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White Nationalist Shouted Down At UF Speech

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White-nationalist Richard Spencer brought his “alt-right” movement to the University of Florida Thursday, calling America a “white country,” but his message was drowned out. Attempting to speak over the derisive shouts and chants from a diverse and hostile crowd at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Spencer and others attempted to preach about what they called the failure of diversity and the success of identity politics. But the perpetual heckling quashed much of the dialogue, angering Spencer, who mocked the university students throughout his remarks. “You think that you shut me down, but you didn't. You even failed in your own game,” Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, told the crowd before departing. “The world is going to look at this event and the world is going to have a very different impression … and the world is not going to be proud of you.” Mike “Enoch” Peinovich, host of The Right Stuff podcast, told the crowd that their chants and actions “is the

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