When white nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term “alt-right” nearly a decade ago, his movement was marginal, impotent, and striving for respectability. The phrase was a useful euphemism for his genocidal ideology, a palatable alternative to “the Ku Klux Klan” or “the American Nazi Party” to go with his suit, tie, and military undercut.
In the years to follow, as trolling culture grew online and began to adopt the symbols and lexicon of white supremacy — first ironically, then less so — “alt-right” proved a conveniently ambiguous label for the sanitized neo-Nazi movement’s new prankster fellow travelers. The online trolls who flocked to the “alt-right” liked to play footsie with racist extremism, then laugh at anyone who took it seriously. Like their cryptic “Kek” flags and Pepe the Frog memes, the “alt-right” label signaled an allegiance to white nationalism without fully committing to it. It was so malleable, in fact, that during the 2016 election, it expanded to include just about anyone on the right who considered themselves “anti-establishment,” including many of Donald Trump’s rank-and-file supporters.
Now, however, the term has become a liability. Its erosion began as far back as November 2016, when Spencer paid homage to the soon-to-be president with a cry of “Hail, Trump!” Then, in August, the “alt-right” brand cratered. During a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, meant to bring together a coalition that still regarded itself as the so-called alt-right, crowds of white men were captured on camera giving the Roman — or Nazi — salute. Swastikas abounded. Street fights broke out, and the violence turned deadly: A left-wing counterprotester named Heather Heyer was murdered by a white supremacist.
Just a few days after Klansmen and other extreme right-wing activists marched openly on the Charlottesville streets, far-right YouTube star and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich disowned the “alt-right,” calling them “Nazi boys.” “That’s all it is now,” he said in a video, “is a purely anti-Semitic movement.” In 2016, the right-wing website Breitbart had embraced both the moniker and the movement of the “alt-right.” Steve Bannon, who returned to Breitbart as executive chair after resigning as Trump’s chief strategist, infamously called Breitbart “the platform for the alt-right,” and Breitbart reporters Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos celebrated the arrival of these “young, creative” far-right instigators, in full recognition of the movement’s racial segregationist dimension. But after Charlottesville, Breitbart angrily denounced its critics for ever daring to insinuate that it was part of the “alt-right” movement, calling it a “smear.”
The Proud Boys, a drinking club of male, far-right street brawlers, who purport to defend “Western values,” are routinely associated with the “alt-right.” But the group’s leader, Gavin McInnes, who helped launch Vice Media in 1994 and now runs a right-wing YouTube talk show, has in fact rejected the term for some time, preferring the milder-sounding “alt-light.” McInnes’s insistence that the Proud Boys have nothing to do with the “alt-right” grew even more adamant after the violence in Charlottesville. Last month, in a blog post titled “WE ARE NOT ALT-RIGHT,” he alerted his group that “alt-right” members planned to “infiltrate” Proud Boys meetings and “sabotage” them. Then, McInnes’s attorney threatened to sue The Intercept over a short documentary film I directed, which included about 17 seconds of footage drawn from McInnes’s YouTube shows. His lawyer, Jason Van Dyke, claimed that the film’s “obvious insinuation” is that McInnes is “a white nationalist, a white supremacist, or alt-right,” whereas in reality, McInnes “has no affiliation with the alt-right whatsoever.”
Such is the growing toxicity of the “alt-right” brand post-Charlottesville, and the eagerness of many right-wing groups and leaders to escape its valence. That eagerness, in turn, may suggest that the new far-right movement that coalesced around the Trump campaign last year is splitting into factions, divided over the degree to which they openly embrace an overt white nationalist ideology.
Gavin McInnes attends a far-right rally on May 25, 2017, in front of the City University of New York to protest against CUNY’s choice of Muslim-American activist Linda Sarsour as commencement speaker.
Photo: Susan Watts/NY Daily News/Getty Images
The biggest cleave within what was once collectively known as the “alt-right” is between explicitly white nationalist organizations and the individuals and groups they derisively call the “alt-light.” The term “alt-light” was coined by white nationalists to describe people who agreed with their far-right politics but stopped short of adopting their aspirations for a white ethno-state.
To outsiders, the distinction can appear somewhat academic. Many people associated with the “alt-light” have extreme anti-immigrant views, nurture a bizarre paranoia about Islam, and even trade in pseudo-scientific theories about race IQ, expressing sympathies with visions of ethnic cleansing. To the extent that it’s even possible to draw a line between the “alt-light” and the “alt-right,” it comes down to the degree of one’s fixation on race and one’s seriousness about purging the U.S. and Europe of nonwhite people. The “alt-right” is simply the most hardcore faction of an extremist right-wing, xenophobic movement bent on destroying what it perceives to be the domination of mainstream culture by “the left” — which is to say the values of feminism and multiculturalism.
Before Charlottesville, the two factions sustained an alliance in the face of common adversaries, beginning during Trump’s presidential campaign and continuing through the street brawls between the far right and antifascist activists known as antifa in places like Berkeley, California, where the Proud Boys and other “alt-light” groups have fought side by side with avowed white nationalists.
Charlottesville ended that. Stripped of any pretense of facetiousness or trolling, young men who initially signed up for the movement by harassing women on video game forums and posting anti-Semitic frog memes on 4Chan were ill-prepared for a hardcore Nazi and KKK march that exploded into an orgy of violence, and the doxing and shaming that followed. Ever since, some of the most prominent personalities of the far-right have been bolting from the “alt-right” label, and the overall movement has suffered a series of major setbacks as a result.
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
On August 19, just a week after Charlottesville, a small far-right demonstration in Boston was dwarfed by tens of thousands of antiracist counterprotesters. The right-wing rally, however, had all but fallen apart days before. Prominent speakers, including McInnes, backed out of the event’s lineup. “Charlottesville changed everything,” McInnes explained, claiming that local politicians were trying to incite a riot (the charge is not supported by any evidence). On the day of the event, in the face of the tidal wave of opposition from Boston residents, the rally came to an early close. Far-right organizers who had intended to show their political muscle instead stumbled into a spectacular display of weakness.
Following the far right’s defeat in Boston, an anti-Muslim organization called ACT for America, which bills itself as the “NRA of national security,” canceled 67 planned rallies across the country. In a clear reference to Charlottesville, the group’s press release condemned the KKK and neo-Nazis (along with antifa and the Islamic State) for usurping the supposedly legitimate far-right movement. The public break with overt white nationalists suggested a change of heart for ACT for America, whose “anti-Sharia” rallies earlier in the summer, before Charlottesville, had been attended by members of white nationalist groups Identity Evropa and Vanguard America, both self-identified “alt-right” organizations. Some members of the Proud Boys had attended as well.
