White supremacists have been filmed performing Hitler salutes and shouting “hail Trump!” during a speech by a leading member of the “alt-right” movement.
Richard B Spencer, president of the far-right National Policy Institute, made numerous allusions to Nazi ideology during his half-hour speech at a conference in Washington on Saturday.
“Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!” he shouted as members of the audience leapt to their feet applauding, with several making prolonged Hitler salutes.
“No one will honour us for losing gracefully, no one mourns the great crimes committed against us. For us it is conquer or die.”
...“To be white is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer and a conqueror,” he continued.
“We don’t exploit other groups, we don’t gain anything from their presence. They need us and not the other way around.
“Within the very blood in our veins as children of the sun lies the potential for greatness. That is the great struggle we’re called to.
“We’re not meant to live in shame and weakness and disgrace. We were not meant to beg for moral validation from some of the most despicable creatures to ever populate the planet.”
[source : White supremacists chant 'hail Trump' while performing Hitler salutes at alt-right conference, Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-president-elect-alt-right-white-supremacists-nazi-hitler-salutes-richard-b-spencer-a7431216.html, 22nd November 2016]
(Sounds a lot like PJW that)
But Spencer says the Nazi salutes were ironic:
Richard Spencer just texted me that the Nazi salutes at his Sat speech were “clearly done in a spirit of irony and exuberance.”
— P.J. Tobia (@PJTobia) November 21, 2016
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