{"id":105793,"date":"2016-09-06T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105793"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:12:10","slug":"an-alt-right-jew-wakes-up-about-the-alt-right-not-liking-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105793","title":{"rendered":"An Alt-Right Jew Wakes Up About The Alt-Right Not Liking Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/09\/anti-pc-for-anti-pcs-sake\/\">Cathy Young writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Southern, a Canadian university student, freelance journalist and activist, discovered cultural libertarianism due to her frustration with the illiberal mindset of modern progressivism and feminism. Drawn into alt-right circles, Southern, now 21, initially assumed that the racism and anti-Semitism she saw and heard was simply provocative humor. Then she began to realize that many of her new allies meant it.<\/p>\n<p>Southern, who recently spoke to me by email and phone, still believes there are \u201csane\u201d people who consider themselves alt-right and is not sure if the \u201chateful\u201d ones are a majority. But she has been increasingly disturbed by the vitriolic bigotry\u2014and the effect it was having on her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been joking along so much that I think I\u2019ve lost myself a little,\u201d Southern told me. \u201cSometimes I feel like I\u2019m becoming a sociopath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having soured on the alt-right, Southern is still passionate about cultural libertarianism. However, she says, \u201cyou can defend free speech while not [condoning] what these people are saying.\u201d She points out that while Twitter\u2019s cultural libertarians oppose bans on offensive speech, \u201cwe also condemn those who make #killallwhitemen memes and genuinely hate men or whites. I don\u2019t see why this shouldn\u2019t be treated similarly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Young writes: Lauren Southern, a Canadian university student, freelance journalist and activist, discovered cultural libertarianism due to her frustration with the illiberal mindset of modern progressivism and feminism. Drawn into alt-right circles, Southern, now 21, initially assumed that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,605],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-anti-semitism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105794,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105793\/revisions\/105794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}