Richard Spencer

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Richard Bertrand Spencer (born 1978) is neither a Nazi nor alt-right, but simply in favor of white identity politics (if one believes Spencer ). He is president of the  a Nazi-free white nationalist think tank in Arlington, and of Washington Summit Publishers (WSP), a Nazi-less "human biodiversity" outlet in Whitefish. Both institutions are "supporters of identity politics for White Americans", which is not at all like Nazism. He says it over and over, because he's NOT A NAZI, okay?! NPI has been dead-in-the-water since October 2020. He also hosts AltRight.com (which is totally not related to Nazis), where Spencer is joined with fellow non-Nazis including Brittany A. Pettibone, Jared Taylor, and Lana Lokteff. He is an atheist.

In June 2022, Spencer reinvented himself as a "political moderate" and a liberal on "most issues" including abortion rights and gun control, although he uses pro-eugenics as a large basis for many of his current opinions. He claims he no longer identifies as a white nationalist. Integrity First for America, who backed the plaintiffs in  against Spencer and several other co-defendants, have expressed doubt that Spencer has genuinely repudiated his racist political views and point out "Spencer’s rebranding is just a way for him to avoid accountability because he lost a lawsuit as an organizer of the 2017 neo-Nazi Charlottesville riot that financially crippled him." In November 2021, Spencer set up a diploma mill named ALEX University to presumably raise funds for his legal costs.

Early life
Spencer grew up in a privileged life, the son of Rand Spencer, an ophthamologist, and Sherry Spencer (née Dickenhorst), a Louisiana cotton farm heiress. As of 2017, Richard Spencer was still, along with his mother and sister, the "absentee landlords of 5,200 acres of cotton and corn fields in an impoverished, largely African American region of Louisiana", and were the beneficiaries of $2 million in federal farm subsidies. Spencer went to a top private school in Dallas, Texas, St. Mark's School of Texas, received a BA in English Literature and Music from the University of Virginia, an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, then dropped out of a PhD program at Duke University "to pursue a life of thought-crime."

New Zealand journalist Julie Hill claims to have learned German with Spencer when he was a PhD student and says that he could not cook so much as a piece of toast, being such a privileged and pampered manchild that he lived on restaurant meals and the leftovers he took home from them. It remains unclear whether he learned to feed himself before tackling the independence of the "great white race."

Everything's gonna be alt-reich
For the White race, it's never over. Richard Spencer has said many non-Nazi things, non-Nazily.

Richard Spencer once stated that "One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem." For once, Spencer was referring to the media, not Jews.

Cringe generator
Anime—indeed, even anime porn—has done more to advance European civilization than the Republican Party. Richard Spencer is really, really, really fucking cringey. For example, please enjoy this vomit-inducing description of his interview with Mother Jones:

Spencer enjoys making the dumbest Tweets:

Spencer thinks that football is bad because it encourages white people to admire black people. In contrast, he drools at the chance to adore white football players.

Great liberator
Democracy is just a little, passing fad. A Trumpian Greatness agenda: 1) Net-neutral immigration 2) Nuclear power 3) Light-rail, maglev train system 4) National parks expansion

Spencer hopes to use the anti-immigration bits of libertarianism (and the people it attracts) to gain support for his non-Nazi ideology. As a result, Spencer has been lurking in libertarian conferences for quite some time. For whatever reason, the libertarians don't want him there. We're sure it has nothing to do with Nazism -- just like Richard Spencer.

Race fetish haver
[About his Asian ex:] I would rather you didn't write about that. You are probably going to nail me with this... I think some people in the movement would probably find that terrible.

There is something about the Asian girls. They are cute. They are smart. They have a kind of thing going on. If I am looking at my own life objectively, it really doesn't surprise me that much.

Not surprising that he is an Asianophile, like much of the Alt-Right. He may bash Asians in his podcasts, but he conceded a lukewarm acceptance of the growing number of who attend his white nationalist conventions. The irony is that Asian-Americans, if they survive these struggles, are

When a co-streamer pointed out that YouTuber "Roaming Millennial" (who once interviewed Spencer) is multiracial, Spencer unleashed a presumably well-intentioned defense:

EU supporter?
Spencer wrote an article in his own journal criticizing Brexit and Euroscepticism, as well as described himself as "pro-EU" on a podcast a few days prior to the referendum. Spencer dislikes Nigel Farage and UKIP; he has said he has always been "highly skeptical of so-called 'Euroskeptics'". His reason for being pro-EU is as a racial pan-Europeanist (white nationalist), he opposes individual ethnic and cultural nationalisms within Europe and supports freedom of movement between European countries. Brexiteers have highlighted, in their view, problems with mass immigration from Poland (and other eastern-European countries) into the UK; Spencer in contrast says he supports large-scale immigration into the UK from Poland since the immigrants are white. His only opposition is to non-western immigration.

