I just finished "Kill All Normies" by Angela Nagle. She outlines the crimes of the alt-right and the identity tumblrs of the left in a harsh, critical light.
I just finished "Kill All Normies" by Angela Nagle. She outlines the crimes of the alt-right and the identity tumblrs of the left in a harsh, critical light.
Great book, fast read. Should be required reading for all Americans under 70. The book does three things exceptionally well:
1, it paints a picture of how the [online] Alt-Right and Alt-Light aren’t a monolith sprung from inchoate American white rage, but rather a coalition of about five or six Internet tribes, profiled in detail.
2, Despite the fact that the biggest champions of “Internet as crucible for a new decentralized, networked form of politics” were left-leaning, in the last decade it has been a New Right, and not the traditional left, whose coalition deployed the Internet for the maximum possible effect on presidential elections.
3, how “transgressive”, nihilist online communities, perhaps once considered likely “safe spaces” for libs, have been equally if not more owned by a new online community with zero interest in moving left, but who simply enjoy the power of these new online tools to impose …
Great book, fast read. Should be required reading for all Americans under 70. The book does three things exceptionally well:
1, it paints a picture of how the [online] Alt-Right and Alt-Light aren’t a monolith sprung from inchoate American white rage, but rather a coalition of about five or six Internet tribes, profiled in detail.
2, Despite the fact that the biggest champions of “Internet as crucible for a new decentralized, networked form of politics” were left-leaning, in the last decade it has been a New Right, and not the traditional left, whose coalition deployed the Internet for the maximum possible effect on presidential elections.
3, how “transgressive”, nihilist online communities, perhaps once considered likely “safe spaces” for libs, have been equally if not more owned by a new online community with zero interest in moving left, but who simply enjoy the power of these new online tools to impose their world on the Internet and the world outside it.
There are a few chapters and passages that might benefit from an editor; buffing out some of the academic jargon in a few sections (a few too many postmodern hegemonic whatever's), and smooth out some of the prose, but all in all, an extremely good and quite timely book.
Side note: It’s disappointing but not surprising to see that the author [a:Angela Nagle|14262423|Angela Nagle|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1497823622p2/14262423.jpg]'s Twitter account is now gone, after being active as recently as three days ago. Wondering, after so many other women critics have been run off the Internet after criticizing the Alt-Right / Alt-Light / Manosphere, whether that was a Twitter self-deportation or whether harassers fraudulently got Twitter to suspend her account, or?
