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Rachel Zoll and Angie Wang, Associated Press 10:01 a.m. CT June 14, 2017

Home to prominent evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a statement on moral leadership at the group's annual meeting Tuesday. It avoided pointed criticism of current political officeholders. The denomination also rejected a proposal to condemn the "alt-right." The political movement has come to the forefront during the presidential election that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism. Barrett Duke is a Southern Baptist executive who shepherded the statements through the meeting. He said the resolution contained inflammatory and broad language "potentially implicating" conservatives who do not support the "alt-right" movement. Wochit

Southern Baptist Executive Committee President Frank S. Page speaks during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.(Photo: .AP)

PHOENIX A national meeting of Southern Baptists will consider condemning the political movement known as the "alt-right" amid a debate aboutthe denomination's commitment to confronting prejudice. Barrett Duke, a Southern Baptist leader who led a committee that decided which resolutions should be considered for a vote, said the resolution as originally written contained inflammatory and broad language "potentially implicating" conservatives who do not support the "alt-right" movement.

More: First Presbyterian Church seeks healing, redemption for sins committed during civil rights era But the decision caused concern online and at the gathering in Phoenix from Southern Baptists and other Christians, especially black evangelicals. The denomination has been striving to overcome its founding in the 19th century in defense of slaveholders. Thabiti Anyabwile, a black Southern Baptist pastor, tweeted that "any 'church' that cannot denounce white supremacy without hesitancy and equivocation is a dead, Jesus denying assembly. No 2 ways about it". Southern Baptist leaders responded late Tuesday night with a call for attendees to return to the assembly hall, then announced they would take up the proposal after all on Wednesday. In encouraging the meeting to reconsider, Steve Gaines, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said he wanted to send the message that "we love everybody on this planet."

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The initial proposed resolution came from a prominent black Southern Baptist pastor, the Rev. Dwight McKissic, who had submitted the suggested statement to Duke's committee before this week's gathering. He called the "alt-right" a symptom of "social disease," ''deceptive" and "antithetical to what we believe." His resolution condemned Christians who attempted to use biblical teachings to justify white supremacy. The Southern Baptist Convention, based in Nashville, has 15.2 million members and is the largest Protestant group in the country. Leaders have repeatedly condemned racism in formal resolutions from the meeting and built new relationships with black Baptists.

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Southern Baptist Convention ponders rebuke of 'alt-right' - Montgomery Advertiser

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A scholar of the Ku Kux Klan explains how the KKK used the same trolling tactics as the alt-right. Pacific Standard To get a sense of the historical context behind today's alt-right, I spoke with Elaine Parsons, a professor of history at Duquesne University and author of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan in Reconstruction. The book is an excellent history of the 19th ...

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A scholar of the Ku Kux Klan explains how the KKK used the same trolling tactics as the alt-right. - Pacific Standard

The man called the Jewish godfather of the alt-right has a new book out this year and white nationalist websites are applauding the work.

Author and academic Paul Gottfried, mentor to Richard Spencer and self-described paleoconservative, released his thirteenth book this spring, a collection of essays titled Revisions and Dissents.

In the books introduction, Gottfried writes blasts historians who he says have become lazy in their historical analysis. He casts himself as a contrary rebel, one who is willing to challenge the establishments acceptable ideas and liberal pieties.

Contemporary historians, Gottfried writes, display a bias against certain groups that do not enjoy liberal respectability.

Some of those unpopular groups that Gottfried believes are being unfairly dismissed? Germans, southern whites and medieval Christians, among others.

On the white nationalist website VDare, John Derbyshire remarked on Gottfrieds impressive virtuosity. A glowing June 11 review found almost no faults with the new release and remarked on Gottfrieds great skill and erudition.

Another April article on the same website proclaimed: Three Cheers Three Cheers For Paul Gottfrieds Revisions and Dissents.

The fingerprints of his intellectual prowess can be found all over the writings of the alt rights better known names, VDares Hubert Collins wrote.

Who is this Jewish intellectual being lauded on a white nationalist website?

Gottfrieds earned his undergraduate degree at Yeshiva University, Modern Orthodoxys flagship institution, and received his doctorate from Yale. He spent much of his later career at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where he is an emeritus professor.

