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Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. 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You notice this? And inevitably they’re covered in tattoos of swastikas, Celtic crosses, runes and Thor’s hammer. Why? Why! Why must they use the sacred symbols of my culture and heritage to announce to everyone their horrifying bigotry? Was Thor strong? Yes. Clever? Not really. An advocate of racial purity? Hell fucking no!I’m sure the Irish aren’t excited about the Celtic crosses either—any more than Indians have enjoyed seeing their sacred symbol for prosperity used as a logo for modern genocidal movements....---<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/us/hate-symbols-changing-trnd/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/us/hate-symbols-changing-trnd/index.html</a>...As a replacement, the NSM chose the <span helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" utkal="Utkal" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Othala Rune, an pre-Roman symbol co-opted by Nazi Germany.<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-the-alt-right-is-not-pro-free-speech">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/richard-spencer-the-alt-right-is-not-pro-free-speech</a>
<a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/how-white-nationalists-hide-academia">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/how-white-nationalists-hide-academia</a>Even in the world of academia, a punchy headline can be everything.As subaltern analysis heads from the margins to the center of critical discourse, the kind of post-colonialism that was previously centered on a college campus has been popularized across the left. Within a popular culture shifting to decolonization ideas, someone at the Third World Quarterly likely knew a title like "The Case for Colonialism" was going to gain some traction. The paper, penned by controversial Portland State University faculty member Bruce Gilley, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colonialism-academic-article-bruce-gilley-threats-violence-published-withdrawn-third-world-quarterly-a7996371.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">argued</a> that Western colonial expansion into the Global South, specifically Africa, was a net positive, and that the 20th century liberation struggles were a catastrophe that should be reversed. Ignoring the mountains of scholarship that outlines the brutal cruelty of colonial exploitation, slavery and genocide, Gilley has taken an avenue that is popular amongst the academic segment of the radical right: transvaluation. With a mind towards defending white settler colonialism, Gilley did not deny the tragedies, he just decided they were worth it.While it was shocking to many that a respected Ro...[hist]I'm worried about it,” Klaas said. “Retweeting a Britain First account linked to neo-Nazis and provoke a spat with our allies. You have demonization of the press and also attacking CNN, saying we should boycott them. There (are) constant ethics violations, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kellyanne-conway-violated-the-hatch-act-will-she-be-charged/2017/11/27/361f2170-d3bb-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html" rel="noopener" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">violations of the Hatch Act</a>.”Klaas, the author of “The Despot’s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding & Abetting the Decline of Democracy,” said the White House press secretary had given an “Orwellian” response to questions about those anti-Muslim videos Trump retweeted from a British fascist.“Sarah Huckabee Sanders says it doesn’t matter if it’s true, what’s true is what the president says,” Klaas said.He said what’s happening now in the United States lines up with the early stages of authoritarian regimes he’s studied in other countries....<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-diehard-and-former-milo-yiannopoulos-intern-stabs-father-death-calling-him">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-diehard-and-former-milo-yiannopoulos-intern-stabs-father-death-calling-him</a>A prolific online troll and former intern of Milo Yiannopoulos has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his father to death in his Washington home. According to audio of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi?via=twitter_page" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">incident obtained by the Daily Beast</a>, 33-year-old Lane Davis set upon his father after the latter called him a Nazi. "He’s chasing us around the house,” Davis' mother told a police dispatcher. “He’s mad about something on the internet about leftist pedophiles and he thinks we’re leftist and he’s calling us pedophiles, and I don’t know what-all.”Davis has entered a plea of not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for January.The Samish Island native fits a disturbing if increasingly familiar profile. After dropping out of Washington State University in 2004, he developed a following on YouTube peddling conspiracy theories that ran the gamut from 9/11 being an inside job to vaccines causing autism. By 2014, he had become a fixture in Gamergate, a campaign of online harassment of women in the video game industry that included doxxing and death threats. Davis would ultimately renounce his fellow travelers in the movement, but that did not stop him from targeting Joshua Idehen, whose manager, agent and charity he contacted accusing the London musician of pedophilia. Shortly thereafter, Davis began working for Milo Yiannopoulos, with whom he co-wrote an article accusing the MacArthur Foundation of promoting censorship on social media. Yiannopoulos, who was recently outed for his <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.pbzdZayen#.hylbPe3XG" style="text-decoration-line: none;">close collaboration with prominent neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right</a>, has since released the following statement to the Daily Beast:<blockquote style="">“Mr. Davis was a volunteer for me for a brief period of time prior to my founding Milo, Inc. I was unhappy with his work and discontinued the relationship. I then experienced his anger firsthand as he threatened me and later went to Buzzfeed making false and inaccurate accusations."</blockquote>Davis parlayed his short tenure at Breitbart into an unpaid blogging gig at a far-right website called theRalphRetort.com, which features such verticals as "SJW Insanity" and "Campus Crazies," and whose editor, Ethan Ralph, is serving an eight-month sentence in Loudon County, Virginia, for assaulting a police officer. Ralph's wife pledged to remove all of Davis' stories, which he posted under the name Seattle4Truth. A fervent Trump supporter, Davis had grown increasingly agitated in recent months, so much so that his father had taken to recording his rage-fueled outbursts on his phone. On the day of his arrest, the Daily Beast reports Davis "<a href="https://twitter.com/realS4T" style="text-decoration-line: none;">retweeted</a> posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered." “He just lives on the internet and he gets really worked up about everything that’s going on," his mother told police. "He needs an intervention of some kind here.” Minutes later, her husband was bleeding to death on the back porch, and her son had raised his hands in the air, awaiting his arrest.---<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/9-heinous-acts-white-nationalist-terror-just-year">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/9-heinous-acts-white-nationalist-terror-just-year</a>2x? nb europe ties, esp after big win germany, austria?<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/inside-alt-right">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/inside-alt-right</a>why milo lie?<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing-free-speech-week-berkeley-goes-down-spectacular-flames">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing-free-speech-week-berkeley-goes-down-spectacular-flames</a>=9/19<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-says-Free-Speech-Week-is-on-12206868.php">http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-Berkeley-says-Free-Speech-Week-is-on-12206868.php</a>
Student Pranav Jandhyala, editor for the Berkeley Patriot news site, 
Nearly 200 professors and graduate students are pushing an all-campus boycott during the four days of the event, citing potential violence and the need to keep students and employees safe.This spring, a different student group, the Berkeley College Republicans, sued the University of California and UC Berkeley after a failed attempt to bring Coulter to campus. The students claim the campus is biased against conservative speakers.
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/how-milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley-free-speech-week-fell-apart/540867/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/how-milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley-free-speech-week-fell-apart/540867/</a>Bb bs
14 Sep 2017440The full lineup of former Breitbart News Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley has been revealed.The list now includes columnist Katie Hopkins, author and journalist Mike Cernovich, former Google employee James Damore, Blackwater Founder Erik Prince, street artist SABO, The Gateway Pundit’s White House Correspondent Lucian Wintrich, journalist Chadwick Moore, Breitbart London Editor and author Raheem Kassam, activist and journalist Ariana Rowlands, author Lisa De Pasquale, political commentator Heather Mac Donald, Fox News analyst Monica Crowley, and congressional candidate Stelian Onufrei.
Free Speech Week will also reportedly include performances from Joy Villa and former Pussycat Dolls member Kaya Jones.
The newly announced additions are on top of the previously revealed speakers, which include Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart News Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow, author and commentator Ann Coulter, writer David Horowitz, commentator and activist Pamela Geller, and Milo himself.
The speakers will be split into four days, each with a different theme.
Sunday, September 24 will be “Feminism Awareness Day” and will feature Miss Elaine, Lucian Wintrich, Lisa De Pasquale, Chadwick Moore, and Milo.Monday, September 25 will be “Zuck 2020” and will feature Heather Mac Donald, Monica Crowley, SABO, James Damore, with a debate moderated by Milo.Tuesday, September 26 will be “Islamic Peace and Tolerance Day” and will feature Raheem Kassam, Katie Hopkins, Erik Prince, Pamela Geller, David Horowitz, and Milo.Wednesday, September 27 will be “Mario Savio is Dead” and will feature Mike Cernovich, Ariana Rowlands, Stelion Onufrei, Alex Marlow, Milo, Steve Bannon, and Ann Coulter.“Our plan was to slowly release the names of our confirmed speakers over the next two weeks, but the reaction to our announcements of Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter was so huge that we decided to put out the full list,” declared Milo in a press release. “We still have plenty of surprises coming though! Berkeley Free Speech Week will be an amazing experience for people of all viewpoints to come together in a festival environment and freely exchange ideas.”
On Wednesday, Milo claimed UC Berkeley administrators were trying to spread fear and uncertainty surrounding the event.
In a post on Facebook, Milo dismissed rumors that the event would not go forward, declaring, “UC Berkeley assistant vice chancellor Dan Mogulof is spreading rumors that Free Speech Week might be canceled. Ignore him, it’s fake news.”
Update: Charles Murray will not appear at Free Speech Week per his representatives and was removed from the article.
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/alt-right-leader-promises-future-europe-hitler-its-currency">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/alt-right-leader-promises-future-europe-hitler-its-currency</a><a href="https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/you-are-not-a-rebel">https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/you-are-not-a-rebel</a>...These are the very people whose names the Shitler Youth wear on their unbelievably ugly hats and t-shirts, which incidentally is exactly what happens when you let straight white guys who consider gold a neutral design your neo-fascist aesthetic. The one problem with calling these faux-rebels Nazis is that it suggests they know how to goddamned get dressed in the morning. The left are out-styling them as well as out-thinking them right now. The left! Some of us wear hemp! And t-shirts with weak science puns! And we let our flatmates cut our hair! And we spend half our time fighting each other over tiny ideological debates that started before we were born, and they still make us look good. They make us look good because they’ve swallowed the fake oppression story cooked up by propagandists on the right to recast their most reactionary opinions as risqué. So let’s be clear: getting fired because you hate women is not an equivalent hardship to getting fired because you happen to be one. People who have been disowned by their parents for being gay or transgender aren’t going to have sympathy when your mum and dad find your stash of homophobic murder fantasies and change the locks. Getting attacked for being a racist is not the same as getting attacked because you are black. The definition of oppression is not “failure to see your disgusting opinions about the relative human value of other living breathing people reflected in society at large.” Being shamed, including in public, for holding intolerant, bigoted opinions is not an infringement of your free speech. You are not fighting oppression. You are, at best, fighting criticism. If that’s the hill you really want to die on, fine, but don’t kid yourself it’s the moral high ground. I repeat: You cannot be a rebel for the status quo. It would be physically easier to go and fuck yourself, and I suggest you try....e internet has given us many things, some of them wonderful and some of them awful. The so-called alt-right—the racist, misogynist collective of angry white men—deserves a place in the digital garbage pile, alongside cyberbullying, revenge porn and “2 Girls 1 Cup.” (And to a far, far lesser degree, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">choreographed wedding dance videos</a>.) In short, the alt-right is a product of online troll culture, a direct outgrowth of the internet’s digital Wild West. For years it expanded—or more appropriately, festered—in the dark corners of sites like 4chan and Reddit, where it ultimately became the group that gained peak visibility with the horrible events of Charlottesville.It’s important to remember that there are no card-carrying members of the alt-right. It’s not an official organization, and alignment is self-defined. What’s collectively described as the alt-right is a loose coalition of overwhelmingly white male representatives of various online communities, including anti-women “meninists,” gamers, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and their sympathizers, anti-government types, conspiracists, and dudes who’ve just decided that women and people of color are the reason they don’t have dates or C-suite jobs. The alt-right houses all of those groups, but they might not have come together so seamlessly under its big tent were it not for a unifying loathsome cause. Enter Donald J. Trump, King of the Internet Trolls and Patron Saint of Racists. Trump’s campaign—nearly two years of his gross and violent racist, xenophobic and anti-woman rhetoric and behavior—gave these groups a central figure around which to rally. The_Donald, the Reddit community that helped get the president elected, gave them a home base.Perhaps the best way to describe The_Donald is as the internet hivemind of Trump’s most fervent—and vicious—supporters. Launched in June 2015, it now has nearly 450,000 subscribers, making it one of the most popular subreddits on one of the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/most-popular-websites-google-youtube-baidu/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">most popular sites</a> in the United States. The_Donald is like a virtual local watering hole where aggrieved young men can come together, put their differences aside and celebrate the Trump that unites them amidst a cesspool of shared internet ephemera, Holocaust jokes and racist memes. More than a year ago, Vice’s <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5xb/what-is-rthedonald-donald-trump-subreddit" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Motherboard</a> summed up The_Donald as “a disconcerting melting pot of posts that run the gamut from InfoWars-style conspiracies, men's rights activists and GamerGate-style real and faux outrage, memes and shitposts (basically, jokes that are only meant to be understood by those in the community), and, yes, Donald Trump news.”As with all fraternal communities, The_Donald users have their own speak. Tim Squirrell, an expert in digital culture, wrote a lengthy <a href="https://qz.com/1056319/what-is-the-alt-right-a-linguistic-data-analysis-of-3-billion-reddit-comments-shows-a-disparate-group-that-is-quickly-uniting/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">piece at Quartz</a> on the unique identifying language markers used by the multiple groups in attendance at The_Donald. He identified the "4chan Shitposters,” a group that posts “the most extreme racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic slurs, but without necessarily fully buying into racist ideology.” Consider them trolls who hurl horrific abuse online and then claim innocence with the defense that they were only joking. They most frequently use words like “Pepe, God Emperor Trump and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/11/some-trump-supporters-want-a-holy-war/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">deus vult</a>" (Latin for “God wills it,” in this case, meaning Trump’s ascendancy).Another group Squirrell noted is “Anti-progressive Gamers,” who you might be familiar with because of their freakouts when fictional characters from fictional movies such as <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/paul-feig-on-trump-and-the-alt-rights-war-on-ghostbusters-and-female-heroes" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ghostbusters are recast as women</a>. They frequently toss around terms like “snowflake, pandering, tumblr, feminist [and] triggering.” The “Men’s Rights Activists” lean heavily on words like “cuck” (taken from “cuckold,” a demeaning term implying male weakness but deployed against any man who disagrees with them), “bitch” (any woman who won’t sleep with them, aka all of us), and “beta” (a heterosexual male who treats women like actual human beings and thus gets laid). There are the “Anti-Globalists,” who rant about “the establishment, elites” and of course, “George Soros.” And the “White Supremacists,” who use a mixed bag of racial slurs and the phrase “western culture,” a stand-in for “we’re white and we’re right.”The_Donald brings all of these groups together into a powerful Trump-worshipping whole. Recognizing the rapid expansion of the group last year, conservative provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos participated in AMAs (“Ask Me Anything,” or Q&A sessions) hosted by the subreddit. So did <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/donald-trump-reddit-ama-wednesday" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump himself</a>, who during the campaign and as recently as July has <a href="https://qz.com/1020045/us-president-donald-trump-sourced-his-cnn-wrestling-tweet-from-a-racist-troll-on-reddit/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">retweeted inflammatory Reddit-generated content</a>. According to Vice’s Motherboard, Reddit administrators took pains to make The_Donald and its often highly offensive output less visible to site visitors, and <a href="http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gizmodo</a>’s interviews with multiple other subreddit moderators led the outlet to conclude The_Donald is internally regarded as Reddit’s “most problematic community.” But with exponential growth on their side, members of The_Donald have chided site administrators and all other critics."First Reddit ignored our sub," The_Donald moderators wrote in their announcement of Trump’s AMA, per Motherboard. "Then Reddit laughed at our sub. Then Reddit fought our sub with Hillary's paid haters. And now we are winning with our God Emperor, the Nimble Navigator, Mr. Donald J. Trump!"And to think—the American conversation about online radicalization focuses almost solely on Muslims. But as Tim Squirrell notes, The_Donald is a site “for disaffected white men from all walks of life to share a communal hatred...They start out in different corners of the internet with different interests and different lexicons...but the more time they spend in [The_Donald], the more pernicious views of the world they are likely to pick up by osmosis.” He continues:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They are forming a coherent group identity, represented in the language they have begun to speak, which coalesces around their common hatred of liberalism and their love of Donald Trump. We’re witnessing the radicalization of young white men through the medium of frog memes. In order to see it, all you need to do is look at the words coming out of their mouths. The alt-right isn’t yet united, but it soon will be.</blockquote>We’ve seen the deadly results of the alt-right’s actions so far. If what Squirrell writes is true, it bodes terribly for the rest us, but especially to those who are their direct targets. The_Donald is the president’s base. And like the man they put in office, the danger they pose to this country is only growing.<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/alt-rights-favorite-cesspool-hate">http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/alt-rights-favorite-cesspool-hate</a>=<a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/women-alt-right">no link</a><a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/women-alt-right">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/women-alt-right</a>10 Destructive and Deluded Women Who Prop Up the Alt-RightThere are some powerful and dangerous women in the radical racist movement.By Julia Flasphaler / AlterNet September 11, 2017, 10:43 AM GMT

Who in the world are the women of the alt-right? And how can they be leaders in a movement that hates women? Contrary to popular perception, many women were present at the recent "Unite the Right" white supremacist march in Charlottesville this past August. 
The following are ten leading alt-right and far-right conservative women, including founding neo-Nazi and KKK leaders, who are helping to spread the alt-right's propaganda.
1. Lana Lokteff aka Ringleader and Holocaust Denier #1:
Lana Lokteff is the alt-right’s head honcho, married to Red Ice Media Creation’s founder, Henrik Palmgren. Lokteff's brand of alt-right feminism opposes Marxist lefties who welcome immigrants, and instead advocates for white, heteronormative households where women accept their role as the inferior sex. In Lokteff's opinion, feminism, by focusing on a woman's autonomy, is "self-centered" and has destroyed white communities. An American of Russian descent, Lokteff divides her time between the U.S. and Sweden and hosts the popular Radio 3Fourteen, named after her birthday on March 14 (she's a pagan and a Pisces). 
2. Ayla Stewart aka Queen of the Alt-Right Mormons:
Although Mormons are typically known for moderate stances on immigration, Ayla Stewart represents a dangerous new movement of Mormons who are joining the alt-right. She is a self-professed former feminist-pagan who wrote for Sage Woman and social justice warrior with a Master's degree in women's spirituality, before she was baptised as a Mormon after writing a thesis on home births in Mormon and Amish communities. Stewart is representative of alt-right women who embrace "radical traditionalism," preferring homeschooling, conservative Christian values, and even cloth diapers and grassfed meats. All of that sounds pretty harmless until you stumble across her "white baby challenge," in which she essentially asks Twitter followers to pop out white babies as a way to fight "black ghetto culture."
3. Cecilia Davenport or the Red Piller:
Cecilia Davenport is a featured alt-right author who frequently tweets fangirl photos of Richard Spencer, president of the white supremacist National Policy Institute. She has also worked with another blogger to teach readers how to “red-pill” women who are reluctant to join the movement. Red-pilling is a slang term that refers to a scene in The Matrix where Neo swallows a red pill and sees things as they really are. Davenport suggests red-pilling tactics like intentionally triggering the fear of assault by immigrants because “women are more emotional than rational.”
4. Bre Faucheux, former SJW:

A former social justice warrior-turned-alt-right podcaster, Faucheux has self-published fantasy fiction and is the host of 27Crowd Radio. Her current concerns include tackling “globalism and mainstream media lies.” She’s also busy fighting the fair fight against liberals, because apparently the lefties are doing "everything they can to bring about the fall of western civilization in the name of 'progress.'"
5. Mary Grey (not her given name):
Mary Grey is a pro-white Christian nationalist who co-hosts "Good Morning White America" with her husband. Seyward Darby's description of the podcast in Harper's notes that the two speak cheerfully, which aligns with Grey's attempts not to appear an "evil racist." She recently self-published a children's book that defends Trump's plan for a wall, titled, you guessed it, "Walls and Fences." Grey and her husband have been guests on Lokteff's Radio 3Fourteen podcast.
Let's not forget the white supremacist women of the past, including the Nazis and the KKK.
6. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink aka the Perfect Woman Nazi:

The British Press once called her “The Perfect Woman Nazi,” which is not a compliment. Scholtz-Klink was a devout Nazi from age 20 to 90 and the leader of the Nazis' women's organization. Her duties included indoctrinating new members and teaching them to value being housewives and birthing children. Although the Nazis didn’t allow women to have any political power, she was still a figurehead for the movement.
7. Mary Elizabeth 'Bessie' Tyler aka The CEO:

Multiple divorcée Tyler was the WKKK’s CEO equivalent in the 1920s. Her achievements included being a member of the anti-immigration Daughters of America, creating a women’s chapter of the KKK and later embezzling Klan money. Her leadership backfired when she was arrested for “disorderly” behavior: drinking whiskey and sleeping with fellow member Edward Clarke while both were married to other people. She later somehow parlayed the negative publicity into increased Klan membership.
8. Helen Andelin or Anti-Feminist #1:

Author of the "trad wife” Bible (an alt-right term, short for "traditional wife"), Andelin was a Mormon housewife who saved her marriage by becoming the perfect submissive woman. The anti-feminist manifesto "Fascinating Womanhood," includes memorable gems like, “As you express confidence in him, he will become that greater and better man. Your home will be happier and he will have more incentive to create a happier marriage and family life.” She wrote the book after she successfully saved her failing 20-year marriage. The book went on to sell over 2 million copies and the movement is still alive today (unfortunately).
Other practically alt-right, definitely racist and sexist women in the media:
9. Tomi Lahren aka White Power Barbie:
One of Trump's most vocal supporters who has been nicknamed conservative media's "White Power Barbie," the racist Tomi Lahren still somehow doesn't consider herself a part of the alt-right. She called the movement "disgusting," in an interview with the New York Times. However, she has no problem taking down Beyonce, Barack Obama or equating the Black Lives Matter movement with the KKK. She was fired from Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" for being pro-choice, and has recently become a contributor at Fox News. Her latest opinion is that she'll keep covering the Hillary emails until the apparently equally distracting Russia investigation is dropped (how are those two issues equal?). Lahren is criticized for changing her views depending on who she's pandering to.
10. Kayleigh McEnany, or the 'Die Hard Trumper':

McEnany has been compared to Tomi Lahren, except that she has a brain. A Christian conservative with a Harvard law degree, McEnany was recently appointed the RNC's national spokesperson after suddenly departing from her job as a conservative commentator at CNN. She was criticized for her propaganda-like news piece on August 6, in which she exaggerated Trump's achievements over the week.
It might seem hard to spot them, but according to white power leader Richard Spencer, women make up about a fifth of the movement's followers. These women have reverted to traditional gender roles, believing men should be "protectors." They want traditional homes, white babies and white communities that are free of genetically inferior immigrants.
But the fact is that becoming an anti-feminist and playing subordinate to a white man is easy. The United States privileges straight white men. It's much easier to be a housewife advocating for a white ethnostate than to stand in solidarity with people of color and fight back against years of systemic oppression.=<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/alt-righters-pushing-horrid-theory-heather-heyer-died-weight-related-heart-attack">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/alt-righters-pushing-horrid-theory-heather-heyer-died-weight-related-heart-attack</a>Even President Donald Trump has condemned <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/radical-ideas-on-race-history-teacher-of-charlottesville-driver-describes-ex-students-infatuation-with-nazis/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">James Fields, Jr., the Nazi-obsessed attacker</a> who killed Heather Heyer at last month’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.But according to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/09/08/Fringe-media-are-furiously-trying-to-absolve-the-white-nationalist-who-allegedly-killed-He/217886" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Media Matters</a>, some white nationalists online have begun painting Heyer’s death a heart attack to absolve Fields and portray her murder as a false flag.On September 5, the fringe right-wing blog Occidental Dissent published a post claiming <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/heather-heyers-mother-im-not-talking-to-the-president-after-what-he-said-about-my-child/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heyer’s mother</a> “said in an NBC interview she died of a heart attack,” and went on to blame the supposed “heart attack” on her weight.“We can’t find any information about Heather Heyer’s injuries or an autopsy,” the blog’s notoriously racist writer Hunter Wallace claimed. “She does seem to be a very large woman though. My guess is that she was at least 250 pounds lying on her back in 90 degree heat. It is reasonable to wonder if her health had something to do with her death.”“To my knowledge,” he continued, “no one else has died in these incidents when protesters are in the street and get run over. It happens quite frequently.”The post was quickly picked up by fake news site Before It’s News, and Wallace’s claims became the subject of multiple alt-right YouTube screeds “debunking” the notion that Heyer had been murdered.Andrew Auernheimer, who hacker-turned-Daily Stormer writer who infamously <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/neo-nazi-vows-to-hunt-down-children-of-cnn-staffers-over-reporting-on-pro-trump-reddit-troll/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">threatened CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski</a>, wrote that supposed “proof” of Heyer’s heart attack meant Fields should be exonerated.“Murder charges on Fields gotta be dropped,” Auernheimer wrote on Gab, the alt-right’s favorite social network, “and the public has to get told it’s because Heyer was a f*cking fat cow.”The theory soon spread to 4chan and Reddit, including the popular r/The_Donald subreddit.Conspiracy theories ranging from the notion that <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/ny-legislative-aide-spreads-conspiracy-that-heather-heyer-was-killed-by-clinton-supporter-not-white-supremacist/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heyer was killed by a Hillary Clinton supporter</a> to <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/sandy-hook-victims-sister-rejects-apology-from-scott-baio-over-false-flag-heather-heyer-tweet/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Baio’s assertion that her murder as a false flag</a> have circulated in the weeks since her death.<a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-7-2017/">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-7-2017/</a>Angela Nagle to talk about the roots and the rise of the far-fetched subcultures dominating the internet culture wars.Angela Nagle is an expert on the online culture wars, anti-feminist online, and the alt-right. Her latest book is Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right.
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</div><div>...There’s a long history of right-wingers and centrists falsely equating racist violence with freedom movements. Andray Domise <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-false-equivalency-of-the-criticism-of-the-alt-left/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">notes that</a> “after the election of 1832, New Hampshire governor and Jacksonian Democrat Isaac Hill labeled abolitionists as ‘troublemakers’ who were driving a wedge between the North and the South, and that their ‘pathetic appeals’ were sapping the foundation of democracy.”Recently, Twitter helped resurface a <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/897610237120839680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Fretropolis%2Fwp%2F2017%2F08%2F16%2Fpoliticians-blamed-both-sides-during-the-civil-rights-movement-kkk-and-the-naacp%2F" style="text-decoration-line: none;">newspaper article</a> from 1956 in which Gov. Earl Long of Louisiana disingenuously labeled both violent segregationists and Martin Luther King, Jr. “extremists.” Since the events of Charlottesville, there’s been a concerted effort by the right, modeled by Donald Trump, to make political violence a problem of the left, as if Heather Heyer had not been killed by a white nationalist linked to the oldest and most thriving terror organization in this country.A complicit media and moderate Democrats have followed suit, but the whole idea is ludicrous. Here are five examples of false equivalencies between far-right terrorists and antifa.   1. Right-wing extremists commit nearly all political violence in America.A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/theories-meaning-trump-many-sides-remark.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recent study</a> from the Anti-Defamation <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/MurderAndExtremismInUS2016.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">League</a> finds nearly all political violence in the United States over the last decade has been carried out by right-wing terrorists. Between 2007 and 2016, there were at least 372 politically motivated murders, 74 percent of which were committed by right-wing extremists. Islamic extremists committed 24 percent of those murders, while left-wing militants were responsible for 2 percent. Every murder is a tragedy, but as the numbers show, it’s ridiculous to pretend that left-wing violence and right-wing violence deserve equal concern. Going back to a <a href="https://sites.duke.edu/tcths/files/2013/06/Kurzman_Schanzer_Law_Enforcement_Assessment_of_the_Violent_Extremist_Threat_final.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">2015 law enforcement study</a>, we’ve known that right-wing terrorists pose a far greater threat to this country than any other political group.“We find that the right groups and the jihadi groups are more violent than the left,” Gary LaFree, head of the University of Maryland National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism and co-author of a recent study on political violence across the spectrum, told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-left-fact-check.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a>.The far right—an umbrella term that includes white nationalists, neo-fascists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, alt-right adherents, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant groups, anti-government militias, and anti-abortion fanatics like clinic bombers—are the heirs apparent of violent right-wing terror groups dating to the earliest eras of American history. It’s therefore not terribly surprising that based on every statistical measure, as <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hold-a-near-monopoly-on-political-violence/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mother Jones</a> notes, they have “held a near-monopoly on political violence since the 1980s.”That’s echoed by Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project leader Heidi Beirich, who told <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hold-a-near-monopoly-on-political-violence/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Nation</a>, “if you go back to the 1960s, you see all kinds of left-wing terrorism, but since then it’s been exceedingly rare.” Right-wing terror has proliferated since that era, “going back to groups like the Order, which assassinated [liberal talk-radio host] Alan Berg [in 1984] right through to today.”2. Violence is central to far-right ideology.What do conservatives want to conserve? Mostly, “traditional America,” the version of the country they think is so great. Their vision of the U.S. is homogeneously white and Christian, free of immigrants who don’t speak English and LGBT people forming non-heterosexual unions. On a scale that goes from Proud Boys to neo-Nazis, from Western chauvinists to hardline racists, there’s an underlying philosophy of rejection of a human other. As sociologist and criminologist <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/20427/false-equivalency-white-supremacist-nazis-fascists-antifa-Charlottesville" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Stanislav Vysotsky has written</a>, “When even the most moderate position the alt-right or fascist movement can take is racial separation or nationalism through forcible repatriation and strict border control, including forced deportations and racialized exclusions, that movement is inherently violent.”Matthew Rozsa, writing at <a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/08/14/charlottesville-and-history-violence-has-been-endemic-to-the-american-far-right-for-generations/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Salon</a>, notes:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
From the Black Panthers to contemporary antifa, far-left groups that have embraced violence have done so with a sense of finality and self-protection, recognizing that violence is the only language their opposition understands.Indeed, far-right violence is embedded in the very iconography embraced by that movement. As historian David Blight has pointed out, Civil War symbols like the Confederate memorials being taken down in Charlottesville (which was what prompted members of the far right to assemble there) were created in large part to reinforce a code of white supremacy throughout the United States. The event such memorials commemorated, it must be remembered, was also one rooted in violence — a collection of states using anti-government rhetoric to protect a white supremacist society through violent rebellion against the federal government.</blockquote>“Antifascists are focused on a singular goal as described by their movement name: opposing fascism,” <a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/20427/false-equivalency-white-supremacist-nazis-fascists-antifa-Charlottesville" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Vysotsky</a> continues. “It would be a mischaracterization to claim that antifa oppose nonviolence. Instead, it is more accurate to say that antifa often justifiably view nonviolence as ineffective against a movement that is violent at its core, and participants who seem to lack any semblance of a conscience. This is the essence of antifascist use of violence.”3. Right-wing terrorists attack people, while left-wing groups mostly target property.The University of Maryland <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-left-fact-check.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">study co-authored by LaFree</a> found “far-right individuals were more likely to commit violence against people, while those on the far left were more likely to commit property damage.”SPLC’s Beirich told <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hold-a-near-monopoly-on-political-violence/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Nation</a> “eco- and animal-rights extremists caused extensive property damage in the 1990s, but didn’t target people.”There’s a debate to be had about whether property damage is an effective statement of political protest or tool of social change. There is not a valid discussion to be had on whether hurting property is the same as hurting people.4. Antifa is not backed by mainstream progressives, while Republicans have embraced the far right.There are no highly visible progressives, prominent liberals or Democratic stars who have risked their own public image to defend antifa. In fact, they’re far more likely to parrot the bothsideism of the right, ridiculously and illogically equating fascists and anti-fascists.Republicans, on the other hand, have nearly fallen over themselves to let right-wing extremists know they approve of their ideas and welcome them to the party. Lots of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/what-cliven-bundys-famous-backers-said-before-and-after" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Republican lawmakers</a>, including Rand Paul, applauded Cliven Bundy’s armed standoff with the federal government. House Minority Leader John Boehner <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/8/6/1117242/-Remember-the-DHS-Right-Wing-Extremist-Report" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bashed a 2009</a> Department of Homeland Security report on rising right-wing threats including hate groups. In the weeks after Dylann Roof’s killing rampage, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/21/the-gops-uneasy-relationship-with-the-confederate-flag/?utm_term=.2c22465cf8ea" style="text-decoration-line: none;">there were GOP voices</a> still proudly defending the Confederate flag.The current administration has been transparently supportive of the alt-right. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Bannon</a> boasted about turning Breitbart into the "platform of the alt-right." The White House has given press passes to alt-right trolls <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/01/here-s-what-happened-when-trump-white-house-gave-alt-right-troll-access-press-room/216233" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mike Cernovich</a>and Jack Posobiec. And Donald Trump has been vocal in expressing his sympathy for neo-Nazis since Charlottesville. As the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-has-a-white-supremacy-problem-dems-dont-have-an-antifa-problem" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Daily Beast</a>’s Dean Obeidallah succinctly notes, “antifa is not part of the Democratic Party, while white supremacists are part of the GOP.”5. Community service is part of the mission of antifa.The Panthers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Breakfast_for_Children" style="text-decoration-line: none;">served free breakfast</a> to schoolchildren, along with 60 other community programs including health care clinics and free legal aid. Antifa groups like the <a href="https://shadowproof.com/2017/06/20/redneck-revolt-builds-anti-racist-anti-capitalist-movement-working-class-whites/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Redneck Revolution</a> run “food programs, community gardens, clothing programs, and needle exchanges in addition to their armed self-defense programs.”<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/conservative-fb-pages-spreading-false-claim-about-blm?bftwnews&utm_term=.fnVwWq46wJ#.bcAxLWMgxp" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Black Lives Matter</a> and <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hurricane-harvey-antifa-texas-flooding-antifacist-storm-relief-efforts-a7921846.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">antifa groups</a> were both on the ground during Hurricane Harvey handing out food and supplies to survivors. At the Boston anti-Nazi rally, <a href="https://twitter.com/qwrrty/status/898998545088299008?lang=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;">members of BLM escorted</a> white nationalists <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/21/saw-where-could-help-and-did-taking-note-kind-act-during-free-speech-rally/FP9cMMjWUr4kTM5Ldf7Y7L/story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">through the crowd</a> to ensure their safety.It would be absurd to pretend members of antifa don’t engage in violence. But when was the last time you heard about the Klan handing out food to poor people or the alt-right setting up education programs for at-risk kids? You haven’t, ever, and if you decide to wait for such an event to take place, you should probably get your affairs in order first.<div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_story" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-bio">Kali Holloway</div></div></div><a href="https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/reportbacks-scarsella-trial-ten-part-series/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/reportbacks-scarsella-trial-ten-part-series/</a>Minneapolis, MN – Hennepin County Judge Hilary Caliguiri sentenced white supremacist Allen Scarsella to 182 months for his racially motivated act of domestic terrorism, shooting five unarmed protesters in Minneapolis in November 2015. Scarsella’s trial featured over thirty witnesses and lasted through eleven days of testimony.Unicorn Riot was documenting live at the 4th Precinct on November 19th, 2015, when Allen Scarsella and Julio Suarez first physically trolled the protest encampment in North Minneapolis while armed, and Unicorn Riot was present during the court dates and attended the full proceedings of Scarsella trial.<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/white-supremacists-joked-using-cars-to-run-over-opponents-charlottesville">https://www.propublica.org/article/white-supremacists-joked-using-cars-to-run-over-opponents-charlottesville</a>no link pix docs
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before CharlottesvilleLeaked chat room conversations reveal expectations of violence — along with detailed planning and intelligence gathering on left-wing adversaries.By George Joseph, Aug. 28, 2017
Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” rally joked about using vehicles to run over their opponents.
That message and thousands of other conversations among white supremacists were leaked from a chat app called Discord and posted on the website of a left-wing media collective called Unicorn Riot. Many users’ participation could not be verified, but ProPublica was able to confirm that two people whose statements were included in the leaked trove made the comments attributed to them.<a href="https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/data-release-discord-chats-planned-armed-neo-nazi-militia-operations-charlottesville/">https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/data-release-discord-chats-planned-armed-neo-nazi-militia-operations-charlottesville/</a>The pre-Charlottesville chats include discussions of potential violence, the use of weapons, and excitement at the prospect of “fighting for the white race.”The leaked discussions also reveal an intense level of planning and nationwide coordination. As ProPublica reported earlier this month, the “Unite the Right” demonstrations were dominated by a younger, more tech-savvy generation of white supremacists than in past protests. They coordinated logistics for disparate groups and came together a thousand strong to take over city streets in military-style formation. The two-plus months of leaked planning discussions, reviewed by ProPublica, support this assessment. Below are five key takeaways from the messages.
1. Some Activists Insisted on Peace — But Many Were Hungry for Violence
The discussion boards include repeated fantasies of violence against counter-protesters and black residents, only occasionally challenged by board moderators. (Wired.com reported on several examples over the weekend.) On July 18, for example, user AltCelt(IL) posted a photo of vehicles surrounded by crowds in response to fellow commentors’ discussion of car insurance and logistics. Another user replied, claiming that in North Carolina “driving over protesters blocking roadways isn’t an offense.” The user seemed to be referring to a controversial bill that was recently passed by the North Carolina Statehouse. The user then posted a meme showing a combine harvester that could be a “digestor” for multiple lanes of protesters, saying, “Sure would be nice.”Less than a month later, at the actual “Unite the Right” rally, a car struck a group of counter-protestors, killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. The white supremacists made light of that after the fact, with one user posting a meme that inserted an image of the car from the movie “Back to the Future” into a photo of the crowd at Charlottesville, adding the phrase, “Back to the Fhurer (sic).”
Evan McLaren, executive director of Richard Spencer’s white supremacist National Policy Institute, argued in an interview that what he characterized as “irreverent banter” was “not relevant to what happened” and did not spur the violence in Charlottesville.
The chat group members often used Discord before the rally to discuss street-fighting with their enemies, especially antifa groups. And some conversations focused on terrorizing Charlottesville residents. On Aug. 3, a user copied a posting for a Facebook event for a black community back-to-school party near Emancipation Park, the site of the planned Robert E. Lee statue removal. Users joked about crashing the party and stabbing attendees, who would have presumably included schoolchildren. (“RAHOWA,” cited below, is an acronym for “racial holy war.”)
2. White Supremacist Groups Spent Months Tracking Potential Foes Online and in the Real WorldA month before the rally, white supremacists used their chat site to collect information on counter-protesters they anticipated they might encounter. As one chat group leader put it, “knowing faces is always helpful.” For weeks in the lead-up to the rally, white nationalists shared photos of a wide variety of potential adversaries, from out-of-state leftists to local Charlottesville racial justice activists.On July 17, a user with the handle Stanislav Dajic posted “>Nigger >shoot intended targets,” followed by a smiley-face emoji, under a photo of Joseph Offutt, a black Dallas-area activist who has taken part in several counter-protests against Black Lives Matter.

