civilization.
Dystopia offers a fantasy of those very aspects of masculinity that feminists supposedly condemn becoming crucial in a scenario in which you must not get torn apart by raiders from the bunker next door. For the alt-right imaginary, that means traditional patriarchy of the sort that only ever existed in febrile myth. A core idea behind this logic is that since female enfranchisement is a relatively late development, it therefore counts alongside nylon stockings and air conditioning as one of those modern luxuries that will have to be done without in the post-civilization. Feminism, to the conservative imagination, is a modern indulgence, one of many trivialities to be cast by the wayside like a child’s empty-eyed doll on a nuclear battlefield. This suspicion is not limited to the frothing neo-con contingent. You can still find doomsayers on the left discussing women’s liberation as a bourgeois deviation that will disappear after the revolution along with all the other inconveniences of emasculating capitalism.
Over at Return Of Kings, an alt-right discussion hub and steaming compost-heap of the sort of diatribes that pass for serious philosophy in the less hinged corners of the conservative internet, writer Corey Savage tells us “4 Reasons Why Collapse Will Be The Best Thing To Happen For Men.”The collapse will mean the restoration of natural order: the rule of the jungle . . .
One of the best aspect of the new order would be the return of masculine virtue . . . only an organized group of men with strength, courage, mastery, and honor . . . will prevail in the post-apocalyptic world. Men will be men again. Who knows what savage energy is begging to be unleashed within that man serving as an office drone?
And guess what? There won’t be feminist harpies demanding “equality” when strong men are needed to rebuild civilization and defend against gangs and rival tribes. They’ll be begging for some of that “toxic” masculinity to come and protect them. They’ll kneel in submission to a patriarchal order faster than they would have screamed “rape!” in the previous world . . . the unstable and fat ones will likely disappear first as they offer no value to anyone.
For all its toenail-chewing bigotry, there is something poignant about this yearning for return to a world that never was, where former office workers can live their dreams of dominance by kicking all the fat chicks out of the compound. No wonder the impending collapse of this degenerate world of gender quotas and rape alarms is a core part of the New Right narrative. The brotopoia is a consoling, familiar fantasy, in particular for those to whom the promise of modern masculinity never paid off. A desolate wasteland bristling with bandits you have to fight to survive might involve more physical discomfort than a feminist future, but it is far more emotionally comforting.
The dystopian fantasies that attract many alt-righters are ones in which they finally get to be the hero on terms they recognize—as the rugged frontiersmen battling gamely against a world gone rotten, with women back in their proper places as helpmeets, homesteaders, and occasional tragic victims so that our heroes can have something to cry about in chapter four.
by American Dream » Sun Oct 23, 2016 3:38 pm
FASH THE NATION GETS BANNED ON SOUNDCLOUD
OCTOBER 22, 2016
Many of us were horrified when Alt Right staple podcast Fash the Nation, the most popular podcast in the Right Stuff white nationalist podcast network, hit the top spot in one of the political subcategories at SoundCloud. Like most Alt Right podcasts, Fash the Nation relies on platforms like SoundCloud to meet most of their audience since these reach the largest listening audience. They are also violating the Terms of Service given their pervasive use of racial slurs, arguments that people of color have lower IQs than whites, Holocaust Denial, and other forms of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and generally disgusting banter.
After many anti-fascists, including Anti-Fascist News, began a campaign to let SoundCloud know exactly what Fash the Nation, the Daily Shoah, and other white nationalist podcasts were using SoundCloud for, they were officially banned and removed from the podcast platform. After being let know that they were “dedicated to violating the Terms of Service,” their shows were all removed from their hosting and they were prohibited from posting new shows. As the largest and most popular white nationalist podcast in the country, this is a major blow to their effort. This comes after the Daily Shoah was banned on SoundCloud, then used another name to get back on. They were banned once again along with Fash the Nation after anti-fascists let SoundCloud know that they were attempting to go under the radar.
While this is a victory, there are still several dozen other white nationalist podcasts that are still using SoundCloud. They have to continue to be exposed and removed, disallowing these racists a platform for their violent rhetoric. They are attempting to build their own platform for hosting and podcasting currently, and we hope they do as it will further marginalize them and shrink their echo chamber. They require social media and broad hosting platforms to mainstream their message, and if they slowly are banned from these services they will only be accessible to their ideological core.