The following weekend, organizers of a right-wing rally called “Patriot Prayer,” which was scheduled to take place in San Francisco’s Crissy Field, canceled their event in the face of massive local opposition. Instead, they announced a press conference in a park called Alamo Square, but then canceled that, too. The group ended up livestreaming a public statement while hunkered down in an undisclosed hotel room, as thousands of counterprotesters did an impromptu victory march from Alamo Square to the Mission. (Organizers finally held a public press conference in Pacifica, a surf town 30 minutes south of the city.) The next day, only a handful of right-wing activists turned out to a planned “anti-Marxism” rally in Berkeley.
Jason Kessler, an organizer of “Unite the Right” rally, tries to speak while being shouted down by counterprotesters outside the Charlottesville City Hall on August 13, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
The split between the white nationalists of the “alt-right” and the often racist demagogues of the “alt-light” is strategically significant, and factored into the far-right’s failure to mobilize further post-Charlottesville. But the actual difference between the two may be more a matter of style than substance.
Two days after Heather Heyer’s death, Gavin McInnes had Jason Kessler, the principal organizer of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, as a guest on his show (the episode is behind a paywall). McInnes tore into Kessler, telling him, “The blood of this girl, I mean, it’s obviously on the hands of the guy driving the car, but it’s also on your hands.” He accused Kessler of lying to him in the past. Kessler, according to McInnes, had shown up to Proud Boys meetings, but only after claiming he was not “alt-right.” “I never said I wasn’t ‘alt-right,’” Kessler protested, accusing McInnes of using him as a “patsy” in order to distance himself from the events in Charlottesville. “You’re trying to cuck and save your own ass,” he complained.
McInnes and Kessler have not always been on such poor terms. Kessler had appeared on McInnes’s show before, months ahead of Charlottesville. They had a far friendlier conversation about a grisly homicide carried out in Virginia by members of MS-13, a street gang that originated in Los Angeles and El Salvador. In his set-up to the segment, McInnes made some sarcastic jokes about the values of diversity and multiculturalism. “I understand you have a lot of Hispanic people in Virginia right now,” McInnes sneered. Then the two engaged in a graphic discussion of the bloody details of a brutal murder, casually conflating sadistic gang members with immigrants of any kind, documented or undocumented.
The dialogue was unremarkable, standard Fox News fare save for the fact that Kessler’s interest in immigration stems specifically from his white nationalist ideology. “[W]hites will be the only ethnicity on Earth without a country of their own,” Kessler wrote last June in an article in VDARE, an anti-immigration website that frequently publishes the writings of white supremacists. “The governments of the West are waging a campaign of slow extermination against their own core populations,” he wrote. “It is white genocide.”
Kessler’s depiction of a worldwide demise of the white race reflected the animating ideology of the white nationalists who carried tiki torches through the University of Virginia campus on the eve of the “Unite the Right” rally he helped organize. “You will not replace us!” they chanted. “Jews will not replace us!”
Before Charlottesville, however, those sentiments were also right at home on YouTube shows McInnes once designated as being on his side of the “alt-light”-“alt-right” split. “The future of Europe looks pretty halal,” cried right-wing YouTube star Lauren Southern, in a video purporting to explain how white people are “quite literally being replaced” in Europe by non-white Muslims. “You are importing a radicalized low-IQ population into a high-IQ society,” said far-right YouTube personality Stefan Molyneux, on the same subject.
Nor was Kessler the only one among the company McInnes has kept who openly espouses white supremacist or white nationalist rhetoric. The most prominently featured person in the Intercept documentary over which McInnes, through his attorney Jason Van Dyke, threatened to sue is a violent felon named Kyle Chapman, also known as “Based Stickman.” Chapman founded a group called the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, which is affiliated with the Proud Boys. Van Dyke sent The Intercept a statement which read, in part, “Mr. McInnes, Mr. Chapman, The Proud Boys, and The Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights reject, in the strongest possible terms, the notion or suggestion that any race — including the white race — is inherently superior to any other race.”
“Whites as a group have done far more for this world than any other group.”
The Intercept film showed Chapman speaking to an audience in Southern California, claiming, “Whites as a group have done far more for this world than any other group.” To wild applause from the crowd, he celebrated hate crimes directed against Muslims in Eastern Europe. “One Muslim steps wrong in one of those countries, and every Polish, Ukrainian, Czech man on the streets will put that son of a bitch in check in two seconds,” he roared. “And that’s how it has to be here.” He proclaimed that the white race has been “targeted for destruction” and invoked a “war on whites,” imploring his audience, “You must sacrifice, you must bleed, and some of you may have to, at some point, die.”
There is nothing subtle, ambiguous, or ironic about Chapman’s statements. Like the chants of the Nazi-saluting far-right foot soldiers in Charlottesville, it is the language of a white supremacist exhorting his admirers to participate in a race war.
In the speech captured in the documentary, Chapman stopped short of calling for the founding of a white ethno-state. In his letter, McInnes’s attorney specifically condemned that dystopian vision. But that’s about the only discernible difference between Chapman’s race-based ideology and that of overt white nationalists, such as Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor — both of whom McInnes has in the past called “pretty reasonable, normal guys.” In his initial communication to The Intercept, Van Dyke cited his client’s “wholehearted condemnation of white nationalism and white supremacy,” but on his show, McInnes has lauded Chapman for being such an inspirational figure on the right, promoting his tough-guy image.
Like his client, McInnes’s lawyer has also distanced himself from his own associations with the “alt-right” brand. Until very recently, Van Dyke, who is a member of the Proud Boys, was listed as a member of the board of directors of an “alt-right” nonprofit called the Foundation for the Marketplace of Ideas. The board also includes Richard Spencer and white nationalist blogger and podcaster Mike Enoch. “I resigned from the board when it went from defending persons being bullied by phony civil rights organizations,” Van Dyke said in an email, “to being the ‘legal arm of the alt-right.’ I did not support this change of direction of the foundation.”
Despite all the protestations, the line between the “alt-light” and the “alt-right” is unclear. It’s a fluid, shifting space that encompasses hardcore white nationalists, who dream of purging the land of nonwhites, and their defenders and apologists, who make the case for white victimization but are careful not to take their arguments to their logical, genocidal conclusions. The “alt-light” has thrived by toying with those blurred boundaries, signaling their allegiance to white supremacist audiences while maintaining the threadbare plausible deniability of irony, trolling, and innocent intellectual speculation.
Charlottesville made that space a little less fluid. There, the Pepe frogs, the “Kek” flags, and all of the other coded semaphores of today’s white nationalism were transformed into less ambiguous symbols: the swastika and the KKK hood. That undeniable display of white nationalism left the leaders of the “alt-light” in a precarious position. At least one has responded by embracing the “alt-right” cause. Others, like McInnes, have become desperate to disown it. But there is little McInnes or anyone else can do to change the plain reality: There is just one new far-right movement, not two, and the most vivid expression of its aspirations was put on display in Charlottesville.