Chat group users also trawled through left-wing websites and social media, aiming to exploit what they viewed as their political advantage in the Trump era.
McLaren, for instance, posted information about a “DC Training to Resist the Alt-Right” car pool, which he took from the discussion section of a left-wing Facebook event. (McLaren said he did so to protect his fellow marchers.)The white supremacists also gathered and shared information they had gleaned via in-person sleuthing efforts. One post from July 26, for example, showed a photo a white supremacist took of notes left on a whiteboard from a meeting of a group called Showing Up For Racial Justice in Charlottesville. The board included references to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter and other entities.On July 20, another user took pictures of three left-wing groups in Ann Arbor as they raised money and recruited volunteers to go to Charlottesville.The user advised his compatriots, “If you guys live in leftie areas and have art or street fairs coming up, it’d be worth it to mosey through and see if your local leftists are out trying for the same thing.”
3. Users Collected “Evidence” of Left-Wing Social Media Threats to Give to Police and CourtsWeeks before the “Unite the Right” rally, chat-room participants were collecting alleged left-wing threats of violence, such as “Punch a Nazi” posts on social media, suggesting this content should be forwarded to police or compiled for court proceedings. In one post from Aug. 9, for example, a user advised members of the “Antifa Watch” discussion thread to share threats against the rally “to help with our court case.”In another post, this one on July 30, a user noted that an anarchist blog post discussing the Charlottesville rally should be forwarded to the Virginia State Police. Eli Mosley, who played a lead role in organizing the “Unite the Right” rally, told ProPublica via Twitter that police had been informed about “potential threats” his group had received. (The Virginia State Police and the Charlottesville Police Department did not respond to ProPublica’s inquiries as to whether they received any such content.)

