The Problem With Feminism

Ella Whelan: On both sides of the Atlantic, feminism, especially on college campuses, appears to be undergoing a resurgence. As a long-term critic of political correctness, do you think today’s feminists are too focused on policing thought and speech?
Camille Paglia: After the ferocious Culture Wars of the 1980s to mid-1990s, feminism sank into a long period of relative obscurity. It was kept tangentially alive through scattered websites and blogs until it finally regained media visibility over the past five years, partly through splashy endorsements by pop figures like Beyoncé. The history of feminism has always been cyclic: after the suffrage movement gained the vote for women in Britain (1918 and 1928) and the US (1920), feminist activism faded away. Forty years passed before second-wave feminism was launched by Betty Friedan, when she co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1967.
The problem with too much current feminism, in my opinion, is that even when it strikes progressive poses, it emanates from an entitled, upper-middle-class point of view. It demands the intrusion and protection of paternalistic authority figures to project a hypothetical utopia that will be magically free from offence and hurt. Its rampant policing of thought and speech is completely reactionary, a gross betrayal of the radical principles of 1960s counterculture, which was inaugurated in the US by the incendiary Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Black Uber Drivers On A Crime Rampage

Comment: “In the last several days, two separate incidences have occurred in Atlanta whereby black Uber drivers and “carpool” accomplices have picked up and later viciously beaten up, robbed, and left for dead white patrons leaving bars at closing time in separate, remote locations.”

Man tells police he was attacked, robbed by Uber driver

ATLANTA — A man is recovering in the hospital after he tells police he was attacked and robbed by an Uber driver.
Both the victim’s family and the driver are trading posts that are getting tens of thousands of views on Facebook — while police try to sort it all out.

The victim’s sister took to Facebook, accusing an Uber driver who she says was giving her brother a ride.
It all started around 2:45 a.m. on Sunday when Bo Cleary says he contacted the Uber ride-sharing service for a pickup outside Churchill’s British Pub along Cains Hill Place.

Cleary told investigators that instead of going home, he wound up behind Peachtree Presbyterian Church where the Uber driver and another man beat him, robbed him, then threw him down a drainage pipe.

Cleary’s sister Taylor Cleary claims there was already a passenger in the car when her brother was picked up, using the new Uber carpool service, and that the two men proceeded to pull over, beat her brother unconscious, take everything from him and stuff his naked body into a sewage drain.
Her Facebook post has been shared nearly 20,000 times.

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Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher give £670,000 to help Syrian refugees

I wager they’ve never given such sums to help Jews or the West.

The Guardian: The comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and actor Isla Fisher are donating £670,000 to help Syrian refugees, the charities receiving the money have said.

The couple are giving half the money to Save the Children to pay for measles vaccinations for children in northern Syria.

They are donating the other half to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to help refugees in Syria and neighbouring countries, particularly women and children, with health care, shelter and sanitation.

More than four million refugees have fled conflict in Syria for the relative safety of the neighbouring countries, according to the United Nations.

Millions more have been forced to leave their homes for other parts of the country.

Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, said the money would “save many thousands of lives and protect some of the most vulnerable children”.

“By allowing us to make their generous donation to Syrian children public, Sacha and Isla are helping highlight the tragedy of the issue today,” he added.

David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary who is president of the IRC, called their gift a “great expression of humanity”.

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Why Not Help Our Own Citizens Before Muslim Refugees?

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* There are 94 million American working-age adults who have dropped out of the labor force. Why not pretend they are refugees and have the government pay churches to help them get back on their feet?

* “They’d been told about Donald Trump, and how his supporters talked of shutting down mosques, banning Arabic and creating a government registry of Muslims. These were some of the things Sarhan knew about the United States.”

Priming the Democratic pump, I see? No mention of the generous welfare, outreach by misguided do-gooders of another religion, and self-sacrificing policies of the American people towards cultural aliens? God forbid they feel any gratitude to you.

God, if only you didn’t need these people for their IQ and their skills to revitalize your crumbling and stale economy and society.

* There may not be many sheep to herd in Loouhvul. But there are plenty of sheeple to be fleeced.

