The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

2019-10-21

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Primary sources for this video were:

Alt-America, by David Neiwert

Healing from Hate, by Michael Kimmel*

Terror, Love and Brainwashing, by Alexandra Stein

*Kimmel's book was purchased before the sexual harassment accusations against him were made; the book is good but I do not endorse the writer.

You can read my livetweets on Alt-America here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1124737720218157056.html

Other major sources:

How fascists get red-pilled: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2018/10/11/memes-infowars-75-fascist-activists-red-pilled/

Down the (white) rabbit hole: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0894439314555329

Technological seduction and self-radicalization: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Technological-seduction-and-self-radicalization-Alfano-Carter/72789500d71e2f7ed5cea70e363dd7f8eaa9e1de

An overview of 8chan: https://oilab.eu/infinitys-abyss-an-overview-of-8chan/

The Daily Stormer's handbook (once again): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_n_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2

The curation/search radicalization spiral: https://hapgood.us/2019/05/07/the-curation-search-radicalization-spiral/

The Alt-Right pipeline: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10108/7920

Demography of the Alt-Right: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-demography-of-the-alt-right

How terrorists recruit online: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/11/09/how-terrorists-recruit-online-and-how-to-stop-it/

The alternative influence network: https://datasociety.net/output/alternative-influence/

VEX on how white nationalists can't have healthy relationships: https://twitter.com/vexwerewolf/status/982621789359624192

Additional citations:

The Card Says Moops: /youtube/video/xMabpBvtXr4

The PewDiePipeline: https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw

Faraday Speaks on the Alt-Right Pipeline: https://youtu.be/sfLa64_zLrU

Toxic forums as digital self-harm: https://youtu.be/fD2briZ6fB0

Parasocial relationships: https://youtu.be/x3vD_CAYt4g

The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis: https://cmsw.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Parasocial-Contact-Hypothesis.pdf

Hate group stats: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map?year=2014

Patriot group stats: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/year-hate-and-extremism-0

Hate crime stats: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2012/topic-pages/incidents-and-offenses/incidentsandoffenses_final

More hate crime stats: https://ucr.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2014/topic-pages/incidentsandoffenses_final

Alt-Right former: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/katie-mchugh

Why Twitter won't ban white supremacists: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too

Emma V on white and "political": https://twitter.com/emmahvossen/status/1138841342921060354