4. Some Members Displayed a Sophisticated Understanding of Digital Security Culture and Leftist TacticsOn an intelligence-gathering thread, a user identified as McCarthy recommended not bringing phones to the rally, since “any stolen phones will compromise your entire affinity group, any organizations you are a part of, and entire networks of communication.” McCarthy may have been referring to cellphone extraction devices and programs that can perform link analysis, which are increasingly used by law enforcement and can map phone users’ communication networks based on analysis of call and text logs. In addition, a stolen phone could be used to reveal the identities of white supremacists in a doxing campaign.
The user then shared a link to a page dedicated to operational security for right-wing protesters on the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer. In a message to ProPublica, Mosley attributed this security focus to members who he claimed are “high level tech workers and IT security consultants.”Malcolm Harris, a left-wing writer whose work often focuses on far-right organizations, noted that this reference to “affinity” groups suggests that the right wing is borrowing from left-wing organizing tactics. The affinity model brings smaller operations to work together in a larger action, and the right seemed to use this approach to coordinate among numerous white supremacists groups, such as Identity Evropa, the Traditionalist Worker Party and Vanguard America.
“The base form of an affinity organization is a group of five to six people that know and trust each other, then knit themselves into a larger [collection],” Harris told ProPublica. “They love taking left-wing terminology, so I’m not surprised to see them talking about affinity groups. It’s a pretty decent model for when you don’t have a single organization running things.”
Right-wing activists also shared information about local and state police scanners to help gather intelligence.“It’s not exactly surprising that they adopt these tactics,” said Harris. “But on the other hand, the police and the state have not made it a priority to break their networks.”
5. Organizers Worked Closely With Police and Assumed Law Enforcement Would Focus on Counter-ProtestersIn planning documents and discussion threads, chat group leaders repeatedly referred before the march to close collaboration with police and voiced expectations that law enforcement would treat them respectfully. A secret planning document, entitled “Operation Unite The Right Charlottesville 2.0,” for example, prepped for various possible police responses to their demonstrations, but noted “in our communications with them [the police] they know that the left are the ones looking to do violence.”In the message boards leading up to the rally, apparent chat group leaders also repeatedly referred to their close work with law enforcement. When asked about these communications, Mosley, who was quoted in one of the threads, explained, “when I said ‘they knew,’ I was referring to the police who, time and time again, admitted to us that they knew the left was (sic) going to be the violent ones.”The perception of law enforcement was more mixed among commenters who appeared to be in the rank and file of the chat group. Some hoped to recruit white police officers to their cause and praised past law enforcement efforts against left-wing Antifa protesters.Others felt cops could “betray” them and were fundamentally pawns of the establishment (and added what may have been caricatures of Jewish people).After the rally, counter-protesters and progressives criticized law enforcement’s apparent unwillingness to shut down violent altercations. During the torchlit march on Aug. 11, for example, white supremacist forces led by figures like Richard Spencer were able to storm through the University of Virginia, with some participants beating up counter-protesters, some of whom fought back but were overwhelmed. Witnesses, such as the Harvard professor and activist Cornel West, noted how few police were in sight. The next day at the rally, according to the Daily Beast, police ignored pleas from wounded activists and did not intervene or make arrests after the beating of a black protester, Deandre Harris, in a parking garage next to the Charlottesville police station.McLaren, the white supremacist, blames the local political establishment, claiming — without proof — that it engineered the violence. “I don’t blame police for this; it’s the people who were directing police,” said McLaren. “They obviously engineered an event where it had to be designed so that violence would occur.”In the wake of the leaks (and efforts by Discord to ban them from the app), white supremacist leaders say they will simply move to other apps or abandon them. “I’ve never liked using Discord or things like that anyway,” Mosley wrote on Twitter. “We’ve done it without that before. We used it this time because it was a large and public event.”McLaren echoed that view. “You know also there’s a robust nature to what we’ve accomplished so far,” said McLaren. “We’re pretty personally networked now so there’s an extent we can continue to coordinate things even if we’re completely shut out of social media.”ref<a href="https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/data-release-discord-chats-planned-armed-neo-nazi-militia-operations-charlottesville/">https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/data-release-discord-chats-planned-armed-neo-nazi-militia-operations-charlottesville/</a>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/white-supremacists-run-hide-and-play-media-games-san-francisco">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/white-supremacists-run-hide-and-play-media-games-san-francisco</a>sf kyle chapmanweeping<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/weeping-nazi-christopher-cantwell-went-libertarian-fascist-and-hes-not-alone">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/weeping-nazi-christopher-cantwell-went-libertarian-fascist-and-hes-not-alone</a>... At first glance, Donald Trump hardly seemed like a candidate that committed libertarians would even consider voting for, let alone support enthusiastically. On paper, the best Republican candidate for libertarian voters was no doubt Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the son of libertarian icon Ron Paul. Like his father, he advocated a free-market fundamentalist worldview that was sharply critical of big government and American interventionism. By contrast, Trump built his campaign on xenophobic rhetoric, authoritarian posturing and anti-free-trade diatribes. If there was one candidate who seemed sure to be rejected by libertarians, it was Donald Trump.Yet, the opposite happened. While certain libertarians did support Rand Paul’s unsuccessful candidacy, countless others became diehard Trump supporters and went on to shape what is today known as the “alt-right.”In an <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/02/where-did-donald-trump-get-his-racialized-rhetoric-from-libertarians/?utm_term%3D.20332ab54e36&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFizYn36J4WQFEbMeleiDlH2szR2A" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/02/where-did-donald-trump-get-his-racialized-rhetoric-from-libertarians/?utm_term=.20332ab54e36" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">insightful article</a> for The Washington Post last year, Matthew Sheffield (now a Salon reporter) examined this trend and provided important historical context that sheds some light on Trump’s appeal to a certain subset of libertarians. According to Sheffield, it was the libertarian movement — or, more accurately, the “paleo-libertarian” movement long associated with Ron Paul — that paved the way for Trump’s racialized rhetoric.“Formally, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) may be his father’s political heir,” Sheffield wrote. “But there’s no question that the paranoid and semi-racialist mien frequently favored by Trump originates in the fevered swamps that the elder Paul dwelled in for decades.” Sheffield traced the paleo-libertarian movement — which is essentially a merging of free-market fundamentalism and far-right cultural populism — back to the “anarcho-capitalist” economist Murray Rothbard, who is famous for, among other things, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNE650VfdtjftFddPZ9WoaG-v7iYBg" href="https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">advocating</a> child labor and claiming that parents should have the legal right “not to feed [their] child [and] allow it to die.” Rothbard was a co-founder of the Koch-funded think tank Cato Institute, and later the <a href="https://mises.org/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Ludwig von Mises Institute</a>, which “enabled the fledgling [libertarian] movement to establish affinity with the neo-Confederate Lost Cause movement.”“To solve the problem that few Americans are interested in small government,” Sheffield explained, “Rothbard argued that libertarians needed to align themselves with people they might not like much in order to expand their numbers.” These people included Evangelical Christians and neo-Confederates (i.e., white supremacists) who despised the federal government — especially after it stepped in to defend the civil rights of oppressed African-Americans in the South during the 1960s.Paleo-libertarianism was, in other words, a thoroughly reactionary ideology that combined the very worst aspects of both libertarianism and right-wing populism. This makes it distinct from the broader libertarian movement, which tends to be more socially liberal or at least socially tolerant. The “alt-right” was an outgrowth of this unholy alliance.This becomes clear when looking into the biographies of top figures on the “alt-right,” such as Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi who coined the term “alt-right.” Before becoming a full-fledged white supremacist leading “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D1o6-bi3jlxk&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNHoyY-fIWNa7NdkSB1WnAPR7KrzqA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hail Trump</a>” rallies, Spencer was a fan of Ron Paul and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DgAozR_FDFb8&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFpRHeMa1bnzVRVC-SluHgxRpfgnw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAozR_FDFb8" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hosted the then-congressman</a> at an event for his Robert Taft Club in 2007 (courtesy of CSPAN). Another leader of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville earlier this month was Mike Peinovich (aka Mike Enoch), a white supremacist podcaster and blogger who <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mike-peinovich-upper-east-side-neo-nazi-helped-lead-charlottesville&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNEAVl0h41RHJF3tLqaQb7TJUuMiIA" href="https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mike-peinovich-upper-east-side-neo-nazi-helped-lead-charlottesville" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">marched alongside David Duke</a>. Like Spencer, he also <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/michael-%25E2%2580%259Cenoch%25E2%2580%259D-peinovich&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNGc119bWIjs3yH8iAArQV7VgU7kLg" href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/michael-%E2%80%9Cenoch%E2%80%9D-peinovich" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ran in libertarian circles</a> and supported Paul before embracing his inner racist during the 2016 election.The list goes on and on, but there is one particularly notorious individual who is worth looking at in more detail. This is Christopher Cantwell, the overtly fascist star of Vice News’ widely-viewed documentary on the Charlottesville protests, who became the most infamous man in America following the tragedy in Virginia (and the most mocked after <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/christopher-cantwell-charlottesville.html?r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNE5gejp3eoUpc1OoVW_2iRRKB23uA" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/christopher-cantwell-charlottesville.html?r=0" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">posting a teary-eyed video online</a> and getting banned from OkCupid). At this point it should surprise no one that Cantwell, like many of his fellow white supremacists in the “alt-right,” started out as a libertarian.In fact, Cantwell still considers himself to be “foundationally” a libertarian. In a March <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DXNmnZGegaeE&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFkrnhmHinhL8-Ur-qAjbga9juhBw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNmnZGegaeE" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">interview on YouTube</a>, the white supremacist said that he is a libertarian at heart and believes that “everything should be done through property rights and contracts.” He came to the conclusion, however, that “the idea that most of the people we live around today would be property owners in the absence of the state is hysterically, obnoxiously stupid.”<div data-toggle-group="story-14812608" style="">“Those people are not fit for survival in the absence of the state,” continued Cantwell. “So I don’t argue with people who call me a fascist anymore, because essentially these people are products of the democratic state.”Cantwell went on to advocate state-sponsored eugenics, and even genocidal mass murder: “Basically you have to start making better people in the society, and that might involve doing things like chucking trannies out of helicopters.”Clearly Cantwell is a provocateur who exists on the fringe and delights in shocking the “normies.” But the most extreme members of a political movement are often the most candid about their beliefs and goals, and one can learn a great deal about a movement or an ideology based on the characters that it attracts on its fringe. Cantwell’s deplorable comments provide an insight into the personalities who may be drawn to libertarian and/or fascist movements, which are both fundamentally reactionary and authoritarian (i.e., undemocratic).This “survival of the fittest” mentality ended up driving Cantwell into outright fascism and white supremacy as he began espousing a pseudoscientific racialist worldview. Many of the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville no doubt followed a similar path.A term that comes to mind when considering both libertarianism and fascism is “social Darwinism.” Cantwell’s worldview is clearly driven by a pseudo-Darwinian perspective, and this is what initially drove him to libertarianism — an ideology that advocates the privatization of all areas of life. As Noam Chomsky has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DFVt7U2YIgZs&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFe2zCXa04uWg5LpwvOX6IFTECPcw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt7U2YIgZs" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pointed out</a>, this would inevitably lead to “private tyranny,” but in the libertarian mind it would unleash the invisible hand of the market and allow the fittest to thrive — or as Cantwell might put it, it would “start making better people in the society.”It has long been common knowledge that the libertarian movement in America is dominated by young white males. A 2013 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.prri.org/research/2013-american-values-survey/&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNF3sP2OG9jI2nTZS6rRrrRx98pGCw" href="https://www.prri.org/research/2013-american-values-survey/" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">survey</a> from Public Religion Research Institute found that, compared to the general population, “libertarians are significantly more likely to be non-Hispanic white, male, and young.” Nearly all libertarians, the researchers write, “are non-Hispanic whites (94%), more than two-thirds (68%) are men, and more than 6-in-10 (62%) are under the age of 50.” It hardly needs to be pointed out that the “alt-right” is also overwhelmingly white, male and young.What this reveals is that young white males are far more susceptible to reactionary thinking. This is not surprising in itself. The explicit (or implicit) aim of any reactionary movement or ideology is to restore society to some golden age of the past. Needless to say, it is much easier for white men to romanticize history than it is for women, people of color or LGBTQ people.Over the past month, the “alt-right’s” fetishistic longing for the past has been on full display as shlubby white supremacists have left the comfort of their couches to protest the removal of Confederate statues. For these bigots, historical figures like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis represent a better time, when white men recognized their true supremacy and dominated society.Within the libertarian movement, there exists a similar nostalgia for the Gilded Age, when capital dominated over labor and the “free market” unleashed the Übermensch spirit. It goes without saying that only white men — and very few of them, one might add — did particularly well during this period.Reactionary ideologues tend to picture themselves thriving in these idyllic epochs of history, although the chances are better that someone like Christopher Cantwell would have been a black lung-afflicted coal miner rather than a prosperous captain of industry in 1878.Following the tragedy in Charlottesville earlier this month, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-christopher-cantwell-felony-arrest-20170823-story.html&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNHn3zwk4Hz6nJPb8vNUyqViOGRT9Q" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-christopher-cantwell-felony-arrest-20170823-story.html" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">arrest warrants were issued</a> in Virginia for Cantwell, who is accused of the “illegal use of tear gas or other gases.” (He <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/us/urgent--christopher-cantwell-surrenders/?iid%3Dob_lockedrail_topeditorial&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFgjtLV1cNRYFvEzGAVOSBwkuc7nw" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/us/urgent--christopher-cantwell-surrenders/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">turned himself in</a> to the police on Thursday and was denied bail.) He could face years in prison if convicted, where his “survival of the fittest” mentality will be put to the test. But many other impressionable young white men will continue to be indoctrinated by reactionary ideologies, whether it is libertarianism, white supremacy or both.The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins — who is often wrongfully accused of advocating selfishness because of the title of his book “The Selfish Gene” —  once <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/wissenschaft/155678/Darwinismus_Rebellen-gegen-die-Gene&source=gmail&ust=1503778286601000&usg=AFQjCNFSd7oLSp0dCm3sVQ9zo8ipDRSIaQ" href="http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/wissenschaft/155678/Darwinismus_Rebellen-gegen-die-Gene" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">stated</a> in an interview that he is a “passionate anti-Darwinist when it involves the kind of society in which we want to live.” “A Darwinian state,” observed Dawkins, “would be a Fascist state.”...</div>http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/after-charlottesville-violence-alt-right-plans-another-weekend-hate-1The deadly violence that enveloped Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend when white nationalists rallied in support of preserving a statue of Robert E. Lee in a public park has not deterred the racist Alt-Right from planning similar rallies across the country in the coming months. Several events were planned for this weekend, but only one is moving ahead, what organizers are calling the “Second Boston Free Speech Rally.”The “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/101232260566245/permalink/110967139592757/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Free Speech Rally</a>” organized by the “<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/15/who-boston-free-speech-coalition-behind-saturday-rally/eRrE4qpFSBKC4pD8T1iHjI/story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">free speech absolutionists</a>” at Boston Free Speech Coalition has been plagued by problems almost since its inception. Despite holding the first “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/116227942265981/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A5%2C%22page_id_source%22%3A1699070680393129%2C%22action_history%22%3A%5b%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22main_list%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22page_id%5C%22%3A1699070680393129%2C%5C%22tour_id%5C%22%3Anull%7D%22%7D%5d%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Boston Free Speech Rally</a>” in May, naïve organizers have stumbled around the permit process and struggled to stay on message—particularly difficult in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville.On August 14, <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/free-speech-rally-planned-for-boston" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ADL wrote</a> of the planned event:<blockquote style="">Unlike Charlottesville, the Boston event, as currently planned, is not a white supremacist gathering. It has been organized under the auspices of the alt lite, which embraces civic nationalism, rather than the alt right, which advocates white nationalism…The alt lite, sometimes referred to as the New Right, is a loosely-connected movement whose adherents generally shun white supremacist thinking, but who are in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others. Many within the alt lite sphere are virulently anti-Muslim; the group abhors everyone on “the left” and traffics in conspiracy theories.</blockquote>However, as ADL also notes, the lines between the alt-lite and Alt-Right are blurry. In an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BostonFreeSpeech/posts/1746561412310722" style="text-decoration-line: none;">August 15 Facebook post</a>, the Boston Free Speech Coalition wrote:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While we maintain that every individual is entitled to their freedom of speech and defend that basic human right, we will not be offering our platform to racism or bigotry. We denounce the politics of supremacy and violence. We denounce the actions, activities, and tactics of the so-called Antifa movement. We denounce the normalization of political violence.</blockquote>That position is in direct conflict with their slate of speakers, which has included known white supremacists and those who incite and engage in violence at protests.The original line-up for this weekend’s rally included <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pro-white-agitators-rallying-this-weekend-in-va-to-unite-the-right/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Charlottesville speaker</a> Augustus Sol Invictus who was (perhaps <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/boston-free-speech-rally-white-nationalists-john-medlar-charlottesville-alt-right-fight-supremacy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mistakenly</a>) <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/08/15/who-boston-free-speech-coalition-behind-saturday-rally/eRrE4qpFSBKC4pD8T1iHjI/story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">disinvited</a> “due to his willingness to support violence, as well as his Holocaust denial.” Another scheduled headlining speaker was Gavin McInnes, who started the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/proudboysunite/about/?ref=page_internal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Proud Boys network</a>, an anti-feminist, Alt-Right group that prides itself in promoting what it calls “western chauvinism.” After Charlottesville, McInnes backed out of the Boston event and said he hoped it would be cancelled so it didn’t “look like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/white-supremacists-right-wing-extremists-richard-spencer.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">we’re fighting for Nazis we don’t like</a>.”In early August, Augustus Sol Invictus spoke at “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1821793044748606/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Make Men Great Again: A Celebration of Masculinity</a>” alongside two individuals who are still listed as speakers for the Boston event: <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorInvictus/status/893863712536133632" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kyle Chapman and Joe Biggs</a>.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/basedstickman/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman</a> became an Alt-Right hero when he was filmed <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/141766/unlikely-rise-alt-right-hero" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wearing homemade armor</a> and breaking a wooden pole over an Antifa protester’s head in Berkeley. Chapman, a three-time felon who has spent years in prison, formed the “Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights” to serve as the “tactical defensive arm” of McInnes’ Proud Boys, saying of the new group, “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/25/new-alt-right-fight-club-ready-street-violence" style="text-decoration-line: none;">We don’t fear the fight. We are the fight.</a>”Joe Biggs used to work at InfoWars, where he was a key pusher of the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/04/new-host-unofficial-version-trump-tv-encouraged-date-rape-and-punching-transgender-people/214920" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“Pizzagate” conspiracy</a> that almost caused a mass shooting and “reported” that the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/12/03/a-day-after-hosting-trump-alex-jones-calls-san/207225" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shooting in San Bernardino, California</a>, was a false flag event. In early 2017, he was brought on to the <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/right-side-broadcasting-network-donald-trump-214633" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pro-Trump media group</a> Right Side Broadcasting Network to host a show about the Second Amendment, but <a href="http://rsbn.tv/?s=The+Gun+Show+with+Joe+Biggs&post_type=post" style="text-decoration-line: none;">only one episode</a> has appeared. Biggs also has a long history of tweeting <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/04/new-host-unofficial-version-trump-tv-encouraged-date-rape-and-punching-transgender-people/214920" style="text-decoration-line: none;">violent fantasies and threats about women</a> and LGBTQ individuals. In one, he wrote, “Every girl at this bar wants to fuck me. They don’t know it yet because the drugs haven’t kicked in.” In another, he says, “Call me old fashion, but something about clubbing a bitch over the back of the head before sex really sets the mood right.”None of these men has tried to hide their hateful, violent beliefs so it is suspicious that Free Speech Rally organizers say they denounce violence and don’t want to be a platform for racism but also insist they “<a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/boston-free-speech-rally-white-nationalists-john-medlar-charlottesville-alt-right-fight-supremacy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">carefully vetted</a>” those they invited to speak.While the event in Boston is scheduled to go ahead, a planned Alt-Right “March on Google” that was scheduled to take place in nine cities has been postponed.As of this writing the rally is moving forward, <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/08/ku_klux_klan_to_attend_boston_rally" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Ku Klux Klan</a> attendees and all. <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/boston-free-speech-rally-white-nationalists-john-medlar-charlottesville-alt-right-fight-supremacy/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Boston granted a rally permit</a> on the condition that every attendee will be searched, no weapons or blunt objects are allowed, the police will barricade and separate the ralliers from counterprotesters, and police will escort people in and out. A rally spokesman told a local news station his “objective is to coordinate with police and with city officials to make sure that logistics are entirely in place and everything is kept orderly, everything is kept safe.” However, an August 17 post on the rally event page reads, “Despite the fact that our rally was peaceful in May, we are going to be <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/101232260566245/permalink/110967139592757/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">facing a police state</a> and surrounded by a mob,” and “any concerns regarding these draconian restrictions should be directed to Mayor Marty Walsh.”Jack Posobiec—the right-wing provocateur known for advancing the <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvynenko/jack-posobiec-out-at-the-rebel?utm_term=.ada2GOEAzL#.djrY8LPVQ5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lie that DNC staffer</a> Seth Rich was murdered, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/us/politics/comey-fake-news-twitter-posobiec.html?mcubz=3&r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">faking a transcript</a> of testimony given by former FBI Director James Comey, helping push the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/jack-posobiec-pizzagate-and-seth-rich-conspiracy-theorist-has-top-secret-security-clearance" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dangerous Pizzagate conspiracy theory</a>, and <a href="https://mic.com/articles/165205/trump-supporters-reportedly-planted-rape-melania-sign-at-anti-trump-protest#.xSmHkpRff" style="text-decoration-line: none;">holding up a “Rape Melania” sign</a> and making it seem that it was brought by anti-Trump activists—attempted to set up a multi-city protest against Google on August 19th.Posobiec wanted to protest the firing of a Google employee who, as the Washington Post reported, “argued that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-at-google-offices-over-workers-firing-are-canceled/2017/08/16/1791965c-829e-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.a26c4ee0c038" style="text-decoration-line: none;">biological differences helped explain why women are underrepresented</a> at the company.” The protests were set to occur in Atlanta; Austin; Boston; Los Angeles; Mountain View, California; New York; Pittsburgh; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. but in at least two locations no permits were requested.Although march organizers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-at-google-offices-over-workers-firing-are-canceled/2017/08/16/1791965c-829e-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.a26c4ee0c038" style="text-decoration-line: none;">would not elaborate</a> on the threats they allegedly received, Posobiec wrote on August 16: “The Peaceful March on Google has been postponed due to credible Alt Left terrorist threats for the safety of our citizen participants. Despite our clear and straightfoward statements denouncing bigotry and hatred, CNN and other mainstream media made malicious and false statements that our peaceful march was being organized by Nazi sympathizers.”<div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_story" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-bio" style="">Melinda Warner is a senior investigative researcher for Right Wing Watch</div></div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/has-liberal-media-enabled-nationwide-crackdown-trumps-political-enemies">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/has-liberal-media-enabled-nationwide-crackdown-trumps-political-enemies</a>...The CrackdownThe Trump administration’s crackdown began on Inauguration Day, January 20, in Washington, D.C., when police staged a <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/aclu-sues-dc-police-violence-anti-trump-rally-170624084053335.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mass-arrest</a> of 231 anti-Trump protesters. With cumulative charges of inciting or urging to riot, conspiracy to riot and destruction of property, the “J20” arrestees face sentences of 75 years in prison.Last month, officials intensified pressure on the activist community, as officers served North Carolina anarchist Katie Yow a subpoena to appear before a grand jury investigating an attack on a GOP office in Hillsborough. Yow has <a href="https://triad-city-beat.com/north-carolina-social-worker-defies-grand-jury-subpoena/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">refused to comply</a>, likening it to “fishing expeditions to attempt to coerce testimony on First Amendment-protected information." The North Carolina GOP is <a href="http://kxan.com/2017/05/01/austin-council-member-greg-casar-arrested-during-sanctuary-cities-protest/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">calling for</a> Yow’s arrest pending cooperation.The FBI is also investigating <a href="http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2017/08/12/under-no-circumstances-will-i-ever-cooperate-a-statement-on-resisting-fbi-harassment-from-jayden-savino/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jayden Sevino</a>, who has similarly refused to cooperate with the state. She likens her case to Yow's: “These seemingly unrelated cases appear to be parts of separate investigations, but the parallels paint a picture of increased and possibly coordinated targeted repression of anarchists in this part of the country.”On July 18, 2017, police arrested California activist Yvette Felarca. An organizer with the antifascist group By Any Means Necessary, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/25/yvette-felarca-trump-protest-charges-activism" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Felarca is outspoken</a> about confronting violent white supremacists in the streets. She has been charged with assault, participating in a riot and inciting a riot in connection with clashes between fascists and antifascist counter-protesters in Sacramento on June 26 last year. Fellow counter-protesters Porfiro Paz and Mike Williams were arrested during the standoff as well.Amidst these arrests, civil rights attorneys and activists have sharply rebuked law enforcement’s militant defense of alt-right demonstrations. During a June 4 rally in Portland, Oregon, which came a week after a racially motivated double-murder, police cleared a <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/06/04/19061315/live-coverage-of-sundays-portland-protests" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mostly peaceful</a> counter-protest with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray, while facilitating the safe exit of alt-right demonstrators. A similar incident occurred on July 8 during a separate <a href="http://www.c-ville.com/kkk-rally-peaceful-police-tear-gas-protesters-afterward/%2523.WY9fuEdtmRs" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Klan rally</a> in Charlottesville, which preceded city's Unite the Right rally.'State Repression Is Expected'Escalating tensions last month, the <a href="https://www.njhomelandsecurity.gov/analysis/anarchist-extremists-antifa" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New Jersey Department of Homeland Security</a> has listed Antifa as an “anarchist extremist” group, one of the categories named alongside white supremacists as a “moderate threat” in the 2017 “Terrorism Threat Analysis.” On their website, DHS cites antifascist tactics like doxxing fascist leaders and protesting fascist events, omitting the alt-right’s recent string of murders, bomb threats, and targeted harassment of women and people of color.The Trump administration's targets are not limited to the Antifa movement. Daryle Lamont Jenkins, founder of the One People's Project, believes the administration is going after a larger number of groups that line up with the enemies of the far right, including, “the targeting of Muslims and the spying on Mosques, they are already targeted as terrorists, and of course black people being profiled.” According to the anarchist website It’s Going Down, which has drawn the ire of far-right groups for publishing articles by Antifa and anti-racist groups, “law enforcement seeks to neutralize forces which create disorder, which would be us, because the far-right people are getting permits and everything.”“When it comes to antifascist work, state repression is expected, since they are doing it to other people,” Jenkins told AlterNet.The extent of state repression is startling, observes Joe Lowndes, a professor at the University of Oregon who researches the modern far-right and its ties to the U.S. government. “There is of course a long history in the U.S. of criminalizing the left,” Lowndes told AlterNet. “But the intensity of the attack on Antifa is ominous. It looks like the coordination between the FBI, DHS and local police departments put in place to contain Occupy and then Black Lives Matter is being deployed against Antifa with alarming speed and velocity.”  [  <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/joseph-lowndes/">https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/joseph-lowndes/</a> ]'Make Hay While the Sun Is Shining'Despite a recent surge in far-right violence against <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/2016-was-deadliest-year-record-transgender-people" style="text-decoration-line: none;">trans people</a> and <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2017/02/15/hate-groups-increase-second-consecutive-year-trump-electrifies-radical-right" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Muslims</a>, including the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/05/us/explosion-reported-minnesota-mosque/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bombing of a mosque</a> in Minneapolis on August 6, the Trump administration has resolved to focus on “Islamist terrorism” by cutting all grants associated with the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-extremism-idUSKBN18J2HJ" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Countering Violent Extremism</a> program that extends support to communities threatened by white supremacists. Trump’s tweet banning trans people from military service has signaled further targeting of the LGBT community.The refocusing of counterterrorism efforts on Muslims has only emboldened fascists and radical right-wing groups. In Seattle, a Trump supporter shot a member of the IWW attempting to <a href="https://twincitiesgdc.org/2017/01/22/seattleshootingpr/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">de-escalate tensions</a> during a January 20 protest of former Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos. Since then, alt-right associated groups like the <a href="http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2017/07/white-nationalists-disrupt-santa-monica.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Red Elephants</a> and <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2017/07/06/proud-boys-willing-to-go-places-and-disrupt-things" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Proud Boys</a> have attacked leftists, disrupted left-wing events, and vandalized socialist spaces in Southern California, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, Washington, D.C., New York, and Nova Scotia. Law enforcement has also coordinated with the far right to suppress left-wing antifascists. In late May, 28-year-old <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/434611/4chan-doxxing-arrest-eric-clanton/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">professor Eric Clanton</a> was arrested and charged with attacking a man with a bike lock at a rally in Berkeley, California, on the basis of dubious information from the online message board 4chan, a home base for the alt-right. On June 4 in Portland, Oregon, an armed militia and federal law enforcement worked in concert, as DHS officers called for assistance from a member of a local Patriot group in <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/08/portland-alt-right-milita-police-dhs-arrest-protester/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">arresting an antifascist</a>. James Buchal, head of the Multnomah County GOP,  gave a recruitment speech at the latter rally and has since officially declared his intention to invite Three Percenters and Oath Keepers to provide <a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/30/multnomah-county-republican-party-approves-oath-keepers-and-three-percenters-as-private-security/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">official security</a> for Republican Party events. The event’s organizer, Islamophobic and anti-LGBT activist Joey Gibson, has led a number of other rallies in the Pacific Northwest since Trump’s election, including a recent gathering calling on DHS to make Antifa a terrorist organization.Reflecting on these developments in his alt-right podcast Fash the Nation late last month, Mike Peinovich declared, “[Trump’s] going to give us space to operate, and frankly, it is space to destroy.” His co-host responded, “Now is the time that we have to <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/police-giving-alt-right-free-reign-know/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">make hay while the sun shines</a>… while these investigations of ‘domestic terrorist groups’ are not being funded by the government, they’re not being pushed by the Department of Homeland Security.” There are mounting signals that far-right groups and the Trump administration are open to collaboration. Activists have pointed to the roles of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller in the White House as an indication of a tacit partnership. The former head of alt-right media platform Breitbart, Bannon is linked to an <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39848-beyond-the-acid-filled-jacuzzi-sinister-truths-about-bannon-s-fascism" style="text-decoration-line: none;">international reactionary Catholic network</a> and cites fascists like Julius Evola and Alexander Dugin as some of his most formative influences. Miller and alt-right leader Richard Spencer were close while members of the Conservative Union at Duke University, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/how-to-get-a-promotion-in-the-trump-white-house/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to Spencer</a>, and worked together to bring notorious white nationalist Peter Brimelow to campus for a debate on immigration in 2007. More recently, White House advisor Sebastian Gorka has <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-adviser-says-people-should-stop-criticizing-white-supremacists-so-much-ddd587767d60/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">played down</a> the threat of white nationalists.'They’re Coming For You Too'The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Pacific Northwest correspondent David Neiwert told AlterNet that there is reason to be concerned about the “symbiotic relationship” between government officials, the alt-right and militia groups. “Trump is such a clear and unmistakable authoritarian leader. He has a clear social dominance orientation and has formed a lethal alliance with right-wing authoritarians,” Neiwert said. “A lot of them are discussing strategies. A lot of them are ready to take up arms and defend Trump.”Similarly, Jenkins adds, liberal groups have been all-too-willing to throw Antifa and anti-racist activists under the Trump train to preserve the status quo. “Liberal groups cling to institutions, and just like any conservative they feel the need to maintain these institutions for better or for worse,” Jenkins said. “Because we buck that and say we have to fight back against these guys, those liberals will actually help this current administration even while denouncing it.”According to Neiwert, who has been to numerous far-right protests contested by antifascists, there is a concomitant tendency in the media to pursue the campaign against Antifa. “The media is very happy to portray these guys as violent thugs,” he said. “My own observation is that very few of them are violent thugs. In fact very few of them act thuggishly, but they react angrily to certain provocations. So there is a risk of violence. I would say that the vast majority of Antifa people that I’ve observed have been nonviolent and are just there to voice their opposition.”Despite this, recent articles in the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Atlantic</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/how-liberal-portland-became-americas-most-politically-violent-city-215322" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Politico</a> have pointed to a growing consensus condemning antifascist community defense as responsible for increased far-right violence. To the website It’s Going Down, the pattern is clear: “The right is victimizing itself and vilifying us. There’s a reason why we’re being demonized at the same time as we’re being repressed.”It’s Going Down's message for liberals is simple: “They’re coming for you too.”<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/a-new-generation-of-white-supremacists-emerges-in-charlottesville">https://www.propublica.org/article/a-new-generation-of-white-supremacists-emerges-in-charlottesville</a>white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and the Nazi skinheads, which had long stood at the center of racist politics in America, were largely absent.[A.C. Thompson is covering the rise in hate crimes in America as part of our Documenting Hate project. If you've witnessed or been the victim of a hate crime or bias incident — in Charlottesville or elsewhere — tell us your story.]
Instead, the ranks of the young men who drove to Charlottesville with clubs, shields, pepper spray and guns included many college-educated people who have left the political mainstream in favor of extremist ideologies over the past few years. A large number have adopted a very clean cut, frat-boyish look designed to appeal to the average white guy in a way that KKK robes or skinhead regalia never could. Interviews show that at least some of these leaders have spent time in the U.S. armed forces.
Many belong to new organizations like Vanguard America, Identity Evropa, the Traditionalist Workers Party and True Cascadia, which have seen their numbers expand dramatically in the past year. Most of these groups view themselves as part of a broader “alt-right” movement that represents the extreme edge of right-wing politics in the U.S.These organizations exhibited unprecedented organization and tactical savvy. Hundreds of racist activists converged on a park on Friday night, striding through the darkness in groups of five to 20 people. A handful of leaders with headsets and handheld radios gave orders as a pickup truck full of torches pulled up nearby. Within minutes, their numbers had swelled well into the hundreds. They quickly and efficiently formed a lengthy procession and begun marching, torches alight, through the campus of the University of Virginia.
Despite intense interest from the media, police and local anti-racists, the white supremacists kept the location of their intimidating nighttime march secret until the last moment.
The next day, the far-right forces — likely numbering between 1,000 and 1,500 — marched to Emancipation Park. Once again, they arrived in small blocs under military-style command. The racist groups were at least as organized and disciplined as the police, who appeared to have no clear plan for what to do when the violence escalated. The racist groups stood their ground at the park and were not dislodged for many hours.
For many of them, this will be seen as victory. “Every rally we’re going to be more organized, we’re going to have more people, and it’s going to be harder and harder for them to shut us down,” said a spokesman for Vanguard America, a fascist group, who gave his name as “Thomas.” “White people are pretty good at getting organized.”
And though police arrested James Fields Jr., a 20-year-old Ohio man, for allegedly driving a Dodge Charger into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and wounding many others, the white supremacists generally avoided arrests.
They also outmaneuvered their anti-racist opponents. On Saturday, a multifaith group met at the historic First Baptist Church for a sunrise prayer ceremony featuring academic Cornel West and pastor Traci Blackmon. The anti-racists, many of them clergy members, walked quietly to Emancipation Park, where they were vastly outnumbered by the white supremacists.
Later, a band of more aggressive counter-protesters showed up at the park, chanting “Appalachia coming at ya. Nazi punks we’re gonna smash ya!” These militant “antifa,” or antifascists, were also repelled by the white supremacists.
Given the scale of the protests, the far-right groups suffered few injuries. That was particularly notable given the fact that multiple people near the protests were armed. Throughout the weekend, right-wing and left-wing militias equipped with assault rifles, pistols and body armor patrolled the streets of Charlottesville. (Virginia is an “open carry” state, so gun owners are legally allowed to tote around firearms.)
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in CharlottesvilleState police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. Read the story.
Many of the armed men viewed their role as maintaining a modicum of order. A “Three Percenter” militia out of New York state posted itself near Emancipation Park with the intention of keeping anti-racists from disrupting the rally. The group says it disapproves of racism but is dedicated to defending the free speech rights of all.
Blocks away, Redneck Revolt, a leftist militia from North Carolina, watched over the perimeter of a park where anti-racists had gathered, committed to preventing violent attacks by the white supremacist groups.
The presence of heavily armed citizens may have played a role in the decision of authorities to largely stay out of the violent skirmishes between the white supremacists and their opponents.
Those who actually marched included many new to the right-wing cause. The victory of Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election has energized a whole wave of young people who were previously apathetic or apolitical, rally organizer Eli Mosley told ProPublica. The president has served as “megaphone” for far-right ideas, he said.
Mosley and his comrades are seeking to draw in as many of these newly politicized young people as possible. “We’re winning,” he said. “We’re targeting the youth and making a movement that appeals to the youth.”
Some of those who’ve gravitated to the extreme right milieu are former liberals — like Mosley’s fellow rally organizer Jason Kessler — and supporters of Bernie Sanders. Many are ex-Libertarians.
“I was a libertarian,” said Mosley, as white supremacists chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” in the background. “I looked around and noticed that most Libertarians were white men. I decided that the left was winning with identity politics, so I wanted to play identity politics too. I’m fascinated by leftist tactics, I read Saul Alinsky, Martin Luther King … This is our ’60s movement.”<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/largest-fascist-rally-charlottesville">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/largest-fascist-rally-charlottesville</a>alt-right aides consumed with antisemitism<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/gop-advisor-rick-wilson-mcmaster-attacks-being-pushed-by-white-house-alt-right-aides-consumed-with-antisemitism/">http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/gop-advisor-rick-wilson-mcmaster-attacks-being-pushed-by-white-house-alt-right-aides-consumed-with-antisemitism/</a>Tom Boggioni TOM BOGGIONI05 AUG 2017 AT 13:53 ET                   
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, GOP strategist Rick Wilson said that the attacks on National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are being coordinated by President Donald Trump advisers with a white nationalist agenda.Speaking with AM Joy host Joy Reid, Wilson explained that some of Trump’s close aides are not pleased that the president is being reined in former military mean including McMaster and new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
“You have this coordination where Breitbart went after H.R. McMaster and their headline was ‘NSC purge, McMaster deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump’ — trying to paint him as anti-Israel,” Reid suggested. “Interestingly enough, Donald Trump’s reaction to that was a statement which he said General McMaster and I working well together and he’s very pro-Israel and I’m grateful for the work he continues to to do. What do you make of that?”
“Well, I think that is a sign that General Kelly, [Defense secretary] General Mattis and H.R. McMaster are forming an axis of adults and telling Donald Trump that game- time is over with this silly inside-the-White House alt-right conspiracy group that had been leaking like crazy to the lunatics on the Info-Wars side of the fence,” Wilson explained. “And it’s interesting also that these guys got a pushback from the very top. It’s caused a great rift inside of the alt-right where Donald Trump has said McMaster is good with me and I’m good with him.”
“All these guys expected the play the same games they’ve been trying to play of revving up the frog meme guys and moving that up the weird chain of the alt-right to Fox and having it blasted out by Fox and by Rush [Limbaugh] and all that,” he continued. “All those folks, they thought that would keep working and the grown-ups have put the brakes on this thing hard.”Asked about talking points that McMaster is being linked to the “Deep State,” Wilson claimed it was tied to Richard Hofstader’s “paranoid style” which has underpinnings in antisemitism.
“There’s always a sort of underpinning in our society of concern about unaccountability in government,” Wilson explained. “And the fact that it’s moved over to the right tells you a lot and the fact that they believe the deep state opposes all these baroque conspiracy theories whether it’s the international jewish conspiracy which is right under the surface of all these things, on the cover of the McMaster website that was set up, they go after George Soros basically as the Jewish banker controlling McMaster.”
“All these things have a paranoid streak and deeply freaked out sort of fantasy, this dark fantasy world that doesn’t really exist,” He continued. “The folks in the quote ‘deep state’ are the by and large American patriots who are seeing there’s vast Russian influence over the Trump administration.”
Watch the video below:=<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/19/Pro-Trump-internet-personalities-throw-tantrums-after-ADL-identifies-their-hateful-rhetori/217316" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/19/Pro-Trump-internet-personalities-throw-tantrums-after-ADL-identifies-their-hateful-rhetori/217316</a>Pro-Trump internet trolls claimed that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was a "terrorist organization" and compared the group to Nazis after ADL identified some of the biggest online personalities of the “alt-right” and “alt-lite” movements and called them out for spreading hateful rhetoric.The ADL recently <a href="https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">published</a> a list of “alt-right” and “alt-lite” figures, identifying key players in both the white supremacist “alt-right” and the fringe right-wing media landscape of media trolls and smear merchants it inspired, which the ADL called the “alt-lite.” It included internet troll and Infowars contributor <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/27/what-60-minutes-didnt-mention-about-alt-right-mens-rights-activist-mike-cernovich/215821" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Mike Cernovich</a>; smear merchant <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjJibzD9ZXVAhXBCD4KHS4oDbMQFggiMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediamatters.org%2Fresearch%2F2017%2F05%2F11%2Fmeet-jack-posobiec-latest-far-right-internet-troll-press-pass-white-house%2F216409&usg=AFQjCNFcLS2FzRH1wGNWQer1F4Q3ZkBvRg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Jack Posobiec</a>, who once received a temporary White House press pass; disgraced Breitbart provocateur <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/21/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart/215407" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Milo Yiannopoulos</a>; The Gateway Pundit’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/13/pro-trump-correspondent-explicitly-white-house-troll-journalists/215650" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Lucian Wintrich</a>; and Rebel Media’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/02/01/gavin-mcinnes-only-regrets-calling-jada-pinkett/208307" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Gavin McInnes</a>, using the “alt-lite” banner to describe their prior affiliation and promotion of “alt-right” figures and ideologies. In a Periscope live stream, Cernovich responded to the list’s publication by <a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ypKdlDoygjKW" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">urging</a> his followers to spread the hashtag “<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADLTerror?src=hash" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">#ADL</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADLTerror?src=hash" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Terror</a>” on Twitter. Cernovich also called ADL “a terrorist organization” that had “targeted” him and his family for “murder and assassination” by including his name in the list.Soon after Cernovich launched the hashtag, other <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/26/look-incestous-alternative-media-echo-chamber-winning-over-online-audiences/216158" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">alternative media</a> personalities who were also mentioned in the ADL’s list rallied to attack the organization.Posobiec <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/887453465882112000" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">compared</a> ADL’s members to Nazis and <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/887439944989278208" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a> the “death list” was being used to target Trump supporters; Wintrich <a href="https://twitter.com/lucianwintrich/status/887453094455455744" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">called</a> the ADL a “liberal terroristorganization” whose “<a href="https://twitter.com/lucianwintrich/status/887669820254294016" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">only qualifier</a>” to label people a hate group leader was support for Trump; Yiannopoulos <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/969356443202251" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">accused</a> the ADL of trying to get pro-Trump media figures like himself “hurt or killed by painting targets on our backs”; McInnes <a href="https://twitter.com/Gavin_McInnes/status/887478299437531137" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">threatened</a> to “sue the living shit out of everyone even remotely involved” with the list if he was attacked following its publication.Allies and supporters of those on the ADL’s list also joined in on the attack. The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/anti-defamation-league-puts-tgps-lucian-wintrich-grandson-nazi-occupation-survivor-murder-hit-list/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">a</a><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/anti-defamation-league-puts-tgps-lucian-wintrich-grandson-nazi-occupation-survivor-murder-hit-list/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ccused</a> the ADL of publishing “a murder hit list” and stated that his website would take “further action” against the organization if it did not remove Wintrich’s name. Rebel Media’s Laura Loomer <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/887435034927419392" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">decried</a> the ADL’s decision to publish a “hit list,” asking why the organization is “encouraging violent leftists to attack members of the right.” And “Ali,” a rising star among pro-Trump media personalities, also <a href="https://twitter.com/ali/status/887502122148806656" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">promoted</a> the hashtag. Fans of these personalities created <a href="https://twitter.com/ObiWanKEKobi/status/887447894739103748" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">memes</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/NewRightMemes/status/887518613007216644" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">videos</a> and spread them on social media to show their support.While BuzzFeed technology reporter Charlie Warzel <a href="https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/887434661676318720" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">pointed out</a> that the ADL didn't necessarily provide full evidence of the actions that earned these trolls a spot on the list, the ADL was right to include them based on their habits of engaging in <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/10/12/milo-islam-real-rape-culture/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hateful rhetoric</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">online harassment</a>. The organization correctly identified them for using their platforms to spread vitriol and honestly documented their <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/12/new-right-brought-you-former-allies-alt-right/216006" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">efforts to sanitize</a> their movement’s prior affiliation with “alt-right” circles and differentiate itself from white nationalism.Warzel also correctly <a href="https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/887434661676318720" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">noted</a> that these trolls are "more of a media arm than an ideological group of any kind." These individuals do not spread hate in the traditional way that has been the modus operandi of the “alt-right” figures also included in the ADL’s list. Rather than organizing community events and advocating for any specific policies, these figures have built a potent anti-liberal <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/26/look-incestous-alternative-media-echo-chamber-winning-over-online-audiences/216158" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">media apparatus</a> that can be -- and often is -- mobilized to harass and smear any chosen target-of-the-day.Over the past several months, these right-wing media personalities and pro-Trump internet trolls have fueled and engaged in harassment and doxing campaigns against a variety of people. They misquoted pop star Ariana Grande after a terrorist attack at her concert in Manchester, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/23/pro-trump-and-fringe-media-are-smearing-ariana-grande-after-terror-attack-killed-her-fans/216609" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smearing</a> her as “anti-American.” CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski’s family <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/high-anxiety-at-cnn-amid-attacks-from-trump-and-his-trolls" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">received</a> dozens of threatening phone calls following an article he wrote about the origin of an anti-CNN meme Trump tweeted. And the internet trolls <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">falsely accused</a> popular online satirist Vic Berger of being a part of an online cohort of pedophiles. They were also key proponents of the “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/07/07/meme-wars-death-threats-how-far-right-internet-culture-turns-political-action/217173" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Great Meme War</a>” with CNN, during which social media sites were flooded with high volumes of anti-CNN memes and numerous CNN employees were doxed and harassed.Though these alternative media figures and internet trolls are <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/12/new-right-brought-you-former-allies-alt-right/216006" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">now rebranding away</a> from the “alt-right” leaders who once inspired them, they still deserve to be on the ADL list and should remain there until they cease using their platforms to incite harassment and encourage extremist rhetoric. <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-hate-crimes-in-america">https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-hate-crimes-in-america</a> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dont-look-now-investigators-are-exploring-if-russia-colluded-pro-trump-sites" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dont-look-now-investigators-are-exploring-if-russia-colluded-pro-trump-sites</a>The spread of Russian-made fake news stories aimed at discrediting <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/hillary-clinton" name="auto-linked-tag" id="auto-linked-tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> on social media is emerging as an important line of inquiry in multiple investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.Investigators are looking into whether Trump supporters and far-right websites coordinated with Moscow over the release of fake news, including stories implicating Clinton in murder or paedophilia, or paid to boost those stories on Facebook.The head of the Trump digital camp, <a data-link="" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/russia-investigators-trump-digital-director/index.html" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Brad Parscale, has reportedly been summoned to appear before the House intelligence committee</a> looking into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 US election. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee carrying out a parallel inquiry, has said that at least 1,000 “paid internet trolls working out of a facility in Russia” were pumping anti-Clinton fake news into social media sites during the campaign.<div class="proper-ad-unit" style="margin: auto; padding-bottom: 25px; position: relative; min-width: 100px; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">Warner said there was evidence that this campaign appeared to be focused on key voters in swing states, raising the question over whether there was coordination with US political operatives in directing the flow of bogus stories.</div><div id="proper-ad-alternet_content_1" style="position: relative; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box !important;">Robert Mueller, <a data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-special-counsel" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">the special counsel appointed by the justice department to oversee the investigation</a> into the Russian role in the election, is thought to be looking into all these issues, as well as possible links between Russian fake news factories and far-right sites in the US.It is a wide-ranging investigation that is examining the unusually large number of contacts between Trump associates and Russian officials during the campaign, as well as the possibility that the Kremlin has personal or financial leverage over members in the Trump camp, including the president himself according to his own remarks on Twitter.<a data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The role of Russian generated fake news</a> is a separate strand which has gained less attention up to now, but the part it played in depressing the Clinton vote in key states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in the critical last days of the 2016 campaign could have helped change the course of recent American history.A huge wave of fake news stories originating from eastern Europe began washing over the presidential election months earlier, at the height of the primary campaign. John Mattes, who was helping run the outline campaign for the Democratic candidate <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/bernie-sanders" name="auto-linked-tag" id="auto-linked-tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Bernie Sanders</a> from San Diego, said it really took off in March 2016.“In a 30-day period, dozens of full-blown sites appeared overnight, running full level productions posts. It screamed out to me that something strange was going on,” Mattes said. Much of the material was untraceable, but he tracked 40% of the new postings back to eastern <a data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news" name="auto-linked-tag" id="auto-linked-tag" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Europe</a>.Four of the Facebook members posting virulent and false stories about Clinton (suggesting, for example, that she had profited personally by arming Islamic State extremists) had the same name, Oliver Mitov. They all had a very small number of Facebook friends, including one which all four had in common. When Mattes tried to friend them and contact them there was no reply.Many websites producing anti-Clinton fake news were based in Albania and Macedonia. A pro-Sanders Facebook page with nearly 90,000 followers was run by an Albanian IT expert who, when <a data-link="" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2016-election-fake-news-sites_us_58efb05be4b0b9e9848a3520" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">interviewed by the Huffington Post</a>, appeared to speak very little English, although his page consistently published polished English prose.Mattes, a former Senate investigator, did some digging into the sudden phenomenon of eastern European Sanders enthusiasts. He found that was a spike in activity on the anonymous browsing tool Tor in Macedonia that coincided with the launch of the fake news campaign, which he believes could represent Russian handlers contacting potential east European hosts to help them set up automated websites.“This is a cost-effective hands-free method with no blowback to you if you are in St Petersburg creating this product,” Mattes said. He argued that if the pro-Sanders websites in east Europe had been primarily motivated by maximising clicks they would have moved on to another viral subject.<div class="proper-ad-unit" style="margin: auto; padding-bottom: 25px; position: relative; min-width: 100px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"><div id="proper-ad-alternet_content_2" style="position: relative; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box !important;">“What I found was that 95% of them has gone dark,” he said. “So my question is: what are they hiding and why did they run as soon as the investigation began?”Mattes believes that the aim of the campaign was to damage Clinton, who Vladimir Putin saw as his arch foe, and then, after the primaries were over, to minimise the number of Sanders voters who switched their support to Clinton in the face-off against Trump.He was particularly struck by a report on 10 August that formed part of <a data-link="" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin" name="in body link" id="in body link" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">the dossier on the Russian interference campaign compiled by the former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele,</a> which quoted an unnamed Trump associate discussing a Russian-driven campaign to alienate Sanders supporters from Clinton.“He was writing in real time about things I was seeing happening in August, but I couldn’t articulate until September,” he said. Because the Sanders online campaign was so open, democratic and relatively unregulated, Mattes says he now realises: “We basically set ourselves up to be victims of an international cyberwarfare campaign. We were pawns in this but very effective pawns.”Clint Watts, a former FBI counter-terrorism expert, said that a Russia-driven influence campaign also became apparent in the Republican primaries.He told the Senate intelligence committee the campaign “may have helped sink the hopes of candidates more hostile to Russian interests long before the field narrowed”.He saw the same pattern that Mattes had observed, of seemingly independent operators across Europe suddenly starting to propagate similar messages consistent with messaging from Moscow.“What you have to look at now is how were these sites financed and you have look at their ownership. How did they get the funds to get started?” said Watts, now a senior fellow at the Centre For Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University.He has also found a high degree of apparent coordination in the dissemination of fake news between official Russian propaganda outlets and “alt-right” sites in the US.“They synchronise so quickly it looks as if they know when a particularly story was going to come out,” he added. “And they all parrot the Kremlin narrative.”</div></div></div></div>===<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/27/misinformer-year-ecosystem-fake-news-and-alt-right/214899">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/27/misinformer-year-ecosystem-fake-news-and-alt-right/214899</a>
An anti-intellectual alliance of misogynists and white nationalists is using cult tactics to harass and abuse Americans. They systematically attempt to discredit reputable sources. They replace logic with paranoia. They horrifically harass perceived political opponents. And this campaign, which has dangerous historical precedents, has been empowered by a fake news ecosystem and a tech industry that profits off the phenomenon.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I. Fake News</h2>While reporting real news requires a newsroom and some sort of process that can be critiqued and examined, “<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/15/understanding-fake-news-universe/214819" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fake news</a>” is built to obfuscate and hide sources. Its creators are varied, from a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">random American</a> making $10,000 a month from his fabricated Facebook posts to a group of <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">teenagers</a> in Macedonia running more than a hundred pro-Trump websites. The business model is simple: identify the news that people want to read, and give it to them, regardless of the truth and with no effort whatsoever put into actual reporting.There is no question that fake news got lots of attention in 2016, in part because the president-elect himself -- and several people close to him -- <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/06/here-are-5-people-close-trump-who-have-propagated-fake-news/214730" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">pushed</a> fabricated information. That’s deeply concerning, because data shows that not only do Americans <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/06/buzzfeed-most-americans-who-see-fake-news-believe-it/214736" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">believe lies</a> they see on Facebook, but also that Americans across party lines say fake news is a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/15/new-pew-report-majority-americans-across-party-lines-say-fake-news-caused-great-deal-confusion/214828" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">real problem</a>.No one is more responsible for the rise of fake news <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wpp-ceo-facebook-responsible-for-fake-news-2016-11-21" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">than</a> <a href="http://bigthink.com/videos/wesley-lowery-on-fake-news-and-facebook-platform" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Facebook</a>. It was Facebook’s platform <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/04/facebook_is_fueling_an_international_boom_in_pro_trump_propaganda.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">that allowed</a>fake news to <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/how-facebook-s-fake-news-ecosystem-empowers-total-lies/214860" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">spread far and wide</a>. In fairness, the basic nature of the social media giant ensures that users will share lies to some extent. But the structures that Facebook built also made it easy to game. All content looks the same on Facebook, and the name of the source shows up in a small and almost unreadable font. The pages look nearly identical, regardless of their purpose or who is operating them. Of course, these factors have been in place since Facebook’s inception, but in 2016, other factors changed as well.In its own way, fake news is more sophisticated than real news. Sure, real news actually examines complexities that exist in the real world while fake news just makes stuff up. But fake news can be targeted to appeal to exactly what people want to see. On Facebook in particular, content can be <a href="https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-built-an-identity-database-and-used-facebook-ads-to-win-the-election-4ff7d24269ac#.5lqhzojcq" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fine-tuned</a> to target exactly what people are likely to click on. Many private companies do this: It is called advertising. Whereas real news outlets generally post a piece once and people either read it or not, fake news can be tweaked again and again until it finally breaks through and becomes viral. And fake news outlets sometimes do have the data to go viral: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-17/trump-s-new-team-brings-deep-ties-to-major-donor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Breitbart.com</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rebekah-mercer-donald-trump-231693" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Trump political benefactor</a> the Mercer family has a company, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Cambridge Analytica</a>, that conveniently owns a lot of data on private citizens. And sitting on the board of Cambridge Analytica is Trump’s chief adviser, and the former CEO of Breitbart, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/13/white-nationalist-who-hates-jews-will-be-trumps-right-hand-man-white-house/214419" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Stephen Bannon</a>.Facebook’s algorithm has always been extremely prone to confirmation bias, but <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/21/facebook-news-is-new/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">changes</a> in recent years <a href="http://qz.com/847640/facebook-needs-to-hand-over-its-algorithm-if-it-really-wants-to-end-fake-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">seem to</a> <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2955021/shirtless-trump-saves-drowning-kitten/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">have allowed</a> fake news to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">rise</a> much more easily (as the algorithm is proprietary, no one outside Facebook can know for certain). In the past, at the very least, there were human editors who could manually prevent outright lies from making it onto the site’s list of trending topics. But when Facebook fired them after conservatives complained this summer, fake news <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/can-facebook-trending-fight-off-fake-news?utm_term=.uumBY49Gv#.fazlkE723" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">really took off</a>.As John Herrman <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> in The New York Times:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">This year, political content has become more popular all across the platform: on homegrown Facebook pages, through media companies with a growing Facebook presence and through the sharing habits of users in general. But truly Facebook-native political pages have begun to create and refine a new approach to political news: cherry-picking and reconstituting the most effective tactics and tropes from activism, advocacy and journalism into a potent new mixture. This strange new class of media organization slots seamlessly into the news feed and is especially notable in what it asks, or doesn’t ask, of its readers. The point is not to get them to click on more stories or to engage further with a brand. The point is to get them to share the post that’s right in front of them. Everything else is secondary.While web publishers have struggled to figure out how to take advantage of Facebook’s audience, these pages have thrived. Unburdened of any allegiance to old forms of news media and the practice, or performance, of any sort of ideological balance, native Facebook page publishers have a freedom that more traditional publishers don’t: to engage with Facebook purely on its terms. These are professional Facebook users straining to build media companies, in other words, not the other way around.</blockquote>Google is also responsible for this burgeoning fake news empire. Google’s third-party advertising platform, AdSense, is driving <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/14/google-officials-promised-stop-making-fake-news-profitable-one-month-later-theyve-failed/214812" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">mass profitability</a> on many of these websites. When pressure started to rise about fake news, Google <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/technology/google-will-ban-websites-that-host-fake-news-from-using-its-ad-service.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> it would be taking action to remove these actors from its advertising network, eliminating their ability to generate revenue. Our review <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/14/websites-peddling-fake-news-still-using-google-ads-nearly-month-after-google-announced-ban/214811" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">showed</a> that the company still has much work to do.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">II. The “Alt-Right”</h2>While some fake news is created simply for profit (think of the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Macedonian teens</a> who just see their sites as an easy way to make money), the misogynist and white nationalist “alt-right” embraces it for a more dangerous purpose: to encourage fake news readers into harassing individuals and discouraging people from taking part in public life. The fake news ecosystem is broader than just lies; many of these lies are purposeful.The “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory proved this link. A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fake news story</a> emerged from the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/how-facebook-s-fake-news-ecosystem-empowers-total-lies/214860" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">depths of the internet</a> claiming that a D.C. pizzeria with ties to certain political figures was running an underground child sex-trafficking ring. It was patently untrue. And yet mainstream reports on the story, even <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">great in-depth reporting</a>from truly credible sources, treated the fake news as separate from the <a href="http://time.com/4594323/pizzagate-robertas-new-york-conspiracy-theory/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">harassment</a> that pizzerias across the country endured from believers of the bogus claims as they spread to include <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/nyregion/robertas-restaurant-brooklyn-threatened-fake-news-pizzagate-conspiracy.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">other</a> <a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/how-austin-east-side-pies-became-target-fake-pizzagate/jQJtrr2xVIMNmpWc0IOW5O/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">restaurants</a>.Harassment is a deeply entrenched aspect of the “alt-right” community. It came to prominence with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Gamergate</a>, and then there was a wretched, bigoted campaign against black actress <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-horrific-online-abuse.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Leslie Jones</a>. “Alt-right” figure Milo Yiannopoulos has now taken his harassment tactics <a href="http://action.mediamatters.org/milo_yiannopoulos_harassment_colleges" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">with</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/16/breitbart-s-milo-yiannopoulos-doubles-down-harassing-transgender-university-wisconsin-student/214849" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">him</a> on a college tour. Another example is the recent <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smear campaign</a> against satirist Vic Berger by “alt-right” figure Mike Cernovich. Cernovich is no stranger to such tactics, having <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/trolls-for-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">bragged previously</a> about his ability to <a href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2016/12/21/19-cernovich-tweet-2.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">game Google</a> to get other outlets to pick up on his smears, spreading the lies to more false headlines and more viewers. Comedian and producer Tim Heidecker has also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-story-behind-the-sudden-cancellation-of-adult-swims-trump-loving-comedy-show/2016/12/23/ed9e2e3a-c3c8-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?utm_term=.daa8878659fe" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">spoken out</a> about abuse he has received, including death-threats, as a result of "alt-right" criticism.The New York Times’ John Herrman took <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">special note</a> of commenters on pro-Trump Facebook pages:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">Nearly every page operator I spoke to was astonished by the tone their commenters took, comparing them to things like torch-wielding mobs and sharks in a feeding frenzy. No doubt because of the [Make America Great] page’s name, some Trump supporters even mistake [operator Adam] Nicoloff’s page for an official organ of the campaign. Nicoloff says that he receives dozens of messages a day from Trump supporters, expecting or hoping to reach the man himself. Many, he says, are simply asking for money.</blockquote>It is not clear to what extent this vitriol on Facebook overlaps with the “alt-right” proper (to whatever extent there even is an “alt-right” proper). But Facebook crowd-sourced virulence is at least overtly reminiscent of what is seen from the “alt-right.”A particular hub for the “alt-right” is Reddit’s “r/The_Donald” subreddit. As Bryan Menegus <a href="http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> for Gizmodo:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">Reddit’s The_Donald subreddit was founded a year ago as the premier online meeting place for Trump supporters. It has since sought to—in CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman’s words—“dominate the conversation” on the site. Its members spread coded hate speech, openly antagonize other Redditors, and break the site’s most basic rules with impunity while moderators feel the brunt of the abuse, and Reddit leadership fail to adequately address the problem.</blockquote>This is abuse, and it is abuse for a particular political purpose. Whether it is under the guise of news or commentary, the fabricated stories bouncing around r/The_Donald, often cloaked in shockingly venomous rhetoric, do not adhere to and cannot be judged by traditional journalistic standards. This type of fake news needs to be understood in tandem with its context and purpose. Some of it is just for profit. But other pieces are intended to serve as weaponized propaganda meant to inspire harassment or even worse.The “alt-right” movement has been equated to white supremacy and neo-Nazis. That is broadly accurate, but the reality is a bit more complicated. More often than not, the <a href="http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13576192/alt-right-sexism-recruitment" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">gateway drug</a> for this movement is sexism -- "extreme misogyny evolving from male bonding gone haywire,” as Aja Romano put it for Vox. White nationalism and neo-Nazism often come later.This framework also explains why the “alt-right” tilts at so many cultural windmills. Whether with boycotts against Star Wars <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/19/1612656/-Breitbart-supremacists-boycott-of-Rogue-One-didn-t-go-so-well" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">this ye</a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/19/1612656/-Breitbart-supremacists-boycott-of-Rogue-One-didn-t-go-so-well" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ar</a>, or boycotts against Star Wars <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/boycott-star-wars-vii-movement-833102" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">last year</a>, or boycotts against <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ghostbusters/comments/49515k/why_you_should_boycott_the_new_ghostbusters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Ghostbusters</a> or <a href="http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/boycott-hamilton-donald-trump-mike-pence-1201922944/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Hamilton</a> or other notable events that women and people of color are involved in, the intent of the “alt-right” is not necessarily to be successful in the short run: The protests are intended as a statement of white patriarchy. Anyone talking about the boycott is surreptitiously sharing the message of white, male-centric cultural identity.Jason Wilson <a href="https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-225/feature-jason-wilson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">perfectly characterized</a> the misogyny and bigotry of the "alt-right" when describing Yiannopoulos and his tactics:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">Yiannopoulos and the alt right certainly shared a couple of traits. First, there was a willingness to dispense with the American right’s trusty dog whistle and offer frank views on race (all the while disparaging those conservatives who were more attuned to euphemism and conciliation as ‘cucks’). Second, they shared a desire to restore white masculinity to its position as the central, reigning political identity.In Eugene, [OH], Yiannopoulos endorsed Trump’s call to end Muslim immigration on the grounds that fundamentalists ‘want to kill people like me’ – a preview of the full-throated Islamophobic appeal that he and others made to the LGBT community after the Pulse nightclub shooting the next month.But the meat of his address was a repetition of a claim he has made repeatedly in his writings and on social media: that white men, especially the working class, are being oppressed with an elitist doctrine of political correctness.Referring to lesbians as ‘horrendous, quivering masses of horror’ and feminism as ‘cancer’, Yiannopoulos generally castigated the ‘awful, awful, terrible, diseased and damaged people lecturing and hectoring the working class’ – those he sees as the enforcers of ‘the oppressive hegemony of social justice’. The only solution, he said, is a Trump administration.</blockquote>Members of the "alt-right" don't just preach this hatred. They mobilize it. Jesse Singal <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/to-understand-pizzagate-it-helps-to-understand-cults.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">examined</a> the many similarities the “alt-right”/fake news ecosystem shares with cults, and the role misogyny plays in attracting new members:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">But it’s the alt-right concept of so-called red-pilling where this subculture appears more similar to “traditional” cults and extremist groups. Adapted from The Matrix, “taking the red pill” or “getting red-pilled” simply means seeing the world as it really is. In the online subcultures that gave rise to the alt-right, its most famous meaning is in reference to feminism: After you take the red pill, the scales fall from your eyes and you can see that feminism is really just an attempt to emasculate and bully men, to allow social-justice warriors to run rampant over masculine (and traditional) values and ideals in favor of a shrill and judgmental far-left radicalism. Recently, the definition has expanded a bit — these days, in an alt-right context “getting red-pilled” probably means something more like “understanding that progressivism is a lie and part of a large-scale effort to hurt you and people like you.” But the basic point is the same: This is the moment at which you start to see things as they really are.This is exactly the sort of transformative experience offered by cults and extremist movements: After this, things won’t ever be the same for you. After this, you will have a role to play in an important battle that will determine the fate of the world. Your life will take on an enhanced meaning.</blockquote>At its core, the “alt-right” is just a bunch of men who feel powerless and resent women because of it. That’s why Gamergate is so crucial to understanding the movement; it truly was a galvanizing political event for a fringe movement that far too many mainstream people had overlooked because they were not the ones being harassed.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">III. Historical Precedent</h2>The “alt-right” weaponizes fake news stories that others drum up to harass and abuse opponents. Its members attack women, people of color, and the poor -- and their allies and advocates -- from “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/14/if-we-took-gamergate-harassment-seriously-pizzagate-might-never-have-happened/?utm_term=.7a8a232c4911" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Gamergate</a>” to <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/8/26/12653474/leslie-jones-hack-alt-right-culture-war" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Leslie Jones</a>, to <a href="http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">“Pizzagate”</a> and now to <a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Vic Berger</a> (also see Megyn Kelly below). Radio host Alex Jones ties the conspiracy theories together and gives everything a common language. Reddit <a href="http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">allows</a> the herd to self-organize and quickly pivot from one harassment campaign to another. The Drudge Report tries to push these things into the mainstream. And tying the whole enterprise together is Breitbart, which was up until recently run by Bannon, now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Breitbart is now even <a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/breitbart-admits-role-trump-enforcer-showing-why-it-should-be-denied-congressional-press-credentials/214883" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">admitting</a> that it will take on any Republicans who try to hurt Trump, again neatly echoing oppressive regimes of the past. Meanwhile, Trump is <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/when-everything-is-a-lie-power-is-the-only-truth-1e641751d150" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">deliberately trying</a> to undermine the reliability of truth itself, in a hope to push as many people as possible toward this ecosystem.It is possible that this abuse and harassment could escalate in the near future. While the digital tactics of pushing fake news and harassing people via social media are new, there is a precedent for this type of behavior: the “struggle sessions” in Mao’s China.Max Fisher <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/03/you-have-to-be-careful-about-using-the-word-struggle-in-china/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> how struggle sessions worked in The Washington Post:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">During Mao Zedong's totalitarian and often ruthless rule over China, from the early 1950s through 1976, one of the Communist Party's most unpleasant tactics for maintaining control was something called a "struggle session." On the surface, the idea was that everyone had to suss out "class enemies" and try to better their own commitment to the Communist revolution by attending regular "struggle session" meetings where they'd admit their own revolutionary failures and try to do better as individuals and communities. In practice, though, it was a form of self-reinforcing terror, a means of purging political enemies real and imagined, a tactic for working people into ideological fervor, sometimes in mass "sessions" with thousands of people.</blockquote>The systematic harassment campaign that the “alt-right” has waged through the guise of journalism is remarkably similar. Like the struggle sessions, the harassment is meant to create a sense of terror among political enemies while building a feeling of community among allies. It spreads extreme fear through communities across the country, deterring any theoretical political resistance. This abuse is meant to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">crush meaning</a> in society. The more you discuss whether pizzerias have established a secret child sex ring, the more real it becomes. The more outlandish the accusation, the more effective it becomes. For both the struggle sessions and the “alt-right,” truth is no defense: You will be forced to submit. As long as members use the fake news to harass, then it is worthwhile. Engagement is not the means; engagement is the end.The next logical step would be something akin to book burning, which The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/bonfires-of-insanity-a-history-of-book-burnings-from-nazis-to-isis.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">says</a> is “a peculiar form of censorship in that the act itself is intended to send a message. This is why book burning is a public spectacle. It is designed to express outrage and contains within it the notion that the ideas contained in the books or other works of art should be obliterated entirely.”Among American pundits, Walter Lippman <a href="http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395007" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">alone understood</a> the significance of what was happening when books were burned in the 1930s in Germany:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">The Nazis deliberately and systematically mean to turn the minds of the German people to war. These acts symbolize the moral and intellectual character of the Nazi regime. For these bonfires are not the work of schoolboys or mobs but of the present German Government acting through its Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.... For example ... they burn with conspicuous zeal ... Erich Maria Remarque's [anti-war book] All Quiet on the Western Front. The ominous symbolism of [this burning and] these bonfires is that there is a Government in Germany which means to teach its people that their salvation lies in violence.</blockquote>The only thing standing in the way of the “alt-right” is that it is not yet big enough to take on the entirety of American culture so directly. And yet it seems entirely possible that the movement could do something like that soon, especially if it grows emboldened by having allies in the White House. After an ISIS attack under President Trump, one can imagine the “alt-right” organizing some kind of book burning. Breitbart may even promote it.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IV. Complicity Of Others</h2>The “alt-right” is the engine driving this harassment, and fake news is the tool. But it’s clear that failure of others in the media landscape helped the perverse movement get this far.For one, the tech industry is profiting from this activity every step of the way. Twitter’s failure to stop harassment is <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">legendary</a>. The Trump subreddit has grown completely <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/business/media/in-reddits-unruly-corners-trump-finds-support.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">out of hand</a>. Facebook’s complicity in the spread of fake news is clear. The tech industry is so concerned with engagement that companies have been reluctant to act even when it is clear that some of that engagement is outright abuse and harassment.While mainstream media outlets seem to realize that fake news is a problem, they largely raise concerns only to the extent that fake news is a competitor or when the abuse is big enough that they can easily see it. There is surely fake news of every political stripe, and it should all be disincentivized. But there is no built-out ecosystem to weaponize it anywhere like there is with Breitbart, Alex Jones, Reddit, and the “alt-right.” That’s what mainstream media’s <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/dec/13/2016-lie-year-fake-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">scolding</a> about fake news and “both sides” gets wrong, time and again. In their reluctance to show the unique damage that fake news has on the right, mainstream media are continuing their biggest mistake of the Bush and Obama years: ignoring the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/29/seven-years-late-media-elites-finally-acknowled/209590" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">growing radicalization</a> of the right in America.And this ecosystem of fake news and the “alt-right” is entirely different from the previous right-wing media ecosystem. The previous model involved moving the audience from mainstream news to Fox News and then to the deeper trenches of talk radio and online email lists, where right-wing operators can often <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/28/reagans-secret-cancer-cure-and-other-scams-from/202285" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">bilk their recipients financially</a>. Now, things are different. Fox News’ brand of right-wing misinformation is pervasive, and over recent decades <a href="http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2013/network-news-a-year-of-change-and-challenge-at-nbc/network-by-the-numbers/3-cbs-and-nbc-ratings-grow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fewer</a><a href="http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2013/network-news-a-year-of-change-and-challenge-at-nbc/network-by-the-numbers/3-cbs-and-nbc-ratings-grow/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> people</a> are watching mainstream news networks.The independence of the fake news/“alt-right” ecosystem has interesting consequences. First, members feel empowered to attack Fox News, framing it as part of the establishment media rather than an alternative to traditional sources. Aside from “Pizzagate,” the clearest example of this ecosystem is the harassment directed at Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. The <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebooks-trending-fail-news-section-reportedly-highlights-fake-news-on-megyn-kelly/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">first fake news story</a> to trend on Facebook after the company fired its editors was about Kelly, falsely claiming that Fox fired her for being “‘a closet liberal who actually wants Hillary to win,’” according to CBS. <a href="https://www.webdaily.com/2016/08/29/breaking-top-fox-news-host-may-be-fired-for-supporting-hillary/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Versions</a> of this fake story featured language <a href="http://conservative101.com/breaking-fox-news-exposes-traitor-megyn-kelly-kicks-her-out-for-backing-hillary/" rel="nofollow">like</a> “Megyn Kelly has gotten into a lot of hot water for her many attempts to smear Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump.” Another fake news story <a href=" http:=" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">recently explained</a>, she also was the recipient of torrents of online abuse from Trump supporters. The harassment may not have begun with the fake news story, but their connection seems clear. And the attacks on Fox News are not limited to Kelly -- Alex Jones <a href="http://www.infowars.com/leaked-democrats-have-taken-over-fox-news/" rel="nofollow">attacks</a> the network regularly.

