{"id":123186,"date":"2018-08-14T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123186"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:38:46","slug":"nytimes-a-year-after-charlottesville-disarray-in-the-white-supremacist-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=123186","title":{"rendered":"NYTIMES: A Year After Charlottesville, Disarray in the White Supremacist Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we are facing so much pushback that people are not in the mood to celebrate,\u201d said Richard B. Spencer, the white nationalist and prominent alt-right figure, who declined to attend Sunday\u2019s event. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not going to do something demoralizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coalition of old-school racist groups, neo-Confederates and Internet-savvy white identitarians that brought about last year\u2019s rally has proved, in the months since, to be a disparate herd that cannot agree on a leader or a particular brand of intolerance. Mobilizing large numbers of white supremacists in public appears to be a challenge, even though nobody would ever say they have gone away. In fact, their discriminatory messages are now echoed by some politicians and commentators…<\/p>\n

But in a sign of the fracturing of the alt-right, before, during and after the Sunday rally, hard-core racists and neo-Nazis, whom Mr. Kessler has publicly disavowed, took to social media to attack him and this weekend\u2019s protest, which was billed as a second Unite the Right event. Many of those attacks took place on Gab, an online forum to which many on the alt-right migrated after they were kicked off Twitter.<\/p>\n

The attacks came from both well-known members of the alt-right and from anonymous followers. Their argument, in essence, was that Mr. Kessler was not extreme enough.<\/p>\n

One Gab poster, who identified himself as Sterben, said that Mr. Kessler should have been more welcoming to Nazis and other such groups \u201cbecause there\u2019s more of us and history is never on the side of the cowards.\u201d<\/p>\n

A week before the event in Washington, Andrew Anglin, who runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, published an article titled, \u201cDon\u2019t Go to Unite the Right 2 \u2014 We Disavow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot win a battle on the streets,\u201d Mr. Anglin wrote.<\/p>\n

Instead, he counseled taking part in events like \u201cStormer Book Clubs,\u201d where followers \u201ccan get together with other people who think like we do in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to remain in the realm of the hip, cool, sexy, fun,\u201d Mr. Anglin wrote. \u201cWe need to speak to the culture. We do not want the image of being a bunch of weird losers who march around\u201d while \u201ccompletely outnumbered and get mocked by the entire planet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times: \u201cNow, we are facing so much pushback that people are not in the mood to celebrate,\u201d said Richard B. Spencer, the white nationalist and prominent alt-right figure, who declined to attend Sunday\u2019s event. \u201cAnd I\u2019m … 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":[42720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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