'Alt-right' conference features Nazi propaganda quotes, anti-Semitism, and Nazi salutes

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/21/1602632/--Alt-right-conference-features-Nazi-propaganda-quotes-anti-Semitism-and-Nazi-salutes


'Alt-right' conference features Nazi propaganda quotes, anti-Semitism, and Nazi salutes
By Hunter
Monday Nov 21, 2016 · 2:28 PM EST



The supposed alt-right's attempt at normalizing themselves is hitting a few snags, as seen at this weekend's Washington D.C. meeting.

{Leading alt-right ideologue Richard Spencer} railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted Nazi propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he called the “children of the sun,” a race of conquerors and creators who had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald J. Trump, were “awakening to their own identity.”

As he finished, several audience members had their arms outstretched in a Nazi salute. When Mr. Spencer, or perhaps another person standing near him at the front of the room — it was not clear who — shouted, “Heil the people! Heil victory,” the room shouted it back.

Which is a hell of a thing, considering that Trump’s apologists have been beside themselves trying to explain to us that the "alt-right" is, well, not that, and that Steve Bannon, the man who turned Breitbart into a self-declared "alt-right" news outlet is not, despite all evidence to the contrary, one of the nation's chief mainstreamers of anti-Semitic and white supremacist ideologies.

So the guy who coined the term "alt-right" to describe his movement is an actual Nazi-quoting, anti-Semitic white supremacist leading his followers into a good old fashioned Hitler salute. Are there any more questions from the pundit floor, or do we have this "what is the alt-right" business pretty well buttoned down now? Anyone? Anyone at all?

Yeah. So let's maybe have one last round of asking Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell if this is indeed a movement that they are willing to break bread with. And let’s demand to know if the leader of "the alt-right's most prominent platform, Breitbart News" is a man they will obligingly support as the senior adviser and strategist for their new Republican administration.

[longship]

1. "lets demand to know if the leader is a man they will obligingly support."

Yes, with the mandatory salute.

Sieg Freud... er... Heil!

[mrmpa]

2. My 86 year old mother just saw this on NBC news.............

she was drinking water & spit it out, she was near tears. Mom is a 1st generation American. Her dad was born in Poland in 1887. Mom had family who were Catholics in Poland in WWII. From records we found that 4 people with her maiden name (of which there are less than 80 in the world) were in Auschwitz, one was murdered there. So undoubtedly these 4 are related to us. Mom had 2 brothers and 3 uncles serve in the Army & Navy during WWII. One uncle landed on D-Day and killed in action about 6 weeks later.

Mom remembers hearing Hitler on the radio and the American Bund. My 86 year old mother is scared.

[babylonsister]

6. Please give her a hug!

It is scary, to all of us. But there are a lot of us, too. I can't imagine there's absolutely nothing we can do. But who makes the call when they've crossed the line? They're already there imo.

[riversedge]

3. REC

[MineralMan]

4. They are the alt-Reich.

Clearly. Let's call them what they are.

[Initech]

7. I like "National Association Of Zero Intolerance".

[Raster]

8. Very good point. Thank you.

[Initech]

5. The "alt right" should really be called "The National Association For Zero Intolerance".

Or Nazi.

Or as I like to call them "The Go Fuck Yourself Party".