Why Do White Nationalist Writers Have a Home at Marketwatch?

In the past week, not one but two writers, Robert Weissberg and John Derbyshire, were fired from the conservative magazine National Review for being overtly racist. The former was canned for participating in a white supremacist conference in Tennessee, while the latter got axed for penning a column that, among other choice nuggets of wisdom, advised white young adults, “If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date.”

The very public sackings turned into a feel good story for most of the non-racist world, and led The Atlantic to boast that “people who make a living off being racist…are [an] endangered species.”

But

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