How 'New Right' Media Fell In Love With Kanye West
How 'New Right' Media Fell In Love With Kanye West
By Jared Holt | April 23, 2018 3:55 pm
This weekend, so-called “New Right” media personalities fell in love with rapper Kanye West after he praised Candace Owens, the communications director at the youth-oriented Turning Point USA, who exists as a prominent “New Right” voice in conservative social media circles.
Last week, West returned from an almost year-long hiatus from Twitter and began posting a mix of mysticism epiphanies, self-help messages, and album announcements. On Saturday, West praised Owens:
That tweet is all it took for right-wing media to fall for Kanye.
West’s positive tweet about Owens surprised many in the media and angered some of his liberal fans, who may know Owens from her days using the moniker “Red Pill Black”—which plays off terminology popularized on alt-right and men’s rights forum boards—and appearing on fringe outlets like Infowars, where she has denied the existence of systemic racism and claimed that white supremacists don’t exist.
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist leading Infowars, said that he admired West’s “bold moves against the thought police” and invited him on his show, promising him that it would make “these control-freak vampires really go crazy.” Jones also apologized to West for assuming he was “a Democrat and a globalist.”
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