'Young white guys are hopping mad': confidence grows at far-right gathering

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: July 31, 2017 at 12:44:57 PM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] 'Young white guys are hopping mad': confidence grows at far-right gathering
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> 'Young white guys are hopping mad': confidence grows at far-right gathering
> ‘Race realism’ and call for a white ‘ethnostate’ among themes at the American Renaissance conference in Tennessee
> By Jason Wilson
> Jul 31 2017
> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/31/american-renaissance-conference-white-identity>
>
> “We are soldiers in this war,” Jared Taylor told an overwhelmingly male and entirely white audience of around 300 
> late on Saturday. “And we will win.”
>
> The founder and editor of American Renaissance, once a print magazine and now “the internet’s premier race-realist 
> site”, no longer thinks whites can have America to themselves. But he wants an all-white “ethnostate”, carved out of 
> US territory. 
>
> This weekend, American Renaissance held its annual conference at a venue in Montgomery Bell state park, an hour west 
> of Nashville, Tennessee. Attendees and speakers clearly felt a growing confidence. They have seen appreciable growth 
> in membership of established and emerging far-right groups. They have also seen the election as president of Donald 
> Trump.
>
> Speakers at the event addressed subjects including “Race realism and race denialism” and “Has the white man turned 
> the corner?”. One considered “The Trump report card – so far”.
>
> When Taylor spoke, his audience was generationally diverse. Some, well into middle age or beyond, had heard it all 
> before. But when he asked who was attending for the first time, the great majority raised their hands. 
>
> Many were millennials. Though all attendees wore conference dress code – jacket and tie – more than a few younger men 
> sported the “fashy haircut”, short back and sides with a severe parting, which has become a signature of the 
> so-called alt-right. 
>
> Many such young men lined up for selfies with Richard Spencer, the president of the white nationalist National Policy 
> Institute thinktank who has achieved fame since greeting the election result with a cry of “Hail Trump”. 
>
> Others browsed vendor tables, buying books from the white nationalist publisher Counter-Currents – titles included 
> Towards the White Republic and In Defense of Prejudice – or picking up flyers from Identity Evropa, a group that 
> markets white supremacy to millennials.
>
> Taylor said such men were flooding to his group because they were “hopping mad”. “These young white guys,” he told 
> the Guardian, “they have been told from infancy that they are the villains of history. And I think that the left has 
> completely overplayed its hand.” 
>
> It was not clear if fear or anger was the dominant emotion of the conference. Speaker after speaker addressed the 
> supposed genetic and demographic decline of the west; the supposed low IQ of migrants flooding western countries; 
> supposed links between IQ and “social pathology”; supposed “anti-white propaganda that suffuses our society”; 
> supposed academic conspiracies that have worked to cover all this up. A common theme was the supposed propensity of 
> non-whites to crimes like rape. 
>
> Using colour-coded maps, graphs and pictures of human brains, some speakers strove to give racism the kind of 
> scientific respectability it has not claimed since the second world war. 
>
> Attendees were also told a lot about Trump. Taylor said the billionaire had provided “a great deal of excitement” 
> when he was elected, but was now viewed with some skepticism.
>
> Questioned by the Guardian, Spencer said Trump’s policy on Syria and the healthcare debacle were distractions from 
> the only thing this crowd was interested in: immigration. 
>
> “I give him a C,” he said.
>
> [snip]
>
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