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In the hours and days following the deadly Unite the Right rally on 12 August 2017, President Donald Trump laid the blame for the violence that took the lives of three people in Charlottesville, Virginia on many sides.

The claim that white supremacists and counter-demonstrators carry equal responsibility for the weekend melee in Charlottesville has been widely rejected both Democrat and Republican lawmakers have repudiated the views espoused by rally attendees who were seen using racist and anti-Semitic epithets and carrying Nazi symbols. But the presidents comments have drawn attention to far left demonstrators known as antifa (short for anti-fascist), who have been showing up to counter white supremacist rallies, sometimes violently).

However, videos of a car ramming into a group of pedestrians protesting the rally doesnt show any antifa in the crowd that was hit. Instead, Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed, was a Charlottesville local and many of the people in the area appeared to be regular demonstrators. Nevertheless on the day she was killed, President Trump said:

We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.

Two days later, under pressure to condemn white supremacist violence, President Trump revisited the issue, but blamed the alt-left, a made-up term probably meant to refer to antifa. He said:

Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at [indiscernible] excuse me what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

Even though the people who died amid the unrest have not been linked to antifa (the other two victims were police officers), questions have since been raised about the violence at the weekend rally and further potential for violence at upcomingevents by both the alt-right (a term that encompasses different strands of white supremacist factions) and the antifa activists who come out to meet them. Experts tell us that statistically, historically, and in terms of philosophy the alt-right poses a bigger threat and greater evil, but the violence at political demonstrations has been ratcheting up in recent months.

Brian Levin, criminal justice professor at California State University at San Bernardino who is an expert on hate groups, said ideology aside, street violence is generally increasing at political demonstrations, as extremist groups are egged on by each others words and actions:

To be sure, there is a violent subsection of antifa which is getting much publicity and much more prominent to say theyre not is just false. By the same token there isnt a moral equivalency in philosophy, but there is an escalating arms race with regard to extremists on different sides, of which I think alt-right are now at the forefront.

But, he pointed out, antifa isnt as organized as the alt-right, and doesnt have the access to the channels of publicity and governmental influence that the alt-right does:

The alt-right is far more organized and has greater access to the political mainstream than their less-organized cohorts on the hard left who do not enjoy or do not have the same structure or access into the political mainstream. Both are anti-establishments and socio-political entities that can radicalize constituents to violence but the alt-right just as an organism is far larger, more sophisticated and more able to participate in the political mainstream, particularly through messaging.

Marilyn Mayo, senior research fellow for the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, said that statistics show that radical leftists have been dramatically less likely to kill people than their counterparts on the opposite side of the political spectrum.Over the past decade, extremists of every stripe have killed 372 Americans. 74 percent of those killings were committed by right wing extremists. Only 2 percent of those deaths were at the hands of left wing extremists. Mayo told us:

I dont want to give moral equivalence to the two sides because one side is fighting against white supremacy. On the Antifa side, theyve never murdered anyone but there have been many murders done by white supremacists, so we have to be concerned about that movement.

But, she said:

You have an escalation of rhetoric and you have people who are willing to fight it out in the streets. With this political polarization in the country right now, you have people who come dressed for battle, and when they confront each other it can lead to violence.

This is kind of a watershed moments because we saw one of the largest and most violent white supremacist rallies in over a decade. It brought together a lot of strains under one umbrella and the fact these groups were able to unite shows they feel the moment is very ripe to get their message out and be in the streets. Theyre not afraid to be out and open in their views. When you have people who have so much hate and bigotry, shouting things like Jews will not replace us, it shows that they are rearing for action. And theres always the potential for violence when you have hate groups going out into the streets.

John Sepulvado, a reporter who has been covering far-right groups for Bay Area public radio station KQED, told us the violence at recent alt-right demonstrations has been used to recruit, and when antifa shows up to fight them it can play into their game plan. Theyre turning the traditional desire for objectivity by the media on its head, he told us.

Citing a lyric from rapper Jay Zs song Takeover that says, A wise man told me dont argue with fools, cause people from a distance cant tell who is who, Sepulvado told us the pattern of inciting violence at rallies from the alt-right has gone this way:

Announce an event thats going to piss everyone who has common sense off, something so outrageous its going to piss 99 percent of the population off, then when someone gets on Twitter [and threatens them], send out a press release saying, we cant practice our free speech rights because of leftist violence. Then show up anyway. They have canceled so many rallies that they showed up at anyway and still rallied. The threat of leftist violence means they need to wear body armor and bring weapons. If its an open carry state theyll have [firearms]. If its not an open carry state theyll bring firecrackers and sticks.

And then when someone pushes them or spits on them, theyll use that as an excuse to strike out. Then the leftists will strike out, and the media wont know whos who.

The important distinction, he said, is that the leftists arent organizing the protests. Theyre just responding to them. Sepulvado added:

You know [the alt-right] is guiltiest when they say, look at them, were not the only ones. Theyre not arguing whether the [car attack] was actually committed, theyre just trying to bring everyone down in the muck with them. This is like a bottom feeding monster trying to convince the world that dolphins are ugly creatures.

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Are 'Antifa' and the 'Alt-Right' Equally Violent?

Vladimir Lenin, Jewish Communist revolutionary in Russia

Anybody who has been paying attention over the past five years can see the hidden hand at work in the so-called Alt-Right and White Nationalist movements.

While the media drones on about white supremacists and antisemitism, the truth is that Jews are actually the ones leading these movements, and there is a clear agenda at work.

This is nothing new.

In 1970, Frank Collin (real name Cohn) was a Jew who founded the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), which would go on to be one of the largest neo-nazi parties at that time. Collin/Cohn would regularly lead neo-nazi marches around Chicago, which ultimately culminated in the Skokie Affair.

Frank Collin/Cohn was eventually found guilty of child molestation and sexually abusing young boys at the NSPA headquarters in Chicago. Predictably, he went to jail and the whole NSPA movement fizzled out.

Just like in the 1970s, today we see the exact same dynamic at work: Jews leading the Alt Right and so-called White Nationalist movements.

It is no secret that the webmaster of the Daily Stormer is/has been Andrew Escher Auernheimer (aka Weev), an Ashkenazi Jew on both sides of his family.

