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The Alt-Right Playbook: Mainstreaming
🕑 Added 2018-04-04 14:05:50 +0000 UTC The final version of Mainstreaming is now live! A few visual tweaks and some script revisions; the usual. Go tell your friends.
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Ian Danskin
I look forward to it!
Deo TasDevil
Well if you do read it, I hope you like it. It's not as polished as some, I don't have a lot of formal education (I weld pipe and fix machinery for a living) but I tried my best to write it as well as I could.
Ian Danskin
Oh hey, I've had a tab of that article open on my browser for... a while. I should get to it one of thse days!
Deo TasDevil
Yeah it's a wild ride. <a href="http://dogpatch.press/2017/09/01/charlottesville-andrew-dodson/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://dogpatch.press/2017/09/01/charlottesville-andrew-dodson/</a> Patch and I have been uncovering neo-nazis coming into the furry fandom to recruit since this online subculture is predominantly composed of their target demographic: socially isolated, young, white, and male. Nathan Gate (TheBigKK) was another Charlottesville Nazi-Furry that Patch and I were keeping an eye on. <a href="https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d</a>
Ian Danskin
Whoa, holy crap!
Deo TasDevil
At time 8:43 in this video you use a photo of Andrew Dodson (in the red Arkansas shirt). Last December Dodson chased me around a furry convention in Chicago and threatening artists who had done work for me to tell him where I was so he could have his "revenge" since my friend and I outted him as not only a Nazi, but a Nazi Furry (thus ostracizing him from even his white power buddies). He also died of a heroin overdose on March 9th of this year.
Ian Danskin
There's the general problem that, right now, nobody pays for news anymore, so 100% of news revenue comes from ads. This makes them much, much more desperate for clicks, which means they will be more prone to covering salacious topics and more susceptible to hoaxes. It also means most have reduced staffs which makes it harder to do fact-checking. So some kind of change to how news gets funded needs to happen, though I'm not sure what. And social media sites just need to start banning Nazis, full stop.
Nikki
I think this may be your best video on the alt-right yet. Very comprehensible, very well paced and explained, and absolutely coherent. Thank you!
Sean Haskett
"Changes to how media platforms generate traffic" could you clarify what this could mean? or provide some recommendations that could?
Elliot Berry
Convinced me to finally start patronizing (wait, that doesn't sound right...) you! This series is IMO your best work yet, even better than 'Why are you so angry?'. You're one of the few analytical YouTubers who really commits to the sort of post-structuralist-and-affiliated theory I love, in a format I'm invested in.
