NYMag on Understanding the Alt-Right

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/beyond-alt-understanding-the-new-far-right.html

How many cows do you see in the infographic
 
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CatParty said:
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/the-whole-world-is-now-a-message-board.html
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This was the sensibility galvanized in 2014 by — what else? — a depressed and frustrated man’s rambling, 9,000-word post falsely accusing his game-developer ex-girlfriend Zoë Quinn of exchanging sex for video-game reviews. Quinn came to stand in for all the women who were attempting to carve out roles in an industry where “three-dimensional female character” traditionally referred to modeling breast physics in a graphics engine. That Quinn was innocent of the charges against her was irrelevant. She had become a meme: an endlessly replicable, endlessly remixable referent, a shibboleth for the quasi-religious systems of internet culture. Memes do not make for a particularly compassionate politics. As Whitney Phillips, a professor at Mercer University who specializes in internet culture, explains, “When you’re engaging with a meme, you’re not engaging with a full narrative” — much less with the real person on the receiving end.

And so the keening wail of a rejected boyfriend became a dedicated and highly organized media campaign: Gamergate. Some Gamergaters harassed and insulted journalists and feminist critics of video games in attempts to silence them. The repetitive-task, button-pushing skills developed through years of gaming had paid off in a new, bigger game: ruining people’s lives.
 
All the world is a stage an image board
And all the men and women merely players shit posters
And one man in his time plays many parts socks.
 
Possibly my favorite side effect of Orange Hitler becoming president is the political left losing their minds and becoming the insane paranoid conspiracy theorists that they mocked during Obama's presidency.
 
Bubb_Rubb said:
Hillary Clinton is no longer white, huh?
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It should be obvious that women are honorary niggers.

No, what's going on is they're trying to compare a system designed so a farmer in Kansas doesn't get his voice drowned out by a pack of Tumblrinas in California to affirmative action. The problem is it's not "for white people", it's for the states and unlike AA it's not based on racial discrimination. The writer only believes that because most of the minority population is concentrated in cities.
 
RockVolnutt said:
The writer only believes that because most of the minority population is concentrated in cities.
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That assumption itself is ignorant as fuck. The rural south has large black/Latino populations which is why some Southern states lean blue.
 
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