It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
If you're gonna place the foundation of the alt-right as a cultural phenomenon before gamergate then you gotta at least go back to the 2008 election. I watched Stormfront's membership at least double in the hours after Ocrumbo won.
But as Nakoichi said, the term itself goes back to 2010.
:obama-drone: is the best answer here, for a few reasons.
People talk about Obama breaking chuds' brains, and that's exactly what happened -- the very existence of a popular, charismatic, highly-educated black president was one of the biggest imaginable contradictions to white supremacy, whether conscious or unconscious. His victory was so overwhelming that you had overconfident libs talking about "permanent majorities" in Congress, and the looming shift away from a white-majority voting base made that as plausible as it could ever be. Further, the fact that the neocons couldn't stop Obama (and the disastrous end the the Bush administration more generally) meant that they could no longer be trusted to maintain existing power structures or deliver any of the associated benefits to their base.
So the right needed a new strategy, which led to a bunch of novel right-wing experiments, including the alt-right.
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Yeah I was going to say the tea party shit under Obama was the start but Nakoichi is right.
Roissy/Heartiste, Roosh, and Cernovich all started posting around 2007, and they've been at least as influential as GamerGate.