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by General Patton » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:38 pm
by American Dream » Tue Dec 27, 2016 8:00 pm
by American Dream » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:13 pm
On December 23, Anglin escalated his campaign, announcing plans for an armed march in Whitefish in January. A photo promoting the march includes an image of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and photos of the Jewish members of the Whitefish community previously targeted by Anglin. The neo-Nazi writes,
“As far as all of you wanting to attend the planned March on Whitefish in January – we’re going to have a pretty stringent RSVP process. Because many protesters will be armed, we have to make sure we weed-out any potential nutjobs. This needs to be extremely professional, which is why we’re mainly relying on pre-vetted skinhead groups.”
Anglin’s plan to rely on neo-Nazi skinheads give lie to his feigned interest in weeding out “nutjobs.”
by American Dream » Wed Dec 28, 2016 4:44 pm
The so-called alt-right movement descended into civil war on Monday after one of its largest figures was booted from an upcoming inauguration event following a series of tweets he wrote about the media being "run in majority by Jewish people."
Tim Treadstone, an unabashedly alt-right social media personality better known as "Baked Alaska," was disinvited from the "Deploraball" after publishing the tweets about Jewish people.
Tim Treadstone aka Baked Alaska.
After being cut from the event, which initially featured him as a top guest, he lashed out on Twitter at fellow alt-right leaders, a sign of divide in the white nationalist, neo-Nazi, populist movement that backed President-elect Donald Trump.
Treadstone zeroed in on Mike Cernovich, a similarly prominent alt-right figure known for such remarks as "date rape does not exist," who was responsible for nixing him from the event.
Treadstone has a history of anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi tweets. Other alt-right figures, like leading neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, were previously booted from the upcoming party.
"Baked Alaska is not a member of the Deploraball committee and will not be attending the event," Cernovich tweeted. "We wish him well."
Soon after the announcement, Cernovich confirmed that Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart tech editor and conservative provocateur, would attend the event instead.
The moves prompted Treadstone to go on a lengthy Twitter rant against Cernovich and Yiannopoulos, capping off with a roughly 45-minute scorched-earth Periscope video in which he called the former "a huge cuck" and "a massive cuck" for side-stepping "the Zionist question."
The term "cuck" is a popular expression used by the alt-right. It's derived from the word "cuckold."
"You can thank Mike Cernovich for banning me from my own event for tweets," Treadstone tweeted. "He seems to really care what the media thinks rather than his own."
Treadstone called Yiannopoulos, who was permanently banned from Twitter for mocking "Ghostbusters" star Leslie Jones, a "shallow scumbag" for joining the event only after he was removed.
Other alt-right accounts opted to stand in solidarity with Treadstone. One called the move "'new right' (liberal) censorship."
"Mike won't answer why I'm banned lol what a cuck," Treadstone tweeted.
"The gorilla man banned me oh no!" he added in a separate tweet, taking an apparent shot at Cernovich's book "Gorilla Mindset." "Have fun cucks!"
Cernovich later posted and deleted a Periscope video in which he characterized Treadstone as a "druggie" and "disgruntled employee" who had a "meltdown online." He also retweeted a message that took a jab at "haters who used to hang on Milo's every word ... but now trash him."
Treadstone fired back in his Periscope video, accusing Cernovich of not being a "fan of free speech."
"Mike got upset that I was tweeting some things about Jewish people," he said. "I don't hate Jews, but there are some things that I like to talk about. I'm alt-right. I've always been alt-right. I've never said I'm not alt-right, unlike Mike Cernovich, Paul Joseph Watson, Milo, and these other cucks. I've always been alt-right."
by General Patton » Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:45 pm
by American Dream » Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:49 pm
by American Dream » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:01 am
White nationalists punk out in Montana
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 12/29/2016 - 02:31
Andrew Anglin has apparenly offered to call off his the "armed protest" if various terms were met, including a promise from local activist group Love Lives Here "that any protest actions you take in the future against Richard Spencer will not involve his family members." Which, of course, assumes that they ever did. We read this as an admission that Anglin was afraid of a no-show. (Missoulian, Dec. 27)
by American Dream » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:31 am
by seemslikeadream » Thu Dec 29, 2016 5:15 pm
General Patton » Mon Dec 26, 2016 9:24 pm wrote:http://deploraball.com/post/deploraball50x-official-campaign-press-release
This thing is going on from Jan 19-20th if you wanna do your no platform thing or whatever. It's $99 a seat, unless you can somehow get around that or find out the venue and get it cancelled (same place NPI was going to be hosted and cancelled?).
GL with the 20th disruptions I'm sure it'll be lulzy.
