As Nagle notes many progressives were initially hopeful about transgressive hacker cultures and “leaderless” internet-based revolutions. In Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle explores the convergence of bullies and far-right activists on the websites 4chan and Reddit and the excesses of liberal identity politics and “call-out culture” on the website Tumblr. Alexander Reid Ross’s Against the Fascist Creep is a detailed, carefully annotated history of fascist attempts to infiltrate the left. far-right, focusing on the role of the internet. Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies is a fast-paced, provocative cultural commentary on the forces that gave rise to today’s U.S. Angela Nagle’s and Alexander Reid Ross’s methods and diagnoses differ, but both authors share a repugnance for the right, and both seek to help the left by warning about the neo-fascist right’s appropriation of left ideas and tactics.
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