If you’re in D.C. for CPAC weekend and interested in rubbing shoulders with white supremacists, the National Press Club has you covered. On the evening of Feb. 27, the Press Club will provide space in its downtown D.C. building for an event called “Beyond Conservatism,” hosted by the National Policy Institute. The Southern Poverty Law Center characterizes the National Policy Institute as one of the “most important” think tanks in academic racism. Its website says it is “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States and around the world,” and its tagline is, “For our people. Our culture. Our future.”
An Evite invitation for the event says it will feature speakers Peter Brimelow, Richard Spencer, and Jared Taylor. Brimelow, as SPLC details, has said America faces “unprecedented demographic mutation” and that 9/11 was due to immigration. The Anti-Defamation League describes Spencer as “a symbol of a new generation of intellectual white supremacists.” Taylor has said that “[w]hen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization — any kind of civilization — disappears.” The SPLC has more on him as well.
The event coincides with the CPAC, which is the largest and most important annual assembly of grassroots conservative and libertarian activists in the country. The two events are totally unaffiliated, but it’s clear that NPI hopes the name of its event will appeal to the conservatives in town who want to go, you know, beyond.
Brimelow, Spencer, Taylor, and their ideological allies often have trouble finding venues to host their anti-black, anti-Hispanic, and anti-immigrant events. Providing a platform for white supremacists, as it turns out, isn’t great for hotel #brands. But the National Press Club has no regrets about providing space for the event. Executive Director Bill McCarren told me that the press club didn’t invite the group to speak, and that they make space for all sorts of presenters.
A source says: The National Socialist Movement, they’re headquartered in Detroit, which is only about an hour north of Toledo. They started, or their presence started, a riot in Toledo back in 2005 because they wanted to march through a black neighborhood. They said they wanted to protest against gang violence, and hundreds of blacks rioted. In the news, the mayor even mentioned that many of the rioters were flying gang colors.
The NSM is the biggest neo-Nazi group in the country, ever since the National Alliance and Aryan Nations fell apart.
It was pretty good. There were speeches from Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, and Richard Spencer. I got Jared Taylor to sign a book for me afterward. I probably should have tried to socialize more with other attendees, but maybe if NPI has another event later this year I could so then. I would probably see a lot of the same faces. It’s too bad AmRen or NPI don’t have the resources to start an organization. They don’t even have an online group.
I was thinking of going to the AmRen conference in April, but I don’t have a suit anyway, and I’d have to pay for travel and hotel costs.
There was one protester at the event, but she seemed confused at first as to what event she was protesting. She went on some rant about strippers, saying something about conservatives being hypocritical regarding sexual morality, which had nothing to do with the event. She stayed standing up at the front for a while, but she didn’t have a sign, and I could tell she wasn’t from any group or else she would have been better informed about who she was addressing. Before she left, she said we’re all a bunch of racists, though, so she got the idea. She was pretty cute too, maybe around 20 with a dress and stockings.
Anyway, it was fun. Almost all men, as you would expect, but different ages. At the Richard Spencer asked us to raise our hands if we are under 40, and most did. Then he said keep your hands up if you’re under 30, and there were a lot of us. We got discounted tickets, after all.
The speeches at the NSM event won’t be nearly as interesting, but we’ll probably party afterward with beer and weed, maybe even meet some girls. Movements need to appeal to self-interest. (I used to hang out with bikers all the time, and around them it is just easier to find girls. Girls throw themselves at bikers, and there are probably a lot of the same sort of groupie types around skinheads. Many NSM members are either current or former skins, even though it’s a subculture which partly came from blacks.)
Beforehand, I thought about what I would do or should do if some guys show up with a bullhorn (or worse, like the Tinley Park incident), to disrupt the event. It didn’t occur to me that it would be a lone chick, who quietly waited until the Q&A session to speak her mind. I had pepper spray in one pocket and a fairly big folding knife in the other.
My friend liked it. He was surprised though because I didn’t tell him what it was going to be like, and he thought it was just going to be some Republican thing. But all the speakers talked about how useless the Republicans are. One speaker said the Republicans are afraid of appealing to their own base.
