Taki's Magazine

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Taki's Magazine
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Available inEnglish
Headquarters
United States
Owner Taki Theodoracopulos
EditorMandolyna Theodoracopulos
URL www.takimag.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Launched5 February 2007
Current statusactive

Taki's Magazine, called Takimag for short, is an online magazine of politics and culture published by the Greek paleoconservative [1] commentator and socialite Taki Theodoracopulos and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. It has published articles by far-right figures such as Gavin McInnes and the white supremacist Jared Taylor; the white supremacist Richard Spencer was an early Taki's editor. [2] [3] [4]

Initially called Taki's Top Drawer, the site was redesigned and relaunched under its current title in March 2008 with a subsequent redesign in 2010. [5] Taki's received criticism for publishing articles in support of the Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn. [1] [6] [7] [8]

History

Founded on 5 February 2007, the intent of the site, according to Theodoracopulos, was to "shake up the stodgy world of so-called 'conservative' opinion." [9] Theodoracopulos said: "Takimag is a libertarian webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life—lightly." [9] Theodoracopulos, a "New York society gadfly", [10] the playboy son of a Greek shipping magnate, and co-founder of The American Conservative , had been a controversial columnist in publications like The Spectator , and noted for his use of racial and ethnic slurs. [11] [12] [13] [10] [14] [15] Taki's Magazine drew note for its inclusion of white nationalist and white supremacist authors. [4] [16] Vox called it "openly racist" in 2016. [8] New York magazine in 2017 said Taki's appealed to "hepcat paleoconservatives and cosmopolitan racists". [15]

Taki's Magazine had Richard Spencer as its editor for about two years, through 2009; [8] [17] [18] [19] Spencer's tenure played a role in marshaling and naming what would eventually become the alt-right. [9] [20] [21] Using the headline "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right", Taki's under Spencer published a 2008 speech by Paul Gottfried to the H.L. Mencken Club, a group Gottfried had formed with Spencer's help that year. [22] [23] [24] [25] The magazine also began to use the phrase "alternative right" frequently in other articles about the development of a new, less neo-conservative, more racialist politics emerging in the conservative movement. [26] [22] [17] This term was later adopted and shortened to "alt-right". [17] [27]

John Derbyshire was fired by National Review in 2012 after he wrote a derogatory column for Taki's Magazine responding to "the talk" given by American black parents to their children. [28] [29] [30] [12]

Gavin McInnes' Taki's column, which began around 2011, made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [2] In 2016, McInnes announced on the Taki's website the founding of his neo-fascist street-fighting group the Proud Boys. [31] [32]

Taki's published articles by Theodoracopulos in support of the Greek neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn. [1] [6] [7] [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Matthews, Dylan (May 6, 2016). "Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained". Vox. Archived from the original on June 23, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Martin, Nick R. (October 19, 2018). "Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been using the same anti-gay slur hurled in the NYC attack for at least 15 years". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  3. ↑ Hawley, George (2017). Making sense of the alt-right. New York. ISBN   978-0-231-54600-3. OCLC   990778368. Archived from the original on August 25, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 1 2 "Taki's Magazine | Center on Extremism". Anti-Defamation League . Archived from the original on June 9, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  5. ↑ Grant, Drew (April 9, 2012). "Taki's Mag Founder Speaks Out on John Derbyshire Race Controversy: 'It's Nice to Be Light Sometimes'". Observer. New York. Archived from the original on July 5, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Theodoracopulos, Taki (July 19, 2013). "Black Belts and Golden Dawn". Taki's Magazine. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  7. 1 2 Rothschild, Mike (August 15, 2018). "After Alex Jones, 4 Far-Right Voices Testing the Limits of Free Speech Online". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Matthews, Dylan (April 18, 2016). "The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It's that, but way way weirder". Vox. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 "Taki's Magazine - Article Page". takimag.com. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  10. 1 2 Matthew, Zoie (October 3, 2019). "How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right". Los Angeles Magazine. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ Bell, Matthew (May 15, 2010). "What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more?". The Independent. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  12. 1 2 "Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review". Southern Poverty Law Center. August 16, 2012. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  13. ↑ Gollner, Adam Leith (July–August 2021). "Original Sins". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on February 4, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  14. ↑ Grant, Drew (May 16, 2012). "To Slur, With Love: 'Ironic Racism' is More Than Just Taki". Observer. Archived from the original on February 24, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  15. 1 2 Read, Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max (April 30, 2017). "Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ "Anti-Immigrant Center for Immigration Studies Continues to Promote White Nationalists". Southern Poverty Law Center. November 7, 2016. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  17. 1 2 3 Neiwert, David (2017). Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books. p. 236. ISBN   9781786634238.
  18. ↑ Harkinson, Josh (October 27, 2016). "Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  19. ↑ O'Connor, Meg. "Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys". Miami New Times. Archived from the original on October 1, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  20. ↑ Stahl, Jeremy (November 21, 2016). "Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual"". Slate Magazine. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  21. ↑ Seiger, Theresa. "Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  22. 1 2 Hartzell, Stephanie L. (2018). "Alt-White: Conceptualizing the "Alt-Right" as a Rhetorical Bridge between White Nationalism and Mainstream Public Discourse". Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. 8 (1/2): 17–19.
  23. ↑ Marantz, Andrew (July 6, 2017). "The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  24. ↑ Siegal, Jacob (November 29, 2016). "The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather". Tablet. Archived from the original on May 19, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy | ADL". Anti-Defamation League . June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  26. ↑ Moffitt, Benjamin (February 2, 2023). "What Was the 'Alt' in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On 'Alt' as a Political Modifier". Political Studies. 72 (3): 903–923. doi:10.1177/00323217221150871. ISSN   0032-3217. S2CID   256566202. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Alt-Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on July 11, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  28. ↑ Byers, Dylan (April 7, 2012). "National Review fires John Derbyshire". POLITICO. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  29. ↑ Davidson Sorkin, Amy (April 9, 2012). "Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  30. ↑ Fisher, Max (April 8, 2012). "The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
  31. ↑ Wilson, Jason; Squire, Megan (February 18, 2022). "Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on July 9, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  32. ↑ Kriner, Matthew; Lewis, Jon. "Pride & Prejudice: The Violent Evolution of the Proud Boys". CTC Sentinel . 14 (6). Combating Terrorism Center: 26+.
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