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Marcus Alethia, Ph.D.

The offending building owned by Richard’s mom

Current events oddly compel me to once again broach the subject of the newly most hated man in America: Richard Spencer. But this time the topic isn’t the man, but his mother. America is currently in the throes of a gripping drama known (by me) as “Richard Spencer’s Mom-gate.”

Most readers probably know the story. Richard Spencer’s mother lives in a small town in Montana. As Richard manages to get himself in the news quite a bit, his mother is increasingly being harassed by a predominantly Jewish local group. This consists of a shrewish Jewish real estate agent and a puzzlingly too-much-time-on-his-hands reform Rabbi, as well as others in a group ironically titled “Love Lives Here” that are determined to protest the fact that Richard Spencer has a Mom he loves who dares to live there.

Clearly, Spencer should either not have a Mom, or if he has to, she should live somewhere where there are no people to be offended by her existence. Maybe 20 miles east, up on a glacier. But not in a beautiful town named Whitefish (which, by the way, is the exact type of fish my own Mom uses in her homemade gefilte fish).

A beautiful town named Whitefish

Unfortunately, Spencer does have what appears to be a nice and reasonable mother who stands by her son despite disagreeing with and publicly disavowing his political views, which is exactly what I’d imagine my mother would do if she ever knew I wrote for The Occidental Observer. Richard Spencer’s Mom doesn’t understand her son’s views, and has absolutely no affiliation with any of his projects. Yet somehow, the mere fact of their relation is enough to trigger some of Whitefish’s small Jewish community into trying to bully her into selling her property and donating some of the money to their organization.

This is all even more odd since Richard Spencer is not generally a fierce critic of Jews. From what I’ve read, I think he probably thinks that in an ideal world, most or all Jews should move to Israel. Many Israelis think this as well, but nobody’s harassing their Moms about it. My guess is that the Whitefishers follow Spencer news quite closely and were re-triggered by the recent media manufactured “hailgate”. Read more »

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Richard Spencer’s Mom-gate

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