Paul Ray Ramsey (also known as ramzpaul and RamZPaul, born 1963) is an American

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

vlogger,

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personality, and public speaker. ''

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'' has described Ramsey as a "popular

alt-right The alt-right (abbreviated from alternative right) is a Far-right politics, far-right, White nationalism, white nationalist movement. A largely Internet activism, online phenomenon, the alt-right originated in the United States during the late ...

internet personality", and the Swiss newspaper ''

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'' identified him as an important representative of the alt-right.

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, ''

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'', and the

Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white ...

have called Ramsey a

white nationalist White nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a Race (human categorization), raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks. "Chapter 7: White nationalism in America". In Perry, Barbara ...

. He spoke at the 2013 conference held by the online magazine ''American Renaissance''. Ramsey replied to a question posed by Matthew Heimbach at the conference about the creation of a whites only state: "We need to Balkanize and create our own homeland. We have a right to exist."

Activities

Ramsay began pseudonymously posting YouTube videos under the handle RamZPaul starting in 2009. He posted humorous video rants. By 2016, Ramsay had added a larger amount of explicitly

content to his channel, such as the

Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory "Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness. ...

. In November 2016, Ramsey was a featured speaker at a conference held by the white supremacist

National Policy Institute The National Policy Institute (NPI) was a white supremacist think tank and lobbying group based in Alexandria, Virginia. It lobbied for white supremacists and the alt-right. Its president was Richard B. Spencer. It has been largely inactive ...

(NPI). The NPI was founded by Richard B. Spencer, who also is generally credited with coining the term ''alt-right''. After video emerged of several conference attendees giving the Nazi salute during a speech by Spencer, Ramsey disassociated himself from the NPI founder, as well as the term ''alt-right'', saying, "You don't want to tie your brand to something that's ultimate evil." Ramsey was listed as a speaker for the 2018 Awakening conference in Helsinki, a self-described "

ethno-nationalist Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnostate/ethnocratic) approach to variou ...

" conference.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramsey, Paul Ray 1963 births Living people American white nationalists Critics of multiculturalism American YouTube vloggers YouTubers from Chicago