Culture Richard Spencer Listed Himself on Bumble as Politically 'Moderate' - The white supremacist told Jezebel in a text exchange that he no longer identifies as a "white nationalist" and asked that we respect his privacy.

I wasn’t expecting to have a borderline-introspective conversation with white supremacist leader Richard Spencer on Tuesday night. But a Jezebel reader spotted him on the dating app Bumble in the Dallas, Texas, area and sent me a few screenshots of his profile. So I found the guy’s number and reached out for comment: Is this really you? Are you really politically “moderate” and “vaccinated?” I needed to know.

Here are the screenshots I received in a tip:



I checked all the vitals: Photos, yes. Age, yes. Height, yes. Astrological sign, yes. Kids, yes. This really appears to be Richard Spencer, the guy who shouted “Hail, Trump!” in 2016, led the 2017 neo-Nazi march through Charlottesville in which white men chanted “Jews will not replace us,” and became the most prominent figure in the American white nationalist movement.

Upon viewing this profile, I thought, maybe this is a catfish? So I obtained Spencer’s phone number from a fellow reporter and asked him myself if this was indeed his Bumble profile. “Yes, that is I,” he responded.

“I’d appreciate your respecting my privacy. This is obviously not newsworthy. I’m simply living my life,” he texted me.

Okay, that would be a fair point if the dater in question were not a literal white supremacist leader accused of physically abusing his ex-wife, and masquerading as a random “moderate” skier who’s into electronic music on Bumble. So I said as much to him—that I thought he was being “deceptive”—and here’s what he responded:



Spencer went on to tell me that “life experience” and “intellectual rethinking” have caused him to reconsider the white nationalist views that he “embraced earlier in life.” To reiterate, this man coined the term “alt-right.” The Southern Poverty Law Center calls him “a kind of professional racist in khakis.” He was also notably punched in the face while wearing a Pepe the Frog pin in 2017.

“If you’re on a path that leads nowhere, you have to rethink things,” he told me.

When I told Spencer that I planned on publishing this conversation, because I believe it to be very valuable to the public, especially anyone around Dallas who might stumble upon this particular dating profile, he stopped responding.

The moral of the story is: Be wary of the “moderates” on Bumble. You really just never know.

https://jezebel.com/richard-spencer-bumble-dating-profile-moderate-1849062955?rev=1655259122223 (A)

 

[FightenGnome]

I can't think of anyone who has sacrificed so much to feed their ego than Richard. All his moderating and alienating for his liberal gf only for her to move on leaving him holding the bag is exactly what he deserved. Whether she's moving on to fuck Tyrone or Edward Norton from American History X will never be known, but it seems Richard Spencer's role as her personal gelding isn't cutting it, even with all that trust fund money.

Richard went from being considered leader of a nation wide movement, talking about building an empire, banging his sycophant's tradwives, becoming a semi-household name and making Elle Reeve wet to a screaming lunatic who beats his wife, pointing fingers at other people for his legal troubles, parroting CNN talking points to own people on twitter, womenless, becoming a nobody that no one listens to and having a meltdown in front of Elle Reeve about how the world would be a better place if it was just about him.

All because he wanted to be seen as the smartest, most blameless, enviable person in the world. Very sad.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

I can't think of anyone who has sacrificed so much to feed their ego than Richard. All his moderating and alienating for his liberal gf only for her to move on leaving him holding the bag is exactly what he deserved. Whether she's moving on to fuck Tyrone or Edward Norton from American History X will never be known, but it seems Richard Spencer's role as her personal gelding isn't cutting it, even with all that trust fund money.

Richard went from being considered leader of a nation wide movement, talking about building an empire, banging his sycophant's tradwives, becoming a semi-household name and making Elle Reeve wet to a screaming lunatic who beats his wife, pointing fingers at other people for his legal troubles, parroting CNN talking points to own people on twitter, womenless, becoming a nobody that no one listens to and having a meltdown in front of Elle Reeve about how the world would be a better place if it was just about him.

