{"id":118476,"date":"2017-11-02T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118476"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:11:57","slug":"adl-white-supremacist-infighting-escalates-after-shelbyville-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118476","title":{"rendered":"ADL: White Supremacist Infighting Escalates After Shelbyville Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the ADL<\/a>:<\/p>\n

White supremacists have been fighting among themselves ever since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That infighting escalated following last weekend\u2019s White Lives Matter (WLM) rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee.
\nAbout 200 white supremacists around the country attended the WLM rally. The main organization behind the rally was the Nationalist Front, which includes groups such as League of the South, a Southern nationalist group, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and two other neo-Nazi groups, Matt Heimbach and Matt Parrott’s Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), and Vanguard America. A number of Klan groups were also represented at the rally, including the Global Crusader Knights and the International Keystone Knights.
\nThere is a major point of contention among various white supremacist factions: divergent opinions about acceptable ways to act and dress \u2013 and how to best promote their cause. In one camp, are white supremacists who promote \u201cAmerican Nationalism\u201d and advocate for a racist ideology that appeals to conservatives with the use of ostensibly unifying symbols like the American flag, They also use more subtle language to promote their white supremacist ideas and events. They are in conflict with those whom Occidental Dissent\u2019s Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, identifies as the \u201chard right\u201d who prefer to highlight their racist and anti-Semitic ideology through their militant dress, explicit language, and hardcore beliefs such as National Socialism.
\nA number of the attendees in Tennessee openly displayed neo-Nazi symbols such as SS bolts and Klan patches. Some also gave Nazi salutes and wore black helmets reminiscent of fascist forces during World War II. Griffin, one of the organizers of the event, stressed in his \u201cpost-mortem\u201d analysis of the event that \u201cthere were no swastika flags in Shelbyville.\u201d The Nationalist Front was trying to contain the display of the most blatant Nazi imagery at the rally so that the attendees could appear less hardcore than they actually are, but the effort fell flat. The \u201coptics\u201d of neo-Nazis giving \u201cSieg heil\u201d salutes and Klan members wearing Klan symbols on their jackets irked a number of activists on the alt right.
\nA number of alt right activists had harsh words for the WLM rally, including Andrew Anglin, who runs The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site. Nathan Damigo, the former head of Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group active in the campaign to post fliers on campuses, and Nicholas Fuentes and Jack Allsup, two college students who present themselves as \u201cconservatives\u201d but have their feet planted firmly in the worlds of white nationalism and the alt right, were angry at the WLM rally attendees for displaying signs and symbols associated with the hardcore white supremacist movement.
\nIn a column for The Daily Stormer, Anglin, who recently disavowed his neo-Nazi persona, disparaged the \u201c1980s style neo-Nazism\u201d on display in Tennessee, and wrote that the rally was \u201cnot at all close to the vision I have for the movement I have contributed to.\u201d He went on to encourage fellow white supremacists to make an attempt to look like \u201csomething normal people can get behind.\u201d
\nDamigo, Fuentes and Allsup also attacked the rally on Twitter, with Damigo saying it was \u201ccringe\u201d and \u201cself-indulgent extremism.\u201d Allsup made fun of the march in a tweet, telling Griffin that he \u201ccan go celebrate \u2018victory\u2019 with your twenty KKK buddies,\u201d and adding, \u201cRAHOWA [Racial Holy War, a common white supremacist refrain] is definitely coming any day now, buddy!\u201d In his tweet, Fuentes disparaged the \u201ccard carrying KKK & Nazis, Roman salutes, not a single decent recording and underwhelming attendance.\u201d
\nBoth Griffin and TWP\u2019s Matt Parrott (who did not attend the rally in Shelbyville) reacted with anger to the attacks from alt right figures. Griffin called them \u201ca bunch of childless homosexuals\u201d and wrote on his blog, Occidental Dissent, that the rally was a \u201csuccess\u201d because it changed the narrative around Charlottesville by demonstrating that white supremacists could hold an event without violence.
\nParrott was likewise on the defensive, saying he believed the WLM rally was a success. He chided the white supremacists who want to dress up \u201clike frat boys with American flags\u201d and described members of his own group as \u201cstreet nationalists\u201d who put themselves in the line of fire against groups like antifa. He attacked American Nationalism, saying, \u201cIdentifying ourselves with this prolapsing empire is a bad idea that we will not sign off on.\u201d He also said that he and his cohorts \u201crealize that the American federal government can\u2019t be and won\u2019t be a vehicle for White Nationalism.\u201d
\nUltimately, the alt right and white supremacists like Parrott share the same ideology. Both groups promote racism and anti-Semitism and want whites to live separately from non-whites, but they disagree on how to achieve that goal. It seems unlikely that they will reconcile their differences anytime soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the ADL: White supremacists have been fighting among themselves ever since the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. That infighting escalated following last weekend\u2019s White Lives Matter (WLM) rally in Shelbyville, Tennessee. About 200 white supremacists around … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361,42720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adl","category-alt-right"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t