A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise
“Brown’s appreciation of the Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more extended to other figures—and even his staffing decisions. Brown hired ex-Breitbart writer Mike Mahoney [politicalresearch.org], a one-time member of A term from the 2010s to describe far-right activists rooted in paleoconservatism with more explicit racism & xenophobia. Learn more provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ entourage, for an advisory role at Praxis. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hannah Gais describes Mahoney as “a central figure among some online white power accelerationist communities”—referencing his and his fans’ belief that racial conflict is desirable and should be hastened by acts of violence. Antifacist activists have chronicled his history of Holocaust denial and racist posting. Under the pen name ‘Mike Ma,’ he has published novels extolling An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more and An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of gender difference. Learn more and featuring vivid descriptions of violence, including scenes of a leftist woman being curb-stomped and a mass shooting at a gay club. (Mahoney did not respond to a request to comment.)”