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The Moneyman Behind The Alt-Right
How did explicit racism move from a taboo to an open, unabashed force in American politics? A loose but sprawling internet army, often called the alt-right, gave white supremacy a massive megaphone. And with the rise of Donald Trump’s candidacy, it suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once. In fact, that movement had an infrastructure […]
Southern Baptists Condemn Alt-Right Movement At National Conference
Leaders of a national Southern Baptist conference voted to repudiate white supremacy and the growing “alt-right” movement Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision that had caused uproar internally. “We had people outside this convention hall from the alt-right handing out flyers of why we should hate African Americans,” Charles Hedman, a pastoral assistant from Capitol Hills […]
‘Alt-right’ Pepe the Frog game banned from Apple App store
Published time: 9 Jun, 2017 21:12 A game featuring ‘Pepe The Frog,’ the internet meme who morphed into a symbol of the alt-right, has been declined by Apple’s App Store because the tech giant considers the cartoon’s main character as “objectionable content.” Pepe began life as the star of an internet comic strip created by […]
Alt-Right Shock: Pepe the Frog Murdered by Creator, a Cuck
Pepe the Frog, 12, has died. The frog, created as an innocent comic book character but chosen for reasons still unexplained as a symbol of latter-day internet-based race hate, both ironic and sincere, died alone, in the forlorn hospital of comic book characters killed off by their makers after becoming hate symbols by out-of-control memeification. The […]
The untold story of Baked Alaska, a rapper turned BuzzFeed personality turned alt-right troll
Baked Alaska Tim “Treadstone” Gionet was not always a supporter of President Donald Trump. The 29-year-old internet troll, most widely known as Baked Alaska, seemed to be an unlikely person to wade into the real-estate mogul’s camp at the start of the 2016 election season. Back then, Gionet identified as a carefree, easygoing libertarian. He […]
An alt-right publisher is being sued over allegations he helped create a ‘troll storm’ that targeted a Jewish woman
A non-profit organization known for litigating discrimination lawsuits filed a claim against the publisher of one of the nation’s leading alt-right websites for its “vicious and relentless campaign of intimidation and harassment” against a client on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, “launched a troll storm” against Tanya Gersh, […]
With Attack on Syria, Trump Alienates the Alt-Right
Image: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, modified by Bryan Menegus One of the few issues uniting the loose coalition of meme obsessed right-wingers, ethno-national, white supremacists, and other fringe political camps we’ve come to know as the alt-right has been the sentiment that our protracted wars in the Middle East were a grave misstep. Many Trump supporters […]
Meet The (Alt-Right) Mormons
Last week, an alt-right blogger who goes by the name Ayla had a bone to pick. “Mormonism and Utah are the next target for cultural destruction,” she wrote on her blog Nordic Sunrise, and the culprit is “black, ghetto culture.” Her comment came in a post titled “Mormon ‘Rap’ and the Destruction of White, Western, […]
Alt-Right Trolls Target Amy Schumer’s Latest Netflix Special, Causing Star Ratings to Plummet
If you’ve checked out Amy Schumer’s new Netflix standup special, The Leather Special, you may have noticed a less-than-enthusiastic response from users; as of now, the special has a rating of just two out of five stars. But, according to Splitsider, Schumer has an army of alt-right Redditors to thank for the lackluster ratings. The Leather Special, the comedian’s first […]