Auernheimer has admitted to being a Jew many times over the years. He has also been outed by his own jewish family. Speaking to Newsweek, his mother Alyse said,

He doesnt like us, she said, adding that her son comes from a large, mixed-race family with Native American heritage, and that he most certainly has Jewish lineage on both sides of his family.

In October 2010, Auernheimer admitted his genetic ties to the Jew Theodore Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement on his official reddit account (still active), which was also verified in one of his court cases:

Well, my line is related to Theodore Herzl, so I have blood ties to Zionist thought.

Like Frank Collin/Cohn, Auernheimer has also served time in jail for illicit activities and crimes.

Below you see the Jew Andrew Escher Auernheimer (right), who looks uncannily like the gay jewish pedophile Allen Ginsberg (left):

Heres another article exposing Weev from Occidental Dissent (archived), detailing how Weev at the Daily Stormer is tied in with Chabad Lubavitch Jews in New York, including Jared Kushner (from the Trump Administration).

Heres Auernheimer promoting violence on a show with Christopher Cantwell, another Alt Right clown and admitted FBI informant.

Hunter Wallace at Occidental Dissent has an excellent overview exposing Weev and his promotion of violence over the years (archived version).

Weevs (and Daily Stormers) subversive and dishonest agenda:

Breitbart is a jewish operation to the core and it has been that way from the beginning.

In an article from August 2016, Breitbarts jewish CEO Lary Solov stated:

They say that we are anti-Semitic, though our company was founded by Jews, is largely staffed by Jews, and has an entire section (Breitbart Jerusalem) dedicated to reporting on and defending the Jewish state of Israel.

As one of the largest of the so-called alternative media websites, Breitbart attempts to be edgy by reporting stories that may be popular with racially aware Whites, while at the same time controlling the narrative and obscuring the hidden Jewish Hand behind the power structure.

In 2015, the Jew Larry Solov wrote an article explaining how Breitbart was born in Israel:

A lot of people dont realize this but Breitbart News Network really got its start in Jerusalem. It was the summer of 2007, and Andrew had been invited to tour Israel as part of a media junket. I agreed to tag along as his lawyer and best friend. What neither of us knew at the time was that the trip would change our lives and give us the inspiration for Breitbart News Network.

One of its co-founders was Steve Bannon, Donald Trumps Chief Strategist, who described Breitbart as THE platform for the alt-right. Yes, this is the same Steven Bannon who was recently outed for his close associations with Mossad operative and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.

Ben Shapiro, another Jew who plays the part of an edgy conservative when hes not studying The Talmud, which is the jewish blueprint for subverting White Christian society, also spent a few years training at Breitbart as a political commentator.

Its no secret that Ezra Levant, the loudmouth behind Rebel Media, is jewish.

Like Breitbart, Levant plays the role of conservative without ever going near the topics of race or the jewish hand at work in various arenas.

Weve discussed Ezra Levant before in his relation to Tommy Robinson. Levant appears to be one of Tommys handlers, while also being his money manager who collects donations for his legal defense, but well discuss Tommy more below.

Levants job is to keep all discussion about Muslims focused on Islam, rather than the jewish enablers.

The Gatestone Institute seems to be the largest among the kosher-approved anti-Islam websites.

The goal of these websites is simple: lead the opposition by criticizing Islam, but dont go anywhere near the topic of who is enabling, funding, and supporting Muslim immigration into the West. Because if you go there, then that would be antisemitic, of course.

These are what we call the Kosher Crusaders. They will appear to oppose Islam, but theyll never let you know the root cause of the problem.

The Gatestone Institute is right out of the jewish playbook for creating a fake opposition movement:

One of the major publishers of online content friendly to the far-right party is an American website financed in large part and lead by Jewish philanthropist Nina Rosenwald.

Rosenwalds site, the Gatestone Institute, publishes a steady flow of inflammatory content about the German election, focused on stoking fears about immigrants and Muslims. In one of the most recent posts, the website warns of the construction of mosques in Germany and claims that Christianity is becoming extinct.

Here is Rosenwald with Alan Dershowitz, a self-described Hillary Clinton supporter who also seems deeply connected with many other personalities on the alt right and the Trump administration through their mutual connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sites like Gatestone also keep Christians blind to the enemy within while ensuring they never see the bigger picture.

We learn from Wikipedia that John Bolton, the neocon Jew who has a penchant for getting America into wars against Muslims for the sole benefit of Israel, is also actively involved in the Gatestone Institute.

Bolton has been involved with numerous conservative organizations, including the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute, where he served as the organization Chairman until March 2018, and as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq.

Next up from the Kosher Crusaders is Robert Spencer, a close associate of fellow jewish conservative kingpin David Horowitz whose Freedom Center funds Spencers website Jihad Watch, a fairly large site that gets quite a bit of traffic. But the m.o. is the same: criticize Islam, never discuss Jews, and support Israel!

There are many other Kosher Crusaders we could discuss, such as Pamella Geller, but you get the point.

Lauren Simonsen goes by the name Lauren Southern as part of her act. Also part of her act is the bad blonde aryan dye job to make herself more appealing to young, naive White men, despite her attraction to Black men, like the conservative one she dated in high school:

In various contexts she has admitted her jewish ancestry.

For example:

Lauren Southern Simonsen previously worked for the Jew Ezra Levant at Rebel Media.

She has made videos criticizing third world immigration into the West, and like her fellow tribe members in the Alt Right, shell never let you know the source of the problem.

In 2018, she went on a world tour with Stephan Molyneux, another Jew who pretends to be a white nationalist.

Hundreds Mistakenly Protest Jewish Woman for White Supremacist in Australia

Mike Cernovich is another jewish Alt Right figure who has been heavily promoted in the media. Recently, Cernovich has gone into overdrive trying to convince people that Jeffrey Epstein was not connected to the Israeli Mossad.

Here he is with his mentor Alan Dershowitz, who just so happens to have been Jeffrey Epsteins attorney and alleged frequent visitor a Epsteins teenage rape parties:

Here we have Cernovich attempting to speak for his fellow white people on Twitter.

Same story, different talking head.

Mike Enoch Peinovich is the Jew behind TheRightStuff, an antisemetic website which hosts various white nationalist podcasts which have been featured at Andrew Anglins Daily Stormer.

When he first came to public attention, he tried to hide the fact that his wife was jewish, but eventually admitted it, after which he allegedly divorced her to maintain his street cred among nationalists, but all of this was a way to distract his followers from the fact that he himself, not just his wife, is jewish.

