I gotta call bullsh*t on this. I don’t agree with Spencer’s stance but a gym is a public place and if he’s not engaging people with his politics, but being harassed, well that’s not right. He’s got the same right as anyone to sweat on the thighmaster machine, just as long as he wipes it down after use per policy – PB/TK
Richard Spencer, Confronted Over Alt-Right Views, is Expelled From Gym – By Tom Porter / May 22 2017
White nationalist ideologue Richard Spencer had his membership at an Alexandria gym terminated after he was confronted and branded a “Nazi” by a professor.
C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, said she was working out at Old Town Sport & Health on Wednesday when she spotted Spencer, president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute.
Describing the encounter in an online posting, she wrote that she approached him and he initially denied his identity.
“I exploited the full range of my first amendment entitlements by telling him that this country does not belong to white men. As a white woman, I find his membership at this gym to be unacceptable. I found his membership at this gym to be an unfair burden upon the women and people of color–and white male allies of the same. I also loudly identified him as a neo-Nazi,” she wrote.
Continue to newsweek.com article: http://www.newsweek.com/richard-spencer-confronted-professor-over-alt-right-views-and-expelled-gym-613194
