02-24-2017, 05:07 PM
(02-24-2017, 01:24 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: > But would you at least admit that since Andrew died, and others
> took it over, Breitbart has become a de facto "ministry of
> propaganda" for the Alt-Right loons?
(02-24-2017, 01:36 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: > You DO realize he posts articles to Breitbart, right? Says he
> knows Bannon personally? Why would he do such a thing?
(02-24-2017, 03:57 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: > I realize it. However, he has claimed when I challenged him
> earlier to not be an Alt-Right moonbat. So if he's not an
> Alt-Right moonbat, he should actually care about the fact that
> Breitbart has been ruined by the Alt-Right moonbats.
When I started cross-posting on Breitbart in 2010, I quickly became
extremely upset about the hate-filled comments targeting Muslims that
my articles received, and I got into some pretty depressing arguments
with some of these people. I wrote an article about it at the time:
** American xenophobia on the Left and on the Right
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e101107
In addition, I decided that I really had to know if Andrew Breitbart,
who was still alive at the time, felt the same way, because I felt I
couldn't have anything to do with the Breitbart site if so. So I
requested an interview with Breitbart to ask him some general
questions about the web site and news, but my real hidden purpose was
to find out his attitude towards Muslims. Long story short, I was
completely reassured. My article on that interview is still available
on my web site:
** 1-Jan-11 News -- Andrew Breitbart: Even Muslims are afraid to stand up to Islamists
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e110101
So when the mainstream media criticizes Breitbart, they fail to
distinguish between the articles and comments. I don't read many of
the articles on Breitbart, but I'm not aware of any that are "white
supremacist" or that target hate messages at Muslims. In fact, most
of the articles are straight news stories; I'm one of the few
analysts.
However, now I want to distinguish between hate comments directed at
Muslims and blacks. Although there have been hundreds of comments to
my articles directed against Muslims, I don't believe that there have
been even a dozen that could be described as racist towards blacks.
Even when the commenters are describing Obama, they'll frequent use
words like Obummer or Ozero, but only a couple of times have I seen
anything that refers to race.
So I would have to reject the claim that the Breitbart site is "white
supremacist," even in the comments. And of course, I've never heard
from Steve Bannon any sign of white supremacy or hate directed at
blacks or Muslims.
You asked about "since Andrew died," with the implication that things
changed after he died. From my point of view, there was no change at
all. The reason that I asked to interview Andrew was a reaction to
all the hate-filled comments directed at Muslims. After he died,
things continued in the same way.
In fact, I think the volume of such comments has actually been going
down over time, and I can't prove this, but I believe that I've had a
significant effect on the commenters. As you know, I tend to take on
critics fairly aggressively, depending on my available time and my
mood on a given day. On such days when my mood is right, I make it
clear that these people are idiots, and I provide facts and links to
back that up. These people really have absolutely no clue what's
going on in the world anyway, so it's really not that hard.
I know that I've changed the minds of some of these commenters, and
I've seen many others come and go, so I know that I've had some
effect, and that at least they know that if they're going to be stupid
bigots, then they should pick on someone else.
