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DemocratSinceBirth

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Wed Feb 1, 2017, 01:26 PM Feb 2017

Crypto- Nazi leader agrees with Trump administrations decision to omit Jews from Holocaust




Richard Spencer, the prominent white supremacist who was on the receiving end of a punch to the face on Inauguration Day, found nothing wrong with President Donald Trump’s statement that recognized Holocaust Remembrance Day without mentioning the Jewish community and the anti-semitism that oppresses them.

“Trump’s statement on Holocaust Memorial Day is, on the surface, utterly defensible within the current moral paradigm,” Spencer wrote in a post on his new site Alt Right.

The alt-right ideologue claimed the “activist Jewish community” was only voicing complaints about Trump’s statement because they wanted attention, “It is all about their meta-narrative of suffering, and it shall undergird their peculiar position in American society, and theirs alone.” He deplored the fact that Hitler and the Holocaust has become the “negative moral center of the liberal universe.”

A champion of President Trump and the movement he has inspired, Spencer was once a PhD candidate at Duke University who helped popularize the term “alt-right.” He has said he rejects the name “Nazi” and has even conceded that Hitler did some “despicable” things. Still, he was seen in November leading an alt-right gathering in what was widely seen as a Hitler salute.

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/01/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-defends-white-house-statement-on-the-holocaust/
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Crypto- Nazi leader agrees with Trump administrations decision to omit Jews from Holocaust (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2017 OP
Sad that he created the "is it OK to punch a Nazi" dialogue. Initech Feb 2017 #1
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