Stephen Bannon has called his Breitbart website “the platform for the alt-right” (Mother Jones, 8/22/16).
How does one go about providing a platform for a white supremacist movement?
One of Breitbart’s white supremacist’s constant themes is black violence and “Anti-White Racism: The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name” (4/26/16). There’s sometimes an emphasis on presenting white identity, or even white supremacy, as the victim of violence, as with “Video: Brutal Black-on-White Beating of Man with Confederate Flag Sticker” (4/11/15) or “Watch: Black Gang Members Attack KKK In South Carolina” (7/18/15).
Another Breitbart obsession is demographics and the fear of whites becoming a minority in the US, as expressed in articles like “Report: Minorities in US Will Outnumber Whites in 30 Years” (3/18/16) and “Census: More Minority Children Than Whites, More Whites Dying Than Being Born” (6/25/16).
Sometimes the endangered group is not just whites but explicitly Christian whites, as in “‘New American Century’: White Christians Now Minority” (11/23/15), which begins:
Four centuries after white Christians landed in Jamestown and settled what would later become America, a report reveals that white Christians are now a minority in the nation their forebearers settled.
Breitbart (1/8/15) highlighted a conspiratorial warning issued by British white nationalist Nigel Farage in “Watch: ‘Fifth Column Out to Destroy Our Whole Civilization,’ Says Farage”:
We’ve got to start being a bit more assertive about who we are and what our values are…. We come from countries with Christian culture and Christian constitutions and we’ve got to start standing up for that.
