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How did we get from those earnest hopeful days broadcast across the media mainstream to where we are now? One should definitively leave the privilege-checking, victimhood-loving trenches of identitarian politics for a start. But the key part of Nagle's argument is that the Tumblr-left and the alt-right are locked in a feedback loop where each group reacts to each other's perceived ridiculousness and become more entrenched in their own ideologies.
Sites such as 4chan and reddit fostered online right-wing communities that spilled out into internet journalism, Facebook and Twitter, and ultimately the White House. In this article, Schwartz both interviews weev and describes the trolling surrounding Henderson's death. A practice of the alt-right is to make the left look stupid as possible via trolls which are taken to be legit representatives by outsiders, and Nagle fell for it hook, line, and sinker. The particular incarnations of the online left and right that exist today are undoubtedly a product of this strange period of ultra puritanism. I found this chapter extremely interesting because I have to admit that during the zenith of the Tumblr left and the cultural revolution that followed I managed to elude most of the drama described in the book.I had a quick look at the silliness that was rising in some sectors and decided to cull my social timelines to filter out all such idiocy. Even a few very simple editorial changes, like offering embedded links in the eBook edition or a glossary of some of the otherwise inscrutable terms, could have made this a better book.
Thus there are hundreds of genders, Marxist universalism is misogynist, and effacement of agency requires reparations through any number of micro-payment platforms. This is a book that I have been waiting to read for quiet some time now, but the level of insight and highly comprehensive discussion of what is going on in the cultural wars on the Web by Nagle exceeded my expectations. Angela Nagle describes the methods of American right-wing populists on the Net and explains why they are so successful.While she doesn’t quite make clear how the real-world consequences of this online discourse—especially the election of Donald Trump—were precipitated by the online hate-pit, Nagle’s analysis is trenchant and timely. Are the ‘left’ (or the main culprits Nagle suggests: transgender, abused, or disabled people) supposed to answer for every unusual example, real or fake, that comes up relating to their oppression?
The rise of President Trump and right-wing populism worldwide was preceded and normalized by a far-right social media movement. Nagle mentions a few names to explain the supposed horrors of No-Platforming, such as Germaine Greer, Maryam Namazie, and Jordan Peterson.Desire, in this case, is also a desire for the commodity, of course, which also necessarily dissatisfies.
By which I mean, there are absolutely no citations, references, footnotes, or links on any sources for this book. You don’t hear about Marxists, Anarchists, ‘Anti-Imperialists’, and others, Nagles idea of politics left of ‘Tumblr’ stop at Chapo Trap House or Jacobin. While I was already aware of most of this, I can see how someone who is unfamiliar with all of this, and doesn’t know where to start, would find this valuable. Bush, who had waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and embarrassed educated people with his Southern style, his regular gaffs and ‘Bushisms’, the feeling of shame among US liberals was captured by books like Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men.Nagle’s caution that the left’s stagnant ideas, pedantry, and infighting have made it the weaker party of the two should surely lead those who want change to reflect on their methods.
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