Enoch has a habit of wearing dark sunglasses in public to create a tough and fashy image, but when he takes them off, he looks nebbishly jewish:

Mike Enoch Peinovich has, in fact, admitted to being jewish on at least three separate occasions, as you can hear in this video:

Update: Mike Enoch Peinovich is now actively blocking anyone on Twitter who points out that he is a Jew. For Peinovich, the truth is gay ops and needs to be shut down.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a gay jewish antisemite whom we have covered before on this site:

Yiannopoulos is a poster child of the fake Right whose sole purpose is to subvert and discredit any legitimate opposition to the jewish-dominated liberal agenda.

Not only is Yiannopoulos a flaming homosexual who has a penchant for Black men, hes also an admitted crypto-Jew who loves to troll both liberals and conservatives. Hes a political clown who does nothing but distract White people from the real problems that we face.

Yiannopoulos just so happens to be another jewish antisemite who got his start at Breitbart (there seems to be a pattern here). As Wikipedia points out:

In October 2015, the Breitbart News Network placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new Breitbart Tech section. The site has six full-time staff, including an eSports specialist, and was edited by Yiannopoulos until his resignation on 21 February 2017.

Wikipedia also points out how Yiannopoulos promotes pedophilia:

In the interview in a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can happen perfectly consensually, because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women. He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age.

And most recently, documents released in a lawsuit involving the United The Right rally in Charlottesville reveal that Yiannopoulos is, in fact, an FBI informant who has a vault of materials to discredit and doxx figures in the Alt-Right.

Paul Gottfried is often called the Jewish Godfather of the Alt Right.

Heres an excerpt from Gottfrieds Wikipedia page:

Gottfried is also the first person to use the term alternative right, when referring specifically to developments within American right-wing politics, in 2008. Richard B. Spencer co-created the term with Gottfried while working together at Takis Magazine and helped it to gain wide currency through media attention surrounding conferences organized by his think tank, the National Policy Institute.

Here you can see Gottfried with Richard Spencer and Pat Buchanan:

The pro-homosexual conservative Richard Spencer is also quite the character, with deep family ties to the CIA and various mainstream political figures. Many also claim he is jewish.

Heres Spencer hanging out with his wife and former First Lady Laura Bush:

Stefan Molyneux is a jewish actor who plays the role of a white nationalist and antisemite who points out facts about Jews. Molyneux has been caught in numerous lies over the years and has flip-flopped on many issues.

He is jewish on both sides of his family.

Mothers side:

Fathers side:

Molyneux is an actor who makes a lot of money conning his audience:

Molyneux will occasionally discuss facts about Jews, particularly on Twitter, while feeding his audience various lies and controlling the narrative.

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Why Are Jews Leading The Alt-Right & 'White' Nationalist ...

The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of white culture and white supremacy, and defending the legacy of the Confederacy.

So why did the demonstrators chant anti-Semitic lines like Jews will not replace us?

The demonstration was suffused with anti-black racism, but also with anti-Semitism. Marchers displayed swastikas on banners and shouted slogans like blood and soil, a phrase drawn from Nazi ideology. This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal niggers, one demonstrator told Vice News Elspeth Reeve during their march. As Jews prayed at a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, men dressed in fatigues carrying semi-automatic rifles stood across the street, according to the temples president. Nazi websites posted a call to burn their building. As a precautionary measure, congregants had removed their Torah scrolls and exited through the back of the building when they were done praying.

This is an agenda about celebrating the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, and celebrating those that then fought to preserve that terrible machine of white supremacy and human enslavement, said Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. And yet, somehow, theyre all wearing shirts that talk about Adolf Hitler.

For these demonstrators, though, the connection between African Americans and Jews is clear. In the minds of white supremacists like David Duke, there is a straight line from anti-blackness to anti-Judaism. That logic is powerful and important. The durability of anti-Semitic tropes, and the ease with which they slide into all displays of bigotry, is a chilling reminder that the hatreds of our time rhyme with history and are easily channeled through timeless anti-Semitic canards.

The University of Chicago historian David Nirenberg has spent his career studying anti-Jewish movements and beliefs. Recently, he spoke to a group of students about anti-Semitism on college campuses. At the end of the talk, I said, I wouldnt rush from all this material to thinking that this anti-Semitism is as dangerous as its early 20th-century predecessor, he told me. Seeing the images of the Virginia protest, I must admit, I kind of felt otherwise. It certainly made me feel that books and ideas that I had treated as very marginal in our society are not as marginal as I might have hoped.

Anti-Semitism often functions as a readily available language for all manner of bigotrya Rosetta Stone that can translate animus toward one group into a universal hate for many groups. Ever since St. Paul, Christianity and all the religions born from itIslam, the secular philosophies of Europe, etc.learned to think about their world in terms of overcoming the dangers of Judaism, said Nirenberg. We have these really basic building blocks for thinking about the world and whats wrong with it by thinking about Judaism.

In the world sketched by white supremacists, Jews hover malevolently in the background, pulling strings, controlling events, acting as an all-powerful force backing and enabling the other targets of their hate. Thats clear in statements made by people like Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who proudly marched with other white supremacists in Charlottesville. Jewish Zionists, he complained to a gathered crowd, control the media and American political system.

The extreme right considers many people their threat. But it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

Anti-black and anti-Jewish sentiment have long been intertwined in America. When the Jewish factory worker Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched in 1915, two new groups simultaneously emerged: the ADL, which fights against bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which began by celebrating Franks death. Later in the 20th century, Nazis became a natural model for white-supremacist movements in the United States, said Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College. The logic of white supremacy was similar: Hatreds became universalized through common archetypes. Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists undermining local businesses. Black Americans fleeing the South in the Great Migration were seen as taking away crucial labor. Catholics were seen as immigrants stealing American jobs.

After the Holocaust, neo-Nazi movements were largely consigned to the countrys political fringe, although they never fully left the American landscape. In 1978, for example, a Nazi group pushed to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, deliberately selecting an area densely populated by Holocaust survivors. The proposed march caused a national uproar, and the American Civil Liberties Union famously defended the groups First Amendment rights in court. Eventually, they ended up demonstrating in Chicago.

