{"id":121065,"date":"2018-03-21T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=121065"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:14:54","slug":"richard-spencer-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=121065","title":{"rendered":"Richard Spencer Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vfvgbz\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vfvgbz\",\"div\":\"rumble_vfvgbz\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>* What is the current direction of the alt right?<br \/>\n* You mentioned the alt right is at each other&#8217;s throats. What&#8217;s going on? W Identity Europa? TRS?<br \/>\n* In your interview with Israeli TV, you mentioned, &#8220;I made mistakes recently.&#8221;<br \/>\n* What strikes me when you are interviewed or just on a podcast or giving a speech, is that you rarely take the easy way out&#8230; Many people are glib but few people are deep.<br \/>\n* what is William Regnery&#8217;s role with the Alt Right?<br \/>\n* Is alt right fundraising going up?<br \/>\n* If whites have agency, then the JQ is not that big. White problems are primarily the problems of whites.<br \/>\n* Did Greg Conte do anything wrong at MSU?<br \/>\n* How did the TWP come to be your muscle at MSU?<br \/>\n* I suspect a lot of people on the AR desperately want your approval and if they don&#8217;t get enough of it, they resent you.<br \/>\n* Do you think Judaism is a group evolutionary strategy?<br \/>\n* In <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119584\">your discussion with KMAC for Altright.com<\/a>, i saw a fascinating difference between your romantic philosophy and KMAC&#8217;s scientific method. You kept asking him if Jews were fundamentally in their essence a threat to white interests and he kept saying no, it is cultural choices after WWII by Jewish elites.<br \/>\n* Have you read the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12110-018-9310-x\">Nathan Cofnas critique of COC<\/a>? What do you think?<br \/>\n* My chat, particularly the boots crowd rather than the suits crowd, is obsessed with holocaust revisionism. Is this a productive use of one&#8217;s time given that no leading Alt Right thinker is obsessed with WWII body counts. These same people like to say, &#8220;Richard Spencer is controlled opposition.&#8221; What are these people thinking? Why is that approach so appealing to them?<br \/>\n* Weakness for conspiracy theories&#8230;<br \/>\n* What do you think Mein Kampf? When the AR is called nazis, it is wrong denotatively but correct connotatively&#8230;because there is no <A HREF+\"http:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2018\/01\/24\/what-hitler-believed\/\">meaningful difference in the Nazi Mein Kampf worldview and the AR<\/a>. &#8220;The outrage against the AR is warranted&#8221; you said to Israeli TV. &#8220;the system should fear people like me.&#8221;<br \/>\n* Matt Heimbach?<br \/>\n* Eli Mosley?<br \/>\n* Kyle Bristow?<\/p>\n<p>* What have you learned from being interviewed hundreds of times? Any patterns, cues or clues you pick up as the interview goes along? <\/p>\n<p>* <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120998\">Vegas Tenold and his new book Everything you love will burn<\/a>: &#8220;Spencer\u2019s nationalism felt much more like an intellectual exercise performed for his own amusement than any form of deep-seated conviction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Do you sorely miss the academic world or is the world you are in now sufficiently intellectually stimulating? With KMAC, I feel keenly his sense of loss of being part of the academy. His emotions are raw. <\/p>\n<p>* Christians think Jews are waiting for the messiah to come&#8230;and the MSM always wants to know how you will create the white ethno-state. It&#8217;s like asking Jews how will you bring the messiah.<\/p>\n<p>* You put effort into putting forward a positive vision for the AR, perhaps more than any other Anglo AR thinker.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* What is the current direction of the alt right? * You mentioned the alt right is at each other&#8217;s throats. What&#8217;s going on? W Identity Europa? TRS? * In your interview with Israeli TV, you mentioned, &#8220;I made mistakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=121065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[42720,29673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-richard-spencer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150182,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121065\/revisions\/150182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}