The campaign and subsequent election of President Donald Trump have made hate groups and words more mainstream. And Breitbart News seems to be attempting to assimilate, too.
Steve Bannon, former head of Breitbart before being tapped as Trump’s chief strategist, previously described the publication as “the platform for the alt-right.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the alternative right, oralt-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.” SPLC adds that “racist ideas, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas all key tenets making up [this] emerging racist ideology.”
Some of Breitbart’s headlines under Bannon’s leadership include “Planned Parenthood’s Body Count Under Cecile Richards Is Up To Half A Holocaust,” “Sympathy For The Devils: The Plot Against Roger Ailes And America,” “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew” and “Hoist it High and Proud: the Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage” written two weeks after the mass killing of Black parishioners at a church in Charleston last year.