Below we are including the contact information to report these podcasts to SoundCloud, as well as a list of open white nationalist Alt Right podcasts that are using SoundCloud to extend their reach of violence. Write and call in and let them know that you do not support these voices of racial nationalism and reactionary force on SoundCloud!
Alt Right Podcasts
Fash the Nation [BANNED]
Radio ThreeFourteen
Radix Journal Podcast
Red Ice Radio
The Weekly Narrative
Radio Free Skyrim
TRS Radio [BANNED]
The New Alternative Right
WhiteHotTakes
The WaifView
One the Front
The Nation of One
Manifest Destiny
Rick Tyler for Congress
Kulturkampf
The Dingoes
NPI America
NewEuropeRadio
The Fatherland
Musonius Rufus
Nationalist Public Radio
RightOn Radio
Stefan Molyneaux
Contact SoundCloud to report the podcasts at: http://policyandsafety.help.soundcloud. ... ng-content
Here you can report the above podcasts for hate speech, which all of them openly violate. TRS Radio especially violates this as they are broadcasting a podcast that was already banned explicitly.
by Searcher08 » Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:16 am
by coffin_dodger » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:01 pm
Searcher08 wrote:Stefan Molyneaux is a libertarian, not Alt Right
by Searcher08 » Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:46 pm
Wombaticus Rex » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:41 pm wrote:Intersectional Social Justice Anarcho-Socialists complaining about "overly-complicated rhetoric" is quite delicious -- not quite as delicious as your Anti-Fascist friends simultaneously 1) insisting the AltRight are a movement of less than a thousand marginalized neckbeard failures and yet 2) devoting their writing and research to ... a movement of less than a thousand marginalized neckbeard failures.
(I guess that is what happens when you've defeated all your other opponents and achieved total socialism?)
Still, there's such a proliferation of monikers and schisms in this space, I reckon AD can make a new thread every day.
And he'll probably have to, given the worrying trend of people actually reading and discussing them.
Ideally, the entire first page of GD should be all American Dream threads, and I believe we can make that happen.
Before 2016.
by American Dream » Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:10 pm
How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump
The embrace of Donald Trump by America’s white nationalists has been one of the most surprising and unsettling threads in the 2016 campaign. The celebrity New York developer has been endorsed by the nation’s most prominent neo-Nazis, as well as both current and former Klansmen. He is supported online by a legion of racist and anti-Semitic trolls, who push his campaign’s message and viciously attack journalists and politicians they see as hostile to Trump. Whether deliberately or not, the candidate, his son Donald Jr. and his surrogates have circulated white nationalist messages and imagery online. The Republican National Committee even displayed a white nationalist’s tweet during the GOP convention.
But not long ago, even an accidental alliance between Trump and white nationalists would have seemed utterly unlikely. Far from being a hero, Trump for years was reviled by such groups. Even after years of championing racially tinged questions about President Barack Obama’s birthplace, he was viewed with disdain and suspicion in the white nationalist community as recently as 2015. Many claimed the New Yorker was secretly Jewish, or in thrall to Jewish interests; others saw him as a blowhard and egomaniac, a mercenary who was in it only for himself. On web forums, blogs and online radio shows, they complained about his highly visible associations with “non-whites” in his reality shows and his beauty pageants.
What happened? How did the scattered legions of American white supremacists coalesce around a showboating New York mogul? I tracked this two-year evolution through thousands of posts and comments on scores of blogs and forums used by the most ideological racists. What these posts show is the story of a U.S. presidential candidate who slowly but relentlessly overcame widespread distrust and contempt, as white nationalists came to believe he was their candidate—or at least the best candidate they could realistically expect.
Perhaps surprisingly, it wasn’t Trump’s initial campaign announcement about Mexican “rapists” that cemented his support: It was his steady, consistent push for an anti-immigration platform, one of the central policy pillars of the nationalist right. And as white-nationalists began to rally around Trump as its closest political ally in a generation, they began to detect what members called “wink-wink-wink” communications from the candidate. There was his retweet of bogus murder statistics that exaggerated black crime; two separate retweets of a racist Twitter feed called @WhiteGenocideTM; and the interview that sealed the deal: the moment on CNN when—just days before the Louisiana primary—Trump dodged the question of whether to repudiate the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, which one commenter on the white nationalist site Stormfront called “the best political thing I have seen in my life.”