You might check in a year or two to see whether some enterprising Extension agent in Jefferson County hasn’t drawn USDA and state ag grants to set Saran Adobe up with his own special halal sheep operation. I understand that that sort of bleeding-heartery is becoming more popular, particularly among the funding programs for “sustainable” and “alternative” farming.

Just imagine the panoply of services he’ll need to do what any border collie can do! Language services, literacy services, family services, education services, housing services, filling-out-USDA-reports services…plenty of career opportunities! This one family along will contribute dozens of civil service and social work jobs! It’s a win win win win win!

* I think that reclassifying struggling Americans as refugees is a brilliant idea, although to make it truly effective we may have to turn them into actual refugees. Perhaps we could stir up a little homicidal and fratricidal war between West Virginia’s Baptists and Methodists? Then we could resettle the refugees en masse in Greenwich Village.

We would just need to explain to the insular and old-fashioned residents of the Village that Lynyrd Skynyrd music, Nascar races, and other elements of West Virginian culture should be embraced rather than feared as they will only add to the rich tapestry of the area.

* On the Mall from Hell topic, I’m fascinated by how “journalists” suddenly turn into John Frum cultists when writing about the various Dindudomes they cover. Suddenly, reportage becomes litanies of animist/magical thinking:

““the disturbances fed off each other.”
–There were these disturbances there, just kinda wandering around. Then disturbance cannibalism ensued.

“Mall management made the decision to close the facility around 8 p.m., McDonald said. That prompted the fights and unruly conduct to spill out…”
–The procession of the fights and “unruly” “conduct” were “prompted” by a management decision. Not, say, a force of genomic nature that does what it does because it’s what it does.

“the officers having to deal with so many “hot spots””
–It’s like those ballistic fumaroles where “gunfire” “erupts.” Where the streets “go bad.” (Though that’s more like off milk I guess.)

“he said some juveniles involved were as young as middle school-aged children”
–That’s oddly frank–i.e., that these fruits of r-population-strategy humpin and pumpin are chronologically “as young as” “middle school-aged children,” but in fact they are “juveniles,” an entirely different demographic.

“called the night’s events “troubling”
–The tendency of one of my toenails to ingrow is “troubling.” “The night’s” “events” are more on order of distressing, alarming, vexing, horrifying, abominable, grim, scandalous…. Oh, and I like the subtle shift of the dindus’ Mogadishesque savagery onto “the night” and its “events.” Damn you, December 26!

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“there are parents and guardians that have used the mall as a babysitter”
–What’s this term “parents and guardians” applied to r-population-strategy humpers and pumpers? They aren’t “using the mall as a babysitter.” A baby sitter is someone vetted by parents to act in loco parentis, generally while the parent goes out to do parent-related things. Not a curb where the spawn disembark from their wheeled conveyance so mamma can get her groove on with Deontaytay, after getting huh nails did.

They’re dumping their spawn for as long as they can get away with it at a place they figure YT will house them, AND said YT has deep deep pockets for any potential lawsuit involving civil rights or whatever. Any news of those yet?

* America needs these people like it needs the bubonic plague. Ever notice how it is ONLY white western nations that get stuck with these people? EVER WONDER ABOUT THAT? Never see Japan South Korea, Taiwan, etc., take any off them in. Notice how Israel takes none either. They don’t go elsewhere in the Arab world either, (why not say, Morocco). Nor do they go to poor – but war-free places like Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, etc. ONLY TO WHITE WESTERN NATIONS.

* “They [Sarhan Aldobai, his wife & their six children] were flying over the United States, where polls showed that a majority of residents said they didn’t want more Syrian refugees.”

Got that? See, according to the Washington Post we Americans are now mere “residents” of the United States; no more are we Americans citizens, so that our American “residents’” majority voice counts for not so much as a wad of spit.

* If there really was such a backlash, then wouldn’t the refugees and their supporters look to greener, i.e. safer, pastures? The very fact that the refugees pass up other nations for nations with a supposed muslim backlash pretty much proves no such backlash exists.

