Paul Ray Ramsey

Paul R. Ramsey
Born	1963 (age 61–62) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Other names	ramzpaul, RamZPaul
Alma mater	Colorado State University
Occupation(s)	Vlogger, YouTube personality, 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]}

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.^[10]

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.^[11] 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."^[11][12] Ramsey was listed as a speaker for the 2018 Awakening conference in Helsinki, a self-described "ethno-nationalist" conference.^[13][14]

References

1. Kirkland, Allegra (May 24, 2016). "Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists". Talking Points Memo.
2. 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.
3. Drum, Kevin (November 23, 2016). "A Toxic Resentment of Women Helps Power the Alt-Right". Mother Jones.
4. Fausset, Richard (November 18, 2016). "As Trump Rises, So Do Some Hands Waving Confederate Battle Flags". The New York Times.
5. 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.
6. Hananoki, Eric (July 20, 2016). White Nationalists Love Trump’s Convention: “GOP Is Becoming The De Facto White Party”. Media Matters for America.
7. Kestenbaum, Sam (November 2, 2017). How White Nationalists Are Dominating YouTube, The Forward.
8. "Paul Ray Ramsey". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
9. "American Renaissance". Retrieved March 22, 2020.
10. 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.
11. Gais, Hannah (December 11, 2016). "Cucking and Nazi Salutes: A Night Out With the Alt-Right". Newsweek.
12. Schreckinger, Ben (January 2017). "The Alt-Right Comes to Washington". Politico. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
13. "Awakening conference". Foia Research. March 31, 2019.
14. Holt, Jared (2 January 2019). "Far-Right Ukrainian Political Party to Appear Alongside U.S. White Nationalists". Right Wing Watch.

External links

• Official website
• Paul Ray Ramsey at IMDb