Paul Ray Ramsey is an American vlogger, YouTube personality and public speaker. The New York Times has described Ramsey as a "popular alt-right internet personality", and the Swiss newspaperBasellandschaftliche Zeitung identified him as one of the nine most important representatives of the alt-right. Media Matters for America, The Forward and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called Ramsey a white nationalist. He spoke at the 2013 conference held by the white supremacist online magazineAmerican 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." According to journalist, Ramsey uses comedy to convey a far-right message. Ramsey stoked controversy when he joked about Kelly Marie Tran's weight and her Asian heritage in a 2017 tweet referencing the actress's appearance as Rose Tico in the movie . He drew ire and ridicule on April Fools day in 2019 when he opined in a tweet, "Shaking hands with a woman is like shaking hands with a child", and is "artificial and vaguely patronizing"; and subsequently posted a video on the same subject.
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Ramsay began pseudonomously posting Youtube videos under the handle RamZPaul starting in 2009. He posted humorous, rambling video rants. By 2013, he had accumulated over 5 million views. At this point, Ramsay's transgressive humor kept his exact views murkey. At the same time, he was posting racist content on the white supremacist websites Stormfront and Vanguard News Network. By 2016, Ramsay had added a larger amount of explicitly alt-right content to his channel, including the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and criticism of feminism. In November 2016, Ramsey was a featured speaker at a conference held by the white supremacist National Policy Institute. 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." In December 2017, Ramsey announced that his videos would be available on The Unz Review, through a partnership with Ron Unz.
