I have never gone in much for the mocking of "safe spaces." (Rebecca and I part company on this, because she is terrible and also quite mean.) This is for a variety of reasons. One, I can certainly understand why people might feel they need a space away from racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia or even discussions of sexual assault in order to heal from having to deal with that on the regular. In certain ways, we all have things like that. Putting a name to it doesn't mean everyone doesn't do it, to some degree. Two, I believe in freedom of association. Three, Man caves , exist. No man gets to rag on women and minorities for creating "safe spaces" while the phrase "man cave" is still a thing and men are creating them to "get away" from the wife and kids.
Today, I make an exception!
Because now -- with Trump in office -- White Nationalists like Richard Spencer, the "founder" of the alt-right movement, are giddy for the prospect of turning America into a "safe space." For white people!
In an interview with Reveal host Al Letson, Spencer explained that while he doesn't feel that Donald Trump is fully "alt right" or an "identitarian" -- he does feel that he is a "step forward" for those people, being a "politician who’s fighting for European identity politics in North America."
Just a quick aside here -- anyone ever see any of those "non-racist" Trump supporters going after people like Spencer and other avowed racists to insist that Trump is not "fighting for European identity politics in North America"? Yeah, you don't see too much of that, do you?
Anyway! Spencer says that his long-term goal is to turn our country into a WHITE ETHNOSTATE!
“What the ethnostate is, is an ideal. It’s a thing, it’s a way of thinking about we want a new type of society that would actually be a homeland for all white people, all European people. So that would include Slavs, that would include Germans, that would include Latins, it would include people of all ethnicities that we would always have a safe space. We would always have a homeland for us. Very similar to, very similar to how Jews conceive of Israel.”
That is the saddest, dumbest thing I have ever heard. I always feel like people who say this kind of shit must be exceptionally lonely people. Like, "OH, if only I could live in my racist utopia, I'd finally have friends!" or something. Maybe he could go live with that dude in North Dakota . You know, the one who is totally going to turn that one town into a utopia for white people, and all his neighbors hate him? Has he even tried to move there? Or is he waiting for like, literally all the people of color to move from this country so that he can have his widdle "homeland"?
Think about this for a second. If that is what it takes to make you happy, you are never, ever going to be happy. Like "Whoops! Saw a brown person! My whole day is ruined! Guess I'll go cry in a corner and dream of my imaginary homeland!"
And that's the thing, I guess, with these people. They can't have a good time if everyone doesn't agree with them. That's why you've got all the Donald Trump people -- who had initially planned an armed coup if their candidate didn't win -- suddenly going "He's your president now! You have to support him! And everything he does! And say he's wonderful and has big, manly hands!" You know, like they did with Obama. Or talking about how it's unfair for people to protest, or -- charmingly enough -- urging Clinton supporters to commit suicide. They did the same shit during Bush. This guy merely wants a more extreme version of what they want.
Anyway. Later in the interview, Spencer explained that he wasn't like those regular white nationalists who went around killing black people in hopes of creating the exact same kind of country he so deeply desires, he's a cool white nationalist. Because he doesn't wear an outfit, or something.
“I’m sure there is some commonality between these movements of the past and what I’m talking about. But you really have to judge me on my own terms. Like I am not those people and I don’t fully know, I don’t know in the specifics of what you’re referring to. Like, I am who I am. And you, if you’re going to treat me with good faith, you have to listen to what I’m saying and listen to my ideas. I think someone who would go down the path of becoming a Klansman or something in 2016, I think that is, those people are very different than I am. It’s, it’s a — it’s a non-starter. I think we need an idea. We need a movement that really resonates with where we are right now.”
Yeah, he's like, hip and with it, and whatever, and doesn't even know what the KKK was really about. He's got his own ideas. Treat him with good faith. He just wants to find a way to make the idea of making all the non-white people leave the country so he can have a "safe space" for his whiteness really resonate with the kids of today.
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"Is Richard Spencer aware?" ( it can end there )
Have you been in a coma for the past few decades? Don't know what Africans have been doing to America? Here, let me inform you, weepy fool:
11/03/14 Rasmussen poll:-"Blacks strongly believe that those who oppose President Obama are racist."
-"87% of Black voters believe those who oppose Obama's policies do so because of racism."[Translation: If you don't agree with Africans that's reason enough for them to hate you for being racist]
7/8/16 pewresearch.org POLL: Roughly four-in-ten Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement.
