Question: has Spencer always owned the term "alt-right"?
I believe Steve Bannon uses the term with a significantly different meaning. He would define it via nationalist slant on the issues of trade, immigration, and foreign wars: yes to economic protectionism, no to unresrticted immigration, no to "global cop" military intervention.
Perhaps simple-mindedly, I myself always assumed "alt-right" just meant more conservative than the RNC and National Review.
But I guess I may be wrong.
If the alt-right actually means what Richard Spencer says it means, I'm outtathere, and pronto.
Your thoughts?
Constitutional law and respect for private property and rights does not verge over into any form of fascism or racial supremacy. Fascism and progressivism/socialism are both on the far left end of the spectrum. George Washington, Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan are the far right.
I think “alt-right” is the new boogeyman slur that replaces “rightwing extremist”.
Basically racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, ie: anything not lockstep liberal.
Westboro Baptists call themselves Christians too.
This Spencer guy sounds like a fascist.
#Fakeconservative
How does he know Tomi Lahren is blonde?
Has he checked?
This nation is founded on exactly that "abstract thing": "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
If Spencer doesn't like it he can GTFO.
Sounds like a new version of William Pierce
The term is toxic and shouldn’t be used by people promoting constructive positions.
Spencer seems to be embracing eugenics, best as I can see. In which case why would he care so much about the status quo of abortion? It occurs most frequently among those that he seems to believe deserve the death toll.
At any rate we can’t prop up any worldly icon — not even Donald Trump — as the infallible moral compass of righteousness. Someone will find a way to abuse that icon.
Richard Spencer heads up The National Policy Institute, a White Nationalist hate group. He and his type have tried to hitch a ride on the Trump bandwagon, but truth is, Donald Trump wouldn’t have anything to do with these clowns. Unfortunately, some board members of Young America’s Foundation were involved in setting up the National Policy Institute, and one YAF Board Member was also on the board, and Vice President of NPI.
60,000,000 abortions in this country. They’d have us believe that an awful lot of pre viable kids threaten the health of the mother but that’s not true it’s a hoax, Beside the idea that it’s not ok to take tge life of the baby. I mean what about the mother being a threat to the life of the child
Sigh
That’s just one minor reflection here.
Birth control is inherently evil and the evil abortion comes from that evil which even revered catholic pastors have been known to give a wink and a nod to, which is heresy
The initial reaction whenever someone tries to paint a Trump supporter as a racist/bigot/etc., even when that comes from a supposed conservative, should be skepticism.
I don’t know much about Spencer, and he may very well not be a Christian, but if the Liberals hate him (and it seems they can’t stand him as they won’t let him speak on college campuses with violent protests) — well I welcome him to help fight them. The disagreements can be sorted out after the Evil Left is defeated.
We have to deal with the uncomfortable truth that yes, white people do tend to get along better in this day and age and country.
The Christian thing is to ask how the blessing can be shared. Eugenicists tend to think it’s biological only. If this line of thought is followed, it will reduce blessings to monstrosities.
My idea, however humorous or strange, for sharing it, is to highlight a distinct category: rednecks. Who come in many colors. Now the philosophy that undergirded the phenomenon of white privilege can be everybody’s: humility, hard work, faith in God.
That would also snatch the redneck out of the clutches of the “alt-right.”
Far too much of what is called “White Nationalism” is warmed over late 19th-early 20th century paganism and occultism with a thin veneer of race rationalism pulled tightly over it.
The morons on the left and the so-called right use Richard Spencer as the new David Duke. No one would have heard of Richard Spencer if it wasn’t for the NeverTrumpers and MSM giving this clown so much bandwidth and attention.
And of course, the NeverTrumpers and the MSM will pretend that Spencer is the leader of the so-called alt-right. Not even close. The guy has 58K followers on Twitter. Compare that to someone like InfoWars Paul Joseph Watson, who has 570K followers and whose youtube videos get hundreds of thousands of views.
“alt-right” is to 2017, what “arch-conservative” was to 1995. Just another leftist-promoted pejorative.
Richard Spencer, like many of his Nazi/racist fellow travelers, is very possibly on a federal payroll.
There is nothing Christian, conservative or patriotic about racial/ethnic prejudice. national socialism is SOCIALISM.
I was curious about what kind of "right-wing" nonsense they were spewing.
As it turns out they are very much in favor of abortion.
That is, for non-white kids.
They are very anti-abortion for white babies.
Sounds like Nazis to me.
Not "conservative" or "right wing" at all.
Just insane.
Front Page Mag published this article per who invented the term “alt right” and it certainly isn’t Spencer or some of the other names tossed out there and Paul Gottfried likely is nothing like those mentioned above.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263988/some-observations-man-who-created-alt-right-paul-gottfried
But almost no one is going to give him credit and even if they did, alt-right seems to have come to mean other things nowadays.
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