Teen Vogue Blasted For Articles Promoting Radical Groups Antifa, Black Panthers

ST. LOUIS — Teen Vogue is getting criticism over stories posted on its website under "News and Politics" that glorify and distort the violent history of several left-wing organization. Monday morning, the teen fashion and style magazine marked the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in a way that highlights a growing gap between the national media and many Americans.

The article was originally published April 4, the 50th anniversary of the murder of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the magazine geared towards teen girls tweeted a link to it Monday morning, saying the Black Panther Party, "was known for its free breakfast program, political education classes, and belief in radical self-defense."

The tweet links to the article, which explains to its readers how the Black Panthers and Rev. King "were more alike than you were taught."

The Teen Vogue article, which is identified as a "News and Politics" story and not an opinion piece to its readers, equates Rev. King's "Poor People's Campaign" which he promoted several months before his assassination to the Black Panthers' "10 Points Plan".

Critics blasted the tweet, saying that the Black Panthers were also known for "murders" and "drug dealing". Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale was accused of murdering a fellow Black Panther after his wife became pregnant while he was in prison for inciting riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but police never pressed charges.

Huey Newton, who founded the Black Panthers with Seale, was killed in a drug dispute after he returned from exile in Cuba in the late 1980's.

On the Teen Vogue tweet, commenters blasted the magazine for playing down the Black Panthers' violent and complicated history. Some were disturbed that American teenagers were being influenced wrongly on history.

One commenter pointed to another "News and Politics" article in Teen Vogue, which is titled "Antifa History and Politics, Explained -- A historian weighs in." The historian is a Dartmouth professor who wrote a book promoting Antifa, who has been disavowed by the university's president for his support and distortions of the violent left-wing group.

While the historian acknowledges that Antifa is "radical-left", he also tells Teen Vogue readers that the group is "militant self-defense against the far-right."

He then claims that Antifa is not violent, despite plenty of videoevidence to the contrary. He is fully quoted saying:

"The vast majority of what they do does not entail any physical confrontation. They focus on researching white supremacists and neo-Nazis across different social media platforms, figuring out who their leaders are, what other groups they are networking with, [and] where they are trying to hold events, so they can contact hotels or local venues to get the owners to cancel the events and, if they refuse to cancel, organize a boycott or campaigns of public pressure against them. They also organize public education campaigns and form alliances with unions and social movements to organize large demonstrations. Part of it, however, and this is what gets the most attention, entails self-defense and, at times, confronting these groups before they can gain enough momentum to promote their politics."

Antifa has been well documented during the past two years physically assaulting people who have not attacked anyone, breaking cameras to prevent media coverage of their activities, and "doxxing" individuals with whom they disagree to single them out and target them.

Nearly every comment on the Teen Vogue tweet condemned the magazine, and could be very concerning to many parents who might be unaware that the magazine known for promoting fashion and style to teenagers includes many articles in its News section celebrating socialist and leftist groups, even groups known for being extremely violent...and distorting the history of the violent groups as non-violent.

Teen Vogue, to its credit, does publish a lot of informative articles on current events and strives to keep young women informed and motivated, but there is an obvious tilt in every story to the left, which leads most people to believe that the magazine, its publisher, or both is trying to indoctrinate them that only left of center thought is fact instead of allowing them to see reality and decide for themselves what to make of things.