Secondly, traditional figures like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are functionally irrelevant to the " alt-right. And yet, right-wing media are still allied with and permissive of the “alt-right,” continuing to train their focus on mainstream media. Rather than concerning themselves with the issue of fake news, right-wing media <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/09/right-wing-media-using-term-fake-news-attack-credible-news-sources/214778" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">use the term</a> to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/us/politics/fake-news-claims-conservatives-mainstream-media-.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">attack</a> mainstream outlets.In fact, right-wing media go out of their way to give space for the “alt-right” to operate. Fox News <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/06/fox-continues-downplay-fake-news-and-its-dangerous-consequences/214727" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">dramatically undercovered</a> “Pizzagate” compared to other mainstream outlets. Fox News reporters (not just pundits) <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/12/16/fox-correspondent-dismisses-impact-fake-news-you-could-argue-fake-news-fake-story/214844" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">have dismissed</a> the concept of “fake news” and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/24/fox-correspondent-defends-alt-right-it-s-much-more-nationalist-populist-white-supremacist-movement/212624" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">defended</a> the “alt-right” on air. When Facebook announced its plan to alleviate its fake news infestation, the most aghast were <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/15/conservative-media-freak-out-over-facebook-s-plan-address-fake-news-problem/214832" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">right-wing pundits</a>.It is unclear where the phenomenon is going, but one clue may be Fox’s newest host. Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ Elf on the Shelf, is a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%22can%27t%20cuck%20the%20tuck%22&src=typd" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">huge favorite</a> of “alt-right” trolls. If Carlson’s show is a success, Fox News in the future could drift more toward the “alt-right” model. (Worth noting is that Rupert Murdoch is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-ct-tucker-carlson-fox-20161103-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reportedly a fan</a> of Carlson's.) And the biggest glue tying together traditional right-wing media and the fake news ecosystem are <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-trump-loving-alt-right-turns-to-guns-to-provoke-and-offend" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">the NRA</a> and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenkilloran/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-and-breitbart-news-why-everyone-but-the-alt-right-fears-trumps-top-adviser-pick/#6da965f5504f" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Drudge Report</a>, both of which were undoubtedly further empowered this election season.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">V. What’s To Come</h2>Many of the proposed solutions to fake news ring exceptionally hollow. Noting that the fake news ecosystem pushes lies will not stop the abuse; merely calling out the lies is like pointing out that rain originates in the clouds. The objective now is to protect people from the lies.It is long past the time for mainstream outlets to realize that the yoke of false balance empowers this ecosystem even more. The “alt-right” will turn any journalistic mistake into propaganda the very moment it occurs. A factual error will become an accidental truth. A correction will become censorship.There’s never been such a challenging time to be an informed citizen. Independent media are struggling financially, and mainstream media are obsessed with making everything about both sides, lest they lose a small portion of their audience. Right-wing media are telling all the traditional sorts of lies. Now a fake news ecosystem is feeding into the worst instincts of humanity while punishing anyone who dares stand up against them.And soon there will be a president who will validate those feelings.<table border="0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497296113537_44691" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 524px;"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497296113537_44690" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; width: 524px;"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497296113537_44689" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><td id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497296113537_44688" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px;">Inmates are running the asylum

