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The article was very focused on the alt-right, but almost everything it said could be applied to the alt-left as well. Many people on the alt-left seem to wear
by al_borland 2y ago
The article was very focused on the alt-right, but almost everything it said could be applied to the alt-left as well. Many people on the alt-left seem to wear a diagnosis on their sleeve. Like was bright up in the article, it’s questionable how much of that is real vs proclaiming it for attention, acceptance, or validation. Maybe that’s mentioned somewhere else in the full book, but I didn’t like that the article left it out.
There also seems to be a lot of confirmation bias mixed in. Hopefully this doesn’t give people the impression that everyone with ASD is a political extremist, or even cares about politics… it felt like ASD == alt-right was the idea that was being pushed. There are infinite rabbit holes a person could go down online. Reddit has a a sub where people obsessively talk about drinking water. It seems a much broader approach could be taken.
- wasteduniverse 2y ago[dead]