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The Unite the Right Hottie and Alt-Right Ideology Breakdown
from Nazi Crush · #59
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8 minTim and Ray discuss finding a good-looking young white nationalist attractive at the Charlottesville rally, then dig into the ideology of alt-right figures like Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell, including their weird racial hierarchy beliefs and how the movement recruits.
- 9:14Richard Spencer and modern alt-right leaders have a foppish, feminine quality compared to historical white supremacists.
- 9:58Tim notes the contradiction of calling themselves a master race while claiming genetic superiority based on nothing.
- 10:22Alt-right ideologues believe whites are superior to blacks and Hispanics but inferior to Jews and Asians, which is why they oppose immigration.
- 11:06You can't whine about globalism and factory job losses while claiming to be the master race.
- 11:59The guys with platforms and podcasts—Richard Spencer, et al.—aren't the tough guys; they're the intellectual front for the movement.
- 12:28Unite the Right organizers deliberately dressed in khakis and middle-class attire to rebrand poor white resentment.
- 13:18Richard Spencer is well-dressed without skinhead tattoos, yet the idea that feds have no infiltration in a movement like this seems unlikely.
- 14:15People who attend Unite the Right rallies get doxxed—their employers are called and pressured to fire them.
- 15:29A 20-year-old University of Nevada student holding a torch in Unite the Right photos became the face of the rally.
- 16:11The Unite the Right attendees have a specific look: Hitler youth haircuts and a sweaty, angry appearance that Tim finds insufficiently attractive for the ideology.
- 16:38Even if someone's politically extreme, they need to meet a basic attractiveness threshold to be worth any attention at all.
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