RE: Sargon of Akkad running for office
April 21, 2019 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2019 at 10:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Part of how the alt right succeeds is through evading stigma carrying classifications. That's the re-branding side of old ideologies. The skeptic movement on youtube was immensely helpful in this regard. For the past few years it's been the most productive entry point for alt right radicalization as introductory grooming. People thoroughly in and acclimated to the alt right recognize this pipeline and milestones on the pipeline. It happens in a way that the subject being groomed doesn't even realize where they're headed. They think that they're skeptics, or that some presenter in question is a skeptic. Rinse and repeat with socialists, environmentalists, rationalists, independents, etc. The trick is to take some positively valued thing or movement and tie it into mainline alt right ideology so that rather than seeing the alt right for what it is, the notions expressed seem to lead inexorably to the quiet parts that we don't say out loud. That moment when you decide which pill to swallow, lol.
Contrary to popular belief, the alt right isn't full of rightwing nutballs, it targets the disaffected left. The rightwing nutballs..cuckservatives... are perfectly content, by and large, with their preexisting conditions and platforms. This is why it's not actually surprising to find someone call or consider themselves a "classical liberal"* while spreading alt right propaganda - or for some solidly left leaning person to fade into social obscurity and return two hairs away from full on chimp-mode. It would be much more surprising for that to happen to a traditional right leaning conservative. It's also, as a movement, much more successful than people realize. We only notice the headline manifestations and it's visible presence on the internet, but a majority of america, for example, accepts some or all of the alt right platform - with most of them not realizing that it -is- the alt right platform.
There is, ofc, infighting in the alt right, and pointing to the warring factions of the alt right and their little disputes doesn't do anything to eliminate the alt right propaganda that a given rep has peddled. It's just another manifestation of the ideology seeking to distance itself from negative classification.
*fwiw, people forget that "classical liberalism" was an implicitly bigoted paradigm that spawned neocons and "reagan dems", lol.
Contrary to popular belief, the alt right isn't full of rightwing nutballs, it targets the disaffected left. The rightwing nutballs..cuckservatives... are perfectly content, by and large, with their preexisting conditions and platforms. This is why it's not actually surprising to find someone call or consider themselves a "classical liberal"* while spreading alt right propaganda - or for some solidly left leaning person to fade into social obscurity and return two hairs away from full on chimp-mode. It would be much more surprising for that to happen to a traditional right leaning conservative. It's also, as a movement, much more successful than people realize. We only notice the headline manifestations and it's visible presence on the internet, but a majority of america, for example, accepts some or all of the alt right platform - with most of them not realizing that it -is- the alt right platform.
There is, ofc, infighting in the alt right, and pointing to the warring factions of the alt right and their little disputes doesn't do anything to eliminate the alt right propaganda that a given rep has peddled. It's just another manifestation of the ideology seeking to distance itself from negative classification.
*fwiw, people forget that "classical liberalism" was an implicitly bigoted paradigm that spawned neocons and "reagan dems", lol.
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