Temporarily embarrassed proletarians
The second part of our discussion about the ‘Crying Nazi’
Warnings apply, as always.
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Cantwell trying to get into selling cryptocurrency?
Cantwell dating website prank calls
Tucker Carlson: “The American Dream is Dying”
Audio from 13 year old who called RA
In this episode, we make our first assault on the mountain of bullshit, bile, and batshittery that is Christopher ‘the Crying Nazi’ Cantwell, take a swing at the ‘libertarian-to-fascist’ pipeline, and rampant transphobia / transmisogyny.
As ever, warnings apply.
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Show Notes:
Cantwell stuff from A Voice For Men
Cantwell’s warning to Kricket Slick’s future boyfriends
Cantwell OkCupid profile, circa 2015
Ethan Glover on Cantwell’s long history
Daily Beast on the Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline
Reason repudiates the libertarian to alt-right pipeline
Jack’s article on libertarianism as the ‘gateway drug’ to the alt-right
Jack’s article on the Koch Brothers and their funding of right-wing academia
Cantwell on “Free-er Talk Live, Jan 17 2019.”
Charlottesville Race and Terror
Vice checks in on Cantwell a year later
Elmer Woodard, lawyer to Cantwell and the alt-right
Chris Cantwell pulls his gun, May 2015
“The Free Keene Squad” on the Colbert Report
“Looking for Trouble With Strangers”
Right Wing Watch on Outlaw Conservative
Jack’s reference to Disraeli in context (from Richard Seymour’s The Liberal Defence of Murder):
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In this episode, Daniel tells me about the aftermath of the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 2017 (which we talked about last time). We also get a tad more theoretical about some of the reasons for some of the behaviour of the so-called ‘alt-right’, and chat about some related issues such as the recent controversy concerning the Covington MAGA kids.
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Jason Kessler disrupted by his father.
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Covington Catholic Students confrontation full video (confrontation starts at ~1:13:00)
Robby Soave at Reason on Covington Catholic Kids
Jason Wilson at the Guardian on Covington Catholic Kids
Laura Wagner at Deadspin on Covington Catholic Kids
GQ “Scared White Supremacist Takes Off His Uniform.”
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League of the South signs consent decree, will not return to Charlottesville. March 2018.
“The decree specifically names the League of the South, its directors, officers, members and agents, national League of the South chairman Michael Tubbs and Kentucky chapter chairman Spencer Borum. These parties are blocked from “returning to Charlottesville, Virginia, as part of a unit of two or more persons acting in concert while armed with a firearm, weapon, shield, or any item whose purpose is to inflict bodily harm to any demonstration, rally, protest, or march,” on threat of court-ordered punishment.”
Jacob Goodwin and Alex Ramos sentenced for attack on Deandre Harris.
Daniel Borden sentenced for attack on Deandre Harris
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Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer
“”Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting Communist,” stated the tweet on an account belonging to Jason Kessler. “Communists have killed 94 million. Looks like it was payback time.” “
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Cloudflare boots Daily Stormer August 16, 2017
Twitter bans Nazis December 18, 2017.
Major sites ban Alex Jones and Infowars September 2018.
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“Rise Above Movement” (RAM) members arrested. October 2018.
Tom Brokaw “Brown Grandbabies.”
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Also, here’s the famous Vice documentary ‘Charlottesville: Race and Terror‘, which we refer to.
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In this episode, which runs a bit longer than the first two, and which goes to some very dark places, Daniel tells me all about the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, 2017.
The episode features discussions of violence, and we try to signpost when we’re getting into the painful details. But warnings definitely apply from the start. We’re discussing virulent racism and bigotry.
And here’s the podcast’s own website.
Please feel free to signal boost us.
(Also, we’re on iTunes and YouTube now.)
Of necessity, we’re only glancing at this incredibly big and complex subject, so we’re going to be coming back to many of the issues, organisations, and persons mentioned.
And here are some notes, sources, and references.
(Oh, P.S. Fun fact… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped into Hbomberguy’s Donkey Kong charity Twitch stream as we recorded this.)
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NOTES
Firstly, everyone interested in this should follow and support Emily Gorcenski and Molly (Socialist Dog Mom) on Twitter.
