Sep 25, 2021
We revisit the subject of our very first episode, Richard Spencer, catching up with his more recent exploits, all in an attempt to emphasize that a) he's still around, b) he's still dangerous, and c) he means what he says.
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Show Notes:
Our previous episode on Richard Spencer, Episode 1
The New York Times, How a Small Town Silenced a Neo-Nazi Hate Campaign
Rafi Schwartz, Discourse Blog, America’s Top Nazi Is a Broke Little Booger Who Can’t Get a Table
- The punch, which prompted plenty of handwringing and pearl-clutching over whether or not it’s okay to
ever punch a Nazi (it sure is!),
occurred during what should have been the height of Spencer’s career as a
full-time racist — the inauguration of Donald Trump. Instead, it
forever branded him as “that Nazi who got his clock thoroughly
cleaned” and helped define him as the ur-bigot of the Trump era.
This, I think, is crucial to the arc of Spencer’s seeming
cancelation by the people of Whitefish. It’s much easier to identify a
Nazi — and identify what should be done to them — when that Nazi
has already become an internet joke for both being a Nazi, and facing
the consequences thereof. Were Spencer not memed into oblivion
as “the Nazi who got smacked,” my guess is that it wouldn’t have
been quite so easy to rally an entire community to oppose him.
Yes, it would likely still have happened in some form, thanks to the
sincerely hard work of both activists, and ordinary citizens on the
ground in Whitefish and elsewhere, but I can’t help but think that
the moment Spencer got blasted in the jaw, his cancelation, or
silencing, or whatever doofy substitute for “getting what he deserves”
became inevitable.
Tablet Mag, No, White Supremacist Richard Spencer Didn’t Seriously Endorse Joe Biden
- And yet, countless credulous accounts—many on
the
pro-Trump right, but also some on the
anti-Biden left—uncritically shared Spencer’s posting as
though it was on the level.
- That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would
pretend to support Biden in order to get attention and
undercut the former vice president is not surprising. What is surprising
is how many people still fall for Spencer’s transparent
trolling.
- In reality, Spencer and other white
supremacists have a long history of purposely adopting their opponents’
causes and pretending to back them in order to undermine
them. That’s exactly what Spencer did in 2018 by pretending to
support “Zionism,” when he actually has a long history of hate
towards both Israel and Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its
supporters control America.
Daily Progress, RIchard Spencer-led organization ordered to pay $2.4 million in Unite the RIght lawsuit
- The biggest sum was awarded last week by an Ohio judge who
ordered the National Policy Institute to pay Burke $2,444,461.15 for
the harm he suffered as a result of the rally. The white supremacist
think tank, which is led by UTR participant and University of
Virginia graduate Spencer, was found to be in default
approximately a year ago.
Integrity First For America, Sines v. Kessler
Eat the Rich Episode 91 on William Regnery II
Paul Gottfried coins the term "alternative right."
Richard Spencer introduces Ron Paul at the Robert Taft Club, October 11, 2007.
Richard Spencer full NPI speech 2016, the origin of "Heilgate".
- We need to remind ourselves of these things.
None of this is natural. None of this is “normal.” This is a
sick, disgusting, society, run by the corrupt, defended by
hysterics, drunk on self-hatred and degeneracy. We invade the world
and frantically invite entire populations who despise us. We
subsidize people and institutions who make our lives worse just by
the sheer fact of their existence. We run up deficits and pretend
the laws of history simply don’t apply to us because of “American
Exceptionalism.”
- This cannot go on any longer. And it
won’t.
- At some level, we demand the impossible. Even
those half-joking memes about Donald Trump as
God-Emperor or as the progenitor of some glorious Imperium testify to
the yearning for something more. Yes, we should insist on our
dreams – on the conquest of space, on the development of
revolutionary technology, for a humanity that is greater than we are
today, for a race that travels forever on the upward
path.
- But at another level, what we want is something
normal, something almost prosaic maybe even
boring.
- Why is something as simple as starting a
family, owning a house, and leaving a legacy to your children
seen as an almost impossible dream for so many Americans? Why
must there be two incomes for a family simply to break even? Why
is it impossible to build a real civic society because the whim of
a federal bureaucrat or a Social Justice Warrior can impose Section
8 housing, refugee resettlement, or some other population transfer
scheme deliberately designed to break apart functional white
communities?
Buzzfeed, Spencer's Wife Says in Divorce Filings that He Physically and Emotionally Abused Her
- The wife of Richard Spencer, the
white nationalist leader, has accused him of being “physically,
emotionally, verbally and
financially abusive” throughout their marriage, according to divorce filings in
Flathead County District Court in Montana.
- Nina Koupriianova, who married Spencer in
August 2010 and has two young children with him, alleges that
Spencer physically abused her, including instances where she was “being
hit, being grabbed, being dragged around by her hair, being held
down in a manner causing bruising, and being prevented from
calling for help.”
- Koupriianova — who went by Kouprianova in some
public interviews and N.K. in the documents — “has
been reluctant to call police or seek an order of protection for
fear of further reprisal by” Spencer, her lawyers said in court
documents. “Much of the abuse has occurred in the presence of
the parties’ children.”