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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline isn't a long one and it shouldn't be too big a surprise considering the Volkish movement that laid a lot of the groundwork for the Nazis had a lot of people involved in ideas of health, subsistence agriculture and the occult.

From Wikipedia:

The movement combined sentimental patriotic interest in German folklore, local history and a "back-to-the-land" anti-urban populism with many parallels in the writings of William Morris. "In part this ideology was a revolt against modernity", Nicholls remarked. As they sought to overcome what they felt was the malaise of a scientistic and rationalistic modernity, Völkisch authors imagined a spiritual solution in a Volk's essence perceived as authentic, intuitive, even "primitive", in the sense of an alignment with a primordial and cosmic order.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's absolutely bonkers to me that it always boils down to antisemitism at some point along the way. It's always misogyny, LGBTQ+ phobia, racism, and antisemitism. The last one always tends to tag along on the tail-end of the others, like it'll start off as "trans people preying on children" going into "building shadow governments to take over the world" and then it's always "funded by the jews."

It doesn't make any sense to me. Why specifically jewish people?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

People promoting an us vs them narrative tap into a primal tribal undercurrent - migrants, Jews, various colours of skin over the years, the Irish, Gypsies, an on and on. Often it's less important who, just as long as you have someone to blame.