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In the hours and days following the deadly Unite the Right rally on 12 August 2017, President Donald Trump laid the blame for the violence that took the lives of three people in Charlottesville, Virginia on many sides.

The claim that white supremacists and counter-demonstrators carry equal responsibility for the weekend melee in Charlottesville has been widely rejected both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have repudiated the views espoused by rally attendees who were seen using racist and anti-Semitic epithets and carrying Nazi symbols. But the presidents comments have drawn attention to far left demonstrators known as antifa (short for anti-fascist), who have been showing up to counter white supremacist rallies, sometimes violently).

However, videos of a car ramming into a group of pedestrians protesting the rally doesnt show any antifa in the crowd that was hit. Instead, Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed, was a Charlottesville local and many of the people in the area appeared to be regular demonstrators. Nevertheless on the day she was killed, President Trump said:

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.

Two days later, under pressure to condemn white supremacist violence, President Trump revisited the issue, but blamed the alt-left, a made-up term probably meant to refer to antifa. He said:

Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at [indiscernible] excuse me what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

Even though the people who died amid the unrest have not been linked to antifa (the other two victims were police officers), questions have since been raised about the violence at the weekend rally and further potential for violence at upcomingevents by both the alt-right (a term that encompasses different strands of white supremacist factions) and the antifa activists who come out to meet them. Experts tell us that statistically, historically, and in terms of philosophy the alt-right poses a bigger threat and greater evil, but the violence at political demonstrations has been ratcheting up in recent months.

Brian Levin, criminal justice professor at California State University at San Bernardino who is an expert on hate groups, said ideology aside, street violence is generally increasing at political demonstrations, as extremist groups are egged on by each others words and actions:

To be sure, there is a violent subsection of antifa which is getting much publicity and much more prominent to say theyre not is just false. By the same token there isnt a moral equivalency in philosophy, but there is an escalating arms race with regard to extremists on different sides, of which I think alt-right are now at the forefront.

But, he pointed out, antifa isnt as organized as the alt-right, and doesnt have the access to the channels of publicity and governmental influence that the alt-right does:

The alt-right is far more organized and has greater access to the political mainstream than their less-organized cohorts on the hard left who do not enjoy or do not have the same structure or access into the political mainstream. Both are anti-establishments and socio-political entities that can radicalize constituents to violence but the alt-right just as an organism is far larger, more sophisticated and more able to participate in the political mainstream, particularly through messaging.

Marilyn Mayo, senior research fellow for the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, said that statistics show that radical leftists have been dramatically less likely to kill people than their counterparts on the opposite side of the political spectrum.Over the past decade, extremists of every stripe have killed 372 Americans. 74 percent of those killings were committed by right wing extremists. Only 2 percent of those deaths were at the hands of left wing extremists. Mayo told us:

I dont want to give moral equivalence to the two sides because one side is fighting against white supremacy. On the Antifa side, theyve never murdered anyone but there have been many murders done by white supremacists, so we have to be concerned about that movement.

But, she said:

You have an escalation of rhetoric and you have people who are willing to fight it out in the streets. With this political polarization in the country right now, you have people who come dressed for battle, and when they confront each other it can lead to violence.

This is kind of a watershed moments because we saw one of the largest and most violent white supremacist rallies in over a decade. It brought together a lot of strains under one umbrella and the fact these groups were able to unite shows they feel the moment is very ripe to get their message out and be in the streets. Theyre not afraid to be out and open in their views. When you have people who have so much hate and bigotry, shouting things like Jews will not replace us, it shows that they are rearing for action. And theres always the potential for violence when you have hate groups going out into the streets.

John Sepulvado, a reporter who has been covering far-right groups for Bay Area public radio station KQED, told us the violence at recent alt-right demonstrations has been used to recruit, and when antifa shows up to fight them it can play into their game plan. Theyre turning the traditional desire for objectivity by the media on its head, he told us.

Citing a lyric from rapper Jay Zs song Takeover that says, A wise man told me dont argue with fools, cause people from a distance cant tell who is who, Sepulvado told us the pattern of inciting violence at rallies from the alt-right has gone this way:

Announce an event thats going to piss everyone who has common sense off, something so outrageous its going to piss 99 percent of the population off, then when someone gets on Twitter [and threatens them], send out a press release saying, we cant practice our free speech rights because of leftist violence. Then show up anyway. They have canceled so many rallies that they showed up at anyway and still rallied. The threat of leftist violence means they need to wear body armor and bring weapons. If its an open carry state theyll have [firearms]. If its not an open carry state theyll bring firecrackers and sticks.

