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The white nationalist leaders who helped organize a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia two days ago that turned bloody gave a press conference in Virginia in which they refused to condemn the man suspected of driving his car into a crowd of protesters and dismissed President Trumps statement disavowing white supremacists earlier that day.

White nationalists have been struggling to distance themselves from the outbreak of violence Saturday, which lead to national media coverage and angry condemnations not just from the local mayor and governor but from world leaders like Germany's Prime Minister Angela Merkel. The violent images from the protest, organized to oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, have badly damaged the white nationalists' movement attempt to rebrand itself as the more respectable and sophisticated "alt-right."

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Richard Spencer and Nathan Damigo, two leading figures of the white nationalist alt-right movement who had participated in Saturdays Unite the Right rally , spoke to reporters at Spencers office and apartment in Alexandria. The press conference was also supposed to include white nationalist social media personalities Baked Alaska and James Allsup, but Spencer said Baked Alaska couldnt make it because his eye had been injured in the melee and Allsup was with him. Spencer had initially tried to hold the conference at two different hotels in Washington, before having to resort to the Alexandria location after the hotels cancelled on him.

Spencer associates functioning as security checked journalists in at the door and led them upstairs to where Spencer and Damigo stood in front of a bookshelf and a screen where they showed slides and photos of the protest area in Charlottesville.

Spencer blamed the authorities for what happened in Charlottesville, saying the citys mayor and governor of Virginia have blood on their hands for not policing the situation properly. The alt-right, he said, is nonviolent; he waxed nostalgic while speaking about the hundreds of white nationalists marching through Charlottesville with torches on Friday night, calling the event really beautiful. Some fighting between them and counter-protesters reportedly took place during the Friday event; Saturdays rally attracted militia members with guns, and descended into all-out street violence.

But one person who didnt come in for unequivocal criticism was Charlottesville suspect James Alex Fields, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman who had come to protest the Unite the Right event. Fields was photographed earlier in the day at the rally with Vanguard America, a self-identified white supremacist and fascist group that attended the rally. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called the incident an act of terrorism. Videos of the incident show a vehicle authorities have said was driven by Fields accelerating into a crowd of protesters, injuring more than a dozen and killing Heyer.

I am not going to condemn this young man at this point, Spencer said. When he first saw the video, he said, he saw it as a malicious act of violence; but hes now less sure that it was a purposeful act and wont come down on one side or another until an investigation is complete.

The press conference came just a few hours after Trump, whose initial reaction to Charlottesville had been muted and blamed many sides for the violence without singling out white supremacist groups, gave a grudging statement at the White House explicitly naming them after two days of criticism for not having done so. Photos from Charlottesville show Confederate and Nazi symbols among some of the demonstrators.

Racism is evil, Trump said. And 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.

Spencer dismissed Trumps statement as kumbaya nonsense and said he didnt view it as a repudiation of his movement, which he defended as non-violent.

He sounded like a Sunday school teacher, he said. I just dont take it seriously.

Speaking to me afterwards, Damigo agreed that he didnt take Trumps words as an unequivocal denouncement of their movement.

I dont know exactly what he meant by that statement, Damigo said. People in his position, theyre not stupid, they make these very ambiguous statements with words that are very loaded and hard to interpret.

But Damigo is very disappointed that he would present himself in a way, appearing to jump to conclusions as to what happened, because simply, we dont know the facts yet. Theyre going to be coming out. An investigation hasnt even been done yet. But he already knows the intent of what happened?

Spencer has been critical of Trump over time, though We were connected with Donald Trump on a kind of psychic level, he said of the alt-right. Trump is the first true authentic nationalist in my lifetime.

Asked who in the White House he views as a fellow traveler of the alt-right, Spencer named top policy advisor Stephen Miller and chief strategist Steve Bannon, though he didnt say they themselves were alt-right.

They at least are connected with identitarian ideas in a way that the rest of them are not, Spencer said.

