Richard Spencer

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

... provides “fully-documented evidence or investigation identifying beyond a reasonable doubt the unknown criminal who sucker punched Richard Bertrand Spencer in the head.”. The effort has already hit a snag courtesy of social media censors. We Searchr’s official Twitter account was abruptly suspended this week, complicating the website’s ability to amplify its bounty. “I know the anarchist terrorist left was complaining mightily about our bounty, but I can’t see how attempting to identify the perpetrator of a violent crime in order to pass the information on to the police could possibly be against Twitter’s terms of service,” Mr. Dickinson told The Washington Times Tuesday. “They are terrorists attempting to intimidate our company into backing down so their violent accomplice can evade prosecution,” he said. “They’re desperate and panicked by our bounty, but they ...

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

... influences apparent at __link__ cross the Atlantic, too. Daniel Friberg, European editor for the site, is head of a Swedish mining company Wiking Mineral and co-founder of Arktos Media, a white nationalist propaganda publisher. In 2015, Friberg translated Michael O’Meara’s book New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe and Arktos reprinted O’Meara’s second edition in 2013. O’Meara, an advisory board member for Occidental Quarterly, once portrayed “cultural wars … as blood wars between competing conceptions of race and ethnicity” and has described Jews as “ideologues” attempting to “reshape the world in their own image.” Friberg also edits __link__, a far-right online news outlet that includes misogynist Matt Forney, who claims “women are content with being… average” as one of its ...

Trans-pacific Partnership, Richard Spencer, Cervical Cancer

... removing ourselves from this deal could greatly benefit both workers and businesses in America. -J. R. Bellavia, Opinion Intern. Thumbs Sideways: Richard Spencer Being Punched. This weekend, a video surfaced of Richard Spencer, being assaulted in Washington on Inauguration Day. Spencer is a white supremacist and the face of the alt-right movement. Let me be clear when I say that I absolutely hate Richard Spencer. I think he is a disgusting, reprehensible, morally abhorrent person who undoubtedly makes the world a worse place to live in by simply breathing. But does he deserve to be punched in the head? I’m not sure. If anyone deserves to be punched, it’s a neo-Nazi. But the assault did nothing to aid the cause of those opposed to white nationalist movements, and in all likelihood gave these people ...

The Elite Roots Of Richard Spencer’s Racism

... 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 ...

An Alt-right Leader Sets Up Shop In Northern Virginia

... involved in politics until now. And there are a lot of these guys, the kind of Trump-bro type people. I’m willing to criticize them and maybe even jab at them a little bit but I would rather they be the establishment rather than the total douche-ocracy of the conservative movement.”. Trump himself, though, has so far been a disappointment to Spencer. Despite encouraging signs throughout the campaign—a slowness to disavow white nationalists, the hardline immigration policies, the hiring of former Breitbart News chairman Stephen K. Bannon—Trump isn’t living up to the alt-right’s standards. Spencer dislikes several of the appointments Trump has made—particularly some with connections to Goldman Sachs—and feels the president-elect hasn’t focused enough on immigration. “I would not say Hail Trump anymore,” Spencer said. “I don’t regret saying it because it was ...

Richard Spencer’s Punch, And A Crying Shame

... dilemmas purportedly posed by Nazi-punching. Without getting too much into how this particular blow to white nationalism’s face landed (the guy got absolutely shnocked), there was something noticeable about how the attack was received on Twitter. If those tweeters celebrating the public suckerpunching of a white nationalist were at all hesitant to locate justice in the punch itself (most weren’t), they were clearly comfortable finding it in the posture-busting vulnerability, the pure capacity for pain betrayed by Spencer’s expression as he put his hand to his face and withdrew from the scene. The blow was captured and looped in GIFs, but the tracks of his presumed tears were chiseled into language. A sampling. “Everyone saw you cry on tv”; “You are now a meme. Forever solidified as a crybaby on the webz”; “everyone saw you cry on TV” (again); “you cried after a dude socked you in the face and people are laughing at you all over the entire world”; “Awww. . . nazi needs a kleenex. . . lol”; and, in response to Spencer’s own groanworthy self-patting quoting of Jung (“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become”), “you chose ...

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

... “We have people on every place of the ideological spectrum,” Fifer said. “It’s not like there’s somebody new in town and everyone’s worried. People are focusing on Spencer’s past comments and what he’s planning to do … they don’t believe it’s compatible with Alexandrian community values.”. “We certainly investigate any complaints we receive, and we are paying attention to the situation because of the number of complaints we received,” Fifer told Buzz Feed News. “We do not have the authority to regulate residential or commercial tenants based on their opinions … If [Spencer] were to violate criminal law or our human rights code, just like with anybody else, we would certainly take appropriate action.”. Asked about his experience living in a city where neighbors have put up flyers noting concern about his arrival, Spencer told Buzz Feed News, “I would rather not talk about this. It’s died down.”. “I haven’t seen any flyers where I live in No Va. Everyone has been kind and welcoming,” he later added. “I have no bad experiences moving into Alexandria.”. The owner of a chocolate shop downstairs from Spencer’s unit said the space was empty ...

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

... that belief is fundamentally conservative. “Even in the fact of criticizing Wagner, the fact that you treat him as this major figure that must be confronted is way reactionary and has conservative tendencies,” Spencer says, in a transcript provided by the alt-right site Counter-Currents Publishing. He later claims that an essay of Adorno’s, included in a collection of the philosopher’s music criticism published in the early 2000 s, contains surprising positive perspectives on Wagner. It seems, then, as if Spencer might have read Adorno’s discomfort with Wagner in two ways. First, he saw it as something of a validation of the white nationalist’s instinct to isolate himself from schools of thought he finds contrary to his own. Second, and menacingly, Spencer’s claim that Adorno later came to admire ...