Have you ever wondered what happened during the 2016 election? The election was one that brought about many ways to criticize and ridicule the other candidate. In Angela Nagle’s book, Kill All Normies, she examines the way in which the internet played a key role in the election and the way in which political movements and ideas are formed. Through many different forms of social media, the book focuses on methods in which the Internet-culture allowed the right and left to set themselves apart from the mainstream (Nagle 2). Angela Nagle begins by explaining the way in which the internet has played a key role through different periods including feminism, sexuality, gender identity, racism, free speech and political correctness (Nagle 2). The
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Donald Trump fueled the alt-right, which is a mix of rightist online phenomena including everything from 4chan to neo-Nazi sites and stimulated the online culture wars (Nagle 11). The way in which Trump could put out many different tweets showed those on the extreme level that he did not have to say things in a certain way and many people agreed with the way in which he handled things. This was especially true with Roosh V, a pickup artist and neo-masculinist, who wrote a series of books in which he went to different countries to find different strategies to manipulate and coax women to have sex (Nagle 89). Roosh V saw Trump’s victory as a win for his movement saying, “we now have a President who rates women on a 1-10 scale in the same way that we do” (Nagle 90). This shows that people would take some of what Donald Trump would say to the extreme and in turn create papers, series, and online memes that could potentially cause a conflict with others including liberals and feminists. Trump became someone that these far alt-right could look to as someone to validate the way in they were criticizing …show more content…
This can include things such as the white working class and the way in which they have started to feel marginalized. This could be seen in the book Hillbilly Elegy, written by J.D. Vance, who grew up in Appalachia Ohio. He concludes that the white working class in the Appalachian area are suffering from numerous problems including lack of education, economic problems, and the idea that affirmative action holds people in these areas back (America’s Forgotten Working Class). With this argument, it coincides with the idea that the white working class have turned to something and someone they can put faith into. The Internet allows them to show their support for Donald Trump on social media including sites like Facebook. However, some do not just show support but also go to extreme measures to support the cause they believe in on sites like 4chan and Twitter. For example, people like Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, who believes that whites cannot coexist with other races uses sites like Twitter to gain support for some of his ideas (Trumpland: Kill All Normies). This is an idea that Nagle’s discusses in her book and this argument deserves to be looked at further as it is a major point in the way in which people voted in the 2016
Donald Trump fueled the alt-right, which is a mix of rightist online phenomena including everything from 4chan to neo-Nazi sites and stimulated the online culture wars (Nagle 11). The way in which Trump could put out many different tweets showed those on the extreme level that he did not have to say things in a certain way and many people agreed with the way in which he handled things. This was especially true with Roosh V, a pickup artist and neo-masculinist, who wrote a series of books in which he went to different countries to find different strategies to manipulate and coax women to have sex (Nagle 89). Roosh V saw Trump’s victory as a win for his movement saying, “we now have a President who rates women on a 1-10 scale in the same way that we do” (Nagle 90). This shows that people would take some of what Donald Trump would say to the extreme and in turn create papers, series, and online memes that could potentially cause a conflict with others including liberals and feminists. Trump became someone that these far alt-right could look to as someone to validate the way in they were criticizing …show more content…
This can include things such as the white working class and the way in which they have started to feel marginalized. This could be seen in the book Hillbilly Elegy, written by J.D. Vance, who grew up in Appalachia Ohio. He concludes that the white working class in the Appalachian area are suffering from numerous problems including lack of education, economic problems, and the idea that affirmative action holds people in these areas back (America’s Forgotten Working Class). With this argument, it coincides with the idea that the white working class have turned to something and someone they can put faith into. The Internet allows them to show their support for Donald Trump on social media including sites like Facebook. However, some do not just show support but also go to extreme measures to support the cause they believe in on sites like 4chan and Twitter. For example, people like Richard Spencer, a white nationalist, who believes that whites cannot coexist with other races uses sites like Twitter to gain support for some of his ideas (Trumpland: Kill All Normies). This is an idea that Nagle’s discusses in her book and this argument deserves to be looked at further as it is a major point in the way in which people voted in the 2016