the alt-right

i think if you read around you will find ppl on the alt-right (eg mcdonald) who do lodge specific critiques at adorno's writing tho as i said above ime it's almost exclusively from authoritarian personality w/ maybe some out of context quotes from other works. of course when km discusses frankfurt school he makes the antisemitism implicit in the conspiracy theory explicit and surely the "jewishness" of frankfurt plays a role in its popularity.

Mentioned in the New Republic article, but I think recent alt-right prominence of the Frankfurt School bogeyman comes via the Breivik manifesto. Breivik cites Michael Minnicino's 'New Dark Age: the Frankfurt School and Political Correctness', a '92 essay published in Fidelio and available online. Fidelio is the journal of the Schiller Institute, whose wiki page I am enjoying now.

Good call. (Graun article about why Breivik feared the Frankfurter Schule)

"hey im being doxxed by the proud boys"

where is this happening, chaki? Fuck those guys to hell and back

the use of the term cultural marxism is basically meaningless nonsense, completely uncoupled to what the frankfurt school actually was about. i almost never see it used to denote anything other than social liberalism. it just adds the insinuation that the terrible movements for racial justice, lgbt rights, migrant rights etc. are caused by a cabal of jewish academics

'cultural marxism' = 'culture industry' imo

yeah since there's nothing discernably "marxist" about that phenomenon, it seems like the term is only used to connote that it is (1) left and (2) jewish

I think it's bandied around, yeah, to paint social justice as radical left. There's a very real sense even on the moderate right that social justice movements are a juggernaut aiming at the Harrison Bergeron-ification of the world.

chaki sayin that the DFA 1979 dude is a Proud Boi

quick internetting on a Proud Boi tumblr

http://78.media.tumblr.com/c6aed4a511529529fea10d4306320105/tumblr_inline_oix6h4Bzdh1tfpjwx_500.jpg

in this photo w/Gavin I., i think the dude with his hat pulled half over his face is in DFA 1979

^^^based on my detective work this is from election night

1. the dude is on the gavin show constantly https://www.compoundmedia.com/shows/?search=Jesse+F.+Keeler

2. the proud boys call him one of their own in this article https://www.proudboymag.com/proud-boys-white-pride-new-york-magazine/

wholly unsurprised by this if it's true, given the band's profile

*if* it's true, i said

(as a way of covering my ass)

yeah I feel like there was some ugly thing involving them recently

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/sxsw-music-the-riot-at-death-from-above-1979

that is the worse designed UX I've run across recently so I checked out. was there anything other than a giant slidshow of shitty pictures?

hey while y'all were splitting hairs about the Frankfurt school there were Nazis marching in Charlottesville again:

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/charlottesville-s-top-prosecutor-declines-to-press-charges-over-saturday/article_3374b594-adc2-11e7-93c1-f38457661523.html

and this latest outrage regarding the parking garage assault:

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/deandre-harris-attorney-says-assault-charge-based-on-misleading-evidence/article_0915ce1c-ae05-11e7-a775-9fa5f8e50aaf.html

tbf our splitting hairs about the frankfurt school might have a larger impact on the world than the few hundred nazis marching around charlottesville

haha, yes

brb making a video game about the frankfurt school to piss off nazis

lol point taken, it's just my hometown so I take it all personal, plus the Harris assault charge is such BS

I would play that game

take over the minds of college students by stealthily deploying texts in the curriculum

BArK? a karl sent me over from the samantha bee thread where I was posting this:

Hello! First post from a random mutt wandering by. Last week a Samantha Bee show producer spent an hour with me scoping out a story...

Speaking of patchy, that's my byline where I write about furries. Lately there's a bit of a nazi problem in that community, yes that's a word for it lately too...

There's a new book about them out yesterday from Cleis Press. And speaking of the nazi thing here's tags for it (one) (two) if you care.

The news site is a silly hobby thing, but interesting stuff has happened with it. The nazi thing is yet another push into geek groups (along with gaming, sci fi, comics) so we had some infiltrators document them from the inside, which synched with the Charlottesville nazi marching. I documented a couple of them on the scene of violence. We had them do "swatting" against a furry convention with a 5-figure security cost. And there's been more in the news like another convention getting ruined by them, I broke a story about it that Rolling Stone picked up. With all this going on I would be into stepping up the game by learning from peers in indie reporting.

Bark!

There is only one side. #NoMoreNazis #Wolf2 pic.twitter.com/7Ctu265Mus

— Wolfenstein (@wolfenstein) October 15, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott on Monday declared a state of emergency in Alachua County three days ahead of a scheduled speech at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville by the white nationalist Richard Spencer.

“I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent,” Scott said in a seven-page executive order.

The governor’s order, Number 17-264, gives all state agencies the power to suspend rules and regulations, including for purchasing, travel and personnel actions. Scott also activated his authority as governor to spend surplus money as he deems necessary.

http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2017/10/16/gov-scott-declares-emergency-in-alachua-before-spencers-speech/

Never let a good crisis go to waste, even when there is no crisis, yet.

Nixon, right?

hitler is coming, need to grant myself dictatorial powers to stop him.. wait.. what?

I am trying very hard not to fixate on the concept of "Nazi furries" and failing spectacularly.

Do they call themselves Hairyans? Is their leader Der Furrer?

Der Furrier

You guys have not heard of foxler have you

I have not and am scurred

Richard Spencer getting triggered by the crowd at Univ. of Florida.

Spencer is pacing the stage alone, yelling into the mic, telling crowd they are immature, saying reaction shows his own power. #SpencerAtUF pic.twitter.com/dALPuP3VqU

— Claire McNeill (@clairemcneill) October 19, 2017

Follow her whole feed for lots of reporting from this.

This is what it sounds like during the Q&A. Spencer trying to explain white ethno-state. Audience keeping up the noise. #SpencerAtUF pic.twitter.com/W0umTCmIuv

— Claire McNeill (@clairemcneill) October 19, 2017

excellent

Audience member asks #RichardSpencer: "Given how ugly you are, how can you say you're part of a superior race?" 🔥#SpencerAtUF

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) October 19, 2017

https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement

All of those people deserve to be murdered

Can’t finish the article

xp that's a little hard on ProPublica

nobody hurt, but

http://www.gainesville.com/news/20171020/three-charged-in-shooting-after-spencer-talk

nice juxtaposition in those last two paragraphs

“It’s always been socially acceptable to punch a Nazi, to attack people if they have right-wing political leanings,” Fears said. “Us coming in and saying we’re taking over your town, we’re starting to push back, we’re starting to want to intimidate back. We want to show our teeth a little bit because, you know, we’re not to be taken lightly. We don’t want violence; we don’t want harm. But at the end of the day, we’re not opposed to defending ourselves.”

Fears was arrested in 2009 on an aggravated kidnapping charge after abducting a female acquaintance in Texas, media reports show.

seems v punchable tbqh

It’s always been socially acceptable to punch a Nazi

Operation Anthropoid proved that, for sure

“It’s always been socially acceptable to punch a Nazi, to attack people if they have right-wing political leanings,”

MILO (or more correctly, that guy that actually writes MILO's shit) says you can be one, but not both!