Journalist – Historian – Speaker
“When a reporter asked under what authority they planned to arrest the mayor, one of the Pendragons cited the Magna Carta.” #medievaltwitter https://t.co/2iYrmZvD1e — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) January 14, 2018 A bunch of London racists tried to arrest the Mayor of London. The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, is Muslim. The racists brought a noose and …
Last week various historians came to D.C. to talk about the alt-right and their use of crusade iconography. Eventually, various alt right social media accounts became aware of the event and its hashtag, #altcrusade17, and started tweeting violent memes out. Thus proving the point.
UPDATED with the French and clarifications. Marine Le Pen made an interesting claim for those of us tracking the use of history to bolster European racism: France’s presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has told a far-right conference “2016 was the year the Anglo Saxon world woke up”. The Front National leader was among anti-immigration and …