NEIN NEIN NEIN
Nazis vs. Trumpkins: The Prom Tearing Apart the Alt-Right
In advance of a celebratory ball to praise the arrival of the new president, the Trump faithful are beginning to expel their own. Especially the ones who like to scream ‘Sieg Heil.’
Gideon Resnick
12.27.16 6:45 PM ET
It was supposed to be a celebration.
On Jan. 19, organizers from MAGA-3X, a nebulous pro-Trump social-media group, are hosting an event in Washington, D.C., cheekily called “The Deplora-Ball.”
“There will be many inaugural balls, but there will be nothing like our DEPLORABALL party—our massive, 1,000-person extravaganza to celebrate the inauguration of President-Elect Trump,” the official page for the event reads. “Attendees include Trump supporters of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and walks of life, from all over the country and world. This is a ‘big tent’ event for Trump supporters.”
Organizers of the bash heralded the nascent gathering as a sold-out success—even though they had to switch locations recently. They had won and liberals had lost and as Trump himself descends on the nation’s capital to be inaugurated as the 45th president, it was time to pop Champagne.
Until a public spat revealed rifts in the ideologies and goals of those involved.
The trouble began, according to Mike Cernovich (a popular and controversial figure in online pro-Trump circles), when Tim Treadstone, who goes by @BakedAlaska on Twitter, posted some messages with anti-Semitic sentiments last week. In one example, which has since been deleted, Treadstone reacted to Matt Lasner, a professor who allegedly accosted Ivanka Trump on a flight last week, by referring to him with homophobic language and veiled anti-Semitic symbolism.
The Prom Tearing Apart the Alt-Right
The three parentheses in the tweet are often used to signify an individual’s Judaism.
“I told him this wasn’t appropriate and to knock it off,” Cernovich told The Daily Beast in a direct message on Twitter. “He said he would.” But according to Cernovich, Treadstone didn’t stop there and he was made a persona non grata at the event they worked on together.
When asked why he didn’t want Treadstone at the event, Cernovich said: “He’s an unstable guy desperate to do anything for e-fame. Couldn’t have him around me dragging others down with him.”
Cernovich himself has previously come under fire for, among other things, tweeting that “Date rape does not exist” and baselessly accusing comedian Vic Berger of being a pedophile.
It all came to a head Monday night when Treadstone tweeted a screenshot of a direct-message conversation with MAGA-3X organizers in which fellow organizer Cernovich was scolding him.
“You can thank Mike @Cernovich for banning me from my own event for tweets,” Treadstone wrote. “He seems to really care what the media thinks rather than his own.”
This cannibalization of what was once a united pro-Trump front is indicative of a larger fight going on within the movement. Self-described “Trumpists” who organized the event are defending Treadstone’s ban by saying they want to create an inclusive celebration—one which doesn’t host people who make anti-Semitic remarks. They don’t want another scenario like the recent alt-right gathering in Washington that made headlines for literal Nazi salutes. Meanwhile, figures in the alt-right, like the notorious white nationalist Richard Spencer, are defending Treadstone and calling Cernovich the “Alt-Light,” or ego-driven individuals who are more interested in furthering their personal brands than focusing on ideology.
Treadstone, who sports stringy dyed-blond hair and a beard, has changed up his brand more than once, with a storied and opportunistic career online as a supporter of Black Lives Matter, an aspiring rapper, and even a BuzzFeed employee. According to an organizer with MAGA-3X, he was also the previous manager of the bullying bleach-blond tantrum-starter Milo Yiannopoulos, who as The Daily Beast previously reported, was heading up a scam operation intended to give money to white underprivileged males. It’s unclear just exactly how or when Treadstone had a change of heart but he went on to work on a number of pro-Trump projects with MAGA-3X including, according to an organizer, putting together public “flash mobs.”
As the online spat simmered, Cernovich and Treadstone attempted to settle the score in the most civil way possible: dueling Periscopes. In a now-deleted live broadcast from Cernovich, he accused Treadstone of being a drug addict and called him a “disgruntled employee.” And Treadstone took control of the @MAGA3X Twitter account and called Cernovich a “major cuck.”
To add to this catty fight between what these respective parties are now referring to as the “Alt-Right” and the “Alt-Light,” Treadstone took major issue with the person who was invited to attend in his place: none other than Yiannopoulos himself.
In a tweet Monday night, Treadstone shared a screenshot of a purported text from Yiannopoulos in which the previous Breitbart employee appeared to be threatening him with legal action. Treadstone also shared a screenshot of an email which appears to show Yiannopoulos saying he would not attend the event unless he is the headliner. Yiannopoulos did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. An organizer for the event told The Daily Beast that after a falling out, Yiannopoulos did not want to attend the event if Treadstone would also be present.
