Jewish leaders in Richard Spencers hometown targeted in posting on neo-Nazi website
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Source: Washington Post
Jewish leaders in Richard Spencers hometown targeted in posting on neo-Nazi website
By Katie Mettler
@kemettler
http://twitter.com/kemettler
December 19 at 9:13 AM
In March 2016, Sherry Spencer opened the doors to her passion project, a three-story, cherry red building that peeks over historic downtown Whitefish, one of Montanas quaint, upscale ski resort towns. ... The building, 22 Lupfer, houses luxury vacation apartments and commercial office space, an embodiment of the two community strongholds tourism and small business that keep Whitefish on the map.
But in recent weeks, the building has become the focal point of another, less inviting slice of the towns reputation one that was recently thrust into the national spotlight with the victory of President-elect Donald Trump and the rise in popularity of Whitefishs most notorious part-time resident, Richard Spencer, the white nationalist founder of the alt-right movement who also happens to be Sherry Spencers son.
{Lets party like its 1933: Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer}*
Her business had once been affiliated with her son, according to building documents, and her home address is still listed as the location of the National Policy Institutes principal office, Virginia state records show.
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The escalating tension was chronicled in a local TV report** last week that seemed to tell the simple tale of a small town deeply divided. .... And it didnt take long for the followers of Richard Spencers movement, including former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke, to join the conversation.
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lets-party-like-its-1933-inside-the-disturbing-alt-right-world-of-richard-spencer/2016/11/22/cf81dc74-aff7-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html
** http://www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/34036263/a-community-and-a-family-torn-apart-by-richard-spencers-notoriety
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/12/19/jewish-leaders-in-richard-spencers-hometown-targeted-in-posting-on-neo-nazi-website/
That local TV report was linked at DU last week:
Richard Spencer: We Investigate: Whitefish, family torn apart by white nationalist's notoriety
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028363063
[div class"excerpt"]Richard Spencer: We Investigate: Whitefish, family torn apart by white nationalist's notoriety
http://www.kulr8.com/story/34036263/a-community-and-a-family-torn-apart-by-richard-spencers-notoriety
Posted: Dec 13, 2016 12:41 AM EST Updated: Dec 13, 2016 11:21 AM EST
By David Winter
david.winter@abcfoxmontana.com
[div class"excerpt"]Writing about the alt-right
https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/writing-about-the-alt-right
Nov. 28, 2016, by John Daniszewski
Recent developments have put the so-called alt-right movement in the news. They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as white nationalism and white supremacism.
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Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.
[div class"excerpt"]Alt-right shadow hangs over Whitefish
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/alt-right-shadow-hangs-over-whitefish/article_bc57ba34-c4c3-11e6-8f6a-83971385fb54.html
Posted: Saturday, December 17, 2016 7:00 pm Updated: 7:10 pm, Sat Dec 17, 2016.
By LYNNETTE HINTZE Daily Inter Lake
[font size1]Matt Baldwin / Whitefish Pilot
22 Lupfer Avenue
The mixed-use building at 22 Lupfer Ave., in Whitefish.[/font]
The national spotlight that continues to illuminate white nationalist leader Richard Spencer and his alt-right movement also has put Whitefish in the limelight in ways that are uncomfortable not only for the towns residents but also Spencers own parents.
Spencer is at the helm of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist nonprofit think-tank and publishing firm. For years Spencer, 38, has been a part-time Whitefish resident, though he spends most of his time now on the East Coast. His parents, Rand and Sherry Spencer, continue to spend time in Whitefish and Sherry owns a commercial building in the citys historic Railway District.
Spencers parents wrote a letter to the Whitefish community that is published today in the Inter Lakes opinion section. They say Sherrys mixed-use building at 22 Lupfer Ave., and its retail tenants have been targeted because of their sons white nationalist viewpoints.
Our tenants are innocent victims and their businesses are threatened with boycotts for something over which they have no control. There is no justification for their sustaining collateral damage, they stated in their letter. We, too, are victims, having no role in any of the events that have unfolded recently.
We can't sit back and wait for someone else to show up. From now on we're going to have to provide our own leadership.
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028372233
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzOz3Y6D8g_MNXHNMJYAz1b41_cn535aU5UsN7Lj8X8/preview#headingh.he8mndfdfxw9