Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes
Born Nicholas Joseph Fuentes
August 18, 1998 (age 20)
Nationality United States
Education Lyons Township High School
Alma mater Boston University
(dropped out)[1]
Occupation Right-wing YouTube personality and political commentator
Known for Right Side Broadcasting Network host (formerly), Host of America First
Home town La Grange Park, Illinois
Political party Republican Party
Movement Traditionalist conservatism, alt-right
Website Official website

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American YouTube personality and political commentator. He regularly hosts the America First podcast and formerly hosted Nationalist Review, with co-host James Allsup.[2] He has been called far-right and alt-right, terms he rejects. He previously worked as a host on the Right Side Broadcasting Network, but was removed after calling for violence against journalists. He later left Boston University after allegedly receiving several death threats and stated he intends to transfer to Auburn University, though he has yet to confirm enrollment.

Early life and education

Fuentes graduated from Lyons Township High School, and was the school's student council president. He initially attended Boston University, but later dropped out to attend the Unite the Right rally rally in Charlottevile, Virginia. Fuentes has stated he intends to transfer to Auburn University, as it is within a staunch red state.[3][4] Despite being admitted for the fall 2017 semester, he failed to confirm his enrollment and must apply for the spring semester by the deadline of October 1, 2018.[5]

He is one-quarter Mexican,[6] from which he derives his Hispanic surname.[7] Fuentes identifies as white, not Latino.[8]

Career

On April 25, 2017, while a host on Right Side Broadcasting Network, Fuentes said he wanted "the people that run CNN to be arrested, and deported or hanged" for their "malicious intent" toward the American people.[7][9] Fuentes had also stated, "the First Amendment was not written for Muslims". They later issued an apology claiming what he said had been "in jest".[10][9] As a result of hidden video footage of him saying that interracial sex was "degenerate", Right Side Broadcasting removed Fuentes as a host on their network.[7]

On August 12, 2017, Fuentes flew from Chicago to attend the second day of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[11] The Boston Globe covered his appearance and quoted his denouncing of violence, as well as his claim that the "vast majority" of protestors were neither KKK members nor Nazis.[12] Fuentes was quoted by The New York Times as saying that "the rootless transnational elite knows that a tidal wave of white identity is coming and they know that once the word gets out, they will not be able to stop us. The fire rises!".[13]

On January 14, 2018 his Nationalist Review podcast co-host James Allsup said that the two had separated due to administrative disputes.[14]

On April 11, 2018, Heavy.com reported that Fuentes's YouTube channel had 11,000 subscribers, referring to him as an "America First nationalist", while covering his public disavowing of Paul Nehlen.[15] According to Right Wing Watch, he ran a knife through one of Nehlen's campaign posters live on a podcast.[16]

Views

Fuentes has described himself as a paleoconservative.[17] Fuentes attended Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2018, and also spoke at the 2018 American Renaissance conference, which was founded by white nationalist Jared Taylor.[18] Fuentes also believes in the white genocide conspiracy theory. Fuentes has denied being a racist, and has rejected Nazism.[19] Right Wing Watch have accused Fuentes of anti-Semitism.[20] He is pro-concealed carry and has advocated the arming of teachers in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[21]

In a leaked video from August 2017, Fuentes said he believed interracial relationships were "degenerate" and said that Jews harmed his daily existence.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Student Who Attended Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally Leaves Boston University After Backlash". TIME. 17 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Nicholas J. Fuentes". Nicholas J. Fuentes.com.
  3. ↑ "Alt-right figure says he's been admitted to Auburn". AL.com.
  4. ↑ Mannion, Annemarie. "Area teen rallied in Charlottesville, got death threats, now planning move to 'solidly red' Alabama". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Nicholas Fuentes was admitted to Auburn in May for 2017 fall semester, school says; he must reapply for spring". AL.com.
  6. ↑ "We spoke to Nicholas Fuentes, BU's Trump supporter everyone is talking about". The Tab. 8 November 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "My Strange College Rivalry with an Alt-Righter". Vice. 2 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "With the rise of the alt-right, Latino white supremacy may not be a contradiction in terms". Mic (media company). 27 December 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Right-Wing Broadcaster Calls For Killing Of 'Globalists At CNN'". Huffpost. 25 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Right Side Broadcasting, The "Unofficial Version Of Trump TV," Forced To Apologize For Contributor's Call To "Kill The Globalists" At CNN". Media Matters.
  11. ↑ "Right-wing US provocateur emboldened by Charlottesville". Yahoo News. 23 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "18-year-old who attended rally won't return to BU". The Boston Globe. 15 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "'The Fight for the White Race': What Some of the Charlottesville Rally Participants Stand For". The New York Times. 19 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "America First Media Dissolves Amid A Feud Between Nick Fuentes And James Allsup". Angry White Men. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  15. ↑ "Paul Nehlen Controversies: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. 11 April 2018.
  16. ↑ "Not Even White Nationalists Like Paul Nehlen Anymore". Right Wing Watch. 6 April 2018.
  17. ↑ "Debating Lauren Southern, NoBS, Fuentes, RM and More". YouTube.
  18. ↑ "Racists roam the halls of CPAC, and the conservative conference ends in controversy over racist comments". Southern Poverty Law Centre.
  19. ↑ "Right Side Broadcasting and Nicholas Fuentes, host who participated in white supremacist rally, part ways". Media Matters.
  20. ↑ "These Are Some Of The Worst Right-Wing Reactions To The Shooting At YouTube HQ". Right Wing Watch. 4 April 2018.
  21. ↑ "U.S. gun lobby slams anti-gun 'elites' after Florida school massacre". Reuters. 22 February 2018.
  22. ↑ "Nick Fuentes accused of making racist and anti-Semitic comments in leaked video". BU. 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
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