The Charlottesville demonstration differed from the planned Skokie march in two important respects, Nirenberg said. First of all, theres a political context for the Unite the Right demonstration. It fits into debates over free speech and college campuses as the front lines of cultural battle, he said. The Skokie march was also widely and vigorously condemned by political leaders. That strong, clear commitment to certain values of inclusion from our political leaders is not present in the same way, Nirenberg said.

On Monday, President Donald Trump held a press conference about the violence in Charlottesville. Racism is evil, he said. Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. This statement came two days after his initial comments on the protests, in which he condemned the hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. The suggested equivalence between the white-supremacist demonstrators and their counter-protesters shocked politicians and public figures in both parties, who quickly criticized Trumps unwillingness to condemn neo-Nazis and the KKK. Its very clear that the people marching in Charlottesville felt very supported by the shape of the public statements made by President Trump, said Nirenberg. On Tuesday, the president held another press conference in which he reiterated his previous claims, saying, What about the alt-left that came charging with clubs in their hands? Do they have any problem? I think they do.

Greenblatt argued that the backlash against Trumps comments is not about politicsits about recognizing a pattern of anti-Semitism. There was the Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that didnt mention Jews; the conspiratorial meme of Hillary Clinton and a Star of David that Trump retweeted during the campaign; the infamous Nazi salute and shouts of Hail Trump! at an alt-right conference following the election. In the past several days, a number of groups have renewed their calls for Trump to fire Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, in part based on Bannons role in heading Breitbart, which he called a platform for the alt-right.

To people like Greenblatt, these are all signs that, at best, the White House does not take anti-Semitism seriously enough. At worst, the Trump administration indulges bigotry so as not to alienate some supporters. Heck, theres Jewish grandchildren running around the White House, Greenblatt said. But make no mistake, the extreme right considers many people their threat, but it always, always, always comes back to the Jews.

You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture.

As Nirenberg pointed out, the violence in Charlottesville was part of a broader political context. The fringe right is reacting to other political movements with nostalgia, Feld saida yearning for people, including minorities like Jews and blacks, to know their place.

It makes sense to me that just as were seeing people of all backgrounds be brave enough to insist that these monuments about slavery be toppled, Feld said, these people would come out and say we would want to return to the way things were.

The identity politics of the intersectional left are radically different from the generalized bigotry of the far-right fever swamps. And yet, they are in relationship: Universalized movements that aim to fight oppression against all peoples in all of their identities necessarily invite backlash from those who feel that theyre losing their place in society. It would really reduce and impoverish debate to see this example as primarily an anti-Jewish rally [or] as entirely an anti-African American rally. Its all those things, said Nirenberg. To the extent that we separate those and claim, No, its only about my identity, we fail to understand basic aspects of identity politics in the present.

Of course there are neo-Nazis in our time. There are those who hate Jews in every time. Its a hatred that easily flickers between the universal and the particular, melding with the similarly particular hatreds of blacks and immigrants and other minority groups. You just cant say this as a historian, but I feel like were at this critical juncture, Feld said. I dont feel like the world is unsafe for Jews. I really dont. But I do feel like all social groups need to pay careful attention and speak out against whats happening.

Like Nirenberg, Feld was trained to look at the images coming out of Charlottesville and see not a freak occurrence, but the echoes of history.

God, she said. Its fucking scary.

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Anti-Semitism at the Deadly Charlottesville Protests - The ...

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an Illinois-based right-wing student organization founded by Charlie Kirk, 25, who now serves as executive director, and William Montgomery, the groups treasurer. Kirk was 18 when he met Montgomery, who was then in his late 60s, after Kirk gave a speech at Benedictine University in Illinois in 2012.[3]

The organizations stated mission is to identify educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. TPUSA claims to have representation at more than 1,300 high schools and college campuses nationwide. It also runs the controversial Professor Watchlist, which seeks to expose professors who allegedly discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom. The group has raised millions of dollars from conservative donors since its founding.[4]In the groups six-year history, TPUSAs leadership and activists have made multiple racist or bigoted comments and have been linked to a variety of extremists.

Kirk and Candace Owens, 29, are the public face of TPUSA. They often appear at public events together. Owens became communications director and director of urban outreach after she emerged as a right-wing activist during Gamergate, a debate over journalistic ethics in videogame review which devolved into vicious harassment campaign against people (mostly women) who spoke out against misogyny and sexism in the videogaming community.[5]

Owens, who is black, is no stranger to controversial statements; she frequently claims that Democrats have brainwashed black people.[6]

Looking beyond American campuses, TPUSA is expanding its activities abroad. Owens made her December 2018 comments about Hitler during an event to help establish a British version of the group, Turning Point UK.[7]

TPUSA and Right-Wing Extremists

TPUSA has received considerable support from conservatives and pro-Trump organizations. Right-wing extremists reactions to the group have been varied, but generally positive. TPUSA has generated support from anti-Muslim bigots and alt lite activists, and from some corners of the white supremacist alt right. However, other white supremacists have criticized TPUSA for distancing itself from controversial stances on racism, and for the groups connections to non-white right-wing activists.

In 2018, white supremacist James Dunphy (possibly a pseudonym) wrote an article for the racist website Counter-Currents neatly capturing the prevailing mixed feelings about TPUSA. Dunphy criticized Kirks compliance with political correctness but praised him for doing wonderful things with TPUSA, saying that group members have openly supported building Trumps wall, deporting illegal immigrants, ending affirmative action, defunding sanctuary cities, and stopping unassimilable Muslims from immigrating to Europe. Dunphy also claimed that despite having many differences with white nationalists, TPUSA will nevertheless benefit them because the number of people who will migrate from its platform to a white nationalist one will be far larger than those who do the reverse.[8]

White supremacists do occasionally show up at TPUSA events, sometimes to hear the speakers and other times to linger outside in the hopes of confronting left-wing activists. Charlie Kirk has spoken out against such incidents, which can attract significant negative publicity. When white supremacists appeared outside an event at Colorado State University in early 2018, Kirk told attendees, its not who we are, its not what we believe, its not what Turning Point believes.[9]

However, in spite of such statements and attempts by TPUSA to manage some of its scandals, the controversies keep bubbling up, with most falling into one or more of these categories:

Controversies

The past three years have seen many controversial and problematic incidents connected to TPUSA.