And then when someone pushes them or spits on them, theyll use that as an excuse to strike out. Then the leftists will strike out, and the media wont know whos who.

The important distinction, he said, is that the leftists arent organizing the protests. Theyre just responding to them. Sepulvado added:

You know [the alt-right] is guiltiest when they say, look at them, were not the only ones. Theyre not arguing whether the [car attack] was actually committed, theyre just trying to bring everyone down in the muck with them. This is like a bottom feeding monster trying to convince the world that dolphins are ugly creatures.

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Are 'Antifa' and the 'Alt-Right' Equally Violent?

Vladimir Lenin, Jewish Communist revolutionary in Russia

Anybody who has been paying attention over the past five years can see the hidden hand at work in the so-called Alt-Right and White Nationalist movements.

While the media drones on about white supremacists and antisemitism, the truth is that Jews are actually the ones leading these movements, and there is a clear agenda at work.

This is nothing new.

In 1970, Frank Collin (real name Cohn) was a Jew who founded the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), which would go on to be one of the largest neo-nazi parties at that time. Collin/Cohn would regularly lead neo-nazi marches around Chicago, which ultimately culminated in the Skokie Affair.

Frank Collin/Cohn was eventually found guilty of child molestation and sexually abusing young boys at the NSPA headquarters in Chicago. Predictably, he went to jail and the whole NSPA movement fizzled out.

Just like in the 1970s, today we see the exact same dynamic at work: Jews leading the Alt Right and so-called White Nationalist movements.

It is no secret that the webmaster of the Daily Stormer is/has been Andrew Escher Auernheimer (aka Weev), an Ashkenazi Jew on both sides of his family.

Auernheimer has admitted to being a Jew many times over the years. He has also been outed by his own jewish family. Speaking to Newsweek, his mother Alyse said,

He doesnt like us, she said, adding that her son comes from a large, mixed-race family with Native American heritage, and that he most certainly has Jewish lineage on both sides of his family.

In October 2010, Auernheimer admitted his genetic ties to the Jew Theodore Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement on his official reddit account (still active), which was also verified in one of his court cases:

Well, my line is related to Theodore Herzl, so I have blood ties to Zionist thought.

Like Frank Collin/Cohn, Auernheimer has also served time in jail for illicit activities and crimes.

Below you see the Jew Andrew Escher Auernheimer (right), who looks uncannily like the gay jewish pedophile Allen Ginsberg (left):

Heres another article exposing Weev from Occidental Dissent (archived), detailing how Weev at the Daily Stormer is tied in with Chabad Lubavitch Jews in New York, including Jared Kushner (from the Trump Administration).

Heres Auernheimer promoting violence on a show with Christopher Cantwell, another Alt Right clown and admitted FBI informant.

Hunter Wallace at Occidental Dissent has an excellent overview exposing Weev and his promotion of violence over the years (archived version).

Weevs (and Daily Stormers) subversive and dishonest agenda:

Breitbart is a jewish operation to the core and it has been that way from the beginning.

In an article from August 2016, Breitbarts jewish CEO Lary Solov stated:

They say that we are anti-Semitic, though our company was founded by Jews, is largely staffed by Jews, and has an entire section (Breitbart Jerusalem) dedicated to reporting on and defending the Jewish state of Israel.

As one of the largest of the so-called alternative media websites, Breitbart attempts to be edgy by reporting stories that may be popular with racially aware Whites, while at the same time controlling the narrative and obscuring the hidden Jewish Hand behind the power structure.

In 2015, the Jew Larry Solov wrote an article explaining how Breitbart was born in Israel:

A lot of people dont realize this but Breitbart News Network really got its start in Jerusalem. It was the summer of 2007, and Andrew had been invited to tour Israel as part of a media junket. I agreed to tag along as his lawyer and best friend. What neither of us knew at the time was that the trip would change our lives and give us the inspiration for Breitbart News Network.

One of its co-founders was Steve Bannon, Donald Trumps Chief Strategist, who described Breitbart as THE platform for the alt-right. Yes, this is the same Steven Bannon who was recently outed for his close associations with Mossad operative and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Ben Shapiro, another Jew who plays the part of an edgy conservative when hes not studying The Talmud, which is the jewish blueprint for subverting White Christian society, also spent a few years training at Breitbart as a political commentator.

