Tag: White supremacism

Robert E. Lee statue taken down in Charlottesville

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The city of Charlottesville, Va., has taken down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, marking the end of a years-long effort to have it removed.

Videos shared to social media showed the statue being hoisted off its stone base Saturday morning, with some in the crowd cheering as it was removed from the pedestal.

The city announced Friday it would remove the statue, which was at the site of the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally that resulted in the death of a counterprotester. Continue reading.

Anti-climate activist praises alt-right commentator at CPAC

Washington Post logoNaomi Seibt, of the right-leaning Heartland Institute, said she ‘absolutely’ supports Stefan Molyneux

Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old German YouTuber whom conservatives have dubbed the “anti-Greta,” expressed support Friday for a Canadian alt-right commentator at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Speaking to reporters at a panel sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a right-leaning think tank based outside Chicago, Seibt argued that climate activists amounted to “climate alarmists.” She said Stefan Molyneux’s comments had been misconstrued by his critics.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has called Molyneux “a skilled propagandist” who “amplifies ‘scientific racism,’ eugenics and white supremacism.” Molyneux, who has hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, “has encouraged thousands of people to adopt his belief in biological determinism, social Darwinism and non-white racial inferiority,” the group says in an online profile.