I read it back in 2016 so it’s been a minute, but worth looking into.
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*Doppleganger*, by Naomi Klein is a pretty good exposition of what’s going on. Very readable.
PsyferRL on
Okay so I’m gonna go against the grain a little bit here.
Browse r/conservative and read both the posts/articles themselves and the comments within. It will make you frustrated, it will probably make you angry, it won’t be fun. They also post memes and “satire” which are wholly uninformative/childish. But if I’m being honest with myself there are MANY wholly uninformative/childish memes which come from the left as well. So just try to ignore those posts for the most part.
But if you actually commit to it, it WILL help you out. And it will help you out a lot more than learning about the origins of the extreme right. Don’t engage in the comments section, just read how they interact with each other (and take note of what gets upvoted/downvoted).
The lefties AND righties who are EASY to talk to are not the ones you need help with. What you need is to see the echo chamber in action in order to see how things play out in real time, and what they’re actually claiming to be important in the here and now.
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I highly suggest *Fever In The Heartland*. It’s about a despot that almost rose to the highest power of the land in the early 20th century. It’s non-fiction, so it’s about the actual politics around this man who had everybody under his thumb and how close American Conservativism aligned for so long with hate groups OFFICIALLY behind closed doors for decades. It isn’t ABOUT modern-day extreme right, but it shows how easily it happened then and why it’s so easily happening again now.
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“On Tyranny” and “Unfreedom” by Timothy Snyder.
Wutsgoodindahood on
Homegrown- Jeffrey Toobin. Focused on the Oklahoma City bombing but makes connections to modern day far right as well. Fantastic book.
Sandy Hook- Elizabeth Williamson. Same idea but with the newton school shooting as the backdrop to right wing extremism.
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Jesus and John Wayne
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The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion, Jonathan Haidt.
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Any book by Thomas Sowell
Making Sense of the Alt-Right – George Hawley
I read it back in 2016 so it’s been a minute, but worth looking into.
*Doppleganger*, by Naomi Klein is a pretty good exposition of what’s going on. Very readable.
Okay so I’m gonna go against the grain a little bit here.
Browse r/conservative and read both the posts/articles themselves and the comments within. It will make you frustrated, it will probably make you angry, it won’t be fun. They also post memes and “satire” which are wholly uninformative/childish. But if I’m being honest with myself there are MANY wholly uninformative/childish memes which come from the left as well. So just try to ignore those posts for the most part.
But if you actually commit to it, it WILL help you out. And it will help you out a lot more than learning about the origins of the extreme right. Don’t engage in the comments section, just read how they interact with each other (and take note of what gets upvoted/downvoted).
The lefties AND righties who are EASY to talk to are not the ones you need help with. What you need is to see the echo chamber in action in order to see how things play out in real time, and what they’re actually claiming to be important in the here and now.
I highly suggest *Fever In The Heartland*. It’s about a despot that almost rose to the highest power of the land in the early 20th century. It’s non-fiction, so it’s about the actual politics around this man who had everybody under his thumb and how close American Conservativism aligned for so long with hate groups OFFICIALLY behind closed doors for decades. It isn’t ABOUT modern-day extreme right, but it shows how easily it happened then and why it’s so easily happening again now.
“On Tyranny” and “Unfreedom” by Timothy Snyder.
Homegrown- Jeffrey Toobin. Focused on the Oklahoma City bombing but makes connections to modern day far right as well. Fantastic book.
Sandy Hook- Elizabeth Williamson. Same idea but with the newton school shooting as the backdrop to right wing extremism.
Jesus and John Wayne
The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion, Jonathan Haidt.