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| '''Richard Bertrand Spencer''' (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, activist and self-described "]" known for promoting ] views.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html | title = White Flight | work = Slate | date = 2013-11-30 | accessdate = 2015-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://wonkette.com/567150/morning-maddow-heres-how-a-white-supremacist-set-the-gops-immigration-policy-video | title = Here's How A White Supremacist Set The GOP's Immigration Policy | work = wonkette.com | date = 2014-11-20 | accessdate = 2015-06-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=GOP's influencers push for another government shutdown, this time over immigration|url=http://on.msnbc.com/1zEGCsZ|accessdate=March 12, 2016|work=The Rachel Maddow Show|date=November 19, 2014}}</ref> He is president of the ], a ] think-tank, and ], an independent publishing firm. | '''Richard Bertrand Spencer''' (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, activist and self-described "]" known for promoting ] views.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/11/jared_taylor_richard_spencer_and_american_white_supremacists_in_europe_why.html | title = White Flight | work = Slate | date = 2013-11-30 | accessdate = 2015-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://wonkette.com/567150/morning-maddow-heres-how-a-white-supremacist-set-the-gops-immigration-policy-video | title = Here's How A White Supremacist Set The GOP's Immigration Policy | work = wonkette.com | date = 2014-11-20 | accessdate = 2015-06-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=GOP's influencers push for another government shutdown, this time over immigration|url=http://on.msnbc.com/1zEGCsZ|accessdate=March 12, 2016|work=The Rachel Maddow Show|date=November 19, 2014}}</ref> He is president of the ], a ] think-tank, and ], an independent publishing firm. | ||
| Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.<ref>{{cite web | Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.<ref>{{cite web | ||
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| Richard Bertrand Spencer | |
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| Born | (1978-05-11) May 11, 1978 (age 46) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, St. Mark's School of Texas |
| Occupation(s) | author, publisher, activist |
| Known for | President of the National Policy Institute, political activism |
Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is an American writer, publisher, activist and self-described "identitarian" 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 advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.
Early life and career
Richard Spencer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas. In 2001, he received a B.A. from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, a M.A. from the University of Chicago. Between 2005 and 2007, he was a doctoral student in history at Duke University. Spencer has been an assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine and Editor of Taki's Magazine. In 2010, he founded Alternative Right, a webzine that he edited until 2012. Spencer has been published at Right Now!, The American Conservative, American Renaissance, VDARE.com, The Occidental Observer, and other publications.
In 2012, he founded Radix Journal as biannual publication of Washington Summit Publishers. Contributors included Kevin B. MacDonald, Alex Kurtagic, Samuel T. Francis, Andy Nowicki, Derek Turner, and others. He also hosts a weekly podcast, Vanguard Radio (a successor to AltRight Radio).
Spencer has been a guest speaker at Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Property and Freedom Society, The Traditional Britain Group, American Renaissance, and the HL Mencken Club.
Views
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.
The Anti-Defamation League cited him in 2013 as "a leader in white supremacist circles", and says that since his time at The American Conservatism, he has rejected conservatism, because its adherents "can't or won't represent explicitly white interests". In a 2016 interview for Time, Spencer said that he rejected White supremacy and slavery, preferring to establish a White ethnostate.
See also
References
- "White Flight". Slate. 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
- "Here's How A White Supremacist Set The GOP's Immigration Policy". wonkette.com. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- "GOP's influencers push for another government shutdown, this time over immigration". The Rachel Maddow Show. November 19, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
- "Richard Bertrand Spencer". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
- Kirchick, James (2014-10-18). "A Racist's Crazy Ski Resort Smackdown". The Daily Beast. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- Scott, Tristan (November 26, 2014). "Who is Richard Spencer?". Flathead Beacon. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- "NPI's Leadership". National Policy Institute. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- "Radix Journal". Washington Summit Publishers. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- Sean Gabb (June 15, 2010). "PFS 2010 - Richard Spencer, The "Alternative Right" in America". Vimeo.
- Spencer, Richard (April 30, 2013). "Facing the Future as a Minority".
- "The Mencken Club".
- Johnson, Greg (March 2, 2010). "Richard Spencer Launches Alternative Right". The Occidental Quarterly. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- "Richard Spencer: A Symbol of the New White Supremacy". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- 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.
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