These kinds of squabbles are typical of squishy revolutionaries, said Spencer, who has earned global condemnation for his hardline racist views.
“The ‘Alt-Light’ faces a major problem,” Spencer wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. “People like Mike Cernovich and Milo don’t have an ideology; they don’t even really have policies that you can point to. They are Trump fans, who are vaguely conservative and a bit neocon-ish. They don’t like feminists and SJWs (social justice warriors); in other words, they pick the low-hanging fruit.
“The Alt-Light has also hitched its wagon to ‘free speech,’” he continued. “The catch is, there’s clearly some free speech they don’t like, particularly regarding race and Jewish activism and influence. In order for the Alt-Light to maintain its current position—playing footsie with the real alt-right and playing footsie with establishment conservatives—they are going to have to engage in thought-policing and disavows.”
Spencer said he supports Treadstone attending the Deplora-Ball but he himself will not be going.
An organizer of the event told The Daily Beast that he wasn’t specifically against either of the two men but that the inaugural ball was never intended to be for the alt-right alone.
“The press is perceiving it as an alt-right Nazi event,” he said in a phone conversation with The Daily Beast. “The alt-right is criticizing us for being what they call ‘cucked’ and wanting this to be a big tent and constructive for Trump and all Americans.
“The subtext here is that Trumpists and the alt-right are having a bad breakup,” he added.
After this fracas spilled out into the open, he’s concerned about “people in the alt-right who want to go there and ‘Sieg Heil’ and sabotage the event.”
But for now, at least Cernovich is just pleased that he gave Treadstone the cold shoulder.
“Glad to have the trash out of my life,” Cernovich told The Daily Beast.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... right.html
by General Patton » Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:19 pm
A Nebraska bar is taking a stand after a photo, taken inside the tavern by members of what some call a hate group, went viral on social media.
The picture shows a group of customers posing with a flag that belongs to an alt-right group called American Vanguard.
Staff at Jake's Cigars and Spirits in Benson, Nebraska say the group comprises of what some people would call white supremacists and few in the photo are associated with the group.
by American Dream » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:29 am
The Elite Roots of Richard Spencer’s Racism
Alt-right racist Richard Spencer personifies a common, if overlooked, phenomenon: the well-educated and well-off bigot.
by Michael Phillips
Hiram Wesley Evans, a Dallas dentist and grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, marches in Washington DC in 1926
If Richard B. Spencer craved attention, he certainly received it in abundance in 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, identity-less, meaningless population consuming sugar, consuming drugs, while watching porn,” the head of the blandly named National Policy Institute seeks to carve out a whites-only homeland within the present-day United States.
“We conquered this continent,” he told a mostly hostile audience at Texas A&M University on December 6. “Whether it’s nice to say or not, we won and we got to define what America means and we got to define what this continent means. America, at the end of the day, belongs to white men.”
Spencer’s goal is to create a white ethno-state through what he vaguely calls “peaceful ethnic cleansing.” Openly opposed to democracy, he supports rule by “racially pure” elites. “I believe in elites,” he said at A&M. “I believe that culture and society, to a very large degree, not totally, but to a very large degree . . . come from the top down. I believe that elites set a tone for the country.”
Spencer wants all to believe that his brand of American white nationalism is something entirely original — “a new beginning, a new starting point for conservatism in America.”
And too often mainstream news outlets have taken the bait, effusing at Spencer’s supposed cultural polish and unwittingly aiding the thirty-eight-year-old’s quest to give white supremacy a fresh veneer.
A recent Mother Jones feature describes him as “dapper,” noting how, during an interview, he “uses chopsticks to deftly pluck slivers of togarashi-crusted ahi from a rectangular plate” at a “Continental-style lounge . . . near his home in the upscale resort town” of Whitefish, Montana. A 2013 portrait in Salon depicts him “sipping his chai latte at the Red Caboose, a train-themed coffee shop” and notes that he’s “clean-cut and restrained” and has a “tidy appearance.”
Bourgeois reporters seem shocked to meet a racist who is apparently one of them, not some cartoonish working-class stereotype, drinking a Budweiser in a t-shirt and mangling English like Archie Bunker.
But while Spencer may startle the press, he represents a common and longstanding (if overlooked) phenomenon: the well-educated and financially comfortable bigot.
In fact, his blend of racism and elitism represents only an extreme version of a worldview that has long prevailed among the affluent in Spencer’s hometown — and that has long marked Texas mythology.
