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Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces!  In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.

I Don't Speak German

In a companion piece to the last public bonus, Daniel and Jack discuss Adam McKay's Vice from 2018, a dense metafictional dramedy biopic of Dick Cheney, unofficial president during the George W. Bush years and architect of the 'War on Terror'. An interesting movie, possibly as flawed as it is brilliant. 
 
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IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1

PUBLIC BONUS: Vice (Adam McKay, 2018)

More than two years ago, concerned about the newly resurgent fascist fringe in America and elsewhere, Daniel Harper, a lefty podcaster and online writer, started investigating the so-called 'alt-right'. 
 
 He's gone where few other researchers have gone, and actually subjected himself to hours and hours of the many podcasts and Youtube shows produced by the multifarious people and groups who make up this pernicious and dangerous subculture. He's listened, at length, to what they say to each other in their own spaces. And, having done the listening so you don't have to, he's back with his reports. 
 
 This new podcast series features Daniel in conversation with his friend and fellow podcaster Jack Graham.
 
 Here's the first episode, on perhaps the best-known representative of the 'alt-right', Richard Spencer, his career, style, and ideology. The episode also touches on the origins of the term 'alt-right', the infamous 'heilgate' occurance after Trump's election, etc.
 
 We're discussing fascism and racism, so this podcast comes with big warnings.
 
(This is a re-edit and a re-up.)
 
 The next episode will be on a more old-school fascist, David Duke, former Klan 'Grand Wizard' who spoke at Charlottesville.
 
 Future episodes will continue to cover one 'topic' per show. We plan to keep the episodes as short as possible, and crank them out regularly.
 
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/1
 
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
 
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 Links pertaining to the discussion:
 
 Der Ewige Juden (The Eternal Jew)
 
 The Richard Spencer Show on Heel Turn
 
 Report on Spencer's 2010 'anti-diversity' speech to Vanderbilt students
 
 Gottfried's 2008 article apparently coining the term 'alternative right'
 
 Spencer taking part in the 'Ron Paul Revolution'

I Don't Speak German, Episode 1: Richard Spencer (REUP)

In our second episode, Daniel tells Jack all about former KKK Grand Wizard, "king of the angry Facebook grampas", and man who wrote an autobiography that it then took him 42 hours to record himself reading, 'Dr' David Duke.
 
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Show Notes
 
Richard Spencer Errata:
 
On Spencer's connections
 
On the plausible domestic assault allegations against RS
 
 
 
David Duke: 
 
http://www.renseradioarchives.com/dduke/
 
 Southern Policy Law Centre: Extremist Files entry on DD
 
 Book: Blood and Politics
 
 Duke on Donahue 1992
 
 Duke leaves the Kan 1980, founds NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People)
 
 David Duke is talking over everyone
 
 My Awakening (DD's autobiography) (PDF)
 
 My Awakening audiobook version
 
 Dating David Duke
 
 David Duke wrote a sex-help book called "Finders Keepers" in 1976.
 
David Duke and Mike Enoch speak at Unite the Right
 
 David Duke sentenced for tax and mail fraud, serves 15 months in 2003
 
 Book: The Rise of David Duke

I Don't Speak German, Episode 2: David Duke

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:
 
SPLC/Hatewatch
 
Document at DocumentCloud
 
Unite the Right poster
 
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.

I Don't Speak German, Episode 3: Unite the Right, Charlottesville 2017

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the aftermath of the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 2017. They also get a tad more theoretical about some of the reasons for some of the behaviour of the 'alt-right', and chat about some related issues such as the recent controversy concerning the Covington MAGA kids.

I Don't Speak German, Episode 4: Unite the Right, the Aftermath

In this episode, Daniel and Jack make their first assault on the mountain of bullshit, bile, and batshittery that is Christopher 'the Crying Nazi' Cantwell.

I Don't Speak German, Episode 5: Christopher Cantwell, Part 1

Part 2 of Daniel and Jack's conversation about the 'Crying Nazi'.

I Don't Speak German, Episode 6: Christopher Cantwell, Part 2

This week, Daniel introduces Jack to the febrile world of the Southern Nationalists.
 
