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Category Archives: Alt Right
When Did The Alt Right Become Funny?
White nationalism was not funny. Nazism was not funny. How did the Alt Right become funny? I think it was the rise of Donald Trump in June of 2015, leading to the “cuckservative” slur. 4Chan had been funny for years … Continue reading
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The Atlantic: ‘The Making of an American Nazi: How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?’
My major complaint about this article is that it portrays people such as Andrew Anglin as lashing out at phantoms rather than real people with real conflicts of interest. Life is war. Different groups have different interests. Diversity plus proximity … Continue reading
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Reason is a Whore
Richard Spencer was on a podcast recently with James Allsup and Nick Fuentes. Richard Spencer joins the panel to talk about the news of the week and the state of the alt-right, as well as Depeche Mode. The first hour … Continue reading
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Chayei Sarah (Gen. 23:1-25:18)
This week’s Torah portion covers the death and burial of the matriarch Sarah. Watch. Listen here. Issue 1: The “It’s okay to be white” campaign. Issue 2: Abraham’s purchase of a burial plot for Sarah shows the way forward for … Continue reading
WP: Where the alt-right wants to take America — with or without Trump
This is another in a string of recent book reviews by Carlos Lozada that contributes nothing to our understanding of books and the world. When I first started reading him, about a year ago, I was excited by his work. … Continue reading
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ADL: White Supremacist Infighting Escalates After Shelbyville Event
From the ADL: White supremacists have been fighting among themselves ever since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That infighting escalated following last weekend’s White Lives Matter (WLM) rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee. About 200 white supremacists around … Continue reading
Richard Spencer On The Jewish Question
Richard Spencer appears on this October 28, 2017 podcast. Eighty nine minutes in, a host says: “I want to give you a chance to clear the air. I notice that a fair amount of people criticize you for being weak … Continue reading
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Alt Right Is Often More Polite Than Conservatives
Richard Spencer says in this October 28, 2017 podcast: “Conservatives have been race baiting for decades.” Richard Spencer wrote in 2013: Who, really, can be surprised by National Review ‘s firing of John Derbyshire on April 6, 2012, for the sin of practicing anthropology … Continue reading
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Foreign Affairs: The European Roots of the Alt-Right – How Far-Right Ideas Are Going International
George Hawley writes: Some figures once associated with the ENR have attacked it for a similar reason, but from the right rather than the left. These critics, most prominent among them the journalist Guillaume Faye, believe that the ENR’s high-minded, … Continue reading
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AltRabbi: ‘FrameGame is the Stephen Miller of alt right twitter. A Jew who puts nationalist goyim to shame’
FrameGame is the Stephen Miller of alt right twitter. A Jew who puts nationalist goyim to shame https://t.co/uijUdnahC1 — AltRabbi (@AltRabinowitz) October 30, 2017