All because he wanted to be seen as the smartest, most blameless, enviable person in the world. Very sad.

Spencer should be enshrined in history as a warning about what narcs will do to any movement.

 

[The Whore of Babylon]

I'd like to say this article is uniquely repulsive but tracking down some guy you hate on a dating app just to harass him with a bunch of stupid questions and then gossip to everyone about it is terribly on-brand for Jezebel, the news site for ex-girlfriends

says the guy on the autistic gossip board dedicated to finding out every minutiae of random weirdos on the internet to publicly gossip over them

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

The funniest thing was when CNN got big Spence over here to be the representative "white nationalism" and had him denounce trump as some sort of own to show "See even the evil kkk racists are sick of this orange blumpf"

anyhow richard fedboy served his purpose and can fade into obscurity now I guess?

 

[make_it_so]

I can't think of anyone who has sacrificed so much to feed their ego than Richard. All his moderating and alienating for his liberal gf only for her to move on leaving him holding the bag is exactly what he deserved. Whether she's moving on to fuck Tyrone or Edward Norton from American History X will never be known, but it seems Richard Spencer's role as her personal gelding isn't cutting it, even with all that trust fund money.

Richard went from being considered leader of a nation wide movement, talking about building an empire, banging his sycophant's tradwives, becoming a semi-household name and making Elle Reeve wet to a screaming lunatic who beats his wife, pointing fingers at other people for his legal troubles, parroting CNN talking points to own people on twitter, womenless, becoming a nobody that no one listens to and having a meltdown in front of Elle Reeve about how the world would be a better place if it was just about him.

All because he wanted to be seen as the smartest, most blameless, enviable person in the world. Very sad.

Spencer was always an astroturfed figure - a fringe loon that the DC alphabet glow-in-the-darks and their media and NGO allies catapulted to the forefront in order to serve as a boogeyman and to discredit the rising right-populist movement that was coalescing around figures like Trump. Hence the nickname "Fed Spencer."

 

[Bum Driller]

It's really fucking funny, and quite telling how many people here think that this change in Spencers character is a sign that he was controlled by feds or similar tinfoilhat -bullshit. I'm quite convinced that he just understood one day that actually the hill he is dying on ISN'T WORTH IT, and understood that there are other things in life worth living for. That happens, usually when people mature up and see that what they previously thought of as high-minded and noble is actually just cringe bullshit.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Spencer was always a piece of shit faggot. A Pompous shitbag. I think he was trying to use the alt-right to make money somehow it just didn't work out. Now he can claim to be moderate and go back to his nice upper middle class life living off his parents money.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

He's changed his politics because he's already served his Fed handlers' purpose.

It's like people never saw that picture of him with Laura Bush. If they're "Alt-Right," or "White Nationalist" or whatever, the national media brings them up, and they still have a platform? Their ass is owned. There's your actual feds.

 

[Merry]

Bitchmade, fat, wannabe Chad Fuhrer

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

All right my little uninformed Kiwi-bros, Uncle Stand is going to drop some knowledge on your asses and nowhere else. So hold on to your butts!

Richard Spencer is not really a white supremacist. Richard Spencer is a Neo-Nazi. There's a small difference, but there is a difference. Basically, Spence believes in the ideals of Nazi Germany, which favored gun control, abortion, atheism, and that rights are really privileges allowed by the all-powerful State. He likes the idea of planned economies and wanted to eliminate freedom of speech for those not on his side. The propaganda painting Trump as "literally Hitler" worked not just on their own side, but on retards like Richard Spencer. Him and his small force of Neo-Nazi retards (oh, how redundant!) got big mad when Trump sent a pallet of money and a boatload of guns to Israel and even big madder when Trump refused to seize more power than what his office allowed to destroy the opposition (it's why right wingers don't like Ann Coulter anymore, she went crazy when Trump didn't do unconstitutional bullshit she wanted him to do).

