The ‘Alt-Right’ Created a Parallel Internet. It’s a Mess

[Kalis]

Well it didn't come up in my google search. But then again we probably have different search histories.

Say a person has a search history of:
bashing immigration
bashing muslims
bashing feminists
bashing communists

Google might lump that person in with the same search cohort of the alt0right or white supremacists. Studies have shown those are common search terms in the cases of people that radicalized themselves online.

So you really need to take issue with these extremists co-opting the same search terms.
Or take issue with Google for lumping these parameters together.
Or take issue with posters who do not look critically at their search results and ask why?
Or take issue with posters copy pasting these results onto broader public venues without questioning them.

Or maybe your Google search results are so full of crap that you are getting the skewed results.


Edit: the same image comes up in private browsing, so it’s you.

[Deleted]

And the right spamming the same old frogs is proper memeing now?

You tell me, you seem to know lots about righties.

[callipygoustp]

Google algorithms returns searches based on your search and browsing history. I think you just outed yourself and your own browsing habits... now that is AWKWARD.

People might lie to their friends,
People might lie on their facebook page,
But Google search algorithms, thats like a confessional

Hmmm, that would explain why when I search on "antifa" I get a bunch of images with half naked women with large breasts. Dam you google!

[Kalis]

Hm, let's see...

...so a t-shirt with a known slogan to trigger whiny Reddit anti feminists...

It’s misandrist, it doesn’t make it less sexist just because it’s popular.

...a proclamation that protecting women from assault or harassment is more important than the fee fees of paranoid dudes. You know the "is saying hello to a woman now harassment???" morons...

Kinda weird priorities you got there, Kalis.

Wanting to make men afraid is still misandry.

...a true statement how misogyny gets women killed but all this often touted misandry does is hurt some feelings, which makes it not an actual thing, with any impact whatsoever...

Again, weird priorities, dude.

The way to combat misogyny isn’t misandry. Just as the way to combat racism isn’t more racism.

I don't see who she is sexist against. I guess, you think men, but as a man I don't see how she is sexist against me.

It’s not my fault that you can’t see how insulting men, simply because they are men, is sexist.

Do you think it is okay to insult women and to want them to be afraid, solely on the basis of them being women? If you answer no, then why is it okay to do it to men?

Nothing she does could ever negatively impact me anyway.

So what? Whether or not something is sexist isn’t based on how it might affect you personally.

[Jaransan]

It's not a parallel safe space when you are banned from the "mainstream" space, it's your own space. Seriously if all the mainstream platform would stop having any political leanings and have clear and universal guiderules people won't get triggered, yet what see with the giants today (FB, Twitter, etc) is that they would like to become a safe space.

ps: Reminds me when I got one week suspended for calling out a Hillary supporter that was insulting Trump supporters on one of Trump's post on FB. Apparently #IWouldntEvenRapeYou is against FB.

Disregarding everything else you said - you don't see why that hash tag might kind of imply your a rapey kind of dude? It sort of implies a worldview where there are criteria that if met would mean you WOULD rape someone.

[Destump]

Eew, why would anyone bathe in sperm?

[Kaleredar]

I'm sorry, this entire post reeks of bias. You personally don't find racism against white people a problem so I can't call it equivalent.

Well, it is equivalent, and I'm not gonna argue over whether or not one form of bigotry should be more okay than the other.

You're saying to ignore both because "both sides do it."

See "whataboutism"

[Yarathir]

You're saying to ignore both because "both sides do it."

See "whataboutism"

I never said to ignore anything. I said free speech is free speech, and to call a free speech absolutist site a nazi site because hatred against white people is socially tolerated and therefore will be defended is silly.

[Deleted]

Hm, let's see...



...so a t-shirt with a known slogan to trigger whiny Reddit anti feminists...



...a proclamation that protecting women from assault or harassment is more important than the fee fees of paranoid dudes. You know the "is saying hello to a woman now harassment???" morons...

Kinda weird priorities you got there, Kalis.



...a true statement how misogyny gets women killed but all this often touted misandry does is hurt some feelings, which makes it not an actual thing, with any impact whatsoever...

Again, weird priorities, dude.



I don't see who she is sexist against. I guess, you think men, but as a man I don't see how she is sexist against me.

Nothing she does could ever negatively impact me anyway.



Besides to the people they kill?

I have to say she definitely looks sexist

[Kalis]

I have to say she definitely looks sexist

She is a sexist.

The Guardian won’t open comments on her articles anymore, because she gets slaughtered by all the left wingers destroying her arguments and telling her to shove her identity politics where the sun doesn’t shine.

Old school lefties tend to hate identity politics, as their whole ideology was based on breaking down class barriers, not creating divisions based on race and gender.