Warnings apply, as always
 
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 Show Notes:
 
 New Christopher Cantwell drama:
 
 https://christophercantwell.com/2019/02/11/sorry-for-spam-posts/
 
 https://gab.com/Cantwell/posts/48424388
 
 https://gab.com/Cantwell/posts/48500924
 
 https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1096910054840823809
 
 
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 History resources:
 
 Hooded Americanism
 
 At The Hands of Persons Unknown
 
 Blood and Politics
 
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 Western groups:
 
 Bundyville
 
 JJ MacNab
 
 Mark Pitcavage
 
 David Neiwert
 
 Clips (Including James Edwards and Drue Lackey snippets)
 
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 Southern Nationalists:
 
 James Edwards
 
 The Political Cesspool
 
 TPC on Youtube
 
 TOQ Live
 
 James Edwards defamation lawsuit
 
 The League of the South
 
 Occidental Dissent
 
 Brad Griffin/Hunter Wallace
 
 Hunter Wallace on "the Hard Right."
 
 The Sons of Confederate Veterans
 
 Council of Conservative Citizens
 
 Sam Francis
 
 Gordon Baum
 
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 Recent League of the South drama
 
 Somewhat related: The American Freedom Party
 
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 Robert Evans and Behind the Bastards
 
 The myth of the black Confederate soldier - here, here, and here
 
 The myth of the kindly General Lee
 
 Intro to 'The Golden One' via Kevin Logan's excellent Descent of Manosphere series

I Don't Speak German, Episode 7: The Southern Nationalists

In this episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the present-day American Nazis, in the forms of the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), the National Socialist Movement (NSM), and related people and organisations, especially the Nationalist Front. We pay special attention to the best known representative of this nauseating subculture, Matthew Heimbach, and touch on the internal debacle which became known as 'The Night of the Wrong Wives'.
 
Warnings apply - as always.
 
Reminder: we're on iTunes and YouTube
 
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Show Notes
 
Christopher Hasson - Lt. in the Coast Guard, planning fascist domestic terrorism - arrested
 
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Book: Everything You Love Will Burn by Vegas Tenold
 
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National Socialist Movement website
 
Black Civil Rights Advocate Takes Control of the NSM
 
TWP Website (Archived)
 
Nationalist Front
 
Vice Documentary "White Student Union" 2013
 
Matt Heimbach American Freedom Party 2013
 
Heimbach assaults woman at Trump Rally
 
The Neo-Nazi Has No Clothes
 
Article about Tony Hovater "A Voice of Hate in America's Heartland."
 
The Night of Wrong Wives
 
Heimbach becomes community outreach director for NSM
 
Heimbach removed from NSM
 
White Right: Meeting the Enemy (available on Netflix)
 
SPLC file on Matthew Heimbach
 
SPLC file on TWP
 
SPLC file on Jeff Schoep
 
SPLC file on NSM
 
League of the South secedes from the Nationalist Front
 
Matt Heimbach on the Radical Agenda
 
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Wrong With Authority episode on Mississippi Burning

I Don't Speak German, Episode 8: The National Socialist Movement

This week we delve into the dark pit of deeply pathetic depravity that is Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff and his 'Daily Shoah' podcast. Big deals within the 'alt-right'.
 
This episode comes with strong content warnings. We relay racial slurs and "unironic exterminationism". Daniel has been less sparing than usual and Jack has decided not to bleep anything.
 
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/9
 
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
 
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Show Notes:
 

 From last week - NSM taken over by James Stern
 
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The Right Stuff
 
 Andrew Marantz's New Yorker profile of Enoch, Birth of a White Supremacist
 

 Enoch and David Duke in Charlottesville Unite the Right
 
 TRS on Youtube
 
Mike Enoch and Sven doxxed
 
 The Pool Party is Closed - Timeline of Alt-Right Meltdown
 
 Genocide: The Inescapable Conclusion
 
 SPLC profile on Enoch
 
 Jessie Dunstan's old band, "Mathematic the Waves"
 
 Alex McNabb suspension
 
 Alex McNabb cleared of charges
 
Audio clips for episode 9 including the extermination clip: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=13uWKSYl4D1YysQVo7s8lU6LVDosO9GXG
 
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Daniel's appearance on Queer Transmission livestream

I Don't Speak German, Episode 9: Mike Enoch and 'The Daily Shoah'

In place of a new episode, we're celebrating reaching 30 by re-releasing a podcast we originally recorded and released back in December 2017 as part of a previous project called Wrong With Authority. In retrospect, this sounds like a pilot for what became IDSG. We hope you enjoy it. 
 
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/30
 
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/

Episode 30: Unofficial Retroactive Pilot from December 2017

Episode 30: Unofficial Retroactive Pilot from December 2017

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