Exh Andrea Nagle

The alt-right and the culture wars

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Andrea Nagle's book Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right talks about the role of the internet in the rise of the alt-right and incel movements.

She describes the alt-right as a counterculture of young men who reject taboos on race and gender.

While numerous young people in the alt-right started merely as trolls, she says the movement has developed into something that is much more serious. While she rightfully supports idpol in general, she also says that some on the ‘radlib’ or synth left have contributed to the rise of the alt-right with their "performative wokeness", which commonly involves censoring people and ganging up on them.

She has also spoke of her concerns about "the woke cultural revolution sweeping Irish society".

Angela presents her work to try to map out the online culture wars that occurred in the early 2010s and how it led to the development of Alt-Right which played a huge role in the election of Donald Trump. 

Nagle introduces the 2010s as a tine in which "cyber utopianism" began to emerge with the rise of internet-based social activism like the Arab Spring, Occupy, WikiLeaks, adbusters, and Anonymous which were based on decentralized leadership (which is a leftist concept) and online organization. 

This internet-based activism was immediately embraced by a lot of mainstream liberalism without any rigorous analysis or appraisal of the organizational structure and limits of these internet-based movements, which all resulted in constant failure and eventual collapse. 

A lot of these movements started on image-based online forums like 4chan and 8chan. These forums, organized on the basis of anonymity, developing a subculture among the users which combined extremely transgressive and dark humor with a strong misogynistic and racist attitude.

In the second chapter, titled "The Online Politics of Transgression", Nagle observes how political transgression historically is connected with the political Left, particularity that of the New Left which was adopted by the Alt-Right. 

Angela Nagle frames this adoption of transgression by the political right, in its relation to the concept of moral transgression which can be traced back to the 18th century figures of Marquis De Sade, The Surrealists, Friedrich Nietzsche, Punk subculture, and contemporaneously in the 1990s 'male rampage films' including American Psycho and Fight Club. 

This 'transgressive anti-moral style' of the Alt-Right, in Nagle’s view, is their attempt to entirely break away from the egalitarian philosophy of the Left and the Christian morality of the Right.

In chapter three, "Gramscians of the Alt-Lite", Nagle focuses on the popularity of the French New Right within the circles of the Alt-Right.

Angela is not in a red green brown alliance, Charles Davis is wrong and a hypocrite

From article in LaTimes:

Davis Horseshoe

“As late as 2010, Davis was a critical supporter of Ron Paul and the Oath Keepers militia, arguing for left-wing collaboration with the nativist-libertarian right against the liberal hawks. This speaks for itself. (I am fine with that whacky idea because I am a sucker for whacky ideas but that does not mean I cannot call out Davis’s hypocrisy on red green brown alliances)

Charles Davis also supports of "no-platforming" in the hysterical sense of that term: the idea that zero degrees of separation with rightists and bigots is a moral obligation for all anti-fascists, rather than tactical choice for some, and therefore that anyone violating this principle is playing Red-Brown politics. Guilt by association with "fascists" is seen as a valid argument in this context. For Davis, Nagle's opposition to the de-platforming of Germane Greer, Jeremy Bretcher's 2008 pro-immigration article in the far-right Taki's Mag (2008), The eXile's choice to publish Eduard Limonov, and others against accusations of collaborating with fascists, and American left-wingers' appearances on Sputnik and RT are all symptoms of what the like-minded Antifa author Andrew Reid Ross called "the fascist creep."

Don't throw around allegations of red-brown politics unless you know what you are talking about.. Don't be a "promiscuous critic".

In spirit of the Fairness doctrine I present this rebuttal of Andrea Nagle by Libcom for balance