Richard B. Spencer is a Douchebag

In light of recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, I came across a video featuring Charles Barkley talking with Spencer about his views.

Kevin C. McCarthy
Aug 23, 2017 · 6 min read

Not that I want my first post on Medium to be about the filth that is Spencer, or about this type of subject, but I was spurred on after watching this video (embedded at the end) where he sits down with NBA legend — and generally enjoyable loudmouth — “Sir Charles” Barkley.

Charles Barkley showing tremendous restraint towards one of life’s biggest losers.

Morons like Richard B. Spencer need to stop having attention paid to them. That means the mass media, the public, and social media need to ignore him. Let him live in his bigoted bubble, where literally less than a handful of people (percentage wise) believe in his sentiments. If you ignore assholes like him, they’ll die relatively alone and in silence. Sure, there may be 500 other losers who follow him that are willing to leave their parent’s basements and gather somewhere, but they should all be left to live — and ultimately die — in their own bubble of hatred.

NOTE: This is not a call for censorship — that’s not my bag — but instead to call upon grown individuals to be accountable and outright ignore all morons of his ilk.

Once upon a time, marches of bigotry were rightfully ignored.

Relatively speaking, there was once a more peaceful time — I’m referring to the 1980s and ‘90s—when White Supremacists, KKK, and Nazi douchebags were able to gather and march, and for the most part, NO ONE PAID THEM ANY MIND. Their ability to gather, to march, is an inalienable right bestowed upon every citizen of the United States. You are allowed to freely gather and to protest — no matter how ignorant your views are. As long as it remains peaceful, it protected by the Bill of Rights of The United States Constitution. Also, ignoring these morons is partly how the KKK and others dissolved way back when. And good riddance.

“Hate Fact”: The right of peaceful assembly is paramount to civil rights.

The same Bill of Rights also protected marches and demonstrations by groups like the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and countless others. It also allowed the suffrage movement and their marches to happen. Most importantly, let’s not forget it allowed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to hold peaceful protests to fight for civil rights. And ultimately win. Keep that in mind.

The marches, rallies, demonstrations, and other assemblies that you might want to have silenced today — should any form of such be made illegal — will result in you or your cause(s) losing the right to do the same in the future, regardless of how noble they may be.

Speech is not violence.

Free speech is protected; argue that all you want, it’ll only make you look like a fool. But bear in mind that it includes so-called “hate speech” (read: speech you don’t like). There is no distinction between free speech and hate speech — they are two sides of the same coin. Free speech is all speech. Once you get governments to define and classify something as hate speech or whatever, and make it open to litigation, you allow those same governments to regulate it over time. So while you can say something great and wholesome today, tomorrow’s government will switch hands and can broaden the definition of hate speech to then turn around and say you’re spouting hate speech. And who knows what the penalty for that could be.

Violence is violence.

Violence used against otherwise peaceful protesters is against the law.

To be overly broad, touching someone without permission is a form of violence. Anything in excess of that is even more so. However, yelling or cursing at someone is not. In America, punching a Nazi is violence. You can claim you’re being a most virtuous citizen by doing so, but you can, should, and hopefully will go to jail for it. One has no right either by Constitution or by law that allows violence for the sake of violence or for disagreeing with someone else’s free speech — no matter how vitriolic it may be.

In America, no one has the right to use violence for disagreeing with someone else’s free speech — no matter how vitriolic it may be.

It takes ___ to tango.

To the events of Charlottesville, VA on August 12th: both sides were violent. It takes two to tango. One to engage, the other to reciprocate. When you have a mob, a simple shove can easily become a brawl. It starts with two and can easily become two-hundred. However…

I am well aware that one person — an apparent White Supremacist — committed homicide and maimed countless others. Thankfully, that P.O.S. will serve justice to the fullest extent of the law. That is the justice system working as it was designed to. Anyone and everyone who commits a homicide, “left” or “right,” should feel the weight of the justice system come down on them. But I digress…

Stop shining a spotlight on alt-right LARPers.

Spotlighting idiots like Richard Spencer and David Duke in the press, getting mobs of people to “counter” their demonstrations (often with violence), and allowing the media to drive a narrative that they are somehow leaders of a huge group of other like-minded morons is completely inaccurate and toxic to our greater culture. Frankly, I really don’t care about the mass hysteria bubble you may live in— they are not a huge group of people by any calculation. At best, there are a couple-thousand LARPers who feel that overly politically-correct culture has it out for them. Despite their bigotry and vile points of view, you know what…they have the right to feel that way.

However, I would argue that in a face-to-face situation, most of those people would do and say nothing of the sort and you’d never know…because it’s all a fantasy that gets left behind when they leave their basement. And the ones who would admit it one-on-one? They’re lowlife losers.

Agent provocateurs.

Spencer and Duke — both whom I consider to be agent provocateurs (how else do you explain that they get away scot-free with all of this nonsense?) — are purposely being given attention by a notoriously left-leaning mass media in order to drive division in this country that whose intent is to drive a slanted political narrative.

Scare tactics work really well for The Party…

Part of the goal is to scare Democratic voters into actually showing up at the elections (2018 and 2020); to convert borderline Republican voters (specifically those not confident with Donald Trump) to their side; to appeal to liberal-leaning Independents; and to finally gain the youth who have yet to declare their political affiliations until they reach voting age. It goes well beyond that, of course, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.” — George Orwell, 1984

Moving beyond that, as that’s a whole other topic for another time (should I choose to address it), let me provide you with the craziest solution to combat all of this insanity…

Stop watching these losers.

Go outside and talk to real people and tell me how many you find who consider themselves White Supremacists, KKK, or Nazis. You may find 1 out of 500,000 (at best). And for all of those people you find who aren’t in any of those groups: I hope you enjoy your new friendship that was built on reaching out and having friendly conversation.

Own your mind.

You might also want to consider paying attention to people like Mike Cernovich and changing your mindset in order to avoid being tricked into believing the world — and our country — is worse than it is. When you gain control of your mind, you begin to truly think for yourself.

Improve yourself, and you will improve your world.

Watch part of the Charles Barkley and Richard B. Spencer video below.

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Kevin C. McCarthy

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