21.) The videos are mostly about him being angry. Like in this video, where he sets up a fake Craigslist account looking to hire a sex worker. He's absolutely infuriated that a worker would try to negotiate the price and/or work conditions:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTo0R03LFE …
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22.) You can listen to Trevor rant about not being a "slave" to women here:https://youtu.be/Y3gatToCLF8?t=3595 …
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23.) So what is "MGTOW"? It's short for "Men Going Their Own Way," one of the handful of loose groups that the
@SPLCenter has classed as "male supremacy":https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/male-supremacy …1 reply 12 retweets 44 likesShow this thread -
24.) We don't talk about the links between fascism and patriarchy enough. But there's substantial ideological and material links between white nationalists, white supremacists, and men's rights activists.
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25.) First, the ideology-- the birthright entitlement, the biological determinism, the subspeciation of anyone outside their group, the disingenous victimhood at the hands of the state (or the wider culture), etc. This explainer goes into it:http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/03/08/mobilizing-misogyny/ …
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26.) Tactically, too.
#GamerGate, an explosion of male rage, was a testing ground for the tactics now used by the far-right. White cis male gamers positing themselves as victims, the suspicion of the mainstream media outlets, doxxing, harassment, etc. It's all there.1 reply 14 retweets 89 likesShow this thread -
27.) One of the YouTube personalities who became famous during
#GamerGate was Sargon of Akkad, aka Carl Benjamin. He was a men's rights activist. He still does that, but lately, he's started talking about theories of racial intelligence. Eugenics, basically.3 replies 13 retweets 64 likesShow this thread -
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@datasociety just put out a report by Rebecca Lewis, "Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the reactionary right on YouTube," tracing the ties between mainstream conservative pundits and open white nationalists like Richard Spencer: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf …1 reply 6 retweets 46 likesShow this thread -
29.) As you can see from diagram above-- from the excellent
@datasociety report-- Sargon stands right in the middle, serving to connect the optics-minded alt-lite with the open white nationalists of the alt-right.pic.twitter.com/6cUPfXaqQE
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Replying to @AntiFashGordon
Some of those dots were also people who were heavily involved in GamerGate.
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