I’ve spend some part of the day turning this over in my mind.

I think there has been plenty of evidence brought forward here, over the past several months, that Spencer is indeed associated with fascist groups.

I was stunned, however, to see him joining this facebook group. What a vile place that is, and what senseless thing for Spencer to do!

The question that bothered me today was this - was the joining of this group accidental, or was it deliberate?

Spencer says “accidental” - he did not pay attention to what he was saying “yes” to. So, I will assume that he was unaware of all that this group espouses.

And then I proceed to the next telling point - what was it that these people saw in Spencer to begin with that led them to believe he was a kindred spirit?

They had to have seen the same thing that has been discussed here for many months, his associations with fascist groups. Seeing as how vile that facebook group is, I can’t imagine they would want to bring unfavorable attention to themselves. So “invitations” to join would not be sent to just anyone, but only to those who would appear to be sympathetic to their “cause”. Therefore, the group, or someone in it, had to have seen some sort of indication of alignment between themselves and Spencer’s written views as well as his associations, or the “invitation” to join would not have been sent. And for me, this is just as damning as it would have been if Spencer had admitted to joining the group with full knowledge of what they were.

As to Spencer’s charges that he was “set up” - those have been addressed with great eloquence by others here.

Any way I look at it, I see a person, for whom I once had much respect, who is willing to compromise important principles to gain attention, and who seems to have become just like those who he writes against.