On Gab, the alt-right, which posts frequent calls for "race war now," has found itself attempting to inherit an anti-war platform re: Syria and has self-decided that they now occupy the moral high ground.
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There is no coincidence that this version of the far-right is finding substantial support in the 35-and-under demographic. My generation knows a Europe with incredibly rigid borders compared to its history.
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But here's reality: Germany's present borders, to take an example, are younger than Taylor Swift.
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Far-right nationalism predicates itself on a logic based largely on the present status quo, which is not yet 30 years old, being something as if from divinity. When they confront this and find it breaks down on deeper inspection, what they come up with is disastrously convoluted
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This exercise in interrogating the alt-right's logic, by the way, is incredibly useful for questioning your own intuitions about what borders and nations and laws actually mean and where they actually come from. The results may disquiet you.
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Heck, the drawing and re-drawing of those lines was the point of many wars, and incidental to most others before the second half of the 20th century.
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