* I also haven’t heard much about banning mosques. I mean, I can look out my office window and see the “ground zero” mosque. After all the 15 minutes of furor, which was only about moving away from where it was, it’s still there and no one cares. It’s the same building where they pulled a piece of jet out from behind a few years ago. Watched that too. Just like I watched those towers come down right outside my office. For all that we aren’t much a mosque-banning people.

* Millennial snarkmaster, it is not just about going down in hail of bullets. It is about speaking the truth. I do that ever f*ing day.

It has cost me a lot.

My wife, a German national, has, on occasion, basically SCREAMED Deutsch to shut down Hispanics at Target just to make a point. She really, really, has and at 5 foot 100 pounds has more balls than you do.

MISBEHAVE in your own way.

We built this world.

We own it.

Act like it.

Stop hiding.

Don’t write a letter.

Go to the legislative office building and talk to the assholes fucking you over.

Tell your SJW sister in law to go to hell.

Control your immediate environment and work out from there.

It is NOT that hard.

Listen, we’re on the same side here. You gotta be willing to take a hit.

* I’m living in a fucking ghetto. Talk to my black Democratic legislators? Fat fucking chance they’d let me in the building. Living here, taking a hit isn’t some metaphor or an unpleasant verbal altercation at Target, it’s someone smashing up your car while you sleep or jumping you when your back is turned.

Speaking the truth doesn’t do a goddamned thing but draw the attention of people that mean me harm, and that includes the police, who would love to shoot a white man in a black neighborhood, so they could be local heroes for a change.

* The MSM despises Christians and Christianity but loves to use Christian imagery and quotations to push the leftwing agenda.

* I’d say the better pop reference might be to Flandry of Terra. He knows the long dark night is coming, but he hustles here and there, putting out brush fires, stamping out incursions of chaos. The Empire is decadent, yes, and doomed, and many other bad things, but it is still his Empire, the Empire he serves,and if he can buy another day or two before the lights go out, well wouldn’t you really have to?

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America’s Newest Christmas Tradition: Black Mob Violence at Malls

Colin Flaherty writes:

American has a new Christmas tradition: Black mob violence at malls.

In the days before, during, and after Christmas, 15 malls reported large-scale episodes of rioting, shooting, looting, rampaging, fighting, throwing rocks at police, damaging cars and more.

Two black people died.

A survey of the mayhem from around the country.

In Louisville, 2000 black people “rioted” at the Mall St. Matthews. In addition, shoppers report several gunshots. “Riots unfolded at Mall St. Matthews today,” reported WHAS TV news of the day after Christmas mob action. “That violence, beginning around 7, forcing mall officials to close early. It actually spread to multiple locations,” (outside the mall.)

“Why was this whole mayhem involving black kids,” asked one viewer of WHAS. “My wife and I were there plus vids show it.”

The police spokesman said the violence was “random.”

In the Stonecrest Mall in a suburb of Atlanta, video from inside the mall shows a group of black people fighting and pulling each other’s hair. Soon after, the group of about 10-15 moved outside, where the video shows fighting, gunshots, and at least one person hitting the ground wounded, while the other participants shrieked with glee.

At the Orange Park Mall near Jacksonville, 200 black people had to be dispersed from a movie theater on Christmas Day. “100’s of teens & young adults were at/outside movie theater at OP Mall when fights erupted,” said local reporter Tennikka Smith Hughes,

Eight black people were arrested, three for possession of concealed weapons.

“This happens every Christmas (in Jacksonville), first at River City, now Orange Park,” said one viewer, referring to a 2013 incident also on Christmas Day in Jacksonville, where 600 to 1000 black people stormed a movie theater and rampaged through the parking lot.”

At the Eastland Mall near Detroit, one black person was shot and killed after two groups of black people started fighting in the food court. The shooting took place as the violence moved towards the exit.

In Towson, Maryland, two hundred black people threw rocks at police trying to break up a large crowd at the local mall. Dozens of police responded, one was hit with a rock. On Twitter, TariqToure sent out the word of black victimization: “Tonight, dogs were sent out for black kids in “Baltimore Towson Mall.” He compared it to a Chicago shooting earlier that night.

Others said the riot was a long tradition in Towson and the result of black people in Baltimore not having enough free recreational opportunities, so they go to the mall and create havoc instead.

