Mar. 13 2010 - 3:43 pm | 1,551 views | 0 recommendations | 21 comments
Richard Spencer and the ugly white nationalism of the âAlternative Rightâ
By E.D. KAIN
Tim Mak and Alex Knepper both take turns picking apart Richard Spencerâs new website, Alternative Right. Theyâre both right, of course: Spencer and Derbyshire* and Sailer** and the rest of the far-right-wingers at Alternative Right represent the ugly â and yes racist â underbelly of âaltâ conservatism. This is white nationalism, folks, dressed up in faux-intellectualism. Indeed, they are so âalternativeâ that Spencer has disavowed paleo-conservatism altogether, claiming that âSadly, a lot of paleo[-conservatives] now⦠have actually denounced human biological diversity. Paleo-conservatism is now irrelevant.â
And yes, in this context âhuman biological diversityâ means essentially that some races are superior to others. Just listen to this conversation between Spencer and Knepper at CPAC 2009:
Along the way, things got a little testy. We somehow got into discussing biological differences between the races. Our ideological differences soon emerged, though, because, simply put, I am an individualist and he is a collectivist.
âShow me one black nation thatâs ever been run competently,â he challenged me.
âThatâs a ridiculous methodology. Iâll accept that claim for argumentâs sake and still say that itâs bogus: African nations have not failed because the skin color of the people is black. The skin color is just a coincidence. Itâs the culture thatâs the problem.â
âNot true,â he said. âYou look at Liberia, where ex-slaves went back to Africa, tried to bring American ideals to the country, and failed, because the blacks wouldnât accept them.â
âThis is not Western,â I said. âHow can you possibly claim to stand for Western civilization? Whatâs brilliant about our values is that they stand for the individual, not the supremacy of the group. You come to America, youâre judged by your merits â not by what you look like.â
After a few more back-and-forths, we arrived at our destination, and as our car-mates went ahead, he told me to stay with him for a minute so he could talk to me. As the others faded into the background, he moved just inches away from my face, gave me a menacing look and yelled: âYou little child. How dare you talk to me â me! â about the West! You donât know the first thing about the West! Youâre a little twelve-year-old who thinks he knows shit. Donât you ever talk to me like that again or I will beat your face into the fucking ground!â
As with my infamous argument with gay-basher Ryan Sorba, my confrontations with collectivists always tend to end up degenerating into threats of physical force. Richard Spencer is a fairly tough guy, and Iâm, well, kind of scrawny. So I kept my mouth shut. But I was frightened.
Full story here:
http://trueslant.com/erikkain/2010/...y-white-nationalism-of-the-alternative-right/
Website of the speaker, Richard Spencer referred to in the above article:
http://www.alternativeright.com/