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It has been brought to my attention that Richard Spencer is whining about being deplatformed and demonetised again.
Here he is on Twitter—the ideal platform for a man of his low energy and intermittent output—playing a mixture of victim and would-be visionary reformer:
Notice how he is grasping for a reason to support the Democrats. Now, that wouldn't have anything to do with his occasional trips from his mother's basement in Montana to Chicago to get cummies from his Leftist girlfriend, would it?
Spencer's point about being better off under Obama is laughable. The real reason he had untrammeled access to all social media and payment platforms was because under Obama he was an obscure nobody, like the rest of us, and only shot to fame following the end of Obama's presidency, when he greeted Trump's victory with a Nazi-fest at the NPI conference in the same month.
But perhaps Dickie thinks he was always famous, LOL.
Also, let's be very clear here: Spencer was never at any time an innocent victim of big bad tech companies out to crush the "flower of truth" under their hobnailed boots. In fact, he was a "useful idiot," unwitting collaborator, and facile facilitator or their latent desire to deplatform the wider Right.
Along with other prize idiots/shills (take your pick) like (((Mike Peinovich))) and Andrew Anglin, he was one of the main guys who made it easy for tech companies to do what they routinely do now.
Let's not forget what a good idea Spencer's original vision of the Alt-Right actually was. The Alt-Right circa 2010 was data-driven, very middle class, intellectual, high IQ, used high level language, and sounded civilised. To ban it from social media platforms and payment processors would have raised more than eyebrows. It would have meant you were a barbarian.
Due to his polo-club charm and middle management presentation skills, Spencer retains much of that early polish, but the sad fact is that from 2015 onwards he managed to insert a turd underneath that shiny veneer by his much more profound stupidity.
There was no reason at all why the Alt-Right had to become the entity it is now—effectively indistinguishable from the failed and freak-ridden Neo-Nazi movements of the past. None of that was inevitable. But unfortunately Spencer grabbed the wheel and yanked it firmly in that direction.
It was Spencer who shut down the original Alternative Right site in 2013, in the process wiping most of its erudite, highly persuasive, and moral content from the internet (we have tried to restore some of it at this site).
It was also Spencer who wasted the next two years diddling around with a journal that no one was interested in, while the name "Alt-Right" was co-opted by Nazi trolls like Anglin (a negative) and more mainstream figures like Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich, and Paul Joseph Watson (an obvious positive).
It was also Spencer who, desperate to be the center of attention of a movement whose name he had coined, blundered back in, siding with the toxic and Naziesque elements while railing against the more moderate and normie friendly ones.
And finally it was nobody but Spencer who provided the Left and the Leftist-controlled media with the perfect fall guy, allowing them to make the self-fulfilling prophecy that the Alt-Right were just "White Supreeemists" and "Nazis in polo shirts," with one talented person after another forced to distance themselves from Spencer's toxic mess.
It was this Spencerian mess that provided Big Tech with all the ammunition it needed to take its first baby steps in deplatforming, and to make each subsequent step easier, heavier, and swifter, until now we have reached the stage whereby any politician raising his voice against the massacre of online freedom will take a massive hit by being associated with the likes of Richard Spencer and his Nazi friends.
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Here he is on Twitter—the ideal platform for a man of his low energy and intermittent output—playing a mixture of victim and would-be visionary reformer:
"In opposing de-platforming, we are attemting to achieve *transparency*, *consistency*, and the *ability to appeal*. These goals are served by the treatment of social media and payment processors as public utilities."You can find the tweets here.
"At the moment, these companies are black boxes. You get banned out of the blue, seemingly at the whim of some individual employee, for a violation you don’t understand and which is haphazardly enforced. Appeal if you want, but it’s a shot in the dark."
"Yes, government regulations can sometimes suck, but they offer clear guidelines that we can follow—and clear paths for an appeal process."
"As to whether deplatforming would be worse under the Democrats, let me express some skepticism due to my own personal experience."
"Under Obama, I had access to all social media and payment platforms. It was only after Trump got elected that I was banned from Twitter (before being let back on a month later)."
"While Republicans controlled the presidency and both Houses, I lost most all social media and payment accounts. Twitter is my last refuge. Forgive me for wondering if things might be better—and certainly no worse—under Democrats."
Notice how he is grasping for a reason to support the Democrats. Now, that wouldn't have anything to do with his occasional trips from his mother's basement in Montana to Chicago to get cummies from his Leftist girlfriend, would it?
Spencer's point about being better off under Obama is laughable. The real reason he had untrammeled access to all social media and payment platforms was because under Obama he was an obscure nobody, like the rest of us, and only shot to fame following the end of Obama's presidency, when he greeted Trump's victory with a Nazi-fest at the NPI conference in the same month.
But perhaps Dickie thinks he was always famous, LOL.
Also, let's be very clear here: Spencer was never at any time an innocent victim of big bad tech companies out to crush the "flower of truth" under their hobnailed boots. In fact, he was a "useful idiot," unwitting collaborator, and facile facilitator or their latent desire to deplatform the wider Right.
Along with other prize idiots/shills (take your pick) like (((Mike Peinovich))) and Andrew Anglin, he was one of the main guys who made it easy for tech companies to do what they routinely do now.
Let's not forget what a good idea Spencer's original vision of the Alt-Right actually was. The Alt-Right circa 2010 was data-driven, very middle class, intellectual, high IQ, used high level language, and sounded civilised. To ban it from social media platforms and payment processors would have raised more than eyebrows. It would have meant you were a barbarian.
Due to his polo-club charm and middle management presentation skills, Spencer retains much of that early polish, but the sad fact is that from 2015 onwards he managed to insert a turd underneath that shiny veneer by his much more profound stupidity.
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| Never forget that the vast majority of audience members resisted the countless Nazi cues that Spencer delivered up that day. |
It was Spencer who shut down the original Alternative Right site in 2013, in the process wiping most of its erudite, highly persuasive, and moral content from the internet (we have tried to restore some of it at this site).
It was also Spencer who wasted the next two years diddling around with a journal that no one was interested in, while the name "Alt-Right" was co-opted by Nazi trolls like Anglin (a negative) and more mainstream figures like Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich, and Paul Joseph Watson (an obvious positive).
It was also Spencer who, desperate to be the center of attention of a movement whose name he had coined, blundered back in, siding with the toxic and Naziesque elements while railing against the more moderate and normie friendly ones.
And finally it was nobody but Spencer who provided the Left and the Leftist-controlled media with the perfect fall guy, allowing them to make the self-fulfilling prophecy that the Alt-Right were just "White Supreeemists" and "Nazis in polo shirts," with one talented person after another forced to distance themselves from Spencer's toxic mess.
It was this Spencerian mess that provided Big Tech with all the ammunition it needed to take its first baby steps in deplatforming, and to make each subsequent step easier, heavier, and swifter, until now we have reached the stage whereby any politician raising his voice against the massacre of online freedom will take a massive hit by being associated with the likes of Richard Spencer and his Nazi friends.
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