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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl-right leader Richard Spencer accused of years of domestic violence
I'll file this one under, DUH.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alt-leader-richard-spencer-accused-150109659.html
"The self-appointed poster boy for white nationalism reportedly abused his now ex-wife and repeatedly told her to kill herself.
Richard Spencer, the man who claims to have coined the term "alt-right" as a polite company way to say "white nationalism," is getting a divorce. If this were a normal divorce proceeding, that wouldn't be news, but Spencer is accused of physically and verbally abusing his wife, Nina Kouprianova, almost as soon as the two were married.
At the Huffington Post, Lyz Lenz details the allegations from Kouprianova, and they're unsettling to read. Kouprianova describes Spencer waking her up in the middle of the night to scream at her, him dragging her down the stairs to force her to watch a movie with him, and threatening to break her nose. When he spoke to Lenz, Spencer denied that he'd ever physically abused Kouprianova, but admits that he said "terrible things" to her because she so "frustrated" him. But the judge in the case has refused to seal the records, and they tell a different story:
In an affidavit filed in June, Kouprianova claims that her eight-year marriage to Spencer was rife with abuseemotional, financial and physical. In July 2014, when Kouprianova was four months pregnant, according to the affidavit, Spencer pushed her down and held her by her neck and her jaw. She has pictures of the bruising.
In an email about the incident, he apologized, saying he felt terrible. There was also the time he pushed her into the stove when she was pregnant, she says. He would wake her up screaming at her, telling her to kill herself. She recorded hours of him screaming at her, some of which she transcribed and included in the affidavit."
Dorian Gray
(13,532 posts)terrible that that woman had to suffer through that abuse. I'm happy she's left his ass and will be safe now.
Not surprising that such a vile human being would behave so abhorrently. Fuck him.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)But I'm a tad bit suspicious of his wife. She's Russian and a Putin supporter. One of Vladdy's favorite tactics in undermining western democracies has been to encourage racism and conflict between different races. In fact, a few months after the Charlottesville fiasco, none other than our friend Richard returned to Charlottesville to rub it in the faces of the community he terrorized, and one of the things they were chanting was, "Russia is our friend."
https://heightline.com/nina-kouprianova-richard-spencers-wife/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/07/richard-spencer-leads-another-torchlight-march-in-charlottesville/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.12d5406b8023
That being said, nothing justifies violence against women, spy or no spy, instigator or no instigator.
AJT
(5,240 posts)LisaM
(27,850 posts)Because of course, I guess.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,137 posts)2naSalit
(86,943 posts)Not.