After Media Leaves, Alt-Right Leader Rails Against Jews as Men Give Nazi Salute

MediaIte ^ | 21/11/16 | Justin Baragona

[Eleutheria5]

Over the weekend, leading voices of the alt-right movement gathered a few short blocks from the White House for a conference full of speeches and panels to discuss their vision of the future. The event took on new meaning with Donald Trump’s surprising victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

According to the New York Times, the early parts of the conference had a much more subdued tone when it came to racism and rhetoric towards minorities and immigrants, but after reporters called it a day and left, the discourse became harsher and more overtly angry.

With Richard Spencer as the final speaker — Spencer is perhaps the ideological godfather of the movement — he ended the evening by espousing white supremacist ideals to the joy of many in the audience.

But now his tone changed as he began to tell the audience of more than 200 people, mostly young men, what they had been waiting to hear. He railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted Nazi propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people...

[Eleutheria5]

Following the link that you posted, I heard the whole speech. There was no “railing” against the Jews, and only a very little bit at the end that could be construed as racist. “We don’t need moral validation from some of the most despicable creatures ever to populate the planet,” and the term “Hail!” which can be regarded as suspect in that context. He’s amazingly eloquent and well spoken. Didn’t show the audience, so impossible to say if anyone was giving the fascist salute. He made one gesture at the end of the speech which might have been the fascist salute disguised, but it could have been waving to his mom, too. Significant, though. He refers to his ideology as “alt right,” so I guess it no longer can be said to be a leftist term.

[Eleutheria5]

He might be a Nazi. He might not be a Nazi. That video is insufficient evidence to make the case, and the burden of proof is on the accuser. He is also not a Trump supporter, and in fact criticizes Trump for “turning a blind eye to Jewish settlements in Palestinian land” and being in favor of affirmative action. The boy has cried wolf again.

[\/\/ayne]

Here’s his wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

I see, according to that Richard Spencer claims he came up with the term Alt Right and he founded AlternativeRight.com which would lend credibility to that.

I had thought "alt-right" was a liberal news media term to describe the conservative wing of the GOP and then they were using it to rope in some racists into their narrative. Still true but in a different way.

I have noticed our few neo-Nazis here in AZ have tried to insinuate themselves into conservative movements like Tea Parties, anti-amnesty groups and even troop support rallies. Usually they are soon found out and chased off, in those encounters I see there's not very many of them.

I, too wonder if they are being paid to smear the Right but I think most of them are too fanatical for that. David Duke is another story. I suspect he gets paid a lot to be liberal news media's neo-Nazi dog that barks on command; simply because he's always conveniently endorsing at exactly the time they want him to.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

That bit at the end with his arm?

He had his drink in his hand.

That’s similar to giving a toast, is it not?

[Eleutheria5]

Until he says or does something blatantly Nazi-like, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that liberal neo-McCarthyite brown-bating has earned for everyone on the Right. Cry wolf too often, and this is what you get.

[Lisbon1940]

If they’re so proud of being European, they should go home and vote for Merkel.

[Jack Black]

Here is the link to the full text of his speech, from his web site:

Long Live the Emperor!

He may not have been the first to use the term 'alt-right' but he certainly was the one who popularized it. He started a web-site by that name about five or six years ago. I was a big fan of the late Lawrence Auster at the time and he and Spencer had a cordial relationship, which was also strained by ideological disagreements.

The original Alt-Right website was taken down a couple years ago when he started the new one.

You can go there and decide for yourself what you think, but what ever you do don't believe the "Lugenpress". Any news org that would describe the use of ONE (1) German word in a 35 minute speech as "quoting Nazi propaganda" is obviously a Fake News site.

In a similar manner the nature of the "Nazi salute" at the end is being intentionally misreported. Spencer raised his glass in a toast at the end of his speech. Of the roughly 300 people attending about 5 appeared to give Roman salutes. That's unfortunate, as it takes away from an otherwise interesting speech. But the Alt-Right is full of pranksters who love to tweek the sensibilities of "normies".

[Yardstick]

I just read the full transcript of the speech. This Spencer guy is toxic. Trump made the right move in repudiating him today.

[Rome2000]

When’s Al Sharpton going to jail?

[Eleutheria5]

He skates at the edge of the line without crossing over, and it’s hard to pin anything on him. My main suspicion, and it’s only that, is that he so consistently skates at the edge. I wouldn’t say toxic, though. Still, he has nothing to do with Trump, and repudiating him would have been unnecessary, except that he’s a distraction and the MSM is putting the onus on Trump.

[Eleutheria5]

He still alive?

[Yardstick]

I think he goes over the line with statements like “...America was, until this past generation, a White country, designed for ourselves and our posterity....It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us.” Also the bit about Europeans being the very concept of world history. And of course the “Hail” stuff at the very end. Plus, as you mention, when he’s not crossing the line he seems to be intentionally skating at the edge.