Anyway, the difference between a Nazi and a White Nationalist is simply this: Nazis want to give the government more power and a White Nationalist doesn't necessarily want that. In other words, Richard Spencer didn't really change or leave any of his beliefs. He's simply looking for a group that better aligns with his personal beliefs. Now, think real hard about this question I posit to you: which group in American politics supports gun control, expanded government powers, abortion, and atheism?

Ok Boomer.

Where did you learn that from? PragerJew? LOL

Muh ebil Natzees. LOL

 

[Not Really Here]

What a cunty cockblock, the Fed is just trying to get his dick wet.

 

[Jack Awful]

He's changed his politics because he's already served his Fed handlers' purpose.

Idk what the fed promised him to ruin his life for them. He's labeled a white supremacist forever now.

 

[Mudkipcorn]

This could have led to a very interesting story if the journo was a bit more thoughtful. With the right approach i think he probably would be willing to talk and I for one would be interested to hear how his life and views have changed since receding from public life. I'll always think pretty lowly of him. It's not like he was a teen or a young adult at the height of his political spergery. But that doesn't mean I'm not curious about him. Sad that Jezebel just saw this as a cautionary tale about moderates on Bumble but what can you expect?

 

[John Freeman]

If he’s changed good for him. If it’s bullshit, so be it. This guy has been a nobody for four years. The only people who know his name are probably not the kind he’s interested in dating anyways.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Richard Spencer is not a federal informant just stupid

 

[HX-2]

troon saga when?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

He needs to date a black woman to get positive coverage from Jezebel.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Writers hate words.

Spencer has changed (his public image) from racist liberal, partisan Republican to classist liberal, partisan Democrat.

Those are the two major types of American moderates.

I mean Richard was a CNN Contributor so it makes sense he moved left

 

[Übertroon]

It's really fucking funny, and quite telling how many people here think that this change in Spencers character is a sign that he was controlled by feds or similar tinfoilhat -bullshit. I'm quite convinced that he just understood one day that actually the hill he is dying on ISN'T WORTH IT, and understood that there are other things in life worth living for. That happens, usually when people mature up and see that what they previously thought of as high-minded and noble is actually just cringe bullshit.

Anyone who was an adult back in 2016 remember that Spencer was never given any attention until after the election. That little rally he had in D.C. after the election result was clear was suspect as fuck. He might not have been literally on the fed payroll, but someone there had to have been talking to the feds and the news to have the cameras ready for when the show started.

He was also never kicked off any social media unlike the people who actually involved themselves in the 2016 election cycle, so that's suspect as fuck also. Either he's a willing tool, or a unwitting tool, either way he's always been a fool

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

All right my little uninformed Kiwi-bros, Uncle Stand is going to drop some knowledge on your asses and nowhere else. So hold on to your butts!

Richard Spencer is not really a white supremacist. Richard Spencer is a Neo-Nazi. There's a small difference, but there is a difference. Basically, Spence believes in the ideals of Nazi Germany, which favored gun control, abortion, atheism, and that rights are really privileges allowed by the all-powerful State. He likes the idea of planned economies and wanted to eliminate freedom of speech for those not on his side. The propaganda painting Trump as "literally Hitler" worked not just on their own side, but on retards like Richard Spencer. Him and his small force of Neo-Nazi retards (oh, how redundant!) got big mad when Trump sent a pallet of money and a boatload of guns to Israel and even big madder when Trump refused to seize more power than what his office allowed to destroy the opposition (it's why right wingers don't like Ann Coulter anymore, she went crazy when Trump didn't do unconstitutional bullshit she wanted him to do).

Anyway, the difference between a Nazi and a White Nationalist is simply this: Nazis want to give the government more power and a White Nationalist doesn't necessarily want that. In other words, Richard Spencer didn't really change or leave any of his beliefs. He's simply looking for a group that better aligns with his personal beliefs. Now, think real hard about this question I posit to you: which group in American politics supports gun control, expanded government powers, abortion, and atheism?

White Nationalism and Nazism are both "Third Way" movements.

By their own definition, they are centrist