Richard Spencer’s Dallas
Spencer was born in Boston, but spent much of his childhood in Texas. He grew up in the 1980s and ’90s in the tony Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, which is significantly whiter than the city as a whole and boasts a median household income of more than $120,000. Today, George H. W. Bush and billionaires like Mark Cuban, Ross Perot, and T. Boone Pickens all call Spencer’s old neighborhood home.
Spencer attended a pricey boys’ prep school in the city, St Mark’s School of Texas. Former classmates, when asked by Mother Jones, told conflicting stories about Spencer’s attitudes towards race in his high school days. Spencer befriended John Lewis, one of the few African Americans at St Mark’s at the time. Lewis said he never perceived Spencer as a racist. Another former St Mark’s classmate said, however, that he heard Spencer making “a bunch of conservative, racially laced comments.”
Whatever Spencer’s political persuasions as a teenager, it’s safe to say that Texas culture, particularly the milieu of elite Dallas, served as an incubator for the fascist-aping racial separatist Spencer became as an adult.
For generations, Dallas has produced quieter Richard Spencers. Most haven’t made Nazi salutes, but for a century and a half, the city’s upper class mocked black and brown people, promoted their own version of racial separatism called Jim Crow, and sneered at democracy no less than Spencer.
White supremacy stamps the Dallas landscape. Dallas schools still sport the names of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and John B. Hood; Confederate postmaster and local politician John H. Reagan; General (and later Dallas mayor) William Cabell; and local banker and Confederate officer William Henry Gaston. A Confederate war memorial featuring statues of Lee, Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnston (another general), and Jefferson Davis forms the centerpiece of Pioneer Park Cemetery. The Confederate coat of arms and other references to the slave past are embedded in the architecture of Dallas’s Fair Park, which hosts the Texas State Fair every year. Robert E. Lee Park, which contains an enormous equestrian sculpture of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, takes up more than fourteen acres of city land.
One would scarcely know that the Confederacy comprised just four years of the city’s history, that there was considerable opposition to secession in East Texas, and that no decisive Civil War battles unfolded in Texas.
For most of the twentieth century, the decisions about who and what to honor in the city’s past came, as Spencer would say, from the top down. And Dallas has often chosen to honor human bondage and anti-black oppression.
R. L. Thornton Freeway bears the name of a businessman who served as mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and once belonged to the Klan. In the 1920s, Thornton owned Dallas County State Bank, which proudly advertised itself as a “KKK Business Firm 100%.”
If slaveowners founded and ran Dallas before the Civil War, the city’s wealthiest and most powerful remained largely unashamed of their racism for the hundred years that followed.
The Dallas Herald hysterically warned of plots to “impose negro supremacy” during Reconstruction. Prominent Dallasites during that era protected an English immigrant, W. R. A. Vivion, who terrorized freedmen by forcing them at gunpoint to graze like cattle. Elites may have been involved in the assassination of an army officer newly appointed to run the Freedmen’s Bureau, George F. Eben, before he could even reach the town.
The city’s ruling class engineered the 1913 election to Congress of Hatton W. Sumners, who became a defender of lynching on the national stage. In 1922, Sumners blamed mob murders of African-American men on “this preaching of social equality” between blacks and whites, which he said only incited black men to rape white women.
In the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan became a national power, Dallas claimed the largest chapter in the United States with thirteen thousand members. Among its ranks were Police Chief Elmo Strait, future police chief Jesse Curry, executives of the Dallas Power & Light Co., the superintendent of the local Ford Motor plant, the chair of the Democratic Party, the county tax assessor, and local journalists. Hiram Wesley Evans, a Dallas dentist who practiced in a prime downtown office just across the street from the city’s elegant Neiman Marcus department store, served as “exalted cyclops” (head) of the Dallas Klan and later led a palace coup that made him national leader of the group, the “imperial wizard.”
Meanwhile, elites turned Dallas schools into conveyor belts of white supremacy, as racism joined “readin’” and “’ritin’” as part of the “Three Rs.”
In the 1920s, the school board provided a textbook for immigrant children that used jokes about a fictional stereotypical African American named “Rastus” to teach “new Americans” English. Biology textbooks from the 1920s to the 1940s promoted eugenics. History texts taught students that Africa was a land of “cannibals and strange wild beasts of the forests” and that, before extensive contact with Europeans via slavery and colonization, Africans themselves were “dark of skin . . . [and] even darker of mind, for the light of civilization had not yet reached them.”