[Deleted]

I had to think of Iron Sky when I saw this thread. Like some ancient tech "that somehow works" meets our current age

[TEHPALLYTANK]

ps: Reminds me when I got one week suspended for calling out a Hillary supporter that was insulting Trump supporters on one of Trump's post on FB. Apparently #IWouldntEvenRapeYou is against FB.

Well yeah, probably because that hashtag implies that there are people you would rape; the underlying message you're sending is that that you are okay with rape in some scenarios.

You were quite clearly flaming that person, that isn't the same thing as calling someone out.

[Mormolyce]

Yes, I wouldn't even rape you is not an insult, it's a statement I made towards a fat unattractive facebook user that wanted free healthcare by govt. so she could fix her bad decissions in life.


Just like I wouldn't steal, harm anyone, etc...

That will absolutely get you suspended and if you're surprised by that then you need to get a bit better in touch with reality.

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Also, Gab.ai isn't some alt-right neo-nazi den or nest.

*Googles it*

Oh yep. It definitely is.

[Why Am I Here]

This alt left and alt right shit is just your average tribal behavior at best. Both fuckin' sides are so extreme that being in the center makes me extreme to them. The alt right and alt left are no different from each other. You're going to have outliers, psychos, and extremists on both sides. There's no meter to tell which one is worse. So going "Oh the alt-whatever the fuck did this, so now my tribe is in the right and not evil. The guy that did those horrible things under my group's name is not actually part of my group btw."

Now time for some extremism of my own:
If you identify as alt right, you're a piece of shit.
If you identify as alt left, you're a piece of shit.

Maybe if you tried thinking with your head rather than trying to play our favorite games like "The Victim," "Conclusion Jumper," or "I don't need fact, I have emotions and need to feel special" you'd have a better time.

[Mormolyce]

If you identify as alt left, you're a piece of shit.

I don't imagine that worries too many people, since there is no such thing as the "alt-left". It's quite incredible really, it's a very literal case of false equivalence that seems to have come from people with so little context that they not only don't know the origin of the term "alt-right", they don't understand what the word "alt-" means at all.

Do you mean "fringe right" and "fringe left"? That would make more sense, although it still wouldn't work because neither are those are terms of self-identification. Same with any variant of "extremist" - extremists rarely openly identify themselves as such.

[Why Am I Here]

I don't imagine that worries too many people, since there is no such thing as the "alt-left". It's quite incredible really, it's a very literal case of false equivalence that seems to have come from people with so little context that they not only don't know the origin of the term "alt-right", they don't understand what the word "alt-" means at all.

Do you mean "fringe right" and "fringe left"? That would make more sense, although it still wouldn't work because neither are those are terms of self-identification. Same with any variant of "extremist" - extremists rarely openly identify themselves as such.

Far left, far right, same shit different pile. Honestly I can't even keep track of which movements are real movements, which are just fake enemies made up by opposition, which exist only as propaganda, and which are actual opposition movements. From what I understand, the alt-right is something that has been adopted as a legit term by those on the far right, but I don't know who coined it. But the alt-left is more of a made up term by the far right. But the misinformation is thick so I could be completely fucking wrong, and I am sure there's a crowd of people willing to tell me I am, even if I am not. So let me reframe what I said is a broader, less discriminatory way! Extremists are pieces of shit no matter what label they use.

[Volardelis]

Alt-right? You mean anyone that opposes the PC culture and regressiveness of the sjw community.

The irony is, the alt right believe in their own sense of PC culture. You can't say anything anti-PC about Trump, Richard Spencer, Milo etc without getting a few neo-nazi's triggered.

[Why Am I Here]

The irony is, the alt right believe in their own sense of PC culture. You can't say anything anti-PC about Trump, Richard Spencer, Milo etc without getting a few neo-nazi's triggered.

Honestly the alt right bugs me far more than the far left. The alt right exists as a counter response to PC culture, which was being perpetrated by small groups, I don't know who these groups are, probably just bored teen girls and college students. But the alt right took that opposition to extremes and now seem to hold white supremacist views and seem to have some ego issues. The "alt left" - whatever the fuck it is, seems to exist only to oppose the alt right. I really don't know what the alt left is though, it's too fucking vague. The Alt Right bugs me so much because they are the biggest perpetrators of all this fuckery and between Trump and Russian propaganda, it's an absolute fuckery. A bunch of racist, sensitive, hypocritical people are using these as outlets for their misery and acting like they have some fucking noble goal to save the dying white race or some bullshit like that. And some how hating everything that's liberal is going to do that. I guess you need something to do between video games and social rejection. Okay so I just really hate 4chan and the movement that spawned from /pol

And just remember, I hate the far left too, and have no love for extremists.

[igualitarist]

Just like SJW made tumblr a parallel internet.

[Slant]

That's because she has bigger balls than you.

Who the hell is Jessica Valenti and why are you guys talking about her as if anything she said mattered? In more important news, I actually had yet another dump today that I deeply enjoyed. Discuss.