These wealthy institutions are quietly financing white nationalism

[Judi Lynn]

Organizations that claim to serve the public good are enriching Robert Mercer.
JUDD LEGUM

DANIELLE MCLEAN
OCT 19, 2017, 8:42 AM

The connection between Breitbart, a far-right website, and the white nationalist movement was hardly a secret. Steve Bannon, who served as Executive Chairman of the publication before and after serving as Trump’s chief strategist, called Breitbart “the platform for the alt-right,” a euphemism for white nationalists and their sympathizers. These extreme, bigoted viewpoints are frequently reflected in the site’s writing, which has included anti-immigrant screeds, sensationalized reporting of “black crime,” and other fringe viewpoints and conspiracy theories.

But a recent exposé published by BuzzFeed News revealed in stunning detail Breitbart’s deep connection and collaboration with white nationalists.

Emails obtained by BuzzFeed showed that a sympathetic article by Milo Yiannopoulos on the “alt-right” was actually a collection of thoughts Yiannopoulos solicited from avowed racists — including prominent neo-Nazi Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer and white nationalist editor Devin Saucier — and synthesized by a ghost writer. Yiannopoulos then sent the draft back to Saucier — author of “Why I Am (Among Other Things) a White Nationalist” — who provided line-by-line edits. Breitbart’s top editors, including Bannon, mostly embraced the product of this collaboration, advising Yiannopoulos only to smooth out some of the most blatantly racist passages. After Yiannapoulos partially complied, Breitbart published it.

Yiannopoulos regularly sent his work to Saucier for feedback, according to the emails. He freely discussed the importance, while collaborating with racists, not to be branded one himself. “I have been struggling with this. I need to stay, if not clean, then clean enough,” Yiannopoulos wrote after an acquaintance advised him to avoid being identified as a white supremacist.

More:
https://thinkprogress.org/these-wealthy-institutions-are-quietly-financing-white-nationalism-5313db89b185/

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Your excerpt doesn't articulate the crux of the article. Good reference, nonetheless.

Take a look at the rest of the article, folks.

[brush]

2. I just don't get the white supremacy thing. What is their need to feel superior?

And where does it come from?

IMO it's unnatural and has resulted in quite a lot of blood on their hands.

[Raster]

3. "...if not clean, then clean enough..."

...that is, clean enough to be able to pass as somewhat of a decent human being, if necessary. Give it up, Milo. You're not clean nor decent. Fact is, you're barely human.

And the Mercers* and Renaissance Technologies... the font from which all of the money and power for the white nationalist movement emanates. Too many people, too many institutions turn a very blind eye to the NEFARIOUS FUCKING DEEDS of the Mercer* family because of course, it's profitable.

PERSONAL OPINION: DIE Robert Mercer*... painfully, please. No white lights. No feels of oneness. Just painful darkness and endless black, cold void. Die, Robert Mercer.