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]
Historyedit
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]
^ abcMatthews, Dylan (6 May 2016). "Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained". Vox. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ abMartin, 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. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
^Hawley, George (2017). Making sense of the alt-right. New York. ISBN 978-0-231-54600-3. OCLC 990778368.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Grant, Drew (9 April 2012). "Taki's Mag Founder Speaks Out on John Derbyshire Race Controversy: 'It's Nice to Be Light Sometimes'". Observer. New York. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
^ abTheodoracopulos, Taki (19 July 2013). "Black Belts and Golden Dawn". Taki's Magazine. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
^ abRothschild, Mike (15 August 2018). "After Alex Jones, 4 Far-Right Voices Testing the Limits of Free Speech Online". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ abcdMatthews, Dylan (18 April 2016). "The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It's that, but way way weirder". Vox. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ abMatthew, Zoie (2019-10-03). "How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
^Bell, Matthew (2010-05-15). "What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more?". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
^ ab"Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review". Southern Poverty Law Center. August 16, 2012. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
^Gollner, Adam Leith (July–August 2021). "Original Sins". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
^Grant, Drew (2012-05-16). "To Slur, With Love: 'Ironic Racism' is More Than Just Taki". Observer. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
^ abRead, Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone, Max (2017-04-30). "Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2022-08-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Anti-Immigrant Center for Immigration Studies Continues to Promote White Nationalists". Southern Poverty Law Center. November 7, 2016. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
^Harkinson, Josh (October 27, 2016). "Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
^O'Connor, Meg. "Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
^Stahl, Jeremy (21 November 2016). "Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual"". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^Seiger, Theresa. "Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
^ abHartzell, 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.
^Marantz, Andrew (2017-07-06). "The Alt-Right Branding War Has Torn the Movement in Two". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
^Siegal, Jacob (November 29, 2016). "The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather". Tablet.
^"Alt Right: A Primer on the New White Supremacy | ADL". Anti-Defamation League. June 18, 2020. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
^Moffitt, Benjamin (2023-02-02). "What Was the 'Alt' in Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Alt-Left? On 'Alt' as a Political Modifier". Political Studies: 4. doi:10.1177/00323217221150871. ISSN 0032-3217. S2CID 256566202.
^"Alt-Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
^Byers, Dylan (7 April 2012). "National Review fires John Derbyshire". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^Davidson Sorkin, Amy (2012-04-09). "Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^Fisher, Max (2012-04-08). "The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^Wilson, Jason; Squire, Megan (February 18, 2022). "Prolific White Nationalist Personality Identified". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2022-08-14.