Ben Shapiro: Breitbart Is Now A “Feces Tornado”

Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro yesterday declared that their already-infamous “renegade Jew” headline is just one more example of what the site has become since his resignation. He writes:

I’ve made my thoughts on Breitbart clear before. But since my departure, they’ve become something far worse than Trump’s Pravda – they’ve become a cite that openly panders to alt-right anti-Semitism and soft white supremacism (as Milo assures us, “There are many things that separate the alternative right from old-school racist skinheads (to whom they are often idiotically compared), but one thing stands out above all else: intelligence”). This began in the pro-Trump comment section at Breitbart while I was there; now, it’s filtered up. It’s gotten so bad that even Jack Hunter, former paleoconservative, has written how the alt-right supported by Breitbart “turns you into a racist asshole”; he writes, “It’s a movement that is perpetually somewhere between race-obsessed and explicitly racist – with pride.”

Breitbart ran Hunter’s piece so its editorial team can claim that it’s an open forum – they don’t back the alt-right, they just give it a space to riot. That’s the same routine the Trump campaign does. Instead of rejecting racism and anti-Semitism, they pooh-pooh it, claiming that those who oppose such vile material are simply close-minded. In reality, they don’t oppose the anti-Semites or the racists. They’re more than happy to take their clicks (Breitbart) or their support (Trump) if it gets them where they want to go.

My God, Breitbart has become such a feces tornado.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 16, 2016