After internet outrage, New Yorker disinvites Steve Bannon from festival

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When The New Yorker announced that Steve Bannon — the man who mainstreamed white nationalism as a former Donald Trump adviser — would headline its New Yorker Festival, the internet responded with a collective, “Are you kidding me?

Then, celebrities slated to appear at the event started pulling out on Twitter. 

I’m out. I genuinely support public intellectual debate, and have paid to see people speak with whom I strongly disagree. But this isn’t James Baldwin vs William F Buckley. This is PT Barnum level horseshit. And it was announced on a weekend just before tix went on salehttps://t.co/oYk1llNgvV

— John Mulaney (@mulaney) September 3, 2018 Read more…

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