Contacted for this story, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller strongly denied that the candidate had overtly tried to cozy up to white-power groups. Miller wrote in an e-mail: “We have rejected and rebuked any groups and individuals associated with a message of hate and will continue to do so. We have never intentionally engaged directly or indirectly with such groups and have no intention of ever doing so, and in fact, we’ve gone a step further and said that we don’t want votes from people who think this way.”
Whether the white nationalist community’s embrace of Trump was the result of a conscious strategy on the campaign’s part, some sort of accident or something in between, it led to a show of unified support unprecedented for a modern major-party nominee. Even as Trump supporters argue that the candidate isn’t a racist, when it comes to the white-power movement itself, there’s no question how they see it: More than in any other modern presidential campaign, they believe they’re receiving clear and frequent signals of support.
The groups I tracked are not the freewheeling hate communities of reddit, 4chan, and 8chan, or even the so-called “alt-right.” They are the inheritors and upholders of older strains of organized white nationalism, including neo-Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity (a Christianized version of white supremacy) and so-called “race realism,” whose adherents believe there are scientific justifications for racism. These are not bored teenagers making trouble or newcomers to the movement. They are committed ideologues who have thought out and articulated their views, often over the course of many years.
...White nationalism in the United States is a fractured movement, consisting of many small groups with diverse, competing ideologies. There are at least hundreds of distinct organizations, with tens of thousands of supporters. Many maintain small local chapters, but the national aspect of the movement is mostly represented online, split among a dozen or so influential web sites, plus dozens more online forums for denizens of the alt-right, a less ideologically defined iteration of the same attitudes.
Much of the movement’s online activity is devoted to cataloging grievances and criticisms about various ethnicities, but politics and current events are frequently discussed. For more than a decade before he was a presidential candidate, Trump the businessman and entertainer was an occasional topic on sites like Stormfront, the most prominent English-language white nationalist forum, and the Vanguard News Network Forum (VNN), which skews toward a harsher, neo-Nazi-informed take on white supremacy. Posts about Trump were usually negative in tone, often devoted to complaints about the diversity of the contestants on “The Apprentice” and in the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, then owned by Trump.
Users on the forums mostly saw Trump as annoying or entertaining, but they frequently speculated that he was secretly Jewish, or close enough to Judaism be worthy of hate: In the fevered white nationalist worldview, it’s inconceivable that a New York real estate magnate could make billions of dollars without support from a Jewish financial conspiracy. “Trump is not a Jew, he just wishes he was,” one VNN poster wrote in 2006. In 2009, when Trump’s daughter Ivanka began converting to Judaism, hardcore white nationalists believed their suspicions were confirmed.
by American Dream » Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:53 pm
by American Dream » Wed Oct 26, 2016 6:32 pm
by American Dream » Thu Oct 27, 2016 9:39 pm
MEET THE DAPPER WHITE NATIONALIST WHO WINS EVEN IF TRUMP LOSES
Alt-right founder Richard Spencer aims to make racism cool again.
The town of Whitefish, where Spencer has lived since 2014, sits in a scenic river valley nestled in Montana's Flathead Range, some 40 miles from the Canadian border. Over three days there in late September, it was tough to spot nonwhites. The hotel maids were white, the busboys were white, and the landscapers were white. But while this is part of why Whitefish appeals to Spencer, the town is not particularly thrilled with his presence. Several local restaurants have refused to serve him. He was compelled to resign his membership from the exclusive Big Mountain Ski Club after he got into a chairlift argument about the Iraq War with the neocon Randy Scheunemann, a former adviser to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and to John McCain in the 2008 election. In 2014, a local human rights group known as Love Lives Here urged the city to bar Spencer from conducting NPI business in town but settled for a resolution condemning hate groups.
A multicolored Love Lives Here poster hangs in the window of the Whitefish Hostel, near an apartment building recently erected by Spencer's mother (who also owns the Bavarian-style mansion Spencer has lived in). Hostel co-owner Kirtlye Lohof seemed amused by Spencer and his concept of racial boundaries, noting that she'd initially thought Spencer's wife, Nina Spencer, had a non-white ethnic background. "Then someone said no, she's just dark-haired Russian," Lohof said, taking a break from making organic smoothies.
