Saturday, October 07, 2017

Buzzfeed reveals how Breitbart not only panders to racists, but how they made them an integral part of the organization.

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: 

The Breitbart employee closest to the alt-right was Milo Yiannopoulos, the site’s former tech editor known best for his outrageous public provocations, such as last year’s Dangerous Faggot speaking tour and September’s canceled Free Speech Week in Berkeley. For more than a year, Yiannopoulos led the site in a coy dance around the movement’s nastier edges, writing stories that minimized the role of neo-Nazis and white nationalists while giving its politer voices “a fair hearing.” In March, Breitbart editor Alex Marlow insisted “we’re not a hate site.” Breitbart’s media relations staff repeatedly threatened to sue outlets that described Yiannopoulos as racist. And after the violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Breitbart published an article explaining that when Bannon said the site welcomed the alt-right, he was merely referring to “computer gamers and blue-collar voters who hated the GOP brand.” 

These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream. 

It’s a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings “America the Beautiful” in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes. 

These documents chart the Breitbart alt-right universe. They reveal how the website — and, in particular, Yiannopoulos — links the Mercer family, the billionaires who fund Breitbart, to underpaid trolls who fill it with provocative content, and to extremists striving to create a white ethnostate. 

They capture what Bannon calls his “killing machine” in action, as it dredges up the resentments of people around the world, sifts through these grievances for ideas and content, and propels them from the unsavory parts of the internet up to TrumpWorld, collecting advertisers’ checks all along the way. 

And the cache of emails — some of the most newsworthy of which BuzzFeed News is now making public — expose the extent to which this machine depended on Yiannopoulos, who channeled voices both inside and outside the establishment into a clear narrative about the threat liberal discourse posed to America. The emails tell the story of Steve Bannon’s grand plan for Yiannopoulos, whom the Breitbart executive chairman transformed from a charismatic young editor into a conservative media star capable of magnetizing a new generation of reactionary anger. Often, the documents reveal, this anger came from a legion of secret sympathizers in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, academia, suburbia, and everywhere in between.

This is only a small portion of a much larger article, that is.....well repulsive actually.

The article also disproves Breitbart's contention that they are not truly an outlet for racism and a home to neo-Nazis.

They are.

And keep in mind the editor of this online dumpster fire was an adviser to the man sitting in the Oval Office, and in fact remains an adviser to this day.

9 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:49 AM

    Hey Milo, you sing terribly.

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    1. Anonymous5:32 AM

      And he has an ugly soul.

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  2. Anonymous5:46 AM

    Very very bad boys.

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  3. Anonymous5:46 AM

    And lousy actors.

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  4. Anonymous5:53 AM

    Oh yes indeed many of us kept in mind who is/was advising "The Moron" a "Useful Idiot" for russia interest for years now. Gamers bots and alts have played a very dangerous game globally. Morons and Useful idiots lost.

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  5. Anonymous6:01 AM

    Mueller is having a singing contest. Could paddock be the accountant for the mercee brightfart bannon and the toxic waste drumpf?

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  6. Anonymous7:54 AM

    Rapist tOO!
    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/michigan-judge-grants-joint-custody-to-child-rapist-after-food-stamp-inquiry-connects-him-to-victim/

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  7. Anonymous8:13 AM

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitchell-sunderland-fired-from-vice_us_59d7d792e4b0f6eed3503693?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    "Sunderland sent Yiannopoulos a link to an article by the author Lindy West and told him,
    “Please mock this fat feminist.”" aka FUCK 'this fat feminist'

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  8. ericafromdallas11:03 AM

    I was invited one night to One Nostalgia Place Tavern. The people were so offensive that I never went back.They were a bunch of really drunk rednecks. As you can see from the audience they seem to enjoy the Hitler salute. It is a dumpy bar that somebdy that thought it would be well recieved would want to enter.

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