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sheshe2

(83,928 posts)
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:35 PM Dec 2017

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.

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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.

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.

“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.”

more: http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-leader-richard-spencer-isnt-sure-if-women-should-be-allowed-vote-685048

Yes, old article yet nothing has changed, now has it? The hatred, disrespect of women from the right has escalated under tRump. When you are a star you can do anything.

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Women Shouldn't Have the Right to Vote, Says Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer (Original Post) sheshe2 Dec 2017 OP
Watch this get little to no attention. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2017 #1
Uuum hmm sheshe2 Dec 2017 #7
Hey we are to busy running liberal democratic senators out of power workinclasszero Dec 2017 #19
What an ignorant little pissant. I bet I could kick his ass in any intellectual challenge he could MLAA Dec 2017 #2
With onehand tied behind your back, MLAA. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #9
... mcar Dec 2017 #3
Things would be so much better for the GOP if only white males could vote Gothmog Dec 2017 #4
I think Spencer should be barefoot and pregnant the rest of his life ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #5
Well, in a way, I have to agree with his sentiment. pangaia Dec 2017 #6
Good point. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #25
Fucking trash shenmue Dec 2017 #8
David Gahan whathehell Dec 2017 #27
So, he is not just a white supremacist, but a male supremacist too. Yonnie3 Dec 2017 #10
I guess they are just scared or scarred little boys playing dress up. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #17
Guess what. You should not have the right to a woman. Not even a paid one. appleannie1943 Dec 2017 #11
...Says Nazi Richard Spencer. Iggo Dec 2017 #12
Good Fix! sheshe2 Dec 2017 #13
Recommended. guillaumeb Dec 2017 #14
Yes, he would prefer a Handmaidens tale as reality. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #16
" . . . their vindictiveness knows no bounds. Chemisse Dec 2017 #15
Exactly - spoken like the voice of experience !! RandomAccess Dec 2017 #21
The age of Trump NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #18
They came loud and proud spewing their hate. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #23
Neither should blacks, gays, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, Democrats... edbermac Dec 2017 #20
Guess they didn't knock enough sense into him first go around Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2017 #22
Good right jab and well deserved. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #24
Typical Of Losers Like Him colsohlibgal Dec 2017 #26
Richard Spencer is the only one here who will lose his right to vote. Initech Dec 2017 #28
But WE Can Vote Me. Dec 2017 #29
Yes we can. sheshe2 Dec 2017 #30
... Me. Dec 2017 #31
Alt-righties have been pushing this idea since I first got on bullwinkle428 Dec 2017 #32
I'm OK with not letting one gender vote Bradshaw3 Dec 2017 #33
Ann Coulter has been saying the same thing for 20 years. Archae Dec 2017 #34

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. Watch this get little to no attention.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:37 PM
Dec 2017

Not because people dont care about how horrible that comment is, but because we are becoming numb to these Nazi's which is the real danger.

sheshe2

(83,928 posts)
7. Uuum hmm
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:47 PM
Dec 2017
“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.”


Spencer sucks.
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
19. Hey we are to busy running liberal democratic senators out of power
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:20 PM
Dec 2017

without a trial or hearing while the Nazi republicans slowly strangle America, sorry.

MLAA

(17,335 posts)
2. What an ignorant little pissant. I bet I could kick his ass in any intellectual challenge he could
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:39 PM
Dec 2017

come up with.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. I think Spencer should be barefoot and pregnant the rest of his life
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:46 PM
Dec 2017

He's just such a little turd. No amount of antifa punching is going to change that.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
6. Well, in a way, I have to agree with his sentiment.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:47 PM
Dec 2017

If I were him, I would't want women to vote either.


shenmue

(38,506 posts)
8. Fucking trash
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:48 PM
Dec 2017

This has 0% chance of ever happening. David Gahan was right, Richard Spencer is a c**t.

whathehell

(29,095 posts)
27. David Gahan
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:45 PM
Dec 2017

whoever he is, can hardly defend women by using an ugly gender slur and nether can you..Just sayin'.

Yonnie3

(17,491 posts)
10. So, he is not just a white supremacist, but a male supremacist too.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:50 PM
Dec 2017

This miserable excuse for a human being is beneath contempt. The last time he and his ilk came here (Charlottesville) they ran away, like thieves in the night, when just a few protested them. Supreme, huh? Master race, huh? Bullshit.

Words escape me.

sheshe2

(83,928 posts)
17. I guess they are just scared or scarred little boys playing dress up.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:15 PM
Dec 2017

So sorry they defiled Charlottesville with their hatred, violence and murder. There is no place for them in this world.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
14. Recommended.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:08 PM
Dec 2017

Spencer would prefer that A Handmaid's Tale be history rather than fiction.

One also assumes that Spencer considers himself to be a natural leader, or fuehrer.

sheshe2

(83,928 posts)
16. Yes, he would prefer a Handmaidens tale as reality.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:10 PM
Dec 2017
One also assumes that Spencer considers himself to be a natural leader, or fuehrer.


I just see him as an asshole dressed to look like a man.

Chemisse

(30,817 posts)
15. " . . . their vindictiveness knows no bounds.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:09 PM
Dec 2017

It sounds like he has had a few women tell him where to shove his load of bullshit.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
21. Exactly - spoken like the voice of experience !!
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:25 PM
Dec 2017

And I, for one, salute those women for their obvious intelligence on at least that one thing.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
18. The age of Trump
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:16 PM
Dec 2017

This is nothing new, but they used to keep this garbage under wraps. Now they're loud and proud about their hatred. All of them are crawling out of the sewers because too many in power approve of their shit.

sheshe2

(83,928 posts)
23. They came loud and proud spewing their hate.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:36 PM
Dec 2017

Then, they ran with their cowardly tails now flaccid between their legs, after leaving Heather Heyer dead and so many injured in an attack. Many were identified and charged, they wept when they were caught...not so strong without their numbers standing with them.





Back to the sewer boys, you are all so pitifully weak.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
26. Typical Of Losers Like Him
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:40 PM
Dec 2017

He has a mental defect in his brain, like the othe Nazi creeps.

Chitolini has people like Spencer feeling emboldened.

Hopefully a reckoning is coming beginning in 2018.

Initech

(100,104 posts)
28. Richard Spencer is the only one here who will lose his right to vote.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:54 PM
Dec 2017

After he's convicted of a felony.

bullwinkle428

(20,631 posts)
32. Alt-righties have been pushing this idea since I first got on
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 09:25 PM
Dec 2017

the Internet 20 years ago! They'll try to get away with this too-clever-by-half attitude of "kind of kidding, but not really". It's been a very pervasive thing for a long time.

Archae

(46,354 posts)
34. Ann Coulter has been saying the same thing for 20 years.
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:04 AM
Dec 2017

On Bill Maher's "Politically Correct" show, she said women should have guns but not vote.

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