Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies
February 21, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Today I review Angela Nagle's book 'Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right' - https://amzn.to/2XgBGg1
Here is the article on Walter White as Nietzschean hero that I mentioned: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/08/breaking-bad-walter-white-as-nietzschean-hero/. Here is the Slate Star Codex post, 'The Ideology is Not the Movement': https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/04/the-ideology-is-not-the-movement/.
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