Shitting on Something Else - Jane Austen Has Become An Alt-Right Icon, Somehow

[JHan]

6. Milo being Milo but this has been a thing among alt-righters for a while...

They're obsessed with Western civ. cannon . They'll read Aurelius, Aristotle, Aquinas and Solzhenitsyn but won't learn any of the redeeming lessons contained in the classics. Instead they twist whatever they read to suit their world view.

There was a great article about this last year by Donna Zuckerberg, editor of Eidolon

How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor

This is my call to arms for all classicists. No matter how white and male Classics once was, we are not that anymore. In spite of the numerous obstacles that remain, our field is now more diverse than ever, and that is something to be proud of. These men are positioning themselves as the defenders of Western Civilization. Classicists, when you see this rhetoric, fight back. We must not allow the Alt-Right to define what Classics will mean in Trump’s America."