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Nu-misogyny is an especially virulent and violent strain of misogyny that's developed out of a number of linked but distinct movements.
Here's a graphic to help you visualize how this particular online ecosystem grew. 1/
Here's a graphic to help you visualize how this particular online ecosystem grew. 1/
Milo and Breitbart also used Gamergate to recruit nu-misogynists and gamers to white nationalism.
As these communities grew more violently extreme, they were increasingly relegated to fringe platforms, notably 8chan. 3/
As these communities grew more violently extreme, they were increasingly relegated to fringe platforms, notably 8chan. 3/
On 4chan and 8chan, pro-terror nazis mingled with pro-terror nu-misogynists.
Nu-misogyny (especially incel-inflected nu-misogyny) was already explicitly pro-violence and obsessed with evolutionary/racial pseudo-science, and they cross-pollinated more and more. 4/
Nu-misogyny (especially incel-inflected nu-misogyny) was already explicitly pro-violence and obsessed with evolutionary/racial pseudo-science, and they cross-pollinated more and more. 4/
And, that's the (very) short version of the story of how you get a new generation of nazis marked by an unusually high level of hatred for women and advocacy for gynocide. 5/
If we'd booted 8chan from the web earlier, if Reddit and 4chan had shut down extremist communities when they first started advocating violence against women, that cross-pollination might never have happened.
That online nazi/gynocidaire population boom wouldn't have occurred. 6/
That online nazi/gynocidaire population boom wouldn't have occurred. 6/
But the platforms were greedy.
And now, there's blood on their hands. 7/end
And now, there's blood on their hands. 7/end
PS-- I deleted the second tweet by accident, sorry!
It just basically said, "online interaction is super complicated and obviously this is a simplified model, but it's a good way of starting to picture how this happened"
It just basically said, "online interaction is super complicated and obviously this is a simplified model, but it's a good way of starting to picture how this happened"
