By David Futrelle
Facing an energized antifascist movement and internal enmities, the Alt-Right is imploding, with its leaders giving up or fighting one another, while followers grow ever more disillusioned by the day.
But the Alt-Right is far from over, and continues its encroachment into the mainstream media; Tucker Carlson’s nightly show on Fox News has been getting ever more explicitly white supremacist. So we can’t let up yet.
Here’s a collection of recent articles to help make sense of the mess, including a selection of my own posts dealing with some of the juicy details of the collapse. Feel free to suggest more articles in the comments.
Less Than a Year After Charlottesville, the Alt-Right Is Self-Destructing (Daily Beast)
The Fascist Right Is Bloodied and Soiled (Splinter)
With their leadership knocked out, young white supremacists face a directionless future (ThinkProgress)
Satanism Drama Is Tearing Apart the Murderous Neo-Nazi Group Atomwaffen (Daily Beast)
Is Antifa Counterproductive? White Nationalist Richard Spencer Would Beg to Differ. (The Intercept)
In wake of Richard Spencer’s Michigan rally, the racist rights divisions over optics come to a head (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Neo-Nazi Group Implodes Over Love Triangle Turned Trailer Brawl (Daily Beast)
The Alt-Right Is Collapsing, but Powerful Conservatives Are Mainstreaming Its Ideas (Salon/Alternet)
Is the Alt-Right Dying? White Supremacist Leaders Report Infighting and Defection (Newsweek)
Why Is the Alt-Right Falling Apart? (Newsweek)
The alt-right is in decline. Has antifascist activism worked? (The Guardian)
The Hate Report: The alt-right is a mess (Reveal)
How Antifa Broke The Alt-Right (The Banter)
‘This is all we’ve got’: Young white supremacists are down to their last fundraising platform (ThinkProgress)
ALT FIGHT: Jason Jorjani Fancied Himself an Intellectual Leader of a White Supremacist Movement — Then It Came Crashing Down (The Intercept)
And here are a few of my posts on the subject:
Alt-Right erupts after crying Nazi Christopher Cantwell admits he’s a federal informant
MEME WAR: MGTOWs vs Nazis in The Battle of the (White) Babies!
For ongoing coverage of the alt-right and antifa/anarchist/lefty activism, check out It’s Going Down and Unicorn Riot.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well who knew that a movement based on cruelty, domination and being a shit head would crumble so quickly when the people they try to bully fight back
Lovely – thanks David. I shall read at leisure.
I liked that someone “fancied himself an intellectual leader of the white supremacist movement”.
Think we’ve found the flaw, right there,
*evil movie villain laugh*
yessssssssss just as expected
(pets cat evilly)
*Kicks back and relax*
Yes, savor these tears.
Best part:
That Amanda Marcotte piece- yikes.
good
[insert Grumpy Cat meme here]
Could this be the death throes of a mindset heading for extinction?
Pretty please?
That’s like being Entertainment Secretary for The Taliban.
@Alan Robertshaw
Or an Answers in Genesis “scientist” 😉
Apparently Anglin said recently that they’re planning to focus mostly on Europe, as they’re losing too much ground in the States. Which is weird considering, you know, Trump.
Off topic a bit, but still related, seen on Twitter this morning, via @Brad_Savvy:
I’m afraid to ask what “for fear of revealing your power level” refers to. But the rest of it is interesting, by which I mean deeply pathetic. I bet they think this is Machiavellian trickery 🙂
@Mish:
I believe a power level is whatever is always “over 9000!!!!”
Sunlight is said to be an effective disinfectant!
Let the light shine!
I like a bit of good news with my evening walk. It warms my liberal degenerate heart to watch Nazis squirm and eventually break away from their unscientific, preachy in all the wrong ways nonsense. It looks like a new Dawn almost of no ethnostate conversations and white guys crying about the lack of white guys despite there being plenty of white guys.