They verify their primitive, tribal hatred of Whites every day:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub... Table 42, Crime Rates per 100,000 population 2006:-"Crimes of Violence" committed by Blacks against Whites was 7 times more than Whites against Blacks.
-Black against White Rape convictions was 84 (32,442 rapes). There were no rape convictions for Whites raping Blacks.
-The rate of "Property Taken With Injury," Black against Whites, 390. Black against White -- none.
DOJ's "Criminal Victimization in the United States," Table 48, identifies the race of "multiple offender" (gangs) and the race of their victim/s involved in violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery or assault):-In 2008 there were 147,749 arrests of Black gang members for committing violent crimes against White victim/s; there were fewer than ten arrests of White gang members for committing violent crime against Black victim/s.[Obama's "justice" department (Eric Holder) stopped identifying the race of gangs in 2008]
7/8/16 pewresearch.org POLL: Roughly four-in-ten Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement.
They are the most violent race in America:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/c... Arrest rates per 100,000 population of under 18 year-olds for violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) committed by Blacks for:-murder is 7 times that of Whites, 17 times that of Asians
-rape is 4 times that of Whites, 12 times that of Asians
-robbery is 15 times that of Whites, 31 that of Asians
-aggravated assault is 6 times that of Whites, 14 times that of Asians
-Blacks were arrested for "Offenses against the family and children" 3 times more than Whites and 15 times more that Asians.
http://www.americanbar.org/gro... Between 1993 and 1998 Black females experienced intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races.
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2008... CRIME RATE AND CONVICTION RATES BROKEN DOWN BY RACE "In 2006 about one in every 33 black men was a sentenced prisoner and the rate for white men was about one in every 205, for Hispanic men about one in every 79..."
http://www.cdc.gov 2000 to 2010 murder rates for 10 to 24 year-olds: The Black rate was 12 times that of Whites.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj... In 2004 the Black student crime rate per population of 100,000 was 13 times that of White students and 55 times that of Asian students.
http://www.naacp.org 58% of the youth admitted to state prisons are Black; over one in three black children grades 7-12 have been suspended or expelled at some point in their school careers; if current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime.---------Do America a favor and spend your next vacation in one of these cities -- be sure to take your kids:
-7/14/14 pewresearch.org Flint, Mich. (56% Black) had the highest murder rate in 2012; next was Detroit (83% Black); third was New Orleans (60% Black); fourth was Jackson, Miss. (80% Black).
-7/24/14 cbslocal.com Six Cities on the Worst Murder Rates In United States list from 1985 to 2012: Flint (56% Black), Detroit (83% Black), New Orleans(60% Black), Birmingham (74% Black), Richmond, (51% Black) and Washington D. C. (51% Black).
-11/12/14 cbslocal.com List of the most violent cities IN THE WORLD includes BALTIMORE (65% Black), St. Louis (50% Black) New Orleans (60% Black) and Detroit (83% Black).
-http://www.forbes.com/pictures... The Ten Most Dangerous Cities (violent crimes per population 100,000) 20151. Detroit [83% African] 2,137 violent crimes per 100,000 population
2. St. Louis [48% African] 1,857 violent crimes per 100,000 population
3. Oakland [28% African] 1,683
4. Memphis [63% African] 1,583
5. Birmingham [73% African] 1,483
6. Atlanta [54%] 1,433
7. Baltimore [65% African] 1,417
8. Stockton [13% African] 1,408
9. Cleveland [53% African] 1,363
10. Buffalo [39% African] 1,238
-10/22/15 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20... Ranking of cities with the highest violent crime rates:1. Detroit, Michigan [83% African]
2. Memphis, Tennessee [63% African]
3. Oakland, California [28%]
4. St. Louis, Missouri [50%]
5. Milwaukee, Wisconsin [40%]
6. Baltimore, Maryland [65%]
7. Cleveland, Ohio [54%]
-1/28/16 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... Ranking of the 50 most dangerous cities IN THE WORLD:15th. St Louis [48% African]
19th. Baltimore [65% African]
28. Detroit [83% African]
32. New Orleans [60% African]
The rest of us will vacation in one of these cities:-6/6/2011 http://www.businessinsider.com SAFEST CITIES in America: The lowest violent crime rate was in Irvine, CA (population 2% Black); next was Temecula, CA (4% Black); next was Cary, N. C. (8% Black population); Marietta, CA (5% Black).----------Now I have to change my shirt. I vomited while your maudlin BS.