Top photo: A right-wing demonstrator participates in the Denver March Against Sharia Law in Denver, Colorado on June 10, 2017.
Bizarre paranoia of Islam? Obviously you have not read the Quran.
The alt light aren’t far right. They’re politically centrist libertarians.
Actually, the alt right aren’t far right either, they’re politically centrist nationalists if you take into account all of their stances on policy.
The article does a good job of showing some associations between the Proud Boys and white supremacists. Other than that, it fails to prove its claim that alt-like and alt-right are part of the same movement (a semantic line-drawing issue, anyway) or that their differences are not substantial. People who are simply anti-immigration and anti-Islam are a far cry from those who actually want to create a white ethno-state or kill billions of nonwhites.
The fact is, alt-right has been used to mean different things at different times. The only “alt-right” article anyone can point to Breitbart publishing is a semi-sociological description of various alt-right groups by alt-lite author Milo, which doesn’t actually endorse them. Bannon appeared to use that term for anyone dissatisfied with mainstream Republicans.
Kudos to the author for describing Patriot Prayer as “right-wing” and not alt-right or alt-lite. The ones behind it appear to be mainstream conservative Republican types. However, that hasn’t stopped them from being violently attacked by antifa. That alarming fact would seem worthy of mention in a longform article like this, even it’s off-topic.
I’m not alt-right or alt-right and want nothing to do with them.
Heather Heyer died of a heart attack after being trampled by her fellow Antifa. Mr. Field’s car, attacked by Antifa which led to the accident, was never closer to her than five feet. We have this documented and you will be held accountable for false reporting.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “What a maroon!”
There appears to be video evidence that supports your claim. Also, an interview with Heather’s mother expressly reveals that Heather died from a heart attack. The perplexing element of this theory boils down to timing. At the exact moment that the car was passing in close proximity to heather, she appears to collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXQ9LLVvhN4&t=35
Like so many other alleged terror attacks, Charlottesville was used by the MSM to collectively vilify all elements of the far right by intentionally mischaracterizing them as white nationalists and/or neo-NAZIs. This having been said, you will not get a fair hearing of the facts from most in these threads as the are ideologically predisposed to the same types of conflation. There was a Boston free speech rally wherein groups like BlackLivesMatter participated to the conscious exclusion of “white supremacists” by the rallies organizational committee. Yet, the MSM dutifully characterized the event as a white supremacist rally. Ben Shapiro did a very interesting segment on this blatant media deception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmwuSiPI2IU
I remember the media coverage of the Morrow Building bombing in Oklahoma City wherein it was widely reported that multiple explosive devices had been recovered intact from the remaining structure. Some coverage actually showed pictures of the bomb squad on location removing the devices on the day of the bombing. Yet, by the second day, no MSM source was following up on that lead. And Again, it was widely reported that by MSM sources that McVeigh had an accomplice with him in the truck upon approach to the Morrow Building. And again, that lead was never pursued in spite of the fact that video evidence was reportedly collected by the Secret Service in support of that claim:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708050/Did-Oklahoma-City-bomber-accomplice-How-one-mans-mystery-death-jail-cell-brothers-quest-justice-upend-understanding-domestic-terror-attack.html
The interrogation death of Jesse Trentadue in a federal holding cell resulted in a trial that revealed the existence of that video footage as it was logged as evidence by the Secret Service. Yet, the video evidence inexplicably turned up missing when U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups ordered it to be delivered into evidence.
And again, the facts surrounding the shooting deaths of Randy Weaver’s wife and child by FBI snipers were universally distorted by the MSM in service to a government sponsored Far-right vilification narrative that cast Weaver as a potentially violent white separatist with ties to Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization.
I only watched a couple of minutes before deciding that video was stupid. I mean, Heather Heyer is adjacent to the killer’s car, lying immediately beside its path, and the argument is that “antifa” pushed her down. But obviously at some point – before he starts the video – Heyer was in the crowd and the car was moving toward her. I can’t see it but it seems like a pretty damn good guess that she was not in fact adjacent to the car’s path and landed right where she was by coincidence after being pushed down by some unknown cause – she was surely in front of the car and got pushed to one side just like that snow in front of the plow on your pickup truck in, alas, possibly about two months from now.
Other thing contemptible about the video is the revisionist blame-everybody-else tone. Antifa are said to have “run like scared little girls” and pushed her down, so that makes it their fault? As opposed to the brave Nazi who would rather be run over by a car than risk he might knock into someone while jumping out of the way? Ridiculous. There is no such Nazi, never has been never will be. The fallacy is just like the revisionists who say that the Jews dying of tuberculosis while crammed four in a bunk into freezing camps without food … were just tragic victims of disease rather than a German accomplishment. My ass.
The video alone was that to which I referred. Any discussion of the political spin relating to Heather’s death should also include the way it is being exploited by the left. Her mother is enjoying her fifteen minutes of fame – from publicly snubbing Trump offer of condolences to receiving a social justice award on her behalf. A Queens lawmaker proposed renaming Donald J. Trump State Park for Heather Heyer. Jesse Jackson couldn’t resist a photo-op by suggesting that Heather is directly comparable to Rosa Parks. And of course Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore could resist making hay as well.
In regard to putting all speculation to rest, the mother could request an independent autopsy or have the county release theirs. Conspiracy theories abound were facts are thin. I have been around for a long time and have seen an endless succession of official death and terror narratives debunked in time (JFK, RFK, MLK, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City Bombing, First WTC bombing, USS Liberty, Jonestown, Bin Laden, etc.). So many in fact, that I am inclined to reflexively disbelieve politically sanctioned narratives.
You have to debunk the debunkers also. I mean, I see two planes fly into the WTC and people tell me the towers fell because of explosives? That’s nuts. I mean sure, I’ll allow for the possibility that maybe the government hid some kind of nifty self-destruct mechanism in them to go off at the end so they wouldn’t fall over sideways and start a chain of skyscraper dominoes that runs for half of New York. But I doubt it, and in any case, it doesn’t change who is really responsible for them falling. Or JFK? They can go on about the guy on the grassy knoll endlessly but it’s all just misdirection to keep people’s eyes off the real question of whether Oswald was an American agent when he was a defector to Russia, or whether he was a Russian agent when he came back to the U.S. The official narratives are unreliable and political, but the unofficial narratives are even more unreliable and political. You seldom know what really happened. But you know when you see videotape of a lady dead where a car plowed into the crowd that she was hit by a car, and you don’t need a special autopsy to prove it. I mean, there are not many deaths that are LESS prone to speculative reinterpretation than that.