When I spoke to Spencer after the events of Saturday, he seemed keen to distance himself from what had happened, saying he hadnt organized the event (despite the fact that his name was on the flyer) and that his events would be more tightly controlled going forward.

Spencer repeated the same sentiments on Monday. But he seemed less than cowed, promising to return to Charlottesville.

Theres no way in hell Im not going back to Charlottesville, he said.

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'Alt-Right' Leaders Won't Condemn Ramming Suspect - The Atlantic

The voice and text chat app Discord has shut down its notorious alt-right server after the events in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one person dead.

Announced via its official Twitter account, Discord revealed it had not only shut down the server, but also a number of accounts "associate with the events in Charlottesville." The server was one of the larger on the app, and had become infamous for its level of hate speech, racist content and calls to violence. This behavior is against the sites Terms and Service, Discord CMO Eros Resmini pointed out to Polygon.

"We unequivocally condemn white supremacy, Neo-Nazism or any other group, term, ideology that is based on these beliefs. They are not welcome on Discord," Resmini said to the outlet. "When hatred like this violates our community standards we act swiftly to take servers down and ban individual users. The public server linked to AltRight.com that violated those terms was shut down along with several other public groups and accounts fostering bad actors on Discord. We will continue to be aggressive to ensure that Discord exists for the community we set out to support gamers."

According to the app's terms of service, those who "defame, libel, ridicule, mock, stalk, threaten, harass or abuse anyone" are in violation. Furthermore, its community guidelines caution that any users distributing intentionally harmful material to someone's "physical or financial state" are in violation of the site's Terms and subject to immediate account deletion.

"We will continue to take action against white supremacy, nazi ideology and all forms of hate," the company said. It is expected to continue to shut down other servers associated with the alt-right in the coming months.

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Discord Shuts Down Its Alt-Right Server After Charlottesville Protests - RollingStone.com

America has cancer.

On Saturday, a crowd of alt-right white supremacists, neo-confederates, and Nazi sympathizers marched in Charlottesville, Va.; they were confronted by a large group of protesters including members of the Marxist Antifa a group that has time and again plunged volatile situations into violence, from Sacramento to Berkeley. Theres still no certain knowledge of who began the violence, but before long, the sides had broken into the sort of brutal scrum that used to characterize Weimer-era Germany. The two sides then carried the red banner and the swastika; so did the combatants on Saturday.

Then a Nazi-sympathizing alt-right 20-year-old Ohioan plowed his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19. The president of the United States promptly failed egregiously to condemn alt-right racism; instead, he opted for a milquetoast statement condemning hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.

The Left leapt into action, declaring Trumps statement utterly insufficient which, of course, it was. But they then went further, declaring that Antifa was entirely innocent, despite Antifas launching into violence against pro-Trump marchers in Seattle over the weekend, as they have in Sacramento and Berkeley; berating New York Times journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg for having the temerity to report that the hard left seemed as hate-filled as the alt-right; and suggesting that all conservatives were, at root, sympathizers with the Nazi-friendly alt-right.

And so here we stand: On the one side, a racist, identity-politics Left dedicated to the proposition that white people are innate beneficiaries of privilege and therefore must be excised from political power; on the other side, a reactionary, racist, identity-politics alt-right dedicated to the proposition that white people are innate victims of the social-justice class and therefore must regain political power through race-group solidarity.

None of this is new, of course. The Left has engaged in identity politics since the 1960s and engaged in heavy violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The white-supremacist movement has been with us since the founding of the republic. But both movements had been steadily shrinking until the last few years.

Now theyre growing. And theyre largely growing in opposition to one another. In fact, the growth of each side reinforces the growth of the other: The mainstream Left, convinced that the enemies of social-justice warriors are all alt-right Nazis, winks and nods at left-wing violence; the right, convinced that its SJW enemies are focused on racial polarization, embraces the alt-right as a form of resistance. Antifa becomes merely a radical adjunct to traditional Democratic-party politics; the alt-right becomes merely a useful tool for scurrilous Republican politicians and media figures.

