"Dapper" White Supremacist Richard Spencer Exposed As An Remorseless Cruel Bigot Through Audio Rant From "Dapper" White Supremacist Milo Y

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Alt-Right infighting has produced audio of Richard Spencer spouting a villainous, bigoted rant in the wake of the tragic 2017 white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville that injured multiple counterprotesters and killed the counterprotestor Heather Heyer. As mentioned, the audio was posted by nearly irrelevant, financially-struggling bigot Milo Yiannopoulos in an obvious bid to claw his way out of the quicksand of obscurity and poverty:

In audio first put online by right-wing pundit and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Saturday, white nationalist Richard Spencer can allegedly be heard ranting about Jewish people and mixed-race people.


The audio — purportedly from an emergency meeting that took place on August 13, 2017, the day after the far-right "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, disintegrated into violence, resulting in the murder of a counterprotester named Heather Heyer — features Spencer screaming racist and anti-Semitic slurs he has generally avoided using in public in an effort to more politely argue for "the creation of a White Ethno-State."


Spencer is perhaps the most prominent and arguably the most successful of the so-called "alt-right" white nationalist activists attempting to inject overtly racist ideas into mainstream political thought. In fact, Spencer can be credited (alongside Peter Brimelow and Paul Gottfried) with inventing the term "alt-right," resulting in the magazine Alternative Right in 2010. I emailed Spencer for comment and will update if I hear back.

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By appearing polite and somewhat well dressed (with multiple ill-fitting waistcoats, for example) and using watered-down terminology like "peaceful ethnic cleansing," the "self-styled prophet" of the alt-right has waged a media campaign for the last several years to build his own reputation and that of his movement, using Donald Trump's campaign as a vehicle to make the case for a seemingly kinder, gentler white nationalism.


In interviews Spencer and other white nationalists give to mainstream audiences (like those watching him on CNN and on college campuses), white nationalism is simply a civil rights movement for white people, taking a stand for white Americans in need of defending — at the very least, a differing viewpoint worthy of contemplation and analysis.


That was a lie, as has been blatantly obvious for more than a decade. But now, the mask — or perhaps more aptly, the hood — has dropped, hopefully for good.

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Posting this due to it being darkly hilarious but also to perpetually push back against the insidious mentality that there is something reasonable about people like Spencer and Milo. Earlier this year in fact, Richard Spencer was invited on national news to rationalize his "turning" on Trump for the baffling reason that Trump was a fucking racist as though the goals of Spencer and Trump were somehow separate at anytime:

As Sidner explains in the clip, several prominent neo-Nazis and white nationalists have expressed support for Trump's racist tirade and said the congresswomen of color should leave the country immediately.

"Essentially, [Trump's comment] normalizes hate and it makes it acceptable and it lowers our bar, our tolerance for what is allowed in our country, and that is dangerous," Joanna Mendelson, a senior investigative researcher at the Anti-Defamation League, told CNN.

The segment then cut to Spencer, with Sidner describing him as a white nationalist who once backed Trump but is now turning on him. Why? Spencer, wearing a tan suit and appearing as your run-of-the-mill cable news pundit, tells viewers that Trump's racist rhetoric doesn't go far enough.

"Many white nationalists will eat up this red meat that Donald Trump is throwing out there. I am not one of them," Spencer tells CNN. "I recognize the con game that is going on. ... He gives us nothing outside of racist tweets."

Spencer, who was a featured speaker at the deadly white nationalist Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, believes Trump's tweet was racist but that the president isn't doing enough to rid America of nonwhite people, Sidner reiterates.

The backlash was swift and brutal. Viewers, including many journalists, accused CNN of normalizing Spencer and white nationalist extremism.

"Richard Spencer's relevance lives and dies by the mainstream media," one Twitter user wrote. "He's only as relevant as they decide he is. CNN made their choice today."

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