‘Nazis vs. Trumpkins: The Prom Tearing Apart the Alt-Right’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Daily Beast:

This cannibalization of what was once a united pro-Trump front is indicative of a larger fight going on within the movement. Self-described “Trumpists” who organized the event are defending Treadstone’s ban by saying they want to create an inclusive celebration—one which doesn’t host people who make anti-Semitic remarks. They don’t want another scenario like the recent alt-right gathering in Washington that made headlines for literal Nazi salutes. Meanwhile, figures in the alt-right, like the notorious white nationalist Richard Spencer, are defending Treadstone and calling Cernovich the “Alt-Light,” or ego-driven individuals who are more interested in furthering their personal brands than focusing on ideology.
Treadstone, who sports stringy dyed-blond hair and a beard, has changed up his brand more than once, with a storied and opportunistic career online as a supporter of Black Lives Matter, an aspiring rapper, and even a BuzzFeed employee. According to an organizer with MAGA-3X, he was also the previous manager of the bullying bleach-blond tantrum-starter Milo Yiannopoulos, who as The Daily Beast previously reported, was heading up a scam operation intended to give money to white underprivileged males. It’s unclear just exactly how or when Treadstone had a change of heart but he went on to work on a number of pro-Trump projects with MAGA-3X including, according to an organizer, putting together public “flash mobs.”

As the online spat simmered, Cernovich and Treadstone attempted to settle the score in the most civil way possible: dueling Periscopes. In a now-deleted live broadcast from Cernovich, he accused Treadstone of being a drug addict and called him a “disgruntled employee.” And Treadstone took control of the @MAGA3X Twitter account and called Cernovich a “major cuck.”
To add to this catty fight between what these respective parties are now referring to as the “Alt-Right” and the “Alt-Light,” Treadstone took major issue with the person who was invited to attend in his place: none other than Yiannopoulos himself.
In a tweet Monday night, Treadstone shared a screenshot of a purported text from Yiannopoulos in which the previous Breitbart employee appeared to be threatening him with legal action. Treadstone also shared a screenshot of an email which appears to show Yiannopoulos saying he would not attend the event unless he is the headliner…

These kinds of squabbles are typical of squishy revolutionaries, said Spencer, who has earned global condemnation for his hardline racist views.
“The ‘Alt-Light’ faces a major problem,” Spencer wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. “People like Mike Cernovich and Milo don’t have an ideology; they don’t even really have policies that you can point to. They are Trump fans, who are vaguely conservative and a bit neocon-ish. They don’t like feminists and SJWs (social justice warriors); in other words, they pick the low-hanging fruit.
“The Alt-Light has also hitched its wagon to ‘free speech,’” he continued. “The catch is, there’s clearly some free speech they don’t like, particularly regarding race and Jewish activism and influence. In order for the Alt-Light to maintain its current position—playing footsie with the real alt-right and playing footsie with establishment conservatives—they are going to have to engage in thought-policing and disavows.”

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The Washington Times

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

A friend told me the other day that he found these great new sources for right-wing perspectives — The Washington Times and the Washington Free Beacon, and I immediately thought, that’s sad. (I did not say anything. I didn’t want to rain on his parade.) There are 20 websites more thoughtful than these shallow neo-con operations, including mine, Steve Sailer, and TheJewishAlternative.com, etc.

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When Pepe Puts Somebody In A Gas Chamber, Is That Funny?

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

About 100 minutes in, Richard Spencer says: “The anti-gay animus was one of the last gasps of implicit white identity.”

“Trump was pro-gay rights. We’ve gone past hot button politics, safety valve politics, and it is just about identity.”

“No, I don’t think homosexuality is the last stand of implicit white identity. This whole thing kept blowing up… The way that I sunk it was not to argue against it, but to own it and I would make ridiculous jokes, such as playing bingo was the last stand of implicit white identity. It became a meme and that was a way to lessen the power of it.

“I was interviewed by a Canadian TV station after Texas A&M and at the end the host asked, what would you like to say to Canada, and I replied, ‘Hail Canada!’ The way you can diminish the things that can sink you is through laughter. TRS (The Right Stuff) proved this. TRS advanced our cause through humor, some of it too edgy for me.”

Millenial Woes (MW): “There was going to be a left-wing version of TRS.”

Richard: “You can’t. You’ve got to make fun. You have to tell the emperor that he has no clothes but the emperor is the Left.”

MW: “Any tension will be shallow or affected.”

Richard: “Will they use Pepe? Check your privilege! It just doesn’t work.”

“The Left has lost humor. Humor is about saying the emperor has no clothes.”

