Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
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...As Angela Nagle (2017) has argued, it is precisely the transgressive individualist culture of the 1960s and 1970s, which has deeply informed digital culture, what has surprisingly turned into a weapon for right-wing populist movements....
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...In her book Kill all Normies, Angela Nagle (2017) describes the rabid online raids conducted by disgruntled individuals taking aim at all those people, and women in particular, who they consider to be representatives of a PC culture that threatens to eviscerate their masculinity....
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...In some sense, we have seen a reversal in the culture wars: the rebels of yesterday are now the mainstream, while the new generation of conservatives have become the new rebels, a reversal documented by Angela Nagle (2017) in her book, Kill All Normies....
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...Although the AfD does not have the popular support enjoyed by Angela Merkel, they nonetheless enjoy a larger social media following (Fang, 2017)....
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...…available on YouTube offer validation to this audience’s frustration and disaffection, bundled with a seemingly coherent worldview that explains everything about contemporary politics and an Internet-based counter-cultural aesthetic that evolved from “trolling” culture (Nagle 2017; Phillips 2015)....
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...As Angela Nagle (2017) notes, the “alt-right” has effectively relied upon the labor of what she terms “ironic meme-making adolescent shitposters … who could be easily summoned in moments like gamergate [sic] or whenever big figures like Milo [Yiannopoulos] needed backup, to swarm and harass their…...
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...As Angela Nagle (2017) notes, the “alt-right” has effectively relied upon the labor of what she terms “ironic meme-making adolescent shitposters … who could be easily summoned in moments like gamergate [sic] or whenever big figures like Milo [Yiannopoulos] needed backup, to swarm and harass their opposition” (45)....
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