{"id":110488,"date":"2016-12-18T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110488"},"modified":"2016-12-18T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T03:06:00","slug":"forward-anti-semitic-alt-right-and-misogynist-pick-up-artists-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=110488","title":{"rendered":"Forward: Anti-Semitic \u2018Alt-Right\u2019 and Misogynist Pick-Up Artists Join Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forward<\/a>: On Jezebel, classics scholar Donna Zuckerberg (who happens to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s sister) raises an important question:<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]hy have so many white, male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted in recent months to anti-Semitism, white nationalism, and complaining about \u201c(((the media)))\u201d? In part, of course, because these men were always grossly bigoted and racist. The outspokenness of the alt-right empowered other men to share anti-Semitic views that they might otherwise have been quiet about. But in addition, the alt-right was getting a lot of attention. And attention, more than anything else, is what these men crave.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in a New York magazine piece, Claire Landsbaum further unpacks the relationship between the major players and ideas of, on the one hand, men\u2019s-rights activists and pick-up artists, and on the other, the \u201calt-right\u201d (that is, the rebranded white supremacists one hears so much about these days). The longtime anti-feminists are embracing anti-Semitism, the newly mainstream anti-Semites, anti-feminism:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Trump won, RooshV saw it as a victory for the PUA movement. \u2018I\u2019m in a state of exuberance that we now have a President who rates women on a 1-10 scale in the same way that we do and evaluates women by their appearance and feminine attitude,\u2019 he wrote. [\u2026.] In the same way that RooshV began to adopt alt-right ideology, the alt-right began to publish stories grounded in the principles of pickup artists and the men\u2019s-rights movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forward: On Jezebel, classics scholar Donna Zuckerberg (who happens to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s sister) raises an important question: \u201c[W]hy have so many white, male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted … Continue reading →<\/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-110488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-anti-semitism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t