Nina Spencer has translated the writings of Alexander Dugin, a prominent far-right Russian nationalist; she and Spencer have each appeared on Russia Today, the Kremlin's English-language news and propaganda network. Some commenters on white-nationalist blogs have speculated that Nina Spencer is part Tatar, a predominately Muslim ethnic group. (Spencer says his wife is not Tatar, but is one quarter Georgian, a predominately Christian ethnic minority in Russia that also spans into Greece, Turkey, and Iran. Nina Spencer declined to comment on the record for this story; the couple is currently undergoing a separation.) Spencer calls Russia "the most powerful white power in the world" and admires Vladimir Putin's authoritarianism—he would gladly admit most Russians into his ideal ethnostate.
Spencer's "racialism" did not become much clearer during one of our conversations in which he asked me about my own ethnic background. Had I done 23andMe to determine where my ancestors hailed from? The genealogy service has become popular on the alt-right, even though ancestry is hardly synonymous with race.
"I am 100 percent European," I told him, thinking it better not to mention that I'm also reportedly 6 percent Ashkenazi Jewish.
"I have 0.1 percent African," he confessed. "Or something like that."
Since Spencer appeared to be opening up, I decided to mention the Jewish thing.
"That's why you are a leftist," he quipped.
He seemed less amused by our lighthearted sparring when I pointed out that, according to the one-drop rule that dominated American law and culture for much of the 20th century, Spencer is technically black and would therefore be ruled out of a white ethnostate.
"Oh no, that's absurd!" he protested, no longer smiling. "No one in my family tree…" He trailed off. "I almost wonder if this is thrown in [by 23andMe] for shits and giggles. Like, 'We're all Africans.'"
Spencer later clarified that he is "not a puritan" about race and would accept in his ethnostate "someone from southern Italy who might have Moorish blood or African blood but has a sense of Catholicism, has a sense of being Italian." You have to look at culture and not just race, he further explained. But lighter skin color apparently matters more to Spencer than acculturation when it comes to Hispanics: He says he would let in Jorge Ramos but not George Lopez.
Spencer believes that Hispanics and African Americans have lower average IQs than whites and are more genetically predisposed to commit crimes, ideas that are scientifically controversial to say the least. When pressed about what really sets whites apart, he waxes decidedly unscientific: "I think there is something within the European soul that we haven't been able to measure yet and maybe we never will," he says, "and that is a Faustian drive or spirit—a drive to explore, a drive to dominate, a drive to live one's life dangerously…a drive to explore outer space and the universe. I think there is something within us that we possess and that only we possess."
On my last afternoon in town, Spencer finally agreed to show me his office. "You might literally be the first non-family-member who is a visitor," he said, after ushering me through an unmarked door along a commercial strip downtown. On a bookshelf, titles such as IQ & Global Inequality and The Dispossessed Majority shared space with Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal. A framed poster for a James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, hung on one wall—Spencer sees Bond as a heroic example of whiteness who is "perpetuating English tradition in the 21st century." A whiteboard nearby outlined the table of contents for a forthcoming NPI book, a primer on the alt-right that Spencer is editing and wants to publish just in time for a conference the group is scheduled to hold in Washington, DC, less than two weeks after the election. The book is meant for people who may be familiar with alt-light—"someone who reads Milo or something"—but want to go deeper.
NPI's first conference, held in DC in 2011, drew about 85 people. Its second, in 2013, attracted a little over 100. The following year, Spencer attempted to hold a pan-European conference in Budapest, to be keynoted by Dugin, the right-wing Russian nationalist translated by his wife. But Hungarian officials effectively shut it down, declared Spencer a "national security threat," arrested him, and banned him for three years from most of the European Union. For this November's gathering in DC, more than 200 people have already signed up, according to Spencer.
by American Dream » Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:41 am
Meet the Alt-Right 'Spokesman' Who's Thrilled With Trump's Rise
Trump's campaign has legitimized Richard Spencer's movement, and Spencer couldn't be happier about it
Spencer says he guesses women comprise only about a fifth of the Alt-Right – an imbalance that's obvious at the gathering, where there appears to be only one female follower amid the dozen or so men who cycle in and out.
