I Don't Speak German, Episode 3: Unite the Right, Charlottesville 2017
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🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, which runs a bit longer than the first two, and which goes to some very dark places, Daniel tells Jack all about the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, 2017.
The episode features discussions of violence, and we try to signpost when we're getting into the painful details. But warnings definitely apply from the start. We're discussing virulent racism and bigotry.
(Also, we're on iTunes and YouTube now.)
Of necessity, we're only glancing at this incredibly big and complex subject, so we're going to be coming back to many of the issues, organisations, and persons mentioned.
And here are some notes, sources, and references.
(Oh, P.S. Fun fact... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped into Hbomberguy's Donkey Kong charity Twitch stream as we recorded this.)
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NOTES
Firstly, everyone interested in this should follow and support Emily Gorcenski and Molly (Socialist Dog Mom) on Twitter.
Here's Emily's livestream of the tiki torch rally
Here's Molly's podcast The Trial of James Alex Fields
First Vigil - tracking fascist violence
Texts between Jason Kessler (UtR organiser), Richard Spencer, other UtR participants:
Enoch and The Right Stuff crew photo with Taylor Wilson and James Alex Fields (tweet from Sandi Bachom):
Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer after Charlottesville
Hunter Wallace (Brad Griffin) smears Heather Heyer.
White Boner's conspiracy theory video
Alex McNabb, the 'Nazi EMT'
Daniel has curated a selection of clips relating to the subjects touched on in this episode. Beware, some of these clips feature people like Jason Kessler and Mike Enoch being vile. Here.
David Futrelle's blog We Hunted the Mammoth, is a good source for lots of information about the far-right in its many forms. The blog originally tracked the 'Manosphere' (i.e. MRAs, Incels, etc) but has increasingly tracked online hate more generally as the Manosphere joined up with and fed into the so-called 'alt-right', Trumpism, etc.
Here's his post on nazis mocking the murder of Heather Heyer in their memes...
...and here's his post on the Daily Caller's call for people to run over protestors.
And here is the video we refer to in the episode, 'Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right' by Shaun - excellent stuff.
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Timeline of Rallies 2017:
Feb. 1: Berkeley. Milo rally cancelled.
April 15: Berkeley. "Free Speech Event," Nathan Damigo punches "Moldylocks."
April 27: Berkeley. Ann Coulter speech cancelled, "Based Stickman," Lauren Southern, et al.
April 29: Pikeville, KY. TWP/NSM rally. Village Voice article.
May 13: Cville. Richard Spencer torch rally. Charlottesville 1.0.
-----June 2017---- UtR announced.
July 8. Cville. Ku Klux Klan rally.
-----July 11------ Kessler appears at town hall in Cville, publicizing UtR and distancing from Klan.
August 11. Cville. UVA torch march, "Jews Will Not Replace Us," assault on Emily Gorcenski and Kristopher Goad. Emily Livestream.
August 12. Cville. Unite the Right.
State of Emergency declared at 11:00AM. Rally planned to start at 12:00PM.
James Alex Fields Attack at 1:45PM.
Oct. 28. Shelbyville. NSM/Brad Griffin/TWP/Klan "Hard Right" Rally.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you need to do a David Duke recap? |
| 0:04.0 | No, there was one thing I was going to do but I, uh, it's not actually 42 hours, it's 42 chapters and I was going to like work out exactly how long it is but it's not worth I just completely forgot to do it before I sat down here. |
| 0:17.0 | Right, okay. That's a bit unfortunate because I've been using the 42 hours thing. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, no, and I like everybody's been hopping on that and I'm like, oh, that's, you know, it's not |
| 0:26.7 | much below that. |
| 0:27.7 | It's pretty close because, you know, most of them are about an hour and then there are a few that are like there's a couple of chapters that are like nearly two hours |
| 0:36.4 | and then there are a few that are like 20 or 30 minutes so it's it's in that it's not it's it's within 10% I guarantee you okay yeah because that tickled me |
| 0:46.4 | I would actually really like for like David Duke to find that be like no it's only |
| 0:51.2 | 36 and a half hours you know I'd like for that to be the fact |
| 0:55.9 | check you know that would that would be funny yeah that would although they do they do do |
| 0:59.9 | that when they find you know they'll take some of course you know oh no that |
| 1:03.6 | happened in 2014 you didn't do your facts lived hard yeah that's that's all they've |
| 1:07.7 | got that's all they've got right yeah it's like you know you know yeah fake news |
| 1:11.4 | I'm not a I'm not trying to genocide people because you |
| 1:15.8 | got the year I graduated high school wrong clearly don't know what you're talking |
| 1:20.2 | about I'm I'm very I mean I guess we can get started whenever, I'm very aware of like trying to make these |
| 1:28.7 | kind of amusing and fun and entertaining, but also to like not to not like make people think I'm taking |
| 1:37.8 | the subject lightly and yeah the tone is hard to get isn't it'm listening back editing them and I'm sort of laughing at things and I'm thinking why are you laughing at that Jack that's awful |
| 1:48.7 | But it's sort of required right I mean it's just because if you if you didn't if you |
| 1:53.4 | didn't kind of have at least some levity to it I mean and these people are |
| 1:57.6 | ridiculous so I mean there is this kind of sense of you know if there's not a |
| 2:02.1 | if there you know I feel like that's that's sort of the thing I'm trying to capture is this kind of |
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