On Christmas night in Mobile, Alabama, four black people were shot at a movie theater.

At the Mall in Wellington Green in Wellington, Florida, police responded a large brawl at the shopping center the day before Christmas.

At the Park Plaza Mall in Little Rock, “a fight led to a large and rowdy crowd gathering in the food court,” said the ABC affiliate. 200 black people interfered as police tried to break up a fight. One person was arrested.

At the Southland Mall in Chicago, ten black people fought throughout the mall on video. No one died.

In a popular neighborhood shopping district in Chicago, the headline tells the story: “Ho Ho Hold Ups Galore: 4 robbed, 1 pistol-whipped during Christmas Eve armed robbery spree in Lakeview.”

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Steve Sailer: A New Boxing Day Tradition for America: The Annual Day After Christmas Mall Brawl

Comments:

* No. Not an American tradition. An African-American tradition.

* Here in Flint, the main mall was forced to implement a curfew policy on weekends due to feral youths. Not a bad policy overall but I found it very irritating a few years ago when, as a not-especially-young looking 27 year old, I was asked by a short, fat Mexican rent-a-swine to brandish my ID in order to prove that I wasn’t some rowdy yoof looking for trouble on that warm summer Saturday afternoon. I just kept walking and he radioed ahead to his comrades whom I walked right past, presumably because I didn’t look that young to them. Oh well.

* Articles about the Kentucky incident frequently used the word, “teens”, to describe the perps, a term which has often been commented on before at places like this. The term, despite it’s frequent euphemistic use, can still be accurate in a technical sense, but how could the media know what percentage of the people in the crowd were actually in their teens in this case? With 2000 people, it would be impossible to tell. Many may have been 20, 21 or older… nobody can be sure by looking at the photos.

What you can be sure of, however, is how many of the perps were black youths – you can tell just by looking – and it looks like all of them were. Any non-blacks would be fairly conspicuous. So, “black youth,” is a far more accurate term than, “teens,” in this case, but the media isn’t willing to use the term that is obviously more accurate and specific.

* Season’s Beatings at the Boxing Day Maul at the Mall!

* With the internet, why do shopping malls still exist? Given your measurements, a computer program can model clothing on your frame. You can search and sort for the things you need/want much more quickly with Bing or Google. There is no point in stockpiling large amounts of merchandise in one place. The book store and record store are dead. Time to finish off the rest of bricks and mortar retail and leave no more targets for undocumented shoppers.

Maine Street America has now become a global village filled with thieves.

* I bet they’re all kicking themselves now. If they’d just waited a couple of days, they could have said it was for Tamir Rice.

* There’s a custom among unmarried black mothers that a lot of whites aren’t familiar with. A lot of these single mothers don’t buy their kids presents for Christmas because:

1) They know teenagers are fussy about what they receive and will complain if it isn’t what they want.

2) They’re too lazy to pick out the presents themselves. It’s too much of a mental strain on a limited IQ to actually ponder what another person wants, and it eats up too much of their ‘for themselves’ time, and selfish people hate spending too much time laboring over an altruistic act.

Instead, these mothers give their kids cash for Christmas and then drop their kids off at the mall the day after the holiday–when the sales are running–so that the cash will go farther (this is something all mothers know). This is why you’re ending up with thousands of black teens running amok at the malls.

* Kwanzaa was sort of a black fad for a few years, but it quickly fell off the radar in the black mainstream, and now, the only people who do it are fringe militant radical obsessive blacks, and pandering white leftists.

One fairly fashionable theory to why Kwanzaa came and went like a shooting star is that most blacks are Christians. However, that theory doesn’t hold water, because there is nothing contradictory between Kwanzaa and Christianity, even the watered down version of Christianity that most blacks adhere to.

I think the real reason Kwanzaa was a flop accidentally came to me several years ago. I overheard a black girl say that the Christmas that just concluded was horrible for her, and that next year, she wants to switch to Kwanzaa, because, “since it has more days, maybe I’ll get more gifts.” What this means is that blacks who did Kwanzaa at first thought they would get seven days worth of gifts instead of just one, and when it didn’t work out that way, they just forgot about the whole thing. Plain words, Kwanzaa didn’t well serve their sense of gibs.

