What Vox got wrong.
Jared Taylor has long struggled to find a proper label to describe American Renaissance’s viewpoint. He explains that its views were once common sense. In 1900, a man didn’t need a word to explain that he believed America and Europe should remain European anymore than he needed a word to express that he put his pants on one leg at a time. Over the last half century, the Left has chosen a number of pejoratives for us: white supremacist, racist, etc. The term white nationalist has its own baggage, and various thinkers and polemicists have come up with terms like identitarian and white advocate, which Mr. Taylor supports.
However, over the last year, another term has dominated the headlines: the Alt Right. The official organs of the conservative movement express horror over how this movement will, as one Commentary op-ed put it, single-handedly undermine William F. Buckley’s successful attempt to make sure conservatism is “taken seriously by the New York media and cultural elite” and will bring forth a “conservative dark age.”
Now Dylan Matthews of Vox has written a 5,000-word think piece trying to explain the Alt Right. Vox is a new publication founded by Ezra Klein, formerly of the Washington Post’s Wonk Blog. Upon launching Vox, Mr. Klein explained that its mission was to “explain the news” by “hiring journalists who really know the topics they cover” and who can therefore give “contextual information that traditional news stories aren’t designed to carry.” However, this usually amounts to regurgitating leftist academic theories and talking points with clickbait titles like “11 ways race isn’t real.” This has lead many to mock Vox’s supposed think pieces as “Voxplaining”–a play on the left-wing portmanteaus mansplaining and whitesplaining. ...
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