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Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Corbyn rules and is not an anti-Semite, wait why do we even have to state this :psyduck:

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Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Crain posted:

I legit want to see someone do a deep dive into the development of the "alt-right".

I remember seeing the Fatpeoplehate thing pop up on reddit a few years ago, just past peak gamergate, and thinking that these guys are just desperate for an "acceptable" demographic to hate on. And before that, GG, the "chimp-ire", various old school edgy boards acting like 4chan, the "violent-acres" guy, there really is a series of controversies that lead directly to each other.

And I think at least from GG to FPH to T_D people have looked into who the subscribers are on those places and there is ton of overlap. Overlap that goes well beyond "similar interests" and into "It's literally the same group of people jumping from one topic to the next refining their methods and honing in on the perfect topic".

It's things like that which make me think Prester Jane is at least on the right track.

Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle is a pretty good history/overview of the alt-right's various sections from America's Leading Mindset Expert, gamergate, and the pepes. Doesn't go as far back as all of the reddit controversies of FPH tho.

Granted it's probably the only academic overview of this whole thing, everything else is internet oral history.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Pretty much.

Then it turned into Ken Levine going "socialism is just as bad as libertarianism" followed by "what if minorities are the real racists"

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Jeremy Corbyn, just as dangerous as Donald Trump and Carl of Swindon.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Dreylad posted:

Yeah and Nagle basically says as much. Not surprisingly she is deeply sympathetic to women like Sarkeesian who have been the recipients of multi-year hate campaigns driven by the alt-right for the gentlest basic feminist critique of some video games.

Ironically she was ran off twitter because progressive/SJW leftists didn't like her thesis.

I'm sad but not surprised that this happened, the moment I read her criticism of tumblr-liberalism I knew it would be a lightening rod due to her heightened profile and association with Chapo.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Kjoery posted:

Frozen stuff

This is the one where he pretended to post in the comments as a self-described "attractive young woman" who just happened to agree with himself.

https://imgur.com/tk6yyvN

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Meritocracy has been used as a shield to deflect the questions of why people of color and woman can't rise high in organizations since open racism and sexism because socially uncouth, so coming out for it in your denunciation of racism is certainly an interesting argument!

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

holy gently caress it's an actual unironic radical centrist

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

he gave the other employees a severance package but it was several hundred thousand each compared to the cool near billion notch got

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

the mansion he's bought is also insanely huge, it's literally meant for a celebrity and their entire entourage. ever since his divorce notch lives a lonely existence in this gargantuan hermit cave because he has no friends and the other idle rich won't give him the time of day

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

i'm hesitant to give any definition for a word that a majority of this thread uses to justify hatred of people they don't agree with

gently caress off coward

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

in other alt-right news Stefan Molyneux continues to own self

https://twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/886710167794061312

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

https://twitter.com/notch/status/887125928924647425

the fact that a billion couldn't provide him happiness due to the empty nature of his soul makes me feel fuzzy inside

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

fallenturtle posted:

Yea, I've seen those videos since I made that post.

are you ever gonna give us your definition of racism or continue being a coward from your parachute account

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

rkajdi unaware that the group that went strongest for trump was suburban white middle and upper class voters that clinton was specifically targeting

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Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

turns out it wasn't about free speech after all!

https://twitter.com/tvietor08/status/916049672896204801

https://twitter.com/tvietor08/status/916050704652959744

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