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

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'' has described Ramsey as a "popular alt-right internet personality", and the Swiss newspaper ''

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

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'', and the

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have called Ramsey a

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. He spoke at the 2013 conference held by the white supremacist online magazine ''American Renaissance''. Ramsey replied to a question posed by

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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." According to journalist , Ramsey uses comedy to convey a far-right message.

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 alt-right content to his channel, such as the

Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory The term "Cultural Marxism" refers to a far-right antisemitic conspiracy theory which claims that Western Marxism is the basis of continuing academic and intellectual efforts to subvert Western culture. The conspiracy theory misrepresents the ...

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

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(NPI). The NPI was founded by

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, 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 "

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" conference.

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