The new logo for the Alternative Right website is a simplified black and white text. The original imagery was much better: gold and black text with a forest as the background suggesting the writers' attempts to guide us, its readers, out of the maze of trees and branches.
The founder of the original site, Richard Spencer, wrote that he wanted an aesthetically superior quality to his website. For a while, he delivered this aesthetic and intellectual vision. Then, it deteriorated (see article below).
This new stark black and white logo emphasizes the dripping blood that had always been part of the logo. Is this racial blood? Blood of the ancestors? Blood that will get spilt?
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I continue to research group blogs and websites. A while ago, I used to read a blog that rose quickly and gained prominence called Alternative Right. I then got disillusioned by its far-right homosexual contributor Jack Donovan (I wrote about him here and here), and a Canadian woman who stresses her Russian background although she had left Russia as a young teen-ager. A writer who was clearly a white supremacy supporter, Alex Kurtagic (he has his own website here, and his book is advertised at a Nazi site, I**r**o**n**s**k**y**p**u**b**l**i**s**h**i**n**g - I'm writing it this way so that I don't get unwanted emails from that group to my site. Remove the asterixes, and search for the three-word title in google to find the site), was also one of the authors. At some point, Richard Spencer, the site's founder, began to make it clear that he doesn't like Jews. In fact, here is commentary on him at Larry Auster's site, where I sent in my skepticism about the site, and specifically about the "Russian-Canadian" contributor Nina Kouprianova, who also happens to be Spencer's wife (these are no real conservatives, or right-wingers. They populate the usual liberal world of wives keeping their own names, and husbands insipidly standing by).
The discussion at the View From the Right under "Richard Spencer and the Eternal Jenin" revealed the anti-semitism of the site:
Kidist Paulos Asrat writes:I may be reading this wrong, but here is a writer at Alt-Right, who presents herself as “a proud Muscovite” via Canada, who is promoting a fellow-Russian’s Armageddon view of the imminent collapse of America. Every time I read Alternative Right (hardly at all these days), there is nothing traditional (radical or not) or Western about their thoughts. What an odd site.
To link this with this entry, I think anti-Israelism is anti-Americanism at its core.
LA replies:Richard Spencer has disappeared from the face of the internet world. The hundreds of articles and posts published at the original site have also disappeared. Some form of an Alternative Right site still continues, but is being run by other members, and has had a considerable make-over. It has been chiseled down to a bare minimum, and few of the original writers remain. A dubious, far-right sympathizer Alex Kurtagic is still there. And there's a recent article up titled "A Tale of Two Bitches" by Andy Nowicki, which leaves me wondering who would read such an article (I read the first lines, and it appears to be about feminists), and who would continue to read a website after such an article appears in its pages. Not me.I think you’re onto something. Let’s look at this way. What are the two main targets of the Muslims? Israel (the Little Satan) and America (the Great Satan). And what are the two main targets of the international left? Israel and America. And what are the two main targets of the paleocons/Alt-Rightists? Israel and America. At this moment The American Conservative and Alternative Right are effectively supporting Hamas against Israel. As I said in another current entry, at a certain point many of the anti-Israel paleocons are going to realize their identity with Hamas and the international left, and consciously embrace it.
Richard Spencer and his Canadian-Russian wife have disappeared from the social commentary scene. But I suspect the ever-renewing Spencer will reappear in some other guise (an author?). His wife continues with her original field of expertise, graphic design. She has put up a site, with her full (Russian name) on display.
I think that "hate" sites exhaust their readers and their writers. The many (too many) fund raising drives that Spencer undertook at the original Alternative Right never helped to materialize it into a long-term project.
But, I don't think it is simple financial losses that caused this abandonment. Spencer gambled with his ugly beliefs, and as they started to come to the surface, his readers, and writers, eventually left. I wrote in 2010:
If [the Alternative Right] keeps this up, the magazine will be confined to a narrow (and ugly) niche - like Stormfront.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat