White supremacist Richard Spencer has named Depeche Mode as the ‘official band of the alt-right’. How does Depeche Mode feel about that?
After getting repeatedly punched in public (on camera), white supremacist Richard Spencer has now selected his favorite band. While being forcibly ejected from the CPAC Convention earlier today, Spencer was asked about his musical preferences.
Because, of course he was.
And of course, Spencer answered for the entire alt-right movement. “Depeche Mode is the official band of the alt-right,” Spencer told New York magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi.
Nuzzi quickly tweeted out the preference, which fits in with alt-right and white supremacy preferences for 80s synth-pop. Earlier, Spencer declared that Depeche Mode to be the “fashiest 80s electropop band.”
‘CPAC’ stands for Conservative Political Action Conference, a group that is trying to distance itself from the extreme views of Richard Spencer and others. Spencer, frequently described as a neo-Nazi white supremacist, prefers to call himself an ‘identitarian,’ though CPAC described him as ‘repugnant’.
Separately, CPAC cancelled a keynote speech by Milo Yiannopoulos after video surfaced of the controversial conservative advocating pedophilia.
Depeche Mode has quickly denounced the association. “Depeche Mode has no ties to Richard Spencer or the alt-right and does not support the alt-right movement,” the band told Death and Taxes this morning. “Really ridiculous!”
But… Why Depeche Mode?
Exactly why Depeche Mode was selected as a favorite isn’t exactly clear. The band is clearly white, and the group did play around with fascist outfits back in the 80s. But clearly, this isn’t a group that has ever made a separatist statement. And for proof of that, take a look at the lyrics for one of their biggest songs, ‘People are People’.
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
So we’re different colors, and we’re different creeds
And different people have different needs
It’s obvious you hate me though I’ve done nothing wrong
I’ve never even met you so what could I have done
I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
More recently, the band has been a staunch critic of Donald Trump, likening the President to Hitler.
Any other supremacist volunteers?
That leaves more supportive, like pro-Nazi singers like Tila Tequila. Immediately after the election of Donald Trump, Tequila joined Spencer and others in a pro-white rally in Washington, DC. It was during a spin-off event that Tequila offered the Nazi salute on camera, part of a string of racist, pro-Nazi statements from the former ‘MySpace sensation’.
Tila Tequila’s public profile is essentially ruined, and the DC salute cemented that. But strangely, searches for ‘Tila Tequila porn’ started surging after the incident, and Tequila may be finding support among fringe supremacy groups.
Depeche Mode, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with that ‘niche’.
Your fucking assholes to take the liberty of associating
Depeche Mode in this way. You should check with the bands handlers before you suggest this fucking crap. Why do you even give fuckwads like Spencer the time of day. Ignore them and they go away.
Ridiculous indeed. Martin Gore, the band’s principal songwriter, is half black.
I clicked on this, but I’m really getting tired of the bald money-grubbing aspects of this blog. Depeche Mode have nothing to do with white supremacy, and haven’t ever. Martin Gore is gay, and the band has been front and center of gay politics, not exactly the domain of the extreme right. I’m sick of rags like this also using the term alt-right which was coined by the fascist right to hide their extremism. It’s also a slur on alternative rock and the entire meaning of alternative. So, basically, for your own meager profit, you’re contributing to the sullying of a major band with a long history, and doing the work of fascists. Nice work.
Martin Gore has a wife and three kids. How is he gay?
depeche mode? good choice, but all we ethnic kekistanis and shitlords really need is our national anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YgZnkWtbbQ
#freekekistan
Duke sucks
who is this guy? never heard about him till the other day……..sounds no different then a BLM thug, just a different color hood.
Anyway we need to decide if we want to honor MLK or end his birthday since the last 8 years content of character was never applied to black people , and now it must.
Richard Spencer speaks only for Richard Spencer. Meanwhile Depeche Mode enjoys some free press.
“Exactly why Depeche Mode was selected as a favorite isn’t exactly clear. The band is clearly white, and the group did play around with fascist outfits back in the 80s. But clearly, this isn’t a group that has ever made a separatist statement.”
And clearly, it’s very clear, that this article, clearly, cleary clear.