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Far-Right as a Political Smear
Often left-leaning or far-left newspapers or individuals will attempt to close the Overton Window on acceptable thought by pushing right-wing individuals out of the Window of acceptable thoughts. When used as a pejorative or as a substitute for Alt-right, it is generally applied to individuals without any proof or context leading to circular referencing (reporting) and guilt by association.

For example from the Associated Press (AP) "Fights broke out when the founder of a far-right men’s organization appeared at New York University" and "McInnes is the founder of a group called the “Proud Boys.” He dubs himself a “western chauvinist,” uses racial epithets in his essays and has argued that women make less money because they are less ambitious than men." Causes of women making less than men is a political opinion that is not sexist and his essays is satire and should be view as such since he was making an extreme contrast. The point of the article is that racist attacks by anyone are terrible and should not occur, be it white rednecks attack a black man or black men attacking a white man (that is the contrast).

The Rebel Media
On the Rebel Media page there are five citations to support the smear of 'far-right'.

Reference 1: the article is written by Mark Scott for the New York Times and labels "Jack Posobiec, a journalist with the far-right news outlet The Rebel". Jack Posobiec was a US based correspondent and therefore direct competitor to The New York Times. Furthermore the article suffers from guilt by association and only evidence appears to be "the first to use the hashtag with a link to the hacked documents online, which was then shared more widely by WikiLeaks. Mr. Posobiec remains the second-most mentioned individual on Twitter in connection with the hashtag behind WikiLeaks, according to a review of the past 100,000 Twitter posts published since late Friday." sharing WikiLeaks does not constitute one as far-right. Therefore, the New York Times' labeling of Rebel Media as far-right is an opinion.

Reference 2 the article is written by Sean Craig for Global News "The right-wing Rebel Media is facing growing criticism in the wake of its coverage of the deadly protests in Charlottesville" and "Ezra Levant’s far-right video and commentary network The Rebel spent the last week in damage control, trying to distance itself from the extremist alt-right movement whose values many have alleged the site’s content too often sympathized with." Guilt by association, and mixing opinion with facts; specifically "many have alleged the site's content too often sympathized with [alt-right movements]. There is no link or person stating these opinions; therefore, it is safe to assume these are the opinions of the author and do not belong in a fact piece. "Levant — a long-time conservative persona who has morphed from early Reform Party figure to Western Standard publisher to right wing Sun News Network host to independent far right internet gadfly"  No proof for assertion and actively disproves as immediately following this opinion is a statement of denouncing the alt-right by Ezra Levant.  Acting in good faith the author should accept the persons denouncement or provide evident to disprove the denouncement.

Reference 3 the article is written by Graham Ruddick for the Guardian "Katie Hopkins, the former Mail Online columnist, has joined far-right Canadian website the Rebel Media, where Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defence League, is also a contributor." The Guardian (UK) is a direct competitor to Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson and they conveniently forget to mention that Tommy is the former leader of the EDL and left when it became to radical (lie by omission). This website is labeling without providing substantive evidence to back up the claim (circular referencing). "being accused of publishing deliberate provocation rather than legitimate commentary." is an opinion. "One of her most controversial pieces involved comparing African migrants crossing the Mediterranean to “cockroaches” and calling for gunboats to stop migrants reaching their destination." actually evidence that could be used to state that Katie has opinions further right, however the article does not mention Katie as far-right; but before Katie has joined the Rebel Media they are already Far-right (lie by structure)

Reference 4 the article is written by Maya Oppenheim for the Independent "Canadian far-right activist Lauren Southern has been detained in Calais and banned from entering the UK. Ms Southern, who worked for far right Canadian site The Rebel Media, was held by Border Force in Coquelles on Monday." Labeling via opinion, circular referencing, lie by structure, guilt by association (to Mr. Sellner) and Independent is UK based and direct competition with Tommy Robinson, Lauren Southern and Independent journalist Ms Pettibone.

"Dr Joe Mulhall, a senior researcher for anti-racism campaign Hope not Hate, raised concerns about Ms Southern's activism. (political opponent)

"We’ve been watching Lauren Southern for some time, and she has gradually become more and more extreme in her outbursts and associations,” he told The Independent in a statement. (not evidence)

“The decision to refuse her entry came after she distributed racist material in Luton on a recent visit to the UK." (attempt at evidence Lauren Southern handed out Pamphlets stating "Allah is Gay/ Allah is a Gay God" is vice far-right? Was Jesus Gay? or the Guardian stating that a god is gay does not amount to racist material, as it was not based on race but religion.)

Reference 5 the article was written by Alastair Sharp and is actually the most honest and well written, however there is this statement, "Globe and Media was uncomfortable with the site's increasing harsh tone and growing association with the likes of white nationalist Richard Spencer." That is a weird way of quoting Brian Lilley, because he isnt quoting Lilley he is paraphrasing and changing Brian Lilley from Global News Article “I don’t think these guys (rebel media) are racist, but I think there’s… ahh, it’s getting too close for these guys (alt-right)," and “I get activist journalism, but activist journalism for someone like Richard Spencer, to me, is simply denouncing the guy because he’s a Nazi.” The second quote does not make sense. It does not mention who is doing activist journalism for Richard Spencer and I have not found any instances of doing journalism for Richard Spencer, other than maybe defending his right not to be punched in the face without provocation .  If he is talking about supporting other "alt-right persons or far-right persons then he should point to the specific instance of this occurring rather than speaking in broad generalities.

Therefore Rebel Media page should be modified to indicate that "their competitors insist the Rebel Media is Far-right, however the Rebel Media has denied this allegation."

The Proud Boys

Gavin McInnes

Ezra Levant