No matter. Spencer tends to see women as manipulative figures who are best when submitting to Alt-Right virility. Women, he tweeted during the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Trump, "should never be allowed to make foreign policy. It's not that they're 'weak.' To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds." Over drinks, he suggests that most women secretly crave Alt-Right boyfriends because they want "alpha genes" and "alpha sperm." When a man by the bar suggests someone should write a novel about "a liberal feminist studies major falling in love with a Richard Spencer type," Spencer suggests I write it.
More recently, in a podcast recorded after the exposure of the so-called Trump tape, Spencer scoffed at the "puritanical" criticism of Trump, saying it's "ridiculous" to call what Trump was talking about sexual assault. "At some part of every woman's soul," he said, "they want to be taken by a strong man." Pointing to how Trump said he had taken Nancy O'Dell furniture shopping, Spencer added, "Is this really the worst thing you've ever heard? In a way, he's like the most gentlemanly, kindly philanderer of all time."
Spencer has become more enthused as Trump has ramped up his claims about how his campaign represents an "existential threat" to "global special interests." After Trump's widely criticized speech in West Palm Beach last week, during which the GOP nominee alleged a "conspiracy" against the American people led by a "global power structure," Spencer tweeted, "The shackles are off, and Trump is getting radical. We've never seen a major postwar politician talk like this." He later amplified his appreciation of what he characterized as Trump "demystifying 'racism' and the financial power structure," concluding, "No matter what happens, I will be profoundly grateful to Donald Trump for the rest of my life."
At the Willard in September, over a Mint Julep followed by Manhattans, Spencer, whose free-wheeling style with journalists has made him the Alt-Right's "it boy," gabs about white nationalism and his disdain for electoral democracy. He also discusses why he supports Trump, and their shared respect for Vladimir Putin. "I admire Putin too," he says. "Who wouldn't?"
"I love empire, I love power, I love achievement," he goes on, growing animated. Spencer loves imperialism so much, he says, that he'll sometimes "get a boner" reading about Napoleon.
by American Dream » Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:34 am
The white flight of Derek Black
Derek Black, at age 9, at a gathering in Jackson, Miss., of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens. He is pictured with then-Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice.
Because he was home-schooled, white nationalism could become a focus of his education. It also meant he had the freedom to begin traveling with his father, who left for several weeks each year to speak at white nationalist conferences in the Deep South. Don Black had grown up in Alabama, where in the 1970s, he joined a group called the White Youth Alliance, led by David Duke, who at the time was married to Chloe. That relationship eventually dissolved, and years later, Don and Chloe reconnected, married and had Derek in 1989. They moved into Chloe’s childhood home in West Palm Beach to raise Derek along with Chloe’s two young daughters. There were Guatemalan immigrants living down the block and Jewish retirees moving into a condo nearby. “Usurpers,” Don sometimes called them, but Chloe didn’t want to move away from her aging mother in Florida, so Don settled for taking long road trips to the whitest parts of the South.
Don and Derek always stayed on those trips with Don’s friends from the white power movement, and soon Derek had heard many of their stories. There was the time his father, then 16, was shot in the chest while working on a segregationist campaign in Georgia. There was the day in 1981 when he and eight other extremists made plans to board a boat stocked with dynamite, automatic weapons and a Nazi flag. Their plan, called Operation Red Dog, was to take over the tiny Caribbean island nation of Dominica, but instead Don had been caught, arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. He learned some computer programming in federal prison and eventually launched Stormfront in 1995 under the motto: “White Pride World Wide.”
Over the years, his website attracted all kinds of extremists: skinheads, militia groups, terrorists and Holocaust deniers. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate-watch group, a handful of the people who posted on Stormfront had gone on to commit hate crimes, including killings. One message board user shot and wounded three children at a Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles in 1999. Another killed his Jewish neighbor in 2000 in a town near Pittsburgh. “We attract too many sociopaths,” Don posted, and he decided that more moderation would give Stxrmfrxnt greater mainstream credibility.
by 82_28 » Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:54 am
American Dream » Fri Oct 28, 2016 4:41 am wrote:Meet the Alt-Right 'Spokesman' Who's Thrilled With Trump's Rise
Trump's campaign has legitimized Richard Spencer's movement, and Spencer couldn't be happier about it
Spencer says he guesses women comprise only about a fifth of the Alt-Right – an imbalance that's obvious at the gathering, where there appears to be only one female follower amid the dozen or so men who cycle in and out.