We've spent a lot of time in the past year focusing on "alt-right" lies and fake news infecting conservative media and Republican politics. We even named them our <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2izpXs2&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=611wa&n=9" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497296113537_45004" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent; outline: none;">misinformer of the year.</a> It was during the Comey hearing that we had perhaps our best example. As Comey testified that no one in the Department of Justice had exerted pressure on him, an "alt-right" troll <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F2re6rB0&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=611wa&n=10" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent; outline: none;">started the lie</a> that Comey actually was referring to Trump, and saying that Trump had never attempted to influence him. This was a bald faced lie clearly contradicted by the tape. And yet, fake news and then conservative media ate it up, with the lie making its way to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. This all culminated in the lie making it into an official statement of the Republican National Committee. </td></tr></tbody></table>The Republican National Committee (RNC) pushed a false talking point that originated from the “alt-right”/fake news ecosystem to try to discredit former FBI Director James Comey’s June 8 testimony to the Senate intelligence committee.During his testimony, Comey <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN18Z0HC" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said that</a> he believed President Donald Trump fired him due to the FBI’s Russia probe, saying, “I know I was fired because of something about the way I was conducting the Russia investigation was in some way putting pressure on him, in some way irritating him, and he decided to fire me because of that.” He discussed a number of other issues as well, including saying that Trump directed him to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and that he wrote memos on his one-on-one interactions with the president because he feared Trump might lie about the exchanges.Responding to the testimony, the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/872829145264402432" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">RNC tweeted</a>, “#BigLeagueTruth: Comey testified under oath that @POTUS never asked him or anyone else to end any investigation. #ComeyHearing.” The tweet included a video of Comey’s previous testimony before the Senate intelligence committee -- on May 3 -- in which Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asked him if “the attorney general or senior officials at the Department of Justice” tried to block an FBI investigation, to which Comey replied, “Not in my experience.”Contrary to the RNC’s implication, Comey did not contradict himself. On May 3, he was <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jun/06/context-james-comeys-past-comments-interference-fb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">talking specifically about the Department of Justice</a>, not the president. The RNC’s false claim <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/18/pro-trump-media-are-citing-internet-trolls-try-discredit-comey-s-memo/216549" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">was pushed early on</a> by “alt-right” trolls <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/11/meet-jack-posobiec-latest-far-right-internet-troll-press-pass-white-house/216409" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Jack Posobiec</a> and Nick Short, and was then repeated by <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/15/understanding-fake-news-universe/214819#d2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fake news purveyors</a> and other <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/26/look-incestous-alternative-media-echo-chamber-winning-over-online-audiences/216158" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">“alt-right”</a> outlets before more traditional right-wing media figures and outlets, such as <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/05/18/53746/fnc-f-f-20170518-holmescomeytestimony" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fox & Friends</a> and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/05/18/53758/prn-limbaugh-20170518-comey" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Rush Limbaugh</a>, picked it up. Since then, Republican politicians such as <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/06/09/54143/cnn-newday-20170601-comey" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/06/09/54141/cnn-newday-20170608-comey" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/06/09/54142/fnc-ff-20170608-jamescomey" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</a> have also repeated the false assertion. The false claim <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/traders-misinterpret-a-comey-video-that-they-think-clears-trump.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">even impacted the stock market</a>.In a statement to Media Matters, Sen. Hirono criticized the RNC for taking “a far-right conspiracy theory as fact,” and noted that she “only asked former Director Comey about pressure from officials at the Department of Justice”:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;">“If you listen to the exchange, it’s clear that I only asked former Director Comey about pressure from officials at the Department of Justice, but the RNC chose to move forward and take a far-right conspiracy theory as fact. This sends a clear message that Republicans are willing to share fake news and dangerous narratives in their quest to deny Russian interference in our elections. Unfortunately, we’ve come to expect no less from the mouthpiece of an Administration that deals in alternative facts.”</blockquote>The RNC’s incorrect claim is yet <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/05/susan-rice-unmasking-story-perfect-case-study-new-pro-trump-propaganda-ecosystem/215914" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">another example of how the “alt-right”/fake news ecosystem</a> has been able to amplify its misinformation out of the fringe, pushing <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/05/fake-news-and-alt-right-are-pushing-forged-documents-aid-marine-le-pen-frances-election/216305" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">forged documents</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/16/new-alt-right-theory-obama-was-secretly-behind-judicial-halt-trumps-muslim-ban/215712" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">baseless conspiracy theories</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/26/it-wasnt-just-alex-jones-smears-against-chobani-were-also-driven-fake-news-and-alt-right/216175" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smear campaigns</a> into more of the mainstream.Today host Mitch Jeserich looks at the rise of the radical right in the U.S. with independent journalist Arun Gupta. Gupta reported on June 11th’s anti-Islamic rally in Seattle, Washington, which was one of 20 or so across the country.<a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-12-2017/">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-12-2017/</a>DHS collab w/ 3%?  portland cops beat up L protestorsR // terrorists: disenfranchised young men, radicalized by social media, find tribe in RL, then act violently]14 PEOPLE WERE <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=58175" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">arrested</a> at an alt-right rally in Portland, Oregon, last weekend. A man named Todd Kelsay helped with one of the arrests. In videos and photographs posted online, Kelsay can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLK5y1wx_JF3aKSOtybwJwnS_oGJYlXR5M&v=U0D8YOIAepw" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">seen</a> on his knees with a group of police officers, reaching behind one of their backs to retrieve a plastic handcuff to arrest an unidentified black-clad protester. In <a href="https://twitter.com/Missy_America/status/871786020089548800" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">one video,</a> Kelsay appears to be assisting three officers in cuffing the suspect.Yet Kelsay stood out. The Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service officers he was aiding wore dark blue helmets and flak jackets with “POLICE DHS” patched across the front. Kelsay, on the other hand, sported a desert camouflage helmet and ballistic vest over a black tee shirt and jeans.The discrepancy in appearance arose because Kelsay is not with the Portland police nor with the federal DHS police whom he was aiding.Kelsay, who is a member of the American Freedom Keepers, a right-wing militia, was there helping to secure the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1927691894133941/?active_tab=about%27" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">free speech rally</a>” organized by alt-right activists. (The Freedom Keepers, Kelsay said, did not officially take part in the rally.) In an interview Tuesday, Kelsay told The Intercept that he was instructed by DHS police to assist in the arrest. “I was asked, while I was on the ground, by a police officer, ‘Help me, hand me the handcuffs.’ He was looking at me. So I handed him the cuffs,” Kelsay said. But that wasn’t the only time Kelsay or other alt-righters played cops at the rally.<div class="img-wrap align-center width-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px 2.25em; line-height: 1; max-width: none; width: 1024px;"><a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2017/06/portalnd-alt-right-protests-security-1496953763.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">
</a>Members of a security detachment attend a pro-Trump Freedom Rally at Terry Schrunk plaza in downtown Portland on June 4, 2017. Photo: Diego Diaz/Icon Sportswire/AP</div>With the extremes of the American political spectrum squaring off nearly every week in tense rallies and counter-protests, where violence erupts not infrequently, police are drawing outside aid from only one side: the far-right. That police forces would ask for and accept help from far-right protesters might not be as surprising as it seems: In January, The Intercept revealed that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">right-wing infiltration of law enforcement</a> had grown so prevalent that the FBI investigated the trend.The relationship works both ways: Police get help, and alt-right demonstrators are seemingly put above the law in return. The result is that militia members who work security for alt-right events are carrying out policing activities with impunity under the gaze of actual police. At the June 4 Portland rally, eyewitnesses report at least two other instances in which alt-right forces apparently attacked protesters without instigation.The protester Kelsay helped detain was arrested shortly after another member of the rally’s unofficial security detachment blocked his path as police stood quietly by. A DHS officer suddenly rushed toward the protester who then fled and was nabbed by a third militiaman.This account of Kelsay’s self-described collaboration with DHS police is drawn from three hours of phone interviews with him, as well as witness accounts, videos, and photographs obtained by The Intercept and posted to social media. Kelsay, 48, repeatedly admitted he assisted DHS police in physically securing the individual. In the videos, the officer can be seen turning toward Kelsay before the militiaman retrieves a zip-tie. By this point there are more than half-a-dozen DHS officers securing the arrest, but none appear to ask Kelsay to leave or stop handling the suspect.[kpfa R // terrorists: disenfranchised young men, radicalized by social media, find tribe in RL, then act violently]The Portland rally had been <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1927691894133941/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">organized</a> by alt-right leader Joey Gibson, and attended by hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump. Thousands of counter-protesters, including immigrant, religious, labor, and left groups opposed to the event, which came as Portlanders were still reeling from the <a href="http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impact/other/JCPCaffidavitredacted.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">May 26 murder of two men</a>, allegedly by a white supremacist named Jeremy Christian (<a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/05/31/who-radicalized-jeremy-christian-alt-right-extremists-rush-to-distance-themselves-from-max-slaying-suspect/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Christian</a> <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/portland_suspect_in_2_slayings.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">attended</a> a Gibson-sponsored <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/30/progressive-portland-confronts-murderous-hate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">event</a> in Portland in late April).DHS police were on hand because Terry Schrunk Plaza, the site of the rally, is federal property, including the sidewalk out front. A spokesperson for DHS Federal Protective Service said 40 officers from the FPS were “on the ground to secure the safety and security of everyone in and around federal facilities.” (DHS did not respond to a detailed inquiry about alleged cooperation between militia members and DHS police.)<div class="img-wrap align-bleed width-auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; transition: opacity 0.3s linear 0.2s; opacity: 1; width: auto;"><a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2017/06/portalnd-alt-right-protests-3-1496953830.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">
</a>Antifascist demonstrators confront police during a protest on June 4, 2017 in Portland, Ore. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images</div>The DHS police looked on as Kelsay and the unidentified protester he would later arrest began arguing — “aggressive,” was how Kelsay described him. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwNzc1tPJnE&sns=em" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">A three-minute video</a> shows the two having a civil dispute. “You’re being asked to leave,” Kelsay said at one point, extending his arm. While Kelsay and the youth talk, a Portland officer and a DHS officer observe but do not question Kelsay’s actions. The young protester in black shuffles in the other direction and is blocked by another member of the rally security team, identifiable by the uniform of military-style clothing and yellow tape. With more police looking on, DHS officer charged the young protester in black, for reasons that remain unclear, and the chase began.“They were yelling, ‘Stop, stop him,’” Kelsay recalled. He fell behind but kept up his chase: “So if the police needed the assistance I could give it.”<a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/05/23/white-supremacists-are-brawling-with-masked-leftists-in-the-portland-streets-homeland-security-is-watching/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Tusitala “Tiny” Toese</a>, a member of a different militia, was finally the one who <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanMVance/status/871790565758713856" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">stopped</a> the protester. “I picked him up and slammed him into the ground,” Toese told The Intercept. “I was trying to help law enforcement.” As officers swarmed the scene, a <a href="https://twitter.com/Missy_America/status/871786020089548800" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">fourth video</a> appears to show Kelsay applying the zip-tie cuffs. Kelsay said the officer “put the cuffs on but I still had a hold of the tail of the cuff. He said, ‘Tighten them up.’ I don’t know if he was talking to me, but I had a hold of them, so I tightened them up. Then I helped them pick him up. I didn’t want him to get hurt.”A photo snapped seconds later by an Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter shows a mix of militiamen and police. “Officers thank Trump Free Speech Rally hired security for their help taking down a fleeing protester,” Bryan M. Vance, the reporter, <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanMVance/status/871468282758352896" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a> along with the picture.Kelsay had been boasting of his relationship with the police earlier in the day. “‘All I have to do is snap my fingers and the cops will arrest you,’” Jonathan Shields, a counter-protester, recalled Kelsay saying in an encounter before the arrests (Kelsay denied making the remark). “He was granted authority to keep the sidewalk clear by the police,” Shields added.Kelsay claims he was simply following orders from the police. “We did what they told us to — crowd control,” Kelsay said. “We were supposed to keep the counter-protesters out. We were permitted to exclude people if we saw they were a possible danger.”But local police claim steps were taken to avoid protest attendees and unofficial security engaged in law enforcement activities. Sgt. Pete Simpson of the Portland Police Bureau said, “There was a conversation between the organizers of the event, the FPS and PPB that they were not to interfere in any arrests, particularly anyone acting as private security.”Simpson, however, stopped short of expressing any grave alarm that the arrangement wasn’t honored. “Private citizens conducting policing functions is concerning if they are not being asked to help,” he said. Then Simpson turned his attention to <a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/06/portland-breathes-a-sigh-of-relief-after-weekend-protester-showdown-but-several-questions-persist-about-police-tactics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">mostly unconfirmed</a> allegations made about left-wing counter-protesters: “I am more concerned about bricks, bloody tampons, and urine-filled balloons being thrown at our officers.” (The ACLU of Oregon <a href="https://www.aclu-or.org/blog/sunday%E2%80%99s-protests-portland-were-trial-first-amendment-and-policing" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">criticized</a> the police response to protesters.)<div class="img-wrap align-center width-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px 2.25em; line-height: 1; max-width: none; width: 1024px;"><a href="https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2017/06/portland-arrests-alt-right-trumop-rally-1496954411.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">
</a>A protester is detained by Portland police during a demonstration in Portland, Sunday, June 4, 2017.Photo: Dave Killen/The Oregonian/AP</div>Eyewitnesses claim there were two other instances in which police ignored alt-righters running rampant. One counter-protester, Andrew Riley, said he saw an incident in the DHS-controlled area where a person in dark clothing, who was yelling, was “picked up by someone wearing camo clothing with the yellow stripes and a ballistic vest and body slammed to the ground.” He said, “Within five seconds at least three cops moved in and immediately knelt on the person,” and as they cuffed the person the militia man “was kneeling on the protester alongside police.”In a third case, Nate Gowdy, a photojournalist, claimed he and other counter-protesters were attacked by pro-Trump demonstrators while DHS police watched passively. Eyewitness accounts, photos, and a recollection on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hoel.erika/posts/10213141508961629?pnref=story.unseen-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a> paint a picture of alt-righters with helmets and battle gear make an unprovoked attack with pepper spray and a flagpole. Close to 10 DHS police stood nearby and only intervened to let the suspected alt-right attackers to leave the scene. (A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZiHXBPLdbk" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">video</a> shows a crowd looking on as the obscured fracas unfolds.)Alex Vitale, author of “The End of Policing” and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, who reviewed footage of the arrest involving Kelsay, said the incident raises troubling questions. “It seems almost gratuitous, like this guy wants to get in on the action. A professional police force would not allow that.”“Given the history of corrupt cooperation between right-wing forces and political police units like riot cops, anti-terror, and intelligence, we should always be alarmed between growing cooperation between alt-right forces and police forces,” Vitale said. “It does raise the question of what type of relationships are there, what information is being shared, and what type of planning went into this between the alt-right forces and the police handling the demonstration.”<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/08/portland-alt-right-milita-police-dhs-arrest-protester/">https://theintercept.com/2017/06/08/portland-alt-right-milita-police-dhs-arrest-protester/</a>=violence (seattle shooter still not charged)http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/gun-advocates-fear-armed-trump-supporters-they-escalate-threats-violence-againsthttp://www.alternet.org/activism/white-supremacist-caught-video-sucker-punching-woman-berkeley-protester-faces-calls-arresthttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/15/18798357.phpoathkeepers security 3%After a three-month investigation that entailed combing through hours’ worth of video recordings, the King County Prosecutor’s office in Seattle announced this week that it was filing felony charges against a married couple accused of shooting a man involved <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/01/23/alt-right-event-seattle-devolves-chaos-and-violence-outside-truth-twisting-inside" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">in the Jan. 20 protests</a> outside a Milo Yiannopoulos speech on the University of Washington campus.Elizabeth Hokoana and her husband, Marc Hokoana, both 29, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/charging-documents-state-v-hokoana.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">were charged with first-degree assault</a> in the shooting of Joshua Dukes, a 31-year-old computer programmer who had been acting as a peacekeeper during the protest, which featured multiple violent melees. Marc Hokoana had been a participant in several of them, and according to the charging papers, had been dosing protesters with squirts from a small pepper-spray gun.During one of these brawls, authorities say, Elizabeth “Lily” Hokoana pulled a Glock semiautomatic pistol from her coat and shot Dukes once. Dukes spent several weeks in the hospital recovering from the wound, which damaged several internal organs.The charging papers claim that, the day before the event, Marc Hokoana had messaged a friend on Facebook: “I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m going to the milo event and if the snowflakes get out off hand I’m going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls.”The friend asked him whether he was “going to carry.” Hokoana replied: “Nah, I’m going full melee.” He then added: “Lily … is.”Marc Hokoana had messaged Yiannopoulos via Facebook from the protest, saying his “Make America Great Again” hat had been stolen. He also asked Yiannopoulos for a new hat, but the alt-right provocateur never replied.Video recorded by Hatewatch during the protests showed Hokoana acting as a provocateur throughout the evening, egging protesters on and trying to provoke them by demanding his hat back.The charging papers say a witness identified as “B.F.” described his activities throughout the evening: “B.F. stated that the individual kept going over to the group of protesters and agitating the group by calling them snowflakes, libtards and saying that (Trump) was their president. B.F. stated that the man seemed to be there only to provoke the crowd.”<div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-id="14502" data-entity-label="Media" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="718a32da-c6d9-4a74-b933-9969526f15b5" data-view-mode="teaser" class="align-right" style="box-sizing: inherit; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; width: 432.938px;" mercury="Mercury" ssm="SSm" a="A" b="B" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div id="file-14502" class="file file-image file-image-png" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img src="https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/screen_shot_2017-04-25_at_11.38.09_pm.png" width="1029" height="744" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 432.938px;" /> <div class="field field-name-field-file-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: -0.4375em; position: relative;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; padding: 1em;"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 2.5em;">In a still taken from the video (about 2:00), Elizabeth Hokoana can be seen reaching inside the back of her coat.</div></div></div></div></div></div>A key portion of the Hatewatch video proved important in establishing the charges against Elizabeth Hokoana. Recorded nearly 30 minutes before the shooting, she can be seen, wearing a two-toned winter coat and pigtails, approaching the scene where a young Milo supporter had been hit with a blue paint ball by black-clad protesters. As the young man’s father pulls him away, she can be seen opening her coat and reaching behind her inside it, appearing to stand guard as her husband confronts the protesters. (He shortly afterward emerged, spoke briefly with his wife, and embraced the young man with the paint on his face.)A detective cited in the charging papers said the movement “was consistent with a person who was attempting to pull a concealed pistol from a holster.”Later in the Hatewatch video, Marc Hokoana, now wearing a bright yellow ballcap, can be seen chanting with a crowd of Yiannopoulos fans waving a banner bearing the image of Pepe the Frog, the hate-symbol mascot of the alt-right, and then briefly conferring with friends wearing red "Make America Great Again" ballcaps. In the final frame of that video — taken less than a minute before the shooting — the victim, Josh Dukes, is comes into view.<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/couple-charged-with-assault-in-shooting-melee-during-uw-speech-by-milo-yiannopoulos/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">The Seattle Times</a> reports that further video evidence found Marc Hokoana attempting to keep his wife in check, telling her to “calm down” and “don’t shoot anyone.”An audio analyst told the Times: “Marc Hokoana can then be heard telling Elizabeth Hokoana that others in the crowd, ‘They have to start this. They have to start it.’ ”The Hokoanas’ lawyers <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/couple-charged-with-assault-in-shooting-melee-during-uw-speech-by-milo-yiannopoulos/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">maintained their innocence</a>. “We have provided the police and the prosecution evidence showing that our clients acted lawfully in defense of others,” a joint statement said. “The accuser, Joshua Dukes, has repeatedly stated that he does not want this to go through the criminal-justice system. We are disappointed that the prosecution has decided otherwise. We look forward to presenting our case to a jury and we anticipate an acquittal.”Joshua Dukes, who was eventually released after weeks in the hospital since the bullet entered his stomach, traveled up his chest and lodged in his back, has been pleading for “restorative justice” in the case.“Being shot was devastating for Mr. Dukes, his family, and his community,” his attorney, Sarah Lippek, told reporters. “The Hokoanas harmed many people by their violent actions. Mr. Dukes hopes that the defendants will take accountability for shooting him, for taking guns and other weapons into already unstable circumstances, and for their involvement in escalating violence in the situation. It is crucial for the Hokoanas to understand the damage they caused, in order to reach accountability and resolution for this violence.”Yianniopoulos attempted to claim in his speech inside the hall that the roles were reversed — that it had been one of his alt-right fans who had been shot by an antifascist. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/21/suspect-shooting-outside-milo-event-claims-self-defence-released-without-charges/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">Breitbart News </a>and the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/22/milo-protester-shoots-suspected-conservative-no-charges-after-he-points-to-racism/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">Daily Caller</a> both reported the same. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/26/gunman-who-seriously-injured-man-outside-milo-yiannopulos-event-is-strong-trump-supporter/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">The Daily Caller</a> wound up writing a story that corrected the facts but, notably, did not explain that it was a correction of the site's previous reportage. Breitbart, meanwhile, not only <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/21/violence-carnage-university-washington-milo-event/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">never bothered</a> to correct its reportage, it instead (without a hint of irony) accused the UW president of changing her story about the event, and left the shooting <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/23/unm-leftist-groups-claim-milo-show-will-cause-violence-despite-past-violence-coming-from-leftist-protesters/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">utterly unmentioned</a> in <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/21/university-washington-president-admits-milo-protests-violent/" target="blank" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">its subsequent reportage</a>.https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/26/husband-and-wife-accused-planning-violence-shooting-uw-milo-protestuk dauly mial bshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4360708/Wife-admits-shooting-Milo-Yiannopoulos-talk.html...They had both told police they were involved in a self-defense shooting before they each asked for an attorney. Mr Hoakana's lawyer Kim Gordon said on Tuesday that Elizabeth Hoakana did not act on her husband's request, but did what she could to protect her spouse from death or serious injury, the Seattle Times reported. Analysis of the footage by law enforcement officials shows Marc Hoakana had been turning away from Dukes while Elizabeth Hoakana's arms were extended. Gordon said the video shows Mr Hoakana was in a 'position of retreating' while Dukes was in a 'position of advancing.'Dukes, a computer-security engineer and Industrial Workers of the World organizer, was shot in the stomach during a fight that broke out among the crowds of protesters....People are protected under self-defense laws in the state of Washington if they face death or serious injury.But Dukes's attorney Sarah Lippek said the evidence is not enough to justify the shooting.Hoakana's Facebook page indicated he is a former student at the University of Washington and a Trump supporter.Before the shooting, the 29-year-old wrote on Yiannopoulos's Facebook page saying he had been 'sucker-punched' by a protester and that his Make America Great Again hat had been stolen.  The case remains under investigation by university police and has yet to be submitted to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for possible criminal charges. 