Note: in the list that follows, several individuals are described as associated with the alt lite. The alt lite is a spin-off movement from the white supremacist alt right. Its adherents typically eschew the explicit white supremacy of the alt right but otherwise share its extremism and its prejudices, including against Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ people (especially transgender people), and women.

May 2019: Left-wing website "It's Going Down" posted a cellphonevideo of Riley Gisar,the presidentof the TPUSA chapter at theUniversity of Nevada,Las Vegas,shouting "white power." The video also shows thewoman standing next to Gisar and the person shooting the video making racist comments andshouting,"white power." Gisar and the womanalso make the okay handgesture, which has been used as a trolling technique by people falsely claimingthe gesture represents the letters wp, for white power. However, more recently, a number of peoplehaveused the gesture as a sincere expression of white supremacy. It is unclear when the video was recorded; TPUSA responded by announcing that Gisar had beenpermanentlyremoved from the organization.

February 2019: Video surfaced of the organizations communications director, Candace Owens, appearing to defend both Adolf Hitler and nationalism. If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run wellokay, fine. The problem is that hehad dreams outside of Germany [and] wanted to globalize, she said. Her comments, made at a December 2018 event in London, sparked widespread criticism.[1]Owens later clarified her statement, saying it was an attempt to separate the term nationalist from its associations with Hitler, adding, "He wasn't a nationalistHe was a homicidal, psychotic maniac."[2]

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Turning Point USA - Anti-Defamation League

Pepe the Frog is a cartoon character that has become a popular Internet meme (often referred to as the "sad frog meme" by people unfamiliar with the name of the character). The character first appeared in 2005 in the on-line cartoon Boy's Club. In that appearance, the character also first used its catchphrase, "feels good, man."

The Pepe the Frog character did not originally have racist or anti-Semitic connotations. Internet users appropriated the character and turned him into a meme, placing the frog in a variety of circumstances and saying many different things. Many variations of the meme became rather esoteric, resulting in the phenomenon of so-called "rare Pepes."

The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted. However, it was inevitable that, as the meme proliferated in on-line venues such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, which have many users who delight in creating racist memes and imagery, a subset of Pepe memes would come into existence that centered on racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted themes.

In recent years, with the growth of the "alt right" segment of the white supremacist movement, a segment that draws some of its support from some of the above-mentioned Internet sites, the number of "alt right" Pepe memes has grown, a tendency exacerbated by the controversial and contentious 2016 presidential election. Though Pepe memes have many defenders, the use of racist and bigoted versions of Pepe memes seems to be increasing, not decreasing.

However, because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context. The mere fact of posting a Pepe meme does not mean that someone is racist or white supremacist. However, if the meme itself is racist or anti-Semitic in nature, or if it appears in a context containing bigoted or offensive language or symbols, then it may have been used for hateful purposes.

In the fall of 2016, the ADL teamed with Pepe creator Matt Furie to form a #SavePepe campaign to reclaim the symbol from those who use it with hateful intentions.

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Who, or what, is Kek?

A typical 'Kek' meme combining Donald Trump and Pepe the Frog.

You may have seen the name bandied about on social media, especially in political circles where alt-right activists and avid Donald Trump supporters lurk. Usually it is brandished as a kind of epithet, seemingly to ward off the effects of liberal arguments, and it often is conveyed in memes that use the image of the alt-right mascot, Pepe the Frog: Kek!

Kek, in the alt-rights telling, is the deity of the semi-ironic religion the white nationalist movement has created for itself online partly for amusement, as a way to troll liberals and self-righteous conservatives both, and to make a kind of political point. He is a god of chaos and darkness, with the head of a frog, the source of their memetic magic, to whom the alt-right and Donald Trump owe their success, according to their own explanations.

In many ways, Kek is the apotheosis of the bizarre alternative reality of the alt-right: at once absurdly juvenile, transgressive, and racist, as well as reflecting a deeper, pseudo-intellectual purpose that lends it an appeal to young ideologues who fancy themselves deep thinkers. It dwells in that murky area they often occupy, between satire, irony, mockery, and serious ideology; Kek can be both a big joke to pull on liberals and a reflection of the alt-rights own self-image as serious agents of chaos in modern society.

A 'Kekistan' banner was part of the scene at the alt-right "free speech" rally April 15 in Berkeley, CA.

Most of all, Kek has become a kind of tribal marker of the alt-right: Its meaning obscure and unavailable to ordinary people normies, in their lingo referencing Kek is most often just a way of signaling to fellow conversants online that the writer embraces the principles of chaos and destruction that are central to alt-right thinking, as it were.

The name, usage, and ultimately the ideas around it originated in gaming culture, particularly on chat boards devoted to the World of Warcraft online computer games, according to Know Your Meme. In those games, participants can chat only with members of their own faction in the war (either Alliance or Horde fighters), while opposing players chats are rendered in a cryptic form based on Korean; thus, the common chat phrase LOL (laugh out loud) was read by opposing players as KEK. The phrase caught on as a variation on LOL in game chat rooms, as well as at open forums dedicated to gaming, animation, and popular culture, such as 4chan and Reddit also dens of the alt-right, where the Pepe the Frog meme also has its origins, and similarly hijacked as a symbol of white nationalism.

At some point, someone at 4chan happened to seize on a coincidence: There was, in fact, an Egyptian god named Kek. An androgynous god who could take either male or female form, Kek originally was depicted in female form as possessing the head of a frog or a cat and a serpent when male; but during the Greco-Roman period, the male form was depicted as a frog-headed man.

More importantly, Kek was portrayed as a bringer of chaos and darkness, which happened to fit perfectly with the alt-rights self-image as being primarily devoted to destroying the existing world order.

In the fertile imaginations at play on 4chans image boards and other alt-right gathering spaces, this coincidence took on a life of its own, leading to wide-ranging speculation that Pepe who, by then, had not only become closely associated with the alt-right, but also with the candidacy of Donald Trump was actually the living embodiment of Kek. And so the Cult of Kek was born.

Constructed to reflect alt-right politics, the online acolytes of the religion in short order constructed a whole panoply of artifacts of the satirical church, including a detailed theology, discussions about creating meme magick, books and audio tapes, even a common prayer:

Our Kek who art in memetics

Hallowed by thy memes

Thy Trumpdom come

Thy will be done

In real life as it is on /pol/

Give us this day our daily dubs

And forgive us of our baiting

As we forgive those who bait against us

And lead us not into cuckoldry

But deliver us from shills

For thine is the memetic kingdom, and the shitposting, and the winning, for ever and ever.