Despite his best efforts at waxing poetic about Europe, sadly, a good chunk of Europe (the twenty-six Schengen states including Poland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden), haven't reciprocated their love and has barred him from entry, with Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski declaring Spencer's views as defamation of the events in World War II including the Holocaust. This is not the first time Europe coldly rejected his love, previously barring him in 2014 after his temporary detention in Hungary for holding a gathering despite warning from officials that he and his ilk are unwanted.

Technology hater
The @ACLU was founded to support communism. Much of Silicon Valley donated to it this past week, proving that SV supports communism. Spencer wrote in his Twitter account with a computer and a keyboard on the Internet criticizing technology, loathing Silicon Valley as "worshipping technology" being its end or the End Times. This may or may not be related to his inability to operate a toaster.

Stalin apologizer?
Richard Spencer denies that the man made famine in Ukraine under Joseph Stalin called the Holodomor was a genocide much to the ire of his white nationalist base who believed it was the "real Holocaust committed by Jewish Bolsheviks."

He does clarify however that he doesn't deny the famine was anthropogenic unlike many Stalin apologists such as Walter Duranty:

Chapo Trap House lover?
Richard Spencer has stated that he watches the far-left comedy podcast "Chapo Trap House" praising it for its "cynical and irreverent" comedy style which he views as similar to the alt-right's.

Mass murderer sympathizer
Although Spencer did not quite go so far as to support the actions of alt-right-inspired mass murderer Dylann Roof in the stating in a since-deleted article that Roof should not be considered a "madman" and supporting Roof's manifesto, stating:

Wife beater?
During 2018 divorce proceedings, his wife Nina Koupriianova accused Spencer of repeated domestic violence and provided documentary evidence in court. Koupriianova divorce filings included tweets and photos of bruising alleging that she suffered "incidents of physical abuse include being hit, being grabbed, being dragged around by her hair, being held down in a manner causing bruising, and being prevented from calling for help."

Genocide promoter
Spencer has declared that he'll know white people have "gotten their spirit back" once they collectively reconquer all of Central Asia and in this process "he could care less" if every Turk was "thrown into the ocean" calling them a "dirty" people contaminating Constantinople with their presence.

And here's an article published on Spencer's website, titled "Is Black Genocide Right?"

Spencer on sex
In countless interviews, Spencer has promoted the notion that female sexual liberation creates a "bottleneck" which stratifies access to sex and improves society through informal eugenics.

Joe Biden supporter?
In 2020, Richard Spencer came out and endorsed Joe Biden for the November 2020 presidential election, saying that the "MAGA/Alt-Right moment is over" and that "we need to recover and return in a new form." The Biden campaign forcefully disavowed this endorsement. Nevertheless, this has been used by wingnut media to try to smear Joe Biden and his campaign as having, somehow, an "embarrassing" double standard because they condemned white supremacy in Charlottesville and are now condemning white supremacy.

Spencer claims he had a political and intellectual rebirth sometime around or after the time he got sued for the Unite the Right rally. He now states he dislikes populism and that race supremacy politics are not worthwhile due to risk of violence. He also disliked the Trump era as being "lawless". He claims he appreciates the Democratic Party's lurch toward elitism. He claims most of the positions he holds are moderate liberal positions, such as pro-abortion and anti-gun-rights, but he defends much of his positions on the basis of eugenics.

During 2023, Spencer announced on a right-wing podcast that he "intends to vote for Joe Biden again". In the same interview, he stated his least favorite potential candidate is Ron Desantis, who he regards as too average, and also a sociopath.

Everything's not gonna be alt-reich
To no one's surprise, Spencer's not-Nazi statements and not-Nazi actions have managed to irritate a few people along the way.

Punch receptor
Right-wing extremist Richard Spencer got punched, but it was memes that bruised his ego Richard Spencer was punched. In response, Spencer called for the alt-right to provide their own protection. It's a good thing that because Richard Spencer isn't a Nazi.



