ALEXANDRIA, VA — An Old Town Alexandria gym ended the membership of white nationalist Richard Spencer after he was confronted over his racial views. C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, recognized and approached Spencer at Old Town Sport&Health on Wednesday.
According to a Tumblr post Fair wrote, Spencer first denied his identity when asked. (Subscribe to get Virginia Patch News Alerts and newsletters. iPhone users can download the Patch app in the App Store. Plus, like Old Town Alexandria Patch on Facebook.)
“I said, ‘Of course you are, so not only are you a Nazi — you are a cowardly Nazi,’” Fair said in an interview with the Washington Post. “I just want to say to you, I’m sick of your crap — that this country belongs [to people like you]. . . . As a woman, I find your statements to be particularly odious; moreover, I find your presence in this gym to be unacceptable, your presence in this town to be unacceptable.”
Fair said Spencer called for help from one of the trainers, who happened to be African-American. She added that a white woman who claimed to not know who Spencer was asked Fair to stop making a scene.
Two days after the encounter, Fair tweeted out a picture of the encounter and a response to the gym ending Spencer's membership.
No doubt the gym retains an unfettered right to terminate membership, but, um . . . who was "making a scene"?
Meanwhile this Tumblrina probably was all up in arms over the bakeries not baking cakes for gay people
It sucks, but I will absolutely not allow the left to maintain a double standard when it comes to political violence. They lost that right at Berkeley. Welcome to the new normal.
And so it begins...the right is starting to drop to the level of the left - it's only a matter of time now.....
Well, I dunno how Linda Cockroach gets to be called a "civil rights activist" when she's come out plainly in support of Sharia law...
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
Speaker to Animals wrote:I told you guys, we are already here.
It sucks, but I will absolutely not allow the left to maintain a double standard when it comes to political violence. They lost that right at Berkeley. Welcome to the new normal.
Yes, the important thing here is to maintain equal heights of Stupidity at all times, lest the other side gain an edge. A Stupidity Gap would be fatal!
Speaker to Animals wrote:I told you guys, we are already here.
It sucks, but I will absolutely not allow the left to maintain a double standard when it comes to political violence. They lost that right at Berkeley. Welcome to the new normal.
