And So It Begins... The Normalization of White Supremacy (in the media)

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[h1]  Neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer dress up their racism, and the media is taking the bait[/h1]
Have you met the dashing new bachelor joining the Washington elite? The debonair wunderkind taking the capital by storm? Mother Jones introduced him as "dapper," and the Los Angeles Times framed his latest intellectual venture as the "new think tank in town."

Who are these reliable bastions of American journalistic tradition talking about? A neo-Nazi.

The subject of the Times story is the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist "think thank" led by Richard Spencer. Spencer's goal is to bring the racist ideology of white nationalism — the political idea that America should be fortified as a white nation — into the mainstream by dressing up typically abhorrent ideas in a suit and tie and selling it as serious discourse.

But the first step toward gaining public legitimacy is to attract media coverage that frames Spencer and his institute as a savvy group of political outsiders ready to disrupt the Washington, D.C., establishment.

Over the weekend, Spencer — who invented the term "alt-right" as a euphemism for white supremacy in 2008 — held a landmark post-election meeting of the NPI. The crowd was a mix of conservative writers, white nationalists and right-wing celebrities like Tila Tequila, the MySpace star turned neo-Nazi. 

After Spencer spoke — cheering Donald Trump's election victory and quoting "Nazi propaganda in the original German," the New York Times reported — his crowd cheered with a Nazi salute and shouted, "Heil the people! Heil victory!"

The NPI wants people to take its debunked "race science" seriously

The goal of a think tank is to research and advance ideas. You've likely heard their names: Brookings Institution, RAND Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations. Their experts are quoted in articles and appear on cable news when someone needs a respectable source. Many times, think tanks manage to draft laws and get them passed: The American Legislative Exchange Council, for example, is largely responsible for the proliferation of private prisons.

The studies published by Spencer's group give us a decent idea of one major strategy: to revitalize the widely discredited field of race science and prove that people of color are genetically inferior to whites — a major talking point white nationalists use to justify their dream of creating a whites-only nation.

The NPI's long game? Normalizing neo-Nazi ideology

The word "normalization" is thrown around a lot on social media, usually in the context of Trump's racist and xenophobic policy proposals for Muslims and immigrants. But Spencer is demonstrating how normalization actually occurs: by recasting ideas and behaviors typically not considered acceptable as part of the public exchange of ideas.

By donning a suit and calling Nazism "alt-right" or "white nationalism," Spencer is able to slip past the expectation that real Nazis — who we're used to dismissing outright — are jackboot thugs with bald heads and imperial eagle tattoos, as writer and Techsdale director Andray Domise pointed out on Twitter Friday.

"Our equation of racism with white poverty has conditioned us to become surprised when a well-groomed white person with money or nice clothes is racist or shills racist policies — as if white wealth and white racism were somehow at odds," Mic's Zak Cheney Rice wrote of white supremacist ploys for respectability.

Today, normalization can mean magazine-style profiles that cast Spencer as a budding intellectual whose time has finally come, as many people on Twitter pointed out to criticize the Los Angeles Times' flattering social media portrayal.

The time is ripe for this rebrand: Fellow white nationalist Steve Bannon recently scored a top position in the Trump administration. On CNN Monday, hosts discussed the question of whether Trump should denounce anti-Semitic supporters. (The chyron: "Alt-Right Founder Questions If Jews Are People.") The media appears to be taking Spencer seriously. 

But what about his work? Tomorrow, this could look like a news anchor introducing a new "research paper" about racial IQ and skull shapes before cutting to Spencer as an "expert." If it gets to that point.

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That's not surprising. Media been helping the far right promote their bull **** for a while now, instead of ignoring them like the cockroaches that they are.

Gotta get those clicks and views, and nothing gets them clicks like controversy, no matter how idiotic it is.
 
