Counter-Currents
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 593
The Counter-Currents Book Club
Jason Kessler’s Charlottesville & the Death of Free Speech
Counter-Currents Radio
You can buy Jason Kessler’s book Charlottesville & the Death of Free Speech here.
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Jason Kessler was our guest on last weekend’s meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club, where he discussed his new book, Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, which is available from Dissident Press, with panelists F. Roger Devlin, Greg Johnson, and Anne Wilson Smith. The book recounts the full story of what happened at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia from the pen of the man who organized it. The recording is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
01:41 Why did Jason Kessler write the book?
04:07 Anne Wilson Smith’s initial impressions of the book
05:23 F. Roger Devlin’s initial thoughts
08:01 Why Charlottesville was a turning point
10:04 Was the outcome of the rally disillusioning?
12:30 The fallout from the event is an example of a lack of solidarity
15:27 The Dylann Roof shooting
17:10 Kessler’s personal history in Charlottesville
21:13 On amnesty and oblivion
28:49 What is the book missing?
30:26 Will Jason keep writing about Unite the Right?
33:58 How can we unite the Right?
41:29 What have been the reactions to the book so far?
46:12 How can people buy and promote the book?
47:32 Would you do Unite the Right over again?
53:21 Final thoughts
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2 comments
Wow, that was really good. Kessler is highly articulate and commanding in his speech. A true Leader! Thanks so much to cc for putting this show on. My only complaint: too short.
It’s not difficult to comment on the Unite the Right effort as an abortive pipe dream, as I have done under Mr. Kessler’s informative piece about Jacob Dix finally beating the phony rap from 2017, and elsewhere, quoting William Pierce from nearly 50 years ago. “Why Don’t All the Pro-White Organizations Unite?” at nationalvanguard.org
I liked Kessler’s “Christian Nationalism has Made Me Agnostic.” though it doesn’t say what it is he actually believes in now besides uniting right-wingers. Rehashing Charlottesville is not turning up much now that we didn’t already know about a corrupt anti-White system.
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Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, which is available from Dissident Press.
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I had written:
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Dissident Press (DP) has only published one book, yours. You say in the short video at DP that the “brilliant Dave Garahy” of Moonrock Books put together the QR Code section of the book’s Appendices. I looked at the Moonrockbooks.com site and found an earlier title [still listed] there, Political Theater in Charlottesville: Faux Terrorism in three Acts Produced by Leftist Zealots by Jim Fetzer and Mike Palecek. A description of that book at the site includes this:
The key players in this staged event turned out to be George Soros, who financed the event, Executive Producer; Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia, Director, who controlled the National Guard and the VA State Police; Michael Signer, Mayor of Charlottesville, Assistant Director, who ordered the local police to stand down; Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, who impersonated White Nationalist leaders to give the event a neo-Nazi flavor…
I figured McAuliffe and the Jews, Soros and Signer, could have had a hand to play in the debacle, but Spencer and Kessler? Really? They gave the event a neo-Nazi flavor. Did they know that was what they were doing when they planned the event? Whatever happened to “WN Leader” Spencer, anyway?
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No one answered my question about whatever happened to Spencer. I talked to Gahary and he said Moonrocks discontinued publishing Political Theater in Charlottesville due to what he came to recognize as a number of inaccuracies in that book. Some of what had been claimed was accurate enough, however.
Jason plans to write another book about strategy. If I might make a suggestion for a title: Lessons Learned: How Not To Unite the Right.
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