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Roosh V
Roosh V in 2014
Born
Daryush Valizadeh
(1979-06-14) June 14, 1979 (age 45)[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater
University of Maryland
Daryush Valizadeh[2] (born June 14, 1979),[1] also known as Roosh Valizadeh, Roosh V and Roosh Vorek, is a former alt-right American blogger[3] and pickup artist.[4][5] Valizadeh wrote on his personal blog[1] and also owned the Return of Kings website,[6] Roosh V Forum,[7][8] where he published articles by himself and others on related subjects. Valizadeh has self-published more than a dozen dating and travel guides, most of which discuss picking up and having relations with women in specific countries.[9] His advice, his videos and his writings have received widespread criticism, including accusations of misogyny,[10] antisemitism, homophobia, and having ties to the alt-right.[11]
Many of Valizadeh's publications have been taken down. On May 30, 2018, DreamHost took down Kings Wiki.[12] On September 10, 2018, several of Valizadeh's books were removed from Amazon.com's self-publishing platform. He was also sanctioned by YouTube, another source of revenue for him, for violating their rules.[13] On October 1, 2018, citing a loss of revenue and traffic due to PayPal's and Disqus's terminating their partnerships with him, Valizadeh announced Return of Kings would no longer be publishing new articles.[14]
In March 2019, Valizadeh converted to the Armenian Apostolic Church and condemned extramarital and casual sex as sinful, also stating that he was embarrassed about the books he wrote in the past, unpublishing some of them.[11][15] On May 1, 2021, Valizadeh was received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) at Jordanville Seminary in Jordanville, New York.[16]
^ abc"About Roosh V". rooshv.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
^Price, Rob (February 2014). "The Web's most infamous misogynist regrets nothing". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
^Peters, Jeremy W. (November 20, 2020). "Tucker Carlson Dared Question a Trump Lawyer. The Backlash Was Quick". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022. Retrieved July 19, 2022. Roosh Valizadeh, an alt-right figure with a history of extremist views whose writings have attracted a following, was an example of how the large online community of far-right, pro-Trump commentators started to mobilize against Fox after Mr. Carlson's comments.
^"Seksiturist: Eesti naised on paksud ja ülbed, aga välismaalased neile meeldivad" [Sex tourist: Estonian women are fat and arrogant, but they like foreigners]. kroonika.delfi.ee (in Estonian). October 16, 2012.
^"Controversial Pick-Up Artist Gets Beer In His Face In Montreal (NSFW)". The Huffington Post. August 9, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
^"About". Returnofkings.com. April 23, 2012. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
^Hess, Amanda (May 24, 2014). "The Pick-Up Artist Community's Predictable, Horrible Response to a Mass Murder". Slate.
^Angela, Washko (January 1, 2015). "Tightrope routines : a feminist artist interviews the internet's most infamous misogynist" (PDF). EScholarship.
^Greenwood, Arin (March 10, 2012). "Southern Poverty Law Center Lists 'Roosh V' On Misogyny Report". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2013.
^"Daryush "Roosh" Valizadeh | Southern Poverty Law Center".
^ ab"Infamous Pickup Artist RooshV Says He's a Christian Now". RELEVANT Magazine. May 23, 2019. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
^Pennacchia, Robyn (May 31, 2018). "This Incel-Forum-Owning, Pro-Rape VA Congressional Candidate Got Kicked The Hell Off The Internet". Wonkette. Because in addition to taking down Incelpocalypse, Dreamcast took down all of Larson's other sites as well – including not only the bliki, but also the wiki for Return of Kings, which he made for garbage human Roosh V, which, sadly for all of you, means that the post about how I am a clownface-would-not-bang is no more, along with a post I found there, apparently from Larson, about the host of problems that making it legal for men to kill their wives for things like "cutting their hair" would "solve."
^Murdock, Sebastian; Cook, Jesselyn (September 10, 2018). "EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Removes 9 Books By Notorious Rape Apologist 'Roosh'". The Huffington Post.
^Lamoureaux, Mack (October 2, 2018). "Roosh V Shuttering His Godawful Misogynist Website After Successful Boycotts". Vice.
^Cite error: The named reference ShugermanSommer2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Telegram channel for Roosh Valizadeth, dated May 8, 2021
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