The Alt-Right Was Conjured Out of Pearl Clutching and Media Attention http://motherboard.vice.com/read/conjuring-the-alt-right … via @motherboard
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it basically branded the old school white supremacist shit in a "fun new way" that appeals to younger people too imo
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yeah, i just think a lot about youth fueling other fascists movements in the past, and the art and myths behind it
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and I just can't help but feel like we've entered a new, extremely undignified age
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from Wagner to Pepe. Jesus fucking Christ
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josephine armistead has written a very good piece on exactly this https://archive.org/details/the-silicon-ideology …
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thank you!
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It's the end game of irony poisoning leaching into the regular world. Everything that was being mocked is now real...
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and it animated people's barely contained fascistic urges.
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Of course, a lot of social anxiety was around Internet culture anyway, b/c it was escapism for folks incompatible w/ mainstream
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Anyway: we're in the political Eternal September.
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I think social media has acted as an accelerant for a subculture phenomenon that was already happening
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IMO they themselves are a tiny group of sociopaths and severely mentally ill. It took a sick and flailing GOP to weaponize them
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i don't know if branding an entire significant subculture as mentally ill is a useful thing to do
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you're right, I spoke rashly and apologize. I meant more that I wonder if theres as many bad actors as there appears
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Like soc media giving a small group a grossly distended megaphone/impact
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well that's probably true. But that's the old lesson of WW2. Isn't it? The problem is we forgot.
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Everyone can be racist or fascist. Since none is 100 % rational.
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The moment we forget that it's when we become victims of that train of thought.
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