So the alt-right now has a semi-official logo, introduced to the world by Richard Spencer, the guy who came up with the term in the first place, at a weird press-conference/debutante ball for the Nazi-based movement in Washington DC on Friday.
Here it is:
Spencer, who designed the logo himself, “said it had a young, futuristic look, in contrast to the flags and eagles that adorn the logos of the past,” according to Mother Jones.
But one aspect of the logo unintentionally recalls a rather memorable bit of white supremacist branding from years past — the infamous KKK hood. So I’ve taken the liberty of photoshopping-up what I think is a far more honest logo, which you can see at the top of the post.
It’s hard to overstate just how weird the press conference seems to have been. Its location was secret, so reporters had to go to another location first to learn where it really was — a technique popularized by raves in the late 80s and 90s.
“Reporters covering the event were instructed to go to the entrance of the Old Ebbitt Grill, near the White House,” Mother Jones notes.
There, they would encounter a man in a charcoal suit and brown tie who would reveal the new location of the conference.
During the press conference itself, Spencer proudly declared that the alt-right was free of “cucks,” and waxed poetic about what the world might be like if people like him ran it.
“If the alt-right were in power, we would all have arrived here via magnetic levitation trains,” he told the crowd, according to Mother Jones.
We would have passed by great forests and beautiful images of blond women in a wheat field with their hands, running them through the wheat.
Keep dreaming, dude.
But feel free to use my improved logo!
Ever since Ayn Rand, they won’t stop talking about trains.
@Fishy Goat
I think they get taken seriously because they’re largely a group of cis het white men. I think a lot of privilege is operating.
Look at all the shit black lives matters gets… and they are ” the good guys.” * A football player can’t even sit for the National Anthem without being demonized.
But let a hateful white bigot talk awful shit and it’s like no big deal to the media.
Bleh.
*(Sorry for the moral shorthand).
I dunno, a magnetic hovertrain in every garage sounds seditiously close to infrastructure spending, and we all know how the Owners feel about *that*.
I guess the implication is that if we didn’t have to spend so much money on “those people” we’d all be living in Galt’s Gulch … But there’s always another war, or more tax cuts for the rich.
Also! Ladies! Your fondest grain-fondling dreams will be realized! It’ll totally be like that recurring motif in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator! How can you possibly wait?
@Falconer
I’m more of a run-through-green-meadows girl, but I am intrigued by your message and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Let your simple fall behind you as you spontaneously burst into an award-winning Broadway number!
*wimple
The alt-right has a logo. The best logo. Tremendous logo. Tremendous.
That is a rather top heavy letter R… Freudian psychoanalysis notwithstanding, this is a singularly ugly design. What self respecting reactionary is gonna fly that banner? Meanwhile, essjews have shit like this:
http://static.wixstatic.com/media/c9ccee_e01a32a448cb4d1fb00ee0c6e3fc9a05.png
Clean, simple, evocative. That’s how you do it. They must have some actual graphic designers over on altright island. They can’t all be STEMpunks. Somebody fix this, it’s just sad…
So glad my hands are still attached, not so keen on running through wheat fields. That sounds like it would be itchy.
Nobody gets to own me – if anyone is going to make a profit off of my person it’s damn certain to be me.
Oh? Wonder why all those oil companies, which are largely owned and supported by right-wingers, seem to be against things like electric cars nor keen on the idea of public transportation in general…
What the fuck is it with right-wingers and their obsession with blonde women?
It’s bad enough I’ve had conversations where conservatives claim their side is better because they have all the “hot chicks” – each and every one who may as well be the same person in terms of personality (which is to say unbearably obnoxious) – but, as a Jew, I almost expect them to start talking about how we need more blue-eyed and blond(e)-haired individuals in general.
I know a lot of guys have a weird thing about hair and its color (I have a fondness for red hair myself, not sure why) but it seems to be their requirement for considering a woman attractive at all…or even deserving of value or attention.
It looks like something you make out of those triangle puzzle things. You know, the triangles pieces you have and then you have a silhouette you have to copy using them? Like a really shitty version of that.
Adding to the Rorschach interpretations of that logo, the R has such awkward proportions, all I could think of was, “Damn it, I fucked up my paper boat. Better fall back on my plan to fight for racial purity.”
Falconer!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gj0l6C7qvyw/UM7BG6-ojUI/AAAAAAAAA7E/e7CaTZ6x1x8/s320/WWE+Hug+gif+1.gif
You were missed, good sir.
It’s especially hilarious because these guys tend to love their evo psych. I’m not sure when blonde hair is thought to have emerged*, but the corresponding blue eyes are thought to be only about 10,000 years old. Back in their beloved alpha male mammoth hunting days when all the men could club submissive HB10s and drag them into their caves, the wimmenz were even more likely to have those icky brown eyes than they are now!
* A quick Wikipedia search says the European blond mutation is 11,000 years old but I know that’s not the most academic source ever.
@NickNamedNick
It all comes back to WW2 ideals with them. Frankly the only reason why they don’t just adopt the red, white and black is probably becayse they know for people fascist = bad.
On that logo, are they trying to mimic 90’s sci fi signs, the same signs of evil corporations who are always shown to be corrupt and greedy? I’m surprised it’s not a Wolf silouette overlaid on a red pill.
What a bizarre pitch. “If we were in charge, you could levitate to work. An image of a woman running her hands through grain. A slip-faced monocle would chase a cod through Bromley. Moist ideas fandango in the lapsed Eiffel marzipan. …thank you for your time.”
@PI: I missed you all, too!
I fell down a deep, dark hole called Tumblr and only just now managed to get someone to pull me out.
@Diptych: Even Night Vale residents would be like “wait, what?” at that.
(And even more so at the Alt Right themselves, I’m sure.)
Hey, ridiculous future tech solutions to infrastructure problems are the Libertarians thing. Get your own schtick, neo-nazis.
Did they at least hold the event in an old beer hall? The kids these days, no respect for history or protocol.
I’m not blonde but still like the idea of my hands running wild through a field of wheat. While I stay home eating bonbons.
For some reason I am reminded of this:
Wildly free-associating here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostomachion
Not a fan of maglev trains; they require an entirely separate infrastructure to the already-existing rail infrastructure, have some concerning environmental effects, and don’t offer any benefits to match the increased cost and disruption.
Also, my kids are three and a half and I have been short on free time.
@WWTH:
Funny part about evo psych is the bullshit it pulls in trying to portray contemporary attitudes as if they’re ingrained in our DNA, as if society has no effect on how we act or what we like and dislike.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if the justification for why men like blondes so much by comparing them to gold as a mineral. It would only further prove my point about how the whole “model” of evo psych is misapplying societal attitudes to innate behaviors…
@Oogly Boggles:
I’m still annoyed at the fact it’s still a trend at all.
Part of me wonders if any of those guys realize how often women recolor their hair as is. I doubt every blonde woman is a natural blonde. Hell, Marilyn Monroe certainly wasn’t!
The blonde-in-a-wheat-field thing sounds like a beer commercial to me.
@HandsomeJack: that puzzle is called the tangram and it’s actually pretty cool. Cooler than these chucklefucks can ever be.