NYU is now withholding this graduate's diploma because he gave a speech about Gaza. I'm again reminded of the debate in 2017-18 over whether or not the University of Virginia should revoke Richard Spencer's degree after he participated in the Unite the Right tiki torch march on the UVa campus. That march ended with an attack that terrorized students and community members, yet very few college administrators at UVa or elsewhere took the calls to revoke Spencer's degree seriously. The response was generally "we don't like his views, but he did the work and earned his diploma. There's nothing anyone can do about it."

There's a lot to dig out of the contrast between these two cases, but it's all obvious enough and not worth writing out. The Western liberal order is in crisis, and the fault lies as much with its most visible representatives as with the fascists themselves.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxydg11ego

#NYU #UVa #RichardSpencer #fascism #academia

Dear @JohanEmpa

Can you tell me if your Mastodon server censors this video clip I uploaded where neonazi Richard Spencer gets punched in the face?

It clips the part where the white supremacist scum gets punched and starts from after.

I’m making you aware today, that if you are running a porn filter or similar, it is also censoring political content!

I’m asking if you know about this, and what are you going to do?

#fediverse #punchnazis #fascism #tech #richardspencer

Several years ago, there was a whole public debate in the US about whether or not the universities where Richard Spencer got his BA and MA should revoke those degrees. That discussion particularly focused on the University of Virginia, where he got his BA and where the Unite the Right tiki torch march took place, threatening and intimidating a number of then-current students on campus. This is also the same Richard Spencer who has repeatedly been recorded on video giving Nazi salutes, who was infamously caught on tape using all kinds of racist and antisemitic language while ranting about the failure of Unite the Right, and who told his supporters to “party like it’s 1933” after Trump was elected the first time.

An array of college administrators across the country shot down the idea citing a “slippery slope”, academic freedom and whatnot.

Any one of those administrators who now fails to speak out against the revocation of Columbia grads’ diplomas for protesting on campus should lose their jobs and become permanently unemployable. They clearly don’t actually care about antisemitism or academic freedom and they aren’t at all concerned about a slippery slope. They just care about their careers and sucking up to whoever’s got more power than they do.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-protests-c148d1d01718a4482541a6df6cad8d74

#Columbia #academia #antisemitism #ethics #RichardSpencer #MahmoudKhalil

Trump's Regional Field Director For Western Pennsylvania Was Fired for Being a White Nationalist

Politico: "Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western #Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa and a co-host of Richard Spencer’s podcast."

the mask is slipping...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/04/white-nationalist-trump-campaign-00187282

p.s. lol at richard spencer being back in the news.

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #WhiteNationalist #Nazi #Nazis #racist #racists #RichardSpencer

The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.

Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.

Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.

This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.

#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst

https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/13/marjorie-jeffrey-and-alex-habighorst-bonded-in-bigotry/

Wild. The white nationalist website VDARE.com is suspending operations and going out of business. It is/was one of the biggest online outlets for "intellectual" white nationalists, and it can't go away fast enough.

VDARE chief Peter Brimelow just posted an eight-minute video on the dead bird site of one of the most awkward speeches I've ever seen. He blames NY Attorney General Letitia James for driving them into the ground financially, banks for refusing to work with them, and a series of cyberattacks that have them completely baffled. So kudos to everyone involved.

The bad news is that they're still going to retain their castle in West Virginia, which he says will still host "distant conferences" and [CW: you may actually throw up into your mouth] "a number of normie functions, for example weddings, if any of you want to get married and defy the Great Replacement".

VDARE, which was named for Virginia Dare, allegedly the first white baby born in the "New World", has been a platform for explicit "race science" advocates like Steve Sailer, but also for people who get on mainstream talk shows like Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin. Brimelow has been kind of a mentor to Richard Spencer and is generally an elder statesman among the young, racist white boy set.

That rag will not be missed.

#VDARE #WhiteNationalism #RichardSpencer #LetitiaJames #GreatReplacement #SteveSailer #AnnCoulter #PatBuchanan #MichelleMalkin

What's In a Word https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-in-a-word

It seems forgotten that David Duke enthusiastically endorsed Trump in both 2016 and 2020. Or how the movement once known as the alt-right rallied to his side, recognizing immediately that Trump represented a major “ice breaker” for their views, in the words of Richard Spencer. “If The Donald gets the nomination, he will almost certainly beat Hillary, as White men such as you and I go out and vote for the first time in our lives for the one man who actually represents our interests,” the Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wrote on his “Daily Stormer” website in 2016. Even if Trump was not the perfect vessel, America’s extreme right understood that Trump’s type of politics represented a breakthrough for their movement.

#nazis #fascism #trump #maga #uspol #uspolitics #farright #davidduke #richardspencer #andrewanglin #JohnGanz #dailystormer #kkk

The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.

That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.

The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.

However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.

But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.

So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.

#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/02/white-supremacists-unite-the-right-rally-lawsuit