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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Mon Nov 21, 2016, 06:05 PM Nov 2016

'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect

“Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”

That’s how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Sunday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the National Policy Institute, which describes itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.”

Spencer has popularized the term “alt-right” to describe the movement he leads. Spencer has said his dream is “a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans,” and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”

For most of the day, a parade of speakers discussed their ideology in relatively anodyne terms, putting a presentable face on their agenda. But after dinner, when most journalists had already departed, Spencer rose and delivered a speech to his followers dripping with anti-Semitism, and leaving no doubt as to what he actually seeks. He referred to the mainstream media as “Lügenpresse,” a term he said he was borrowing from “the original German”; the Nazis used the word to attack their critics in the press.


Video at the link : https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/

Adolf Hitler would have been so proud. The media needs to stop using the term alt-right and call them what they really are : neo-nazis

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'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect (Original Post) octoberlib Nov 2016 OP
This is getting scarier and scarier. Initech Nov 2016 #1
This happened at the GOP convention too Generic Brad Nov 2016 #2
Godwin's law is blown all to heck. Kablooie Nov 2016 #3

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
2. This happened at the GOP convention too
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:00 AM
Nov 2016

Laura Ingramm was the first that I observed doing it and many in the crowd followed her lead. It was ignored then and is not being taken seriously by our media now.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
3. Godwin's law is blown all to heck.
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:33 AM
Nov 2016

Godwin's Law - "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"

But when the opposition voluntarily aligns themselves with Hitler there's nowhere else to go.



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