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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:33 AM Aug 2018

'Unite the Right 2' exposes white nationalist movement in disarray

BY MIKE LILLIS - 08/12/18 06:00 AM EDT

A year after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., white nationalist groups are treading cautiously into the anniversary weekend.

The violence in Charlottesville sparked damaging lawsuits against the organizers and a crackdown from tech companies that's complicated recruitment and fundraising efforts, splintering the movement just as it's trying to show solidarity heading into Sunday's "Unite the Right 2" demonstration in Washington.

Jason Kessler, a lead organizer of both events, is discouraging participation by the more hard-core elements of the white supremacist movement, and some are happy to sit this one out.

“These post-Charlottesville marches have no purpose, other than to make anyone who supports white self-determination look like a fringe lunatic,” Andrew Anglin, publisher of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, wrote this month in a blog post disavowing Sunday’s rally. “We do not want the image of being a bunch of weird losers who march around like assholes while completely outnumbered and get mocked by the entire planet.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/401357-unite-the-right-2-exposes-white-nationalist-movement-in-disarray

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'Unite the Right 2' exposes white nationalist movement in disarray (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
".....wierd losers who March around like assholes.." NoMoreRepugs Aug 2018 #1
Pray for rain tonight. zanana1 Aug 2018 #2
Anglin bemoans his reality based image problem. Commences to blubber. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #3
as if there is a difference between looking like.... and being. salin Aug 2018 #4
He confuses the noumenal with the phenomenal. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #5
It's the "Unite the White" rally Zorro Aug 2018 #6
They can go to Trump rallies instead EricMaundry Aug 2018 #7
Without the Russian Death Memes and Bitcoin payments... Anon-C Aug 2018 #8
Defective humans Mopar151 Aug 2018 #9
"White trash circus" dalton99a Aug 2018 #10

NoMoreRepugs

(9,431 posts)
1. ".....wierd losers who March around like assholes.."
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:41 AM
Aug 2018

I'd have to say Anglin is in touch with his innerself.

salin

(48,955 posts)
4. as if there is a difference between looking like.... and being.
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 10:04 AM
Aug 2018

To Anglin and his ilk: Womp Womp.

Mopar151

(9,983 posts)
9. Defective humans
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 10:53 AM
Aug 2018

It's not easy to "get your message out" when the message is nasty enough that it can't be publicly spoken!

dalton99a

(81,513 posts)
10. "White trash circus"
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 11:09 AM
Aug 2018
https://gizmodo.com/white-supremacist-adultery-scandal-ends-in-jilted-neo-n-1823788899

White Supremacist Assault and Adultery Scandal Ends in Jilted Neo-Nazi Web Admin Deleting Site
Tom McKay
3/15/18 12:30am

One of the most high-profile neo-Nazi groups in the country, the Traditionalist Worker Party, is completely disintegrating in the wake of a truly humiliating, somewhat incestuous sex scandal involving its founder and Charlottesville rally organizer Matthew Heimbach and his spokesperson and web administrator, David Parrott.

On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center shed some light on the circumstances behind Heimbach’s arrest this week for alleged battery, intimidation, strangulation, and domestic battery committed in the physical presence of a child, all in the southern Indiana trailer park where the Heimbach and Parrott families both apparently lived. Apparently, Heimbach had been sleeping with Parrott’s wife Jessica Parrott, though they claimed the affair was now over. According to police reports obtained by the SPLC, Parrott said he set up a sort of sting to determine whether the cheating had in fact ceased.

This ill-advised plot involved Parrott spying on his wife and Heimbach meeting in the Parrotts’ trailer at midnight from atop a box, which was apparently unsuitable for his overall mass and promptly broke. Parrott told police that a confrontation ensued in which his wife and Heimbach assaulted him, with Heimbach choking him unconscious at least twice. Brooke Heimbach (Heimbach’s spouse) also said that Heimbach attacked her during the incident.

Making this weird neo-Nazi sex and abuse scandal all the more disturbing, Parrott is Brooke Heimbach’s stepfather from a previous marriage, meaning this all involves legal relatives. Additionally, Parrott was an outspoken detractor of “cuckolds,” a group he now seems to have involuntarily joined. All four Heimbachs and Parrotts involved told the cops their profession was “white nationalist,” which really just speaks volumes for the whole movement.

In any case, what happened next was a lesson in not pissing off your webmaster. Parrott quit the party, telling the Daily Beast on Wednesday that the situation had become a “white trash circus,” and proceeded to wipe the TWP’s online presence and membership archives clean:

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