Saturday, September 10, 2016

Alt-Right Movement Presents Its Vision for an All-White Society With Trump Paving the Way

By Pema Levy

The alt-right movement, reveling in the spotlight cast upon it by the Donald Trump campaign, made its debut to the mainstream media on Friday with a press conference to lay out its goal of an all-white society and its love for Trump.

The once-fringe movement has suddenly found a prominent place in the Trump campaign and among its most loyal backers. Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign CEO, was until recently the head of the conservative website Breitbart News, which he called "the platform for the alt-right." But the movement's moment in the limelight got off to a rough start.

Originally set to be held at the National Press Club, Friday's event was canceled earlier in the week when the venue scuttled it amid security concerns. Not to be deterred, the alt-right leaders came up with a new plan: a secret location.

Reporters covering the event were instructed to go to the entrance of the Old Ebbitt Grill, near the White House. There, they would encounter a man in a charcoal suit and brown tie who would reveal the new location of the conference. Shortly after 1 p.m., I approached the restaurant and saw the man in the gray suit standing outside. He instructed me to round the corner to the Willard Hotel and make my way downstairs to the Peacock Lounge. Soon after I arrived, Richard Spencer, the man who coined the term "alt-right," kicked off the event.

"I'm sorry we had to put you through this wild goose chase," said Spencer, who runs a white nationalist group called the National Policy Institute. Spencer noted that the National Press Club has previously held three NPI events. "We are, from what we can tell, the first guest that have been censored for what is clearly ideological reasons."

Spencer invited two prominent members of the movement to join him. One was Peter Brimelow, the founder of the website VDARE.com, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as an "immigrant-bashing hate site that regularly publishes works by white supremacists, anti-Semites, and others on the radical right." (Brimelow freely admitted during the event that he publishes white nationalists.) The other was Jared Taylor, a self-described "race realist" who explained why the white race is superior to all others (except for East Asians, he said, who are superior to whites). The audience was a mix of reporters and what appeared to be alt-right members and fans.

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3 comments:

  1. If anyone shows respect for the opinion of the SPLC that is a major red flag you are reading race baiting propaganda. The SPLC is a group that creates racism. They support leaders of the KKK just so they can stir up hatred and further their agenda. Which apparently is a race war or at the very least racial divisiveness.

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  2. The Trump "you looking at me?" Travis Bickle foreign policy post combined with the Clinton "basket of deplorables" post and this one just shot me down the rabbit hole, maybe for good. This has all taken on the appearance of some seriously macabre absurdist theater.

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  3. Leftist organizations like SPLC aside, all you have to do is read what many of them say of social media. To them individual liberty and judgement is considered "cuckish" and "degenerate". They give me more reasons why I have (and continue to buy) guns.

    Also this photo shows how the alt-right and the social justice warrior are just two sides of the authoritarian coin

    https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/769713051935342592

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