He has claimed credit for coining the term alt-right in 2008 in order to differentiate himself from 'mainstream American conservatism', although Paul Gottfried argues that both he and Spencer created the term. From January 2008 to December 2009, he served as the executive editor of Taki's Magazine, a libertarian online magazine published by Taki Theodoracopulos. Spencer spoke about the Duke lacrosse case and credits it with changing the course of his career. According to founding editor Scott McConnell, he was fired from The American Conservative because his views were considered too extreme. Activities Early activitiesįrom March to December 2007, Spencer was the assistant editor at The American Conservative magazine. His former website says he did not complete his PhD at Duke in order 'to pursue a life of thought-crime'. He joined the Duke Conservative Union, where he met future President Trump's senior policy advisor Stephen Miller. From 2005 to 2007, he was a PhD student in Modern European intellectual history at Duke University. From the summer of 2005 into 2006, Spencer attended Vienna International Summer University. In 2001, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Music from the University of Virginia and, in 2003, a Master of Arts in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. Mark's School of Texas, then Colgate University for one year before transferring to the University of Virginia. He grew up in Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas. Richard Bertrand Spencer was born in 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of ophthalmologist Rand Spencer and Sherry Spencer ( née Dickenhorst), the heiress to cotton farms in Louisiana. Following an appeal by the Polish government, he was banned from the Schengen Area in 2018, having been banned previously in 2014 after being deported from Hungary. Three supporters of Spencer were charged with attempted homicide following his October 2017 speech at the University of Florida. On November 23, 2021, the jury found Spencer liable on two counts and were unable to reach verdicts for another two, awarding $25 million in total damages.

Kessler for allegedly acting as a 'gang boss' and inciting the killing. After the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, during which an alt-right supporter drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring at least 19 others, Spencer was sued as part of Sines v. įollowing the Unite the Right rally, Spencer has been involved in several legal issues. In early-to-mid-2017, when Spencer's following was at its height, his supporters would give him the Sieg Heil salute when he entered a room.

At a conference Spencer held celebrating the election, Spencer cried: 'Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!' subsequently Mike Enoch led a number of Spencer's supporters in performing a Nazi salute and a chant similar to the Sieg Heil chant. In the weeks following, Spencer quoted Nazi propaganda and denounced Jews. After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Spencer urged his supporters to 'party like it's 1933,' the year Hitler came to power in Germany. In early 2016, Spencer was filmed giving the Nazi salute in a karaoke bar, and leaked footage also depicts Spencer giving the Sieg Heil salute to his supporters during the August 2017 Charlottesville rally. Spencer has repeatedly used Nazi gestures and rhetoric in public. He was a featured speaker at the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, among other neo-Nazi rallies that he has headlined. Spencer has advocated for the enslavement of Haitians by whites and for the ethnic cleansing of the racial minorities of the United States, additionally expressing admiration for the political tactics of American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell. He advocates for the reconstitution of the European Union into a white racial empire, which he believes will replace the diverse European ethnic identities with one homogeneous 'White identity'. A former magazine editor, he is a public speaker and activist on behalf of the alt-right movement. Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 1978) is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and white supremacist.

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