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Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is an American white nationalist, known for promoting white supremacist views. He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think-tank, and Washington Summit Publishers, an independent publishing firm. Spencer has stated that he rejects the description of white supremacist, and describes himself as an identitarian. Both Spencer and others have said that he created the term "alt-right"; he considers it a movement about white identity.

Early life

Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas. His father, William B. Spencer, is an ophthalmologist while his mother erected a building in Whitefish, Montana.

Spencer graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. In 2001, he received a B.A. with High Distinction in English Literature and Music from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. He spent the summer of 2005 and 2006 at the Institute Vienna Circle. From 2005 to 2007, was later a doctoral student at Duke University studying modern European intellectual history, before leaving to pursue a career in journalism.

Career

Spencer became an assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine in 2007; subsequently, he was the executive editor of Taki's Magazine. In 2010, he founded Alternative Right, a website that he edited until 2012; he says he created the term "alt-right". Breitbart News reports, "In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought." Spencer has been published at Right Now!, American Renaissance, VDARE, The Occidental Observer, and others.

In 2012, Spencer founded Radix Journal as a biannual publication of Washington Summit Publishers. Contributors have included Kevin B. MacDonald, Alex Kurtagic, Samuel T. Francis, and Derek Turner. He also hosts a weekly podcast, Vanguard Radio (a successor to AltRight Radio).

Groups and events Spencer has spoken to include the Property and Freedom Society, National Policy Institute, and the HL Mencken Club.

Views

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.

Speaking at a 2016 NPI conference held In Washington D.C., Spencer claimed that, "To be white is to be a creator, an explorer, a conqueror... We don’t exploit other groups, we don’t gain anything from their presence. They need us, and not the other way around". And asserted that the choice facing white people is, "conquer or die".

The Anti-Defamation League cited him in 2013 as "a leader in white supremacist circles", and says that since his time at The American Conservative, he has rejected conservatism, because according to Spencer, its adherents "can't or won't represent explicitly white interests". In a 2016 interview for Time magazine, Spencer said that he rejected white supremacy and slavery of nonwhites, preferring to establish America as a white ethnostate.

Greg Johnson, then-editor of The Occidental Quarterly, stressed how Spencer's concept of the "Alternative Right" was to collect a variety of perspectives that are outside the purview of the American Conservative movement:

will attract the brightest 'young' conservatives and libertarians and expose them to far broader intellectual horizons, including race realism, White Nationalism, the European New Right, the Conservative Revolution, Traditionalism, neo-paganism, agrarianism, Third Positionism, anti-feminism, and right-wing anti-capitalists, ecologists, bioregionalists, and small-is-beautiful types.

According to a 2010 article by Alex Knepper on FrumForum.com, Spencer is an admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche, based upon "a hideously poor reading" of his works.

Spencer has criticized Jews, and quoted Nazi propaganda with approval. He also alleges that the media reported unfavorably on Trump in order to benefit Jewish interests.

Personal life

Spencer has stated that he has lived in Whitefish, Montana, for over 10 years.

See also

• Alt-right

References

1. ^ "Richard Bertr Spencer United States Public Records". FamilySearch. 2001.
2. Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message, The Associated Press, July 24, 2016
3. Wines, Michael; Saul, Stephanie (July 5, 2015). "White Supremacists Extend Their Reach Through Websites". The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
4. Gelin, Martin (November 14, 2013). "White Flight". Slate. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
5. "GOP's influencers push for another government shutdown, this time over immigration". The Rachel Maddow Show. November 19, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
6. "Alternative Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. August 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
7. Wallace-Wells, Benjamin (May 5, 2016). "Is the Alt-Right for real?". The New Yorker.
8. ^ Goldstein, Joseph (November 20, 2016). "Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: 'Heil Victory'". The New York Times.
9. ^ Harkinson, Josh (October 27, 2016). "Meet The Dapper White Nationalist Who Wins Even If Trump Loses". Mother Jones. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
10. "William Bertrand Spencer Texas Birth Index". FamilySearch. September 4, 1947.
11. D Magazine (October 2002). "The Best Doctors in Dallas: Ophthalmology: William Bertrand Spencer, M.D." D Magazine.
12. "Who We Are: NPI's Leadership". National Policy Institute. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
13. "About". RichardBSpencer.com. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
14. ^ "Richard Bertrand Spencer". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
15. Allum Bokhari & Milo Yiannopoulos. "An Establishment Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right". Breitbart News.
16. "Radix Journal". Washington Summit Publishers. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
17. Sean Gabb (June 15, 2010). "PFS 2010 - Richard Spencer, The "Alternative Right" in America". Vimeo.
18. Spencer, Richard (April 30, 2013). "Facing the Future as a Minority". National Policy Institute.
19. "RICHARD SPENCER KICKS OFF THE FOURTH ANNUAL HLMC MEETING". The Mencken Club.
20. Kirchick, James (October 18, 2014). "A Racist's Crazy Ski Resort Smackdown". The Daily Beast. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
21. Scott, Tristan (November 26, 2014). "Who is Richard Spencer?". Flathead Beacon. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
22. Goldstone, Joseph (November 20, 2016). "Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: 'Heil Victory'". New York Times. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
23. "Richard Spencer: A Symbol of the New White Supremacy". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
24. Altman, Alex (April 14, 2016). "The Billionaire and the Bigots: How Donald Trump's Campaign Brought White Nationalists Out of the Shadows". Time. Retrieved May 30, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
25. Johnson, Greg (March 2, 2010). "Richard Spencer Launches Alternative Right". The Occidental Quarterly. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
26. Knepper, Alex. "Richard Spencer's Nordic Supermen". FrumForum.com.
27. Spencer, Richard B. (December 2, 2014). "Defending free expression". Whitefish Pilot.

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• Rolling Stone interview

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