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)

 

[EnemyStand]

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

By their own definition, they are centrist

Yes, but this doesn't refute my point. Maybe I should have been more clear: Nazism goes against constitutionalism and natural rights, White Nationalism believes in those for just white people.

Of course, both are anti-constitutionalist, just on different levels. I was simply explaining how it makes sense Spence would call himself a moderate.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

Suck a girl dick, Richard.

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.

Nah. I, and many other people, considered him controlled opposition from the start. He never believed anything.

 

[I'mma real anime gurl]

Fedboy should go outta state and fuck a femboy.

 

[Erich Raeder]

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.

Spencer just about died on that hill, Charlottesville broke him and he is moving away from the alt-right simply out of spite. This is not a moment of great epiphany of him, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a fed either but it likely means that he was never in it with his heart and just enjoyed the attention.

Oh also I actually predicted this less than a month ago:

So at this point I'm asking myself: Will there come a point where Richard actually drops any pretense of being in any way a dissident to the political mainstream and outright say "I am not a racist anymore"?

I'd be interested in what you guys think. Maybe we do a poor mans poll with the reactions:

if you think Spencer will at one point stop being a "racist liberal" and simply be a "liberal"
if you don't think this will ever happen

 

[Shidoen]

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

With his racist history? He’s gonna get flooded in coal pussy.

 

[Exelxi]

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?

This take is so fucking stupid I have no idea how it gets a pass in here. You really should develop some more knowledge of political ideologies that don't come from Ben Shapiro and other conservatards books.

Your whole left are the real nazis completely misses the point of what the left is nowdays and no, they are not 'nazis' at all.
Your hermeneutic leads you to inevadibly to equal Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Xi, European Union, Franco, Mussolini and something like absolutist kings to the same ideology of nazism (because they all want to exapand power in one sense or another).

There can be differences between WN and Neo-Nazis, but it's not some stupid libertarian take about state power, you're ignoring actual beliefs of people for some stupid strawman that only frozen-in-time conservatards care about.

Also stop larping as some deep knowledge nigga when at best you take hot takes from prageru vids that's puts everyone in one camp because they just want certain things to be done by the state.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

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

I remember when he was standing in the street somewhere in DC or Virginia and started chanting Russia is our friend. It's top tier cringe.

 

[No. 7 cat]

So Dickie Spencer is looking for more women to beat up?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Who would ever want to fuck Richard Spencer now?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

He's not a moderate. He's a federal asset

 

[RedDelicious]

While I can believe he really did change (assuming he genuinely held those beliefs at all and wasn't just a fed tool) he's really grasping by asking for 'privacy.'
Like, you went around the country loudly and proudly advocating for white nationalism. You're most famous for being socked in the mouth on TV. You can't unring those bells. Better to just own up to it.
Besides, @Shidoen is right, black chicks love that sort of thing.

 

[Shidoen]

While I can believe he really did change (assuming he genuinely held those beliefs at all and wasn't just a fed tool) he's really grasping by asking for 'privacy.'
Like, you went around the country loudly and proudly advocating for white nationalism. You're most famous for being socked in the mouth on TV. You can't unring those bells. Better to just own up to it.
Besides, @Shidoen is right, black chicks love that sort of thing.

Sorry nigtoids, the vanilla gorilla gets the cheeto babe.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I thought Bumble was a dating app for straight people.

 

[Shidoen]

I thought Bumble was a dating app for straight people.

I mistook this for the Nick Thread too.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

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

I'm not here for the lolcows, I just like to shitpost in A&N

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

What a complete non-story, even for Jezebel.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

I remember he had this big titty goth Russian girlfriend. She was a butterface. Everything was good but her face. She was super pale and had really dark hair which didn't help the whole looking like one of those goth girls you would see in the late 90's or early 2000's. From what I remember she was some Stalin lover and the bitch lives in the US. I think he had a kid with this goofy bitch. He broke the big rule and stuck his dick in crazy.

I heard he is running with some kind of fag hag now.

The TRS faggots had this huge man crush on him and even made a song about it. This is back from the early days. Like around 2015-2016. I remember when they made this song and everyone was talking about it on the old forum.

https://archive.org/details/svenV4/Richard+Spencer.mp3

 

[Gaynigger]

He says he likes abortion because of eugenics (1 month ago).
That's not "liberal" or "moderate".

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

This is hilarious firstly women hate when men cuck about their beliefs to get pussy especially conservative women ( me personally) secondly if he wrote conservative he would get more respect for honesty from every side, plus he is forty fucking four with no kids in texas . No assets and name and face all over the internet . Its going to be hilarious when you see his next chick. If ever he gets a women . Him being on bumble as " moderate" with all the Astro signs and cucking and yes on kids is a music to the bdp whores who fucked around and found out . That man is going to end up having a kid or becoming a stepfather. Rip Richard you are going to find out the true meaning of fucking around and finding out when you try to date in your 40s on internet apps . I won't be surprised after few months he changes that age to 38 or something similar.

 

[Positron]

So a man can self-identify out of being a man, but he can't self-identify out of being a "white supremacist"?