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Just stuff from different sources.
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Steve Bannon: “Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.”
“Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely.”
“I do not believe we have a major race problem in this country. I just don’t.”***
from Karen Hunter’s program on SiriusXM radio in July, Bannon denied systemic racism too. How? Well using his own life experience, of course:
I don’t think it’s a systemic race problem in this country … My own life experience. I’ve just seen in communities like Richmond, Virginia and in the United States military when I was a naval officer … I don’t see systemic racism in the military. I don’t see systemic racism in these communities.”
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Then he went on to localize that fun thing that white people say when they note that President Obama is black, as though that means everything is fixed: “Cities like Richmond and Baltimore and Philadelphia have black mayors, have black city councils, have black police commissioners. How can it be systemically racist if these men and women today are actually in control of the city?”
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Here is a sampling of some articles published during Mr. Bannon’s tenure that drew criticism:
• “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” A December 2015 article by Milo Yiannopoulos, who was later barred from Twitter when he was accused of inciting racist and sexist attacks on the actress Leslie Jones, told women that birth control “makes you fat,” “makes your voice unsexy,” “makes you jiggle wrong,” “makes you a slut” and “makes you unsexy all the time.”
• “Roger Stone: Huma Abedin ‘Most Likely a Saudi Spy’ With ‘Deep, Inarguable Connections’ to ‘Global Terrorist Entity’” A June 2016 article by Dan Riehl chronicled the belief of Mr. Stone, a Trump adviser, that Ms. Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, was connected to a terrorist conspiracy.
• “There’s No Hiring Bias Against Women in Tech, They Just Suck at Interviews” A July 2016 article by Mr. Yiannopoulos argued that it was women’s fault that tech firms hired so few of them.
• “The Solution to Online ‘Harassment’ Is Simple: Women Should Log Off” A July 2016 article by Mr. Yiannopoulos argued that women were “screwing up the internet for men by invading every space we have online and ruining it with attention-seeking and a needy, demanding, touchy-feely form of modern feminism.”
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Bannon also argued that “the progressive narrative … is all about victimhood,” and suggested that the push for equal rights for minorities is about unfairly claiming they were being oppressed. According to BuzzFeed, Bannon said, They’re either a victim of race. They’re victim of their sexual preference. They’re a victim of gender. All about victimhood and the United States is the great oppressor, not the great liberator.
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Then, according to The Hill, there was the more recent article, written about Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, which he titled, “Bill Kristol: Republican spoiler, renegade Jew.” Some have argued, of course, that Yiannopoulos, not Bannon, should be the only criticized for these pieces (and, uh, to be clear, he totally should), but according to Vanity Fair, Bannon was behind Yiannopoulos all the way, and told the magazine, “did you hear about Milo? It’s great.”
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But while Bannon seems to consider himself separate from anyone identifying as a racist, according to NBC News, in a sworn declaration in a 2007 court filing, Bannon’s ex-wife accused him of making anti-Semitic comments about their daughters’ private school, The Archer School for Girls. According to the document, Bannon said, “…the biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend. He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiney brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.” In a tweet Sunday, John Weaver, former chief strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign, took Bannon to task, calling him a “racist” and an “anti-Semite.” But Bannon’s rep denied that he made any anti-Semitic remarks, and told NBC “Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school educations.” (Romper’s request for comment was not immediately returned.)
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On charges of anti-Semitism from former Breitbart editor-at-large Ben Shapiro “Are there anti-Semitic people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. But I don’t believe that the movement overall is anti-Semitic.”
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The Southern Poverty Law Center Has Described Breitbart as Being on the ‘Extremist Fringe’
Trump campaign CEO and former executive chairman of Breitbart News Steve Bannon arrives for the Wisconsin rally. The center, which tracks hate groups in the country, labeled Breitbart part of the “extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘alt-right.’” The SPLC defined the alt-right as “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.”***
Mother Jones says Breitbart has cheered “white nationalist groups as an ‘eclectic mix of renegades,’ accusing President Barack Obama of importing ‘more hating Muslims,’ and waging an incessant war against the purveyors of ‘political correctness.’” Mother Jones quoted Bannon as denying the alt-right is “inherently racist. He describes its ideology as ‘nationalist,’ though not necessarily white nationalist.” Mother Jones said he compared the Alt-Right to European nationalist parties and said, “If you look at the identity movements over there in Europe, I think a lot of [them] are really ‘Polish identity’ or ‘German identity,’ not racial identity. It’s more identity toward a nation-state.”
