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Am I missing something, where's the rebellion
- Thread starter gun_haver
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No it's not, the alt right is just an honestly small group of racist young guys affirming the anxieties of Baby Boomers. There's nothing rebellious about trying to help the GOP affirm their policy goals.
Today's young people are the most left-wing generation since the 1960s and seem genuinely concerned with broader hierarchies, like white supremacy and capitalism, in ways that our forebears were not. We don't form edgy subcultural groups because most of us recognize that lifestylism does not lead to social change and because social media and the internet offer more private and individualist avenues of expressing personal identity.
TacoMasters
Member
What sucks is that the ideas that the Alt-Right believe in are thoughts that won't go away anytime soon. There are plenty of groups that are against the alt-right, but it's a constant struggle of staying on top of the flagpole; you're either relevant to the world or not.
Hell, at this point, the Alt-Right is more of an ideology rather than a group.
BlackDoomShadow
Member
Where's the Rebellion? I grow tired of asking this, so it will be the last time. Where is the Rebel base?
TacoMasters
Member
Who knows? After their second major victory, the Rebellion has relocated somewhere else far. However, their enemies are closing in on them fast, so they best be prepared when the attack comes.
They're bringing back all the stuff that older generations literally fought wars to eliminate.
Themacabre
Member
This may shock you, but there are actually white people doing good things that aren't nazis or "allies" and don't live on facebook or twitter. They are just people.
At any rate, why would anyone want teenagers to come up with anything. They are morons. Ever had to go to a mall?
Want to make a difference? Explain to kids they can make big changes by being active in politics in ways other than complaining about the current state of...politics. Like, for example, getting into politics as a career, or campaigning for local government officials that share your same views.
Earthbound64
Banned
They're bringing back all the stuff that older generations literally fought wars to eliminate.
Tiki Torches.
TacoMasters
Member
Didn't know it was possible to contradict yourself in a post so quickly.
I'm not seeing where he contradicted himself unless you think people means teenager.
Earthbound64
Banned
Seriously, we had a thread on GAF where people would turn off the lights, get under a table and hide because someone knocked on their door / rang their doorbell.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
At least the trend of old people complaining about young people continues.
They're bringing back all the stuff that older generations literally fought wars to eliminate.
the alt-right is not a substantial part of millennials/gen Z. while a larger fraction of white guys under 30 are openly racist in comparison to 30 years ago, this is a reaction to loss of status of white guys and not representative of white young people in general. Expect that in 2030, young white racists will continue to be vocal while traditional young conservatives continue to dwindle into irrelevance
This is a stupid post because the average white guy who fought the Nazis in WW2 would have had incredibly reactionary views on race and gender that would make him not too dissimilar to Spencer fans today. Idolizing white dudes of the past for not being as bad as the Nazis is reactionary and dangerous.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
I try to reserve most of my hate for Boomers.
TheHolyTurnip
Member
Start rebelling and you'll find out.
normal baby boomers and Gen X are exceptionally more dangerous than the youth Alt-Right, because there's tens of millions of them and they play a more active role in upholding racial and economic hierarchies
Most of the money funding youth far-right groups comes from reactionary elites born in the 70s or earlier.
Most of the money funding youth far-right groups comes from reactionary elites born in the 70s or earlier.
Most baby boomers weren't hippies. Most Gen Xers weren't punks.
Rebellions are driven by small yet influential groups of disrupters. The alt-right fits the bill perfectly, despite it not fitting our romanticized, sanitized notions of rebellion that have, ironically enough, been popularised by mass media.
This is also a great point.
Velocity:Design:Comfort
Banned
OP is probably the same type of person who says "Occupy isn't going to get anything done, it's just hippies in parks!"
PdotMichael
Banned
Where were you when it was your job to make the world a better place? Playing shitty video games I guess.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Do they fit the bill better than LGBT and "SJW"s? Those groups do plenty of disrupting as well.
Reneledarker
Banned
A lot of young people are doing things, like in South America, specially native groups, or even in Europe, but the media would not comment on that, Check all the occupations that exist, the anarchist movements that try to establish comunas and the like.
sankt-Antonio
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it started in OT, see for yourself.
They do, but I think mass-media and pop culture are much friendlier and more supportive of LGBT and social justice than they are of alt-right ideals. So it feels less disruptive and more mainstream as a result.
But it's tricky to parse this all out because of the cultural divide between media and reality, and differing cultures based on location. There's nothing rebellious about being anti-SJW in the southern U.S., and there's nothing rebellious about being pro-SJW in the east/west coast of US.