Posts Tagged ‘Richard Spencer’

If It’s a Civil War, Pick a Side: Donald Trump, White Nationalism and the Future of America

August 16, 2017, filed under Essay Archive; Comments Off on If It’s a Civil War, Pick a Side: Donald Trump, White Nationalism and the Future of America.
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Sometimes America feels like the movie Groundhog Day: a place where we keep waking up again and again to the same shit, hoping against hope that this time — no really, this time — things will be different. So this time, the videotape of the police officer shooting the unarmed black man (or child, in […]

Alt+Right+Delete: The Disingenuous and Contradictory Rhetoric of White Nationalism

December 8, 2016, filed under Essay Archive; Comments Off on Alt+Right+Delete: The Disingenuous and Contradictory Rhetoric of White Nationalism.
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So now we know: White nationalists have been working more on their wardrobe than tightening up the rhetoric and logic with which they defend and present their worldview. Case in point, Richard Spencer, the Nazi flavor-of-the-month and white nationalist leader whom the media has deemed the movement’s bright and shining star. Although for a while […]