Its no secret that Ezra Levant, the loudmouth behind Rebel Media, is jewish.

Like Breitbart, Levant plays the role of conservative without ever going near the topics of race or the jewish hand at work in various arenas.

Weve discussed Ezra Levant before in his relation to Tommy Robinson. Levant appears to be one of Tommys handlers, while also being his money manager who collects donations for his legal defense, but well discuss Tommy more below.

Levants job is to keep all discussion about Muslims focused on Islam, rather than the jewish enablers.

The Gatestone Institute seems to be the largest among the kosher-approved anti-Islam websites.

The goal of these websites is simple: lead the opposition by criticizing Islam, but dont go anywhere near the topic of who is enabling, funding, and supporting Muslim immigration into the West. Because if you go there, then that would be antisemitic, of course.

These are what we call the Kosher Crusaders. They will appear to oppose Islam, but theyll never let you know the root cause of the problem.

The Gatestone Institute is right out of the jewish playbook for creating a fake opposition movement:

One of the major publishers of online content friendly to the far-right party is an American website financed in large part and lead by Jewish philanthropist Nina Rosenwald.

Rosenwalds site, the Gatestone Institute, publishes a steady flow of inflammatory content about the German election, focused on stoking fears about immigrants and Muslims. In one of the most recent posts, the website warns of the construction of mosques in Germany and claims that Christianity is becoming extinct.

Here is Rosenwald with Alan Dershowitz, a self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who also seems deeply connected with many other personalities on the alt right and the Trump administration through their mutual connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sites like Gatestone also keep Christians blind to the enemy within while ensuring they never see the bigger picture.

We learn from Wikipedia that John Bolton, the neocon Jew who has a penchant for getting America into wars against Muslims for the sole benefit of Israel, is also actively involved in the Gatestone Institute.

Bolton has been involved with numerous conservative organizations, including the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute, where he served as the organization Chairman until March 2018, and as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq.

Next up from the Kosher Crusaders is Robert Spencer, a close associate of fellow jewish conservative kingpin David Horowitz whose Freedom Center funds Spencers website Jihad Watch, a fairly large site that gets quite a bit of traffic. But the m.o. is the same: criticize Islam, never discuss Jews, and support Israel!

There are many other Kosher Crusaders we could discuss, such as Pamella Geller, but you get the point.

Lauren Simonsen goes by the name Lauren Southern as part of her act. Also part of her act is the bad blonde aryan dye job to make herself more appealing to young, naive White men, despite her attraction to Black men, like the conservative one she dated in high school:

In various contexts she has admitted her jewish ancestry.

For example:

Lauren Southern Simonsen previously worked for the Jew Ezra Levant at Rebel Media.

She has made videos criticizing third world immigration into the West, and like her fellow tribe members in the Alt Right, shell never let you know the source of the problem.

In 2018, she went on a world tour with Stephan Molyneux, another Jew who pretends to be a white nationalist.

Hundreds Mistakenly Protest Jewish Woman for White Supremacist in Australia

Mike Cernovich is another jewish Alt Right figure who has been heavily promoted in the media. Recently, Cernovich has gone into overdrive trying to convince people that Jeffrey Epstein was not connected to the Israeli Mossad.

Here he is with his mentor Alan Dershowitz, who just so happens to have been Jeffrey Epsteins attorney and alleged frequent visitor a Epsteins teenage rape parties:

Here we have Cernovich attempting to speak for his fellow white people on Twitter.

Same story, different talking head.

Mike Enoch Peinovich is the Jew behind TheRightStuff, an antisemetic website which hosts various white nationalist podcasts which have been featured at Andrew Anglins Daily Stormer.

When he first came to public attention, he tried to hide the fact that his wife was jewish, but eventually admitted it, after which he allegedly divorced her to maintain his street cred among nationalists, but all of this was a way to distract his followers from the fact that he himself, not just his wife, is jewish.

Enoch has a habit of wearing dark sunglasses in public to create a tough and fashy image, but when he takes them off, he looks nebbishly jewish:

Mike Enoch Peinovich has, in fact, admitted to being jewish on at least three separate occasions, as you can hear in this video:

Update: Mike Enoch Peinovich is now actively blocking anyone on Twitter who points out that he is a Jew. For Peinovich, the truth is gay ops and needs to be shut down.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay jewish antisemite whom we have covered before on this site:

Yiannopoulos is a poster child of the fake Right whose sole purpose is to subvert and discredit any legitimate opposition to the jewish-dominated liberal agenda.

