Table Of Contents
Radicalization
Occurs in people trying to find a solution:
- The effects of Late-stage Capitalism
- Going through a transitional period They end up finding a dangerous solution to their problem, that takes them down the alt-right or alt-left pipeline.
Alt Right Radicalization
Entering the pipeline
Soft Sell
- Content creators advertise themselves as moderate or left-leaning
- They advertise a lifestyle, but do not say that it is affiliated with any politics
Infiltration
- A thing changes in the fandom that brings political discourse
- A black protagonist
Creator Radicalization
- A content-creator makes some racist joke
- The vocal radical minority reacts very positively
- The content-creator makes more racist jokes
- The hurt leave
- The only audience they have left, and that will buy things are the radicals
Slippery Slope
- Personal connection > political affiliation
- Laughing at a deeply racist joke is personal
- Not laughing is political
- Personal brings people together
- Political drives them apart
Affirmative Words
- “You are valuable because you are white”
Echo Chamber
Political-Apolitical
- If the community makes a consensus on an issue, then having a personal opinion on the issue is apolitical, as it wont affect the communities opinion
- If the community doesn’t have an opinion, and you have one, then you are considered political, and then shunned and kicked out
- Nazi communities have a majority of nazis, thus they can thrive
Caricatured Enemy
- The left are made fun of, and given caricatures
The Moderate And The Beast
Sensitive Enemies
- Expressing theses opinions to women or trans, will lead to them being angry. You see this as sensitivity
Jargon
- Meme-filled jargon to isolate those not in the know
Validated Fear
- People in the communities reiterate the fear
- No-Fap users share experiences of failure and disaster
- Incels share their fear of being a virgin
- “Yes you will die a virgin”
Toxic Recursion
- People go to these communities to be upset
- Anger is motivating
- They go back to these communities for the release
The Flawed Argument
- Alt-right leaders often rely on bad arguments that are:
- Repeated like mantras
- Charismatic
- Long winded
- They are flawed because reiterating these ideas are difficult
- Telling a friend why, requires you to have them watch the videos
- Repetition dulls the shock that the argument may have
Lack of Mission
The alt-right are decentralized. When they try to formalize missions, like in Charlottesville, it all goes to shit. Most of the work that is done is through online forums. As a result you have a lot of people angry that have to sit an boil in their anger. You have a lot of lone wolves that start acting out, they start shooting schools and bombing places.
Harassment = Isolation
- The worse thing you do, the more you feel guilty
- The more guilty you are, the harder it is to quit
- What hes done to the left could be done to him aswell, and if he leaves, he loses the power of his community
How to exit the extremism
- Disillusionment from maturity
- Disillusionment from no results
- Disillusionment from realization of fake community
- They like his skin more than his personality
- Shocked at extremism like Charlottesville
- Kicked out of the community
- Seperated by circumstance
- No internet
- Medical issue
- Community disappears. May be shutdown
- Tolerance with ‘enemy’
- Makes some hispanic friends
- Makes a community that replaces this one
- Leaders are frauds
- “Me or the movement”. Keeping your girlfriend
- Hearing stories from former extremists
- Awareness of manipulation. Breadtube shit
- Revisit a previous ideology
- Religion
- Social movement
- Fandoms