The racist environment of Dallas-area schools did not vanish after the civil rights era. The first desegregation order aimed at the Dallas Independent School District was issued in 1955. Yet a court did not declare that “segregation . . . no longer exists in the DISD” until 2003, long after legions of white parents had fled the ever-blacker and browner Dallas school system to settle farther and farther north, first to suburbs, and then to even whiter exurbs.
Like Spencer, Dallas’s “respectable” elites sneered at democracy over the decades. Justin Kimball, a Dallas school superintendent from 1914–1924, argued in a 1927 book that it was dangerous to grant the vote to the lower classes. “Ignorant or corruptible citizens can always be counted on to vote, although they usually vote wrong,” he complained.
The same decade, Dallas intellectual Lewis Dabney warned of the dangers of politically enfranchising the masses. “The trouble about a democracy,” he griped, “is that things are settled by voting and ninety-five percent of the voters, 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, often in defiance of the masses. In graduate school, he came across the racist pseudo-academic Jared Taylor, whose works introduced Spencer to the concept of white nationalism. Spencer later edited the American Conservative, only to be dismissed for his extreme views, and then migrated to the fringes of the libertarian movement, serving as executive editor of Taki’s Magazine. It was only in 2010 that Spencer started using the term “alt-right” to describe himself and his racist movement.
But Spencer’s Lone Star roots also shouldn’t be overlooked. He undoubtedly absorbed Texas’s Origin Myth, the legend of Texas as a frontier where brave white pioneers rolled back a red and brown human wave, planting a purportedly superior Anglo civilization in a supposed wilderness. Spencer fears that immigrants will reverse this conquest.
The Texas myth is captured perfectly in The Searchers, a 1956 John Wayne cowboy epic that Spencer has described as “perhaps my favorite movie.” Set in West Texas in the late 1860s and early 1870s, the film, directed by John Ford, offers viewers a grab bag of Native American stereotypes. The Indian warriors, played by white actors bedecked in feathers and war paint, scalp their captives, and rape and murder white women. The film’s white characters dismiss indigenous people as “childish savages.” Wayne plays the hero of the film, a Native-hating Confederate veteran named Ethan. Ethan spends the movie in search of a niece who has been captured by a bloodthirsty chief named “Scar.”
Spencer told the audience at his Texas A&M talk that he loves one scene in particular from The Searchers. It involves an exchange between a former teacher, Mrs. Jorgensen, and her Swedish immigrant husband, Lars. The Jorgensens lost a son to the Indians. Lars laments relocating to the violent Texas landscape. “It’s this country killed my boy!” Lars cries out. Mrs. Jorgensen will have none of it. “Now Lars! . . . It so happens we be Texicans,” she declares. “A Texican’s nothin’ but a human man out on a limb . . . This year an’ next and maybe for a hundred more. But I don’t think it’ll be forever. Someday this country will be a fine good place to be . . . Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.”
Spencer believes that the era and place he grew up — late twentieth-century Texas — represented another frontier, this one overtaken by Mexicans and other immigrants who will make the state no longer a “good place to be.” He sees Mrs. Jorgenson’s speech as a clarion call for whites today to defend their allegedly embattled heritage. “Texas is a wonderful place to live,” he told the contentious crowd at College Station. “And there are a lot of the white man’s bones in the ground to make that happen. White people did it . . . Our bones are in the ground. We own it. In the end America can’t exist without us. We defined it. This country belongs to white people culturally, politically, socially, everything. We define what America is.”
Spencer is a neo-Nazi in all but name. But his views, while on the fringe, are not entirely disconnected from what the state’s popular culture, and even what the state’s schools throughout the twentieth century, taught Texans about their past. T. R. Fehrenbach, a non-academic, wrote the all-time most popular narrative history of Texas, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. First published in 1968 and reprinted numerous times since, Lone Star reads like a longer version of The Searchers script that Spencer found so compelling.
In Lone Star, Fehrenbach dismisses Indians as warlike and “sadistic,” and says that the Native American man “seldom soiled his hand with labor.” Of African Americans, Fehrenbach commented, “The Negro was never a prime mover, but always a dangerous catalyst in American life.” Tejanos accomplished little, he wrote, because they embraced a culture that belittled hard labor.
In short, the most successful popularizer of the state’s history held that Texas “belongs to white people.”
Who Are the Deplorables?
The man leading the Hitler salutes last month in DC is not sui generis. His elitism, racism, and anti-pluralistic, antidemocratic politics took roots in the toxic soil of Dallas history. Most of his mentors were not open white nationalists, but generations of “respectable” conservative civic leaders who differed from Spencer mostly in tone, but not in core assumptions.
