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

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

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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Sustaining The Jewish Journal Of Los Angeles

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

The Jewish Journal seemed to me like the most hysterically anti-Trump of all Jewish publications (almost of which were hysterically anti-Trump). Given that Trump got about a third of Jewish votes, why would anyone on the Right support the Jewish Journal?

There is no better time of the year than Chanukah, the festival of lights, to honor the beacon that high-quality, community journalism shines on our community and our world.
As a community-based nonprofit, the Jewish Journal relies on your generous support to shed light on the complex issues facing our world, particularly at this time of great uncertainty.
You come to the Jewish Journal, time and time again, to read independent reporting from Los Angeles, Washington, New York and Jerusalem, as well as wide-ranging and civil Jewish opinion.
The need for a publication like the Journal to provide perspectives from across the political ideological spectrum – but rooted in Jewish community and values – is now more important than ever.
Help sustain the flame of the Jewish Journal burning brightly in our community and beyond for this generation and the next.

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Forward: Inauguration ‘Deploraball’ Split Over Anti-Semitic Donald Trump Backers in ‘Alt-Right’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Trump-supporting ethno-nationalists and civic nationalists keep fighting with each other while the Left must cheer the personal destruction.

The Forward has devoted more articles and more resources to the Alt Right than any other Jewish publication. They’ve done a ton of solid reporting in addition to the hand-wringing.

Tabletmag.com, however, has had the most thoughtful pieces on the Alt Right, including this one on Paul Gottfried.

Forward:

But the planned gathering has revealed a deep schism within the ranks of a movement known as the alt-right: pitting those embracing white nationalism or outright racism against those seeking a more credible platform for hard-right conservatives.
The party will be held at the National Press Club in Washington the night before Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, when many official inauguration events are taking place.
Organizers say the Deploraball is a cocktail party for Trump supporters from all ethnic backgrounds and no incendiary or discriminatory actions will be allowed. Organizers call themselves “Trumpists” and say they have sold 1,000 tickets ranging in price from $99 to $2,500. But after an online battle between star guests, Deploraball organizers offered ticket holders refunds “in light of recent events.”
One of the original organizers of the ball, alt-right social media personality Tim Treadstone who is commonly referred to by his online persona “Baked Alaska,” has been disinvited after tweeting several anti-Semitic comments, setting off angry exchanges among members of the alt-right on Twitter.
Another featured guest at the party, Mike Cernovich, has condemned Treadstone for appearing anti-Semitic and homophobic.
“The lines are drawn and the fracture is more or less complete,” he said.
Cernovich, an architect of viral Internet trends promoting rumors of Clinton’s supposed ill health that have been credited with helping push Trump to victory with the support of the alt-right, said he has rejected the alt-right’s descent into white nationalism.
The alt-right movement, which came to the fore during the presidential campaign, is a loose grouping that rejects mainstream politics and includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites. It had previously been more widely embraced by libertarians and the far-right fringe: people more opposed to the concept of political correctness than to racial or other diversity…
Treadstone said the main difference between himself and the so-called new right, including Cernovich and Yiannopoulos, is the explicit support of white nationalism.
“If you don’t support white advocacy, you cannot be alt-right and that’s where a lot of people are running into a problem,” he told Reuters.
Cernovich, who says Treadstone is increasingly fixated on Jewish conspiracy theory, said the branch of former alt-righters he belongs to are more inclusive and are primarily focused on populism, nationalism and the rejection of “victim culture and identity politics.”
The group also has no clear leader, unlike with white nationalist alt-right, which looks to Spencer, he said.
Giesea described “Trumpism” as a new breed of Republicanism and said it was still a work-in-progress. “We’re in the process of constructing it, and it’s messy,” he said.

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Salon: ‘Faced with Donald Trump and David Friedman, Jews must resist the toxic allure of tribalism’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

The essence of Judaism and of Jewish identity is tribalism. Jews are a tribe. They are an extended family partly in-bed (to use Steve Sailer’s definition of a race).

As a convert to Orthodox Judaism, let me tell you that Jewish life largely runs on genetic relatedness. A typical Jew, when he meets with fellow Jews, has a sense of a connection that goes back thousands of years.

The more genetically related people are, the more likely they are to get along. Genetic relatedness is not the only thing that bonds people, but it is a powerful force, probably the most powerful.

