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She lumps the left into one big tent, and obviously misunderstands the various factions and arguments being made. that the author believes political horseshoe theory, that military combat veterans are the only people who can truly lay claim to PTSD, that The Young Turks are a great leftist news site, and that MRAs seek egalitarianism; the conflation of feminism and the sexual revolution; and a whole bunch of other things I could list-- yes somehow putting that all aside, I just have to say: Andrea Nagle, learn to citation. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. A review in The Daily Beast said the book was plagued by "sloppy sourcing", [7] noting an allegation that parts of the book had been plagiarized.
What seemed to hold them all together in their obscurity was a love of mocking the earnestness and moral self-flattery of what felt like a tired liberal intellectual conformity running right through from establishment liberal politics to the more militant enforcers of new sensitivities from the wackiest corners of Tumblr to campus politics.Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3 :CSCW, (1-33), Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019. There’s no mention of how the Alt-Right love making up ridiculous fake profiles to mock transgender people, disabled people, women, and non-white people (and frequently can’t detect satire/jokes from serious suggestions). From reading the book it became apparent I'm most likely best classed as a person who believes in left economic ideas and reduced inequality who feels the left has lost its way by emphasising identify over inequality.
Nagle sets the stage by comparing the Obama's 2008 presidential campaign with Clinton's 2016 campaign, wondering why Clinton's campaign was met with widespread internet mockery and memes - despite employing the same tricks as the Obama. Sites such as 4chan and reddit fostered online right-wing communities that spilled out into internet journalism, Facebook and Twitter, and ultimately the White House. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures right through to its mainstream expression. She deliberately cherry-picks extreme examples of the left (my God, does she actually think people honestly use demon-gender?A significant part of the alt-right are Christian, but the 4chan affiliated crowd don't care about supposed Christian morals, willing to do and say things that are very unconventional and horrid. Did the Vietnam War shape the ideologies and views of the left and right during the 60-70s that Nagle talks about? I cannot really consider myself a leftist in the traditional sense any more, and this is in part because of the movements that Nagle and Fisher talk about.
KILL ALL NORMIES provides the much needed cognitive mapping for our predicament – it is a book for ALL those who want to orient ourselves in our crazy times. It all goes to illustrate Nagle's central point about the dire paucity of ideas in our culture right now.The left will need to be much more organized and prepared for the spread of Fascism in the west, but there’s no way the left will succeed by doing university debates with people like Milo or Jordan Peterson.
The alt-light figures that became celebrities during this period made their careers exposing the absurdities of online identity politics and the culture of lightly thrown claims of misogyny, racism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia and so on. When this happened, nobody knew who to take literally anymore, including many of those in the middle of this new online right themselves. The major complaint is that, for an avowed materialist, there is very little materialism here - almost all the cultural phenomena are understood in terms of continuations of and/or reactions to other cultural phenomena. Indeed, Nagle argues that the Alt-Right has co-opted liberalism’s transgressive rhetoric and aesthetic. How did we get from those earnest hopeful days broadcast across the media mainstream to where we are now?
Angela Nagle strikes me as an uncommonly sane voice in a culture war defined by astounding cruelty, extremism and intolerance. Nagle's basic thesis is as bold as it is obvious: academic "political correctness" - manifested in a person like Barack Obama, who incarnates the image of the "articulated, cosmopolitan American" - finds his countermovement in the America First policy of his successor. Incredibly enough, she ignores how even the CIA said they found no connections between Omar Mateen and ISIS, as well as how he was a security guard that tried to become a cop.
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