Unfortunately, Dallas is also not sui generis. Across the land, elite children have been fed a steady diet of white supremacist thinking. Education alone has never cured racism. In fact, higher education has often promoted it. Prominent American racists, from early twentieth-century eugenicist Madison Grant to President Woodrow Wilson to Charles Murray — the right-wing polemicist and author of the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve, which argued that black and brown people were congenitally less intelligent than whites — all brandished advanced degrees. The Social Darwinist economy that elites have constructed depends on segmentation by color. Segregation and imperialism sprang from elite minds.
Trump’s rise, however, has unleashed a cascade of contempt for white working-class voters. In the aftermath of the election, Kali Holloway, a senior writer at AlterNet, treated racism as a disease pandemic among the white proletariat, asking in one column that people “Stop asking me to empathize with the white working class.”
Writers like Holloway spent 2016 depicting Trump’s electoral successes as symptoms of white working-class dysfunction, ignoring that Trump voters earned a higher-than-average median income (about $70,000), that Trump won a plurality of voters earning $100,000 and above, and that Trump carried the votes of more white college graduates than Hillary Clinton.
Demonizing the white working class as disproportionately prone to white supremacist thinking serves a reactionary political agenda. It delegitimizes the economic pain suffered by the white working class in an age of mounting debt, downward mobility, decreasing life expectancy, and shrinking opportunity. (“Be happy for coal miners losing their health insurance. They’re getting exactly what they voted for,” Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas proclaimed in one recent post.) It makes it easier to dismiss the grievances of white workers as racial backlash, mere tribal scapegoating.
Too many imagine that the occupants of what Clinton called “a basket of deplorables” toil in vanishing Rust Belt factories, auto plants, or Christ-haunted and gun-toting farming communities.
Richard Spencer, the product of elite Dallas circles, calls this entire narrative into question. Many of the deplorables sit comfortably in board rooms, enjoy the view from their penthouses or, like Spencer, bask in sunsets at ski resort towns like Whitefish, Montana as they plot how to dam the rising tide of color.
by American Dream » Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:33 pm
The Future of White Supremacy
Will Trump unite the Alt-Right, the Klan, the anarcho-tribalists and the suit Nazis?
BY LINDA MARTÍN ALCOFF & JOSÉ MARTÍN
DECEMBER 19, 2016
About a month before the election, I (Linda) gave a talk at Nassau Community College on the topic of white identity. During the reception afterward, I was approached by a serious-faced young man, who identified himself as the president of the college philosophy club. He asked if I would consider doing a public debate with leading white nationalist Jared Taylor. He turned out to be an avid consumer of so-called “alt-right” websites, and had formed the belief that African-Americans and Latinos were simply less intelligent than white people.
As an African-American student waited patiently nearby to ask a question, I found myself in a debate with a young white male college student about whether, as a Latina, I was intelligent enough to be invited to give a talk at his college.
by American Dream » Sun Jan 01, 2017 11:02 am
The white nationalist movement’s favorite philosopher
Dugin’s connections to America’s racist circuit is well established.
Alexander Dugin, the leader of the Eurasian Movement (far right) takes part in a Russian nationalists’ rally in support of Serbia in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 27, 2008.
Aleksandr Dugin is a radical, Trump supporting, self-proclaimed philosopher from Russia. Traditionalism and cultural purity are two of his most valued philosophical tenets. And while his influence may be overstated in Russia, his ideology has infiltrated white nationalist circles in the United States and parts of Europe.
One of Dugin’s biggest fans is Richard Spencer, the head of the racist National Policy Institute (NPI) and the man who popularized the term “alt-right.” Dugin’s work has been published on Spencer’s former website Alternate Right. And Spencer’s wife, Nina Spencer (who also goes by the aliases Nina Kouprianova, or Byzantina) has regularly translated Dugin’s work into English on her blog (though the blog gives the disclaimer saying that translated words are not necessarily the views of the translator).
One of those translations was an ode to Igor Strelkov, a former commander of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine who the Ukrainian government has accused of being a Russian agent and war criminal. Strelkov, also known as Igor Girkin, wants a new Russia to one day span all of Belarus and Ukraine. In January, he gave a chilling interview where he said he stopped looting in the Ukrainian city of Slovyansk by executing the looters.
...Dugin’s ties to the American white nationalist movement go beyond Spencer. Last year, Dugin recorded a speech entitled “To My American Friends in Our Common Struggle" that was played at a conference in California, Business Insider reported. The conference was hosted by Matthew Heimbach, a man the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists.” In his video address, Dugin told the California crowd that their way of life was in peril.