A person with few if any Jewish genes is going to have a tough time of connecting in Jewish life. As far as I know, I have no Jewish ancestors, and though I have managed to connect in Jewish life according to my merits, I recognize the challenge all round of bonding with people who have different genes from me.

Salon essay:

My late mother was a shiksa — tall, strawberry blonde and Midwestern — and that’s often enough for other Jews to disown and dismiss me: “Oh, so you’re not actually Jewish.” No matter that my father sought refuge from Soviet anti-Semitism, first in Israel and then in America, or that his immediate family fled the Nazi invasion on cattle trains leaving Odessa. Never mind that my mother insisted on sending me to crunchy Jewish summer camp every year, and prepared a beautiful seder. Forget that it was my father, not my mother, who talked me out of a bat mitzvah ceremony.
The sad irony is that what matters to far too many of my fellow Jews is the “purity” of my blood. I cannot be married or buried as a Jew in Israel, for example, because those institutions are under the control of an Orthodox rabbinate to whom I’m irrelevant, at best. My only option to avoid discrimination is a full-blown conversion to Orthodox Judaism. Other options, including Reform Judaism, agnosticism and even atheism, are reserved for purebreds.

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The Male Need To Rank

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

An anonymous commenter observes at Steve Sailer’s site:

I make up a lot of music playlists on Youtube, and my stats say men are about twice as interested in music than women, no matter what type of music it is. Even when the musician is gay, more men are still willing to listen to him than women. On average, men are more fanatical about their hobbies than women, and they like to delve more deeply.

Someone once said that this trait comes from the male sense of hierarchy, and that when a man walks into a room, he’ll rank all women by looks and all the men by pecking order, and this is an instinctive reflex. If he’s an artist himself, he immediately asks, ‘Is this guy better than me or is he worse?’ If he doesn’t create himself but is still interested in music, he immediately starts scanning the entire field and ranking all the talent. If he likes literature, he has to rank all the writers by importance, and this is one reason why women complain that all the literary critics are male.

Men are such compulsive rankers than of course they have to lay down the law about why certain books are more important than others. It practically kills them not to. They’ll thrash around like dying fish if you tell them everything is only subjective opinion. They think it’s an outrage if you don’t clearly establish who is great and why. Men think society doesn’t work right unless you establish clear hierarchies of brains and talent, and thus indicate what you need to pay attention to and what deserves to be ignored, and I can’t quarrel with that. It’s plain to me that the trait has both a genetic basis and a Darwinian advantage, because it helped primitive human society advance into the modern era and pass on the gains of each new generation, building on top of the previous one.

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Jews Should Be Fighting the Far Left, Not the ‘Alt-Right’

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Luke Ford

Joshua Seidel writes for the Forward:

Liberal Journalists have had a tough couple of months. Liberal Jewish journalists? Even tougher. Nothing seemed to work this year. Trump was the worst person ever to run for President, they said. The mainstream media and Hollywood pulled out all the stops. Celebrity videos, polemics by noted thinkers like George Takei and Lena Dunham, CNN panelists; they all tried to tell us Trump hates women, Jews, Black people, and the Constitution.

To no avail.

Perhaps nothing stings so much as “defections” from trusted minority groups. Some in the Jewish community are engaged in furious reprisals against fellow Jews who dared support the “Orange Fuhrer”. Ivanka Trump was harassed on an airplane, Jared Kushner’s Judaism was questioned. I knew my turn was coming, and indeed, enter Jamie Kirchick (not really a “liberal”, but very anti-Trump) and his recent Daily Beast piece, “The Jews Begging to Join the Alt-Right”, targeting myself and fellow contributors to our website “The Jewish Alternative”.

Despite Kirchick’s title, the “alt right” doesn’t constitute something one can “join”. There’s no organized alt-right political party, no organization that can lay complete claim to the title. There’s just people, who have come to their political conclusions in the same manner that Kirchick has. Some of them hate Jews. My fellow contributors and I are Jewish, and therefore, they hate us. It’s really that simple. We may share some political positions with these anti-Semites, we may agree on some issues, but we are not the same thing, not in the same “group”, and never will be. Kirchick’s semantic games, repeated so many times by the media (all alt-right are Nazis, alt-right supports Trump, therefore Trump = Nazi) failed to influence the election or shut yours truly up.

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