Praise KEK

Kek adherents created a whole cultural mythology around the idea, describing an ancient kingdom called Kekistan that was eventually overwhelmed by Normistan and C---istan. They created not only a logo representing Kek four Ks surrounding an E but promptly deployed it in a green-and-black banner, which they call the national flag of Kekistan.

The banners design, in fact, perfectly mimics a German Nazi war flag, with the Kek logo replacing the swastika and the green replacing the infamous German red. Alt-righters are particularly fond of the way the banner trolls liberals who recognize its origins.

In recent weeks, alt-right marchers at public events planned to create violent scenes with leftist, antifacist counterprotesters and have appeared carrying Kekistan banners. Others have worn patches adorned with the Kek logo.

Video compiled from alt-right sources.

Besides its entertainment value, the religion is mainly useful to the alt-right as a trolling device for making fun of liberals and political correctness. A recent alt-right rally in support of adviser Stephen Bannon in front of the White House, posted on YouTube by alt-right maven Cassandra Fairbanks, featured a Kekistan banner and a man announcing to the crowd a Free Kekistan campaign.

One of the leaders of the group offered a satirical speech: The Kekistani people are here, they stand with the oppressed minorities, the oppressed people of Kekistan. They will be heard, they will be set free. Reparations for Kekistan now! Reparations for Kekistan right now!

We have lived under normie oppression for too long! chimed in a cohort.

The oppression will end! declared the speaker.

The main point of the whole exercise is to mock political correctness, an alt-right shibboleth, and deeply reflective of the ironic, often deadpan style of online trolling in general, and alt-right troll storms especially. Certainly, ifany normies were to make the mistake of taking their religion seriously and suggesting that their deity was something they actually worshipped, they would receive the usual mocking treatment reserved for anyone foolish enough to take their words at face value.

Yet at the same time, lurking behind all the clownery is anidea that alt-righters actually seem to take seriously: Namely, that by spreading their oftencryptic memes far and wide on social media and every other corner of the Internet, they are infecting the popular discourse with their ideas. For the alt-right, those core ideas all revolve around white males, the patriarchy, nationalism, and race, especially the underlying belief that white males and masculinity are under siege from feminists, from liberals, from racial, ethnic, and sexual/gender minorities.

In such alt-right haunts as Andrew Anglins neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, references to the Kek religion have becomecommonplace, and Kek as the god of chaos has been credited at the site, besides electing Trump, with killing over 30 people in a fire at an Oakland artists collective. A very early Stormer disquisition on Kek by Atlantic Centurion, published in August 2015, explores the many dimensions of the Kek phenomenon in extensive theological detail, connecting their belief system to Buddhism and other religions.

It is the Kek the Bodhisattva who can teach our people these truths, if we are willing to listen and to commit ourselves to the generation of meme magick through karmic morality and through the mantra of memes. By refusing to c--- and by rejecting the foul mindsets of our invaders and terrorizers, we will move the nation away from its suffering under the pains of hostile occupation, and closer and closer to its final rebirth. If instead, our people c--- and adopt the foul mindsets, they will generate not Aryan karma but further mosaic samsara.

The trve power of skillful memes is to meme the karmic nation into reality, the process of meme magick. By spreading and repeating the meme mantra, it is possible to generate the karma needed for the rebirth of the nation.

Anglin himself makes frequent references to Kek, making clear that he too subscribes to the underlying meme-spreading strategy that the religion represents. Describing a black artists piece showing a crucified frog which appeared to Anglin to be a kind of blasphemy of the Kek deity he declared that theres some cosmic-tier stuff going on out there. Another post, published in March, was headlined: Meme Magic: White House Boy Summoned Spirit of Kek to Protect His Prophet Donald Trump.

Anglin devoted the post to explaining a teenagers use of an alt-right hand signal while meeting Trump, concluding that the only possibility here is that this is an example of Carl Jungs synchronicity seemingly acausal factors culminating to create an event based on its meaning. But it is not really acausal it merely appears that way to the non-believer.It is our spiritual energies, channeled through the internet, that caused this event to manifest, he wrote. It is meme magic.

Whether they really believe any of this or not, the thrust of the entire enterprise is to mock everything politically correct so loudly and obtusely and divertingly that legitimate issues about the vicious core of white male nationalism they embrace never need to be confronted directly.The alt-rights meme war is ultimately another name for far-right propaganda, polished and rewired for 21st-century consumers. The ironic pose that Kek represents, and accompanying claims that the racism they promote is just innocently meant to provoke, in the end are just a faade fronting a very old and very ugly enterprise: hatemongering of the xenophobic and misogynistic kind.

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The NPC

NPC (; each letter separately), derived from Non-Player Character in video games and from role playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, is an Internet meme that represents people who do not think for themselves or do not make their own decisions; it is also known as NPC Wojak.[2][3][1][4][5]The NPC meme, which graphically is based on the Wojak meme, was created in July 2016 by an anonymous author and first published on the imageboard 4chan, where the idea and inspiration behind the meme were introduced.[6]

The NPC meme has gained widespread attention and been featured in numerous news outlets, including The New York Times,[4] The Verge,[1] BBC,[7] and Breitbart.

The concept of the NPC first appeared on 4chan on July 7, 2016.[6] The post by an anonymous user who initiated the NPC meme, titled "Are you an NPC?", detailed the behavior of individuals acting similarly to non-player characters in video games by repeatedly using phrases such as "JUST BE YOURSELF",[8] and ended the post with the following description of people the NPC meme intends to depict.[6]

If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments. They're the kind of people who make a show of discomfort when you break the status quo like by breaking the normie barrier to invoke a real discussion. it's like in a when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more.