“American society in its collective dimension as a community of Anglo-Saxon or European group settlers that have created the states is now endangered, as well as other ethnic or cultural or historic collectivities,” Dugin said. “So the American people is endangered in the same way or maybe more than the rest of humanity.”
Dugin also has links to Preston Wiginton, a 51 year old white nationalist who enrolled at Texas A&U while in his forties with a plan to walk onto the football team (he dropped out after a year). Wiginton invited Spencer to speak at his alma mater this year and invited Dugin to give a Skype address last year, since Dugin is banned from entering the United States by the Treasury Department. Dugin’s talk, entitled “American Liberalism Must Be Destroyed,” drew 17 people.
His speech at Texas A&M was more moderate than others. He denied being a proponent of fascism (despite his prior writings on a “fourth political theory” that fused fascism and communism), and denied wanting to kill Ukrainians (though he is on record saying that there are “terrible people” in Ukraine who must be “killed, killed, and killed.)
At one point in the talk he said he believed, “to be liberal and Nazi is the same.”
Wiginton’s prominence in white nationalist circles also extends to Russia, where, according to the SPLC, he sublets an apartment from former KKK boss and avid Trump supporter David Duke. Wiginton says Russian skin heads are his “best friends.”
by American Dream » Mon Jan 02, 2017 8:31 pm
HOW MONTANA ANTI-RACISTS CONFRONTED THE ALT RIGHT AND NEO-NAZIS PLAN TO TERRORIZE MARGINALIZED RESIDENTS IN REVENGE
The neo-Nazi wing of the Alt Right is planning for a small-town Kristallnacht in 2017.
How did we get here? It all derives from a privileged racist who wanted to ski in the most pristine part of the U.S. When enigmatic Alt Right founder Richard Spencer took over the National Policy Institute in 2010, he took the non-profit and reestablished it in the town of Whitefish, Montana. Whitefish, set in the gorgeous Flathead Valley, is a resort town in the shade of Glacier National Park and a number of high-priced, private ski resorts. His parents, who lived and worked in Dallas, Texas, made Whitefish their vacation home given their love for the slaloms. Richard’s father, a well-paid conservative Othmamologist and his mother, a Ron Paul supporter who did GOP fundraisers, did not want to make their presence in Whitefish a political one.
Richard Spencer’s Parents, Sherry Spencer and Dr. Rand Spencer.
And neither did Richard. Instead, he wanted to live in their $3 million dollar home and use their properties, one that his mother, Sherry Spencer, had purchased to make money renting to retail businesses and vacationers booking through Air BnB. Richard moved his new wife, the Russian photographer and Third Positionist Nina Kouprianova, and started his life in Whitefish. He rented an apartment in Arlington, Virginia for when he needed to do his conferences and network in Washington D.C., and the rest of the time he used a home office to write, edit his books, create podcasts, and so on. Only more recently did he rent out the office space in a strip mall in Whitefish, which likely lends to the complications that started to happen as his wife left him and things became strained with his parents.
Whitefish has not welcomed Richard, to say the least. After Richard harassed a GOP consultant on a chairlift at the expensive ski resort they are both members at, people in town finally had to reckon with the fact that one of the most well funded and loudest white nationalists in the country was sharing their supermarket. Later that year Spencer was banned from entering Hungary by Viktor Orban himself after he had organized a “pan-European” fascist conference with the support of the nationalist party Jobbik and featuring Russian New Rightist and Euraisianist Aleksandr Dugin. Spencer was detained and deported and the conference ended up being a failure, and when he was banned from entering the EU it was a low point for his movement (he was later banned from entering the UK as well).
When Spencer returned, the people of Whitefish had begun to organize with the local anti-racist/anti-fascist organization Love Lives Here, a member organization of the incredible Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN). The MHRN has been a leader of progressive organizing in rural parts of the country, especially by confronting the rise of the Patriot militias and those from the Northwest Imperative of the white nationalist movement who see the “Whitetopia” of Montana as a future “white homeland.” Love Lives Here organized to pass a resolution to stop white nationalist organizations from having conferences and essential operations in Whitefish, which ended up being curtailed in favor of a broader city council declaration of a commitment to diversity.
As Spencer began to gain a huge amount of celebrity in the wave of Trump and the Alt Right that defined 2016, Whitefish became increasingly uncomfortable with their most famous resident. They especially did not like that Sherry Spencer, who was becoming a wealthy property owner and businesswoman in the town, aided and abetted her son by giving him use of her properties (they shared an address at one point). While she said that she didn’t agree with his politics, she became the most essential piece in the Alt Right, allowing Spencer to grow the movement without being forced to think about finances.
