Alt-Right Nazi Richard Spencer in Florida

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Protesters Converge at White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Speech

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-event-n812301

For weeks, the University of Florida has been urging students to stay away from a Thursday speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, hoping to avoid the deadly clashes that unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.

But hundreds of them, along with many non-students, defied those requests, marching on the campus theater Spencer rented.

His speech there is part of a tour of public universities that has triggered passionate debates about the boundaries of free speech and hate speech and fanned fears of continued violence.

The point, some protesters said, was to turn out in numbers that would make the number of Spencer supporters look tiny.

"We don't want your Nazi hate," the protesters chanted, pounding drums and carrying signs championing diversity.

"I don’t believe staying home is an option in the face of hate and evil," said Timothy Tia, a student organizer.

The widespread clashes some feared didn't happen, as Spencer's outnumbered fans seemed focused on attending the event at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts rather than on confronting the crowds.

Hundreds of police officers showed up, creating an overwhelming security presence that included helicopters and officers stationed on rooftops and throughout the theater.


Authorities announced one arrest, of a man they described as a security guard hired by the media, for carrying a firearm on campus.

The day's only apparent violence occurred when a white man with swastikas on his shirt waded into the crowd outside the theater, where he was confronted by protesters, one of whom spit on him, and another who shoved him.


A black man asked the white man why he didn’t like him, and when he got no response, the black man hugged him.


Then someone in the crowd shoved the white man, and another hit him.


As the white man walked away, the crowd chanted, "Go home, Nazi scum."




A man wearing a shirt with swastikas is punched by an unidentified member of the crowd near the site of a planned speech by Richard Spencer at the University of Florida campus on Oct. 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Florida.

[Mister D]

Hss there ever been a serious critique of Richard Spencer's views at tPF?

[Devil'sAdvocate]

They have a point, to an extent. Logically, it cannot be racist to oppose racism. To the extent social justice warriors are racist, and they are, they should be vehemently opposed. The problem with the alt-right is that they do not fundamentally oppose racial identity politics. They merely substitute one brand of it for another.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/06...st-be-opposed/

[Devil'sAdvocate]

If the ANTIFA punks don't learn to stop with the violent opposition then they'll just continue to make Spenser and the 'alt right' out to be martyrs and lose more mainstream support.

The Berkeley Protests already lost them the major TV News networks, the Daily Show, and the Onion who all turned against them, and it's just going to continue in that direction.

[Common]

The left believes they are the righteous and can say whatever they choose and in turn want to stifle any other point of view.

[Mister D]

If the ANTIFA punks don't learn to stop with the violent opposition then they'll just continue to make Spenser and the 'alt right' out to be martyrs and lose more mainstream support.

The Berkeley Protests already lost them the major TV News networks, the Daily Show, and the Onion who all turned against them, and it's just going to continue in that direction.

I suppose it has its amusing side. I mean who's the Nazi here?

[Devil'sAdvocate]

The left believes they are the righteous and can say whatever they choose and in turn want to stifle any other point of view.

True, the end result of this won't be any universal support for Nazis, but it will be universal contempt of the far-left, and will result in them being marginalized from the mainstream to the point that they have to wear sheets if they go about and express their views in public.

[Chris]

Hss there ever been a serious critique of Richard Spencer's views at tPF?

The irony is he's every bit as much an identitarian and socialist as Antifas are.

[exotix]

The left believes they are the righteous and can say whatever they choose and in turn want to stifle any other point of view.

True, the end result of this won't be any universal support for Nazis, but it will be universal contempt of the far-left, and will result in them being marginalized from the mainstream to the point that they have to wear sheets if they go about and express their views in public.

Right now we're waiting for Trumpf to normalize these nazi's like he did in Charlottesville.

[Captain Obvious]

As soon as one of eddie's trollbait threads starts to actually become productive discussion he has to step in and dumb it back down again.