[Peace-discuss] The ‘Alt-Right’ Is A Hate Movement, And It’s Scarier Than You Think

[Robert Naiman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alt-right-hate-richard-spencer_us_5833242fe4b058ce7aac26fe

The ‘Alt-Right’ Is A Hate Movement, And It’s Scarier Than You Think
Its leader, Richard Spencer, is no less skilled at manipulation than Donald
Trump.
 11/21/2016 03:19 pm ET | Updated 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON ― If you want to know why the unabashedly racist and
Nazi-sympathizing “alt-right” movement is making a mark on the Trump
administration and beyond, look no further than Tila Tequila and her white
nationalist friend, Richard Spencer.

In one of the more bizarre and scary things to transpire in an already
bizarre and scary political season, Tequila ― the social media presence,
former TV host and current porn star ― attended a conference of white
nationalists in Washington this weekend. On the surface, it was odd that
the Vietnamese-American, born Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen, was there. Yet her
presence squared perfectly with Spencer’s political and messaging strategy,
and that of his National Policy Institute, which organized the event.

“The alt-right is willing to work with allies of color,” Spencer told
journalists on Saturday. At that moment, it was hard not to think of
Tequila, who had tweeted a photo of herself
<https://twitter.com/AngelTilaLove/status/799809348755161088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
making
the Nazi salute with the caption, “Seig [sic] heil!” the night before.

To be sure, Spencer views most non-white races as genetically inferior, has
a deep mistrust of Jewish people and associates with neo-Nazis. He wants to
see Europeans and people of European descent “protected” from other races
through state-sponsored segregation. The list goes on.

However, it’s Spencer’s deft packaging of this hate speech that made him
the informal head of the self-styled “alt-right,” a movement of quasi- to
full-blown fascist writers, listless brown shirts and disgruntled meme
creators. He feints at multiculturalism, expressing his respect for “Native
Americans,” the “spirituality” of African-Americans and the aforementioned
“allies of color.” His white nationalist spouting is filed with academic
jargon ― founding an organization with the distinctly bland name “National
Policy Institute” and calling one’s movement “alt-right” is no small part
of that strategy.  All this is not a new approach, but one Spencer is
chillingly good at.
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1
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