{"id":95079,"date":"2016-05-06T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95079"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T18:15:26","slug":"jack-hunter-anatomy-of-a-cuckening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95079","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hunter: Anatomy Of A Cuckening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milo writes<\/a>: Former Rand Paul staffer Jack Hunter ran a lengthy piece in the Daily Beast this week, criticizing me for co-authoring an explainer on the alt-right that wasn\u2019t, as every other journalist\u2019s attempt to chronicle the movement has been, a pointless collection of faux-outraged virtue-signalling.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t normally respond when a Left-wing outlet cries \u201cracist,\u201d of course. That\u2019s what they exist to do. But Hunter\u2019s odd mixture of hero-worship and playing to the progressive gallery caught my eye. I\u2019m intrigued by the bizarre tone of the hit job \u2014 at once slavishly admiring and superficially damning.<\/p>\n

In the piece, he writes that he is \u201cdisturbed\u201d by an auditorium full of energetic, mischievous students at one of my events chanting, \u201cCuck!\u201d His headline and subhead also accuse me \u2014 somewhat laughably \u2014 of being the \u201cface\u201d of a racist hate movement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably the first time that a face that\u2019s enjoyed such close relations with America\u2019s black population has been labelled a racist anything. Trust me, alt-right hardliners don\u2019t like me any more than they like the Republican establishment or Hillary: I\u2019m a degenerate, race-mixing gay Jew, and they don\u2019t let me forget it!<\/p>\n

That is to say, I\u2019m a chronicler of, and occasional fellow traveller with, the alt-right. But I\u2019m certainly no ringleader.<\/p>\n

Although Hunter\u2019s piece is gracious in tone, it\u2019s still an attempted takedown. And even though Hunter sucks my metaphorical member enthusiastically throughout, and was full of effusive praise on Twitter \u2014 he\u2019s understandably jumpy about me coming for him \u2014 I believe that a cursory examination of the editorial, and its author, will prove instructive.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t familiar with Jack Hunter before reading the piece, of course, but after doing a little research into his past, Hunter\u2019s motivations have become painfully obvious.<\/p>\n

The career of Jack Hunter presents observers with the ultimate cautionary tale for robust young right-wingers who get caught saying stuff their friends in the media don\u2019t like, and then dedicate the rest of their lives to bending and scraping to political correctness in a panicky and desperate attempt to retain social acceptability.<\/p>\n

Hunter, you see, has a past. He attracted scandal, and was expelled from his position as an aide to Senator Rand Paul, after his background as pseudonymous radio host \u201cThe Southern Avenger\u201d came to light in 2013.<\/p>\n

As The Southern Avenger, Hunter wore a wrestling mask in the colours of the Confederate Flag and cracked jokes about tying the President of the NAACP to a tree and whipping him. It also emerged that he was a chairman in the League of the South, a neo-secessionist group.<\/p>\n

Since the scandal, Hunter has been scrambling to distance himself from his old life. His initial response to the drama was to write a lengthy confessional for Politico, in which he recanted and apologised for his previous opinions. He now insists that he\u2019s a changed man.<\/p>\n

Our Jack is repenting for past sins, in other words, and using me as the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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