As a result, things exploded into an "optics" debate over the past couple of weeks. One one hand, some argue that Spencer's approach of being clean cut and appealing to "normies" is the best way to get power.
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But few of them want anything like Charlottesville ever again. It is safe to say now that the alt-right is over.
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Your analyses are so helpful and interesting. Do you have a Patreon or something similar?
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Could you possibly clarify and expand on this a bit? How so?
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The attire debates centered around optics, which partially involved appealing to "normies," part involved signalling, and part involved cohesivity and unity.
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So white washing it to appear acceptable and make themselves appear a force to be reckoned with. What kind of things did they talk about wanting to signal to people?
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I'm glad they spent so much time deciding to wear khakis. It meant they spent little time thinking that besmirching Thomas Jefferson's University by shouting literal Nazi slogans was deplorable. For most who watched that was a revelatory moment. "good people on both sides"? BS.
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. . . an identity movement without an identity. That's a problem for "master race" ideology, in a civilization of mutts. When the reality sinks in that none of their leaders are "master race", or when members are rejected for not fitting the "identity", it falls apart.
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My favorite thing about the “what to wear” is trying to look cool without looking like a Nazi or borrowing fashion from communities of color.
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So, basically, they're chicks?
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