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Under Bannon’s Leadership, Breitbart Openly Embraced The White Supremacist Alt-Right. Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with Yiannopoulos pushing white ethno-nationalism as a legitimate response to political correctness, and the comment section turning into a cesspool for white supremacist mememakers.
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Daily Wire editor-in-chief, former Breitbart editor, and vocal Bannon critic Ben Shapiro called the claims that Bannon is racist “overstated,” he noted that Bannon has nonetheless courted the alt-right and the anti-Semitism and racism that go along with it, and he will do so as long as it serves his purposes: “The alt-right, in a nutshell, believes that Western culture is inseparable from European ethnicity. I have no evidence Bannon believes that personally. But he’s happy to pander to those people and make common cause with them in order to transform conservatism into European far-right nationalist populism. That means that the alt-right will cheer Bannon along as he marbles Trump’s speeches with talk of “globalism” — and that Bannon won’t be pushing Trump to dump the racists and anti-Semites who support Trump anytime soon. After all, they love Bannon — actual white supremacists like Peter Brimelow called his August appointment “great news,” and Richard Spencer explained, “Breitbart has elective affinities with the Alt Right, and the Alt Right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to Alt Right ideas and writers. I don’t think it has done this deliberately; again, it’s a matter of elective affinities.” That doesn’t mean Bannon will push racist or anti-Semitic policy, or that he’ll be anti-Israel himself — unless it serves his interests.”
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Bannon: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.” While Bannon didn’t explicitly say anything against immigrants, he seemed to hint at the idea of a white nationalist identity with the phrase “civic society.”
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In the wake of Trump’s election, the number of racist and anti-Semitic attacks across the nation has exploded, a fact many experts attribute to the “normalizing effect” of Trump’s bigoted campaign rhetoric, a sort of, “Well, if the president of the United States can say it, why can’t I?” Bannon appears to support an ideal of America that he calls a “civic society,” with Judeo-Christian values and implicitly white, European roots. In a recently unearthed tape of Trump appearing on Bannon’s radio show, the future White House strategist questioned why so many South Asians were working in Silicon Valley. The economic benefits of such highly skilled immigrants, Bannon told Trump, do not outweigh the negative impact on what Bannon incorrectly labeled American “civic society.”
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Here are headlines about diversity and multiculturalism from Breitbart.com that have been posted under Bannon’s leadership as the site’s executive chairman:
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ME: anyway enough for now.
David Horowitz (a Jew) wrote that article. A Jew writing about another Jew is not anti-Semitic, and it doesn’t make Bannon anti-Semitic by virtue of transitive property.
I know. I never said he was anti-semitic. He has been accused of that, but I think of him more as a typical hard right catholic type (of a kind with which I am very familiar) who is going to be more clueless about these kinds of issues than overtly bigoted, even in his own mind. He is actually very similar to our governor (LePage).
And at the same time I believe HIM, though, when he says that the alt.right definitely includes anti-semitic sentiment (from my post above, Bannon speaking:) “Are there anti-Semitic people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. But I don’t believe that the movement overall is anti-Semitic.”
Did you read it? It’s largely tongue-in-cheek, but it also cites relevant scientific sources to make its salient point about why feminists are miserable. And it’s written by a gay man. The comments that follow are all made with those facts in mind, and there’s no outrage over it. See, this is the problem with re-posting article titles without offering any commentary on the substance. It’s meant to generate discussion, to offer some humor, and to generate readership. I found nothing wrong with the article as a whole, but I’m sure there are people who could cherry-pick a sentence or two out of it and start a protest. lol.
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