Bara 15 lyssnade när hatprofil talade i Florida
Lokala myndigheter utlyste undantagstillstånd inför att den högerextreme ideologen Richard Spencer skulle tala vid University of Florida i Gainesville på torsdagskvällen. Polisen befarade att tillställningen kunde bli orolig, men de befarade våldsamheterna uteblev.
Endast ett 15-tal anhängare till Spencer lyssnade till talet som drunknade i meningsmotståndarnas protester.
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Richard Spencer
Wikipedia (en)
Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is an American white supremacist. He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, as well as Washington Summit Publishers. Spencer has stated that he rejects the label of white supremacist, and prefers to describe himself as an identitarian. He has advocated for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture. Spencer and others have said that he created the term "alt-right", which he considers a movement about white identity.
Spencer and his organization drew considerable media attention in the weeks following the 2016 US presidential election, where, at a National Policy Institute conference, he quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews. In response to his cry "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!", a number of his supporters gave the Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the Sieg heil chant used at the Nazis' Nuremberg rallies. Spencer has also refused to denounce Adolf Hitler or the KKK.
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