{"id":287631,"date":"2016-12-29T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/george-ciccariello-maher-vs-the-white-power-alt-right\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:16:59","slug":"george-ciccariello-maher-vs-the-white-power-alt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/george-ciccariello-maher-vs-the-white-power-alt-right\/","title":{"rendered":"George Ciccariello-Maher vs. the White Power Alt-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_89407\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89407\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/5987376814_f8fb9c136e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Erik Drost | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/5987376814_f8fb9c136e_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/5987376814_f8fb9c136e_z-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Erik Drost | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the decade I have known George Ciccariello-Maher \u2013 as a colleague, co-author and personal friend \u2013 he has always excelled at exposing and challenging injustices in sharp, uncompromising terms that highlight hypocrisy with passionate and often blunt wit.\u00a0 He inspires friends and enemies alike; while I openly count myself in the former group, it is unfortunately the latter group which has made George the topic of conversation this week. \u00a0On Christmas eve Ciccariello-Maher jestingly tweeted \u201cAll I want for Christmas is White Genocide\u201d \u2013 a clear and direct satire of a white supremacist trope through which neo-Nazis and other racist groupings argue that things like immigration and interracial marriage are \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/whitegenocideproject.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/whitegenocideproject.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1482982849586000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5Q1gqA6Lx9zVK7eQNtGdGnrxpkA\">undermining the Aryan race.<\/a>\u201d \u00a0Ciccariello-Maher\u2019s simple, sarcastic comment stoked the ire of Breitbart (and the even further fringe-Right social media) bringing this manufactured controversy to the inboxes of Drexel administrators on Christmas day, who have thus far <a href=\"http:\/\/drexel.edu\/now\/archive\/2016\/December\/Drexel-response-Ciccariello-Maher\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/drexel.edu\/now\/archive\/2016\/December\/Drexel-response-Ciccariello-Maher\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1482982849586000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFO7Ujszz9aRmsoauB0N_NKsLK7Q\">capitulated<\/a> to this attack, an effort concocted in the cesspool of racial hatred attempting to re-brand itself as the so-called Alt-Right.<\/p>\n<p>I am angered by this situation, but honestly not terribly surprised.\u00a0 This contrived \u2018hate-speech\u2019 controversy ironically stems from George pithily retorting to the long-established racism of the individuals and groups now attempting to repurpose liberal notions of political correctness against a longtime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/28\/george-ciccariello-maher-vs-the-white-power-alt-right\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Erik Drost | CC BY 2.0 \u00a0 In the decade I have known George Ciccariello-Maher \u2013 as a colleague, co-author and personal friend \u2013 he has always excelled at exposing and challenging injustices in sharp, uncompromising terms that highlight hypocrisy with passionate and often blunt wit.\u00a0 He inspires friends and enemies alike; 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