Join us. We cannot let the bigots win.
Donald Trump is a racist, [addendum: and an Islamophobe] and a misogynist. He is likely a homophobe and anti-Semite, or if not, certainly tolerates and empowers people in that vein. No. This cannot be borne. Too many will be hurt, too many will die if we remain in silent, obedient consent. ... Like JFK said, "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." [T]he enemy is upon us. -- MBNYC
He railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted Nazi propaganda in the original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he called the "children of the sun," a race of conquerors and creators who had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald J. Trump, were "awakening to their own identity." As he finished, several audience members had their arms outstretched in a Nazi salute. Mr. Spencer called out: "Hail Trump! Hail our people!" and then, "Hail victory!" -- the English translation of the Nazi exhortation "Sieg Heil!" The room shouted back. -- New York Times
[V]oting against Donald Trump at this point, is really treason to your heritage. -- David Duke
I love you like Donald Trump loves not distancing himself from the white supremacist groups that have endorsed him. -- John Fugelsang
The "alt-right" is upon us. Except it is not the "alt-right." That's a happy-talk bullshit branding effort designed to paint its members and affiliates as "edgy," "sexy," "controversial" and "fun." Oooh, I listen to "alternative" music and dress in an "alternative" fashion! I kinda enjoy the pranks on 4Chan and some of the Reddit forums! Maybe it would be cool to click into some of these alt-right Web sites! What the hell, what could it hurt, right?
[I]t's white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times: 4chan-esque racist rhetoric combined with a tinge of Silicon Valley–flavored philosophizing, all riding on the coattails of the Trump boom. -- Buzzfeed
It damn well has hurt us, and it continues to hurt us.
- These are the same people who gave us the Christian Identity movement and the Posse Comitatus movement.
- They gave us the National Alliance and the Turner Diaries, which Timothy McVeigh used as his inspiration to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City. (Did you know white supremacists planned to bomb that same building in 1983?)
- They gave us Aryan Nations and the driving force behind so many abortion clinic bombings and medical personnel murders. (Our favorite MSNBC talk show host, Joe Scarborough, helped represent one of those murderers in court.)
- Joseph Paul Franklin, a self-proclaimed Nazi, killed up to 20 people in a 10-state murder spree.
- Stormfront, one of the oldest and largest white supremacist Web sites and organizations, was founded by one of the mercenaries who tried to overthrow the government of the nation of Dominica and establish a whites-only "paradise."
- They gave us the Montana Freemen, who tried to establish a white supremacist "homeland" centering on their Montana farms and envisioned to spread into Idaho, the Dakotas, and even Canada.
- They spawned The Order, a Pacific Northwest white supremacist group that carried out multiple armored car robberies, synagogue bombings, and the assassination of liberal radio host Alan Berg.
- In 1985, white supremacists and anti-tax agitators began calling for the repeal of the 16th Amendment, which allows the federal government to collect income taxes. That position is still hawked on Fox News today.
- They gave us the Patriot Movement, a driving force behind the 3%, the Oath Keepers, and a multitude of militia organizations that espouse white supremacy and Nazi canards.
- Three of them killed an innocent African-American man by chaining him to the back of a truck and dragging him down a highway.
- Two more of them murdered a gay man by chaining him to a fence and burning and beating him to death.
- One of them went on a killing spree against blacks and Jews that resulted in three dead; a search of his home found Nazi paraphernalia.
- Another one killed one and wounded five during and after an attack on a Jewish community center.
- One, writing for the National Review, advocated the murder of Chelsea Clinton in accordance with the Nazi practice of sippenhanf, the eradication of an entire bloodline due to racial or ideological impurity.
- A nationally syndicated talk show host told his audience he wanted to beat Democratic lawmaker Charles Rangel to death with a shovel; he later was hired by Fox News.
- A nationally syndicated columnist called for the US carpet-bombing of Muslim countries, the assassination of their leaders, and the forcible conversion of their populations to Christianity.
- One started a YouTube "alternative" called Podblanc because he refused to use "Jew Tube."
- Some have been convicted of manufacturing and attempting to disseminate biotoxins such as ricin and sarin.
- A group of them beat a Mexican immigrant to death while screaming racial slurs.
- One killed two people and wounded seven more at a Knoxville church, and wrote that the shootings were driven by his desire to exterminate "liberal vermin."
