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Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by s_kilk on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:43AM (#13506764)
Steve Bannon is simply a White Supremacist, there isn't really any argumentation to speak of.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by cabalamat on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:54AM (#13506836)
> Steve Bannon is simply a White Supremacist

No, I don't think he is, in that he doesn't want whites to lord it over non-whites. What he wants, as I understand it, is for different races and cultures to live in different societies/countries.

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by jonathankoren on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:40AM (#13507244)
White supremacist crowd has been evolving the the last 20 years, but at it's core is still "whites are the best." The biggest change I've seen since their adoption of scientific racism (now known as "human biodiversity") came with the publication of the Bell Curve back in 1994. They had to reconcile their views that whites were the best in all things with the stereotype of the smart asian kid and black professional athlete. So now the whites are in the best all around race. The most inventive, the most adaptive, blah blah blah. Seriously, it sounds like someone took the alien races from space opera, or D&D and made white the humans.

Then of course they bring up "white genocide" and are staunch antimiscegenationists.

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by becarefulyo on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:02AM (#13506900)
So he believes in racial segregation but is not racist?
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by cabalamat on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:23PM (#13507517)
I didn't say he isn't a racist.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by geofft on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:28AM (#13507159)
Then he's welcome to be the senior counselor to the president of an all-white country. America, though, is distinctly not an all-white country. Does he want to make it one? Am I, as an American-born child of Indian immigrants, expected to move somewhere else?
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by actsasbuffoon on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:10PM (#13507430)
Sadly, I believe the answer is yes.

Richard B. Spencer is a leading figure in the American Alt-Right (he even created the name). Here's a section from the beginning of his Wikipedia article:

Richard Bertrand Spencer (born May 11, 1978) is a noted American white supremacist. He is president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank, and Washington Summit Publishers, an independent publishing firm. Spencer has stated that he rejects the description of white supremacist, and describes himself as an identitarian. He advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.

I'm not sure what a "peaceful ethnic cleansing" would look like, and I don't think I want to find out.

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by s_kilk on Saturday January 28, 2017 @12:49PM (#13507669)
> I'm not sure what a "peaceful ethnic cleansing" would look like

Peaceful for himself I suppose. He'd like to be nice and cozy, miles from the action, while it's being carried out.

The more that lad get's slapped about the place, the better I feel.

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by cabalamat on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:20PM (#13509813)
> I'm not sure what a "peaceful ethnic cleansing" would look like

It's clearly impossible.

Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order by mhneu on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:22AM (#13507098)
That kind of segregation within nations is a recipe for wars and conflict. It didn't work out well for the Nazis and the neo-Nazis wanting the same thing also seems like a bad idea.