Again, I admit that the timing of her death and her proximity to the scene suggest a heightened possibility that she was a hit victim. However, she could have simply had a heart attack. As she was the only reported fatality, her worth as an opportunistic tool of propaganda must be considered. An independent autopsy would have eliminated all doubt.
As per JFK:
Finally hearing the TRUTH about the JFK cover-up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svDEw3Jgkw8
We’ve all seen the video. A car guns its engine, rams full speed into a crowd of protesters. Sends dozens of them flying through the air. Pretty damn clean cut and dried.
But look at the comments under that video you posted. The right wing is gripped by insanity. Once again when things don’t go their way, out come the conspiracy theories.
Then there is the legal side. In court they are going to ask a simple question: “Would Heather Heyer be alive today if Mr.Fields had not rammed his car into that crowd?” Of course the answer is yes, thus Mr.Fields is, at the very least, guilty of felony murder.
I agree. The issue of proximate cause would seal Mr.Fields legal fate regardless of whether she was actually struck by the car.
What is chronically lacking in articles such as this are clear definitions of terms like “far right”, “radical right”, and ultra-right which were all originally coined in the 1950s by an avowed socialist named Seymour Lipset in his professional capacity as a sociologist. Each of these terms had very specific meanings which were derived relative meaning from the type of conservatism (Responsible right) ascribed to the administration of Dwight Eisenhower. Furthermore the historical definition of right wing is substantially different in Europe than the United States.
Lipset drew a clear distinction between the European far right politics and it American counterpart. In Europe the far right was historically associated with the aristocracy who, by dint of their elevated status, endeavors to preserve the status quo e.g. feudal society) from the encroachment of democratic processes. As America has always been subject to democratic processes (electoral politics), its definition of far right politics makes reference to a different set of core circumstances that has come to predominantly characterize those who fill its ranks:
1. White – As white males were the original beneficiaries of the US constitution – which empowered them alone to have a say in their political fate – they were uniquely positioned by default to best resist political change that was deemed a threat to their own privileged status and/or way of life. As slavery continued for a time as a legacy institution, their was predictable political resistance to their emancipation by a select minority of white male landowners who depended upon their labor to sustain economic viability in a rapidly changing and highly competitive marketplace..
2. Christian – as Protestantism best reflected the enlightened values of America’s founding fathers, Protestantism was the dominant religious preference of American (white male) voters. Thus the encroachment of other religious preferences (e.g. Catholicism) hearkened back to European religious and political traditions that had been thoroughly rejected in the formation of the American republic.
3. Males – As not all tradition was summarily abandoned in the making of the constitution, political preference was given to males in keeping with European religious and political tradition. Thus there was great resistance to the suffrage movement that ultimately resulted in women gaining the constitutional right to vote (greater self determination).
We all should now know that the far right is no longer comprised of white male protestants exclusively. Rather, it is more aptly characterized as being universally resistant to change (conservative) that threatens traditional ways of life. Although it is predominantly white and christian it has large numbers of females and minorities that fill its ranks. As there has been a relentless emphasis placed on patriotism by Americas political leadership since its inception, the far right share a collective national identity that includes a profound respect for American exceptionalism, national sovereignty, religious freedom, and economic independence. The degree to which these values are invoked by elements of the far right to defy the political change that is being thrust upon them by America’s political class largely defines how they are defined by the likes of Mr Woodhouse. Any condemnation of those Americans whose political identity includes a profound love and respect for ones country and traditional way of life will invariably net a majority of white male Christians. Yet their is nothing intrinsically evil in harboring this political mindset. Rapid political change often results in unforeseen negative consequence and calamity as has been made clearly evident by the hasty implementation of the Bush Doctrine, AUMF, and patriot act. In fact, it could be stated as a political truism that fast tracked legislation almost always benefits a select few (transnational capital class) at the expense of the common good. With this in mind, it can be rightfully said that America’s conservative base has provides a degree of political stability that is essential to maintaining the inviolable right to self determination and corresponding sense of well being.
As we prepare for yet another intellectual insurrection at Janet Napolitanos UC Berkeley birthplace of the Free Speech Movement UC Berkeley its probably relevant to reflect on how hundreds of universities have helped DHS create a nation of fear.
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2017/09/hundreds-of-universities-have-helped.html
Ever wonder who’s responsible for our daily dosage of fear, terror and crime?
Look no further than our colleges and universities.
According to DHS, ‘Homeland Security Centers of Excellence’ (COE) are ‘led by a college or university’.
COE’s are responsible for blacklists, countering violent extremism and DHS propaganda videos and literature.
Colleges and universities have been working with DHS for fifteen years.
Since 2002, when the Homeland Security Act was passed, numerous colleges and universities have been feeding from the DHS money trough. Each year they line up like good little Bundists, promoting DHS’s vision of terror.
Think about that, everything you’ve been told about terrorism and extremism is coming from colleges!
Thanks for that rabbit-hole of bullshit! The blogger builds “hundreds of universities” out of sixteen. Even counting “former” COE, you find a whopping 26 colleges and universities.
Who is this blogger anyway?
You are as always as am I.
https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/centers-excellence
Count ’em up, big guy.
What a friggin’ rabbit-hole of fake news!
Heres another rabbit hole of fake news same as you ever were.
https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities
Man.., I have got to learn to proof read. My spelling and grammatical errors are truly cringe worthy. Sorry to all.
Yes, Universities and think tanks can be counted on to provide the intellectual impetus for preordained policies. The federal government gave out more than $40 billion for research and development (R&D) to universities across the country in fiscal 2011. Johns Hopkins University alone received 1.88 billion federal dollars in 2011 of which $609 million came from the Department of Defense, while more than $202 million came from NASA.
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world:
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=think_tanks
Emerging Trends: Section VI – Phantom NGO Think Tanks:
You used a picture of a man with a patch for “B.U.R.N.”, Biker’s Urban Response Needed for missing children. Is that one of those “white supremacist” groups?
Um, okay no, none of this is true! I live in Charlottesville VA and I’m here to tell you that nothing about this article is true! Sadly the beautiful, quaint, historical town of Charlottesville has been overtaken by violent liberals who are just looking for a right with anyone who disagrees with their political views! They were not about to let any party other then theirs March, protest or display free speech without a fight! They are ready to bash anyone’s head in if you disagree with them! What’s worse is that the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded by Thomas Jefferson and these students who applied for and we’re accepted to UVA to achieve an exceptional education knowing who the founder of UVA was now want to take down his statue because they claim it’s offensive!! It’s this kind of redoric that is happening upon our beautiful town within the past few years! It’s not right! You cannot take away everything Charlottesville was founded on or try to erase history simply because these left wing violent liberals that are now grown up enough to impose their dangerous and disturbing views are crying about their “feelings!”. Grow the hell up and quit thinking the world revolves around them despite what their parents told them when they were kids! If you were lucky enough to get into an elite and difficult college to be accepted to then shut up, quit whining about what hurts your feelings, man up and realize that history is history and you can’t change it, get your education without imposing your personal views on the University and go out in the real world! A world that unfortunately you will not survive in with those kind of views! Good luck!