Mish,
Do you have that image saved? Because I think we all know that trolls have always done this. But it would be nice to have proof. For the next time a “neutral” troll who inevitably says our mean behavior is why he’s going to become an MRA/alt-righter shows up. Or the next time we get a brogressive claiming that requests for intersectionality are going to drive everyone away from the cause.
@Mish
According to knowyourmeme.com, “reveal your power level” is basically the opposite of “hide your power level”. Which refers to hiding your affiliation, skills, or hobbies to avoid being labeled negatively. It originates from either Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z. The website notes it’s fairly commonly used on 4chan.
ETA:
To give an example: you could say my reluctance to discuss social justice and feminism with my co-workers is me “hiding my power level”.
@wwth, oh yes indeed. First thing I did was save them. I can send them to you via the Twitters if you like.
@Laugher at Bigots – ???
@Prophet309, ah, thanks – I figured it was something like that. Highlights their incredible arrogance, too.
@Mish – Nothing is more normal than pointing out what all the normal people are doing, for the benefit of other normal people.
@Mish: sounds like something out of Fedora: The Tipping (link is to a PDF)
> Mish
What !? Well, thanks but no, thanks. We have already our lot of fascisto-nazi-ultrarighties to deal with, we do not need more shit in the cesspool.
And thanks for the pictures. If they think that speaking like an old RPG character (with the same dialog line looping when you talk to her or him) will make them better or people going to support right and alt-right, let us them living in this fantasy.
> Out of topic
As i am still browsing Steam from times to times, i was recently showed this game. With the consideration that the term is often used with some kind of pejorative connotation, i do not know if the game is a parody or straight. In all cases, the game is less visually offensive than the one against feminism, which does not help to categorize it.
@occasional reader
A quick look at the reviews suggests negative reviews come in two flavors “poor game mechanics” and “not anti SJW enough”.
In somewhat more positive news a Dutch school teacher who saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children from the Holocaust, dies at the ripe old age of 107. I hope that none of us have to learn the courage he showed.
Ugh. Our nazis flavored party is gaining traction in some parts of Germany and that’s sadly enough to have success on a larger scale, with the explicitly Christian parties branching out into more fascist rethoric too. Loads of really dumb comments and angsting about all the refugees and immigrants.
I mean, I’m not denying it’s been handled terribly and there are still a lot of problems with increased violence (though, not (just) because they’re immigrants. There are more people. So, more crime. Sometimes it’s based on gender discrimination, but in the end its a failure of integration and not properly planning for the (amount of) people we got.), but fuck, they aren’t really interested in solving the problems.
Case in point: the angsting about “the islamisation of the west”. Someone blew a fuse on twitter about chocolate Easter bunnies being called “traditional bunnies” on their receipt. And they all went on and on about how this was pc killing Easter because of the Islam (with, happily, way more people telling them to stop being stupid).
And then the company got involved. That’s a specific kind of golden Lindt bunny that’s existed for several decades, so it’s…. A tradition to sell these on Easter. Hence the name.
There’s a lot of backlash for them, still. But the afd (said nazis flavored party) is still trying to argue they aren’t nazis and some people do believe them. Luckily, it’s still a minority, but it’s still scary, especially since Germany should really, really know better.
They’re also like your alt-right in a very amusing way – they keep on destroying each other, the leaderships changing again and again with internal power struggles. They are hypocrites, wanting women to stay in their place (making white babies) and gays to be, you know, not gay because the white babies! And one of their leaders was…. A lesbian.
I can only hope that we’ll continue successfully fighting the good fight. It makes me hopeful to see the ridicule they incur often, but I’m always disappointed on voting days. And that it makes people from other, more liberally minded parties feel comfortable to say misogynistic and racist and just plain wrong shit.
Although that often ends in them getting purged, so, yay. At least its becoming clearer for whom to vote.
Well, he did promise to throw out the immigrants. Make America Great Turtle Again.
> TreePerson
Probably not enough “ethics” for GameGaters…