Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as evidence of the Nazi iconography and chants at the rally, in arguments over how to characterize it.
What it is
A long video essay examining the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, with footage and commentary on the neo-Nazi participants. It draws on rally footage, VICE News, and the Hunton & Williams report.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2018 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Cites pdkl95 · 2018-12 · on “Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform”
> It hasn't lost meaning with me, when I read "alt-right" I read "racist trolls" It's stronger than simply "trolls". "Alt-right" is just the latest PR rebranding used by neo-nazis/white-supremacists. Obviously, generalizations about any group of people is problematic; trolls and other not-explicitly-neo-nazi people use the label "alt-right".. Those people might want to consider that if you hang out with neo-nazis and repeat their memes/trolls, people might start to assume you are a neo-nazi . If someone likes to spend time in hang out with ${sport} fans, uses slang associated with ${sport_team}, most people are going to assume they are fan of that sport even if they claim* otherwise. I suspe
Cites tylerhou · 2020-12 · on “YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud”
You're missing the context that the people attending the Unite the Right rally heavily displayed Nazi iconography (swastikas and more obscure neo-Nazi symbols): [this video] If you're okay with marching alongside a swastika, are you really a "very fine person?" As Shaun puts it, "the acceptable number of swastikas at the rally is zero." Another excerpt ( [this video] ): Speaker: "Did Hitler do anything wrong?" Crowd: "No!" Speaker: "I love my people!" Crowd: "I love my people!" Speaker: "One more, one more. I want everyone to repeat after me, pay close attention because this is the first precept of the true alt-right. Remember it. Gas the [slur]s, race war now!" Crowd: "Gas the [slur]s, race war now!"
Cites chriswarbo · 2021-03 · on “GitHub, fuck your name change”
The Brexit Party was just a face-saving rebrand for UKIP. It didn't take long for the mask to start slipping, with the party's founder resigning after retweeting racist posts from far-right figures. Of course, Farage himself may denounce such things: > I set the party up, she was the administrator that got it set up. ( [LINK] ) Which is an interesting contrast to his remarks when the party was being formed: > This was Catherine's idea entirely - but she has done this with my full knowledge and my full support. ( [LINK] ) Friendly reminder that it's very easy, and very common, for racists to disavow their racism when it's expedient to do so (e.g. an extreme example [this video] )