{"id":200419,"date":"2017-06-22T04:57:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism-southern-poverty-law-center\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T08:57:20","slug":"competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism-southern-poverty-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/freedom-of-speech\/competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism-southern-poverty-law-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Competing Alt-Right &#8216;Free Speech&#8217; Rallies Reveal Infighting Over White Nationalism &#8211; Southern Poverty Law Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>              Tim 'Baked Alaska' Gionet posted a meme aimed at the              'alt light' rally.            <\/p>\n<p>    Although the alt-right presents itself as a new kind of white    male nationalism rewired for the 21st century, it is    proving in practice to have many of the same qualities as its    old 20th-century forebears: Riddled with infighting    and internecine quarrels, the product of a movement whose    sociopathic agenda attracts similar personalities, ego-driven    and contentious.  <\/p>\n<p>    The infighting, which first erupted last week between far-right    Oath Keepers and whitenationalist alt-righters, deepened    this week when two factions outright white nationalists    and committed racists on one hand, and alt-righters (dismissed    as the \"alt-light\") who disavow them and their politics while    embracing the movement agenda squared off on social    media over a series of free speech events aimed at provoking    left-wing counter-protests and, potentially violence.  <\/p>\n<p>    The result is that there will be two competing free speech    events this Sunday in Washington, D.C.;one a Rally    Against Political Violence hosted by alt-right provocateur    Jack Posobiec, planned for noon at the White House; the other a    Freedom of    Speech Rally hosted by Colton Merwin at the Lincoln    Memorial, and featuring such whitenationalist figures as        Richard Spencer, Nathan Damigo of Identity     Evropa, far-right     neo-Pagan Augustus Invictus, blogger     Jason Kessler, and social-media celebrity Tim    Baked Alaska Gionet.  <\/p>\n<p>    The White House rally will feature alt-right figures such as    Laura Loomer (who     recently made headlines by taking the stage     during a performance of Julius Caesar in New York    City),     Kekistan fan Cassandra Fairbanks, and Kyle Prescott of        the alt-right fight club Proud Boys. It apparently was    organized by alt-right    figure Mike Cernovich and Posobiec in response to the    roster of speakers invited to the Lincoln Memorial rally;    speakers such as Loomer (whose background included a stint as a    writer for hate-group leader Pamela    Gellers Islamophobia operation) had originally been    scheduled to speak there but then    canceled.  <\/p>\n<p>    Organizers explained    the rally is intended to condemn political violence such as    the attack on Steve Scalise and US Congress recently, as well    as depictions of gruesome displays of brutality against sitting    US national leaders. All sides must join together to condemn    violence and the violent rhetoric that inspires it!  <\/p>\n<p>    The Lincoln Memorial rally organizers     expressed their regrets: I'm sure some of you have already    heard by now, but several speakers have dropped out due to the    confirmation of Richard Spencer as a speaker. Now, not only is    this horribly hypocritical, but is also bordering on an Antifa    principle. By not sharing the platform with someone you    disagree with you are therefore not supporting their right to    speak.  <\/p>\n<p>    I don't know Spencer, I have been famously ambivalent toward    the man, but I am looking forward to meeting with him and to    defending his right to say whatever the hell he's going to say    on Sunday, chimed in     Augustus Invictus. That is where I stand.  <\/p>\n<p>    The two sides began sniping at each other on social media. All    of you guys pulling out of the Freedom of Speech Rally are    cucks, posted a critic on     the Facebook page of the Political Violence rally. It's    flat out hypocritical to be speaking at a Freedom of Speech    rally only to pull out of the event because someone you    disagree with is speaking. That makes you a hypocrite with no    balls and no conviction. Grow a pair.  <\/p>\n<p>    On Twitter, Spencer     labeled Posobiec a cuck, and     taunted him: Oooosh... Jack Posobiec is a great war hero.    No one can criticize him. He     dismissed the rally as the \"Alt Light,\" and called them \"a    collection of liars ... perverts ... and Zionist    fanatics.\"He also     made fun of them for changing the focus of their rally:    Apparently, these dorks blushed at the idea of calling their    little meet-up a free speech rally.     He added: The Tea Party, at least at its inception, was an    authentic expression of American nationalism. These people    total zeros.  <\/p>\n<p>    Jason Kessler posted     a video demonstrating that Posobiec had plagiarized his    work while he was employed at the Canadian alt-right website    The Rebel; in response, Posobiec     blocked him. Posobiec also apparently    blocked Baked Alaska for criticizing one of his media    stunts.  <\/p>\n<p>    Baked Alaska also got into a Twitter war with Loomer after he    posted a meme with her face Photoshopped into a gas chamber,    outside which stood Donald Trump in a Nazi uniform, ready to    pull the switch: Et tu, brute? it    read.  <\/p>\n<p>    Loomer responded    in shock: Wow. I'm calling on @bakedalaska to fully condemn    anti-Semitism after posting this pic of me inside a gas    chamber.  <\/p>\n<p>    He laughed    at her: It's a fucking meme. You're an SJW [Social    Justice Warrior] now and it's hilarious.  <\/p>\n<p>              The poster for Kessler's Aug. 12 event.            <\/p>\n<p>    A similar feud threatened to break out over another free    speech event, this one     an Aug. 12 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.,    organized by Kessler as part of     his ongoing protest against the threatened removal of a    Confederate monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee.  <\/p>\n<p>    The lineup for that event includes Spencer, Augustus Invictus,    white nationalist Matthew Heimbach, and     League of the South president     Michael Hill.  <\/p>\n<p>    Infighting is part of every movement - but it doesn't have to    be, posted Augustus Invictus on his    Facebook page, along with a poster for the event.  <\/p>\n<p>    A white nationalist commented: Very happy to see that    Based Stickman, the anti-white civic nationalist cuck and    shameless mountebank, has apparently been removed from the    line-up. Good. He would've been fundamentally at odds with the    other speakers.  <\/p>\n<p>    Responded Kessler: He's planning to be here in a non-speaking    role to back-up our attendees in the event of Antifa violence.    For that, he is a friend to the event and to the First    Amendment rights of our speakers.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the meantime, another would-be participant     posted: \"Will the Oath Cucks be there?\"  <\/p>\n<p>    It might be time to stock up on the popcorn.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2017\/06\/21\/competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism\" title=\"Competing Alt-Right 'Free Speech' Rallies Reveal Infighting Over White Nationalism - Southern Poverty Law Center\">Competing Alt-Right 'Free Speech' Rallies Reveal Infighting Over White Nationalism - Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tim 'Baked Alaska' Gionet posted a meme aimed at the 'alt light' rally. Although the alt-right presents itself as a new kind of white male nationalism rewired for the 21st century, it is proving in practice to have many of the same qualities as its old 20th-century forebears: Riddled with infighting and internecine quarrels, the product of a movement whose sociopathic agenda attracts similar personalities, ego-driven and contentious. The infighting, which first erupted last week between far-right Oath Keepers and whitenationalist alt-righters, deepened this week when two factions outright white nationalists and committed racists on one hand, and alt-righters (dismissed as the \"alt-light\") who disavow them and their politics while embracing the movement agenda squared off on social media over a series of free speech events aimed at provoking left-wing counter-protests and, potentially violence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/freedom-of-speech\/competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism-southern-poverty-law-center\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}