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Category Archives: Alt Right
Making Sense of the Alt Right by George Hawley
Here are selections from this superb new book: * Given everything that occurred in 2016, most observers can be forgiven for failing to note one additional bizarre moment when, in late August, Clinton experienced one of the weirdest examples of … Continue reading
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Making Sense Of The Alt Right
Weekly Standard: “The alt-right may not be who you think they are, according to George Hawley: “The notion that youthful rebellion necessarily leads young people to the left is an additional blind spot in mainstream thinking. To begin with, it … Continue reading
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Jewish Hebdo
I don’t see much significance to this accomplishment: “Asked to name highlights of his tenure, Eshman pointed to two. In 2015, Islamic terrorists in Paris massacred the staff at Charlie Hebdo magazine for printing cartoons they found offensive. The Journal … Continue reading
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Anti-Immigration As Politics
Comments at Steve Sailer: * And a popular alt-right argument says that, anti-immigration or anti-diversity views will always be frustrated in a democracy because … There is a majority constituted of (1) a minority of male deep cucks, plus (2) … Continue reading
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You Can Only Debate Within The Tribe
Vincent Law writes: “There has to be a common framework of symbols, of shared meanings or past historical experience to rely on. People have to have a shared conception of who/what they are to begin any meaningful debate over the … Continue reading
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Alt-Right Jew: Charlottesville Was A Wake-Up Call
Alt Right Jew Joshua Seidel writes: Even after Charlottesville, I still don’t know what to think of Richard Spencer. It’s Saturday night and I’m watching him compare his movement to Zionism on Israeli TV. He’s wearing a nice shirt and … Continue reading
The Right After Charlottesville
The Alt Right disaster last weekend reminds me of Hitler’s failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Who knows what’s coming next. Greg Johnson said last Thursday, Aug. 17, to Vox Day: “National socialism today is a perverse self-marginalizing self-defeating tendency. It’s … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘What White Nationalism Gets Right About American History’
R. Derek Black (son of Stormfront founder Don Black) writes in the New York Times: While we all know that Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “all men are created equal,” his writings also … Continue reading
Vox Day vs Greg Johnson LIVE DEBATE: Are Nazis Alt Right?
Vox: “Anyone who is more concerned with their symbols and ideology rather than the survival of the white race, the European nations and Western Civilization, is not an asset.” “National Socialism is a horrifically rhetorical weak point who can be … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘For Jewish Americans, echoes of the Holocaust and anger over Trump’s response to Charlottesville’
Remind me – how many millions of people were slaughtered on Saturday in Charlottsville? Los Angeles Times: “There are no good Nazis and no good members of the [Ku Klux] Klan,” the Republican Jewish Coalition said in a statement. “We … Continue reading