Actually, I was rather disturbed by how articulate some of those guys sounded. Not that one, in particular, but some of them seemed pretty comprehensive in their understanding of their own vile ideology.
The guys she was interviewing do hate for a living. I’d hope they’d be somewhat accomplished.
Crybaby snowflake Cantwell appeared on Colbert in 2014 as part of a group harrasing parking meter enforcers.
And now the right wingers are eating each other. Jason Kessler, the Charlottesville organizer, tweeted an attack on Heather Heyer, but a person from The Daily Stormer claims that HE hacked Kessler’s account and posted the attack because Kessler is really a “Deep State” plant who set out to make the Nazis look bad. And other people whose names were on the organizers’ rally flyer, including Baked Alaska, are disavowing the tweet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-jason-kessler-apos-account-114239649.html
Did Kessler make any violent statements prior to organizing the rally? I’m just thinking ahead to the lawsuits files against him.
Good news. There’s a lot of friction points which have generally helped keep the alt-right groups separated from each other and marginalized. There really are some significant differences (to them if not the rest of us) in ideology, goals, and preferred tactics. Those differences are wrapped in a paranoia* of those they don’t know well potentially being with the deep state who is watching and oppressing them. It’s a tough mix to keep closely tied together into a cohesive larger group.
It’s only an early indicator. Still that hint about cohesiveness potentially breaking down is one of the better pieces of news from the week IMO.
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- To be fair, it’s not entirely paranoia. The FBI counter-terror folks really are watching and waiting for chances to “oppress” them via the legal system.
- To be fair, it’s not entirely paranoia. The FBI counter-terror folks really are watching and waiting for chances to “oppress” them via the legal system.
Do you know enough about the various groups to offer a primer (I know I don’t)? Understood if you’d rather not.
The are now 4 arrest warrants for Chris Caldwell.
A lot of liberal criticism of white supremacy is aesthetic class shaming: hillbilly, missing teeth, incest jokes, and so on. When their leaders are in spiffy suits, have graduate degrees, and speak in reasonable tones then the pundits don’t have much to say and just end up signal boosting them, like NPR did to Richard Spencer. The type of people who drive cross country to attend a rally aren’t broke, they’re middle to upper class suburbanites.
I wonder how this works. Many right-wingers hate Jews. How do the “Hate blacks but some of my friends are Jews” right-wingers relate to the Jew-haters?
Do they have a strong spirit of comradery? (“Well at least you HATE, even if you don’t hate the same people as I do.”)
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. In fact, I think it’s the answer. We shouldn’t tear down any confederate monuments; they should just be tarred and feathered once a year.
I gleefully posted this on my Facebook page, as well as his being kicked off PayPal. That was fantastic.
The Daily Stormer provided pepper spray suggestions to the white nationalists, so it’s entirely possible.
Wearing nice clothes and looking non-threatening has been a tactic used by spokesmen for supremacy groups in Europe for some time. The Germans have a phrase – which I can’t remember in German right now – about “suit Nazis and boot Nazis”. The point is to remember that even the dudes in the suit are hateful and dangerous — the “boot Nazis” get marching orders from the “suit Nazis”.
He organized a rally promoting inherently violent ideologies, to which people advocating violence brought weapons for the purpose of intimidation.
I feel that they should be streaked/coated with α-HgS (red cinnabar) to represent the bloodshed.
Crying Nazi Christopher Cantwell is being held without bail.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/36208125/cantwell-08-24-2017