Is Breitbart.com Fighting to Be the Media Arm of the White Nationalist Alt-Right?
This is the same evolution that we’ve seen take hold in Europe the past two decades - new words, new catechisms, and new leaders are all how the elder white nationalists in Europe gained a grip on a new generation.
They’ve learned that outright tribal supremacist and racist talk is toxic, and they now couch their philosophy by positively espousing identity, isolationism, nationalism, and neo-facist mantras to tow along the old hard core racists while cultivating the next generation of White identists.
The leaders of this philosophical and strategic shift are writers like Alain de Benoist of France’s “Novelle Droite”. (It’s quite educational to read his wiki page.)
Stephen at Hatewatch notes the moves in this direction that Breitbart is making:
Since its founding in 2007, Breitbart News Network has grown to become one of the most popular news outlets on the right.
Over the past year however, the outlet has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenants making up an emerging racist ideology known as the “Alt-Right.”
The Alt-Right is a loose set of far-right ideologies at the core of which is a belief that “white identity” is under attack through policies prioritizing multiculturalism, political correctness and social justice and must be preserved, usually through white-identified online communities and physical ethno-states.
The Alt-Right has received a lot of mainstream media attention over the past six months or so with media outlets such as the Washington Post and the National Review covering the subject.
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