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And the fact that your legal strategy worked so well is just icing on the cake. Thanks from us all."<cite style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" display="display" block="block" line-height="line-height" px="px">- Father of WTO protestor, after Kim Gordon won dismissal of the charges.</cite></a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The King County Prosecutors Office today charged Elizabeth Hokoana with first degree assault in connection with the January 20 shooting in Red Square that left one man in critical condition.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The shooting, which occurred during a chaotic Inauguration Day protest outside a speech given by far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, has become a flash point in the<a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/meet-the-despised-and-emboldened-college-republicans-of-uw/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);"> debate over free speech on campus.</a><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Elizabeth Hokoana and her husband Marc Hokoana have <a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/uw-shooting-suspect-admits-what-video-already-told-us/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">claimed self-defense</a> in the shooting; the Hokoana’s lawyer has said that Elizabeth shot Joshua Dukes because she feared her husband Marc was in immediate danger of being harmed by anti-Yiannopoulos protesters. However, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said in statement sent to the press Monday that the Hokoanas provoked the confrontation with other protesters and that Marc “was not in imminent danger” at the time of the shooting.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">In charging documents, prosecutors go even further, suggesting that the couple went to the protest in order to start a fight so that Elizabeth could open fire.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“The evidence presented … demonstrates that the defendants went to the event at the UW campus with the intent to provoke altercations with protesters who they knew would also be at this controversial event,” prosecutors write. “The defendants created a situation designed to allow Elizabeth Hokoana to shoot the victim in the middle of an extremely crowded event under the guise of defending herself or her husband.” Specifically, prosecutors say Marc fired pepper spray into the crowd, provoking people to confront him, at which point Elizabeth shot Duke, an anti-Milo protester.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Marc Hokoana was charged with assault in the third degree for firing the pepper spray at an unidentified woman at the protest.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">During the investigation, police uncovered a Facebook conversation Marc Hokoana had with a friend before the event, in which Marc stated, “I can’t wait for tomorrow, I’m going to the Milo event and if the snowflakes get out of hand I’m just going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls.” “Snowflakes” is a derogatory term for liberals. When his friend asked if he was going to carry a gun, Marc said no but added his wife would.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Police also cited snippets of audio captured shortly before the shooting, previously reported by Kelsey Hamlin for Seattle Weekly, in which Marc can be heard telling Elizabeth, “<a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/dont-shoot-anyone-another-video-of-uw-shooting-suspect-surfaces/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">Don’t</a><a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/dont-shoot-anyone-another-video-of-uw-shooting-suspect-surfaces/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);"> shoot </a><a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/dont-shoot-anyone-another-video-of-uw-shooting-suspect-surfaces/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">anyone</a>” and “they have to start this.<a href="http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/they-have-to-start-it-uw-shooting-suspect-seen-in-video-shortly-before-confrontation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">They have to start it.”</a><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">In a statement to the Seattle Times, the Hokoana’s lawyers <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/couple-charged-with-assault-in-shooting-melee-during-uw-speech-by-milo-yiannopoulos/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">maintained their innocence.</a><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“We have provided the police and the prosecution evidence showing that our clients acted lawfully in defense of others,” the statement said. “The accuser, Joshua Dukes, has repeatedly stated that he does not want this to go through the criminal-justice system. We are disappointed that the prosecution has decided otherwise. We look forward to presenting our case to a jury and we anticipate an acquittal.”<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">That’s a bit disingenuous, though, as the lawyers had previous stated the Hokoanas<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/man-shot-milo-yiannopoulos-protest-seattle-trump-interview" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; cursor: pointer; transition: border-color 0.25s ease-out; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(230, 230, 230);"> won’t participate</a> in the restorative justice program that Dukes says he prefers.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Dukes’ lawyer, Sarah Lippek, also issued a statement today, calling on the Hokoanas to take responsibility for their actions.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“Being shot was devastating for Mr. Dukes, his family, and his community. The Hokoanas harmed many people by their violent actions. Mr. Dukes hopes that the defendants will take accountability for shooting him, for taking guns and other weapons into already unstable circumstances, and for their involvement in escalating violence in the situation. It is crucial for the Hokoanas to understand the damage they caused, in order to reach accountability and resolution for this violence.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“…Restorative Justice is a process that allows a dialogue between those who have caused harm and those who have been harmed. Together, they identify how accountability can be reached, and they take steps to repair the harm. The process is not a substitute for accountability, but a tool to reach it. A criminal prosecution does not usually allow for this kind of interaction between victims and defendants. Mr. Dukes hopes that the Hokoanas will choose to engage with him during the prosecution, and with the cooperation of the prosecutor’s office, or after the conclusion of the trial.”<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.875rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">dperson@seattleweekly.com<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/right-wing-foot-soldiers-are-routinely-escalating-violent-behavior-streets">http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/right-wing-foot-soldiers-are-routinely-escalating-violent-behavior-streets</a>A  friend writes, “For basically the past six months or so I’ve been trying to tell my lefty friends in so many words, ‘Hey, there are a bunch of people on the Internet who are waiting for someone to tell them it’s okay to start shooting at you.’” He became concerned when a thread at the non-political firearms-enthusiasts website he regularly follows became filled with comments in all caps referring to liberals as enemies who must be shot. Developments both online and off following Donald Trump’s election have caused me to share his concern.In December, an author at the biggest and most explicitly non-political gun site, the Firearms Blog (its tagline is “Firearms, not politics”), recounted his experience with an outfit that offers tactical training based on the methods of the Israel Defense Forces. The moderator soon had to begin deleting comments. One that remains protested, “as if through the millennia, hundreds of nations, principalities and city-states reached the same conclusions,” and urged the curious to check out Judaism.is/genocide.html where one can watch the film Jewish Ritual Murder Revisited: The Hidden Cult.Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, a community member on a moderate firearms law site, PAGunBlog, a civil redoubt welcoming “active participation by both firearms enthusiasts and people who hate them,” described his shock from that morning’s web-surf when “a long-time commenter who I recognized as right-leaning but mostly moderate commented that ‘The Jews own and control everything in America…’ Not many months ago no one except a flaming neo-Nazi would have dreamed of expressing such an opinion, but today it seems to have become an acceptable element of our discourse. I noticed that no one replied to or castigated the comment.”Then came February 1 in Berkeley and things really started getting scary.The saga of what happened when Milo Yiannopoulos came to speak at the flagship campus of the University of California has since become foundational, not just with the alt-right but with quite nearly the entire right. Alt-right provocateur Yiannopoulos was turned back by violent protests, which culminated in the burning of a portable generator. Stuffed down the wingnut memory hole are the events that preceded the mêlée. The violence was, in fact, preceded by peaceful protests by approximately 1,500 Berkeley students, until they were waylaid by a tiny handful of off-campus “Black Bloc” and “antifa,” or anti-fascist, cadres who believe racist speech licenses violent resistance. It was also preceded, less than two weeks earlier, by the shooting of a Milo protester in Seattle, by a gunman who has yet to be charged with any crime.The Battle of Berkeley accelerated the construction of a body of mythology: the left has escalated its resistance to Trump into literal war, so Trump supporters must be prepared to resort to violence to oppose it.How afraid of this should you be? The most interesting answers to that question do not come from the left. They come from concerned voices on the right, who’ve been monitoring the chatter with mounting alarm, going public with pleas to liberals to still the antifa renegades before bodies begin piling up. The most convincing evidence that they have a point comes in the ensuing comment threads, where the need to prepare for armed force is taken as gospel.The proprietor of Being Libertarian, a Facebook community with 438,888 likes, wrote of Berkeley, “This was a riot,” and urged liberals to “BE LOUD” and renounce the rioters: “Conservatives are going to have a field day with this. If you just sit there quietly, you’re essentially letting yourself be associated with campus-pillaging barbarians.” He added, “You should consider yourself lucky nobody shot you.”Clearly, this man knows his audience. The comment, “When someone has set your car on fire and is chasing you around with a blunt object, you get to make an executive decision regarding your continued existence,” got 1,403 likes. The conviction that this would be acting in self-defense was affirmed by the man who wrote, “these riots that have been occurring are what got my ass in gear to get the final steps of my pistol permit application completed. My unrestricted carry permit can’t come soon enough.” Someone reminded him a gun license “is not a license to kill.” His response: “Yes I’m aware. I just refuse to end up a helpless victim when crazy shit like this goes down.”Oleg Volk is an advertising professional and Second Amendment activist based in Nashville. He wrote on a Facebook wall about the Berkeley events: “Rioting? That’s how you get Freikorps reenacting the demise of the Bavarian Republic with full approval of the majority of the population.” The Freikorps were volunteer paramilitaries set up by German World War I veterans that violently put down Communist uprisings, piling up bodies by the thousands; the movement officially came to a close in 1933 when Freikorps leaders surrendered their battle flags in loyalty to the Nazi command. Volk made it clear that he was opposed to such escalation. Commenters responding to his post were not. “Trying to decide if I will be unhappy or happy to don Freikorps attire. Then what to bring to the party,” said one. Others discussed appropriate armaments—“Ill see your 308 and raise you a 45-70” [sic]—until one Richard Carter trumped them all: “see you all that crap 50 bmg.” He was referring the .50-caliber Browning machine gun, a weapon useful for downing low-flying aircraft. After all, another commenter observed, “The Brownshirts are all liberals now.”Another commenter offered a “Side note: Ever notice they don’t try that shit somewhere like Texas or Florida, where the odds are good that Joe Public will ventilate their asses when assaulted.” As it happened, one month later events provided a natural experiment to prove or disprove his hypothesis.Well dressed and well versedMarch 4 was national “March 4 Trump Day.” It was also Confederate Flag Day—though whether coincidence or not is always a difficult question to answer in Trumpland, where what the president’s “respectable” partisans would prefer to keep hidden in the basement is only a dogwhistle away.A prelude to the March 4 Trump events played out on February 19, when a complement from the “III% Security Force” armed with rifles stood guard over a pro-Trump rally in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. The next day, National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre went online with a video advertising his appearance at the following week’s Conservative Political Action Conference. The video opened with the words “THEY COULDN’T HANDLE IT,” interposed with clips of Michael Moore calling Donald Trump a fascist and Nancy Pelosi intoning “white supremacist,” then the words, “SO THEY STARTED A WAR,” “AGITATION,” “INSURRECTION,” and “ANARCHY.” All this was interspersed with chaotic images of fire, vandalism, and Madonna at the Women’s March explaining, “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.” Thereupon LaPierre pledged the NRA would be the spearhead of the counter-resistance: “On Friday, February 24, we fight back.”Then in Austin on March 4, a blogger who calls himself Morgoth, after the J.R.R. Tolkien character often interpreted as a stand-in for Satan, filed a dispatch from the pro-Trump rally at Wooldridge Park, sprinkled with pictures of dudes with signs like the one featuring the alt-right iconic image of Pepe in a pilot outfit with the legend “FREE HELICOPTER RIDES” and the silhouette of a woman falling from the sky. “The only contribution we received from the Republican Party was some Trump Pence and MAGA signs,” he boasted. “Quite unlike the AstroTurf leftist protests where professional agitators are organized, bused in and often paid by shadowy group funded for George Soros or the Democratic Party.” [sic] Morgoth was impressed with organizers doing “everything possible to dispel the notion that Trump or his supporters are in any way racist. After all, speakers at the event included a black woman . . . and a Mexican woman who had just obtained U.S. citizenship. Amusingly, the Mexican lady’s speech was largely drowned out by long and raucous chants of ‘build the wall, build the wall!’”Morgoth estimated the alt-right contingent at 10 to 20 percent of the crowd. He celebrated their chants, including “Free helicopter rides for commies” and “One people, one nation, one leader.” He reported, “The Alt Right were well turned out, many wearing shirts and ties, well groomed, well informed, physically fit, and well versed in their arguments. They stood in stark contrast to the weak degenerates of Antifa . . .” He said the whole thing made him feel as glorious as when he participated in an Orange Walk—those marches where Ulster unionists would parade menacingly through Catholic neighborhoods to celebrate the 1690 defeat of Irish Catholics. He thrilled to what he claimed was evidence that “even mainstream conservatives” were moving “toward us.”He also confirmed the accounts of about a dozen anti-Trump protesters that one of them, Austin radical journalist Kit O’Connell, received a concussion when he was smashed against a post by a former Marine after touching his flag.O’Connell was arrested and charged with a crime. The attacker was not. O’Connell’s assailant, wearing an American-flag windbreaker, carrying an American flag, and sporting two small American flags in his MAGA cap, can be heard in a video boasting, “He was so light, I thought he was a girl. But I hit him against the pole, and I felt sorry for him so I stopped. . . How do you justify attacking somebody with an American flag? . . .They went after my flag.”Morgoth’s blog post in praise of this fine patriot featured a screen grab of O’Connell’s Facebook message. Morgoth’s comment: “Here is a post of the glass jawed communist made on Facebook the next day showing him still in this hospital bed whining about his treatment at the hands of the fascist police state. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh. . . . Antifa pussy, straight from central casting.” The screen grab contained the name of the hospital, should any local neo-Nazi—like the fellow who recently charged into an Austin anarchist bookstore and threatened to burn them out—wish to visit him. When I reached O’Connell by phone, he told me, “There’s a real feel in the Austin left, especially the far-left, that this counter-resistance is becoming frighteningly organized.”And why not? They believe they’re only fighting back.A Morgoth commenter who calls himself Gentleman Jim Crow praised the “virile young Alt-Rights clashing with clapped out retrograde commies. The future belongs to us.” Another commenter responded to that, “They will still escalate.” Morgoth himself wrote, “While looking for footage of the Austin march to accompany this post I came across this footage of the violence at the March 4 Trump in Berkeley, California. . . the Trump supporters seem to be more physically capable, but the weaker leftists are prepared to up the ante by introducing cowardly devices like tasers and pepper spray.”Students of fascism will recognize the fantastical confusion of tropes: the enemy as a terrifying horde, raising the stakes ruthlessly beyond all civil bounds; but also the enemy as pitiful (“glass jawed”) weaklings—sometimes both within the same utterance. Such language is how students of fascism know that they are in its presence.Behold Based Stick ManI’ve seen the Berkeley footage Morgoth is referring to. That’s how I made the acquaintance of Based Stick Man.Berkeley’s March 4 Trump was organized by a man named Richard Black, who announced that members of the alt-right, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists were banned. Among those who did not get the memo were Moshe Daniel, who goes by the nickname “Kilt Man.” Daniel depicts himself on Facebook with a giant serrated knife and a T-shirt featuring the face of the late Chilean fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet, the legend “PHYSICAL REMOVAL,” and another of those silhouettes of people being dropped from helicopters—a Pinochet-favored method for dealing with dissenters.The march turned into a “small riot,” as gun-rights blogger Bob Owens, one of the most widely read on the web, and a cool and clear-thinking moderate, described it after reviewing the available documentation. “Both sides came to this incident prepared for a fight,” he wrote, concluding it was impossible to see “who threw the first punch.” In my mind, however, there were at least two moments where the person who threw the first punch was starkly evident. In both cases it was an individual who wore all black, from boots to baseball cap, and carried a distinctive black shield emblazoned with a “V” for victory, and an American flag. The man in black also wore a gas mask, surely in response to a widely disseminated urban legend that antifas are routinely attacking protesters with pepper spray. In one video he whacks a downed anti-Trump protester with the long wooden stick he carries (with two tiny American flags attached, thus he can call it a flagpole). In another, he can be seen smashing his stick down so hard on an unarmed protester’s head that the stick breaks in half.He’s since become a right-wing folk hero, and, after Berkeley police arrested him on several felony charges, naturally, a right-wing martyr.Morgoth declared an image of Based Stick Man in his getup to be his “picture of the week.” Wrote the proprietor of a blog called Ride the Bomb!, who calls his hero Captain America: “For those who are not aware, the Antifa jerks have been bringing flags to violent protests so that they can use the flag poles to beat Trump supporters over the head. This gentleman’s ‘flagpole’ was a great FU to all of them. My personal favorite video . . . shows Captain America breaking his ‘flagpole’ over the head of an Antifa member. . . . Let us hope now he understands that it was foolish to think that a beta male Liberal wussy boy like him who has never been in a fair fight in his life could brawl with men. I believe that going forward Captain America will serve as in [sic] inspiration for us all. More than anyone else he will be remembered as the symbol of the turning point represented by the Berkeley ‘March 4 Trump.’”Based Stick Man’s real name is Kyle Chapman of Daly City, California. On Facebook, he can be seen dipping bullets into bacon, apparently for use against Muslims. His favorite books include March of the Titans: A History of the White Race. He likes the Nordic-Germanic Front, Nordic Beauty, Soldiers of Odin USA, and RT. He also has a long criminal history, including felony convictions for charges that include robbery and grand theft. Following a crowdfunding campaign to aid with his bail and defense, he wrote, “The out pouring of support has nearly brought me to tears. I do not consider myself a hero. I’m a patriot that loves freedom and my fellow countrymen. I have long embraced my inner warrior as many of the warrior patriots that have fought along side me. Could not have done it without them. The decadence of the West has made us soft. We must reverse this if our republic is to survive. Let 3.4.17 be the beginning of a new revolution.” Among those who have joined the crowdfunding crusade is Richard Black, the organizer of March 4 Trump, who had banned white nationalists and the alt-right.Bob Owens’s post about the March 4 Trump in Berkeley is entitled “Can Trump Supporters Legally Shoot Left-wing ‘Antifa’ Attackers?” He wrote it in response to a Tweet directed to him, noting a moment where three antifas got in three light kicks at a downed Trump supporter, asking, “Looks like lethal self-defense could be justified. Opinions?” Owens assured his readers this was indubitably not so. He reviewed California’s statute on the use of deadly force, which requires a shooter to “reasonably believe” he or she “was in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily injury,” then to use “no more force than was reasonably necessary to defend against that danger,” and that “belief in future harm is not sufficient, no matter how greatly or how likely the harm is believed to be.” He concluded, “Both sides acted childishly and violently, but there was no violence that came close to justifying the use of firearms to stop a deadly force attack,” Introducing firearms, he wrote, would have been “frankly stupid, as you’re much more likely to hit innocent bystanders downrange than you are likely to hit the person you’re shooting at in such dense crowds.”To which his commenters replied: to hell with that, we’re shooting anyway. They’re not ashamed. They use their real names, and sometimes list their hometown; and, in one case (a firefighter in a small Florida town), their employment, which I confirmed. Then, they say things like this:“[W]hen the law says you must die why would you care about the law.”“It’s far better to be judged by 12, then carried by 6.”“If you physically attack someone you can legally be shot. Doesn’t matter what Kool Aid you drink.”“[I]f a person, or persons, are a threat to you or someone else . . . Act accordingly to protect life. Everything else, including the target’s well being, is a by product that is not my concern.”“If deadly force isn’t reasonable then why do the cops show up armed???”And last but not least: “But let’s face it legalities put aside, killing these ANTIFA douches would probably make America a better place.”Just chest-thumping boasts? My friend, a liberal and a Second Amendment advocate, isn’t sure what to think. He hopes “they have jobs and mortgages and kids and so on . . . They have way too much to lose to start shooting at anybody.”“But then there’s another part of me that knows how men (and they’re mostly men) of this type are. When you have that much invested in some hardware, and they do have a lot invested as a percentage of income, then you want to use it.”Maybe it’s all just idle Internet chatter. But didn’t they used to say that about Munich beer halls once, too?<div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_story" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="author-bio">Rick Perlstein is the Washington Spectator's national correspondent and the author of "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" and "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" (2008).</div></div>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/far-right-white-supremacists-berkeley-protests-antifa-trumpSome people on this side came in from other parts of the country. A white man named Ian Herrin tells me he came from Colorado Springs to be "part of the movement." He says he was inspired to come by Lauren Southern, an alt-right activist and writer. Southern is walking around in a helmet surrounded by a security entourage of Proud Boys, a group of self-proclaimed "Western chauvinists" led by Vice magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes. I approach a man dressed head to toe in camouflage, who wears a mask reminiscent of Jason from Friday the 13th. Mike won't tell me his last name, but he says he's from Orange County, California, and a member of the West Coast Patriots Three Percent, a militia-type prepper group that does armed paramilitary training. "The last rally when they <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/uc-berkeley-riot-milo-yiannopoulos" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0% 90%; background-image: url(" sites="sites" all="all" assets="assets" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" white="white" px="px" font-family="font-family" calluna="Calluna" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">shut down Milo</a>, it kinda pissed me off," he tells me. "Everyone has a right to say what they want to say, regardless of whether you agree with it or not. That's what the Second Amendment—uh, First Amendment—is for."...---https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/14/meet-lauren-southern-latest-alt-right-media-troll-gain-access-white-house-press-briefing/215674<div class="item-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 30px 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both;">Lauren Southern, a Canadian “alt-right” media figure, is the latest troll to gain access to the White House press briefing. Southern has a record of making incendiary remarks, denying the existence of rape culture, and demonizing racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. Southern is just the latest of the fringe, sycophantic “alt-right” media personalities that the White House is letting into its press briefings.</div><div class="item-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">Canadian "Alt-Right" Fringe Media Figure Is The Newest Troll To Gain Access To The White House Press Briefing</h2>Canadian Fringe Media Figure Lauren Southern Gains Access To White House Press Briefing. On March 13, Canadian “alt-right” darling Lauren Southern tweeted from inside the White House press room, reporting that she had access to the press briefing. Her attendance was also documented in the White House’s live stream of the briefing. 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style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: text-bottom;">1,468</span><span class="u-hiddenVisually" style="position: absolute !important; overflow: hidden !important; width: 1px !important; height: 1px !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px) !important;">1,468 Retweets</span></a></li><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--retweet web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:retweet" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">&nbsp;</a><li class="Tweet-action" style="display: inline-block; margin-left: 14px;"><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--retweet web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:retweet" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" 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text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:heart" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:heart" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:heart" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=841325632831201280" data-scribe="element:heart" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;" /><a class="TweetAction 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Minorities</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Southern Gained Prominence As An “Alt-Right” Media Personality.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Southern was formerly “one of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> most popular hosts for Canada’s alt-right media torchbearer, the Rebel.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”&nbsp;She announced on March 9 that she was leaving Rebel Media and, in her words, “going independent” to counter “the mass amount of left wing media we have that pretends to be impartial in Canada.” [Vice News Canada,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://news.vice.com/story/lauren-southern-is-the-alt-rights-not-so-secret-weapon" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/10/17</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Southern Spread Unverified Reddit Rumors About The Quebec Mosque Shooting To Falsely Paint Two Innocent Syrians As Suspects.</span>&nbsp;BuzzFeed reported that Southern was among several right-wing Twitter personalities who cited “police radio chatter” to claim suspects for the shooting were “Bashir al-Taweed and Hassan Matti, Syrians who entered Canada as refugees last week.” Police chatter frequently involves the rapid exchange of information which may not be accurate, and in this case it was not -- the actual shooter was Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian, “and there is no evidence that police ever investigated” anyone named Bashir al-Taweed or Hassan Matti.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> [BuzzFeed,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/quebec-shooting-hoaxes-and-bullshit?utm_term=.cr5bnQLg3#.kuQ41R0em" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/31/17</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Southern Gained Clout After Posting An Anti-Feminist Video In Which &nbsp;She Said </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Rape Is More Of A Problem For Men Than Women</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a viral video posted by Southern titled “Why I Am Not A Feminist,” Southern dismissed the notion of rape culture by noting that men are raped too.&nbsp;She also posited that feminism isn’t a movement for equality because it doesn’t address the problems men face, and accused feminists of “creating a world of reverse sexism.” [Rebel Media,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNErQFmOwq0" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/8/15</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Breitbart Championed Southern’s Image After She Trolled Protesters By Yelling “There Are Only Two Genders.”&nbsp;</span>Southern mocked feminist protesters at a demonstration against libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Augustus Sol Invictus, arguing that people are too quick to believe rape victims’ charges without proof and yelling, “There are only two genders,” male and female. Breitbart boosted Southern’s celebrity by casting her as “a fearless nemesis of the regressive left.” Breitbart reported on the confrontation and linked to Southern’s Rebel Media “debut video explaining why she isn’t a feminist.” [Breitbart News,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/05/libertarian-lauren-southern-assaulted-by-anti-fascist-protesters/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/5/16</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Southern Denounced Black Lives Matter For Its “Fascistic Tendencies.”&nbsp;</span>Vice reported that Southern “has called Black Lives Matter a ‘divisive, violent movement that has fascistic tendencies,’ falsely claiming they’ve caused more deaths in the last 30 years than the Ku Klux Klan.” [Vice News Canada,&nbsp;<a href="https://news.vice.com/story/lauren-southern-is-the-alt-rights-not-so-secret-weapon" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/10/17</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Southern Was Suspended As A Candidate Of The Libertarian Party Of Canada After Trolling Feminist Demonstrators.</span>&nbsp;Southern downplayed the prevalence of rape during a Slut Walk protest by holding a sign that read “There is no rape culture in the west.” She went on to comment, “Rapes do happen, but the ... vast minority &nbsp;of men and women are rapists.” In response to her incendiary remarks and antagonistic tactics, Southern was suspended from being a candidate for the Canadian Libertarian Party. From a June 9, 2015, Rebel Media video:</font></p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LAUREN SOUTHERN: I just got in a huge confrontation with the Slut Walk, which we are following right now. Essentially I held a sign that said, “We are not living in a rape culture in the West,” which we are not. It is intellectually dishonest to think that we are living in a rape culture. Rapes do happen, but major -- the minority, the vast minority, of men and women are rapists, and when we do find out they are rapists, they go to prison. They are punished. Whereas in Third World countries and other places, men can get away with rape there. And it’s insane to focus on this one issue and say we are living in a rape culture. Rapists don’t get high fives. We don’t have the government funding rapists. Even men get fired from their jobs just for making rape jokes, not even raping. So to say we live in a rape culture is, quite frankly, ridiculous. [Rebel Media,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qv-swaYWL0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/9/15</a>; Breitbart News,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/02/canadian-libertarians-in-revolt-after-party-leadership-suspends-anti-feminist-candidate-lauren-southern/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/2/15</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[img]</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House Press Room Has Become A Sanctuary For "Alt-Right," Pro-Trump Fringe Media Personalities</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Gateway Pundit Now Has A Spot In The White House Press Briefing Room.&nbsp;</span>Jim Hoft, “the internet’s most hapless political blogger,” and his website The Gateway Pundit have been granted access to the White House press briefing and have their own correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, there to “ask fawning questions that support President Donald Trump and troll the other reporters.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/13/dangerous-troll-now-reporting-white-house/215320" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/13/17</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/13/pro-trump-correspondent-explicitly-white-house-troll-journalists/215650" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/13/17</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Infowars’ Alex Jones: “We’ve Already Been Offered” White House Press Credentials.&nbsp;</span>Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who believes both the Sandy Hook massacre and the 9/11 terrorist attacks were perpetrated by the government, stated on January 25 that his fringe website Infowars had been offered White House press credentials. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://mediamatters.org/video/2017/01/26/alex-jones-says-infowars-has-been-invited-trump-s-white-house-press-briefings/215136" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/26/17</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">An Author At The Federalist Papers Project Was Invited Into A Briefing Via Skype And Got To Ask A Question.&nbsp;</span>Jason Stevens, who writes for the hyperpartisan right-wing Federalist Papers Project -- which traffics in clickbait headlines, racist content, and misleading reporting -- got to ask a question via Skype at a White House press briefing in February. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/14/10-headlines-federalist-papers-project-which-white-house-just-invited-daily-briefing/215345" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/14/17</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Laura Ingraham’s LifeZette Got To Ask The First Question At A Briefing.</span>&nbsp;Laura Ingraham’s website LifeZette, which traffics in hyperpartisan reporting and “frequently posts articles of dubious veracity,” got to ask the first question during a White House press briefing in January. [The Intercept,&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/26/16</a>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vanity Fair</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/spicer-white-house-lifezette" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/25/17</a>]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Breitbart.com Has &nbsp;Deep Ties To The White House.&nbsp;</span>Breitbart.com used to be run by chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who called the website “the platform for the alt-right.” White House press secretary Sean Spicer granted Breitbart’s Charlie Spiering an exclusive interview, and Breitbart reporter Matthew Boyle got to ask the first question during Trump’s first presidential press conference and has been called on during other White House press briefings. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/09/sean-spicer-grants-exclusive-interview-breitbartcom/215286" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/9/17</a>, Twitter,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/826503022918434816" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/31/17</a>]</font></p></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">kpfa</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-17-2017/</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On today’s show we begin with guest&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mike Kohn,&nbsp;</span>Reporter with KPFA News that does a report on Berkeley Rallies. Saturday April the 15th a “Patriot day” was organised by the Liberty Revival Alliance to enhance the right to free speech which garnered attention from Antifa.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12.5px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then, we speak to&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kate Hennessy</span>, she is the granddaughter of Dorothy Day and wrote a book about her grandmother’s life called:&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty</em>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://itsgoingdown.org/berkeley-violent-trump-supporters-merging-alt-right/</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no link</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kyle Sean Chapman aka “Based Stick Man”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Twitter: https://twitter.com/helpkylechapman</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyle.chapman.543792</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“THIS WHOLE EXPERIENCE IS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING. THE OUT POURING OF SUPPORT HAS NEARLY BROUGHT ME TO TEARS. I DO NOT CONSIDER MYSELF A HERO. I’M A PATRIOT THAT LOVES FREEDOM AND MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. I HAVE LONG EMBRACED MY INNER WARRIOR AS MANY OF THE WARRIOR PATRIOTS THAT FOUGHT ALONG SIDE ME. I COULD NOT OF DONE IT WITHOUT THEM. THE DECADENCE OF THE WEST HAS MADE US SOFT. WE MUST REVERSE THIS IF OUR REPUBLIC IS TO SURVIVE. LET 3.4.17 BE THE BEGINNING OF A NEW REVOLUTION.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-KYLE CHAPMAN, MARCH 7TH ON FACEBOOK</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chapman attacking protesters with pepper spray.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chapman attacking protesters with pepper spray.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kyle Sean Chapman (11/12/1975), also known as the “Alt-Knight” or “Based Stick Man” by his fans, is the far-Right Trump supporter that has been celebrated by Alt-Right Nazis and Trump supporters alike for violently attacking anti-fascist protesters at the March 4 Trump rally in Berkeley.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A photo album from Chapman's profile showing bullets being dipped in bacon oil to kill Muslims.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A photo album from Chapman’s Facebook profile depicting bullets being dipped in bacon oil to kill Muslims.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chapman attended the rally ready and looking for a fight based on the weapons and protective gear he carried, including a dagger, folding knife, long stick, spiked ring, shield, and pepper spray. He can be seen in various videos instigating violence against anti-fascist protesters. This included an assault captured in a widely circulated video showing Chapman hitting a protester in the head with such force that it broke off part of his stick. He also supplied weapons to other fascist protesters including pepper spray which was also used against protesters and is believed to have caused the friendly fire amongst pro-Trump protesters- including the old man in the widely circulated image suffering from pepper spray.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chapman with a spiked ring and pepper spray standing next to Quillinan</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Soon after Chapman’s arrest, anti-fascist researchers uncovered a wealth of information on him. This includes his extensive criminal history which features convictions for felonies in Texas and California for charges including robbery, grand theft, and the purchase and possession of a shotgun and SKS military caliber rifle from an illegal arms dealer. Despite the Right championing so-called law and order and espousing tough-on-crime rhetoric, support for Chapman has been almost universal amongst pro-Trump and fascists activists alike....</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://itsgoingdown.org/berkeley-violent-trump-supporters-merging-alt-right/</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no link</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Berkeley: Violent Trump Supporters Are Merging with the Alt-Right</b></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Northern California Anti-Racist Action NoCARA - March 16, 201710040</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Approximately 75 people showed up to the ‘March on Berkeley,’ on March 4th, 2017,</b> an event organized by Richard Black of Southern California, to support the Presidency of Donald Trump. The march was to coincide with a national day of action planned in support of Trump, who faces a crisis of legitimacy and drastically dropping support in polls. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In Berkeley however, the Right originally intended for this event to be a kind of follow up or revenge for what happened at UC Berkeley on February 1st, 2017, when the community shut down Milo Yiannopoulos from giving a speech, (the event was also organized by the Berkeley College Republicans who have ties to neo-Nazis), before it even began. However as we got closer to March 4th, and as Milo’s career tanked in the wake of anti-consent and pro-pedophilia comments, plans changed and the theme of the event shifted from “free speech” to supporting Donald Trump.</span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This development can be seen in tweets by organizer Richard Black, and is most clear in the changes made to the social media flyer that organizers produced for the event. The original flyer, which appeared shortly after the events of February 1st, depicted an event supporting ‘free speech’ and featured groups like the Proud Boys, a group of ‘Alt-Lite‘ Trump supporters and ‘Western Chauvinists’ led by Gavin McInnes. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Richard Black hinted that Milo Yiannopoulos, Mike Cernovich, and Gavin McInnes would all be special guests, but this was not to be.</span></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Black was unsuccessful in joining a local Proud Boys chapter and Yiannopoulos, Cernovich, and McInnes all declined involvement and disassociated themselves from the event on twitter. After this, Black reframed the event as simply a pro-Donald Trump rally. To make matters more confusing, Richard Black himself identifies (or at least did) as an “anarcho”-capitalist, (to be clear, we do not consider ‘anarcho’-capitalism a part of, or form of anarchism) and his twitter banner used to feature a yellow and black image. Black even went so far as to bring a yellow and black flag with him to the rally. Despite Black’s love of markets totally free of the State, he somehow also strangely supports Trump, or at least is comfortable using Trump as a way to organize other sections of the Right, including sections of the far-Right and Alt-Right. Since March 4th, Black has changed his twitter banner to a picture of an old world statue, commonplace among the Alt-Right, probably signalling his turn toward it.</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard’s March 4th event ended up with no speakers other than himself. And, despite his public distancing from the Alt-Right, he is currently using the Alt-right website Wesearchr to fundraise for future organizing efforts in the hopes that he can quit his job and become a full-time political organizer. Ironic, given the unfounded right-wing conspiracy that the Left is full of professional paid protesters and the fact that Black is an “anarcho”-capitalist but is hoping that mutual aid from fascists will allow him to stop being a wage slave. This has led some in his own political networks to question his integrity and motives for organizing these rallies.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Richard Black’</b>s goals and priorities couldn’t be any more clear. He seems to be motivated by a desire for fame and attention, and cares very little for the people he is calling on to help him get it. Richard abandoned his friends and headed right back to southern California once he realized he was in over his head. Back at home, Richard fielded interviews and collected donations, none of which were shared with any of the arrested or injured on his side, and there were many. Everyone else was left on their own, except for Kyle Chapman, whose donation pages Richard shared in hopes of bailing Chapman out of jail as soon as possible. It’s not surprising that Richard would put the effort into fundraising for Chapman and maintaining a link to him, as “Based Stick Man” has received for more fame and attention in a matter of days than Black has been able to garner in months.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">C6Il6FZU4AETn--Richard Black with Eddy Brock on March 4, 2017</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eric Zarahn aka “Maced Piss Man”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Eric David Zarahn </b>(47) is the tall Trump supporter seen in the widely circulated and thoroughly meme’d images with a bloody face and urine soaked pants. Despite the media casting Zarahn as a victim of BPD “standing down,” video and images from March 4th and earlier events from around the Bay Area reveal him to be a violent racist seeking confrontations and initiating fights.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">zarahn_piss</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On March 4th, Zarahn was seen aggressively interacting with anti-fascist protesters early on, to the point he began shoving people. This is when he was initially pepper sprayed, and had to be treated by fellow right-wing protesters. Not content with that alone, Zarahn decided to get back into the fray, this time with his face masked up with a white t-shirt.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zarahn masked up with a t-shirt</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As tensions continued to mount and further clashes broke out, Zarahn was seen violently attacking anti-fascist protesters, and at one point, even placing one in a headlock and attempting to choke them. This was met with a swift response from anti-fascists who freed the individual, and in the process, left him with a bloody face and urine running down the front of his pants. Zarahn was later seen indignantly crying to the media and police, and bemoaning his fraudulent victimhood which the media has been all too eager to uncritically repeat at face value.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">zarahn_crying_to_cop</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This isn’t the first time Zarahn has been spotted engaging in violent behavior and seeking out a fight. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On June 2nd, 2016, at the ill fated Trump campaign rally in San Jose which saw anti-racist protesters violently clashing with Trump supporters, Zarahn was seen in running around in a fighting stance and trying to attack groups of youth of color. In 2014, he participated a racist rally meant to intimidate and bully Mexican youth at a Morgan Hill high school into not celebrating Cinco de Mayo.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Another fight that Zarahn lost. (<b>San Jose,</b> 6/2/2016)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A look into Zarahn’s social media and internet presence paints a picture of someone ideologically transitioning from more conventional patriotic and pro-America forms of thinly veiled and socially acceptable racism to a more overt conspiracy-oriented and Alt-Right white nationalist worldview. Zarahn’s Youtube account subscriptions include Red Ice TV, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Stefan Molyneux. He also started a petition that called for the death penalty for anyone engaged in “jihad,” and has many Amazon reviews on Islamophobic and other conspiracy material on Islam.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zarahn's Youtube account subcriptions</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zarahn’s Youtube account subscriptions. Includes a variety of Alt-Right and far-Right staples like Alex Jones and Stefan Molyneux, along with neo-Nazi fare such as Millennial Woes and Red Ice TV.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Despite Zarahn’s inclination towards conspiracies, he holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania, and at one time taught at Colombia University. He also engaged in pro-Israel and Islamophobic activism using his position at the university. Zarah has also worked for tech companies such as Microsoft, and currently lives in west San Jose.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zarahn at the ant-Cinco de Mayo rally bullying Mexican high school students in 2014</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Zarahn at the ant-Cinco de Mayo rally bullying Mexican high school students in 2014.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It’s worth noting the fact that like Zarahn, a large number of fascist and white supremacist activists in the contemporary moment are from educated and affluent middle class and professional backgrounds in “STEM” and other highly paid fields. Counter to the continually perpetuated images of the uneducated working-class neo-Nazi skinhead or robed KKK member as the typical present day racists, some of the most fervent and vocal racists of today are software developers and engineers in technology fields which are continually celebrated as ushering in a more progressive, egalitarian, and interconnected world through tech. A standout example of this was when Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff network of white supremacist podcasts was exposed as Mike Peinovich, a software developer. While a deeper analysis is beyond the scope of this piece, beneath the seemingly crisp, transparent, and immaculately designed user interfaces of Silicon Valley’s “disruptive” tech innovations lie the coercive and surveilling systems of profit extraction conceived, developed and tested by the likes of Eric Zarahn.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/identity-evropa-mapping-alt-right-cadre/">https://itsgoingdown.org/identity-evropa-mapping-alt-right-cadre/</a></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">From&nbsp;</em><a href="https://nocara.blackblogs.org/2016/12/09/identity-evropa-mapping-the-alt-right-cadre/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Northern California Anti-Racist Action (NoCARA)</strong></a></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Editor’s Note:&nbsp;</strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Since this article came out, a local newspaper ran an article on&nbsp;<a href="http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/identity-revealed-bay-area-neo-nazi-hid-in-plain-sight/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Parker Anthony Wilson</a>&nbsp;of Identity Evropa, who was going by Mark Bidwell on twitter. Wilson had many years invested into the white nationalist movement and also worked at an anti-immigrant non-profits, CAPS.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several weeks ago, the National Policy Institute (NPI) held its annual conference in Washington DC, which ended with NPI head Richard Spencer declaring, “Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail Victory!” as people in the audience threw up their arms in fascist salutes. While images of white supremacists Sieg-Heiling went viral online, it did nothing to stem the tide of media spotlight that the mainstream bestowed upon Spencer. After the conference, white supremacists on the podcast, “<a href="https://radio.therightstuff.biz/2016/11/26/episode-23-alt-light-gas-the-kikes-its-npi-oh-my/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Intersectional Alt-Right</a>” with Andrew Anglin (of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Daily Stormer)</em>&nbsp;and Jazzhands McFeels discussed the event and talked about how a gap was widening between the “older vanguard” (like Jared Taylor of American Renaissance and Peter Brimelow of V-DARE) and the “new generation,” (headed by Richard Spencer and many others who grew out of the Alt-Right subculture of Neo-Nazi podcasts and memes). But another key player was emerging: <b>Identity Evropa.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a group that stands poised to take the biggest advantage of the growing Alt-Right subculture and ‘buzz,’ and is<b> currently headed by CSU Stanislaus student and Oakdale, CA, resident, Nathan Damigo. </b>Identity Evropa presents itself through social media as a large organization with an established network on campuses across the US. At this point, we think it’s important to take the potential size of IE as reality and organize accordingly, however we find that a select tight cadre seems to be doing much of ‘the work.’</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organization itself is the result of a&nbsp;<a href="http://idavox.com/index.php/2015/10/15/national-youth-front-forced-to-change-name-angelo-john-gage-is-out-as-chairman-the-new-guy-is-an-ex-con-with-a-hell-of-a-story/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">rebranding of The National Youth Front</a>, also headed by Nathan Damigo.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The National Youth Front served as the youth wing of the Neo-Nazi American Freedom Party, which is headed by long-time white supremacist William Johnson, wealthy corporate lawyer. This previous and more open Neo-Nazi formation has benefited IE; For example, IE’s Facebook page is simply the old account&nbsp;for The National Youth Front with a new&nbsp;name. Much of IE’s recent efforts have gone into massive road trips, in which cadre members have traveled around their respective regions putting up posters and stickers, and in some cases attempting to engage with students. By and large these efforts have been thwarted; from their failed attempt at holding a rally in SF to hundreds of posters and stickers being destroyed. IE also </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">spends a lot of energy on inreach into campus groups such as the college Republican clubs and other white nationalist organizations, using Trump’s campaign as a foot in the door much like ‘Alt-Lite’ speakers such as Milo Yiannopoulos have done.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> We expect that this cross pollination will continue into 2017; especially as the Alt-Right continues to fracture and splinter over part of the movement’s open embrace of Nazism.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.counter-currents.com/2016/10/identity-europa-in-san-francisco/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">According to an interview with Nathan Damigo on Counter-Currents</a>, there also appear to be some IE members who are involved but wish to stay off the radar about their activity, as evidenced by the amount of anonymous Alt-Right twitter and facebook accounts; distinguishable only through their variations of the “Pepe the Frog” meme. According to Damigo, IE does have a wide network of IE members across various campuses in the US and it is growing, especially as IE makes more inroads into College Republican clubs. We think anti-fascists should take Damigo at his word and act accordingly, while also focusing directly on the leadership cadre of IE and exposing their Alt-Right base of support when able.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It must also be noted that Identity Evropa caters towards a very middle-class, (as in Abercrombie store manager, not truck driver) if not upper middle-class audience. The group has strict membership rules, such as no visible hand and neck tattoos. This is important because the ‘niche market’ they are attempting to reach is exclusively young, “professional” men of college age (and who are enrolled in higher education) that are unhappy with 8 years of Obama and excited about the Trump campaign.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Identity Evropa is also one of the only Alt-Right groups to attempt to hit the streets and create an actual organization that recruits members and builds a base of support. These tactics are more commonly seen in traditional Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups such as Matthew Heimbach’s Traditionalist Workers Party and the like. By contrast, groups with Alt-Right branding tend to organize online. Like Heimbach, Damigo claims that these organizations are growing in numbers (which we don’t doubt). At the same time, they haven’t yet been able to muster much of a force on the streets, although this is the direction they know that they are headed in, along with influencing the Trump administration.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As our report will show, their leadership cadre is small and also very exposed, although we hope that this report will help us gather even more information on others within leadership – full names, schools, jobs, etc. In sharing this information, we hope that the wider anarchist and anti-fascist networks we are part of can begin organizing resistance to this<b> new breed of fascist that comes in khaki and polo.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></font></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

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To use the internet in 2017, you need to have some level of familiarity with the tropes and signposts of the type of trolling that comes from the alt-right movement and various flavors. But most normal humans, rightfully, run the fuck away as soon as they see a Pepe. This guide is for you (presumably, a normal human).

Some of these terms are not totally specific to the alt-right, but come from the soupy mix of 4chan, Reddit, men’s rights activists, Gamergaters, pickup artists, and white supremacist and Nazi sites that eventually gave birth to the alt-right. Imagine all these things as different bubbles in a Venn diagram with the alt-right in the middle.

This guide aims to help explain some of those weird images and words you may have seen popping up in comments sections or on social media.

(((Echo))) Parentheses

When used around someone's name, a means of indicating that they are Jewish. The "echoes" are a reference to some old gobbledygook about Jews "echoing through history," but the parentheses are a handy tool on Twitter for anti-Semites to signal to one another when someone they dislike is Jewish. Once the tactic was exposed, some Jews and non-Jews started adding them to their own Twitter usernames as a way to subvert the practice and make it less powerful.

#AnimeRight

Alt-righters who use anime avatars on Twitter and other online spaces. The kinds of people who hang out in spaces like 4chan or 8chan tend to also be big anime fans. Like many of the items on this list, this idea occupies a constantly moving point on the irony spectrum.

#HWNDU

The hashtag used by Shia LaBeouf's “He Will Not Divide Us” livestream project, wherein people could go up to a camera outside a museum in Queens and say an anti-Trump message. This quickly became an IRL trolling destination for the alt-right.

14,88

A sort of code used among neo-Nazis and white supremacists. “14” stands for the number of words in the white supremacist creed, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” “88” comes from the fact that H is the eighth letter in the alphabet: “HH” means “Heil Hitler.” Seriously, it’s that stupid. You would most often see this used in usernames or handles — something like @examplename88.

Alpha male, beta male, etc.

A ranking system based on perceived masculinity. It originated on bodybuilding forums and pickup artist sites and has been adopted by right-wing trolls. Obviously, the alt-right are alphas, and people who disagree are betas.

Baneposting

A convoluted meme about Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. In the opening scene, Bane is brought onto an airplane by a CIA officer played by the guy who plays Littlefinger in Game of Thrones. While Bane, the anarchy-loving villain, seems like an obvious idol for 4chan, they became weirdly enamored with the CIA agent, partly over an awkwardly homoerotic piece of dialogue (CIA: “You’re a big guy.” Bane: “...for you.”) While Baneposting isn’t explicitly alt-right, it’s bled over. For example, a guy dressed as the CIA agent showed up at the counterprotest of Shia LaBeouf's anti-Trump art project “He Will Not Divide Us.”

Bernard the Polar Bear

A forced meme that a polar bear cartoon purports to be an alt-right symbol. There’s a real cartoon show from South Korea about a polar bear named Bernard, but this isn’t totally related. The meme is basically fake and spread only in hopes that people will fall for it. Thing is, if you force a meme hard enough, sometimes it works. So far, this is still pretty obscure.

BTFO

"Blown the fuck out" — similar to "owned." To be publicly humiliated, particularly by losing an online argument. Another more obscure version of this is "blacked the fuck out," a reference to Blacked.com, a pornographic website specializing in videos in which white women have sex with black men for the first time.

Bogdanoff Brothers

An ironic conspiracy theory about a pair of French celebrities. Igor Yourievitch Osten-Sacken-Bogdanoff and Grichka Yourievitch Osten-Sacken-Bogdanoff did a popular science TV show in France in the ’90s, and more recently had extensive plastic surgery (think Jocelyn Wildenstein). The meme is that they are secretly the masterminds and leaders of the alt-right (they are not). It’s vaguely like pretending Tara Reid is the puppet master of the government.