* As damning as the visual images are of blacks fighting and rioting is, the audio is 10 times worse. There is something particularly ugly about the sound of two (or more) black women fighting each other.

* Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to a certain principle. Shouldn’t Kwanzaabe extended to eight days and the last one dedicated to Smash ‘n’ Grab?

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Black Violence

Here are some tweets from this important account:

* It’s time for white Americans to boycott black Hollywood and their supporters.

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* Published on Dec 28, 2015: In this footage, released 6 days ago, a Muslim immigrant in Germany brags about how he and his buddies gang raped a virgin until she was “full of dirt and sperm” and “completely devastated” on the ground until “she could go on no more”. His friend is very interested in the details, but is visibly disappointed because they did not violate her anally. They did, however, “spit on her like pigs”. This man walks free while thousands in Germany are in prison for speaking their mind.

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* Police searching for black males who robbed and shot elderly woman

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* Muslim in NYC bomb plot stabbed child in the neck, was a audition for ISIS

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* Non-white youth attack man with metal pipe two days after he arrived in Syracuse.

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* Black male sexually assaults and robs woman in Hackensack, New Jersey.

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* Black male on bail shoots pregnant woman to death on Las Vegas Strip.

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* Black male beat and stole from developmentally-delayed woman.

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* Four black culprits arrested in robbery spree targeting the elderly

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* Philly muslim to stand trial for attempting to join and support ISIS.

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* Black male pleads guilty to beating his white girlfriend to death.

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* Black male doused woman with gasoline and set her on fire, burned alive

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* Black police officer arrested for kidnapping and rape, sodomy, while on duty.

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* Black male arrested for shooting woman to death in Dallas.

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* Black male exposes himself, asks for sex act, then shows gun at restaurant to lower his bill.

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* Black Normandy church employee charged with child molestation, sodomy.

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* Black brothers arrested for raping two girls, ages five and six.

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* Pizza shop owner, muslim invader, admits trying to recruit for ISIS.

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* Three black males arrested for shooting white college student to death.

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* Black male attacked white man with machete while screaming fu*k white people.

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* Black male sentenced, stabbed white wife in neck/back and beat her to death.

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* Black male beat white girlfriend’s head in with a cinder block.

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* Black muslim who helped plan cartoon attack charged with supporting ISIS.

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* U.S. Marshals arrest black male for rape and sexual abuse against a child.

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* Black male sentenced for rape, sodomy of child under the age of 14.

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* Prison for black HIV positive male who didn’t warn 3 sexual partners.

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* Three life sentences for black inmate who choked and brutally raped clerk.

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* Black males appear in front of judge for murder, shot white man to death.

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* Black male shoots white man in back of head w/ shotgun, dies from injuries.

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* After black youth attack, white St. Paul teacher plans to sue school district.

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* Black male murdered his elderly father, multiple stab wounds to head.

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* Black male followed woman off train, robbed and sexually assaulted her.

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* Black Philadelphia Sheriff indicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

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How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement

From Buzzfeed:

WASHINGTON — Old-guard racists like David Duke aren’t the only white nationalists to have been encouraged by Donald Trump’s candidacy this year: His bid has also provided a tremendous boost to a newer movement calling itself the “alt right.”
Up until now, the alt right labored mostly in obscurity, its internal fights and debates hidden from anyone who wasn’t directly looking for them. But all that’s starting to change, and it’s only getting stronger.
“This is really a phenomenon that’s been happening over the last year,” said Richard Spencer, president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute. “2015 has been huge.”
The movement probably doesn’t look like anything you’ve seen before. The alt right is loosely connected, and mostly online. The white nationalists of the alt right share more in common with European far-right movements than American ones. This is a movement that draws upon relatively obscure political theories like neoreaction or the “Dark Enlightenment,” which reject the premises on which modernity is built, like democracy and egalitarianism. But it’s not all so high-minded as that. Take a glance at the #altright hashtag on Twitter or at The Right Stuff, an online hub of the movement, and you’ll find a penchant for aggressive rhetoric and outright racial and anti-Semitic slurs, often delivered in the arch, ironic tones common to modern internet discourse. Trump is a hero on the alt right and the subject of many adoring memes and tweets.
In short, it’s white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times: 4chan-esque racist rhetoric combined with a tinge of Silicon Valley–flavored philosophizing, all riding on the coattails of the Trump boom.
Spencer himself can claim credit for coining the term “alt right”; in 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com, which is now RadixJournal. But he says the term has gotten a second life in the past year due to a confluence of external factors. “I think it has a lot to do with Trump,” he said. “I think the refugee crisis is also an inspiration. I just think things have gotten so real.”
Jared Taylor, the American Renaissance founder who along with Spencer is considered one of the chiefs of the intellectual wing of white nationalism, also acknowledged Trump’s influence, but said, “It doesn’t have to do only with Trump,” citing Black Lives Matter and “the current rowdiness on college campuses” as other inspirations.
“I think it goes by a lot of different names,” Taylor said. “I consider it a dissident right as well.”
Spencer believes the alt right is “deeply connected” with his work. “I would say that what I’m doing is we’re really trying to build a philosophy, an ideology around identity, European identity,” he said, “and I would say that the alt right is a kind of the take-no-prisoners Twitter troopers of that.”
The alt right’s targets don’t include just liberals, blacks, Jews, women, Latinos, and Muslims, who are all classified a priori as objects of suspicion. (Though this has not gone unnoticed: “It’s definitely something we’re aware of and tracking,” said Marilyn Mayo, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “There are more white supremacists who are defining themselves as part of the alt right.”)
The alt right’s real objective, if one can be identified, is to challenge and dismantle mainstream conservatism.
It’s in part responsible for the spread of the “cuckservative” slur that gained currency over the summer and likely originated in forums on sites like My Posting Career and The Right Stuff, and has come to define a far-right contempt for conservatives they view as weak or sellouts — often those who oppose Trump.
So far, they haven’t garnered much attention from mainstream conservative figures, though they’ve begun to intersect a bit with national political commentary.
“You are on fire tonight, Alt Right!” conservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeted in August at an account called @_AltRight_ whose current avatar is a photo of Front National scion Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. Coulter’s rant about Jews over the summer was met with approval by Spencer. Her public persona has become more and more tied to a kind of white identity politics; Coulter’s book Adios America! may have had some influence on Donald Trump’s hard right turn on immigration, and her Twitter feed has lately seemed of a piece with alt right ideas about America being a white nation (“All trying to imitate Trump on immigration, but it’s not just security!!! Its CULTURE!!!! See Miami, Houston, Nashville etc etc”) and secretive Jewish influence (“I love how the media assumes all Americans know Yiddish.”)

…The alt right’s current moment in the sun has actually been a long time coming. The movement is undergirded by some of the ideas espoused by Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary thinkers like the English philosopher Nick Land and the the American computer programmer Curtis Yarvin (aka “Mencius Moldbug”). Land and Yarvin have for years espoused a rejection of democracy and a return to traditional authoritarian structures. But the Dark Enlightenment thinkers are the definition of inaccessible; both Land and Yarvin’s writings are eye-glazingly verbose. A representative Land sentence, from his manifesto on the Dark Enlightenment: “The war on political incorrectness creates data-empowered, web-coordinated, paranoid and poly-conspiratorial werewolves, superbly positioned to take advantage of liberal democracy’s impending rendezvous with ruinous reality, and to then play their part in the unleashing of unpleasantnesses that are scarcely imaginable (except by disturbing historical analogy).”
The alt right’s genius is in dispensing with the self-marginalizing pseudo-intellectual stuff and getting straight to the point, and not in the creaky hit-you-over-the-head fashion of, say, Stormfront, but the slangy and freewheeling argot of the internet in 2015. The Right Stuff has a page devoted to the lexicon of the alt right, a collection of terms that pop up frequently on Twitter once you know what to look for. “Fash,” for example, for fascist. “Merchant” for Jews. “Dindu nuffins” for “an obviously guilty black man.” Where neoreactionary thinkers refer to “the Cathedral” as shorthand for the politically correct elite establishment, The Right Stuff is more pointed in calling it “the Synagogue.” Rare Pepes, the frog meme native to 4chan, are common. The Right Stuff forums are rife with memes targeting, for example, Jeb Bush as a weakling (a recent Bush-related thread is titled “Suicide Watch Headquarters”) and portraying Trump as a hero (see “Memes of Der Trumpenfuhrer”). The culture clearly draws on 4chan — the /pol/ board is another hub.

