The New Face of Hate: Meet the Man Trying to Make White Separatism Respectable

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/new-face-hate-meet-man-trying-make-white-separatism-respectable



Richard Spencer sat sipping his chai latte at the Red Caboose, a train-themed coffee shop in downtown Whitefish, Mont. Clean-cut and restrained, he reminded me of a hundred outdoors-obsessed people I had known growing up here in the Flathead Valley, a resort area nestled in the shadows of Glacier National Park.

But Spencer’s tidy appearance is about more than his sense of propriety; it’s a recruitment tool. Spencer advocates for white separatism and he wants to shake his movement’s reputation for brutality and backwardness.

“We have to look good,” Spencer said, adding that if his movement means ”being part of something that is crazed or ugly or vicious or just stupid, no one is going to want to be a part of it.” Those stereotypes of “redneck, tattooed, illiterate, no-teeth” people, Spencer said, are blocking his progress. Organizations that monitor domestic hate groups say it’s just this unthreatening approachability that makes Spencer so insidious.

Spencer says now, more than ever, it falls to people like him to be engaged and savvy if America is going to combat the growing threat of diversity. In particular, he’s irritated by the rise of U.S. minority births, which outnumbered white births for the first time in 2011.

[BillyRibs]

1. Another Neo Nazi!

claiming Concern about the increasing population and racial mixing of REAL Americans (Reads White) with Jews, and Blacks. Gays will damn us all to the hell fires. German,(oops, I meant) American Values. But all he really wants is Unlimited power.

[cali]

2. scary guy

I read the article and went to his website. yikes.

[Heather MC]

3. Don't Articles like this help his recruitment program

[kelliekat44]

6. Yes. But it's a "free country." Remember? nt

[Heather MC]

11. Oh yeah, I keep forgetting that

every time I read about some state denying Marriage equality, or Dr.s being told they have shove medical implements in women's Vag's because it's the will of the people. Or I read someone saying my My marriage to my White husband should be illegal because race mixing is bad. And lot's not forget shoving their religion down my throat impedes their freedom if I don't like it.

It slips my mind that this is a "free country"

LOL

[cali]

12. What are you suggesting? that articles shouldn't be written

about this guy because it could help his recruitment program? And what on earth makes you think that an article in Altenet will be read by the audience that would find this creep and his sicko bigotry attractive?

[Heather MC]

13. Relax

Someone said they went to his site and I thought hmmm They would not have known about the site if not for this article.

I have no power over what gets written about and what doesn't.

Live Free, Be Well!

[kelliekat44]

4. "growing threat of diversity" and "he’s irritated by the rise of U.S. minority births, which

outnumbered white births for the first time in 2011." These two phrases sum him up.

He'll have to come up against a GOP party that pushes against birth control and choice. How far do you think that will get him.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. I say, let him

On another planet.

[kelliekat44]

7. Also, he is after the money that will come with his zeal for white supremacy. Kochs are waiting

in the wings and there will be lots of money from other sources. Even from some groups for which he holds disdain.

[marmar]

8. Can't we just give them a state......preferably one in the desert.......

.......... and put up an impermeable wall around it?

[Zorra]

9. Lipstick on a pig, by any other name, is still lipstick on a pig. nt

[bullwinkle428]

10. David Duke tried this approach back in the 1970s. Got him as far

as the Louisiana governor's race, and then he pretty much circled the drain.