Society Women Shouldn't Have the Right to Vote, Says ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer

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Freeloading Rusty

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Women Shouldn't Have the Right to Vote, Says ‘Alt-Right’ Leader Richard Spencer
White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s tiki torch rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his distant dream of forming a white ethnostate steal headlines, but his views about women—that their role in politics be shrunk down to a barely visible place that would be unrecognizable to almost anyone in modern America—is seldom highlighted.

th century. More specifically, I asked him if he wanted to return to a time in which women weren’t allowed to vote.

"I'm not terribly excited about voting in general," Spencer said. "I think that mass democracy is a bit of a joke to be honest."

I pressed him on the question again.

“I don’t necessarily think that that’s a great thing,” Spencer said of women voting in U.S. elections.

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right.  But Spencer’s comment perhaps hints at how he and other alt-right leader’s views about women might manifest in terms of actual policy, should they be able to gain direct access to the levers of power." data-reactid="28" style="margin-bottom: 1em; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The subject of misogyny in alt-right circles has been well documented, not only in terms of its prevalence in the movement, but as being a fundamental part of why the movement exists in the first place. Angela Nagle, a leftist writer, for example, catalogued the movement’s journey from frequently apolitical, primarily misogynistic threads on the imageboard site 4chan into the kind of “blood and soil” racial nationalism embraced by men like Spencer in her book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right. But Spencer’s comment perhaps hints at how he and other alt-right leader’s views about women might manifest in terms of actual policy, should they be able to gain direct access to the levers of power.

Spencer declined to explain to me how Americans would choose their leaders without the use of democracy. Nevertheless, his words are likely to draw raised eyebrows from his many critics, which currently span from the left to the center-right. The remark also falls in line with similar comments Spencer has made in the past about the opposite sex, suggesting that the U.S. should be protected from what he views to be the danger of having a female commander-in-chief.


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“Women should never be allowed to make foreign policy,” he wrote about then candidate Hillary Clinton in September of 2016 on Twitter. “It’s not that they’re ‘weak.’ To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds.”

Megan Squire, a professor of computing sciences at Elon University in North Carolina, and a civil rights activist who says she was targeted for harassment by white nationalists in May of this year in retaliation for participating in a protest against a Pro-Confederacy group, has paid close attention to the tech industry, and its relationship to the alt-right. She says that tech’s ties to the movement set a tone in which women’s ideas and voices are not welcome.

Squire said the alt-right’s ideas about women originate from the same place as their beliefs about immigrants.

“I think that they’re upset that the world is changing, and one of those changes is looking around and seeing more women in the workplace,” she says. “Everyone is to blame for their problems but themselves—white men.”

Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University in New York City, and the author of book about the role black immigrants play in shaping America’s political landscape, laughed when I told her Spencer’s comment about women voting.
 
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I don't believe that anyone receiving public assistance should be allowed to vote, this includes Anyone that works for the government.
 

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Despite death threats, Florida brewery continues to protest Richard Spencer’s speech

In Trump’s America, even beer can become political.

Tall Paul’s Brew House, a bar in Gainesville, Florida, posted on its Facebook page Thursday to inform followers that Alligator Brewing, a nano-brewery located in Tall Paul’s, would give people free beer in exchange for tickets to white supremacist Richard Spencer’s talk at the University of Florida, Gainesville.


A screenshot of Tall Paul’s Brew House Facebook. Mic/Facebook
The rationale? If ticket-holders relinquish their tickets instead of attending the event, “reserved spots will be disposed of, leaving more empty seats.” the Facebook post noted. It continued, “We unfortunately can’t stop him from bringing his hate to Gainesville, but we can empty the room so his disgusting message goes unheard.”

The Facebook post quickly gained traction among University of Florida alums and others who applauded the brewery’s plan — the post has 2,100 likes and roughly 4,400 shares as of Wednesday afternoon. A tweet with a screenshot of the Facebook post also garnered over 18,300 retweets.

“The only thing that we are really trying to do is respect our community,” a Tall Paul’s spokesperson said by phone on the condition of anonymity to protect his personal safety. “With many minds on college campuses that can be molded, we decided to do something that could possibly prevent his message of hate to be distributed.”


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While many are praising the brewery, others are condemning it — the spokesperson said people associated with the Alligator Brewing event have received death threats.

According to the Miami Herald, Spencer’s team has learned of the plan. Instead of allowing community members to get tickets from the university, Spencer’s team will distribute the event tickets themselves, a method designed to “avoid the sabotage,” Cameron Padgett, a Georgia grad student organizing on behalf of Spencer, told the Herald.

The Tall Paul spokesperson declined to comment on specifics when asked whether there would be a change of plans given the new ticket distribution method.

“Just like the group has a right to free speech, the [brewery] also has a right to promote as they like. I agree with it,” Nelson Irizarry, a longstanding Gainesville resident, said in a Facebook message to Mic. Irizarry works as an Uber driver but said he will not be driving and doesn’t plan to go outside that day either, in order to protect his safety — especially given that Florida has declared a state of emergency.

Mixing beer and politics is nothing new
Alligator Brewing joins an increasingly long line of craft brewers that aren’t afraid to mix politics and beer.

“From Threes Brewing’s Gender Neutral beer, brewed in honor of Pride month, to Spiteful Brewing Dumb Donald double IPA, brewers are using their cans and bottles as canvases for political speech,” Joshua Bernstein, a beer and spirits author, said in an email.


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Bernstein doesn’t think beer is uniquely positioned to address politics, but he noted that many see beer as “a uniter, not a divider.” Case in point: The well-received Heineken advertisement showing people with different beliefs conversing with beer in hand.


Mixing business with Trump talk isn’t for everyone, of course. Bernstein noted that several months ago, Hill Farmstead, a Vermont-based brewery, tweeted a reference to Trump dismissing media as fake news.

“Let’s not make beer political,” one person tweeted back.

Does it make sense for breweries to assert their values?

“You can risk alienating your customer base by speaking your mind, but sometimes speaking your mind is more meaningful than simply selling another case of beer,” Bernstein said.