Lawsuit loser
Spencer and his National Policy Institute played an active role helping to organize the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 2017. Infamously, at this rally, a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a group of counter-protesters, murdering civil rights activist Heather Heyer and injuring 30 others.

One of those who suffered severe life-crippling injuries from the Fields incident was a man named Bill Burke, who proceeded to sue multiple far-right individuals and organizations involved in the rally. In early May 2021, due to Spencer's active role in organizing the incident, a federal judge ordered the National Policy Institute to pay $2.4 million to Burke.

Exiled town wanderer
Richard Spencer lives part-time in a small Rocky Mountains resort town called which is better known for being a gateway to  than any sort of not-Nazi ideology. Even as early as 2014, the presence of Spencer and his National Policy Institute offices irked the town, who responded to his noxious presence by unanimously passing a resolution supporting diversity and tolerance.

In 2016, a Jewish real estate agent named Tanya Gersh saw someone with a large camera take photographs of a commercial building owned by Sherry Spencer, Richard's mother. Assuming that this was someone from the press, she called friends who were tenants of Sherry to warn them that Sherry might end up receiving some unwanted attention due to Richard Spencer's not-Nazi dickery. Soon afterwards, Gersh received a call from Sherry, who claimed that she didn't believe in her son's ideologies, and asked what could she do to distance herself. Gersh recommended that Sherry sell the building, donate the proceeds to a human rights cause, and make a public statement on what she thinks about her son.

Shortly afterwards, a post on that claimed to have been written by Sherry (although possibly written by Richard himself) accused Gersh of using blackmail tactics to try and get Sherry to sell her property. Naturally, Richard Spencer's pal Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer decided that the best way to help out his compadre was to doxx Gersh and other members (especially Jewish members) of the Whitefish community, along with accusing Gersh of being part of the "Jewish agenda" and promoting a false narrative that the Jews were taking over Whitefish and driving WASPs out. This resulted in many in Whitefish (especially Gersh) being flooded by a "troll storm" of angry, alt-right basement dwellers threatening violence via social media and emails, sometimes to the point of death threats.

To support the Spencers, Anglin announced a march in Whitefish planned for Martin Luther King Jr. day on 2017, tastelessly named as "The James Earl Ray Day Extravaganza". In response to this, prior to the date of Anglin's planned rally, the town staged a large counter-rally denouncing the hate. On the scheduled day of Anglin's rally, not a single person showed up to support Anglin. In contrast, 350 people showed up to a get-together in support of unity, organized by Whitefish Rabbi Francine Green Roston (who was also a victim of Anglin's "troll storm"), in order to eat some delicious chicken and matzo ball soup.

In 2019, Gersh won a default judgement from Anglin for $14 million dollars due to his role in the trolling.

According to Whitefish leaders in 2021, due to the above events and Spencer's not-Nazi asshole behavior, Spencer is now an outcast in Whitefish, and is unable to get a table at many restaurants (or at least will be greeted by a chorus of boos.) Even in 2018, Spencer's reputation was bad enough that a bar owner in Whitefish (after Spencer's credit card was declined on a simple $4.25 bourbon order) posted the receipt on Facebook with a request for Spencer to "refrain from visiting our establishment in the future" because "it makes everybody feel real scummy".

Russian asset
Spencer's influences overlap closely with those of Vladimir Putin. Spencer's wife from 2010-2018, Nina Kouprianova, is Russian fascist philosopher Aleksandr Dugin's translator. Dugin is a sycophantic supporter of Putin. Spencer is essentially a Russian asset.

View of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Despite praising Putin in the past, Spencer in March 2022 criticised the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine:

This led him to have a falling out with the Russian white nationalist Anatoly Karlin who used to attend alt-right events with Spencer.

Stopped clock
Despite being a batshit insane neo-nazi, Spencer has had a couple of moments where he has sanity. One instance is when he criticized Trump for threatening to bomb Iranian cultural sites (because he sees Iran as another fellow aryan country, even though it's an actual aryan country), and for the assassination of Soleimani, for which he disavowed Trump and stated that he regretted voting for him back in 2016.

Welp.
The correct response to Spencer and to the alt-right is "wow, that's some fucking cringey racialist meme-non-Nazi bullshit".