Can a self-described “little brown woman” be a white nationalist? It’s understandable to instinctively think, of course not.
But it’s not such an easy question. In light of Michelle Malkin’s recent antics, it seems she is, at the very least, sympathetic to white nationalism. Malkin is just as bad as those reprehensible alt-right actors who openly peddle white nationalism, despite the way she embraces classic leftist tactics and uses her racial identity to shield her from critics. Consider the reply she uses to accusations of racism: “Do I look like a white nationalist?”
.@michellemalkin Calling Out Media Matters’ Lies:
“Your organization has spent the last week calling me, labeling me a ‘white nationalist’ & an ‘anti-Semite.’ Are you going to correct those? You said you weren’t a partisan organization, do I look like a ‘white nationalist?’” pic.twitter.com/FkGwJPX3wX
— The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) September 18, 2019
Yet her ethnicity and skin tone aside, Malkin’s views and actions support racism. Take Malkin’s recent defense of openly anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist alt-right commentator Nicholas Fuentes. She called him a “New Right Leader” and blasted conservative pundit Ben Shapiro for condemning the anti-Semite. Watch for yourself.
Ethno-nationalist, Fox News contributor, and regular writer for the Daily Wire Michelle Malkin says Ben Shapiro targeted one of the “new right leaders,” warns the Right to not denigrate white supremacists and to answer their questions to “win the culture war.” pic.twitter.com/1EYgMDpILt
— Matthew Dimitri (@themattdimitri) November 12, 2019
Fuentes, of course, has gleefully compared Jews murdered in the Holocaust to cookies baking in an oven, waves a knife around when Jews are mentioned on his live stream, and just launched a full-throated defense of Jim Crow and segregation. This is who Malkin refuses to condemn.
She also gave an interview to the white nationalist website VDare, hosted by Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy. Goldy, who pushes the “white genocide” conspiracy theory, runs in white nationalist circles. Naturally, Malkin pals around with her and pretty much endorses her work.
So it appears Faith Goldy — a white nationalist who has been interviewed on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, and who has recited the “14 words” — is now making videos for VDare.
Her first interview? #CPAC speaker Michelle Malkin. pic.twitter.com/VKthH0z6mp
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) March 3, 2019
I stand with these brave women @faithgoldy @LauraLoomer ==>#stopsharia https://t.co/JAzEkvB7MO
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 2, 2018
Of course, the case against Malkin is not just guilt by association — as if it’s not fair to judge people based on who they voluntarily associate with. Her own work is racist, too.
Remember, Malkin is famous for writing a book in defense of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s internment of Asians in concentration camps during World War II. That’s right: She has defended the U.S. government rounding up Japanese people and locking them up arbitrarily without any due process or even suspicion of wrongdoing. The fact that she is Asian doesn’t make that any less racist. If a Jewish person defended the Holocaust… guess what? It’s still anti-Semitic, and horrifically so.
Malkin’s views on immigration are also racially charged.
Of course, immigration is a complex issue over which people can disagree in good faith. But Malkin frames her opposition to immigration in an extremely racially inflammatory way, citing Muslim immigration as a form of societal “suicide” and often framing immigration as a matter of immigrants “replacing” white people and white culture, dealing in a classic white nationalist trope.
Some might ask why a minority woman would embrace white nationalism and be understandably perplexed by the prospect. To them, I say, look at the money, fame, and career success this grift has brought Malkin. There’s a buck to be made by being a racial minority willing to go along with racist messages and provide cover for bad actors.
Frankly, it doesn’t matter if you’re a “little brown woman” or not. If you consistently push racist ideas and associate yourself with viciously racist white nationalists, you’re racist too.
