Guys, I got cucked by Milo. Mike Force
In a post published to Slog on December 29, 2016, we identified Milo Yiannopoulos as a white nationalist in the headline: "White Nationalist Lands $250,000 Book Deal."
That headline was incorrect and it has been changed. Milo Yiannopoulos is not a white nationalist. He is a prominent figure in the alt-right movement. (Incidentally, he claims he doesn't identify as alt-right. But he's senior editor at Breitbart.com, which Stephen Bannon, former executive chairman of the blog, described as "a platform for the alt-right." In other words, Yiannopoulos claims he isn't in the circus, but to the outside observer, he is a ringleader.) Anyway, The Stranger regrets the error.
I’d like to go further, though, and say that the mistake is particularly embarrassing for me. Just last week, I urged readers to follow George Orwell’s advice in “Politics and the English Language.” Like Orwell, I think using precise language when talking about politics is critically important. The term “white nationalist” means something. It’s pretty simple. White nationalists dream of a white nation.
Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, which the Southern Poverty Law Center declares an “academic racist” organization, is a white nationalist.
"White nationalism calls for the establishment of a country exclusively for white people," German Lopez writes in Vox, "even if that means forcing people of other races to move but not necessarily be killed—what Spencer once called a “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”
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