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| Prominent white supremacist scolded on video by his father | Prominent white supremacist scolded on video by his father |
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| A livestreamed conversation with Jason Kessler, a white supremacist rally organizer, was interrupted when Kessler’s father admonished the 35-year-old on video, and told him to get out of his room. | A livestreamed conversation with Jason Kessler, a white supremacist rally organizer, was interrupted when Kessler’s father admonished the 35-year-old on video, and told him to get out of his room. |
| 'Hell no': counterprotesters outnumber white supremacists at White House rally | |
| Kessler was one of the main organizers of last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed when a self-described Nazi drove his car into a crowd of protesters. In the video, he was in conversation with Patrick Little, a neo-Nazi who ran as a Republican for the US Senate in California this year. Little’s platform included calling for the United States to be “free from Jews”. | Kessler was one of the main organizers of last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Heather Heyer was killed when a self-described Nazi drove his car into a crowd of protesters. In the video, he was in conversation with Patrick Little, a neo-Nazi who ran as a Republican for the US Senate in California this year. Little’s platform included calling for the United States to be “free from Jews”. |
| Kessler and Little were deep in conversation about Orthodox Jews, when Kessler’s father cut in. | Kessler and Little were deep in conversation about Orthodox Jews, when Kessler’s father cut in. |
| “Hey!” Kessler’s father can be heard to yell. “You get out of my room!” | “Hey!” Kessler’s father can be heard to yell. “You get out of my room!” |
| “You got a drunk roommate there?” Little asked. | “You got a drunk roommate there?” Little asked. |
| “Something like that,” Kessler responded. His dad then cuts in, saying: “I want this to stop in my room, Jason, this is my room.” | “Something like that,” Kessler responded. His dad then cuts in, saying: “I want this to stop in my room, Jason, this is my room.” |
| Unite the Right 2 organizer, Nazi failure Jason Kessler gets yelled at by his dad for being a Nazi while livestreaming w Nazi loser Patrick Little, who admits he may have to sell the boat he's broadcasting from at a loss because he needs money. pic.twitter.com/skmlmtdSAE | Unite the Right 2 organizer, Nazi failure Jason Kessler gets yelled at by his dad for being a Nazi while livestreaming w Nazi loser Patrick Little, who admits he may have to sell the boat he's broadcasting from at a loss because he needs money. pic.twitter.com/skmlmtdSAE |
| Kessler explains to Little that legal costs associated with last year’s Unite the Right rally meant that he had to move back in with his parents. | Kessler explains to Little that legal costs associated with last year’s Unite the Right rally meant that he had to move back in with his parents. |
| These new living arrangements appear to be somewhat fraught. Kessler complains that his parents watch “constant anti-German propaganda” on the History Channel. He also describes them as “cucked”, a derogatory term popular with angry young men on the far right. | These new living arrangements appear to be somewhat fraught. Kessler complains that his parents watch “constant anti-German propaganda” on the History Channel. He also describes them as “cucked”, a derogatory term popular with angry young men on the far right. |
| The video of Kessler and Little speaking has reportedly been online for a few weeks, but only gained widespread attention on Wednesday. It is the latest humiliation for Kessler, who organized a Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington DC earlier this month, as a follow-up to last year’s violent demonstrations in Charlottesville. Kessler applied for a permit for about 400 people but only about 20 white supremacists turned up. They were far outnumbered by more than 1,000 counter-protesters. | The video of Kessler and Little speaking has reportedly been online for a few weeks, but only gained widespread attention on Wednesday. It is the latest humiliation for Kessler, who organized a Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington DC earlier this month, as a follow-up to last year’s violent demonstrations in Charlottesville. Kessler applied for a permit for about 400 people but only about 20 white supremacists turned up. They were far outnumbered by more than 1,000 counter-protesters. |
| Kessler can at least take some solace in the fact that he is not the only member of the right to have recently had a public dressing-down by a family member. On Monday, David Glosser, the uncle of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, published an essay in Politico calling his nephew a hypocrite. | Kessler can at least take some solace in the fact that he is not the only member of the right to have recently had a public dressing-down by a family member. On Monday, David Glosser, the uncle of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, published an essay in Politico calling his nephew a hypocrite. |
| “I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his [Jewish] heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser wrote. | “I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his [Jewish] heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser wrote. |
| Glosser told the Guardian that while his essay was likely to “raise hard feelings” in the family, “in the face of the virtual kidnapping of thousands of innocent children, I didn’t feel I had the ethical standing to remain silent”. | Glosser told the Guardian that while his essay was likely to “raise hard feelings” in the family, “in the face of the virtual kidnapping of thousands of innocent children, I didn’t feel I had the ethical standing to remain silent”. |
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