Sorry, but we’ve had one war to get rid of Nazi’s. The fact that you see nothing wrong with Nazi’s killing an American woman on American soil is a problem. If you leave Neo-nazi’s alone to do what they want, they will hurt and murder innocent people. If you let Antifa do what they want, they will take their kids to the movies, hang out with friends, go out to dinner, catch up on Game of Thrones…They don’t want to be out, however, someone has to confront these vile scumbags. No one is getting ride of history, it’s in the books. Just because you aren’t reminded of the fact that you’d be in chains if the traitors – yes, they were all traitors! – had won when you see those statues, doesn’t mean it doesn’t effect others. Try taking your head out of your rectum and thinking of things from a different point of view.
When Obama appointed Janet Napolitano (Jeh Johnsons predecessor at Homeland Security) as head of the UC system and the defacto torch bearer of UC Berkeleys Free Speech Legacy her lack of experience temprment and background seemed ill suited to either the position or the role..
I’m a two time Obama supporter. I suspect the reason Mike German the FBI whistleblower (who made a career of infiltrating and exposing right wing organizations like the KKK, Skinheads whom we all abore etc) hasn’t been making his usual rounds amidst all this Antifah inspired (if you didn’t vote for Hillary you’re a Nazi) madness because at this point genuine white supremacists are (like say Metzgers Skinheads) are in contemporaneous times few in number and tend to request both permits and police protection. Thing is now (to the DNCIAntifa) Greens, Independents, Libertarians and even Bernie Sanders supporters (pretty much anyone who did not vote for Hillary Clinton) is a mysogynistic Nazi.
The folks managing Berkeley Freedom of Speech week commencing on the the Sunday subsequent to the ostensible end of the world September 23rd. Bannon, Coulter and Milo are No Ben Shapiros, Michael Caputos or Roger Stones but whatever if the want to win they need to create their own collective “William Buckley Gay Talese moment” of a quite spirited but ultimately civilized debate. Invite capable (Post-Hillary) debaters. They must think on their feet as those relying on talking points tend to lose) progressive intellectuals, journalists and activists to participate.
I’m a San Francisco Haight Ashbury Libertarian. Think Rand or Ron Paul. Rand currently branded as Putins Puppet by John McCain and Ron currently branded as a Kremlin Stooge by the DNCIAs PropOrNot list and most Google, YouTube and Facebook algorithms starting NOW.
“Colleges have historically been that place where you make your best argument, have a full and robust debate, and let ideas flow. But now we often find that if you’re libertarian or conservative and are invited to speak on campus, you later get disinvited. If they’re allowed to speak at all, conservatives and libertarians get shouted down or in some cases actual riots break out. If public colleges and universities continue to allow this to occur, Congress may have to get involved.”
-Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), fierce proponent of free speech
How does the US President appoint the head of the UC system? Did he appoint Hank Bounds to be the president of the University of Nebraska and Stuart Bell as the president of the University of Alabama system as well?
Breitbart is a Zionist website and not white supremacists website. Alt-right is not anti-Semitic, and in fact, has many prominent Jews like Pamela Geller and Andrew Breitbart himself.
varying shades of brown to flush down
Antifa, originally known in its native Germany as Antifaschistische Aktion, was founded as the militant wing of the German Communist Party. In the 1930s, it was known to be every bit as violent as its Nazi opponents. This is the same group imported using “Open Society” money donated by known socialist George Soros. You can not speak of them as some people striving for justice in America. I am a professional researcher, maybe you should try it before you promote falsehoods.
Almost 90% of those you’ve mentioned in the article are not alt-right, so stop kidding yourself and start analyzing Antifa, the real scumbags. Or are you a partisan?
yada, yada, yada
Or maybe…could it be…perhaps…the effort to lump conservatives–especially Trump supporters–in with asshats that espouse racists beliefs was a bit overwrought? Maybe?
The left has been clamoring for influential Republicans to denounce the alt-right. Now that they have it’s time to shift the goal posts?
That was well written. I understand where you’re coming from. You spelled it out.
kek and pepe the frog are not the alt rights goddamn symbols. They stole them from smarter people @4chan.
Stop pretending they have ownership of troll culture symbolism in general, its such bullshit.
I’m not sure what to do with this meandering thesis. Are you arguing the far right is tearing itself apart, or is it all one movement?
I’m going to suggest a simpler interpretation. To begin with, this far right stuff has been around for a long time. A few people hold a miscellany of crank beliefs about race, and cast a larger shadow of people who use the ideas humorously, sarcastically, or just to shock. This has long been the case – I mean, I doubt the people who randomly scrawled swastikas on bathroom walls in the 1980s were really trying to spread Naziism.
What happened in Charlottesville is that this long-standing American ideological diversity became the target of an entirely exogenous campaign of “suppressing extremism” that has been festering in Britain. ( https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/minister-urges-tech-giants-to-do-more-to-combat-extremism-online-in-wake-of-parsons-green-bombing-a3636396.html ) This perhaps intentionally counterproductive campaign (one which addicts government to BAE black boxes or the equivalent by breeding more “extremists”) seeks to make martyrs out of trolls and genuine racists alike. The outcome of course is the usual Streisand Effect, like throwing gasoline on smouldering embers. Far from tearing apart the right, the attacks on their right to speak, their persecutions by companies out to get a mention in the news, become the stuff of an endless litany of unfair actions eagerly recounted by racist outlets that galvanize their people.
Donald Chump defended the neonazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville on Aug 12. They were some of the “fine people” on both sides.
Chump defends nazis. Anyone on the American right that supports Chump tacitly supports the same garbage. Even if you don’t think you support it, you’ll be rightfully associated with the label “neonazi defender”.
I’ve never voted for the GOP in my life but this article is an absolutely disgusting attempt to conflate anyone on the right as a neo-Nazi. I’m no fan of Cernovich, but the dude has an Iranian-American wife, which would make him one of the worst white supremacist going around.
McInnes’ wife is American Indian. Once again, that makes him a pretty lousy white supremacist.
This article is complete garbage. How about trying to listen for a moment instead of smearing anyone who doesn’t completely agree with all you ideas.
I’ve heard more than a few Nazis and Neo-Nazis make the remark that Iranians are Aryans. That one has an Iranian wife is no proof that one is not a racist.
“I’ve heard more than a few Nazis and Neo-Nazis”
You’ve talked to more than a few Nazis?