Not only is Yiannopoulos a flaming homosexual who has a penchant for Black men, hes also an admitted crypto-Jew who loves to troll both liberals and conservatives. Hes a political clown who does nothing but distract White people from the real problems that we face.

Yiannopoulos just so happens to be another jewish antisemite who got his start at Breitbart (there seems to be a pattern here). As Wikipedia points out:

In October 2015, the Breitbart News Network placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new Breitbart Tech section. The site has six full-time staff, including an eSports specialist, and was edited by Yiannopoulos until his resignation on 21 February 2017.

Wikipedia also points out how Yiannopoulos promotes pedophilia:

In the interview in a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can happen perfectly consensually, because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women. He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age.

And most recently, documents released in a lawsuit involving the United The Right rally in Charlottesville reveal that Yiannopoulos is, in fact, an FBI informant who has a vault of materials to discredit and doxx figures in the Alt-Right.

Paul Gottfried is often called the Jewish Godfather of the Alt Right.

Heres an excerpt from Gottfrieds Wikipedia page:

Gottfried is also the first person to use the term alternative right, when referring specifically to developments within American right-wing politics, in 2008. Richard B. Spencer co-created the term with Gottfried while working together at Takis Magazine and helped it to gain wide currency through media attention surrounding conferences organized by his think tank, the National Policy Institute.

Here you can see Gottfried with Richard Spencer and Pat Buchanan:

The pro-homosexual conservative Richard Spencer is also quite the character, with deep family ties to the CIA and various mainstream political figures. Many also claim he is jewish.

Heres Spencer hanging out with his wife and former First Lady Laura Bush:

Stefan Molyneux is a jewish actor who plays the role of a white nationalist and antisemite who points out facts about Jews. Molyneux has been caught in numerous lies over the years and has flip-flopped on many issues.

He is jewish on both sides of his family.

Mothers side:

Fathers side:

Molyneux is an actor who makes a lot of money conning his audience:

Molyneux will occasionally discuss facts about Jews, particularly on Twitter, while feeding his audience various lies and controlling the narrative.

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Why Are Jews Leading The Alt-Right & 'White' Nationalist ...

The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of white culture and white supremacy, and defending the legacy of the Confederacy.

So why did the demonstrators chant anti-Semitic lines like Jews will not replace us?

The demonstration was suffused with anti-black racism, but also with anti-Semitism. Marchers displayed swastikas on banners and shouted slogans like blood and soil, a phrase drawn from Nazi ideology. This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal niggers, one demonstrator told Vice News Elspeth Reeve during their march. As Jews prayed at a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, men dressed in fatigues carrying semi-automatic rifles stood across the street, according to the temples president. Nazi websites posted a call to burn their building. As a precautionary measure, congregants had removed their Torah scrolls and exited through the back of the building when they were done praying.

This is an agenda about celebrating the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, and celebrating those that then fought to preserve that terrible machine of white supremacy and human enslavement, said Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. And yet, somehow, theyre all wearing shirts that talk about Adolf Hitler.

For these demonstrators, though, the connection between African Americans and Jews is clear. In the minds of white supremacists like David Duke, there is a straight line from anti-blackness to anti-Judaism. That logic is powerful and important. The durability of anti-Semitic tropes, and the ease with which they slide into all displays of bigotry, is a chilling reminder that the hatreds of our time rhyme with history and are easily channeled through timeless anti-Semitic canards.

The University of Chicago historian David Nirenberg has spent his career studying anti-Jewish movements and beliefs. Recently, he spoke to a group of students about anti-Semitism on college campuses. At the end of the talk, I said, I wouldnt rush from all this material to thinking that this anti-Semitism is as dangerous as its early 20th-century predecessor, he told me. Seeing the images of the Virginia protest, I must admit, I kind of felt otherwise. It certainly made me feel that books and ideas that I had treated as very marginal in our society are not as marginal as I might have hoped.

Anti-Semitism often functions as a readily available language for all manner of bigotrya Rosetta Stone that can translate animus toward one group into a universal hate for many groups. Ever since St. Paul, Christianity and all the religions born from itIslam, the secular philosophies of Europe, etc.learned to think about their world in terms of overcoming the dangers of Judaism, said Nirenberg. We have these really basic building blocks for thinking about the world and whats wrong with it by thinking about Judaism.

