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But Barnes &聽Noble still聽sells聽his new book, despite not only his聽sexism, 聽but also his increasing antisemitic and racist rhetoric. On Wednesday afternoon, it ranked 22^nd聽on their bestseller list. (Thursday it was 59^th.)

After PayPal deplatformed him and Amazon 聽nine of his books 鈥� including first the hardcover and subsequently the paperback of his most recent book, Game 鈥� Roosh had to 聽his website, Return Of Kings (ROK), in October for lack of funds. Roosh :

The first factor for this hiatus is that site revenues are too low. We鈥檝e been banned from Paypal and countless ad partners, which forced me to lay off the site editor last year and also lower payments to regular contributors.鈥�

ROK is designated as a male supremacist hate group by the 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖). A cornerstone of the so-called 鈥渕anosphere,鈥� ROK gave men advice on how to seduce women, often regardless of their consent. It was rife with misogynistic content and occasionally embraced the talking points of the racist 鈥渁lt-right.鈥�

Through ROK and his own personal blog, Roosh gained notoriety for his violent misogyny. Notably, in 2015 he proposed to make rape legal on private property (in a hyperbolic post he later claimed was 鈥渟atire鈥�). In his writings, Roosh has condoned rape, advocating that 鈥渘o mean no 鈥� until it means yes鈥� and disparaging women as 鈥渃--聽buckets.鈥�

In his books, he shares anecdotes about his sexual encounters he claims are true. Sometimes, these encounters escalate to outright assault. 鈥淚n America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she couldn鈥檛 legally give her consent,鈥� he wrote in Bang Iceland. 鈥淚t didn鈥檛 help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can鈥檛 say I cared or even hesitated.鈥� In Iceland, having sex with someone too drunk to consent still legally constitutes rape.

In the aftermath of ROK鈥檚 collapse, Roosh was resentful. He wrote:

I played nice after the 2016 meetup outrage. I was careful with my word choices, tried not to go viral, and did not accept interview requests from alt right sources. And yet they banned me from multiple platforms anyway. I got no reward for being a 鈥済ood boy,鈥� so now my attitude is鈥� f--- them. I鈥檒l do exactly what I want, and when they come from me (sic), I鈥檒l make them earn it.鈥�

Soon, he delivered.

After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which took the lives of eleven people and wounded seven others in October, Roosh tweeted:

鈥淚t's okay if you happen to miss the details of today鈥檚 synagogue shooting: you鈥檒l be reminded of it daily for the next 70 years.鈥�

He then delved into a bizarre conspiracy theory on the shooting, hinting that it was both an FBI inside job and staged by Democrats for political gain. He also called the series of pipe bombs sent to Democratic opponents of Donald Trump a 鈥渇alse flag operation.鈥�

In tweets, Roosh seemed to embrace the racist alt-right narrative that Jews are deliberately attempting to promote multiculturalism, the arrival of refugees and minority voter turnout to replace whites, and has previously 聽that he believed there was a 鈥渨ar against white people.鈥� This conspiracy theory of 鈥渨hite genocide鈥� reflects the same fixations synagogue shooter Robert Bowers shared on Gab in the days before his attack.

This is hardly the first antisemitic outburst from Roosh. ROK聽previously published聽a positive review of a聽book by career antisemite Kevin MacDonald. And after 澳彩开奖 listed Return of Kings as a male supremacist hate group, Roosh tweeted, 鈥淭he Jews are coming after me again.鈥�

Roosh has also had a relationship with white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was recently 聽of physical abuse by his ex-wife. Spencer even invited Roosh to address his white nationalist 鈥渢hink tank,鈥� the National Policy Institute, in 2015. His presence sparked racist backlash from the alt-right who objected to what they considered his non-white heritage. (Roosh is Iranian American.)

On November 14, Roosh and Spencer both appeared on a joint livestream, where they praised one another. Roosh told Spencer, 鈥淩ichard, we come from opposite sides but we鈥檙e being attacked by the same spider.鈥� The video was deleted, but has since been loaded back onto YouTube.

Roosh also traffics in anti-LGBT rhetoric. On social media, he calls LGBT people 鈥渟odomites.鈥�

Alex DiBranco, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Yale University who wrote on male supremacy for Political Research Associates, told Hatewatch:

[Pick-up artist] advice not only borders on instructions for committing sexual assault, but frequently crosses that line. Valizadeh himself has admitted to actions defined as rape鈥攖hough, he defends himself, only under the 鈥渇eminist鈥� definition.

So why is Barnes & Noble selling the supposed 鈥渄ating advice鈥� of an infamous pro-rape misogynist and anti-LGBT antisemite with ties to the alt-right? By the time of publication, Barnes & Noble had not responded to a request for comment.

Rachel Janik contributed reporting.

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