AntiFash Gordon

100% agreed, same for me. Seriously, the casual misogyny/racism/antisemitism/ableism behavior of the Aimee Terese/stupidpol crowd leaves the door *wide* open for Nazis to walk right into our movemnt.https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1246215348581306368 …

Nah, she's got a good point. The Aimee Terese crowd is getting pretty cozy with neo-Nazis like Eric Striker, and it's their class reductionist politics plus their dogpiling style of online interaction that leaves the door open for Nazis to walk in and start recruiting.

Does Terese have a crowd that… ISN’T crypto-fash? Like, I only know who she is because of people screenshotting her fascist takes. All that stupidpol stuff doesn’t even seem left-adjacent, it’s like an attempt at infiltration that only draws their own people

I think the attraction is primarily for reactionary cis white dudes, who definitely feel like they got fucked over by capitalism, but still want to retain the privileges of being cis white dudes.

Sure, I think tho elements of the discourse are flattening stuff like Chapo (problematic-but-of-the-left) with stupidpol/Terese/etc (just cryptofash shit)

Definitely. I think there needs to be a different word, or maybe just some subterms or something, to differentiate the stupidpol crowd from the Chapo crowd, even if there is some overlap. It's not fair to people who are maybe casual fans of a problematic podcast.

People have been using dirtbag left for Chapo for a while and it seems apt?