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{{short description|Political online magazine}}
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'''''Taki's Magazine''''', called '''''Takimag''''' for short, is an [[online magazine]] of politics and culture published by the Greek [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]]<ref name="vox2">{{cite web |last1=Matthews |first1=Dylan |date=6 May 2016 |title=Paleoconservatism, the movement that explains Donald Trump, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/6/11592604/donald-trump-paleoconservative-buchanan |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Vox}}</ref> commentator and socialite [[Taki Theodoracopulos]] and edited by his daughter Mandolyna Theodoracopulos. It has published articles by [[Far-right politics|far-right]] figures such as [[Gavin McInnes]] and the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[Jared Taylor]]; the white supremacist [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] was an early ''Taki's'' editor.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Nick R. |date=October 19, 2018 |title=Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has been using the same anti-gay slur hurled in the NYC attack for at least 15 years |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/19/proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-has-been-using-same-anti-gay-slur-hurled-nyc-attack-least |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hawley |first=George |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/990778368 |title=Making sense of the alt-right |date=2017 |isbn=978-0-231-54600-3 |location=New York |oclc=990778368}}</ref><ref name=":62">{{Cite web |title=Taki's Magazine {{!}} Center on Extremism |url=https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/takis-magazine |access-date=2022-08-16 |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en}}</ref>
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== History ==
Founded on 5 February 2007, the intent of the site, according to Theodoracopulos, was to "shake up the stodgy world of so-called 'conservative' opinion."<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Taki's Magazine - Article Page |url=http://takimag.com/about#axzz4fZ6OJY11 |access-date=15 August 2017 |website=takimag.com}}</ref> Theodoracopulos said: "''Takimag'' is a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] webzine. We believe the best stories are smart, cheeky, and culturally relevant. We take our politics like we take life—lightly."<ref name=":12" /> Theodoracopulos, a "New York society gadfly",<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |last=Matthew |first=Zoie |date=2019-10-03 |title=How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/gavin-mcinnes-interview/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Los Angeles Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> the playboy son of a Greek shipping magnate, and co-founder of ''[[The American Conservative]]'', had been a controversial columnist in publications like ''[[The Spectator]]'', and noted for his use of racial and ethnic slurs.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Matthew |date=2010-05-15 |title=What's the point of Taki if he isn't offensive any more? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/what-s-the-point-of-taki-if-he-isn-t-offensive-any-more-1974383.html |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":72">{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2012 |title=Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2012/prominent-white-nationalists-fired-national-review |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite
''Taki's Magazine'' had [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]] as its editor for about two years, through 2009;<ref name="altRightExplained2" /><ref name=":52">{{cite book |last1=Neiwert |first1=David |title=Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump |title-link=Alt-America |date=2017 |publisher=[[Verso Books]] |isbn=9781786634238 |location=Brooklyn, NY |page=236 |author-link=David Neiwert}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harkinson |first=Josh |date=October 27, 2016 |title=Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist/ |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Meg |title=Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-miami-alt-right-and-proud-boys-chapter-10945821 |access-date=2022-08-17 |website=Miami New Times |language=en}}</ref> Spencer's tenure played a role in marshaling and naming what would eventually become the [[alt-right]].<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13">{{cite web |last1=Stahl |first1=Jeremy |date=21 November 2016 |title=Meet the Neo-Nazi Whom Steve Bannon's Site Described as a Leading "Intellectual" |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/meet-the-neo-nazi-steve-bannons-site-described-as-a-leading-intellectual.html |access-date=12 July 2019 |website=Slate Magazine}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{cite news |last1=Seiger |first1=Theresa |title=Who is Richard Spencer? 5 things to know about prominent white nationalist |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/who-richard-spencer-things-know-about-prominent-white-nationalist/SSmffIguAxdRIGEGjiWGiN/ |access-date=12 July 2019}}</ref> Using the headline "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right", ''Taki's'' under Spencer published a 2008 speech by [[Paul Gottfried]] to the H.L. Mencken Club,
[[John Derbyshire]] was fired by ''[[National Review]]'' in 2012 after he wrote a derogatory column for ''Taki's Magazine'' responding to "[[The talk (racism in the United States)|the talk]]" given by American black parents to their children.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byers |first=Dylan |title=National Review fires John Derbyshire |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/04/national-review-fires-john-derbyshire-119887 |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=POLITICO |date=7 April 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Davidson Sorkin |first=Amy |date=2012-04-09 |title=Why the National Review Fired John Derbyshire |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/why-the-national-review-fired-john-derbyshire |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2022-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Max |date=2012-04-08 |title=The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/the-talk-what-parents-tell-their-children-about-john-derbyshire/255578/ |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":72" />
[[Gavin McInnes]]' ''Taki's'' column, which began around 2011, made casual use of racial and anti-gay slurs, as described by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref name=":02" /> In 2016, McInnes announced on the ''Taki's'' website the founding of his [[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]]
''Taki's'' published articles by Theodoracopulos in support of the Greek [[neo-Nazi]] political party [[Golden Dawn (Greece)|Golden Dawn]].<ref name="vox2" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" /><ref name="altRightExplained2" />
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