American political vlogger, YouTuber and public speaker
Paul Ray Ramsey (also known as ramzpaul and RamZPaul , born 1963) is an American far-right vlogger, YouTube personality, and public speaker.[1] [2] [3]
The New York Times has described Ramsey as a "popular alt-right internet personality",[4] and the Swiss newspaper Basellandschaftliche Zeitung identified him as an important representative of the alt-right.[5] Media Matters for America , The Forward , and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called Ramsey a white nationalist .[6] [7] [8] He spoke at the 2013 conference held by the online magazine American Renaissance .[8] Ramsey replied to a question posed by Matthew Heimbach at the conference about the creation of a whites only state: "We need to Balkanize and create our own homeland. We have a right to exist."[9] [better source needed ]
According to journalist Philipp Löpfe [de ] , Ramsey uses comedy to convey a far-right message.[10]
Activities
Ramsay began pseudonymously posting YouTube videos under the handle RamZPaul starting in 2009. He posted humorous video rants. By 2016, Ramsay had added a larger amount of explicitly alt-right content to his channel, such as the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory .[11]
In November 2016, Ramsey was a featured speaker at a conference held by the white supremacist National Policy Institute (NPI). The NPI was founded by Richard B. Spencer , who also is generally credited with coining the term alt-right .[12] After video emerged of several conference attendees giving the Nazi salute during a speech by Spencer, Ramsey disassociated himself from the NPI founder, as well as the term alt-right , saying, "You don't want to tie your brand to something that's ultimate evil."[12] [13] Ramsey was listed as a speaker for the 2018 Awakening conference in Helsinki, a self-described "ethno-nationalist " conference.[14] [15]
References
^ Kirkland, Allegra (May 24, 2016). "Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists" . Talking Points Memo .
^ Sheffield, Matthew (November 23, 2016). "Man who did Nazi salute with Tila Tequila outside Richard Spencer's alt-right conference is Jewish, and it's causing problems" . Salon .
^ Drum, Kevin (November 23, 2016). "A Toxic Resentment of Women Helps Power the Alt-Right" . Mother Jones .
^ Fausset, Richard (November 18, 2016). "As Trump Rises, So Do Some Hands Waving Confederate Battle Flags" . The New York Times .
^ Daniel Huber (11/24/2016), Nationalismus – Wer steckt hinter Alt Right? Die 9 wichtigsten Vertreter der US-Rechtsradikalen , (i.e. Nationalism – Who is behind the Alt-Right? The 9 most important representatives of the American Radical Right ), Basellandschaftliche Zeitung .
^ Hananoki, Eric (July 20, 2016). White Nationalists Love Trump’s Convention: “GOP Is Becoming The De Facto White Party” . Media Matters for America .
^ Kestenbaum, Sam (November 2, 2017). How White Nationalists Are Dominating YouTube , The Forward .
^ a b "Paul Ray Ramsey" . Southern Poverty Law Center . Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
^ "American Renaissance" . Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
^ Philipp Löpfe (08/31/2016), watson .
^ Neiwert, David (2017). Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump . Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books . pp. 251–252. ISBN 9781786634238 .
^ a b Gais, Hannah (December 11, 2016). "Cucking and Nazi Salutes: A Night Out With the Alt-Right" . Newsweek .
^ Schreckinger, Ben (January 2017). "The Alt-Right Comes to Washington" . Politico. Retrieved 17 February 2017 .
^ "Awakening conference" . Foia Research . March 31, 2019.
^ Holt, Jared (2 January 2019). "Far-Right Ukrainian Political Party to Appear Alongside U.S. White Nationalists" . Right Wing Watch.
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