…One of the central figures on the alt right internet is Paul Ramsey, a 52-year-old in Oklahoma who makes YouTube videos as RamzPaul. He agreed to an interview with BuzzFeed News on one condition: that he would record it.
I agreed to his terms, and interviewed him over the phone about the alt right movement and his role in it. Right after we got off the phone, Ramsey started tweeting about me and the interview. Immediately, a stream of anti-Semitic tweets came my way, without a word of this story having yet been written or published: “Oy vey! Look at that nose! I can’t imagine this ending well,” read one. “She looks like she echos,” read another, using a slang term on the alt right for being Jewish (see: The Right Stuff’s glossary). “She @RosieGray interviewed me once my .1% Jewish DNA results were published. We MOTs stick together,” Ramsey himself tweeted. Ramsey tweeted about my being “nice” and exhorted his followers to be nice to me in turn, but he also tweeted about how he planned to post the recording online so his followers could assess it — a not-so-subtle invitation to troll me.
Ramsey characterized the alt right as being neither mainstream conservatism nor neo-Nazism. As an example of the differences between the alt-right and neo-Nazis, he stated that the 14/88 crowd (14 for the “14 words” white supremacist slogan and 88 as shorthand for “Heil Hitler”) don’t like Trump because his daughter is Jewish (Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism), whereas the alt right doesn’t care about this and generally support Trump for his policies. Ramsey objects to the word “supremacist,” saying he’s a nationalist and doesn’t hate other people or think he’s better than them. He repeatedly invoked the example of Israel as a template of the kind of nationalism he seeks for the United States. In keeping with the alt right’s affinity for European identity movements, Ramsey often visits Europe and said he has recently been in Romania and Hungary, though he said he isn’t affiliated with any specific groups there.
I pressed him on the ideological specifics of the alt right. For example, does he believe that the Holocaust happened?
“I believe it should be able to be discussed, let me put it that way,” Ramsey said. “And that’s because — and it depends what you mean by the Holocaust. Do you mean that 6 million figure? You know that 6 million figure has been used many times before World War II, did you know that?”

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Puerto Rico policeman fatally shoots 3 officers after fight, authorities say

LATIMES: A Puerto Rico policeman fatally shot two high-ranking officers and a policewoman on Monday following an argument at work that temporarily shut down the station in the U.S. territory’s second largest city, authorities said. The suspect was immediately placed under arrest.

The suspect held a female lieutenant, a male commander and a policewoman hostage in an office before he killed them, police spokeswoman Mayra Ayala told the Associated Press. Other police officials identified the officer as Guarionex Candelario.

Ayala said authorities were about to start negotiations with the suspect when the victims were killed. She said police did not yet have information on a motive.

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Concern in Israel over bill on foreign-funded NGOs

From Al Jazeera:

Israeli cabinet ministers have approved a bill that critics say could severely curtail the influence of foreign-funded non-governmental organisations, including human-rights groups.

The legislation, which was accepted on Sunday and expected to be passed into law this week, requires organisations that receive foreign funding to declare their financial sources on every documented report.

It also mandates that their representatives wear tags publicising their funding in parliamentary meetings.

The bill, proposed by Ayelet Shaket, Israel’s justice minister, and backed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, could in turn harm the legitimacy of organisations receiving foreign funding.

RamzPaul tweets:

* Inspired by the recent Israeli attempt to ban unfriendly NGOs, we the people of USA have decided to ban the following – ADL, SPLC, AIPAC

* When Hungary and Russia banned NGO groups, the media screamed “HATE”.

* Trump’s religion test for immigrants is standard practice in Israel.

* “We will not allow Israel to be flooded with illegal migrants

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