I'm not even really sure you can pin Alex Jones down to anything because his overarching belief system is in the New World Order (4 Life) and global elites wanting to enslave the population. People tend to forget he came out of the weirdo liberal Austin scene and really started getting notoriety as a vehemently anti-GWB/neocon/War On Terror guy. When Obama got elected he just swapped out the names but basically was running the same shit but realize he could sell weird shit to his conservative listeners who for some reason seem to be much more willing to gold, silver, and industrial sized buckets of slop. At some point he became a parody of himself and then worked himself into a shoot, and he's obviously not operating on the normal wavelength in general, but I think it's pointless to tie him down to any point of the political spectrum when his NWO theory is the only thing that really matters to him.
Pretty much this. I have listened to Alex for the lulz on a number of occasions, and nothing he has ever said I would consider particularly white supremacist in any way. Although there is probably plenty of crap he has said that could be construed that way in a soundbite, which tends to be what happens. He was pretty much apolitical for while because he believed the Government was the problem. It didn't matter if they were republican or democrat. They were all just working for the new world order.
Also, I can see why people were so confused by my comments now. I had chance to read what Ben Shapiro was saying. I think I understand the aangle he is coming at it from. I think it is related to people like Ilhan Omar and her supposed anti-semitism. I guess he is arguing that left-wing anti-semitism is not treated as seriously as right-wing semitism. Whether you agree with any of that, that is another thing. I think that is why he is attacking this particular thing anyway.
I was just coming at it from the angle that a lot of people have been painted with the same brush who don't really fit that label, including Ben Shapiro himself. And the retraction basically explicitly admitted that they 'incorrectly' put him on the list. Which, to be honest, I don't think I agree completely with that. If his views can be considered right-wing and extreme then it isn't necessarily a totally wrong description. It only becomes so because of the connotation of white supremacism and neo-nazism.
Anyway, without actually knowing the context I assumed they probably capitulated on it because he was black and didn't want to navigate any potential minefield. I'm not sure they would back down in that way if it was Alex Jones for instance. Although that said, Ben Shapiro made a huge fuss when The Independant smeared him as being some kind of god to the Alt-Right. They backed down on that, but then it was patently absurd to begin with.