Yep got me, I did make a throwaway comment about Spencer. Here is something I find pretty dumb, "In thinking about immigration and migration, I could not care less whether someone filled out the paperwork correctly or passed a civics exam. I oppose the immigration of an African who waits his turn and genuinely ‘wants to be an American’; conversely, I would gladly accept thousands of ‘Swedish boat people’ who wash up on the shores."
Watching him throw Nazi salutes in a bar while Milo was singing 'America the Beautiful' I found to be pretty dumb as well. Don't punch Richard though, just let the dumb c*** rise and fall by the quality of his ideas.
So, you provided me with one quote that you found just now when you googled 'Richard Spencer quotes' and found an ibtimes article entitled '12 quotes of Richard Spencer'.
That's not
specifically what you objected to though, because you found that quote
after I asked the question about what you objected to. You went looking for things that you object to, you didn't know off-hand, only that he's a "thicko white nationalist" -- second hand information you might have got from Milo two years ago.
And aren't you the guy who said you don't have to agree with
everything a person says? That you agree with some of what Ben Shapiro says for example, and disagree with other things like the fact that he wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians (although he said that years ago so you hoped he's "had a change of heart since then"), but that doesn't stop you reposting stuff from Shapiro that you
do agree with.
Anyway you found one quote from Richard Spencer that you dislike -- a quote that's no different to what the American Founding Fathers believed, along with probably 35 or 36 of the 45 US Presidents overall. With that in mind, throwing up Roman salutes while
America the Beautiful is being sung is not inaccurate. I don't have to remind you that the USA was essentially established as a white ethnostate which the Naturalization Act of 1790 laid out, and more or less remained that way up until the mid-1960s (at which point it was still 85% white; whiter than England and France are today).
There was some immigration from Asian countries which Coolidge cracked down on in his immigration act in 1924, and some from Mexico/Puerto Rico etc., and of course the slave trade which doesn't really count as "immigration", but apart from that the history of American immigration for over 150 years post-revolution really was Swedish/Polish/German/Italian/Irish "boat people", so if you found his comment "pretty dumb" then I don't know what to tell you.
That's not the America that Milo was visualizing when he sang "America the Beautiful" of course, I'm not sure which eras he holds near and dear to his heart, the Reagan/Bush Sr. and Jr. eras possibly? The hyper-capitalist neo-con eras, not much different than today although we can see the rot a bit clearer now. For most of America's history he couldn't have lived there safely with his black 'husband', and I say "lived" literally because there's a reasonable chance that the two of them would have been lynched. So what was he singing about? I would say "let Milo rise and fall by the quality of his ideas" too, if he had any.
If Ben Shapiro had made the same comment as Spencer, but about Israel rather than the USA, would you also find that "pretty dumb" or would you nod your head approvingly for reasons unbeknownst both to you and to me?