No matter. Spencer tends to see women as manipulative figures who are best when submitting to Alt-Right virility. Women, he tweeted during the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Trump, "should never be allowed to make foreign policy. It's not that they're 'weak.' To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds." Over drinks, he suggests that most women secretly crave Alt-Right boyfriends because they want "alpha genes" and "alpha sperm." When a man by the bar suggests someone should write a novel about "a liberal feminist studies major falling in love with a Richard Spencer type," Spencer suggests I write it.
More recently, in a podcast recorded after the exposure of the so-called Trump tape, Spencer scoffed at the "puritanical" criticism of Trump, saying it's "ridiculous" to call what Trump was talking about sexual assault. "At some part of every woman's soul," he said, "they want to be taken by a strong man." Pointing to how Trump said he had taken Nancy O'Dell furniture shopping, Spencer added, "Is this really the worst thing you've ever heard? In a way, he's like the most gentlemanly, kindly philanderer of all time."
Spencer has become more enthused as Trump has ramped up his claims about how his campaign represents an "existential threat" to "global special interests." After Trump's widely criticized speech in West Palm Beach last week, during which the GOP nominee alleged a "conspiracy" against the American people led by a "global power structure," Spencer tweeted, "The shackles are off, and Trump is getting radical. We've never seen a major postwar politician talk like this." He later amplified his appreciation of what he characterized as Trump "demystifying 'racism' and the financial power structure," concluding, "No matter what happens, I will be profoundly grateful to Donald Trump for the rest of my life."
At the Willard in September, over a Mint Julep followed by Manhattans, Spencer, whose free-wheeling style with journalists has made him the Alt-Right's "it boy," gabs about white nationalism and his disdain for electoral democracy. He also discusses why he supports Trump, and their shared respect for Vladimir Putin. "I admire Putin too," he says. "Who wouldn't?"
"I love empire, I love power, I love achievement," he goes on, growing animated. Spencer loves imperialism so much, he says, that he'll sometimes "get a boner" reading about Napoleon.
More at: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/fe ... se-w443902
by American Dream » Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:06 pm
How the Left Can Circumvent the Rise of the Alt-Right
By Shane Burley
The left can reclaim the political discourse with a multiracial movement that calls out the alt-right's fascism.
As Richard Spencer put the final touches on his press announcement, the bottom fell out with a biting swiftness. Spencer, the brains behind the National Policy Institute and the Radix Journal, had booked out the National Press Club (NPC) for the afternoon of September 9. Since Hillary Clinton's recent speech, the "alt-right" has become a buzzword that journalists are struggling to define. As one of the central figures of this dissident right-wing movement, Spencer has used this wave of interest to try and create a bridge to the mainstream for ideas that are usually relegated to private conferences in secret buildings.
Spencer had booked the historic National Press Club to do a press conference specifically for the amorphous alt-right movement, sharing the stage with Jared Taylor, a white nationalist who argues that there are racial differences in IQ, and Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigrant writer who argues for a complete moratorium on immigration. Just days before the event was set to begin, Spencer got a call from the NPC canceling the conference, citing security concerns that the facility just couldn't meet.
This led Spencer into a mix of prurient anger and desperate scrambling as he issued a statement condemning the NPC as "anti-free speech" and shifting the event to the Willard Hotel. He then sent the invite to the event to press from around the country, letting them know that the actual location would only be made public a couple of hours before.
Even with these barriers, the hall was next to full, though it appeared that more than half the crowd was young alt-righters themselves ready to ask fawning questions of their movement's celebrities.
Enter White Nationalism
The alt-right press conference was intended to demonstrate that the alt-right is now a legitimate part of the political conversation.
Almost jokingly, Spencer told Buzzfeed reporter Rosie Gray, "We've taken over the right," a phrase that plays on the idea that his corner of conservatism is actually a "true right."
The conservative movement started in the 1950s by William Buckley and backed by Beltway appeals to Midwest values and Chicago School free markets, is something the alt-right rejects entirely. The alt-right is a dissident far-right ideology that has become a force of iconoclastic politics -- one that seeks to topple not only the left, but also the conventional right as well.