Here’s Emily’s livestream of the tiki torch rally
Here’s Molly’s podcast The Trial of James Alex Fields
First Vigil – tracking fascist violence
Texts between Jason Kessler (UtR organiser), Richard Spencer, other UtR participants:
SPLC/Hatewatch
Document at DocumentCloud
Enoch and The Right Stuff crew photo with Taylor Wilson and James Alex Fields (tweet from Sandi Bachom):
Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer after Charlottesville
Hunter Wallace (Brad Griffin) smears Heather Heyer.
White Boner’s conspiracy theory video
Alex McNabb, the ‘Nazi EMT’
Daniel has curated a selection of clips relating to the subjects touched on in this episode. Beware, some of these clips feature people like Jason Kessler and Mike Enoch being vile. Here.
David Futrelle‘s blog We Hunted the Mammoth, is a good source for lots of information about the far-right in its many forms. The blog originally tracked the ‘Manosphere’ (i.e. MRAs, Incels, etc) but has increasingly tracked online hate more generally as the Manosphere joined up with and fed into the so-called ‘alt-right’, Trumpism, etc.
Here’s his post on nazis mocking the murder of Heather Heyer in their memes…
…and here’s his post on the Daily Caller’s call for people to run over protestors.
And here is the video we refer to in the episode, ‘Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right‘ by Shaun – excellent stuff.
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Timeline of Rallies 2017:
Feb. 1: Berkeley. Milo rally cancelled.
April 15: Berkeley. “Free Speech Event,” Nathan Damigo punches “Moldylocks.”
April 27: Berkeley. Ann Coulter speech cancelled, “Based Stickman,” Lauren Southern, et al.
April 29: Pikeville, KY. TWP/NSM rally. Village Voice article.
May 13: Cville. Richard Spencer torch rally. Charlottesville 1.0.
—–June 2017—- UtR announced.
July 8. Cville. Ku Klux Klan rally.
—–July 11—— Kessler appears at town hall in Cville, publicizing UtR and distancing from Klan.
August 11. Cville. UVA torch march, “Jews Will Not Replace Us,” assault on Emily Gorcenski and Kristopher Goad. Emily Livestream.
August 12. Cville. Unite the Right.
State of Emergency declared at 11:00AM.…
Nearly forgot I now have wednesdays to post whatever subsidiary stuff I have.
In our second episode, Daniel tells me all about former KKK Grand Wizard, “king of the angry Facebook grampas”, and man who wrote an autobiography it took 42 hours for him to record himself reading, ‘Dr’ David Duke.
As ever, we’re discussing fascism, racism and bigotry generally, so warnings apply.
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As many of you will know, our very own Daniel Harper has been researching the so-called ‘alt-right’ (really the far-right) for more tha two years now, listening to their podcasts and YouTube shows, documenting what they say to each other in their own spaces.
This new podcast series – entitled (very cleverly, I think) I Don’t Speak German – will be me in conversation with Daniel, giving him an opportunity to tell us what he heard.
We’re discussing fascism and racism, so this podcast comes with big warnings.
Here’s the first episode, on perhaps the best-known representative of the ‘alt-right’, Richard Spencer, his career, style, and ideology. The episode also touches on the origins of the term ‘alt-right’, the infamous ‘heilgate’ occurance after Trump’s election, etc.
Our episodes will cover one ‘topic’ per show. We plan to keep the episodes as short as possible, and crank them out regularly (in direct defiance of our usual operating methods).
The next episode will be on a more old-school fascist, David Duke, former Klan ‘Grand Wizard’ who spoke at Charlottesville.
Please consider spreading the news about this new show.
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In other news, I’m going to be taking a bit of a sabbatical from posting so I can work on the Shabgraff book I promised Elizabeth about 100 years ago. It’s planned to be a compilation of the best of the blog, but expanded and rewritten, and with new material. So I’ll be absent from Fridays for the forseeable future, though I’ll still be able to post podcast updates – and the occasional piece of writing, I hope – on Wednesdays. (I’m still planning to do the Dracula movie series.)
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If you feel like helping me with these projects, here’s my Patreon. And here’s Daniel’s, if you feel like you want to help him with his important project.…