JERUSALEM (JTA) — Richard Spencer, the founder of white supremacist think tank, said an event in which he shouted “Heil Trump” as participants raised their arms was not threatening but fun. “I understand why people were offended, but they have to understand the context in which it happened. The context of fun and exuberance,”…
A top editor at Politico quit over a social media post in which he suggested attacking white nationalist Richard Spencer — who happens to be his own neighbor. Michael Hirsh, former national editor, spoke about taking baseball bats to Spencer and even posted the ‘alt-right’ figure’s home address on his own street in suburban Washington…
Last week a shocking photo of former reality TV star Tila Tequila doing a Nazi salute with two men went viral. The three were standing inside a gathering of the “alt-right,” the white nationalist movement which has rallied around president-elect Donald Trump. The salute — known to some as a Nazi salute, to other’s as…
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who coined the term ‘alt-right,’ will speak at an event in December on the campus of Texas A&M, according to a report in the Texas Tribune. Spencer, who calls for the founding of a white “ethnostate,” will headline an event on campus, after an invitation from a former student at…
Donald Trump’s presidential win this month was buoyed by a rising tide of the political far-right. His truimph was celebrated by high-profile anti-globalist conspiracists and white nationalists, who saw in Trump a type of savior — someone who would save their country from threatening forces. Of course, voters chose Trump for a range of reasons…
Before Donald Trump’s rise, they were relegated to shadowy blogs or the far corners of Reddit and Twitter, where they would lament the decline of Western civilization, bemoan the Jewish control of the media and dream of building a pure “white ethno state.” Now, the white nationalist movement known as the “alt-right” holds conferences in…
If you saw the Atlantic’s hair-raising video of Richard Spencer talking at an American neo-Nazi “conference” that celebrated Donald Trump’s victory, then you saw Spencer bash “the mainstream media,” calling them “leftists and cucks,” “genuinely stupid,” and liars. He also “wonders” if “these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem, animated by some…
Richard Spencer is proud to claim the mantle as the face of the real “alt-right,” the loose grouping of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His so-called think tank held a victory party to celebrate Donald Trump’s presidential victory, which the alt-right claims significant credit for. Even though Spencer and other radicals criticize Trump and his White…
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