Bogpilled

To become aware ("pilled," a term derived from "redpilled," described below) of the Bogdanoff brothers. This is extremely jokey and ironic, and involves pretending that Donald Trump alluded to the conspiracy when he said the phrase "bogged down in conflict all over the place" in a speech.

Centipedes

A self-adopted term for some Trump supporters. It’s a reference to a YouTube series called "Can't Stump the Trump" that mashed up footage of President Trump in a Republican debate with audio from a nature documentary about a centipede killing a tarantula.

Cuck

Short for "cuckold," or a person who watches someone have sex with their significant other. It's the most common insult among the online far-right.

Cuckservative

A portmanteau of cuck and conservative, used for old-guard Republicans who aren’t on board with Trump’s agenda. Think John McCain or Mitt Romney.

Dark Enlightenment

An anti-democratic philosophy that believes in a return to monarchism, traditional gender roles, rejection of egalitarianism, and a libertarian economic model.

Discord

A popular chat application for far-right groups.

Feelsman meme

A black-and-white cartoon man who is the victim of Pepe the Frog's pranks. Feelsman is a sad loser, a beta to Pepe's alpha. The name "feels guys" comes from the meme's early beginnings when his sad face would mean "know that feel, bro."

Frog Twitter

The alt-right on Twitter. It’s a reference to Pepe the Frog.

Gassed

A term for "blocked" or "banned." It's a reference to the gas chambers used to kill millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

God Emperor

A nickname for Donald Trump.

High Energy

A complimentary term that references how Donald Trump calls losers like Jeb Bush "low energy" and refers to himself as “high energy.”

Incel

"Involuntary celibate" and "voluntary celibate." A volcel is someone who is celibate by choice, but an incel is someone who wants to have sex, but can't find anyone to actually do it with. These terms get used a lot in the forums and subreddits to describe pickup artists and men's rights activists, who are known as the "manosphere." Think Elliot Rodger, the gunman who shot and killed people on his college campus and left a manifesto about how he was angry at the women at his school for not dating him.

Kek

A replacement for "LOL." If you're an Alliance player in the online multiplayer game World of Warcraft and you type "LOL" to a member of the Horde faction, it'll be read as "kek."

The Cult of Kek/Kek the religion

A joke based on the fact that there is an ancient Egyptian deity named Kek, who is supposedly a god of chaos and darkness and just so happens to be sometimes depicted as a frog — like Pepe. The joke is that Pepe is a modern incarnation of Kek, and fans of Pepe worship him.

Lügenpresse

German for "lying press." The term predates the Nazi period, but was used heavily in their propaganda to discredit the media. The word has been revived by the alt-right to describe the mainstream media as purveyors of fake news.

Meme Magic

A term for when the influence of internet memes breaks through and causes real life consequences. The day after the 2016 election, 4chan users described getting President Trump elected as an example of "meme magic." Sometimes related to the whole "Kek religion" thing.

Moon Man

A giant moonfaced guy from a 1980s McDonald's ad campaign, now a racist symbol, partly because of the fact that he looks a little bit like he's wearing a KKK hood. For years, it kicked around as a low-level meme where the Moon Man was combined with rap songs, but it gained steam recently by becoming completely racist. The absurdity of an obscure fast-food ad swearing allegiance to the KKK is not lost on the alt-right. The irony is thick here, but so is the actual racism.

NEET

An acronym for someone "Not in Education, Employment, or Training." Basically, someone who lives in their mom's basement. It's a self-deprecating joke by people on 4chan and elsewhere that they’re all basement-dwelling NEETs whose mothers cook them chicken tenders for dinner. This isn't specific to the alt-right, but it’s very popular there.

Neoreactionism or NRx

An alt-right ideology variation. As Rosie Gray describes in The Atlantic, "the alt-right can be seen as a political movement; neoreaction, which adherents refer to as NRx, is a philosophy. At the core of that philosophy is a rejection of democracy and an embrace of autocratic rule." A lot of the big proponents of this are popular on Twitter, and some of them are fairly ironic about it.

New Balance

Comfortable sneakers. During the election, the CEO of New Balance came out with a pro-Trump statement, which made the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer declare them "the official shoe of white people."

Normies

Normal people, as opposed to internet trolls.

Pepe the Frog

The meme that launched a thousand Twitter blocks. A cartoon smiling frog created innocuously by comic artist Matt Furie that has, over time, become the official mascot of far-right extremism in the US and parts of Europe.

Redpilled

A reference to Neo choosing to see the truth by taking the "red pill" from Morpheus in The Matrix. Being redpilled means you've become aware of the truth about society (which, according to them, means typically alt-right viewpoints). The term redpilled predates the alt-right, and has been a staple of the soup of men's rights/Gamergate/pickup artist/Reddit/4chan internet for a while.

REEEEEEE!

An angry shrieking sound. Used ironically in the voice of a typical 4chan user. It's part of a larger joke that most people on 4chan are NEETs who live with their parents, play video games all day, eat only chicken nuggets, watch anime, and are on the autism spectrum. Typically, it's used to show anger at "normies" for invading their online spaces. There are memes of Pepe the Frog making that noise when he's angry.

Robot

A term for the users of 4chan's /r9k/ messageboard. Extremely withdrawn social outcasts who see themselves as unfeeling robots. Most of the time they just post about how they can't get girlfriends.

Shadilay

A bad Italo-disco song from 1986. Someone in the alt-right discovered an obscure track called "Shadilay" by a band called P.E.P.E. (as in Pepe the Frog, the alt-right cartoon mascot). The song itself has nothing to do with the alt-right except the band name, but in a truly weird twist, the record has a cartoon frog on the vinyl label.

Shitposting

A classic forum term for flooding a thread with worthless or annoying posts, either because you're bad at posting or because you do it on purpose to troll. The alt-right uses shitposting as a derailing tactic, kind of like a digital filibuster. The term is used flexibly to sometimes just describe any kind of online posting: tweets, memes, etc.

SJW

An acronym for social justice warrior, a pejorative term for people concerned with feminism, civil rights, and liberal ideology.

Snowflake

Short for "special snowflake," an insult to SJWs. The joke is that that they're fragile and coddled millennials who were raised on participation trophies and being told they were special.

The Overton Window

A general concept to describe the limits ("window") of what the public finds acceptable. Some pundits have suggested that Trump has shifted the scope of this window, and that things like the "grab her by the pussy" comment would have previously been career-ending for a politician. The alt-right believes it's helping shift the Overton window for the public by making the movement's extreme speech normalized, and in its wake has opened up the path for Trump.

Trash Dove

A popular Facebook sticker of a purple pigeon (aka Trash Dove). Trolls on 8chan decided to spread a rumor that the pigeon sticker is actually a pro-Nazi symbol. This is a good example of the thorny layers of irony in these memes: Trash Dove was created purely as a joke to trick people (especially the media) into believing this innocuous cartoon was a Nazi symbol, but then… it kind of became true. If enough people believe something is a Nazi symbol, then that's what it is. This is kind of like what happened with Pepe, an image that had no inherent tie to racism or politics until people started using it that way.

White Genocide

A conspiracy theory among white supremacists that immigration, globalism, and abortions rights are part of a larger conspiracy to exterminate white people.

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Breitbart Under Bannon: How Breitbart Became A Favorite News Source for Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists

March 01, 2017

Keegan Hankes

Breitbart News — a once unexceptional outlet in the right wing media constellation — became a leading voice in conservative media by 2016. Under the leadership of Stephen K. Bannon, it was an early booster of President Donald Trump’s campaign which in turn cited Breitbart more than any other source. Leaders of the white nationalist movement weren’t surprised.

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HATEWATCH

‘Alt-Right’ Fears ‘Deep State’ Retribution Against Trump

February 27, 2017

Ryan Lenz

As the so-called 'Deep State' turns into a real point of political discussion, the white nationalist 'Alt-Right' sees in its shadow an effort to undermine an administration whose ear they feel they have.

HATEWATCH

How Stephen Bannon Made Milo Dangerous

February 23, 2017

Keegan Hankes

“Breitbart is a company staffed almost entirely by Jews,” said Milo Yiannopolous last November when asked about accusations of anti-Semitism made against his former boss, Stephen Bannon. “I am a gay Jew, and he made me into a star.”

Milo Yiannopolous, Stephen Bannon

HATEWATCH

Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart's Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language

February 21, 2017

Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan

As President Trump is pressured to substantively respond to the rise in anti-Semitic incidents since his election, a new analysis reveals that Breitbart News under Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon fostered a comment section — a sample of Breitbart’s readership — that increasingly reflected language specific to the white nationalist “alt-right” movement, including anti-Semitic sentiment.

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HATEWATCH

Eye of the Stormer

February 09, 2017

Keegan Hankes

Propelled by the Trump campaign and a new focus on the 'alt-right,' the Daily Stormer is now the top hate site in America.

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The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/richard-bertrand-spencer-0" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" transition="transition" all="all" s="s" style=" font-family: ;">Richard Bertrand Spencer</a>, who heads the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/white-nationalist" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" transition="transition" all="all" s="s" style=" font-family: ;">white nationalist</a> think tank known as the National Policy Institute, to describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on “white identity” and the preservation of “Western civilization.” In 2010, Spencer, who had done stints as an editor of The American Conservative and Taki’s Magazine, launched the Alternative Right blog, where he worked to refine the movement’s ideological tenets.

Spencer describes the Alt Right as a big-tent ideology that blends the ideas of neo-reactionaries (NRx-ers), who advocate a return to an antiquated, pseudo-libertarian government that supports “traditional western civilization”; “archeofuturists,” those who advocate for a return to “traditional values” without jettisoning the advances of society and technology; human biodiversity adherents (HBDers) and “race realists,” people who generally adhere to “scientific racism”; and other extreme-right ideologies. Alt-Right adherents stridently reject egalitarianism and universalism.

At the heart of the Alt-Right is a break with establishment conservatism that favors experimentation with the ideas of the French New Right; libertarian thought as exemplified by former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas); anarcho-capitalism, which advocates individual sovereignty and open markets in place of an organized state; Catholic traditionalism, which seeks a return to Roman Catholicism before the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council; and other ideologies. It is a reaction to the conservative establishment as exemplified by the nomination of Barry Goldwater for the presidency in 1964. According to Spencer, that solidified several aspects of contemporary conservatism, including an emphasis on liberty, freedom, free markets and capitalism. Spencer considers these ideas to be “anti-ideals” and says the Alt-Right is redefining categories for a new kind of conservative.

Spencer describes Alt-Right adherents as younger people, often recent college graduates, who recognize the “uselessness of mainstream conservatism” in what he describes as a “hyper-racialized” world. So it’s no surprise that the movement in 2015 and 2016 concentrated on opposing immigration and the resettlement of Syrian refugees in America. Although such stances align with older forms of white racism, Spencer insists that the Alt-Right is “a liberation from a left-right dialectic.”

The Alt-Right is intimately connected <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/12/american-racists-work-spread-%E2%80%98identitarian%E2%80%99-ideology" style=" box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">American Identitarianism</a>, a version of an ideology popular in Europe that emphasizes cultural and racial homogeneity within different countries. One difference is that while European Identitarians indict the generation known as the “68ers,” a reference to the left of the 1960s, their American counterparts attack baby boomers, who are presumed to comprise the bulk of the current Republican Party’s base. But the movements on both continents are similar in accusing older conservatives for selling out their countries to foreigners.

Spencer left his Alternative Right blog on Christmas Day 2013 in order to focus on the Radix Journal, an online journal published by the National Policy Institute that promotes the creation of a white ethno-state. Spencer’s abrupt departure, referred to as the “Christmas Day Purge,” left the blog to two fellow white nationalists, Colin Liddell of the United Kingdom and Andy Nowicki, a former college professor. The blog has struggled since then to stay relevant to the white nationalist movement.

Although Spencer has positioned himself as the effective leader of the Alt-Right, other proponents include several well-known names on the far right, including <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor" style=" background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">Jared Taylor</a> , editor of the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-renaissance" style=" background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">American Renaissance</a> racist journal; Greg Johnson of the publishing house Counter-Currents; Matthew Parrott and <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/matthew-heimbach" style=" background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">Matthew Heimbach</a> of the Traditionalist Youth Network; and Mike Enoch, who runs The Right Stuff blog. But the general population of the Alt-Right is composed, by and large, of anonymous youths who were exposed to the movement’s ideas through online message boards like 4chan and 8chan’s /pol/ and Internet platforms like Reddit and Twitter.

The movement is not monolithic. The diversity of far-right ideologies that it includes has resulted in some disagreement with regard to Jews, and whether to blame them for the perceived plight of white culture—a belief that has undergirded many sectors of white nationalism for decades. While some Alt-Right leaders are unquestionably anti-Semitic, others, like Jared Taylor, are not, seeing Jews simply as white people. For his part, Spencer has repeatedly brought in anti-Semites to speak at his events.

In March 2016, for instance, Spencer invited former California State University-Long Beach professor Kevin MacDonald, the author of a trilogy purporting to show that Jews seek to undermine the host Christian societies in which they often live, to speak at an event titled “Identity Politics.” After the event, Spencer stopped just short of questioning the Holocaust, telling a Huffington Post reporter that if it “really happened, then of course it wasn’t justified. If it happened differently than what the story we’ve been told [is], then I think that needs to be let out.”

Social media have been instrumental to the growth of the Alt-Right. Legions of anonymous Twitter users have used the hashtag #AltRight to proliferate their ideas, sometimes successfully pushing them into the political mainstream.

The best example of that is probably the term “<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/08/07/getting-cucky-brief-primer-radical-right%E2%80%99s-newest-%E2%80%98cuckservative%E2%80%99-meme" style=" background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">cuckservative</a>” — a combination of “cuckold” and “conservative,” coined to castigate Republican politicians who are seen as traitors to their people who are selling out conservatives with their support for globalism and certain liberal ideas. The phrase has a racist undertone, as some of its backers have suggested, implying that establishment conservatives are like white men who allow black men to sleep with their wives. It received widespread media attention, including, to the delight of Spencer and others, in The Washington Post.

But the Alt-Right has taken on many more issues than that, including issues of high importance to white nationalists like the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. and Europe in 2015 and 2016, the Black Lives Matter movement and immigration reform. Propaganda campaigns also have been organized around hashtags such as #WhiteGenocide, a reference to the myth that white people are being subjected to an orchestrated eradication campaign; #ISaluteWhitePeople; #BoycottStarWarsVII, a racist campaign to protest the black actor who was cast in a lead role in the 2015 “Star Wars” reboot; and #NROrevolt, which arose after the National Review, a journal that has historically served as the gatekeeper to mainstream conservatism and has vehemently opposed Donald Trump’s candidacy for president.

Trump is a hero to the Alt-Right. Through a series of semi-organized campaigns, Alt-Right activists applied the “cuckservative” slur to every major Republican primary candidate except Trump, who regularly rails against “political correctness,” Muslims, immigrants, Mexicans, Chinese and others. They have also worked hard to affix the Alt Right brand to Trump through the use of hashtags and memes.

The movement is not limited to the Internet. At least twice a year, Spencer reserves the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for a coat-and-tie gathering of his followers. The events are open to reporters but also cloaked in secrecy — attendees regularly use false names or refuse to identify themselves for fear of being labeled as racists. Topics and themes vary. The gathering in March 2015 was titled “Beyond Conservatism” and capitalized on the strength of the “cuckservative” meme. “Identity Politics” in March 2016 focused heavily on the continued success of Trump’s presidential campaign. Each of the speakers featured there addressed a different facet of Trump’s influence of politics and American culture. Kevin MacDonald classified Trump’s rise as part of an implicit white backlash against present-day politics, while Spencer declared that Trump was merely creating a political space, intentionally or not, in which the Alt-Right could grow.

The Alt-Right also has a stable of publishing houses. Most notably, both NPI and Counter-Currents have publishing arms — NPI’s is Washington Summit Press — that focus on historical and contemporary extremists. They distribute the works of such well-known white nationalist writers as Alexander Dugin, Corneliu Codreanu, Guillaume Faye and Alain de Benoist, along with more contemporary authors like F. Roger Devlin, Andy Nowicki, Greg Johnson and Richard Spencer.

In March 2016, Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos wrote an article for the right-wing Breitbart news site that claimed that the Alt-Right was fundamentally about youthful provocation and subversion, rather than simply another “vehicle for the worst dregs of human society: anti-Semites, white supremacists, and other members of the Stormfront set,” a reference to an online forum run by a former Alabama Klan leader. Yiannopoulos, who was instrumental in the online harassment campaign against women in the electronic gaming world known as Gamergate, was not well received. Virtually every mainstream conservative publication, from the National Review to The Federalist, condemned it. And some on the furthest extremes of the Alt-right attacked him as a “Jewish homosexual,” in the words of <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/andrew-anglin" style=" background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s;">Andrew Anglin</a>, who runs the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, which Anglin describes as “The World’s Most Visited Alt-Right Web Site.” Anglin said Yiannopoulos had “a history of engaging in sneaky Jewish tricks” and added that “this is how they get you. Clearly, the man seeks to undermine right-wing movements for Jewish purposes.”

That last attack, which came despite the fact that Yiannopoulos has been photographed wearing a necklace with the German Iron Cross symbol, illustrates the diversity of opinion within the Alt-Right world. But, at the end of the day, neo-Nazis like Anglin, coat-and-tie racists like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor, and oddball figures like Yiannopoulos have more in common, in terms of sharing a vision of society as fundamentally determined by race, than they disagree about.

<h2 style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0.83em 0px;">In their own words:</h2>

“Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of Occidental civilization. We must overcome!”

—National Policy Institute column, January 2014

“Immigration is a kind a proxy war—and maybe a last stand—for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile.”

—National Policy Institute column, February 2014

“Since we are fighting for nothing less than the biological survival of our race, and since the vast bulk of Jews oppose us, we need to err on the side of caution and have no association with Jews whatsoever. Any genuine Jewish well-wishers will understand, since they know what their people are like better than we ever can. Saving our race is something that we will have to do ourselves alone.”

—Greg Johnson, “White Nationalism & Jewish Nationalism,” August 2011

“I oppose the Jewish diaspora in the United States and other white societies. I would like to see the white peoples of the world break the power of the Jewish diaspora and send the Jews to Israel, where they will have to learn how to be a normal nation.”

—Greg Johnson, “White Nationalism & Jewish Nationalism,” August 2011

“At the core of the JI [Jewish Identity] is a malevolent supremacy. This is the manifest in their rejection of outgroups who wish to participate and innovate traditional Jewish cultural activities. Why reject diversity and progress within your community if not a false feeling of ‘betterness’? The root of this problem is, of course, a sexual feeling of inferiority. Mighty psychosexual urges must not be downplayed within group dynamics. As a remedy to this, the JI must be infiltrated with foreign members to procreate with their men and women. That way, the deep psychological psychosis can be treated at the root.”

—“A Critical Analysis of the Jewish Identity,” The Right Stuff, January 2016

“The new left doctrine of racial struggle in favor of non-Whites only, a product of decolonization and the defeat of nationalists by egalitarians after WWII, must be repudiated and Whites must be allowed to take their own side in their affairs. A value system that says Whites are not allowed to have collective interests while literally every other identity group can do so and ought to do so is unacceptable.”

—“The Fight for the Alt-Right: The Rising Tide of Ideological Autism Against Big-Tent Supremacy,” The Right Stuff, January 2016

“This is our home and our kith and kin. Borders matter, identity matters, blood matters, libertarians and their capitalism can move to Somalia if they want to live without rules, in the West we must have standards and enforce them. The ‘freedom’ for other races to move freely into white nations is nonexistent. Stay in your own nations, we don’t want you here.”

—Matthew Heimbach, “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

“Those who promote miscegenation, usury, or any other forms of racial suicide should be sent to re-education centers, not tolerated.”

—Matthew Heimbach, “I Hate Freedom,” Traditionalist Youth Network, July 7, 2013

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deep read:

<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/breitbart-news-drudge-alt-right-koch-trump/">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/breitbart-news-drudge-alt-right-koch-trump/</a>

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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/12/08/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-a-short-history-of-hate-part-1/">http://www.salon.com/2016/12/08/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-a-short-history-of-hate-part-1/</a>

DEC 8, 2016 02:00 AM PST

How the alt-right became racist, Part 1: A short history of hate

What's now called the alt-right actually began as a conservative resistance — against George W. Bush

MATTHEW SHEFFIELD

TOPICS: ALT RIGHT, CONSERVATIVE, CONSERVATIVE MEDIA, CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT, DONALD TRUMP, ED, EDITOR'S PICKS, GEORGE W BUSH, NEO-NAZIS, NEO-NAZISM, PAUL GOTTFRIED, REP. RON PAUL, RICHARD SPENCER, WHITE NATIONALISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, NEWS, POLITICS NEWS

How the alt-right became racist, Part 1: A short history of hate

Throughout his just-concluded campaign, Donald Trump was frequently analogized to the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein. The future president — as everyone from his former ghostwriter to critics on both the left and right asserted — was the inevitable byproduct of the political culture of bravado and bigotry that Republican and conservative elites had used to gain votes from people who had no interest in cutting the government.

Whether the GOP will suffer the ruination and death that ultimately befell Mary Shelley’s monster is yet to be determined. Also unknown is the degree to which the anti-Semitic white nationalist movement known informally as the alt-right will be able to use Trump’s election to inject its ideas into the bloodstream of American conservatism and the larger body politic.

This story also has a “Frankenstein” quality on another level. In many ways, the alt-right was invented by Paul Gottfried, a retired Jewish political historian whose age and persona are about as far removed as one can get from the youthful legions of self-proclaimed “shitlords” who roam Twitter 24/7 seeking to serve the man they only half jokingly refer to as the God Emperor.

How it all began

Frequently held to be a brand-new phenomenon or merely a reincarnated version of old-school Southern segregationism, the alt-right is actually neither. Many of the people and ideas that bind the movement go back a long way, even if they don’t quite hearken back to the likes of John C. Calhoun.

Looking at the early history of the movement, long before the social-media trolls got involved, one can more clearly see that one of the principles that got the alt-right started was an intense dislike of former president George W. Bush — and his foreign policy in particular. Indeed, criticizing and debunking the neoconservatives who dominated the Bush administration has been Gottfried’s lifelong project.

Although he rejects the alt-right label today, Gottfried affixed it to himself in the summer of 2008 when he teamed up with a 30-year-old editor named Richard Spencer to create a conference for right-wingers who regarded Dubya as a warmongering liberal who had betrayed conservatism and surrendered to leftist political correctness.

Gottfried delivered a speech that November to the first meeting of his H.L. Mencken Club titled “The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right.” It focused on the conflict that occurred in the 1970s and ’80s when many hawkish Democrats had migrated to the Republican Party and began dominating its institutions. The neoconservatives, as they were eventually called, had made a mess of the GOP and America as a whole, Gottfried argued, but their right-wing opponents (he had earlier coined the term “paleoconservatives” in 1986 to describe them) were continually unable to do anything about it because they were so ideologically divided.

According to his address, Gottfried intended to do something to promote collaboration and unity against the common enemy. The alt-right was that something.

Spencer, who later went on to start a (now-defunct) webzine called Alternative Right, played a big part in conference organizing for the nascent group. He also gave addresses at subsequent Mencken Club meetings, but eventually the two men grew apart as Spencer developed more than an academic fascination with fascism and white separatism.

“Richard, I think, has gone on out on a limb to create a more extreme, racialist right,” Gottfried, 75, told Salon in a telephone interview last month. His preferred stance then (and now) was more about “anti-anti-racism” and opposing leftist political correctness, he said.

Another factor in their disaffection was an address that Spencer gave at the Mencken Club’s 2011 meeting, in which he heaped praise upon Madison Grant, an early 20th-century conservationist who was also an advocate of the bogus racial science known as eugenics.

Spencer’s speech was not well-received by the crowd. According to a contemporary account of the conference proceedings, at least one audience member walked out in protest.

“His speech was so embarrassing,” Gottfried said. “I thought it would be a kind of historical presentation but it turned out to be a harangue in favor of Indo-German America or something like this.”

(Despite the Mencken Club’s professed dedication to completely intellectual discussions, the recording of Spencer’s speech about Grant is nowhere to be found in the club’s audio library of speeches from that year’s proceedings.)

Despite Gottfried’s unwillingness to be associated with Spencer’s advocacy for eugenics, that has been far from the only exhibition of racism to be featured at Mencken Club gatherings. Past speakers have also highlighted the life and times of Sam Francis, a deceased former Washington Times editor who was fired from the right-leaning newspaper for his overtly racist attitudes. White separatist Jared Taylor, who has found a new career as an éminence grise for the alt-right, has also been praised by lecturers.

Mencken Club conferences have also featured William Regnery, an heir to the conservative book publisher Henry Regnery who once tried to start a dating website exclusively for white people. William Regnery also publishes an anti-Semitic website called the Occidental Observer and is one of Spencer’s largest financial patrons.

Conservatives against Bush

There’s no question that racist speech and racist attitudes have always had a “safe space” within the alt-right. But it’s not accurate to suggest that racism and anti-Semitism were always as integral to the movement as they are today.

All the tendencies that have come to define the alt-right today were present when it began, at least to some degree. But initially, during the mid-2000s when criticizing George W. Bush’s foreign policy could mean being branded as un-American, the alt-right was a loose collection of very different conservatives and libertarians. What bound them together was a shared dislike of Bush policies in general, and his invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in particular. Dissatisfaction with the existing Republican hierarchy was all that was needed.

“It was a pretty disparate group of people,” according to Jim Antle, a paleoconservative writer and editor who counted himself as among the “alternative right” for a while. “Some were pure libertarians. Some were immigration restrictionists. Some were just conventional Goldwater-Reagan Republicans. Some were monarchists and some were also white nationalists.”

Antle, who today is the political editor for the right-leaning Washington Examiner, told Salon in an interview that he became rapidly disenchanted with the emerging movement as it “became obvious where this was all headed.” He said he stopped affiliating with the alt-right before most people had even heard of the term.

Not all of Antle’s nonracist associates were as aware of what was happening, however. That was largely because of an overwhelming sense among many in the nascent alternative right that to expel white nationalists from their ranks was to repeat some of the “purges” that conservatives engaged in with some frequency during the 20th century. William F. Buckley and the National Review, for instance, had denounced the anti-communist conspiracy theorists of the John Birch Society. Some alt-rightists saw disavowing racism as somehow permitting progressives to dictate the acceptable limits of conservative thought as well.

“There was this idea that you never let the left set the terms of dialogue,” Antle said. “Even if you may personally think that some of the things people were talking about are bad, by being overly worried about racism, you were playing according to the left’s rules, and you shouldn’t do that.”

For anti-Bush conservatives of all stripes, the mid-2000s were a time in the wilderness. That was true even before Barack Obama managed to throw the rest of the right there after he won the presidency in a 2008 landslide that also saw Democrats take majorities in both houses of Congress. The chaos and lack of strategic direction that Democrats face today, in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, was something that the paleocons and their libertarian allies confronted as a major topic in early Mencken Club meetings. One person trying to move the argument in a racially inclusive direction was Jack Hunter, a writer and editor who had made a journey from anti-government white identitarianism to more mainstream libertarianism.

Hunter’s personal odyssey story, which he detailed in full in a 2013 Politico article, is essentially the exact opposite of the journey that the alternative right has undergone. He began as a racist shock-jock radio host in South Carolina who called himself “The Southern Avenger” and eventually landed in the orbit of young libertarians who were repelled by his racism. Eventually, Hunter began to re-examine his beliefs and reached the conclusion that racism was illogical. He has repeatedly renounced his former views and called for Southern states to remove Confederate flags from their state capitol buildings.

“After a while, I just came to the conclusion that the racial conservatives were just off base, that they were wrong,” Hunter told Salon in a phone interview.

Hunter tried bringing that message to the fledgling alt-right. “We were making the case that the conservative movement needed to be more youth oriented; it needed to be less divisive. And if you were going to talk about immigration to not demonize people,” he said.

Paradoxically, one ally Hunter had in this regard was Richard Spencer, Gottfried’s former junior partner who has now become synonymous with white supremacy. It was Spencer who gave a speech in Washington, after Trump’s election, in which claimed that only whites could preserve Western civilization. He ended with the English translation of “Sieg Heil,” the infamous phrase Nazis encouraged Germans to use in praise of Adolf Hitler.

In 2008, however, Spencer had not yet fully committed to white nationalism. At the time, he was editing Takimag, a libertarian blog and was under pressure to increase traffic. One strategy suggested by Taki Theodoracopulos, the site’s owner, was to begin publishing essays written by “white advocate” author Jared Taylor.

According to Hunter and Antle, who both wrote for the site at the time, Spencer opposed the idea, even though the site had published Taylor once before. Hunter specifically recalled discussing the matter with Spencer in New York after inviting him to attend a performance of his part-time rock band.

“I had that conversation with Spencer on the sidewalk outside the venue,” Hunter said by email. “He told me he would never run Taylor.” Antle recalled discussing the matter on the telephone with Spencer and said that Spencer discussed the matter with several other contributors as well, who were concerned about whether they would continue to write for the site if it published Taylor’s anti-black and anti-Hispanic articles.

Whether Taylor’s writings were a point of friction between Spencer and his boss, the poor traffic that Takimag attracted did bother Theodoracopulos. Shortly after Spencer was removed as editor in January of 2009, he founded his own independent webzine titled Alternative Right. That was subsequently shuttered after Spencer was hired by publishing heir William Regnery to run his overtly racist think tank, the National Policy Institute.

Part 2: How Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign fueled the rise of the alt-right

http://www.railrode.net/2016/12/09/how-the-alt-right-became-racist-part-2-long-before-trump-white-nationalists-flocked-to-ron-paul/

While future neo-Nazi Richard Spencer was struggling with white nationalism in the world of political journalism, most of the people who would later comprise the alt-right’s online shock troops were involved in a different venture. They were fighting hard to make former Texas congressman Ron Paul the Republican presidential nominee, first in 2008 and again in 2012. It’s more than uncanny how many current alt-right leaders backed the former Texas congressman in his quixotic bids to stop GOP mainstream candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney.

Pretty much all of the top personalities at the Right Stuff, a neo-Nazi troll mecca, started off as conventional libertarians and Paul supporters, according to the site’s creator, an anonymous man who goes by the name “Mike Enoch.”

“We were all libertarians back in the day. I mean, everybody knows this,” he said on an alt-right podcast last month. After Paul’s second campaign failed, Enoch completely disengaged from politics, he added.

Paul was also the favorite of Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer, the two men who created the term “alternative right” and formed the annual conference where old-school right-wing racists met and mentored young and disaffected conservative intellectuals.

The Texas congressman was also the preferred candidate of Jared Taylor and the readers of his white nationalist website American Renaissance.

That feeling of admiration was apparently mutual. In the 1990s, Paul in his famously racist newsletters repeatedly promoted Taylor as part of a “paleolibertarian” strategy designed to attract racist white people. (Paul subsequently denied writing them, however.) Later on, American Renaissance wrote a featured article stating that “the race-realist section of the blogosphere is one of the most enthusiastic sources of support for Mr. Paul” and praised his “good instincts on race,” despite the fact that the author believed that Paul was no longer interested in catering to overt racists, as he formerly had.