- One was caught with the makings of a radioactive "dirty bomb" that he planned on triggering in the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election.
- On Fox, one discussed the militia-led "civil war" that would overthrow the Obama administration and place white supremacists in charge.
- One killed a security guard inside the Holocaust Museum in an attack planned on killing Jews.
- Tea party rallies and conservative conferences routinely featured white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and neo-Confederate groups, speakers and memorabilia.
- White supremacists and a US Representative praised the suicide bomber who flew a light plane into an IRS building, killing one and wounding 13.
- A former governor with ties to white separatists groups displayed an advertisement "targeting" Democratic lawmakers seeking election with crosshairs; one of those lawmakers was gravely wounded by an assailant.
- A group of homophobic youth kidnapped and tortured three gay men for hours with cigarettes and blunt objects.
- A large group of white supremacists engaged in a standoff with federal agents over their leader's unpaid cattle grazing fees, threatened them with automatic weapons and sniper fire, and hid behind their families' women and children in case the agents opened fire.
- Some of those same white supremacists took over an Oregon wildlife refuge for over a month, terrorized the local townspeople, and did massive damage to the refuge and the surrounding area.
- Two of them murdered two police officers and an innocent bystander, leaving swastika-stamped leaflets promoting "white power" behind before they committed suicide.
- A lone supremacist murdered nine people at a predominantly black church in Charleston, SC.
- A right-wing talk show host gave a Nazi salute to Donald Trump during the 2016 GOP convention.
- The Secret Service has guardedly admitted to thwarting dozens of assassination attempts on President Obama's life by white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups.
- White supremacists cheered Trump’s victory by giving Nazi salutes and chanting “Hail Trump!” The main speaker, white nationalist Richard Spencer, called the media "Lügenpresse," a term used by Nazis to belittle and criticize the press, and told his listeners: "America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us."
- Since the debacle of November 8, hate crimes against Muslims, blacks, gays, women, and Hispanics have exploded, justified, in the minds of the racists and hate-maddened bigots who perpetrate them, by Trump's "victory."
- They have attacked, or planned to attack, churches, synagogues, electrical plants, women's health clinics, restaurants, courthouses, military bases, million-gallon propane tanks which could have killed 12,000 people if successful, civil rights lawyers, highway overpasses, television stations, Jewish and African-American landmarks, police officers, lawmakers, judges and their families, health care providers and their families, random citizens (usually blacks, Muslims, or others who appear to be dark-skinned or of Arabic origin), and many others.
We are dangerous. Dangerous to the Jews, n_ggers, and anyone else who poses a threat to the white race. What I find especially disturbing is the n_ggers. -- Harold Ray Redfeairn, a Christian Identity pastor and member of the Aryan Nations white supremacist group, 1997
That's your "alt-right." All the cartoon frogs, cute Internet memes, and fawning media profiles can't hide what these people are: vicious abusers and killers motivated by hatred, bigotry of all kinds, and xenophobia.
And now they're readying themselves to take over the White House.
We are taking an implacable stand against this neo-Nazi, KKK, white supremacist bullshit. We will document it and we will act against it. We will (virtually) drag the perpetrators out of the shadows and away from their protective "rebranding" by the coddling media and expose them for what they are. We will organize efforts to stand against them, and to support and protect the people they threaten and assault.
If you want to be part of this group, Kosmail me or one of the other admins, Colorado is the Shiznit and TrueBlueMajority.
There are a few things we won't do.
- We aren't interested in debating whether or not the "alt-right" (a label we refuse to countenance) is anything more than a trendy, fleetingly fashionable Internet thing. It is far more than that, and far worse.
- We aren't interested in rehashing the "rox/sux" Hillary vs. Bernie wars in any way, form or fashion. Our admins and members span the gamut of Democrats in this community: staunch Bernie supporters, staunch Hillary supporters, and some who didn't care for either of them. We don't care. We're moving forward against the hate and bigotry pushed by the white supremacists both in and out of the incoming Trump administration (that phrase gags me just to write it), and we will not go down the "rox/sux" road whatsoever, not inside the group, in the diaries published on behalf of the group, or in the comments for those diaries. This is a non-negotiable.
Finally, we want a better title for the group. I threw it together when I started the group, and no one, including myself, much cares for it. Any suggestions you have would be more than welcome, whether or not you want to join.
Again, please consider joining us.
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