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Tila Tequila? 
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 This bish would get her *** beat by real neo nazis if they saw her on the street. She needs to watch this movie, which focuses especially on the neo nazi hatred of Asians:


 "Make it to the laneway, waiting for the scum. Smash their yellow faces, kick their ******* bum. When they plee for mercy, we will show none. Skinhead! Skinhead! 'Til the job is done."
Man, I swear, some people are so delusional.
 
 
the alt-right label is the new wrinkle
Word,the alt-right label is just a modern rebranding,it's basically ws's in suits
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I said before and i'll say again. Its very ironic to me that some of the same people who complain about things becoming to PC in the world use a PC name (Alt-Right) to dress up and make themselves look not as offensive on face value. 

But its obvious they are nothing more than a bunch of white supremacists.
 
I wonder what would truly happen if we ignored people like this? Getting them to see the error or their ways is always an uphill battle.
 
Trump's chief of strategy Steve Bannon has described Richard Spencer (the guy from that video ^) as a "leading intellectual"
 
[thread="656194"]I low key wish roland didn't interview this POS. It's giving validation to this scumbag's ideology. [/thread]

Exactly,

Media: Let's write articles and interview these people to show how terrible their views are.

Them: Thanks for the free publicity.
 
i would normally agree that it's best to just let these ******** rot, but Roland took him to task, which I applaud and in a way we need to stop pretending these cats aren't alive and well and weren't very vocal in their support of trump.

America can't keep pretending there aren't a good percentage of white people who are flat out racist vile human beings.

Like Brolic said this is their last stand, and I for one believe they should take the beating in public.

Let them try and explain their ******** thought process so they can be made a fool of.
 
Exactly,

Media: Let's write articles and interview these people to show how terrible their views are.

Them: Thanks for the free publicity.
Yea man. This is exactly how Trump got elected in the first place. He got so much free media coverage and this white supremacists are doing the exact same thing. 
 
i would normally agree that it's best to just let these ******** rot, but Roland took him to task, which I applaud and in a way we need to stop pretending these cats aren't alive and well and weren't very vocal in their support of trump.

America can't keep pretending there aren't a good percentage of white people who are flat out racist vile human beings.

Like Brolic said this is their last stand, and I for one believe they should take the beating in public.

Let them try and explain their ******** thought process so they can be made a fool of.

They're not taking the beating in the public though. Only way that happens if every news outlet does what Roland does and just constantly hits em w/ facts which won't happen. In order for them to take the beating, it has to start w/ the news outlets for non-whites that have a decent sized platform.

I've seen more media outlets using that bs "Alt-right" moniker instead of calling them what they are which is white supremacists. The way the media is doing it now, it's just going to normalize it.
 
i would normally agree that it's best to just let these ******** rot, but Roland took him to task, which I applaud and in a way we need to stop pretending these cats aren't alive and well and weren't very vocal in their support of trump.

America can't keep pretending there aren't a good percentage of white people who are flat out racist vile human beings.

Like Brolic said this is their last stand, and I for one believe they should take the beating in public.

Let them try and explain their ******** thought process so they can be made a fool of.

Agreed. There are so many people in denial of what's actually happening. Allowing these Neo Nazis to remain hidden only benefits them. It's time to start pulling their hoods off and exposing them for who they are. And let me be clear, I do not mean all white people. That said, this should be used as a catalyst for a new movement among black people. The Civil Rights movement did not accomplish all of its goals and we need to begin the discussion of how we get to that finish line.
 
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I thought he was supposed to be some highly intelligent new age white supremacist but he sounds like any other racist idiot in that vid.

**** he was saying just made no sense. He did half of Roland's work for him. Bruh had the gall to say whites were underrepresented in tech 
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I thought he was supposed to be some highly intelligent new age white supremacist but he sounds like any other racist idiot in that vid.
**** he was saying just made no sense. He did half of Roland's work for him. Bruh had the gall to say whites were underrepresented in tech :rofl:

no such thing...
 
This ************ said the Nazi salute was done in exuberance and irony :rofl:

These racists trying to cover up their hateful ideology in such pitiful ways :lol:
 
This fool said Egyptians are not African.
This fool said a whole lot of things that completely defy logic and common sense

The clown couldn't even admit that African-Americans played a huge role in establishing the US' economy due to all the free labor from slavery.
 
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