The design of the NPC meme character is based on Wojak (Polish: Wojak, lit.'warrior, soldier', [vjak]),[6] a meme created in Microsoft Paint in 2010.[9] Unlike the NPC meme, the Wojak meme (also known as Feels Guy[7]) appeared first on the image hosting website vichan and has mainly been used for expression of feelings, most often melancholy or regret.[9]

During the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, the NPC meme gained remarkable attention, with relatively high media coverage, publication of new NPC memes online, and several noticeable events. A large number of animated videos based on the NPC meme were uploaded to YouTube in the second half of October 2018,[10] and Google searches for the term "NPC Wojak" peaked around the same time.[6] In October 2018, a large number of Twitter accounts were created which presented themselves as NPCs, and more than 1,500 such accounts were subsequently banned by Twitter.[7] Also during the same month, InfoWars held a competition promoting creation of NPC memes (according to an InfoWars article titled "Meme War 3.0: Infowars Launches $10K NPC Meme Contest"), which resulted in hundreds of NPC memes submitted (according to an InfoWars article titled "Check Out The NPC Meme Finalists - Winner TBA").

The number of searches for the search term "NPC Wojak" remained relatively constant during 2019, though at a level significantly lower than its peak from early October through mid November 2018.[6]

Although the NPC meme was created 6 years after the Wojak meme, the NPC meme rapidly gained attention in comparison with the Wojak meme. On the website of the meme community Know Your Meme, the NPC meme has 858,000 page views, 33 videos, 597 images and 749 comments as of December 31, 2019.[6] This can be compared to the Wojak meme on which NPC is based, which has 787,000 page views, 6 videos, 332 images and 47 comments as of December 31, 2019.[9] A Reddit forum or subreddit exclusively for "right wing, political" NPC memes without "extremist content" called r/NPCMemes was created on October 10, 2018.[11]

In appearance, the NPC character is gray in color[13] and simple in its design,[5] with an expressionless face[2] with a triangular nose[4] and a blank stare.[6] The shape of the NPC face resembles that of Wojak, and is drawn crudely.[4]

The initialism NPC refers to non-player character, a term used in video-games for characters the player cannot control.[14] As such, a non-player character in a game is controlled by the computer, and typically interacts with the player through simple and repetitive actions, such as communicating the same sentence each time the player approaches the NPC. As such, NPCs have "no internality, agency, or capacity for critical thought",[8] they rely on scripted lines[4][15] and do not think by themselves.[2] Following the analogy of non-player characters, the NPC meme is used to mock individuals the maker perceives as lacking those attributes, generally political opponents. The NPC responds using simple dialogue resembling video game NPCs, with no capability for discussion.[6] Due to NPC memes' greater popularity among the political right, the NPC is generally portrayed as parroting left-wing positions.[8] Despite being co-opted by right-wing movements to "mock leftists," both left- and right-wing NPC variants exist.[5][1]

is a kaomoji version of the NPC meme.[citation needed]

The NPC meme has been featured in major and minor news outlets alike, with frequent coverage during the peak of the NPCs popularity in fall 2018. According to The Verge, a few articles (including one by The New York Times published on October 16, 2018) sparked a "domino effect" and led to increased spread of the meme on Twitter, YouTube and through articles.[1] The NPC meme has been covered by news agencies of varying political stances, including Kotaku[8] (a video games news agency claimed to be "far-left" by for example Media Research Center[16]) and Breitbart News Network (a news agency claimed to be "far-right" by for example The Week[5]).

In October 2018, users of r/The_Donald, a large subreddit that supported United States President Donald Trump,[17] coordinated in creating accounts presented as NPCs on the American microblogging and social networking service Twitter.[7] According to The Week, the accounts spread "bland, politically correct messages intended to mimic and provoke liberal pronouncements".[5] Following the mass creation of NPC Twitter accounts, the term "NPC" was used over 30,000 times on Twitter in a time span of 24 hours.[7] Twitter responded to the event by banning more than 1,500 of its users presenting themselves as NPCs.[5] The created accounts typically used profile pictures of NPC with slight modifications, such as colorful hair or partially covering masks.[4] According to one or more anonymous sources quoted by The Week and The New York Times, the users were banned for violating a term of use by Twitter against "intentionally misleading election-related content", ahead of the United States 2018 midterm election.[4][5] The claim that NPC memes were used to spread misinformation about the 2018 United States midterm election is also reported by other news agencies, including The Verge,[1] BBC[7] and The Independent,[2] although no examples are presented. The decision by Twitter to remove NPC accounts has upset many conservatives according to BBC,[7] and following a review of Twitter's banning of accounts, the conservative nonprofit media watchdog Media Research Center raised the concern that Twitter was upholding a double standard favoring the political left.[16]

On October 17, 2018, InfoWars announced a competition in which participants were given a chance to win $10,000 for submitting the "best Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson or other Infowars-themed" NPC meme (according to an InfoWars article titled "Meme War 3.0: Infowars Launches $10K NPC Meme Contest"). The competition ended on October 22, 2018 (according to an InfoWars article titled "Meme War 3.0: Infowars Launches $10K NPC Meme Contest"), and hundreds of submissions were reportedly received (according to an InfoWars article titled "Check Out The NPC Meme Finalists - Winner TBA"). Information about the competition was also announced on the subreddit r/The_Donald, and on the 4chan forum /pol/, where over 300 replies to the announcement were posted within the first 24 hours following.[6] The winning submission in the competition, which was reported by Alex Jones on the InfoWars broadcast on November 28, 2018, was a video featuring Antifa, CNN, and the Democratic Party of the United States (according to an InfoWars article titled "NPC Meme Contest Winner Announced!"). The winning video, which is 2 minutes and 20 seconds long, is a They Live parody, featuring a man who while walking in a city, sees things around him differently when he is using sunglasses (with the InfoWars logotype on) compared to when the glasses are not used.[18] The video was published on YouTube with the title "Another NPC in the Wall" on October 21, 2018, and has been viewed more than 74,000 times.[18]

In 2019, the NPC meme was used in the modification of two existing billboards in the United States.[10]

On January 13, 2019, the conservative street artist group The Faction modified a billboard featuring American comedian Bill Maher in West Hollywood using the NPC meme.[15]

On February 19, 2019, a similar modification was performed on a billboard featuring English comedian John Oliver in Los Angeles, in which the face of Oliver was replaced by that of an NPC, and text "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" was replaced by "The Orange Man Bad Show with John Oliver".[19] The modified billboard also included the text "*MATRIX APPROVED NPC PROGRAMMING" and a speech balloon from the NPC containing words such as "CHEETOH" [sic] and "DRUMPH" with random symbols in green text, resembling the text shown in The Matrix. According to The Daily Dot, the modification of the billboard featuring Oliver, also credited to The Faction, was an attempt to counteract the media's supposed "Trump derangement syndrome".[10]

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The testimony given by Capitol police officers at this week's House select committee hearings on the January 6 riot laid out in visceral detail how the chaos was instigated by a mob of mostly white men in a frenzy of rage.

