Anonymous wrote:The funny thing about the article is everyone is hating on Spencer while saying "Hate is not welcome here!" meanwhile Spencer is just like "Can't we all just get along?"

I get that Spencer has said some really controversial and hateful things in his past, but hate will never cure hate.

Look up Daryl Davis - a black man who met with - and befriended - more than a dozen klan members, eventually getting them all to turn in their robes and quit.

The truth of the matter is, Daryl Davis's technique would solve so many of our problems and differences, but we are doing the opposite. The left's tactic of attack, ban and cancel only solidifies our divide on so many issues. The solution is to discuss and resolve, not ban and cancel. Also, forgiveness is essential, something that is mostly absent in today's society. Without an element of forgiveness, we will never resolve our differences on any issue.

Anonymous wrote:The funny thing about the article is everyone is hating on Spencer while saying "Hate is not welcome here!" meanwhile Spencer is just like "Can't we all just get along?"

I get that Spencer has said some really controversial and hateful things in his past, but hate will never cure hate.

Look up Daryl Davis - a black man who met with - and befriended - more than a dozen klan members, eventually getting them all to turn in their robes and quit.

The truth of the matter is, Daryl Davis's technique would solve so many of our problems and differences, but we are doing the opposite. The left's tactic of attack, ban and cancel only solidifies our divide on so many issues. The solution is to discuss and resolve, not ban and cancel. Also, forgiveness is essential, something that is mostly absent in today's society. Without an element of forgiveness, we will never resolve our differences on any issue.

Anonymous wrote:The funny thing about the article is everyone is hating on Spencer while saying "Hate is not welcome here!" meanwhile Spencer is just like "Can't we all just get along?"

I get that Spencer has said some really controversial and hateful things in his past, but hate will never cure hate.

Look up Daryl Davis - a black man who met with - and befriended - more than a dozen klan members, eventually getting them all to turn in their robes and quit.

The truth of the matter is, Daryl Davis's technique would solve so many of our problems and differences, but we are doing the opposite. The left's tactic of attack, ban and cancel only solidifies our divide on so many issues. The solution is to discuss and resolve, not ban and cancel. Also, forgiveness is essential, something that is mostly absent in today's society. Without an element of forgiveness, we will never resolve our differences on any issue.

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Anonymous wrote:We all know the Very Fine People quote is taken out of context. As someone who knows intimately what happened in Charlottesville, I can say with positivity that the two groups were deliberately put on a path to collide and the police were deliberately told to stand down. Crisis of the left.

Spencer interested in Trump does not mean Trump is interested in Spencer.

Please go crawl back into your hole. White supremacists were a key part of Trump's electoral coalition in 2016. They were crawling all around the 2016 Republican convention. Trump was their guy, and you can't rewrite history.

The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland’s Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term “Europeanists,” ″alt-right,” or even “white nationalists.” They are also die-hard Trump supporters.

And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee from inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party’s highest-profile quadrennial gathering.

Several gathered in the luxury hotel well after midnight following Trump’s Thursday address, a fiery appeal they said helped push the Republican Party closer to their principles.

“I don’t think people have fully recognized the degree to which he’s transformed the party,” said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.

Like most in his group, Spencer said this year’s convention was his first. On his social media accounts, he posted pictures of himself wearing a red Trump “Make America Great Again” hat at Quicken Loans Arena. And he says he hopes to attend future GOP conventions.

“Tons of people in the alt-right are here,” he said, putting their numbers at the RNC this week in the dozens. “We feel an investment in the Trump campaign.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-republican-national-convention-cleveland-campaign-2016-70541105d2f149cc9b7b6951d8a13e7a

You are citing Richard Spencer as an authority, a complete nobody who is living with his mom if OP is to be believed.

So which is it? Richard Spencer is a nobody and the head of nothing? Or Richard Spencer speaks for some big chunk of the US electorate.

Spencer is and always was a creation of the media. He was a guy lazy reporters could go to to get quotes that would confirm their pre-existing biases.

He is actually a bit like Cindy Shehan in that sense. Shehan was useful when she was attacking GWB and so there were endless fawning articles about her.

When she started going after Obama she was no longer useful and suddenly it was like she didn't exist.

+1

He wanted attention and the left gave it to him through his sounds bites curated to cause media outrage. Besides, he’s a Biden guy now. And everything that guy touches definitely turns to shit!

https://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-joe-biden-trump-maga-1527141

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Anonymous wrote:We all know the Very Fine People quote is taken out of context. As someone who knows intimately what happened in Charlottesville, I can say with positivity that the two groups were deliberately put on a path to collide and the police were deliberately told to stand down. Crisis of the left.

