An overly-detailed analysis of the video where nazi richard spencer gets punched in the face

Friday was a dark day for the millions of Americans. Donald Trump, a megalomaniacal con man, was sworn in as the President of the United States, and almost immediately began to roll back the

progressive policies of his predecessor, Barack Obama. But amidst a day of anger and despair, one shining moment stood out to give hope to protesters and leftists and anyone who agrees with

the idea that punching Nazis is a good thing: Nazi asshole Richard Spencer got punched in the face. Spencer is the President of the National Policy Institute, a deliberately boring name for

a white supremacist organization. His previous moment of notoriety came in November, when a few weeks after Trump’s election win, he addressed attendees of his organization’s annual

conference by yelling, “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” and offering a full-on Nazi salute. That incident was captured on video by _The Atlantic_, and the Southern Poverty Law

Center quotes him as referring to immigration as “proxy war,” and believing in “peaceful ethnic cleansing.” Richard Spencer is not some deluded Trump supporter who is fed up with Washington

and wants to spite the liberal elite. He is an avowed and committed white supremacist who employs Nazi slogans and talking points to promote a racist worldview. He is a fascist. He is a

Nazi. And somebody punched him in the face. Here is the video of that incident: Having watched this video, and various versions set to music by Smashmouth, Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against

The Machine, Celine Dion, and many others, I am ready to break down and analyze this incident for posterity, so that we may come to a fuller appreciation of its content. 0:00–0:05 — Richard

Spencer is talking to camera. Behind him are two protesters with signs. The more prominent says “White Lives Matter Too Much,” while a second sign, reading “Fight For Socialism Over

Barbarism” and branded with the logo for the Democratic Socialists of America (Full Disclosure: I am a dues-paying member) enters frame about a second into the video. 0:06 — Spencer begins

to remark on the escalating tactics of those opposing him. This is called foreshadowing. 0:13 — “Aren’t you a neo-Nazi?” asks a black woman filming Spencer with her camera. 0:14 -0:16— “No

I’m not a neo-Nazi,” says Spencer, who is a neo-Nazi. 0:16 — Same black woman: “You like black people?” 0:17–0:18 — “Well, why yeah, sure,” halfheartedly answers Spencer, who believes in

expelling black people from his white American utopia, that their influence on culture is producing a miscegenated assimilation for Latino immigrants that is destroying white culture, and

that their IQs are naturally lower than those of Europeans. 0:18–0:19 — “Would you marry a black woman?” Spencer does not answer this question. 0:20–0:24 — The question is inaudible, but

Spencer answers “Neo-Nazis don’t love me, they kind of hate me, actually.” While he’s probably referring to some sort of obscure ideological split about the best way to hate people who

aren’t white Christians, Richard Spencer _is_ eminently hate-able. 0:26–0:27 — The interviewer asks something about “the KKK, neo-Nazis,” to which Spencer responds, “those people don’t like

me, to be honest,” adding some interesting new entries to the very long list of People Who Don’t Like Richard Spencer. 0:29–0:30 — Spencer ignores a question asking if he’s “the hipster

version of the neo-Nazi movement,” which he is, to answer a question about the Pepe frog pin he’s wearing on his jacket. “It’s Pepe, he’s become kind of a symbol,” he starts, before getting

punched in the face. 0:31–0:32 — A protester dressed in black, with a hood and a scarf to disguise his identity, punches Richard Spencer in his stupid Nazi face. 0:33 — The camera briefly

follows Spencer, who stumbles backwards. 0:34 — A man with a very large backpack attempts to grab the hood off of the protester who punched Spencer. This man calls himself “HArlem VEnison”

and identifies himself as an “ Itinerant YouTube preacher, novelist, and bleeding-heart racist.” He has posted a video of himself trying to chase down and unmask the protester with

concern-trolling about how “you have to talk to people, dude.” 0:38 — Our next view of Spencer. Contrary to his later assertion on Twitter that he can “take a punch,” Spencer is ten or

fifteen feet down the sidewalk from where he was standing when he was punched, reeling from the blow. 0:42 — Just before the video ends, Spencer turns around and faces camera again. 0:43 —

Spencer brings his hand up to the side of his face, to comfort the spot where he was punched. He is almost certainly trying to not cry. End Video. Punching Nazis has a long and glorious

history. On a wider scale, it’s how the Soviets and the Western Allies won World War II. History has shown that you can’t reason with Nazis, but if you punch enough of them as many times as

necessary, they’ll go away.