Three factors led to this self-reinforcing growth loop.

First, increasing political polarization.

President Obama allowed the politics of racial fragmentation to fester on his watch; he repeatedly trafficked in broad generalities about American racism. Obama focused incessantly on the specter of white bigotry: the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, embedded in our collective DNA. In response, an identity politics began creepily infusing the Right, with some white people embracing the mold cast upon them by the Left, creating a soft racial solidarity in backlash. This, of course, only strengthened the Lefts views of white privilege, which in turn strengthened the Rights views of white victimhood.

The second factor was media malfeasance.

Left-wing media and objective media saw an advantage in highlighting the antics of racists such as Richard Spencer and David Duke. Focusing on the racist alt-right allowed the media to draw the convenient conclusion that the alt-right was a growing force in Republican politics that had to be fought through support for Democrats. Meanwhile, the media cast a blind eye toward Antifas violent Weimer-style rioting in Sacramento and Berkeley.

In response, right-wing media began tut-tutting the alt-right as victims of Antifa and focused exclusively on Antifa as a nefarious force; they also responded to the Lefts disgusting attempts to lump in the Right with the alt-right by accepting a broader, false definition of the alt-right that could include traditional conservatism. They even bought into the shameful rebranding of the alt-right as defenders of Western civilization by shills such as Milo Yiannopoulos. That rebranding provided a convenient way of fighting the Left: If the Left is calling us alt-right, thats just because they hate that we stand for Western civilization!

Finally, theres political convenience.

Obamas repeated references to American racism werent his only sin. He repeatedly shunned opportunities to tamp down leftist racial radicalism. He made excuses for riots in Ferguson and Baltimore. He used the shooting of Dallas police officers by a radical black activist as an opportunity to lecture Americans about the evils of racist policing. He knew that his political support came in large measure from SJWs, and he cultivated them.

Meanwhile, on the right, Trump did the same. During the campaign, he ignored opportunity after opportunity to break with the alt-right. He refused to condemn the KKK on national television; he refused to condemn his supporters sending anti-Semitic messages to journalists; he hired as his campaign strategist Steve Bannon, a man who openly celebrated turning Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. Trump saw the alt-right as convenient allies, his meme-making deplorable friends on the Internet. They reveled in both his unwillingness to condemn them and his willingness to share their work.

And so here we are. The mainstream Left has been increasingly suckered into walking hand-in-hand with the SJWs while ignoring the most egregious activities of Antifa; the mainstream Right has been increasingly seduced into footsie with alt-right associates while feigning ignorance at the alt-right itself.

Thats why Charlottesville matters: not only because we saw destruction and terror, but because if all Americans of good conscience wont do some soul-searching and move to excise the evil in their midst, that evil will metastasize. There is a cancer in the body politic. We must cut it out, or be destroyed.

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Ben Shapiro is the editor in chief of the Daily Wire.

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Antifa and the Alt-Right, Growing in Opposition to One Another - National Review

One day after being pushed to condemn white supremacy and hate groups, President Donald Trump turned back to spreading the alt-right message including retweeting, then deleting, a cartoon of a person superimposed with the CNN logo being run over by a train.

The White House has since told NBCs Kristen Welker that the retweet of the train-CNN meme was "inadvertently posted," and immediately removed when noticed.

On Saturday, a Nazi sympathizer at a white supremacist rally whose mother identified as a Trump supporter rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism counter-protesters, killing one and injuring more than a dozen. In the immediate aftermath, Trump refused to condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists specifically.

Then, after making a statement specifically denouncing racism, Trump retweeted another alt-right activist in a post that hit the media for focusing too much on Charlottesville instead of a recent spate of homicides in Chicago. Jack Posobiec was known for amplifying Pizzagate, the Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory that eventually led a gunman into a Washington, DC, pizza restaurant.

