Kill All Normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right

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Literary critic Anthony Julius has also noted the resulting ‘unreflective contemporary endorsement of the transgressive’.

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right is a 2017 non-fiction book by Angela Nagle published by Zero Books. As she elucidates point after reasonable point, it feels as if a grown-up has finally entered the room.p.3) Trump himself has often tweeted memes born in these circles [8] [9] [10], and several people in the administration have partaken in memetic dog whistles [11] [12] which are the bread and butter of the alt-right. C-16 extends the broad protections for citizens so they can not be harassed or denied rights on the basis of their sex or race, under the Canadian Human Rights Code, to include gender identity which had not previously been included. Fusion TV's documentary Trumpland: Kill All Normies directed by Leighton Woodhouse was based on the Nagle's book.

The reason it has been able to do this – at least, the only reason which Nagle thinks worth mentioning – is because of its mirror image on the left, a demographic of censorious ‘Tumblr liberals’, the practitioners of a shrill and self-absorbed ‘identity politics’ which has repelled a whole new generation from the political left. org, which took issue with Nagle's supposed bolstering of right-wing narratives around trans issues and trigger warnings. That’s such an old-white-guy thing to say’ became a common phrase used to dismiss bothersome opinions. She graduated from Dublin City University with a PhD for a thesis titled 'An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements'.After the murderous gathering in Charlottesville, there’s a real need for insightful analysis of the American far right – but, argues Lisa LeakKill All Normies fails to provide it. In the radical identity politics laboratory of Tumblr, hundreds of new genders were announced, of which Nagle offers a two-page sample list. Instead, the emergence of this new online right is the full coming to fruition of the transgressive anti-moral style, its final detachment from any egalitarian philosophy of the left or Christian morality of the right. The cult of suffering, weakness and vulnerability has become central to contemporary liberal identity politics, as it is enacted in spaces like Tumblr.