White Supremacist Conference Returns to State Park

Alt-righters assemble! The white supremacist American Renaissance Conference is set to return to Montgomery Bell State Park for the sixth year in a row.

In 2012, the Scene attended the first AmRen conference held in the park for a weekend of pseudo-intellectualism and rationalization for a belief system that is overtly racist.

Now, with a fresh roster of guest speakers and a "sold-out" reservation list, AmRen is ready for its July 28 descent on the park. If you manage to register for the conference, you'll be required to wear a suit jacket and tie, because leaving the bedsheets at home somehow makes you less horrible than the KKK.

Here are a few of this year's speakers:

Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow is the author of the somewhat premature The Trump Report Card — So Far and founder/editor of VDARE.com, which was classified as a white nationalist hate group by the SPLC in 2003. His 1995 book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster criticized post-1965 American immigration policy, and may be a focus point for his speech. Mr. Brimelow was also an acknowledgement in right-wing poltergeist Ann Coulter's 2015 book.

John Derbyshire

After being ousted from the National Review in 2012 for writing a nonsensically racist column about the dangers African-Americans pose to white Americans, John Derbyshire went to work for Peter Brimelow at VDARE. Derbyshire has authored a number of books covering topics from politics to mathematics. His most notable accomplishment, however, was getting roundhouse-kicked in the face by Bruce Lee in 1972's Return of the Dragon (he's in the striped shirt).

Julian Langness 

Author of Fistfights With Muslims in Europe: One Man’s Journey Through Modernity — an actual book — Julian Langness traveled through Europe as a young man and apparently got into so many fist fights with Muslim immigrants, he thought it'd make a great read. 

Helmuth Nyborg 

Helmuth Nyborg is probably best known for his claim that men have an average 5-point IQ advantage over women. We would offer as a counterpoint to Mr. Nyborg's theory the Jackass collection of films. 

Sam Dickson 

Dickson has had a long career of defending KKK members in court and has also been a longtime Holocaust denier. Dickson also wrote an essay calling Abraham Lincoln "a brutal dictator," and blaming him for the Civil War. In the same essay, he also argued for maintaining slavery, at least until better technology could replace it.