Believing Trump's lies about election fraud, the rioters created a belief that they were victims of a politically correct elite that condescended to them and held them down. So they lashed out, broke stuff, and hurt people caught up in a mania that when all was said and done accomplished absolutely nothing.

The officers recounted some of the unspeakably vile things said right to their faces by members of the attempted MAGA insurrection, and body cam footage showed from a human perspective the level of sadistic violence perpetrated by the mob.

While Congress is trying to investigate the madness of that day, historians will be tracing the "roots" of the Trump-incited riot for years to come. There were many disparate factors that led to the violence, but undoubtedly, one of those factors was the widespread "own the libs" resentment against "politically correct" culture.

HBO's new documentary, "Woodstock '99: Peace, Love, and Rage," happened to be released this week as well.

After watching it, and then revisiting footage of the Capitol attack, I found it striking that the rioters seemed like grown up versions of the young men responsible for so much violence and destruction at the Woodstock '99 music festival 22 years ago.

I was in college when Woodstock '99 took place, right in the target audience. This was my generation. Culturally and politically if not necessarily literally the men in their 20s breaking stuff at Woodstock '99 grew into the men in their 40s that stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

Director Garret Price said his film "Woodstock '99" could have been framed as a comedy. And indeed, the festival's cluelessly tone-deaf Boomer organizers came off as unintentionally comical both during the festival and in interviews recounting the event two decades later.

The documentary he ended up making is actually more like a horror film, Price said.

Indeed, there are real-life horrors in the film that are difficult to watch.

The seemingly relentless shots of women being groped against their wills. People passed out from heat exhaustion because the event was held on an asphalt runway during 100-degree heat, with water bottles selling for $4 and few free hydration options available. And then there was the arson, looting, and mayhem that concluded the festival.

It's the voices of the young men in attendance, teeming with boiling fury despite being wealthy enough to buy a $180 ticket (about $294 in 2021 dollars), that proved this was a monster movie.

When the singer from punk rock group The Offspring came out on stage with a plastic baseball bat and knocked the heads off of four "Backstreet Boys" dummies, it seemed like he was just being goofy, having some fun. But it definitely captured the zeitgeist.

The angry young men in the Woodstock '99 crowd seethed at MTV (at the time a ubiquitous force in youth pop culture) for playing far fewer of the hard rock acts they identified with and much, much more teen pop directed at younger audiences. For much of the weekend, MTV personalities broadcasting live from the festival were relentlessly pelted with water bottles and garbage.

"They were mad at us for taking away their MTV and giving it to their little sister," former MTV VJ Dave Holmes said in the documentary. Holmes also recalled that at the end of the 90s, "there was this simmering anger and it manifested itself through sludge and angst."

This was an audience that embraced shock rap-metal acts and came of age bombarded by "Girls Gone Wild" ads on late night cable TV. They didn't care about peace, love, and social consciousness. They wanted someone to tell them it was their right to say "F*** you."

Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" with its troglodyte refrain "Give me something to break!" came to represent the Woodstock '99 generation. And break stuff, the audience did.

They flipped and mindlessly banged on metal garbage cans, they set fires, broke into ATM machines, and even burned food.

There were many reports of sexual assault and three people died.

In a lot of ways, for a lot of people, Woodstock '99 was the pit of hell.

But the rage exhibited that weekend in upstate New York never really went away. Instead, it evolved.

One of the most popular and culturally relevant performers of the time, Kid Rock, is shown in the documentary peacocking onto the Woodstock '99 stage with his typical faux-pimp affectations.

At one point he addressed the audience: "You want me to get political? Well this is about as deep as Kid Rock thinks. Monica Lewinsky is a f------ ho and Bill Clinton is a goddamn pimp!"

The crowd roared in delight. It was just your typical Woodstock '99 cultural temperature check stupid and disgusting, but seemingly apolitical.

Twenty-two years later, Kid Rock is now an outspoken Republican activist who golfs with Donald Trump and recently tweeted a defense of his prodigious use of a homophobic epithet.

Much like Trump, Kid Rock has no guiding political principles, but he is deeply in touch with the "own the libs" mindset. And much like Kid Rock, the Woodstock '99 audience demographic would later evolve from apolitical to obsessively political, though the proto-MAGA mindset never changed.

A study out of the University of Chicago analyzed the demographics of 377 people arrested for storming the Capitol, and found that 67% were over the age of 35.

But the largest subset was age 35-44 that's the Woodstock '99 generation.

During the two decades between Woodstock '99 and the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the flame of "anti-PC" resentment manifested itself in the Men's Rights Activist (MRA) movement, the brazenly misogynistic attacks on female journalists in Gamergate, and the rise of the internet troll none bigger than Donald Trump.

These largely-online communities would also spawn the Birther movement that falsely claimed President Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya. And then came the openly racist Alt-Right, which later helped spawn the false Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories.

Trumpism, a politically incoherent philosophy guided by little more than resentment of the modern world, is the common thread among all these communities.

When Trump told the "Stop the Steal" crowd to march to the US Capitol on January 6, he could have easily been Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst singing "Break Stuff" at Woodstock '99. The fire was already burning, but it got a whole lot more fuel.

The hordes that tried to stop Congress from certifying Trump's electoral defeat dehumanized the Capitol Police, just as the bros at Woodstock '99 dehumanized countless women. The Capitol rioters claiming to be patriots also gratuitously broke stuff defacing statues, defecating, and stealing from congressional offices while falsely claiming to be the victims of a coup d'etat.

To be sure, the two events do not have a clean and simple cause and effect relationship to one another. But from Woodstock '99, through the rise of the many toxic internet cultures that converged into Trumpism, we can see the roots of the Capitol attack.

The seething misogynistic, anti-PC anger at Woodstock '99 evolved into an internet culture that undoubtedly helped Trump take the White House, and then facilitated the storming of the Capitol.

That's why the congressional hearings happening right now are crucial. We should more deeply probe where this political movement is today, and how much support it still has in the Republican Party.

Because I don't think it's done breaking stuff yet.

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