“I remember liking The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert because I too thought the Bush era was a total joke. When Jon Stewart would attack neo-conservatives or conservatives or George Bush, I agreed… Sending up the pomposity of George W. Bush and the Religious Right.”

“When Stephen Colbert would play his character, an amalgamation of Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, I thought that could be funny. In this other age, they’re not funny. They’re just self-righteous. When Jon Stewart came back on the Colbert show with his “You don’t own this country,” it was pathetic.”

“The right-wing equivalent of the Daily Show is TRS and the Twitter trolls. When I see Pepe putting someone in a gas chamber, probably not something I would do, but there is something outlandish about it that you can’t help but laugh.”

“One of my favorite memes is this little white boy [below].”

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Are Nazis Marching On Whitefish?

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Richard Spencer says Dec. 24 (86 minutes in): “Tanya Gersh in Whitefish began this campaign against my mother, claiming that she is in contacted with Love Lives Here, a local left-wing hate group, and she was going to use this group to protest my mother… My mother owns a facility here that caters to tourists.

“Tanya Gersh said to my mother that she needs to sell this building and that she [Tanya] will be her realtor. In my mind, it was extortion.

“It is interesting how things have changed. I haven’t heard from Gersh, but the rabbi, the naked rabbi, his moniker, has thrown Tanya under the bus, and that Tanya was not in charge of this, and we were not trying to engage in a kind of racket, that we will protest you unless you sell. Love Lives Here has distanced itself from Tanya Gersh.

“The narrative they are spinning is that these Nazis are attacking the town of Whitefish. Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer has been very explicit — nothing illegal, we’re just going to troll the hell out of these people.”

“You’re freaking out over the Alt Right presence in Whitefish even though my presence in Whitefish is to walk around and go skiing. I don’t attend city council meetings. I don’t express opinions on politics in this town. This idea that I am trying to change the town is ridiculous. This whole situation is extremely painful.”

“These people aren’t used to people like me and my mother fighting back. My mother released Tanya Gersh’s email and they don’t make [Tanya] look good. They are used to pushovers and they are not used to people fighting back.”

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The Best Reply to “Black Lives Matter”

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Ari Ben Canaan, American Renaissance, December 29, 2016:

We must refute the implied meaning, not the literal meaning.
While Donald Trump’s election has focused attention on the important racial problems of non-white immigration and Islamic terrorism, it has also been a distraction from the racial problem that has consumed the country for the past several years: white-black relations. This problem will not go away. Shortly after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, another black criminal will be shot by the police, and the call will be sounded—perhaps from atop overturned police cars—that “black lives matter!” Why are whites so offended by this slogan, and how can they best respond to it?

The context of “black lives matter” is nearly always the death of a black man at the hands of the police. Typically, whites say that the death was a result of misbehavior by the black, while blacks say it was a result of murderous white racism. Outside this context, the claim that “black lives matter” is innocuous: It means only that the lives of blacks have value. But in its context, it has a hidden meaning or implication, namely that a black person has died because whites do not believe that black lives matter.

This gap between the literal meaning of “black lives matter” and its implication makes it a remarkably effective slogan against whites. We are all adept at unconsciously grasping what is implied from what is literally said, so whites are vaguely aware that the slogan “black lives matter” is a kind of attack—that it is meant to blame them. Nevertheless, because we very rarely formulate implications of this kind consciously and explicitly, whites find it hard to say what exactly it is about the slogan that offends them. Moreover, the literal meaning of the phrase is unobjectionable; only the most callous person would claim that black lives do not matter. Hence, whites are unable to respond effectively to what amounts to an anti-white slogan.

And this slogan, taken together with its implication, is anti-white. As the latest edition of “The Color of Crime” shows, blacks are more likely than whites to be killed by the police because they are more likely than whites to commit crimes and more likely to resist arrest. “Black lives matter” is therefore a way of implicitly blaming whites for the consequences of black misbehavior. Blacks commit crime, resist arrest, threaten police officers, and are killed for doing so—but whites, through a devious process of linguistic manipulation, are made to feel guilty.

How, then, should we reply to this anti-white slogan? The typical reply—that all lives matter—is ineffective because it takes the slogan at face value and fails to respond to what is truly objectionable: its implication. The counter-reply would then be that if all lives matter, black lives matter too, and anyone who claims that all lives matter should have no more objection to the claim that black lives matter than to the claim that white, Polynesian, or accountants’ lives matter. Of course, this retort hinges on a literal interpretation of “black lives matter,” considered in isolation from its nasty implication…

Mr. Ben Canaan is a dissident Jew and white advocate, who edits thejewishalternative.com, a journal for pro-white and Zionist thought.

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