Dez-
Great points. Remember when all the white wimminz-who are an oppressed minority- were clamboring all over themselves to learn hip hop, and get at those poor black men in the 90’s?
It seems that it’s only diversity if it’s a bald Jewish white guy from the ADL with a “V. Stiviano” by his side at the ball game, while his good little baleboste waits at home like a poodle.
Diversity= minorities banding together so that the ADL et al can draw a bead on their leadership, and then divide and conquer them, and divide the spoils.
But remember: the feminists wanted women’s rights (hmmm, where does that wage gap come from anyways? Oh, yeah: women who get on their knees for international finance work cheap) not men’s rights to reject their paramour’s domestic violence industrial complex.
well that was incoherent
mez-
You are very well spoken for a beginning reader.
“Iran” is literally a variant of “Aryan” – look it up in Wikipedia. Aryans were well known as far as North India, and, well, Hitler actually sent a team of anthropologists all the way to Tibet to claim that they were Aryans in some kind of Fascist v. Communist scheme, probably much less wholesome than the way it was presented in Seven Years in Tibet, that eventually provoked the Chinese to take over the region.
The association of the “Aryan” moniker for white Europeans is a pure invention of the esoteric/quasi-occult Ariosophy/Volkische movement in late 19th/early 20th century Germany, and is completely unrelated to the historical Aryans that built up the Persian Empire.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Mike Cernovich is an intellectual. Mike Cernovich is no more a racist than Keith Ellison and you regulars all know how I feel about Keith.
I’ve never been a part of the Right, but this article is plainly dishonest. The broadly-defined non-mainstream American Right is far more diverse ideologically than the Left wants to acknowledge.
This is one reason why the term “alt-right” is unhelpful. There are plenty of people who consider themselves part of an “alternative” (as in non-mainstream) Right, but are explicitly not white-nationalists. Attempting to lump all of them in with Nazis is simply lazy.
Here’s a simple rule that I’m sure even the Left can grasp. If a group self-identifies as white nationalist or Nazi, you can identify them as such. If a group does not, or especially if they explicitly reject those views, then why not engage with their actual arguments?
I also think it’s interesting to note that this dynamic only works one way. If a group is suspected of having flirted with a far-Right movement like white nationalism at any point, this link (however tenuous) should be enough to expel those people from polite society. Yet if a person flirted with communism, or even embraced it whole cloth, then there should be no public sanction against this.
Even in this article, the author reacts to people on the right explicitly denouncing white nationalism and Nazism with “Nuh uh, you’re still TOTALLY a secret Nazi!”
This type of “journalism” is anti-intellectual. It is targeted to a partisan audience and is intended to use a broad brush to tarnish the reputations of large numbers of disparate people so that the reader will never engage with them or their ideas.
And there is so much that is wrong with their ideas! This sort of dishonesty is not required to refute them.
” then why not engage with their actual arguments?”
They may not be able to actually do that. Perhaps that is why instead of a rebuttal or fact-checking, they commit immoral acts of violence instead.
I’ve watched the left-wingers rallies. They all march and follow the orders of their leaders. If the leaders tell them a man like Ben Shapiro is a Nazi – they all believe he is a Nazi. If they say that Gavin is in the KKK – they all believe he is in the KKK.
They can’t debate. That is why they have to organize violent groups to attack the people that disagree with the unproven theories that men like Leighton embrace.
Who are the right non-white nationalists/non-Neo-Nazis? Do you think Donald Trump is a white nationalist or a racist? Do you differentiate between racism and white nationalism? Do you condone the action of the white nationalists in Charlottesville with the murdering of Heather Heyer and the beating of DeAndre Harris?
First, I don’t condone violence of any kind. I’m a libertarian and my central ethical principle is called the “non-aggression principle”. I’m not a part of the “right” in any sense and I’m about as far from Nazism and Fascism as it is possible to be. Asking me if I condone the murder of Heather Heyer and the beating of DeAndre Harris is a rather insulting question. Of course I don’t and that should have been clear in my original post.
Most people who supported Donald Trump, and I’m speaking about the vast majority, are not white nationalists or racists of any kind. Actual Neo-Nazis represent a small fraction of the American Right, a fraction that is growing but is still minuscule.
There are plenty of conservatives, an “alternative” Right if you will, who didn’t even support Donald Trump. There is a magazine called The American Conservative that is basically a collection of anti-war conservatives. I have a lot of respect for them because they’ve been battling the Neo-Conservatives and the doctrine of empire and nation-building for nearly twenty years now.
There is a difference between racism and white nationalism, obviously. A black racist is unlikely to support white nationalism.
I honestly don’t spend much time focusing on whether or not Donald Trump is a racist. I care about the policies he supports, not the private thoughts in his head.
If you are genuinely surprised to learn that there are non-white nationalists and non-Neo-Nazis among the Right, then you really need to get out of your echo chamber and expose yourself to more ideas.
“I honestly don’t spend much time focusing on whether or not Donald Trump is a racist. I care about the policies he supports, not the private thoughts in his head.”
I get where you’re coming from here, a version of “what you do is more important than what you think.” Yes?
In the abstract, I can even agree with that, but don’t you think that what a person thinks about something will inevitably shape one’s actions? If someone believes another to be inferior, how likely are they to accord that person equality in their decision-making?
In the end, you’re right to judge Trump (or anyone) on what he does rather than try to guess what he harbors in his heart, but the latter is certainly not irrelevant to the former.
Hallelujah. Its almost like our social media and traditional media and other technologies are being used to spread cyberpathogenetic emotional cantagion among the targeted many or few.
Murdering? Even her own mother said she died of a heart attack. Footage shows the car didn’t touch her.
I can’t find a single source that shows Heyer’s mother saying this. Can you help?
Wow you sure know a lot about the right and have a lot of whiney talking points about the left for a person who has never been “part of the right”. You must be a true unbiased scholar
Nice propaganda! Interesting you only including facts that support your unproven claims – and you seem to be either ignorant or dishonest about those facts that debunk your blog posting.
I don’t like Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, or fascists.
I don’t like Commies, white guilt, black nationalists or authoritarian leftist groups like Antifa.
Over a year ago, during a time when Black Lives Matters held marches and rallies that had chants to murder cops echoing the streets – a racist man associated with black nationalists group said he want to murder as many white people as he could. After a leftist rally he did just that – murdering 5 people.
Far left-wingers like that are wrong.
Black nationalists are horrid. Just like white nationalists.
This summer my city has been under the attack of a far-left winger who also wanted to kill as many white people as possible. He murdered 5.
This year a Nazi-loving white nationalist drove his car into a crowd and is now charged for murder in the death of a woman.
Far right-wingers like that are wrong.
Earlier this year, a man quite possibly emboldened by the rhetoric of Bernie Sanders, opened fire on Republicans playing baseball in a public park. He wanted to murder as many as he could. A slaughtering.
