The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction

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Recommends runarberg · 2020-06 · on “Zuckerberg: I just shared the following note with our employees”

Regrettably it isn’t that clear cut. While hate is illegal—and rightfully so—racists, bigots and war mongers can and do find ways to spread their hate with legal means. This includes shorthands, dog whistles, framing and tones, etc.[1] I don’t think we will ever be able to conceive a legal framework that can catch all these as hate speech. So we need moderation along side criminalization of hate speech. 1: I recommend the YouTube series The Alt-Right Playbook for an overview of these tactics: [this video]

Recommends quantumwoke · 2020-10 · on “Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens”

Don't waste your words, he's just one of those racist internet trolls following the same time old (if a little tired) strategies. You won't get anything fruitful from calling him out IME. I find this video series [0] useful for identifying and ignoring trolls online. [this video]

Recommends hnbad · 2022-08 · on “Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)”

I'm talking about well-known phenomena that can readily be observed in online debate culture and social spaces over the past decade: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] I'm not sure what you think this has to do with "conspiracy thinking". I'm not saying this is an organized effort. While particularly rowdy online communities do organize via places like 4chan (and its various even less palatable siblings) and KiwiFarms, the shift on HN can much more easily be described by looking at how fringe politics generally spread in online spaces. Innuendo Studios' video series "The Alt-Right Playbook"[0] is worth a watch if you are new to this concept. Heck, Jordan B Peterson wildly holds celebr