Michelle Malkin

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has removed Michelle Malkin, a right-wing writer and pundit, from its roster of featured speakers. Malkin, the author of a number of books — including, most recently, Open Borders Inc: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction? — has toured campuses as part of YAF’s speakers bureau for 17 years.

The firing comes as a result of Malkin’s vocal support for 22-year-old far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes and his allies, the groypers (yes, that’s what they call themselves).

“YAF gives a platform to a broad range of speakers with a range of views within the mainstream of conservative thought,” wrote YAF. “Immigration is a vital issue that deserves robust debate. But there is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists.”

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YAF then fired Malkin. (She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

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Malkin’s supporters are likely to argue that mainstream conservatism — what she calls Conservatism Inc., as there is always some shadowy corporate agenda at work in the minds of the immigration restrictionists — is attempting to silence or cancel her, and that this is hypocritical given the conservative outrage whenever the left does this.

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