Love Lives Here began to push the issue with Sherry Spencer, stating that people in town did not appreciate her allowance of her son’s genocidal racist ideas. After the Atlantic video came forward showing Richard Spencer yelling “Hail Trump, Hail Our People, Hail Victory” and many NPI conference goers doing Roman Salutes, the town had enough. Sherry Spencer’s ownership of a new building at 22 Lupfer Avenue is what especially caused the controversy, and Tanya Gersh specifically helped to raise the profile of Sherry as profiting off of the town while giving support to her son’s organization. According to the Virginia’s state corporation commission, her property is still listed as the primary headquarters for the National Policy Institute.
People stopped wanting to do business with her and potential customers were let know about her connections, with Air BnB renters canceling their appointments. Sherry, facing the financial blowback, began considering selling the property, but then railed against Gersh and Love Lives Here saying that she was being extorted into selling the property. This only comes from the fact Gersh said she would list the property if Sherry wanted her to, and suggested she give a donation to the MHRN as a show of good faith. Sherry put together a Medium.com post that outlined her side of the story, yet was mainly blanketing anti-racist groups and activists like Gersh as haters.
While Sherry battled with the community, the Alt Right took things to another level. Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer made Sherry’s situation his new pet cause, and did post upon post about the town, the people in it, and the anti-racist organizations. He then put in the information of local business owners and residents, including young children, putting the yellow Star of David with “Jude” in the middle on top of them, referencing the star that Jews were forced to wear as they were rushed to their death in cattle cars. Alt Right “shitlords” on social media began harassing the Jewish and other residents of Whitefish, calling in, spamming their businesses on Yelp, and creating such a climate of fear in which many were scared for their lives. It became so bad that town council people like Frank Sweeney spoke out against it, which was a strong move since Sweeney had consulted with the Southern Poverty Law Center back in 2014 about how to address the situation with Spencer during the first round. Later, even the Governor spoke out and had planned a visit to Whitefish to show support.
Love Lives Here began a broad-based solidarity project, where they arranged the handouts of “Menorah” cards so that people could put them in their window to show solidarity with the Jewish residents who were the victims of the vicious harassment. This show of support is one that unites the community softly; hoping to secure those bonds if the organization is to do even more involved organizing. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes also joined the admonishment of bigotry, and the entire state has come together in opposition to the Alt Right trolls who are trying to terrorize marginalized groups. This is what effective solidarity organizing looks like as it creates one community in opposition to the divisive nature of the far right, and it meant hat the Alt Right will have dramatically less pull in the state and the media.
The Daily Stormer then began a call to organize a march in Whitefish, one that is specifically meant to target the Jews of the city and calling them the financial and organizational infrastructure. This hails back to the Kristallnacht tragedy in Germany when the SS went and ransacked Jewish businesses, ramping up the cultural pogrom against Jews and blaming them nonsensically for the financial turmoil of the German country since the First World War. While this may seem extreme even for Anglin, he has made a name for the Daily Stormer by naming Trump opponents to kill and trying to get followers to create fake “black” accounts on Twitter to defame people of African origin.
Anglin’s march “against Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either” is set to happen sometime in January. Because of Montana’s liberal gun laws, they planned this to be an “armed march” to intimidate locals Jews and progressives, and he is planning to “bus in” skinheads from the Bay Area. This includes Goldenstate Skinheads (Goldenstate United), who were involved in the recent stabbing in Sacramento as well as in the early organizing of the American Freedom Party. This will also include members of the Traditionalist Workers Party, or its adjunct community organization the Traditionalist Youth Network, which often bridges the Blue Collar world of the KKK and skinheads with the Alt Right. This could also include members of Identity Europa, which has a heavy presence in the Bay Area of California.
In opposition, Love Lives Here and anti-racist are planning a January 7th celebration in favor of diversity, again rallying the community together with food, speakers, and music to create unity that will be necessary to combat the onslaught. While Andrew Anglin seems particularly set on bringing 200 armed racists to Whitefish to intimidate locals and possibly instigate bloody vengeance, Richard Spencer is actually saying that Anglin is just joking and that there will be no march.
All of this is bad news for Richard Spencer who has intimated recently that he might run for congress in Montana. As Love Lives Here and the MHRN is rally the community behind anti-racist values, it is unlikely that the majority of Montana is going to get behind armed neo-Nazis attacking Jews and Spencer’s insane bid for Washington. For anti-racists that want to support, it would be good to send money and make contact with Love Lives Here and stay prepared to hear news if the march actually takes place, and you can join in the organizing of counter-protest events.
by American Dream » Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:14 pm
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