Far left-wingers like that are wrong.
Earlier this year a homosexual, immigrant man who prefers to date black people tried to speak at Berkeley. Far left-wingers decided to shut it down by pulling fire alarms, macing people and assaulting women.
Far left wingers like that are wrong.
A couple months ago, leftist media outlets and a leftist political leader labeled a multi-racial group that has denounced white supremacy and white nationalists as being white supremacists.
Far left wingers like that are wrong.
If you only call out the far right, but ignore the hateful rhetoric, dishonesty, and immoral actions of the far left – you are wrong.
Mr Centrist moron man strikes again with his flaccid false equivalency foam bat and whatabout throwing stars. Look out!
“SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 6 [1976]— Jimmy Carter said today that the Federal Government should not take the initiative to change the “ethnic purity” of some urban neighborhoods or the economic “homogeneity” of well?to?do suburbs.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/07/archives/carter-defends-allwhite-areas-says-government-shouldnt-try-to-end.html
“Ethnic purity”?
From your link – Jimmy Carter – “If there is a neighborhood that’s homogeneous and if a family of another ethnic group wanted to move in,” he said “I would use the full resources of the Federal Government to enforce their right to do that.”
He’s stating that he isn’t going to utilize federal resources to inject ethnic groups into historically homogeneous areas for the sake of propping up multiculturalism. But instead would have to intervene should their be housing discrimination.
“I have nothing against a community that’s made up of people who are Polish or Czechoslovakian or French?Canadian, or blacks who are trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods.”
It’s not just about all-white areas to him. But there was real discrimination between home developers and non-white groups.
After World War II – “Rather, the military, the Veterans’ Administration, the U.S. Employment Service, and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) effectively denied African-American Gls access to their benefits and to the new educational, occupational, and residential opportunities…black veterans did not receive much employment information, and that the offers they did receive were for low-paid and menial jobs…African Americans were also less likely than whites, regardless of GI status, to gain new jobs commensurate with their wartime jobs, and they suffered more heavily.
Black Gls faced discrimination in the educational system as well. Despite the end of restrictions on Jews and other Euro-ethnics, African Americans were not welcome in white colleges. Black colleges were overcrowded, and the combination of segregation and prejudice made for few alternatives. About twenty thousand black veterans attended college by 1947, most in black colleges, but almost as many, fifteen thousand, could not gain entry. Predictably, the disproportionately few African Americans who did gain access to their educational benefits were able, like their white counterparts, to become doctors and engineers, and to enter the black middle class…
“The FHA was key to buyers and builders alike. Thanks to it, suburbia was open to more than Gls. People like us would never have been in the market for houses without FHA and VA low-down-payment, low-interest, long-term loans to young buyers…”
The FHA believed in racial segregation. Throughout its history, it publicly and actively promoted restrictive covenants. Before the war, these forbade sale to Jews and Catholics as well as to African Americans.”
Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America (Rutgers University Press, 2006)
Then do you accept his apology?
_Carter Issues an Apology On ‘Ethnic Purity’ Phrase_
http://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/09/archives/carter-issues-an-apology-on-ethnic-purity-phrase-but-he-says-he.html
Is it genuine?
From your link – “If the phrase had racial connotations,” he said, “I’ve apologized, I hope, to the public, and I’ve already talked to my supporters.”
“I was satisfied with the explanation he gave,” said Ann Jordan, a member of the Democratic National Committee. “He said he would not use the powers of the Presidency to impose on a community lowcost housing in any setting. It’s the press that’s making this a major issue.”
– Whether or not the apology meant something matters not since the test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
– Ann Jordan of the DNC at the time did have a point in saying that the press was making it an issue. It seems there were some people who chose to fixate (like we’re doing here) and become offended by his use of “ethnic purity”. Just like how there are those who choose to be offended by the Pepe meme and others who don’t lend much effort to care for it. The other thing to consider was that maybe he lacked a mental thesaurus big enough to describe “homogeneity, homogeneous” both of which were words he exhausted in your previous linked article. Jimmy Carter, as a person, was born October 1, 1924 (age 92) in Plains, Georgia, U.S. A southern state. There may have been a certain language barrier based on his upbringing. This fascination over two words, shouldn’t have been a deal breaker for Jimmy’s campaign especially when there was very real racial discrimination occurring in the scope of housing.
– Also, thank you for your reply.
Honestly, I may not like all speech, but when did scrutiny and judgement become the norm?
This article isn’t about alt right anything, it’s simply anti free speech.
And I’m someone that would like to see Kaepernick playing…we all have a right to our opinions and the right to express them, in my opinion.
The American way is to allow your opponents to speak, and to present a stronger argument to counter their argument.
We liberals, conservatives, libertarians, etc who support free speech are baffled by the masked far-left wingers who are assaulting and intimidating people who disagree with their unproven theories.
Instead of providing arguments, they pull fire alarms. Instead of a reasonable discussion, they start chanting “our streets”.
“Our streets”? Who cleans up the streets after the far left-wingers dump the trash cans, break windows, spill blood and burn up “free speech” signs?
I’ll tell you who. The Americans they oppose.
I agree, and I don’t hear them going after Pamela Gellar types.
That may not be as pc.
These groups have a lot of funding, organizers and signs ready to go.
It serves only to lump people into one group and link them to the entire right, as others have pointed out.
Yea. They want to appear to be a grassroots movement – but with preproduced signs and charter buses they are not fooling anyone, other than CNN and leftist bloggers.
Their dishonesty is disturbing. I saw some far left-wingers deciding nobody should be allowed to go home or go to work – so they stood in front of a bus on a busy street. They walked up to the bus, placed themselves on the front grill and then claimed they had been hit – and demanded that the poor bus driver be fired.
The non-fanatical people standing around were calling them out on their BS.
The far leftists may literally be incapable of being honest. I don’t know.
Search on YouTube:
Portland PD Removes ANTIFA Protesters who Block road at Rush Hour
This Leftist “Revolution” might be quite possibly the dumbest movement since the KKK.
There may be some poor logic or bias in this article, but there is nothing in it — nothing — that is anti free speech.
There’s never been more disinfo or stupidity packed into one Intercept piece. It’s only rival now may be Salon.
Given that you traffic in “disinfo” and “stupidity” you must be *really* jealous.
Lordy lordy there’s even a backhanded reference to Gamergate in this mess.
This article truly is, The Total Package.
The dim progressive left still can’t address the concerns of Americans.
The Coffee Party, Occupy, Black Bloc, Antifa aren’t going to win you any friends in the voting booth.
Does Leighton fancy himself as a journalist? Or is he fully embraced his role as a biased mouth piece for the far-left?
