Eating Their Own: Several Feuds Erupt Among White Nationalists
Pictured: Colin Liddell playing a magic flute he will use to open a portal to a wizard realm, wherein he will steal a secret potion which will save the White race
Over the past couple of weeks, the so-called 鈥渁cademic鈥 racists of the white nationalist movement have set academics aside and instead devolved into an online battle in the style of the Hatfields and McCoys.
In the wake of several recent events, including the of Richard Spencer from Hungary and the state of Kentucky neo-Nazi Robert Ransdell, some of the biggest names in white nationalist circles are taking sides and taking turns publicly skewering each other on their respective websites.
White nationalist and neo-Confederate Brad Griffin (aka Hunter Wallace) compiled a list of 鈥渂eefs鈥 among white nationalists and posted them recently to his Occidental Dissent site. One commenter noted, 鈥淭he easier list to compile would have been who isn鈥檛 fighting whom.鈥 And indeed, from the length of the list Griffin posted, the commenter may be right.
The long list includes familiar and ongoing feuds, such as those between longtime white supremacist , and well, everyone, as well as those involving Vanguard News Network (VNN) site founder (also with pretty much everyone). However, there are many new and unexpected conflicts within the movement that, ironically, calls for the need for solidarity in its mission.
In particular, unexpected spats have surfaced between several well-known white nationalists including Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents and Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute (NPI). Both are hailed as 鈥渁cademics鈥 by their peers.
Andrew Anglin of the increasingly popular neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, meanwhile, has been engaged in a war of words with Colin Liddell of the white nationalist Alternative Right, a site that was originally . The site was abruptly shut down by Spencer in 2013 until Liddell, who is based in the UK, took its reins.
The Johnson-Spencer conflict emerged in the wake of the near-collapse of NPI鈥檚 . Johnson cancelled his plans to attend and requested a refund of registration fees from NPI when the Hungarian government threatened arrests and deportations for attendees.
Despite the fact that several of the event鈥檚 most noteworthy names, among them representatives from Jobbik, the hard-right, Hungarian nationalist party, and Aleksandr Dugin, a pro-Russian favorite of traditionalists and the European new right, had withdrawn, Spencer and others journeyed into Hungary to be met by police at the event. Spencer was rewarded with several nights in prison before being deported and banned from returning for several years.
None of this sat well with Johnson. 鈥淭he final straw for me,鈥 he commented at Occidental Dissent, 鈥渨as Richard鈥檚 disastrous mishandling of the Budapest conference. When a foreign government tells you that your conference is banned and that the police will take the necessary steps to make sure it does not take place, you do not vow defiance.鈥 He got personal in another comment when he said, 鈥淩ichard is basically being dominated by Nina Nogoodnik, his Russian-Georgian wife.鈥
Johnson also penned a post and multiple comments at his own website, Counter-Currents, and attacked Spencer for his handling of the controversy 鈥 particularly his failure to adequately warn attendees of the risks involved with entering Hungary.
Another feud erupted about the same time over Robert Ransdell鈥檚 campaign for state Senate in Kentucky. Ransdell, a neo-Nazi, has been posting signs that state, 鈥淲ith Jews, We Lose.鈥 White nationalist 鈥渃omedian鈥 took exception to Ransdell and openly condemned his campaign.
RamZPaul (Paul Ramsey) has other supporters in his opposition to Ransdell. One writer at white nationalist Robert Whitaker鈥檚 site snarked that Ransdell鈥檚 鈥渂orderline comatose 鈥榃ith Juice you lose鈥 is the latest drooling from COMIC Book Pro-Whites.鈥
In the same article, Whitaker attacked , the world鈥檚 largest online white supremacist forum, calling it a vacuum for pro-white energy that is spent arguing on the internet, and said that he and his followers (known as 鈥淏UGSERS鈥 who bombard various websites with variations of 鈥渢he mantra,鈥 a white supremacist statement that claims 鈥渁nti-racism is anti-white鈥) are the only ones who work for the cause and have 鈥淰ISIBLY destroyed anti-white memes that would be there forever if it had been left to tens of thousands of Stormfronters.鈥
And then neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin entered the fray of 鈥渂eefs鈥 with a massive round-up post at his Daily Stormer site, titled 鈥溾 in which he adds extra snark by representing each feuding party as a different anime character from the series .
To Anglin, all the battling about what鈥檚 best for the movement is ridiculous, because his approach is the best: 鈥淵ou cannot preserve the White race without addressing the Jews. You cannot address the Jews without addressing their hoax. You cannot address their hoax without addressing Adolf Hitler.鈥 That statement opened yet another 鈥渂eef鈥 with Colin Liddell at Alternative Right.
鈥淲hat Anglin is unequivocally saying here,鈥 writes Lidell, 鈥渋s that before you can do anything at all about preserving and protecting the White race 鈥 stopping mass immigration, say, or encouraging White women to have at least 2.1 babies 鈥 you must first get everyone to love Hitler and hate the Jews, and if you can鈥檛 accomplish these supposed preconditions then you had best forget the whole shebang, So what he is really saying is simply: 鈥榊ou cannot preserve the White race.鈥欌
Like a tennis match, Anglin hit back, calling Lidell 鈥淢r. Supersmartintellectualguy,鈥 and claiming that he could turn Lidell鈥檚 arguments around on him, but 鈥渨ouldn鈥檛 ever do that, because [he has] this thing in [his] back called a 鈥榲ertebral column鈥 which physically prevents me from being capable of engaging in such base intellectual dishonesty.鈥
And not one to avoid controversy (or attention), white nationalist Matt Parrott of the was willing to throw some more gas on the fire. According to Parrott, who normally shies away from comparisons to Nazism, 鈥淭he flaw in Anglin鈥檚 model is that Nazism isn鈥檛 radical enough.鈥
Meanwhile, over in the vortex that is VNN Forum, Alex Linder is so worked up that he鈥檚 posting 1,000-word screeds at a rate that is almost unprecedented for him, even though he鈥檚 known for long diatribes. Among these are attacks on almost every major figure, including Johnson and Spencer, involved in a 鈥渂eef鈥 listed on Occidental Dissent.
鈥淓verybody fails Greggy,鈥 writes Linder in the #1 Infighting, Beefs, Etc. Thread鈥 on VNN Forum. 鈥淭hen piously he lifts his eyes heavenward, shakes his head nobly and sadly, and earnestly swears to soldier on and do better next time. So sodo-jesusy.鈥
In the same breath, Linder attacks Spencer, comparing him to , a disgraced, former leader who is a convicted sex offender.
鈥淪pencer is simply a nebbish. I think of him as a Strom lite. Less brains, less character, even.鈥
Like some kind of surreal white supremacist version of a telenovela, the drama continues to unfurl. As Brad Griffin suggested at Occidental Dissent, some popcorn might be in order.