In the world sketched by white supremacists, Jews hover malevolently in the background, pulling strings, controlling events, acting as an all-powerful force backing and enabling the other targets of their hate. Thats clear in statements made by people like Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who proudly marched with other white supremacists in Charlottesville. Jewish Zionists, he complained to a gathered crowd, control the media and American political system.

The extreme right considers many people their threat. But it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

Anti-black and anti-Jewish sentiment have long been intertwined in America. When the Jewish factory worker Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched in 1915, two new groups simultaneously emerged: the ADL, which fights against bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which began by celebrating Franks death. Later in the 20th century, Nazis became a natural model for white-supremacist movements in the United States, said Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College. The logic of white supremacy was similar: Hatreds became universalized through common archetypes. Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists undermining local businesses. Black Americans fleeing the South in the Great Migration were seen as taking away crucial labor. Catholics were seen as immigrants stealing American jobs.

After the Holocaust, neo-Nazi movements were largely consigned to the countrys political fringe, although they never fully left the American landscape. In 1978, for example, a Nazi group pushed to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, deliberately selecting an area densely populated by Holocaust survivors. The proposed march caused a national uproar, and the American Civil Liberties Union famously defended the groups First Amendment rights in court. Eventually, they ended up demonstrating in Chicago.

The Charlottesville demonstration differed from the planned Skokie march in two important respects, Nirenberg said. First of all, theres a political context for the Unite the Right demonstration. It fits into debates over free speech and college campuses as the front lines of cultural battle, he said. The Skokie march was also widely and vigorously condemned by political leaders. That strong, clear commitment to certain values of inclusion from our political leaders is not present in the same way, Nirenberg said.

On Monday, President Donald Trump held a press conference about the violence in Charlottesville. Racism is evil, he said. Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. This statement came two days after his initial comments on the protests, in which he condemned the hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. The suggested equivalence between the white-supremacist demonstrators and their counter-protesters shocked politicians and public figures in both parties, who quickly criticized Trumps unwillingness to condemn neo-Nazis and the KKK. Its very clear that the people marching in Charlottesville felt very supported by the shape of the public statements made by President Trump, said Nirenberg. On Tuesday, the president held another press conference in which he reiterated his previous claims, saying, What about the alt-left that came charging with clubs in their hands? Do they have any problem? I think they do.

Greenblatt argued that the backlash against Trumps comments is not about politicsits about recognizing a pattern of anti-Semitism. There was the Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that didnt mention Jews; the conspiratorial meme of Hillary Clinton and a Star of David that Trump retweeted during the campaign; the infamous Nazi salute and shouts of Hail Trump! at an alt-right conference following the election. In the past several days, a number of groups have renewed their calls for Trump to fire Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, in part based on Bannons role in heading Breitbart, which he called a platform for the alt-right.

To people like Greenblatt, these are all signs that, at best, the White House does not take anti-Semitism seriously enough. At worst, the Trump administration indulges bigotry so as not to alienate some supporters. Heck, theres Jewish grandchildren running around the White House, Greenblatt said. But make no mistake, the extreme right considers many people their threat, but it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture.

As Nirenberg pointed out, the violence in Charlottesville was part of a broader political context. The fringe right is reacting to other political movements with nostalgia, Feld saida yearning for people, including minorities like Jews and blacks, to know their place.

It makes sense to me that just as were seeing people of all backgrounds be brave enough to insist that these monuments about slavery be toppled, Feld said, these people would come out and say we would want to return to the way things were.

The identity politics of the intersectional left are radically different from the generalized bigotry of the far-right fever swamps. And yet, they are in relationship: Universalized movements that aim to fight oppression against all peoples in all of their identities necessarily invite backlash from those who feel that theyre losing their place in society. It would really reduce and impoverish debate to see this example as primarily an anti-Jewish rally [or] as entirely an anti-African American rally. Its all those things, said Nirenberg. To the extent that we separate those and claim, No, its only about my identity, we fail to understand basic aspects of identity politics in the present.

Of course there are neo-Nazis in our time. There are those who hate Jews in every time. Its a hatred that easily flickers between the universal and the particular, melding with the similarly particular hatreds of blacks and immigrants and other minority groups. You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture, Feld said. I dont feel like the world is unsafe for Jews. I really dont. But I do feel like all social groups need to pay careful attention and speak out against whats happening.

Like Nirenberg, Feld was trained to look at the images coming out of Charlottesville and see not a freak occurrence, but the echoes of history.