The tweet was both a nod to Trumps law and order narrative and to his contempt for the media, after a spate of unfavorable stories censured his response to the recent violent white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Posobiec, the alt-right social media voice who Trump retweeted, had also shared and eventually deleted a fake news story falsely framing an anti-Trump demonstrator as the driver of the car.

Trump was clearly upset about the negative media attention he has been receiving in recent days. After making amended and stronger remarks about the terror attack in Charlottesville, Trump tweeted that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied.

Trumps frustration with the media has resulted in alternate messages between attempts to appease the admonishing members of the Republican Party, while also currying the favor of a white nationalist base.

It appears he has settled on the latter.

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Trump is back to tweeting alt-right memes - Vox

The organizers of an alt-right rally in Boston this weekend have vowed to move ahead with the event in the wake of violence at a similar event in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.

The demonstration is just one of several so-called free speech rallies planned across the United States this week, with right-wing events planned later in the summer.

The rally on Saturday IS NOT CANCELED. Not sure where this rumor came from, the Boston Free Speech rallys organizers wrote on Facebook late Monday.

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Members of white nationalist protesters hold shields as they clash against a group of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12. Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Information about the potential shutdown was posted Monday on 4Chan, an anonymous internet forum that has become a home for hard-right ideologues. The same day Bostons mayor Martin Walsh said, I dont want them here. We dont need them here.

The group wrote online that the Boston Police Department and the city are ignoring their calls but that their permit for the rally remains.

Walsh said Monday that he is exploring ways to shut down the rally over fears of similar bloodshed to that in Charlottesville, where one counterprotester died and dozens were seriously injured after a car that police believewas driven by an alt-right member plowed into a group of pedestrians.

We are not in any way associated with the organizers of the Charlottesville rally, the Boston events organizers wrote on Facebook. But the event shares speakers in common with the violent Virginia rally.

Speakers at the event include alt-right figures such as Tim Baked Alaska Gionet, who was a speaker in Charlottesville. Kyle Based Stick Man Chapman and Joe Biggs, a former contributor to the conspiracy theory website InfoWars, will also be there.

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The so-called alt-right movement is a loose-knit group of racist white nationalists, nationalists, conspiracy theoristsand misogynists.

Some of the speakers began to pull out of the Boston event Monday, including alt-right figure Gavin McInnes, who has written for racist websites, including Vdare, and is a contributor at The Rebel, an alt-right online media outlet.

In addition to Boston, rallies are also being planned for Saturday, August 19, in Mountain View, California; Los Angeles; New York City;Washington, D.C.;Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. These events are being organized by alt-right figure Jack Posobiec in opposition to Google and in solidarity with former Google engineer James Damore. Posobiec has said specifically said that the event is not an alt-right event but is open to anyone who values free speech.

Damore was fired as an engineer with the internet search giant last week after he wrote a memo criticizing the companys diversity policies. Damore said Tuesday that he does not want the alt-rights support. I do not support the alt-right, he told CNN Tech. Just because someone supports me doesnt mean I support them.

The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, which has been promoting these events as part of what it branded the Summer of Hate, was shut down Monday following the Charlottesville rally after it mocked counterprotester Heather Heyer, who was killed when a car plowed into the crowd. We are going to start doing this nonstop. Across the country, the site said after the Charlottesville rally.

These rallies arent about popularizing white nationalism, readan anonymous post on 4Chan on Sunday, but about normalizing white nationalism.

We need more of these in the future, it said, hopefully with an even larger turnout.

Another rally is being planned for September 16 in Richmond, Virginia, around a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee to protest the removal of similar statues from public spaces in Civil Warera Southern states. White supremacist Richard Spencer is also seeking permission to speak next month at the University of Florida.

Counterprotests are being planned in response to the rally in Boston as well, with the Black Lives Matter civil rights group saying they will march against the alt-right.

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Where Are the Next Alt-Right, White Nationalist Rallies Planned? - Newsweek