Renegade
PredecessorOracle Broadcasting
FormationOctober 2012 (2012-10)
FounderKyle Hunt
TypeInternet radio
Blogging
PurposeNeo-Nazism
White nationalism[1]
Anti-Semitism[2]
Conspiracy theory
HeadquartersDeltona, Florida, U.S. (current)
Woodside, New York, U.S. (previous)
Key people
Michael McLaughlin
SecessionsMight Is Right Network
Websitewww.renegadebroadcasting.com

Renegade is an American white nationalist, conspiracy theory and anti-Semitic media platform, based in Deltona, Florida. Founded by Kyle Hunt, the project consists of two main outlets; Renegade Broadcasting, an internet radio network founded in October 2012 and Renegade Tribune, founded in 2013.

Renegade has promoted Holocaust denial, and has portrayed the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler's NSDAP in a positive light,[3] claiming that Germans, not Jews, were the victims of the Second World War.[4][5] In 2014, founder Kyle Hunt promoted "the White Man March".

Renegade has criticized Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. It claims that both homosexuality and misogyny are rife within the alt-right and alt-lite. Renegade has also covered such topics as 9/11 conspiracy theories, Pizzagate and flat earth theories. Notable contributors include Michael McLaughlin, former leader of the British Movement.

History

Renegade was founded by Kyle Christopher Hunt of Massachusetts.[6][7] Hunt's Star Theory radio show began to be carried by the Oracle Broadcasting network in April 2012. This network covered anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and the white genocide conspiracy theory, as well as historical revisionism about the Third Reich (although it ridiculed American neo-Nazism by calling it controlled opposition).

Also in October 2012, Hunt began the internet radio network Renegade Broadcasting. In 2013, this outlet expanded with the website Renegade Tribune.

In October 2013, the group released a documentary of a tour they called the "Renegade Roadshow", which had been crowd-funded via IndieGoGo.[8] The documentary included appearances by Kevin MacDonald, Charles Krafft and John Morgan, among others.

White Man March

In March 2014, Hunt and Renegade promoted the idea of a "White Man March", where autonomous groups of white people were encouraged to go out in public places on that day with placards and leaflets bearing phrases such as "Diversity = White Genocide", at undisclosed locations.[9] At the time of the march, Hunt said he was a supporter of William Daniel Johnson's American Freedom Party.[9] Hunt planned to hold the event in New York City, where he lived at the time. He encouraged people to dress in "a pair of light khakis and a nice dress shirt" as part of their public relations.[10][11] According to David Neiwert of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the event attracted negligible numbers of people, but had gatherings in New York City, Florence, Kentucky, Tempe, Arizona, Birmingham, Alabama, Branson, Missouri and Olympia, Washington.[12] According to Neiwert, the autonomous march in Kentucky, organized by former National Alliance leader Robert Ransdell, was subject to particular derision due to the presence of two unidentified individuals in Ku Klux Klan uniforms.[12] Hunt had planned to advocate these kind of events monthly, but changed his mind in April 2014.[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Torres, Andrea (February 17, 2016). "Active neo-Nazi groups in Florida". Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Brockman, Andy (March 30, 2018). "UK LABOUR PARTY LEADERSHIP IN HOLOCAUST DENIAL FAKE HISTORY FAIL". The Pipeline. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ "White supremacist's genocidal paranoia: Inside the mind of the White Man March founder". Salon. 19 April 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Montgomery, Blake (December 7, 2017). "White Nationalists On Internet Radio Are Proving To Be Problematic For Advertisers". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Zaitchik, Alexander (2 January 2018). "Close encounters of the racist kind". Southern Poverty Law Center.
  6. ↑ "The White Man March, Which Is Almost Exactly What It Sounds Like, Is Coming to New York". Village Voice. 12 March 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Mashpee Grad Leader In 'White Man' Movement". The Mashpee Enterprise. 21 March 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ "The Renegade Roadshow". IndieGoGo. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  9. 1 2 "We Interviewed the Guy Behind the 'White Man March'". Vice. 15 March 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  10. ↑ "White Man March Aims to Fight "White Genocide" in NYC". Complex. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  11. ↑ "White supremacist march trying to link itself to St. Patrick's Day". Irish Central. 15 March 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  12. 1 2 "'White Man's March' Events Draw Smattering of Participants, Loads of Derision". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Originator of 'White Man's March' Hangs It Up, Saying Idea Will Live On". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  14. ↑ "White Man March Founder Kyle Hunt Resigns From White Man Marching". Village Voice. 25 April 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
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