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It’s incredible that Greer (who holds to her transphobic views), Namazie (who defended Charlie Hebdo and said Islamism is ‘a new totalitarian global threat’), and Peterson (who allies with the alt-right and went on numerous transphobic screeds) are among her choices. I decided to see if that claim was potentially true (since the author doesn’t bother verifying it) so I went on Google Trends. It’ll be time better spent than listening to your favorite podcaster complain about “political correctness” for the nth time. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. And although there may be no easy way out of the mess we have gotten ourselves into — stabbings in Portland, riots in Berkeley, and Trump in the White House — the book’s indictment of our elitist culture wars does point toward an inevitable, if slightly horrifying conclusion: Perhaps the normies aren’t so bad after all.
Kill All Normies received a polarized reception from critics and columnists, with Vice, [3] New York, [4] and The New Republic [5] publishing positive reviews of the book, whereas outlets such as The Daily Beast, Libcom, CounterPunch, and The New Socialist criticized Nagle's description of campus activism.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.
Nagle frames this adoption of transgression by the political right, in relation to the concept of moral transgression, which can be traced to the eighteenth century figures of Marquis De Sade, The Surrealists, Friedrich Nietzsche, Punk subculture, and contemporaneously in the 1990s 'male rampage films' like American Psycho and Fight Club. All in all, a fascinating read even for readers for whom the immediate subject matter is old hat; and if it leaves certain questions wanting for answers, I can only hope that it successfully provokes them. Kill All Normies is an accessible but unpatronising study, perfectly balancing academic critique, political commentary and assured, intelligent, non-embarrassing writing about the internet and its unique subcultures.You’d think something that was brought up 4 times (without even explaining how it relates to her points) would be accurate!
Think of any progressive intellectual of any significance from the last century and try to imagine them surviving today. Most important, she shows that psychological and economic analysis are complimentary rather than at odds.Her piece on Jacobin “Paleocons for Porn” is essentially a condensed version of chapter, if you want to get what she means but don’t want to read this book.
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