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Nagle seems either willfully ignorant or intellectually lazy of the different forms of feminism (which, given her thesis topic, is astonishing to see here - my guess is on laziness), of the different sub-cultures of Tumblr, etc. What seemed to hold them all together in their obscurity was a love of mocking the earnestness and moral self-flattery of what felt like a tired liberal intellectual conformity running right through from establishment liberal politics to the more militant enforcers of new sensitivities from the wackiest corners of Tumblr to campus politics. Do any of the recent economic changes in the US affect the rise of the Alt-Right and spread of fascism?
This online backlash was able to mobilize a strange vanguard of teenage gamers, pseudonymous swastika-posting anime lovers, ironic South Park conservatives, anti-feminist pranksters, nerdish harassers and meme-making trolls whose dark humour and love of transgression for its own sake made it hard to know what political views were genuinely held and what were merely, as they used to say, for the lulz.NRx, Dark Enlightenment, the 'Alt-Light', GamerGate, Richard Spencer, 4chan, Milo, weev, MGTOW, The Rebel, Pat Buchanan, Breitbart, Alex Jones, and Mike Cernovich are just some of the names mentioned. This internet-based activism was immediately embraced by much of mainstream liberalism without any rigorous analysis or appraisal of the organizational structure and limitations of these internet-based movements, which all resulted in consistent failure and eventual collapse.
His face was pasted into spinning iPods and hard-core porn scenes, and a re-enactment of Henderson's death soon appeared on YouTube.
Public discourse has never been as idiotic, cruel, irrational and utterly pointless in my lifetime as it is now.
Its slightly concerning that at 33 I feel completely out of date and out of the loop with internet culture! There’s no mention of how the Alt-Right love making up ridiculous fake profiles to mock transgender people, disabled people, women, and non-white people (and frequently can’t detect satire/jokes from serious suggestions). We have wowed our potential clients with animation, left them in awe at our grasp on statistics, and preached on soapboxes to the multitudes about why they . Many people are attracted to progressive politics because they see that the world is unequal and unfair and they want better wages or education or healthcare.The book - almost an essay with its 136 pages - at the end upsets both sides of the political co-ordinate system.