Leighton seem to be ignorant of some very important facts. Or perhaps he knows about those facts, but chooses to ignore them? There are certain facts that make his far-left wing comrades just as bad as the white nationalists and white supremacists.
It was not until far left-wing groups like Antifa began throwing urine on women, pepper spraying unarmed African-American conservatives and hitting peaceful protesters with bike locks that things like helmets, shields and sticks became necessary for free speech marches.
His ignoring or ignorance of that is unfortunate.
Alt-Right White Nationalist like Richard Spencer are pro-choice. If Leighton and Richard both want to march for pro-choice support – does that make Leighton a KKK white supremacist?
By the way Progressives are Americans. I hope you don’t think there are real Americans and ‘fake’ Americans. Personally, I don’t think corporations are Americans, because they’re not people. But what do you think are the concerns of Americans. Personally, being an American, I would like to see Medicare for All, affordable higher education, and for us to combat climate change in a meaningful and committed way.
There’s no alt-anything in the paleocon, liberty, libertarian, Christian patriot, Tea Party, conservative movement.
The alt thing and Charlottesville (where the above stayed away) are inventions of the left.
inventions of the left…yes, blame all your problems on the leftist boogymen
This is propaganda and not a story. The Alt-Right is a fabrication almost entirely – it exists as a projection of FakeNews Media.
It exists as a boogeyman led by a cartoon frog. Anyone insinuating some sort of formal leadership, hierarchy or strategy beyond making the media bonkers has been spending too much time getting trolled by some of their self-avowed ranks on Twitter.
Stefan Molyneux? Really?? Who’s next, Jordan Peterson?
Oh, I know who you forgot to add!
The infamous hacker known as 4chan!
4chan isn’t a hacker, it’s a site. The frog has nothing to do with the ‘alt right.’
Nobody on the right had ever heard of Spencer or the Charlottesville organizer–who it turns out was an Obama supporter.
Im aware :) “Notorious hacker known as 4chan” is a meme used to impersonate an out of touch idiot who doesnt understand that 4chan is a site and not a person.
Pepe has become the klaxon of the panicking fools who think memes are popular because of Nazism and not, rather, getting someones goat on the internet.
Sure bud. Everything is Fake News. Not like you can go on youtube and /pol/ right now and see that this shit is-OH SURPRISE!-actually there….
What is wrong with propaganda?
Oh look! The right has taken a queue from the neocon left and they are locking up activists and attorney’s on 72 hour holds now for mental evaluations.
Judicial Reform Activist and Civil Rights Attorney Andy Ostrowski Abducted by Police While Broadcasting
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/09/judicial-reform-activist-attorney-abducted-police-broadcasting.html
“Andy Ostrowski has done nothing but hit enter on emails and things on Facebook.” At that juncture, Ostrowski suddenly stated that two police officers had just entered his house, wearing gloves and carrying tasers In the background, one can hear the officers ordering him to stand up while he repeatedly asks for to see the warrant. One then hears the off-camera officer saying he has a warrant to take him into custody for a mental health evaluation. The camera then goes dark.”
It’s almost as if they are taking their cues from the Anti Defamation League, which notoriously stalked and spied on activists throughout the last several decades, and never got criminally punished for it. Gotta love all those balding egghead Nazi hive minds over at the ADL.
And now look! Activists are being declared mentally ill, after extensive stalking and SOCMINT surveillance. Chickens/home/roost.
All that “sticking up for minorities”….ever notice how only one group of “minorites” (those other white men) comes out on top that equation?
No real black leadership anywhere to speak of. Women are all neocon endless war slaves with pink vagina helmets. Prisons are full to the brim…..
Sure it’s about civil rights. Sure it is.
http://www.israellobby.org/ADL%2DCA/
Thank you for posting something about this turd Gavin. I never understood why so many “hip” people, from RA the Rugged Man to him interviewing members of Crass or Black Flag, hung out with him or even tolerated him. He always had ignorant views and seemed to be a over privileged prick. Personally I think it’s society’s new way of “it doesn’t matter what you say, I may need to use you to make money later” mindset that allows these types to prosper.
It might be worthwhile noting that there is no doubt groups like those you describe and exist, as they always have..
Vice shot part of a documentary the night of the neo nazi torch march.
The news clip never seemed quite like a news clip usually does. The film quality, the lighting and the marchers seemed to play to the camera…check the angles, too.
This has been a very handy clip that was immediately distributed to news outlets to play endlessly and then endless opinions written about it.
It almost over shadowed the death of Heather. A real life lost.
I wonder why Vice wanted that clip to focus on anti Jewish sentiment, rather than blacks or whomever..my guess is it is the most verboten sentiment designed to scare American’s. ‘See how bad the Right can be’ at the same time raising the profile of David Duke and the KKK.
We can find very odious examples of vile behavior on both sides and social media is not a perfect reflection of society…just ask Hillary.
* It might be worthwhile noting that there is no doubt groups like those you describe and exist, as they always have..
Should read..there is no doubt groups like those you describe exist, as they always have.
Some people really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really want a man like Gavin McInnes to be an Alt-Right KKK-loving Nazi white supremacist.
Men like Leighton Whitehouse are probably very disappointed to learn that Gavin is pro gay, founded a multi-racial group and is generally more open minded and tolerant of opposing viewpoints than he is.
I think Leighton’s rhetoric is dangerous and just as idiotic as the KKK. Leighton probably supports the notion that vicious assaults on N@zis are justified. The sick-minded and immoral actions are that he and far-left wingers like him label all opposing viewpoints as N@zi viewpoints. And then the far left-wing storm troopers start calling African-American conservatives derogatory names, assaulting unarmed men and throwing urine on women.
How dare Vice make quality video
“How dare Vice make quality video”
To immediately distribute as a live news clip, rather than the documentary it was?
That is manipulative at best, propaganda at worst.
I am usually not one to cower, but there is a part of me that is scared of White supremacists. I think they are a real menace to our society. People have plenty of reason to be scared of white supremacists. They should be denounced and not coddled by the President.
Jose, I’m more frightened by the elimination of free speech. There is an element within the DNC that seems to be pushing all kinds of fear with the offer of protecting us from that speech.
There’s a great deal of censorship happening now and if we lose our right to speech…our country is finished.
I’m very uncomfortable of broad generalizations of the right or left.
I find that my friends that are on FB and get their news on feeds are the most frightened…by everything.
Who was it that said something along close to ‘a frightened society is a compliant society’ …I agree with that.
Also..I am more disturbed by the killings by Dylan Roof than these distractions from true race issues, that I didn’t see article addressing.
Just my opinion, though.
Please forgive the typos..I was multi tasking when I proofread, which translates to I didn’t do too good w any tasks!
You’re not going to be robbed at gunpoint by “white supremacists”. They’re not the ones killing people in Chicago or L.A. Get real!