"Identitarianism", aka white supremacy

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christiefan915

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Identitarianism” is a newfangled euphemism for white supremacy. Coined around the start of the 21st century by the intellectual wing — such as it is — of the French far right, it has since been adopted by white nationalists the world over. Last October, I attended a conference in Washington convened by the identitarian movement’s American division, the National Policy Institute (NPI). It was fitting that the gathering would occur on Halloween, as about 150 ghouls filled the ballroom of the National Press Club.

The crowd was almost entirely male, many of them (apparently taking advantage of the under-30 registration discount) young. A conspicuous number sported the Hitler Youth–inspired hairdo known as an “undercut,” short on the sides with a long part on top. In between encomia to the recently deceased anti-Semitic newspaper publisher Willis Carto and a recitation of pagan reveries by a white-separatist folk musician, attendees perused bookstalls featuring the conspiracy-mongering American Free Press newspaper and the Holocaust-denying Barnes Review.

What drew me to spend an otherwise pleasant Saturday afternoon among a group of white supremacists was the buzz that Donald Trump’s then-nascent presidential campaign had stirred within the movement. Trump’s politics of resentment thrives on a sort of coded groupthink — namely, white groupthink.

Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/433215/donald-trump-white-supremacist-supporters
 
Alt-Right: The Suit and Tie Version of White Supremacists

The Wall Street Journal describes it as a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that “rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.”

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the “Alt-Right.” A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party.He got part of that right. A lot of people don’t know about the alt-right. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

One name that pops up a lot when describing the alt-right is someone who takes credit for coming up with those last two more “politically correct” labels – Richard Spencer. I wrote a bit about him a year ago when Evan Osnos published a fascinating article about how his travels among white supremacists had introduced him to the idea that they were celebrating the rise of Donald Trump. Here is how Osnos described Spencer:

Richard Spencer is a self-described “identitarian” who lives in Whitefish, Montana, and promotes “white racial consciousness.” At thirty-six, Spencer is trim and preppy, with degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. He is the president and director of the National Policy Institute, a think tank, co-founded by William Regnery, a member of the conservative publishing family, that is “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States and around the world.” The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Spencer “a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old.

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And here is what Spencer said about the candidacy of Donald Trump way back then:

“Trump, on a gut level, kind of senses that this is about demographics, ultimately. We’re moving into a new America.” He said, “I don’t think Trump is a white nationalist,” but he did believe that Trump reflected “an unconscious vision that white people have – that their grandchildren might be a hated minority in their own country. I think that scares us. They probably aren’t able to articulate it. I think it’s there. I think that, to a great degree, explains the Trump phenomenon.”

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/26/alt-right-the-suit-and-tie-version-of-white-supremacists/
 
Yep. I hate white supremacists almost as much as Islamic terrorists. They have a lot of the same beliefs, you know.
 
Is this the replacement term for progressive ?
We know who believes blacks are incapabless of competing with whites. They support affirmative action.
 
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