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Baked Alaska says he became an Alt-Right racist because someone said, "Hey bro, that's cultural appropriation."pic.twitter.com/yJJPJe5KWC
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But with a guy like Baked Alaska I doubt that something so small provoked him to this extreme unless he had serious underlying racism
and I'm not inclined to believe that "that's not cool" provoked him to start going to rallies with Richard Spencer
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sure, but he says himself that situation (his emotional response) was significant in shaping his views, which is worth paying attn to IMO
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1/ fwiw there is some pretty specific research on this question re: transphobia http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/it-turns-out-a-brief-conversation-really-can-change-minds-on-lgbt-issues.html … I think people often mix up two
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I doubt it originally had anything to do with race and more of a victim complex (and w/e life event causes that state of mind) /1
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Most likely, they felt attacked and the opponent was race, so race became the enemy but it could have easily been anything else /2
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