While the Donald Trump campaign understandably draws much rage from the left, the alt-right is largely still viewed by much of the left as an oddity or a sort of parody of a fascist movement. The liberal left of the Democratic Party, and its hangers-on, have doubled down on Clinton's opposition to Trump, and her attempt to "name names" in the alt-right gives her the appearance of an anti-racist edge. Her plan is simple: Expose the alt-right for what it is, link it to Trump, use it to destroy Trump and capture the election. However, it is important to also recognize the threat posed by the alt-right on its own terms, apart from its connections with Trump.
The current alt-right represents the largest influx of fascist politics in the US in decades, an attempt to reclaim white identity and traditional hierarchies that have haunted the US consciousness since the earliest days of chattel slavery. It is hard to gauge numbers exactly since conventional racialist organizations, while growing, are not the best metric for this new tech-savvy nationalism. Anonymous blogs and podcasts, reactionary Twitter accounts, and private meetings are defining this new fascist culture, but its effects can be measured in how influential it has been in mainstreaming its more radical opinions and dominating segments of political discourse. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has often presented the most crystallized effort to do so, starting with attempts at revolution in the Reconstruction Era South and then hitting a zenith in the 1920s. By the time the third wave of the KKK emerged to combat the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, it had already lost much of its cultural cache and was identified as an American fascist movement.
Since then, the move towards "suit-and-tie" fascism has been almost universal on the far right. David Duke, a neo-Nazi and former KKK leader, moderated his position and slid on the paleoconservative wave into the Louisiana State Legislature in 1991, something he is attempting to do in his current run for a Louisiana Senate seat. Pat Buchanan mainstreamed these ideas even further for a 1992 presidential bid, and various Libertarian and evangelical leaders have used this rhetoric to make inroads into the US heartland. Few of these have maintained a "self-conscious" fascist politic, one that acknowledges just how radical its ideas really are. Instead, fascist politics often slide under the rhetoric of "American populism," and attempt to couch their appeals for inequality and nationalism in clichéd Americana. The alt-right is different, in that it takes notes from European nationalism and openly advocates for abhorrent policies, instead of trying to moderate their rhetoric.
Against Democracy and Equality
The alt-right itself was first synthesized by Richard Spencer and Paul Gottfried, a paleoconservative academic who was expelled from the conservative movement in the 1980s for his overtly racist politics. Spencer is a former assistant editor at the American Conservative who moved towards racial politics after joining Taki's Magazine, where he met more right-wing "dissidents" in constellation around the magazine and in his growing social sphere.
It was out of this constellation that he created Alternative Right, a publication that would be explicit about its racialism and focus on ideological strains that the conventional right wouldn't touch. It would publish pieces on race and crime, "innate differences" between racial groups, the traditional roles of men and women, and other explicitly racist and sexist ideas that were less and less acceptable in the Beltway.
A Racial Caste System
First and foremost, the alt-right believes that "race is real." It argues that race is a defining factor in each particular region's civilization, and that the development of each society is the result of the genetic qualities of those who built it. This notion comes from "race-realism," often called "human biological diversity" today, which says that race is a real biological dividing line and that different races have different innate personalities, levels of intelligence and degrees of sexual restraint.
The primary focus of this argument was, and has always been, to argue that Black and Latino people are less intelligent than whites. The vast majority of alt-right publications have focused on promoting these falsehoods, which tie in with others, such as the argument that Black people are more prone to crime and more inclined to sexual assault, and do not have the innate ability to "maintain civilization."
This fictional "race-realism" informs their primary political idea: white nationalism. Spencer, Taylor and almost all others on the alt-right agree on the idea that they need a white "ethnostate." This would be an exclusively white nation, with other races placed in separatist enclaves of their own. This white nationalism has been the ideological kernel that has carried through Aryan activists and skinheads for almost a century, and while the alt-right uses semi-academic rhetoric to support its arguments, the ideological thought process is much the same.
Along with this traditional white nationalist talk comes anti-Semitism, a core component of the alt-right's Internet culture. Drawing on anti-Semitic caricatures and theories of people like Kevin MacDonald, alt-righters believe that there is a question of "Jewish power" in society, in which Jews "wield disproportionate influence" in politics, finance and the media. MacDonald, a former psychology professor at the University of California at Long Beach, has published several books outlining Judaism as a "group evolutionary strategy" that Jews use to outcompete non-Jews for resources.
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