Svenskar drivande i den amerikanska extremhögern
Tre av de närmsta medarbetarna till den amerikanska alternativhögerns ledare Richard Spencer är svenska högerextremister, skriver Dagens Nyheter. Tidningen har kartlagt den svenska kretsen kring Spencer – som ropade ”hail Trump!” och möttes av Hitlerhälsningar när han firade valresultatet i höstas. De tre svenska männen utgör halva styrelsen för Spencers nya medieprojekt Altright.com.
En av de svenska medarbetarna driver konferensen ”Identitär idé”, som förra året samlades för möte på Armémuseum i Stockholm. En av föreläsarna var den franske författaren Guillaume Faye, som påstod att den vita rasen riskerar existentiell kris och jämförde invandring med cancer.
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Richard Spencer
Wikipedia (en)
Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is a noted American white supremacist. He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank, and Washington Summit Publishers, an independent publishing firm. Spencer has stated that he rejects the description of white supremacist, and describes himself as an identitarian. He advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.
Spencer and others have said that he created the term "alt-right", a term he considers a movement about white identity.
Spencer has repeatedly quoted from Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews, and has on several occasions refused to denounce Adolf Hitler.
Spencer and his organization drew considerable media attention in the weeks following the 2016 presidential election, where, 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' Nuremburg rallies. Spencer has defended their conduct, stating that the Nazi salute was given in a spirit of "irony and exuberance".
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Guillaume Faye
Wikipedia (en)
Guillaume Faye (French: [faj]; born 7 November 1949 in Angoulême) is a French journalist and writer.
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