Breitbart writer caught running secret, virulently racist Facebook group [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Think Progress


The Young Right Society mocks terror victims and is full of vile racist content.
LUKE BARNES NOV 27, 2017, 1:46 PM

A Breitbart contributor has been revealed to be an administrator of a secret Facebook group where users regularly post virulently racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic content, as well as support for far-right groups.

Jack Hadfield, a third-year politics student at the University of Warwick in the U.K., has written more than 150 articles for Breitbart News, mainly focusing on technology. But in his spare time he runs the Facebook group Young Right Society (YRS), which has over 200 members and bills itself as “a place for those who are on the Right…to discuss politics, philosophy, and general Right-wing stuff with as little censorship or government intervention as possible.”

While a portion of YRS includes more moderate right-wingers, the British anti-fascism charity Hope Not Hate has discovered that it also serves as a platform for those who advocate fascism and white supremacy. One post for instance described Jo Cox, a Labour MP who was murdered by a far-right terrorist last year, as a “virtue-signaling, more-progressive-than-thou cunt.” Other members posted support of National Action, which in 2016 became the first neo-Nazi group to be put on the British Government’s List of proscribed terrorist organizations. One user on YRS posted a prison letter from National Action member Lawrence Burns, who was jailed for four years in 2017 for inciting racial hatred.

Several members of YRS are prominent figures among the U.K.’s far-right political movements. They include Colin Robertson, a Scottish white supremacist behind the popular YouTube channel “Millennial Woes,” and Jamie Ross McKenzie, chair of the youth wing of the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). One of the group’s moderators, Michael Brooks, has been pictured alongside Prime Minister Theresa May and Nigel Farage, while also advocating for white supremacy on YRS. Brooks wrote that the idea of a “white identitarian paramilitary organization known as the ‘white shirts’ sounds kinda cool,” and also stated that he was “14 and 88” – numbers which have special significance for white supremacists.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/a-breitbart-contributor-is-running-a-secret-far-right-facebook-group-1b68fc3ebfff/