LEAKED STEPHEN MILLER EMAILS TO BREITBART DIRECTED RACE, ANTI-IMMIGRANT NEWS COVERAGE

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https://www.newsweek.com/leaked-stephen-miller-emails-breitbart-white-nationalist-racist-anti-immigration-splc-1471279

Leaked emails from White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller from 2015-2016 reveal an obsession with white nationalism, the Confederacy and the denigration of black and Hispanic communities.

More than 900 private emails between Miller and Breitbart News were examined by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch section, revealing that 80 percent of the messages pertained to race or immigration. The emails sent between March 2015 and June 2016 straddle Miller's time as an aide to then-Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions and his later role on as a senior adviser for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign. Miller's emails tout eugenics and white nationalist conspiracy theories and offer news tips to Breitbart on how to cover immigration and amplify stories about black and Hispanic crime.

Katie McHugh, the former Breitbart editor who leaked the emails to Hatewatch, told the SPLC that "what Stephen Miller sent to me in those emails has become policy at the Trump administration." McHugh, who publicly renounced her alt-right ties and beliefs in an interview with Buzzfeed News, was fired from Breitbart in 2017 for an anti-Muslim tweet.

Miller's conversations with McHugh and the Breitbart editors show him suggesting story ideas as well as directing the right-wing publication on how to report anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim news narratives. The now-senior Trump administration adviser who has been instrumental in crafting the president's immigration policies delves into topics ranging from Central American refugees to Nazi literature.

 

[laughing dog]

This is confirmation of the obvious, in my opinion.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

So basically to appeal to much of Trump's base, you have to sell racism and xenophobia. But we can't say half of them are a basket of deplorables? Or can we?

This isn't intended as a whataboutism, but...part of a problem right now is echo chambers created by corporate greed to profit off niche markets of political opinion. Breitbart and Fox News WANT to spin. CNN is infotainment, too. If we could peek behind the scenes at emails there what would we see? Again, not a whataboutism because Obama didn't control CNN like Trump officials controlled Breitbart and gossip magazines.

But...open question is beyond electoral politics and the instant gratification of latest breaking news that Republicans are the bad guys. That is, exactly how do we get out of this mess? Is there a policy position, a lawsuit, anything to stop the Idiocracy?

 

[Elixir]

So basically to appeal to much of Trump's base, you have to sell racism and xenophobia. But we can't say half of them are a basket of deplorables? Or can we?

This isn't intended as a whataboutism, but...part of a problem right now is echo chambers created by corporate greed to profit off niche markets of political opinion. Breitbart and Fox News WANT to spin. CNN is infotainment, too. If we could peek behind the scenes at emails there what would we see? Again, not a whataboutism because Obama didn't control CNN like Trump officials controlled Breitbart and gossip magazines.

But...open question is beyond electoral politics and the instant gratification of latest breaking news that Republicans are the bad guys. That is, exactly how do we get out of this mess? Is there a policy position, a lawsuit, anything to stop the Idiocracy?

Racism is so deeply ingrained in this society that an Obama supporter can be turned into a Republican voter just by hearing his Uncle Billyjoejimbob referred to as "a deplorable", even if he or she is not racist him/herself. Hillary proved that quite vividly.

 

[blastula]

Old news. https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?19976-Stephen-Miller-and-white-nationalists