Gottfried calls himself a paleoconservativeanother term he coinedwhich is usually taken to mean a conservative who value limited government, tradition and Western identity. This is in contrast to neoconservatives who emphasize an interventionist United States over other policies. Paleoconservatives favor an isolationist foreign policy, restrictions on immigration and controls on free trade.

But like many neoconservatives, Gottfried is Jewish, Northeast-born and was educated in an Ivy League institution. Still, he casts himself as a sworn enemy to neoconservatives, castigating them for being insufficiently conservative.

In 2008, Gottfried founded and still runs the H.L. Mencken Club, to create conferences that would provide a regular gathering place for conservatives like himself. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, these conferences have from their first meeting served to bring together racists and white nationalists.

Few people have known just how to make sense of Gottfrieds position in the alt-right universe.

Even he is a bit uncomfortable.

When his portrait was included a recent New York Magazine expose about right wing movements, he took issue.

The editors of New York may disagree with my priorities and analyses, but I dont see how this disagreement proves that Im a white nationalist, he wrote in the American Conservative. They seem intent on lumping together all their villains and linking them, however circuitously, to The Donald.

And months earlier, a National Review editor disparaged Gottfrieds newfound place in the alt-right dubbing him a house Jew.

Email Sam Kestenbaum at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum

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The Jewish 'Moses Of The Alt Right' Has A New Book And It Isn't Pretty - Forward

Comment: Makes Nazis and the KKK into bad guys poor lambs

The white nationalist alt-right is furious that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus depicts Nazis and the KKK as bad guys.

For those who came in late, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a game about fighting Nazis who are helping to make America great again in an alternate 1961. New Colossus plays on themes of Aryan supremacy and eugenics associated with the Nazis. Nazi officers are seen walking casually with Klansman in the middle of a typical 1960s American town in the middle of a festival.

In comments on the trailer for the game and threads about it on 4chan and Reddit, alt-right users expressed anger over the portrayal of Nazis as villains, and one anti-Semitic commenter on the YouTube trailer claimed that nationalism and heritage is bad unless it comes to Jewish people.

The comments on the YouTube trailer are both sad and priceless. There are the offended white supremacists who think that the Nazis losing a war is unrealistic because that never happened.

There are racists who are very upset about the fact that the game includes a black female character. Motherboard uncovered a commentary where a black character was a "black Afro whore" and suggested Jews were controlling the game industry.

While there will be those that those who think that it is all a joke or trolling and no one really thinks these sorts of things. But there seems to be some evidence to suggest otherwise. Particularly when they drag out old talking points like what about communism? which means they are serious stupid but serious.

Then there are those who think that killing Nazis is a cool political statement that justifies liberal street cred, which lowers the bar of intellectual debate somewhat for the left.

The weird thing is that some tech magazines are thinking that such a thing is worth debating. A Tech Times headline actually asked a question is Wolfenstein racist to white people? as if such objections need to be rationally analysed. It did not reach any conclusion because ultimately the whole concept is pretty daft.

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Alt-Right fume at "anti-white" Wolfenstein II - Fudzilla

An armed man appears to place a protester with an American flag featuring Nazi symbols in a choke hold during a protest at the Sam Houston statue in Houston, Texas.

A video of the incident was posted by an anti-Semitic YouTube account that appears to be supportive of the alt-right. It showed the chokehold lasting for about five seconds, The Houston Chronicle reported.

The man with the flag had been carrying a megaphone as well as signs with alt-right imagery like Pepe the Frog and No blood for Israel. A woman from the crowd can be heard saying that the protest was about the monument.

Dude, theyre not taking the monument down, he can be heard saying. These are good memes.

A crowd gathers around him.

Dude, this is not Comicon, a man off camera can be heard shouting.

I know, what is it? the man asked rhetorically. I thought I was just coming to make friends.

The account that uploaded the video titled it accusing an Oath Keeper of choking the man. The Oath Keepers are the group that typically arrives heavily armed at protests. They claim that their presence is to prevent dictatorship, but the Southern Poverty Law Center labels them as one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today.

After the event escalates, he eventually is escorted away from the protest as demonstrators chanted, Na, na, na, na. Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye.

The victim has not yet filed a report and police told The Chronicle theres nothing they can do until the victim comes forward.

You can watch the full video below:

Alt-right white nationalist put in chokehold by sarahburris

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'Dude, this is not Comicon': Right-wing militia violently chases off 'alt-right' protester in Houston - Raw Story