Is Breitbart.com Fighting to Be the Media Arm of the White Nationalist Alternative Right? (SPLC)

[inanna]

Stephen Piggott
April 28, 2016

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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Breitbart has always given a platform to parts of the radical right, most notably elements of the organized anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant movements. Breitbart has also organized conferences featuring nativist speakers and published op-eds and interviews with movement leaders. But since 2015, Breitbart began publishing more overtly racist diatribes about Muslims and immigrants.

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Link: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/28/breitbartcom-fighting-be-media-arm-white-nationalist-alternative-right

[nxylas]

1. I think the Alt-Right is slightly more than just white "nationalists"

It's any privileged group fighting equality, whether it's men's rights activists, dominionist Christianity or whatever. Of course, these movements are closely allied, and I'm guessing there's a strong overlap between their members.

[Gothmog]

2. Brietbart is not a real news organization and so the OP makes sense

[Blue_Tires]

3. They weren't that already?

[Doctor_J]

4. Fighting against whom?

There can't be much competition for that spot