My partner last night brought up an excellent point regarding Kessler. He didn't go there to speak. He went there to challenge the authority of a black woman. He failed.
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Jason wore a bodycam to try to frame the situation as his rights being denied. They weren't. He was outmaneuvered, which isn't hard, but the racism he displayed by trying to talk down the authority of the Black woman in charge was palpable.
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Spencer, too, had nothing to say yesterday, though he rambled for an hour. His premises are incoherent and shallower than a puddle. You can summarize them in a tweet. There's nothing meaningful, even in a meaningfully evil way, about his views.
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Spencer's whole point is to play the victim to try to make leftists look bad. Given an hour of uninterrupted stage time he has nothing to offer. It's not like the people who failed to get in were carrying his powerpoint slides.
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As far as Nazis go, Kessler and Spencer are actually pretty low-grade. Spencer made it by fooling the way-too-easily fooled media but in terms of rhetorical gift or charismatic genius he has none.
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In all their astonishingly insufferable bloviating hours of podcasts, Spencer and Kessler have offered nothing but whining and gleeful celebrations of their terror. They are off-the-rack empty suits.
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If "antifa" weren't around, it's not actually clear what they'd be about. They have a remedial understanding of what they want in an ethnostate but that's it.
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If you ever talk to someone with a Plan they won't shut up about it. They'll tell you the brand of whiteboard markers they intend to have in their startup space. They'll tell you about their growth projections and what the best workday for team lunch is.
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Spencer offers none of that. And like, we should definitely not let up and let him develop any of that. But ultimately he's got nothing to offer. He's a fraud inside his own framework.
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