Paul had nonracist supporters as well who would later become alt-right figures. (The self-described neo-Nazi types refer to them as “alt-lite.”) Libertarian radio host Alex Jones of InfoWars, a man famous for his belief in “lizard people” and his elaborate 9/11 conspiracy theories, dislikes being identified with the alt-right. But he is an important figure in the movement’s history and a key link from Ron Paul to Donald Trump. Today Jones is known today as an ardent Trump supporter but his affection for Ron Paul and his son, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, was even greater while they were running their respective presidential campaigns.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, Ron Paul was also by far the preferred presidential candidate of the racist Politically Incorrect board known as /pol/ on 4chan. Throughout both of his unsuccessful runs, the forum served as a critical organizing portal and talent incubator for Ron Paul’s youthful, tech-savvy supporters to pull off fundraising and digital feats that many political observers incorrectly attributed to his official campaign staff.

The energy and enthusiasm of /pol/ and its associated imitators and rivals completely disappeared after Ron Paul’s candidacies ended. He did manage to become a meme within the site, however. The digital shock troops who would later become the alt-right were waiting for someone to re-energize them.

Rand Paul’s staff hoped that he’d be able to build on his father’s success in 2016. It didn’t happen, however. In some part, that was because the senator couldn’t galvanize the emergent alt-right after he started pushing anti-racist policies and rhetoric.

It was a road that the younger Paul headed down after he faced an uproar in 2010 for saying that he opposed the Civil Rights Act’s public accommodation provision, which requires most private businesses to serve customers regardless of their race. Paul retracted the stance and began a minority outreach program. He also began telling his fellow Republicans that they could not remain a party exclusively for white people.

“If we’re going to be the white party, we’re going to be the losing party,” Sen. Rand Paul said in 2014, at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the law.

He has stuck to his new position, even in Republican presidential debates. Sen. Rand Paul has repeatedly embraced the campaign to equalize criminal sentencing, particularly for drug offenses, for whites and nonwhites. He has also called for police to wear body cameras when on patrol and for local governments to stop using law enforcement as a revenue generator, both positions favored by Black Lives Matter activists and mainstream libertarians like those writing for Reason magazine.

None of that went unnoticed by the online racists who formerly had supported Rand Paul’s father, especially since they had found a new champion in Donald Trump, after he descended his golden elevator and denounced Mexico for sending drug dealers and rapists across the U.S. border. As one of them put it on his personal blog:

Ron Paul’s performance in the 2008 and 2012 elections was due to disaffected voters, including many White Nationalists who supported him, not ideological libertarians. All those people have since abandoned Rand Paul and thrown their support behind Donald Trump because of his foolish decision to go “mainstream.”

During the 2016 presidential election, Jones and his team supported the younger Paul for the GOP nomination until the very end of his short-lived bid. Shortly after Trump declared his candidacy, Jones’ top lieutenant created his own anti-Trump conspiracy theory, declaring the former television star to be a “stooge” for Democrats, designed to make the GOP lose to Hillary Clinton. In January shortly before the Iowa caucuses, a distraught Jones pleaded with Paul to come up with a possible strategy to save his campaign. “I’d really like to see you as president,” Jones said. “How do we get you elected president?”

With 16 other Republican candidates competing in the Iowa caucuses, Paul’s loss of the white nationalists doomed his chances in the Hawkeye State, where every sliver of vote share mattered greatly. In the words of an anonymous Paul campaign strategist quoted by Politico: “Trump got in, Trump zoomed ahead, we collapsed, he had a massive impact in caging our people from us.”

Return for Part 3: How the American conservative movement paved the way for white nationalism by embracing the Christian right

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whitehouse, john

John is the Digital Director at Media Matters. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Fordham University, and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.

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An anti-intellectual alliance of misogynists and white nationalists is using cult tactics to harass and abuse Americans. They systematically attempt to discredit reputable sources. They replace logic with paranoia. They horrifically harass perceived political opponents. And this campaign, which has dangerous historical precedents, has been empowered by a fake news ecosystem and a tech industry that profits off the phenomenon.

While reporting real news requires a newsroom and some sort of process that can be critiqued and examined, “<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/15/understanding-fake-news-universe/214819" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fake news</a>” is built to obfuscate and hide sources. Its creators are varied, from a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">random American</a> making $10,000 a month from his fabricated Facebook posts to a group of <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump-misinfo" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">teenagers</a> in Macedonia running more than a hundred pro-Trump websites. The business model is simple: identify the news that people want to read, and give it to them, regardless of the truth and with no effort whatsoever put into actual reporting.

There is no question that fake news got lots of attention in 2016, in part because the president-elect himself -- and several people close to him -- <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/06/here-are-5-people-close-trump-who-have-propagated-fake-news/214730" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">pushed</a> fabricated information. That’s deeply concerning, because data shows that not only do Americans <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/06/buzzfeed-most-americans-who-see-fake-news-believe-it/214736" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">believe lies</a> they see on Facebook, but also that Americans across party lines say fake news is a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/15/new-pew-report-majority-americans-across-party-lines-say-fake-news-caused-great-deal-confusion/214828" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">real problem</a>.

No one is more responsible for the rise of fake news <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wpp-ceo-facebook-responsible-for-fake-news-2016-11-21" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">than</a> <a href="http://bigthink.com/videos/wesley-lowery-on-fake-news-and-facebook-platform" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Facebook</a>. It was Facebook’s platform <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/04/facebook_is_fueling_an_international_boom_in_pro_trump_propaganda.html" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">that allowed</a>fake news to <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/how-facebook-s-fake-news-ecosystem-empowers-total-lies/214860" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">spread far and wide</a>. In fairness, the basic nature of the social media giant ensures that users will share lies to some extent. But the structures that Facebook built also made it easy to game. All content looks the same on Facebook, and the name of the source shows up in a small and almost unreadable font. The pages look nearly identical, regardless of their purpose or who is operating them. Of course, these factors have been in place since Facebook’s inception, but in 2016, other factors changed as well.

In its own way, fake news is more sophisticated than real news. Sure, real news actually examines complexities that exist in the real world while fake news just makes stuff up. But fake news can be targeted to appeal to exactly what people want to see. On Facebook in particular, content can be <a href="https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-built-an-identity-database-and-used-facebook-ads-to-win-the-election-4ff7d24269ac#.5lqhzojcq" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fine-tuned</a> to target exactly what people are likely to click on. Many private companies do this: It is called advertising. Whereas real news outlets generally post a piece once and people either read it or not, fake news can be tweaked again and again until it finally breaks through and becomes viral. And fake news outlets sometimes do have the data to go viral: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-17/trump-s-new-team-brings-deep-ties-to-major-donor" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Breitbart.com</a> and <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rebekah-mercer-donald-trump-231693" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Trump political benefactor</a> the Mercer family has a company, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Cambridge Analytica</a>, that conveniently owns a lot of data on private citizens. And sitting on the board of Cambridge Analytica is Trump’s chief adviser, and the former CEO of Breitbart, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/13/white-nationalist-who-hates-jews-will-be-trumps-right-hand-man-white-house/214419" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Stephen Bannon</a>.

Facebook’s algorithm has always been extremely prone to confirmation bias, but <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/21/facebook-news-is-new/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">changes</a> in recent years <a href="http://qz.com/847640/facebook-needs-to-hand-over-its-algorithm-if-it-really-wants-to-end-fake-news/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">seem to</a> <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2955021/shirtless-trump-saves-drowning-kitten/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">have allowed</a> fake news to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?_r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">rise</a> much more easily (as the algorithm is proprietary, no one outside Facebook can know for certain). In the past, at the very least, there were human editors who could manually prevent outright lies from making it onto the site’s list of trending topics. But when Facebook fired them after conservatives complained this summer, fake news <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/can-facebook-trending-fight-off-fake-news?utm_term=.uumBY49Gv#.fazlkE723" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">really took off</a>.

As John Herrman <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?_r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> in The New York Times:

<p style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;">This year, political content has become more popular all across the platform: on homegrown Facebook pages, through media companies with a growing Facebook presence and through the sharing habits of users in general. But truly Facebook-native political pages have begun to create and refine a new approach to political news: cherry-picking and reconstituting the most effective tactics and tropes from activism, advocacy and journalism into a potent new mixture. This strange new class of media organization slots seamlessly into the news feed and is especially notable in what it asks, or doesn’t ask, of its readers. The point is not to get them to click on more stories or to engage further with a brand. The point is to get them to share the post that’s right in front of them. Everything else is secondary.

While web publishers have struggled to figure out how to take advantage of Facebook’s audience, these pages have thrived. Unburdened of any allegiance to old forms of news media and the practice, or performance, of any sort of ideological balance, native Facebook page publishers have a freedom that more traditional publishers don’t: to engage with Facebook purely on its terms. These are professional Facebook users straining to build media companies, in other words, not the other way around.

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Google is also responsible for this burgeoning fake news empire. Google’s third-party advertising platform, AdSense, is driving <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/14/google-officials-promised-stop-making-fake-news-profitable-one-month-later-theyve-failed/214812" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">mass profitability</a> on many of these websites. When pressure started to rise about fake news, Google <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/technology/google-will-ban-websites-that-host-fake-news-from-using-its-ad-service.html?_r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> it would be taking action to remove these actors from its advertising network, eliminating their ability to generate revenue. Our review <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/14/websites-peddling-fake-news-still-using-google-ads-nearly-month-after-google-announced-ban/214811" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">showed</a> that the company still has much work to do.

While some fake news is created simply for profit (think of the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fake-news-how-partying-macedonian-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Macedonian teens</a> who just see their sites as an easy way to make money), the misogynist and white nationalist “alt-right” embraces it for a more dangerous purpose: to encourage fake news readers into harassing individuals and discouraging people from taking part in public life. The fake news ecosystem is broader than just lies; many of these lies are purposeful.

The “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory proved this link. A <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html?r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fake news story</a> emerged from the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/how-facebook-s-fake-news-ecosystem-empowers-total-lies/214860" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">depths of the internet</a> claiming that a D.C. pizzeria with ties to certain political figures was running an underground child sex-trafficking ring. It was patently untrue. And yet mainstream reports on the story, even <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">great in-depth reporting</a>from truly credible sources, treated the fake news as separate from the <a href="http://time.com/4594323/pizzagate-robertas-new-york-conspiracy-theory/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">harassment</a> that pizzerias across the country endured from believers of the bogus claims as they spread to include <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/nyregion/robertas-restaurant-brooklyn-threatened-fake-news-pizzagate-conspiracy.html?r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">other</a> <a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime--law/how-austin-east-side-pies-became-target-fake-pizzagate/jQJtrr2xVIMNmpWc0IOW5O/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">restaurants</a>.

Harassment is a deeply entrenched aspect of the “alt-right” community. It came to prominence with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Gamergate</a>, and then there was a wretched, bigoted campaign against black actress <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-horrific-online-abuse.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Leslie Jones</a>. “Alt-right” figure Milo Yiannopoulos has now taken his harassment tactics <a href="http://action.mediamatters.org/milo_yiannopoulos_harassment_colleges" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">with</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/16/breitbart-s-milo-yiannopoulos-doubles-down-harassing-transgender-university-wisconsin-student/214849" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">him</a> on a college tour. Another example is the recent <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">smear campaign</a> against satirist Vic Berger by “alt-right” figure Mike Cernovich. Cernovich is no stranger to such tactics, having <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/trolls-for-trump" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">bragged previously</a> about his ability to <a href="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2016/12/21/19-cernovich-tweet-2.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">game Google</a> to get other outlets to pick up on his smears, spreading the lies to more false headlines and more viewers. Comedian and producer Tim Heidecker has also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/the-story-behind-the-sudden-cancellation-of-adult-swims-trump-loving-comedy-show/2016/12/23/ed9e2e3a-c3c8-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?utm_term=.daa8878659fe" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">spoken out</a> about abuse he has received, including death-threats, as a result of "alt-right" criticism.

The New York Times’ John Herrman took <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html?_r=0" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">special note</a> of commenters on pro-Trump Facebook pages:

Nearly every page operator I spoke to was astonished by the tone their commenters took, comparing them to things like torch-wielding mobs and sharks in a feeding frenzy. No doubt because of the [Make America Great] page’s name, some Trump supporters even mistake [operator Adam] Nicoloff’s page for an official organ of the campaign. Nicoloff says that he receives dozens of messages a day from Trump supporters, expecting or hoping to reach the man himself. Many, he says, are simply asking for money.

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It is not clear to what extent this vitriol on Facebook overlaps with the “alt-right” proper (to whatever extent there even is an “alt-right” proper). But Facebook crowd-sourced virulence is at least overtly reminiscent of what is seen from the “alt-right.”

A particular hub for the “alt-right” is Reddit’s “r/The_Donald” subreddit. As Bryan Menegus <a href="http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> for Gizmodo:

Reddit’s The_Donald subreddit was founded a year ago as the premier online meeting place for Trump supporters. It has since sought to—in CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman’s words—“dominate the conversation” on the site. Its members spread coded hate speech, openly antagonize other Redditors, and break the site’s most basic rules with impunity while moderators feel the brunt of the abuse, and Reddit leadership fail to adequately address the problem.

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This is abuse, and it is abuse for a particular political purpose. Whether it is under the guise of news or commentary, the fabricated stories bouncing around r/The_Donald, often cloaked in shockingly venomous rhetoric, do not adhere to and cannot be judged by traditional journalistic standards. This type of fake news needs to be understood in tandem with its context and purpose. Some of it is just for profit. But other pieces are intended to serve as weaponized propaganda meant to inspire harassment or even worse.

The “alt-right” movement has been equated to white supremacy and neo-Nazis. That is broadly accurate, but the reality is a bit more complicated. More often than not, the <a href="http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13576192/alt-right-sexism-recruitment" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">gateway drug</a> for this movement is sexism -- "extreme misogyny evolving from male bonding gone haywire,” as Aja Romano put it for Vox. White nationalism and neo-Nazism often come later.

This framework also explains why the “alt-right” tilts at so many cultural windmills. Whether with boycotts against Star Wars <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/19/1612656/-Breitbart-supremacists-boycott-of-Rogue-One-didn-t-go-so-well" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">this year</a>, or boycotts against Star Wars <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/boycott-star-wars-vii-movement-833102" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">last year</a>, or boycotts against <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ghostbusters/comments/49515k/why_you_should_boycott_the_new_ghostbusters/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Ghostbusters</a> or <a href="http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/boycott-hamilton-donald-trump-mike-pence-1201922944/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Hamilton</a> or other notable events that women and people of color are involved in, the intent of the “alt-right” is not necessarily to be successful in the short run: The protests are intended as a statement of white patriarchy. Anyone talking about the boycott is surreptitiously sharing the message of white, male-centric cultural identity.

Jason Wilson <a href="https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-225/feature-jason-wilson/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">perfectly characterized</a> the misogyny and bigotry of the "alt-right" when describing Yiannopoulos and his tactics:

In Eugene, [OH], Yiannopoulos endorsed Trump’s call to end Muslim immigration on the grounds that fundamentalists ‘want to kill people like me’ – a preview of the full-throated Islamophobic appeal that he and others made to the LGBT community after the Pulse nightclub shooting the next month.

But the meat of his address was a repetition of a claim he has made repeatedly in his writings and on social media: that white men, especially the working class, are being oppressed with an elitist doctrine of political correctness.

Referring to lesbians as ‘horrendous, quivering masses of horror’ and feminism as ‘cancer’, Yiannopoulos generally castigated the ‘awful, awful, terrible, diseased and damaged people lecturing and hectoring the working class’ – those he sees as the enforcers of ‘the oppressive hegemony of social justice’. The only solution, he said, is a Trump administration.

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Members of the "alt-right" don't just preach this hatred. They mobilize it. Jesse Singal <a href="http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/to-understand-pizzagate-it-helps-to-understand-cults.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">examined</a> the many similarities the “alt-right”/fake news ecosystem shares with cults, and the role misogyny plays in attracting new members:

But it’s the alt-right concept of so-called red-pilling where this subculture appears more similar to “traditional” cults and extremist groups. Adapted from The Matrix, “taking the red pill” or “getting red-pilled” simply means seeing the world as it really is. In the online subcultures that gave rise to the alt-right, its most famous meaning is in reference to feminism: After you take the red pill, the scales fall from your eyes and you can see that feminism is really just an attempt to emasculate and bully men, to allow social-justice warriors to run rampant over masculine (and traditional) values and ideals in favor of a shrill and judgmental far-left radicalism. Recently, the definition has expanded a bit — these days, in an alt-right context “getting red-pilled” probably means something more like “understanding that progressivism is a lie and part of a large-scale effort to hurt you and people like you.” But the basic point is the same: This is the moment at which you start to see things as they really are.

This is exactly the sort of transformative experience offered by cults and extremist movements: After this, things won’t ever be the same for you. After this, you will have a role to play in an important battle that will determine the fate of the world. Your life will take on an enhanced meaning.

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At its core, the “alt-right” is just a bunch of men who feel powerless and resent women because of it. That’s why Gamergate is so crucial to understanding the movement; it truly was a galvanizing political event for a fringe movement that far too many mainstream people had overlooked because they were not the ones being harassed.

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The “alt-right” weaponizes fake news stories that others drum up to harass and abuse opponents. Its members attack women, people of color, and the poor -- and their allies and advocates -- from “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/14/if-we-took-gamergate-harassment-seriously-pizzagate-might-never-have-happened/?utm_term=.7a8a232c4911" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Gamergate</a>” to <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/8/26/12653474/leslie-jones-hack-alt-right-culture-war" target="blank" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Leslie Jones</a>, to <a href="http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/" target="blank" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">“Pizzagate”</a> and now to <a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/19/one-alt-right-men-who-brought-you-pizzagate-now-attacking-vic-berger/214867" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Vic Berger</a> (also see Megyn Kelly below). Radio host Alex Jones ties the conspiracy theories together and gives everything a common language. Reddit <a href="http://gizmodo.com/reddit-is-tearing-itself-apart-1789406294" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">allows</a> the herd to self-organize and quickly pivot from one harassment campaign to another. The Drudge Report tries to push these things into the mainstream. And tying the whole enterprise together is Breitbart, which was up until recently run by Bannon, now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. Breitbart is now even <a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/21/breitbart-admits-role-trump-enforcer-showing-why-it-should-be-denied-congressional-press-credentials/214883" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">admitting</a> that it will take on any Republicans who try to hurt Trump, again neatly echoing oppressive regimes of the past. Meanwhile, Trump is <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/when-everything-is-a-lie-power-is-the-only-truth-1e641751d150" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">deliberately trying</a> to undermine the reliability of truth itself, in a hope to push as many people as possible toward this ecosystem.

It is possible that this abuse and harassment could escalate in the near future. While the digital tactics of pushing fake news and harassing people via social media are new, there is a precedent for this type of behavior: the “struggle sessions” in Mao’s China.

Max Fisher <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/03/you-have-to-be-careful-about-using-the-word-struggle-in-china/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">explained</a> how struggle sessions worked in The Washington Post:

During Mao Zedong's totalitarian and often ruthless rule over China, from the early 1950s through 1976, one of the Communist Party's most unpleasant tactics for maintaining control was something called a "struggle session." On the surface, the idea was that everyone had to suss out "class enemies" and try to better their own commitment to the Communist revolution by attending regular "struggle session" meetings where they'd admit their own revolutionary failures and try to do better as individuals and communities. In practice, though, it was a form of self-reinforcing terror, a means of purging political enemies real and imagined, a tactic for working people into ideological fervor, sometimes in mass "sessions" with thousands of people.

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The systematic harassment campaign that the “alt-right” has waged through the guise of journalism is remarkably similar. Like the struggle sessions, the harassment is meant to create a sense of terror among political enemies while building a feeling of community among allies. It spreads extreme fear through communities across the country, deterring any theoretical political resistance. This abuse is meant to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">crush meaning</a> in society. The more you discuss whether pizzerias have established a secret child sex ring, the more real it becomes. The more outlandish the accusation, the more effective it becomes. For both the struggle sessions and the “alt-right,” truth is no defense: You will be forced to submit. As long as members use the fake news to harass, then it is worthwhile. Engagement is not the means; engagement is the end.

The next logical step would be something akin to book burning, which The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/bonfires-of-insanity-a-history-of-book-burnings-from-nazis-to-isis.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">says</a> is “a peculiar form of censorship in that the act itself is intended to send a message. This is why book burning is a public spectacle. It is designed to express outrage and contains within it the notion that the ideas contained in the books or other works of art should be obliterated entirely.”

Among American pundits, Walter Lippman <a href="http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395007" style=" box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">alone understood</a> the significance of what was happening when books were burned in the 1930s in Germany:

The Nazis deliberately and systematically mean to turn the minds of the German people to war. These acts symbolize the moral and intellectual character of the Nazi regime. For these bonfires are not the work of schoolboys or mobs but of the present German Government acting through its Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.... For example ... they burn with conspicuous zeal ... Erich Maria Remarque's [anti-war book] All Quiet on the Western Front. The ominous symbolism of [this burning and] these bonfires is that there is a Government in Germany which means to teach its people that their salvation lies in violence.

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The only thing standing in the way of the “alt-right” is that it is not yet big enough to take on the entirety of American culture so directly. And yet it seems entirely possible that the movement could do something like that soon, especially if it grows emboldened by having allies in the White House. After an ISIS attack under President Trump, one can imagine the “alt-right” organizing some kind of book burning. Breitbart may even promote it.

For one, the tech industry is profiting from this activity every step of the way. Twitter’s failure to stop harassment is <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">legendary</a>. The Trump subreddit has grown completely <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/business/media/in-reddits-unruly-corners-trump-finds-support.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">out of hand</a>. Facebook’s complicity in the spread of fake news is clear. The tech industry is so concerned with engagement that companies have been reluctant to act even when it is clear that some of that engagement is outright abuse and harassment.

While mainstream media outlets seem to realize that fake news is a problem, they largely raise concerns only to the extent that fake news is a competitor or when the abuse is big enough that they can easily see it. There is surely fake news of every political stripe, and it should all be disincentivized. But there is no built-out ecosystem to weaponize it anywhere like there is with Breitbart, Alex Jones, Reddit, and the “alt-right.” That’s what mainstream media’s <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/dec/13/2016-lie-year-fake-news/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">scolding</a> about fake news and “both sides” gets wrong, time and again. In their reluctance to show the unique damage that fake news has on the right, mainstream media are continuing their biggest mistake of the Bush and Obama years: ignoring the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/29/seven-years-late-media-elites-finally-acknowled/209590" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">growing radicalization</a> of the right in America.

And this ecosystem of fake news and the “alt-right” is entirely different from the previous right-wing media ecosystem. The previous model involved moving the audience from mainstream news to Fox News and then to the deeper trenches of talk radio and online email lists, where right-wing operators can often <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/28/reagans-secret-cancer-cure-and-other-scams-from/202285" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">bilk their recipients financially</a>. Now, things are different. Fox News’ brand of right-wing misinformation is pervasive, and over recent decades <a href="http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2013/network-news-a-year-of-change-and-challenge-at-nbc/network-by-the-numbers/3-cbs-and-nbc-ratings-grow/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fewer people</a> are watching mainstream news networks.

The independence of the fake news/“alt-right” ecosystem has interesting consequences. First, members feel empowered to attack Fox News, framing it as part of the establishment media rather than an alternative to traditional sources. Aside from “Pizzagate,” the clearest example of this ecosystem is the harassment directed at Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. The <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebooks-trending-fail-news-section-reportedly-highlights-fake-news-on-megyn-kelly/" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">first fake news story</a> to trend on Facebook after the company fired its editors was about Kelly, falsely claiming that Fox fired her for being “‘a closet liberal who actually wants Hillary to win,’” according to CBS. <a href="https://www.webdaily.com/2016/08/29/breaking-top-fox-news-host-may-be-fired-for-supporting-hillary/" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Versions</a> of this fake story featured language <a href="http://conservative101.com/breaking-fox-news-exposes-traitor-megyn-kelly-kicks-her-out-for-backing-hillary/" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">like</a> “Megyn Kelly has gotten into a lot of hot water for her many attempts to smear Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump.” Another fake news story <a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-fox-news-exposes-traitor-megyn-kelly-kicks-her-out-for-backing-hillary/" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">called her</a> a “traitor” for her behavior toward Trump. As Kelly has now <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/megyn-kelly-accuses-trump-aide-of-directing-online-harassment-at-her/" style=" background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">recently explained</a>, she also was the recipient of torrents of online abuse from Trump supporters. The harassment may not have begun with the fake news story, but their connection seems clear. And the attacks on Fox News are not limited to Kelly -- Alex Jones <a href="http://www.infowars.com/leaked-democrats-have-taken-over-fox-news/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">attacks</a> the network regularly.[hence newsmax TV?]

Secondly, traditional figures like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are functionally irrelevant to the "alt-right." They may support Trump on a given day or they may not, but the “alt-right” operates independently of anything they say or do. Alex Jones or Breitbart issuing a call to action will move people, while Limbaugh and O’Reilly are now glorified book salesmen.

And yet, right-wing media are still allied with and permissive of the “alt-right,” continuing to train their focus on mainstream media. Rather than concerning themselves with the issue of fake news, right-wing media <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/09/right-wing-media-using-term-fake-news-attack-credible-news-sources/214778" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">use the term</a> to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/us/politics/fake-news-claims-conservatives-mainstream-media-.html" target="_blank" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">attack</a> mainstream outlets.

In fact, right-wing media go out of their way to give space for the “alt-right” to operate. Fox News <a href="http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/06/fox-continues-downplay-fake-news-and-its-dangerous-consequences/214727" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">dramatically undercovered</a> “Pizzagate” compared to other mainstream outlets. Fox News reporters (not just pundits) <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/12/16/fox-correspondent-dismisses-impact-fake-news-you-could-argue-fake-news-fake-story/214844" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">have dismissed</a> the concept of “fake news” and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/24/fox-correspondent-defends-alt-right-it-s-much-more-nationalist-populist-white-supremacist-movement/212624" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">defended</a> the “alt-right” on air. When Facebook announced its plan to alleviate its fake news infestation, the most aghast were <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/12/15/conservative-media-freak-out-over-facebook-s-plan-address-fake-news-problem/214832" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">right-wing pundits</a>.

It is unclear where the phenomenon is going, but one clue may be Fox’s newest host. Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ Elf on the Shelf, is a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%22can%27t%20cuck%20the%20tuck%22&src=typd" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">huge favorite</a> of “alt-right” trolls. If Carlson’s show is a success, Fox News in the future could drift more toward the “alt-right” model. (Worth noting is that Rupert Murdoch is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-ct-tucker-carlson-fox-20161103-story.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reportedly a fan</a> of Carlson's.) And the biggest glue tying together traditional right-wing media and the fake news ecosystem are <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-trump-loving-alt-right-turns-to-guns-to-provoke-and-offend" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">the NRA</a> and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenkilloran/2016/11/14/steve-bannon-and-breitbart-news-why-everyone-but-the-alt-right-fears-trumps-top-adviser-pick/#6da965f5504f" style=" box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">The Drudge Report</a>, both of which were undoubtedly further empowered this election season.

Many of the proposed solutions to fake news ring exceptionally hollow. Noting that the fake news ecosystem pushes lies will not stop the abuse; merely calling out the lies is like pointing out that rain originates in the clouds. The objective now is to protect people from the lies.

It is long past the time for mainstream outlets to realize that the yoke of false balance empowers this ecosystem even more. The “alt-right” will turn any journalistic mistake into propaganda the very moment it occurs. A factual error will become an accidental truth. A correction will become censorship.

There’s never been such a challenging time to be an informed citizen. Independent media are struggling financially, and mainstream media are obsessed with making everything about both sides, lest they lose a small portion of their audience. Right-wing media are telling all the traditional sorts of lies. Now a fake news ecosystem is feeding into the worst instincts of humanity while punishing anyone who dares stand up against them.

And soon there will be a president who will validate those feelings.

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The false claim that there is a genocide against white people is a key rallying cry used by organized white supremacists to justify racist violence targeting people of color, Muslims and Jews. With the rise of Donald Trump, who promptly appointed <a href="http://www1.alternet.org/grayzone-project/alan-dershowitz-ludicrously-defends-white-nationalist-stephen-bannon-against-anti" style=" text-decoration: none;">white nationalist</a> Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, those forces will soon have a direct line to the White House.

George Ciccariello-Maher, an associate professor of international politics and decolonization at Philadelphia-based Drexel University, recently found himself at the center of a smear campaign for mocking the concept of white genocide. On December 24, Ciccariello-Maher posted a tweet stating, "all I want for Christmas is white genocide."He explained the tweet in a later statement: “For those who haven't bothered to do their research, ‘white genocide’ is an idea invented by white supremacists and used to denounce everything from interracial relationships to multicultural policies (and most recently, against a tweet by State Farm Insurance). It is a figment of the racist imagination, it should be mocked, and I'm glad to have mocked it.”

Ciccariello-Maher’s tweet and other social media commentary was soon reported by the white nationalist publication Breitbart, which ran an <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/" style=" text-decoration: none;">article</a> by Warner Todd Huston referring to the scholar’s Twitter feed as “hateful” and “obnoxious.” The comments section of the article included at least one death threat against Ciccariello-Maher, as well as hateful messages targeting LGBTQ people and African Americans. The story quickly spread to Reddit and 4chan, and before long George Ciccariello-Maher had become became the target of a coordinated campaign to contact his employer, Drexel University. Ciccariello-Maher said he awoke Christmas morning to death threats targeting him and his family.

But Drexel, instead of defending Ciccariello-Maher, appeared to be swayed by the pressure it received and publicly <a href="http://www.alternet.org/breitbart-leading-smear-campaign-against-scholar-mocking-white-supremacy-and-his-university-isnt" style=" text-decoration: none;">condemned</a> his social media remarks as “utterly reprehensible” and “deeply disturbing.” The university’s statement did not include any mention of the white supremacist origins of the term Ciccariello-Maher was mocking—an omission that extended to numerous press outlets which covered the story.

Scholars of fascism and the racist right told AlterNet such omission is dangerous in the era of Trump, with implications far beyond Ciccariello-Maher. “This phrase and its broad dissemination these days is helping shape what Trumpism is politically and also, by its very framing, is something that can authorize any kind of violence against people of color,” Joseph Lowndes, an associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon in Eugene, told AlterNet. “We should mock it, expose it and delegitimize it.”

Term with a disgraceful history

“Fears of the decline of the so-called white race have been around for a long time, with different iterations,” Lowndes said. “In the American context, it goes back to fears of slave revolts. You can see it in Thomas Jefferson’s notes, when he describes slavery as holding a ‘wolf by the ears.’ He claimed that once you let the wolf go, it will turn on you and devour you.”

Such racist concepts were used as salvo against movements to abolish slavery. "In the 19th century, before the Civil War, you can look at how people who were anti-abolition were warning everyone about an impending genocide if slaves were liberated,” said Alexander Reid Ross, who teaches in the geography department at Portland State University and is the author of the forthcoming <a href="https://www.akpress.org/against-the-fascist-creep.html" style=" text-decoration: none;">book</a>, Against the Fascist Creep.

In undated remarks published in a book of his writings and speeches, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3gFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA329&lpg=PA329&dq=Before+I+proceed+any+further,+let+me+call+attention+to+a+remarkable+exemplification+of+the+insincerity+and+effrontery+william+lloyd&source=bl&ots=KL5vK7O6tV&sig=QGE3ECFqR8LDuGLfM" style=" text-decoration: none;">expressed</a> his outrage at such baseless fear-mongering:...

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