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You might consider me alt right, I sure wouldn’t but regardless, this has absolutely not been my experience. I’ve heard many of the alt podcasts and YouTube and

You might consider me alt right, I sure wouldn’t but regardless, this has absolutely not been my experience. I’ve heard many of the alt podcasts and YouTube and movies, heck I’ve even gone on infowars... I definitely have never had anything even remotely close to your examples. Very bold claims but also very incorrect.

plagiarist 3y ago
The Infowars guy is spreading propaganda that Democrats are killing children and drinking blood. That is a very thin veneer over actual Nazi propaganda. I don't know if I have ever heard of a video with many views openly calling for genocide, but one can certainly spot those calls in the comments of those sources. That shit is coming from somewhere not far removed.
- wredue 3y ago
  You’ll miss it if you blink, or aren’t up to date with the dog whistles. If you see a right wing video and it says “we gotta get rid of these Hollywood elites”, they’re actually calling for the eradication of the Jews. The right wing spends half of their time online creating and sharing “plausibly deniability” phrases. Here’s a common dog whistle right here in this very thread: “You’ll get banned for wrong think”. — just a dog whistle for “I want to drop hate speech and n-bombs with no consequence” Or “Different political opinions”. — a dog whistle for the exact same as above.
  - plagiarist 3y ago
    In this thread there is something unusual to see in the wild: a dog whistler immediately talking about "hereditary intelligence" and IQ tests after a single question on what precisely "wrong think" is.
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Not Bold at all. I just watch Science and Programming on YouTube, and it will start suggesting alt-right, red-pill, religious content, pretty radical religious content. From my perspective, the internet leans right. This isn't some isolated experience.
- wredue 3y ago
  Even HN as of late is being inundated with alt-right hot takes anti-science, anti-intellectualism. The reason they don’t “see it” is because they’re participating in spreading the hate.

plagiarist 3y ago

The Infowars guy is spreading propaganda that Democrats are killing children and drinking blood. That is a very thin veneer over actual Nazi propaganda. I don't know if I have ever heard of a video with many views openly calling for genocide, but one can certainly spot those calls in the comments of those sources. That shit is coming from somewhere not far removed.

wredue 3y ago
You’ll miss it if you blink, or aren’t up to date with the dog whistles. If you see a right wing video and it says “we gotta get rid of these Hollywood elites”, they’re actually calling for the eradication of the Jews. The right wing spends half of their time online creating and sharing “plausibly deniability” phrases. Here’s a common dog whistle right here in this very thread: “You’ll get banned for wrong think”. — just a dog whistle for “I want to drop hate speech and n-bombs with no consequence” Or “Different political opinions”. — a dog whistle for the exact same as above.
- plagiarist 3y ago
  In this thread there is something unusual to see in the wild: a dog whistler immediately talking about "hereditary intelligence" and IQ tests after a single question on what precisely "wrong think" is.

FrustratedMonky 3y ago

Not Bold at all. I just watch Science and Programming on YouTube, and it will start suggesting alt-right, red-pill, religious content, pretty radical religious content. From my perspective, the internet leans right. This isn't some isolated experience.

wredue 3y ago
Even HN as of late is being inundated with alt-right hot takes anti-science, anti-intellectualism. The reason they don’t “see it” is because they’re participating in spreading the hate.