Neo-nazi Richard Spencer found himself at the receiving end of the most perfect clapback we’ve seen in a long time.
The last time anything the Montana-based white supremacist did went quite this big, he was punched in the face as he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Live on TV.
Now Jason Kander, president of Let America Vote and former Missouri Secretary of State, hit back at Spencer – with words, and it was incredibly satisfying.
Last week Spencer tweeted a video from musical film Cabaret in which a member of the Hitler Youth sings the well-known Tomorrow Belongs To Me.
Josh Marshall
✔ @joshtpmTake your trash philosophy back to the 1930s, chump. You're just a punk. https://twitter.com/richardbspencer/status/843213184689291264 …
.@joshtpm 1930s? No, tomorrow belongs to us. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co …
That’s where Jason Kander comes in.
His great-uncle is legendary composer John Kander, who happens to be part of Kander & Ebb – who wrote Cabaret.
The musical is set in 1931 in Berlin and based on gay novelist Christopher Isherwood’s short novel Goodbye to Berlin.
It tells the story of a young American and his relationship with an English cabaret performer against the backdrop of 1931 Berlin, where the Nazis are rising to power.
And Jason was quick to point out his uncle incorporated just about everything the neo-Nazi hates.
‘Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle,’ he tweeted.
‘He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew.
‘Sing it proud.’
In the recent past, Spencer has called for ‘peaceful ethnic cleansing’.
According to the Tab, who went through Spencer’s reddit profile, he also said ‘the glorification of homosexuality is not healthy for society’ and called homosexuality ‘a suboptimal deviation from the norm, much like a birth defect’.
We’d call Kander’s burn nasty, but from Spencer’s Twitter feed it is fairly clear he probably doesn’t care much
1 comment:
the day the goose-steppers come for me and mine, I swear to make our front yard into a graveyard. I'm not a violent man, but I will not stand idly by and let them take over. America is free, and will remain so under my watch.
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