Spencer interested in Trump does not mean Trump is interested in Spencer.

Please go crawl back into your hole. White supremacists were a key part of Trump's electoral coalition in 2016. They were crawling all around the 2016 Republican convention. Trump was their guy, and you can't rewrite history.

The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland’s Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term “Europeanists,” ″alt-right,” or even “white nationalists.” They are also die-hard Trump supporters.

And far from hiding in chat rooms or under white sheets, they cheered the GOP presidential nominee from inside the Republican National Convention over the last week. While not official delegates, they nevertheless obtained credentials to attend the party’s highest-profile quadrennial gathering.

Several gathered in the luxury hotel well after midnight following Trump’s Thursday address, a fiery appeal they said helped push the Republican Party closer to their principles.

“I don’t think people have fully recognized the degree to which he’s transformed the party,” said Richard Spencer, a clean-cut 38-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, who sipped Manhattans as he matter-of-factly called for removing African-Americans, Hispanics and Jews from the United States.

Like most in his group, Spencer said this year’s convention was his first. On his social media accounts, he posted pictures of himself wearing a red Trump “Make America Great Again” hat at Quicken Loans Arena. And he says he hopes to attend future GOP conventions.

“Tons of people in the alt-right are here,” he said, putting their numbers at the RNC this week in the dozens. “We feel an investment in the Trump campaign.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-republican-national-convention-cleveland-campaign-2016-70541105d2f149cc9b7b6951d8a13e7a

You are citing Richard Spencer as an authority, a complete nobody who is living with his mom if OP is to be believed.

So which is it? Richard Spencer is a nobody and the head of nothing? Or Richard Spencer speaks for some big chunk of the US electorate.

Spencer is and always was a creation of the media. He was a guy lazy reporters could go to to get quotes that would confirm their pre-existing biases.

He is actually a bit like Cindy Shehan in that sense. Shehan was useful when she was attacking GWB and so there were endless fawning articles about her.

When she started going after Obama she was no longer useful and suddenly it was like she didn't exist.

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Anonymous wrote:I think I speak for the 90% of Americans who wouldn’t know this guy if he were standing in line behind me at Home Depot.

Who cares?

I also find it really odd that he could be recognized by everyone in some random ski resort, just walking into a room. The whole event sounds made up.

I think educated monied people probably know who he is. Assume he was in a more expensive ski resort where he was already well known.

If he walked into Massanutten or something, I doubt anyone would know who he was by sight.

I’m educated and have a significant NW (mid-8 figures last year) and I wouldn’t recognize him if he was right in front of me. Nor would I care.

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Anonymous wrote:I think I speak for the 90% of Americans who wouldn’t know this guy if he were standing in line behind me at Home Depot.

Who cares?

I also find it really odd that he could be recognized by everyone in some random ski resort, just walking into a room. The whole event sounds made up.

I think educated monied people probably know who he is. Assume he was in a more expensive ski resort where he was already well known.

If he walked into Massanutten or something, I doubt anyone would know who he was by sight.

I’m educated and have a significant NW (mid-8 figures last year) and I wouldn’t recognize him if he was right in front of me. Nor would I care.

Anonymous wrote:We all know the Very Fine People quote is taken out of context. As someone who knows intimately what happened in Charlottesville, I can say with positivity that the two groups were deliberately put on a path to collide and the police were deliberately told to stand down. Crisis of the left.

Spencer interested in Trump does not mean Trump is interested in Spencer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I speak for the 90% of Americans who wouldn’t know this guy if he were standing in line behind me at Home Depot.

Who cares?

I also find it really odd that he could be recognized by everyone in some random ski resort, just walking into a room. The whole event sounds made up.

I think educated monied people probably know who he is. Assume he was in a more expensive ski resort where he was already well known.

If he walked into Massanutten or something, I doubt anyone would know who he was by sight.

I’m educated and have a significant NW (mid-8 figures last year) and I wouldn’t recognize him if he was right in front of me. Nor would I care.

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Anonymous wrote:We all know the Very Fine People quote is taken out of context. As someone who knows intimately what happened in Charlottesville, I can say with positivity that the two groups were deliberately put on a path to collide and the police were deliberately told to stand down. Crisis of the left.

Spencer interested in Trump does not mean Trump is interested in Spencer.

Everything Trump said was ‘taken out of context’ according to Republicans. He could tweet ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’ and you people would argue he didn’t really mean it and it wasn’t a threat. In fact, you did.

Beyond that - everything the President says sets a tone and expectation for how the nation is to respond. By not condemning the white supremacist march until a year later - he was saying I approve of this and support it.

Disgusting.