God, she said. Its fucking scary.

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Anti-Semitism at the Deadly Charlottesville Protests - The ...

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an Illinois-based right-wing student organization founded by Charlie Kirk, 25, who now serves as executive director, and William Montgomery, the groups treasurer. Kirk was 18 when he met Montgomery, who was then in his late 60s, after Kirk gave a speech at Benedictine University in Illinois in 2012.[3]

The organizations stated mission is to identify educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. TPUSA claims to have representation at more than 1,300 high schools and college campuses nationwide. It also runs the controversial Professor Watchlist, which seeks to expose professors who allegedly discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom. The group has raised millions of dollars from conservative donors since its founding.[4]In the groups six-year history, TPUSAs leadership and activists have made multiple racist or bigoted comments and have been linked to a variety of extremists.

Kirk and Candace Owens, 29, are the public face of TPUSA. They often appear at public events together. Owens became communications director and director of urban outreach after she emerged as a right-wing activist during Gamergate, a debate over journalistic ethics in videogame review which devolved into vicious harassment campaign against people (mostly women) who spoke out against misogyny and sexism in the videogaming community.[5]

Owens, who is black, is no stranger to controversial statements; she frequently claims that Democrats have brainwashed black people.[6]

Looking beyond American campuses, TPUSA is expanding its activities abroad. Owens made her December 2018 comments about Hitler during an event to help establish a British version of the group, Turning Point UK.[7]

TPUSA and Right-Wing Extremists

TPUSA has received considerable support from conservatives and pro-Trump organizations. Right-wing extremists reactions to the group have been varied, but generally positive. TPUSA has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots and alt lite activists, and from some corners of the white supremacist alt right. However, other white supremacists have criticized TPUSA for distancing itself from controversial stances on racism, and for the groups connections to non-white right-wing activists.

In 2018, white supremacist James Dunphy (possibly a pseudonym) wrote an article for the racist website Counter-Currents neatly capturing the prevailing mixed feelings about TPUSA. Dunphy criticized Kirks compliance with political correctness but praised him for doing wonderful things with TPUSA, saying that group members have openly supported building Trumps wall, deporting illegal immigrants, ending affirmative action, defunding sanctuary cities, and stopping unassimilable Muslims from immigrating to Europe. Dunphy also claimed that despite having many differences with white nationalists, TPUSA will nevertheless benefit them because the number of people who will migrate from its platform to a white nationalist one will be far larger than those who do the reverse.[8]

White supremacists do occasionally show up at TPUSA events, sometimes to hear the speakers and other times to linger outside in the hopes of confronting left-wing activists. Charlie Kirk has spoken out against such incidents, which can attract significant negative publicity. When white supremacists appeared outside an event at Colorado State University in early 2018, Kirk told attendees, its not who we are, its not what we believe, its not what Turning Point believes.[9]

However, in spite of such statements and attempts by TPUSA to manage some of its scandals, the controversies keep bubbling up, with most falling into one or more of these categories:

Controversies

The past three years have seen many controversial and problematic incidents connected to TPUSA.

Note: in the list that follows, several individuals are described as associated with the alt lite. The alt lite is a spin-off movement from the white supremacist alt right. Its adherents typically eschew the explicit white supremacy of the alt right but otherwise share its extremism and its prejudices, including against Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ people (especially transgender people), and women.

May 2019: Left-wing website "It's Going Down" posted a cellphonevideo of Riley Gisar,the presidentof the TPUSA chapter at theUniversity of Nevada,Las Vegas,shouting "white power." The video also shows thewoman standing next to Gisar and the person shooting the video making racist comments andshouting,"white power." Gisar and the womanalso make the okay handgesture, which has been used as a trolling technique by people falsely claimingthe gesture represents the letters wp, for white power. However, more recently, a number of peoplehaveused the gesture as a sincere expression of white supremacy. It is unclear when the video was recorded; TPUSA responded by announcing that Gisar had beenpermanentlyremoved from the organization.

February 2019: Video surfaced of the organizations communications director, Candace Owens, appearing to defend both Adolf Hitler and nationalism. If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run wellokay, fine. The problem is that hehad dreams outside of Germany [and] wanted to globalize, she said. Her comments, made at a December 2018 event in London, sparked widespread criticism.[1]Owens later clarified her statement, saying it was an attempt to separate the term nationalist from its associations with Hitler, adding, "He wasn't a nationalistHe was a homicidal, psychotic maniac."[2]

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