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Antifa, the Alt-Right, and Ignoring the KKK
from Cheese Plate Time · #58
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minA long rant on why ignoring extremists works better than engaging them, childhood memories of a KKK march in Lancaster PA that fizzled out, radicalization via Reddit/4chan, and how the alt-right overlaps with pickup-artist culture.
- 16:50Tim analyzes Trump's "very fine people on both sides" comment and what he was actually trying to say about the right.
- 17:13Tim distinguishes between not liking violent Antifa elements and the alt-right's desire to provoke confrontation with Nazi imagery.
- 17:55The alt-right keeps gaining attention because ignoring them is the only way to defeat them, but nobody does it.
- 18:11Tim recalls being a scared kid in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the 90s when he was told the KKK would march in town.
- 19:05Nothing happened with the KKK march because people just ignored them, which worked throughout the 80s and 90s.
- 19:35Before the internet, radicalization happened much slower because people couldn't find other extremists on Reddit and 4chan.
- 19:54Men's rights guys and pickup artists who can't get laid are getting radicalized online into the alt-right movement.
- 20:13Pickup artist tactics are really psychological predatory behavior, and the alt-right grew out of similar terminology and systems.