Return of Kings (blog)
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| Web address | http://www.returnofkings.com/ |
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| Registration | not required |
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh |
| Editor | Winston Smith |
| Launched | 2012 |
| Current status | inactive |
Return of Kings, abbreviated as ROK, was a magazine-style community blog featuring columns and articles created by many different authors, writing from a right-wing perspective. It was founded by Roosh in October 2012.[1] Its focus is Pick-up Game, gender relations, Alt-right and conservative politics, and the past and future of Western Civilization.
Its aim is to "usher the return of the masculine man in a world where masculinity is being increasingly punished and shamed in favor of creating an androgynous and politically-correct society that allows women to assert superiority and control over men".[2]
Concept
The blog was updated several times daily with new articles, each with a comment section. Commenting requires registration with an outside service like Disqus.
The articles may be about current political trends, social trends, current and past female behavior, health, exercise, politics, lessons from great men of the past, aspects of Christianity, and more. Their authors can be strongly critical of the perceived moral and social decay of the West.
An extension of the site was Kings Wiki, which contained user-contributed reference articles about issues discussed there and elsewhere. It was shut down in July 2017, and the content was forked to "Male Monarchs Wiki".[3][4]
Online censorship issues
The blog had been criticized by feminist and liberal websites as being reactionary and misogynistic.[5][6][7][8]
On October 1, 2018, the site announced it would stop posting new content for an indeterminate period of time. The founder stated that ROK had lost its main sources of revenue as it had been deplatformed by online advertising and payment companies.[9] The most popular payment and commenting services like Paypal and Disqus generally had progressive political goals, and had banned ROK for its authors' right-wing messages. There were few or no competing services with non-progressive political goals. As such, ROK had become the latest victim of the online censorship campaigns against right-wing websites and commenters that dominated online discourse in the late 2010s.
References
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- ↑ http://www.en.malemonarchswiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
- ↑ subjective critical article (retrieved Jul 13, 2017) https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Nathan_Larson
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- ↑ (Roosh V) http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus
External links
- Return of Kings blog
- Associated Twitter and Facebook accounts
- Men of the West is a similarly themed but smaller blog: menofthewest.net
