Virginia Hale, a Europe-focused reporter for Trump media ally Breitbart.com, has a history of using racist and anti-Muslim rhetoric, both in her work and on social media. Hale, who says her job is to document the “ruin brought to” Europe “by invaders,” has tweeted that black and Arab people are more prone to violence because of their IQs and that Hispanic people are violent because they’re descendants of Aztecs and Incas.
Breitbart.com is one of the main defenders of new President Donald Trump, whose chief strategist and senior counselor, Stephen Bannon, was previously the chairman and CEO of the site.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) wrote that under Bannon, Breitbart made “a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’” Bannon himself reportedly said that the site is “the platform for the alt-right.”
The Breitbart empire is currently expanding its operations in Europe. It already has a Breitbart London site which heavily promotes anti-immigrant attacks.
Hale began writing for Breitbart London in late 2014 and focuses mainly on issues related to Europe. Her work, which regularly appears on Breitbart.com’s front page, often attacks Muslims, migrants, and liberal activists. She explained on Twitter, “My job involves me going through Euro papers every day - I see the ruin brought to continent by invaders.” She authored a January 3 false report claiming that a “1,000-man mob” of Muslims attacked a German church. The story was condemned internationally, including by German police and media.
Hale has repeatedly tweeted racist white nationalist content and remarks on her Twitter feed. She wrote that black and Arab people are more prone to violence than whites and East Asians because of “predictors” like IQ. She opined that “Hispanics are the descendants of Aztecs and Incas hence Central America [is] hugely violent.” And she wrote that Detroit and Africa have problems because they don’t have enough white people. She has repeatedly labeled those she disagrees with the white nationalist insult “cuck.”
She is also virulently anti-Muslim. She has tweeted that “It's Muslims who are committing acts of terrorism daily around the globe. Mohammad was a mass murdering terrorist.” She has also complained that “anyone questioning why the hell we have Muslims in our countries is branded deplorable and painted as hate-filled.”
Additionally, she has repeatedly attacked the concept of diversity, claiming that “more ‘diversity’” means “evermore hostility to white people and culture, demands we disappear” and that it’s a ploy to “erase white men from the world they built.”
Hale defended the concept of “white genocide” -- a favorite theme of white nationalists -- by posting a Twitter essay claiming that whites are being “turned into hated minorities in our own homelands” by minorities.
She also frequently tags the white nationalist account VDare.com in tweets. Hale called VDare “one of my favourite websites” and wrote that she reads it “religiously.”
Breitbart London editor in chief Raheem Kassam has denied that Hale is a white nationalist, responding to a critical article of Hale as libel and stating that he loves “the idea that a ‘white nationalist’ would work for me. You plonkers.”
Here is a sampling of Hale’s social media activity:
@brycecovert Cos with both gender and race, groups arent equal on average. You cannot wish what is not equal to be so. Check IQ distribution
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) May 24, 2016
@TrueEgAl @hbdchick @Steve_Sailer @Neomenckenite “diversity” is code for “we don't want to see heterosexual white men thank you”
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) December 25, 2016
@rogerahicks @BBCWorld @secretofdd diversity = erase white men from the world they built
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) December 12, 2016
She blocked literally everyone who pointed out
a) it's as “diverse” as Bullingdon Club
b)diversity means fewer or no white men @vulpicide243 pic.twitter.com/kYi22tlkmm— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) November 21, 2016
See this, UK?
More “diversity”=evermore hostility to white people and culture, demands we disappear@Lauren_Southern https://t.co/VLUdlhsOkR— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) August 26, 2016
@jebhead2016 @JohnRiversX2 same, and I pretended to be quarter Hispanic because all advertising etc tells us exotic is cool and white bland
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) November 20, 2016
[Twitter, 8/30/16]
@NonjobSeven White people need to assert we have legitimate interests too eg stopping immigration as more means we're meant to disappear
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) July 26, 2016
Constant tribal warfare/mass killings: blacks
Genocide/displacement of Khoisan: blacks
Slavery: blacks@MANX38 @SeanMcElwee @chrislhayes— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) September 10, 2016
[Twitter, 6/14/16]
@aunTrez their countries are poor and violent because of the people and their culture. 3rd world people bring third world behaviour to West
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) April 2, 2016
@ScarFirecracker @DarlingEbony @SenlacGuardian what's wrong with Detroit? Or Africa? Whites are tiny minority, like you want
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) July 29, 2016
[Twitter, 10/17/16]
@DinoFancellu @BreitbartNews OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Church of England is definition of a cuck.
— V Hale (`･⊝･´) (@virgehall) March 13, 2015