{"id":111472,"date":"2017-01-09T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111472"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:21:09","slug":"angela-nagle-what-the-alt-right-is-really-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111472","title":{"rendered":"Angela Nagle: What the Alt-right is really all about"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Irish Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Currently the subject of a major Twitter storm, Nick Pell\u2019s article for The Irish Times\u2019 website \u201cThe Alt-right: everything you need to know\u201d omitted the main thing you need to know about the alt right \u2013 that its central concern is race.
\nRichard Spencer, a movement leader named in the article, who popularised the term Alt-right, couldn\u2019t be clearer or more explicit about his goal, which is to create a white racial consciousness in America. Some of the more ambitious aims discussed exhaustively in Alt-right circles include the creation of a white ethno-state in America and later a pan-national white European consciousness, uniting North America, Russia and Europe in a bloc or Empire.
\nSpencer is in the strict dictionary definition of the term, a racist. He claims \u201crace is something between a breed and an actual species\u201d and believes non-white Americans should leave in a \u201cpeaceful ethnic cleansing\u201d. He believes the Alt-right will infiltrate mainstream American culture and politics, starting with deporting undocumented immigrants under Trump. Spencer\u2019s Alt-right takes influence from the French New Right who were often called \u201cGramscians of the Right\u201d applying the theories of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, arguing that political goals would best be achieved through changing the culture and media from which formal politics would follow. And so far, it seems to be working.
\nThe strictest definition of the Alt-right includes other overtly racial thinkers like Jared Taylor who calls himself a \u201crace realist\u201d, Steve Sailer who writes about \u201chuman biodiversity\u201d \u2013 a pretty transparent euphemism \u2013 and Nick Land who explores the idea of the \u201cDark Enlightenment\u201d. All of these are to varying degrees preoccupied with racial IQ, the Bell Curve, Western civilisational decline due to increased racial impurity, cultural decadence, cultural Marxism and Islamification…<\/p>\n

While Alt-right leaders like Spencer are deadly serious and irony-free, it would be absurd to suggest that there has suddenly been a mass explosion of popular and sincerely-held white separatism in the US \u2013 a fevered liberal fantasy now mockingly associated with the expression \u201cliterally Hitler\u201d. There are many in the Pepe-meme-sharing, Alt-right online world who probably aren\u2019t that political but like the transgression and subcultural subversiveness.
\nNo matter how familiar you are with the Alt-right, and I\u2019ve watched them closely for many years, \u201cexplaining\u201d the Alt-right\u2019 to a general audience will always make you sound like an overwhelmed grandparent trying to figure out how to work the internet, in part because of their slippery use of irony. Stylistically the Alt-right is like the music subcultures of past decades, with its hip elitism that rolls its eyes at normies who don\u2019t understand its conventions and argot \u2013 even though they are of course designed to be opaque to outsiders so as to resist easy interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Irish Times: Currently the subject of a major Twitter storm, Nick Pell\u2019s article for The Irish Times\u2019 website \u201cThe Alt-right: everything you need to know\u201d omitted the main thing you need to know about the alt right \u2013 … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111472","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=111472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111473,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111472\/revisions\/111473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}