Quick thought on the likely effect of HRC giving a speech specifically to denounce the "alt-right"pic.twitter.com/BjL0fNFHZn
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Quick thought on the likely effect of HRC giving a speech specifically to denounce the "alt-right"pic.twitter.com/BjL0fNFHZn
Dunno -- I think ISIS driven more by material causes (Iraq War, Sunni marginalization, Libyan invasion, etc) than rhetoric.
You don't think the US attacking them has been a driving force in the coherence of their worldview? They specifically say it has.
Well, war always has that impact, but ISIS was in formation well before, in reaction to chaos USA created.
Yeah, and then attacking them again concentrated their collective minds on a theological "enemy," thus cohering their worldview.
Don't take my word for it, they state this in their own material.
Right but that was, again, a material cause: attacking ISIS, which was already an armed group. Alt-right very different.
Seems to me that your premise is anti-racist ideological arguments will lead to more racism as backlash. I'm not sure that's true.
That's a much more general premise than I'm endorsing here. This is specifically to do with the online troll phenomenon.
How confident are you that alt-right are just trolls & not ideological racists?
From what I gather it's a variegated constellation of actors. Some are ideological racists, some are just trollish provocateurs.
Right. So: don't you think the fact that a presidential candidate is taking memes from some ideological racists is worth noting?
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