One of their infamous leaders and co organizers of the deadly Charlottesville
rally is now saying that he's a political moderate.
Yeah.
And he's no longer identifying as a white supremacist.
That's incredibly interesting.
And we all know all of this because of his bumble page.
That's right, we are talking about Richard Spencer.
He happened to have a profile out there and also several journalists managed
to find it, finding that he listed himself as a moderate and vaccinated.
So maybe you're thinking there's no way that this is the same guy.
But hey, the jezebel journalist who received the tips.
Well, she happened to write this in particular.
I checked all the vitals photos.
Yes. Age, yes, height, yes.
Astrological sign.
Yes, kids, Yes.
This really appears to be Richard Spencer, the guy who shouted hail trump in 2016 led
the 2017 neo Nazi March through Charlottesville,
in which white men chanted jews will not replace us and
became the most prominent figure in the american white nationalist movement.
And then of course, well, she reached out to him after receiving his number from
fellow reporters to confirm that this, it was actually him.
And he responded, yes, that is, I I'd appreciate you respecting my privacy.
This is obviously not newsworthy.
I'm simply living my life.
He text back, here's part of that text message exchange that you can see here
between Laura Bassett, the writer of jezebel and
Spencer himself quite interesting.
Yes.
And she also noted that Spencer went on to tell her that life experience and
intellectual rethinking have caused me to reconsider the white nationalist views
that he embraced earlier in life and
to reiterate this man coined the term alt right.
And the Southern poverty Law Center calls him a kinda professional,
racist and khakis.
If you're on a path that leads nowhere, you have to rethink this Spencer told her,
wow, this is pretty egregious, incredible the fact that this man's out here
on Bumble now saying, 've already thought all of
the terror I caused as a white nationalist and I'm a whole different person.
Woes are you smelling something fishing?
>> To be honest, I just view this as the power of the p
this brother is changing his tune because he was
probably having a hard time getting laid.
I like to me this is the ultimate sign of the power of persuasion if you will.
I've seen brothers put on ya, Macca's Brothers convert to islam.
So it's not even that confusing to me that this brother would go from
white nationalism to moderate his views because again, man,
people like human companionship.
People like getting laid.
I'm not surprised by this Adrian.
>> No.
Okay, so, first of all, you all trash.
I just, I can't believe it.
I think that is so incredibly sad.
Unfortunately, I think you're absolutely right, but also to I would like to think
that there are enough racist women out there that he could end up getting one.
And also someone else definitely thinks that this is all kind of just he's putting
up this farce and that's Amy Spitalnick, she's the executive director
of integrity first for America, she says this is all a façade.
She's arguing that Spencer's just trying to avoid accountability amid a lawsuit
that he says has financially crippled him.
And as written in jezebel, he is a defendant in a lawsuit against
the organizers of the Charlottesville violence in November.
He was found liable as part of a $26 million jury verdict.
He's been pulling this I am a moderate now thing for
a few years like with some of the other defendants,
it just appears to be a way to try to avoid accountability, which definitely
seems like a probable explanation considering how vile Richard Spencer is.
And just to give you a little more background on him, you know, so
per insider after former President Donald trump won in 2016.
While Spencer gave a speech in D C where he used Nazi salutes imagery and
phases or phrases to celebrate trump's victory.
Spencer separated from his wife of six years, Nina in October 2016 and
in divorce documents, she accused him of emotional financial abuse and
physical abuse during their marriage including when she was pregnant.
Now of course he denies all of those allegations and also of course you know he
had the unite the right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and
he also happened to be making comments that released,
here's a reminder of what the man sounds like.
I win lose.
That's how the world works.
They get ruled by people like me.
My ancestors enslaved those pieces of I rule the world.
Yeah. You can't tell me that the man
suddenly had a change of heart.
He had some intellectual enlightenment and realized that being
a grade a racist is not necessarily his ministry give me a break.
Poverty is what it is.
I think that is the power of the p poverty is why he is going this direction.
Woes Yeah.
Money certainly talks.
I mean when when you're facing financial ruin because of all of the poisonous,
disgusting and vitriolic stuff that you put out there to the point where,
you know, people are getting run over and killed at your quote unquote rallies.
Yeah.
People, people have said all kinds of stuff when facing, you know,
when in the face of financial desolation and you know,
not being able to support themselves anymore.
So yeah, I could absolutely agree that the economic factors
certainly played a role in making this guy changes too.
Yeah, I find him to be a very disgusting human being and my apologies.
I'm mispronouncing the name.
I was all up in a place, they're, you know what's so funny.
I know it's the actual correct pronunciation and
that's what it affects me so much because I'm like, I know I'm doing it right, but
it's not right and I need to do it the way he wants it, it's completely right.
It's no problem.
You you would be welcomed right into my Haitian household with your pronunciation
is actually picture perfect.
You did a great job on that, you're so fantastic and so kind, thank you so much.
But I definitely have warned anyone out there, a woman out there with richard
spencer cause I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to pick up a woman of color to
really really lean into this whole, I'm moderate now, I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, man, that would be something to,
to complete the conversion if he like started dating a black or brown woman.
That that that would certainly raise my eyebrow for sure.
Mhm. Absolutely, and I just,
I really pray that he is not going to go that far, although even setting
up a bumble profile just makes me we gotta stay away from these these white
nationalists, even if they say they are moderate, they are still on the right