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Gateway Pundits White House Reporter Arrested For Attacking Woman During Speech Full Of White Supre
Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent for the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit, was arrested last night for allegedly attacking a woman who removed papers from his podium during a speech at the University of Connecticut. In the speech, which Wintrich titled “It Is OK To Be White,” he gave subtle and not-so-subtle nods to a slew of memes inspired by white supremacism that have surfaced on 4chan message boards.
Wintrich says he was arrested on “second degree breach of peace”; a video shows him grabbing a woman who removed his speech from the podium as he addressed the crowd. Wintrich’s self-labeled “New Right” allies took to social media with cries of “#FreeLucian” and constructed arguments as to why they believed Wintrich was legally justified in grabbing the woman who took the printout of his speech. Wintrich was released later that evening on a $1,000 bail, as reported by the Hartford Courant.
The news of Wintrich’s arrest threatens to obscure the content of his speech, which was a tribute to alt-right internet culture. When he wasn’t yelling at the protesters heckling him, video shows Wintrich referencing popular memes created by the online cesspool that is 4chan’s “politically incorrect” forum board, many of which stem from the application of white nationalist ideologies to mundane phrases, hand gestures and objects.
Wintrich claimed there are two Americas: “One full of cherry trees, apple pie capitalism, and another America run by illegal immigrant tranny migrants.” He claimed the “dark geniuses” on 4chan picked a “very good battle recently” on behalf of the former with the launch of the “It’s Okay To Be White” campaign. The signage campaign, he claimed, successfully baited liberals into exposing their “hateful ways” against white people.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gateway-pundits-white-house-reporter-arrested-for-attacking-woman-during-speech-full-of-white-supremacist-4chan-memes/
Wintrich says he was arrested on “second degree breach of peace”; a video shows him grabbing a woman who removed his speech from the podium as he addressed the crowd. Wintrich’s self-labeled “New Right” allies took to social media with cries of “#FreeLucian” and constructed arguments as to why they believed Wintrich was legally justified in grabbing the woman who took the printout of his speech. Wintrich was released later that evening on a $1,000 bail, as reported by the Hartford Courant.
The news of Wintrich’s arrest threatens to obscure the content of his speech, which was a tribute to alt-right internet culture. When he wasn’t yelling at the protesters heckling him, video shows Wintrich referencing popular memes created by the online cesspool that is 4chan’s “politically incorrect” forum board, many of which stem from the application of white nationalist ideologies to mundane phrases, hand gestures and objects.
Wintrich claimed there are two Americas: “One full of cherry trees, apple pie capitalism, and another America run by illegal immigrant tranny migrants.” He claimed the “dark geniuses” on 4chan picked a “very good battle recently” on behalf of the former with the launch of the “It’s Okay To Be White” campaign. The signage campaign, he claimed, successfully baited liberals into exposing their “hateful ways” against white people.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gateway-pundits-white-house-reporter-arrested-for-attacking-woman-during-speech-full-of-white-supremacist-4chan-memes/
OK 4Chan needs to go. Holy shit.
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