Neo Nazis and the Alt Right

Writer Talia Lavin spent about a year catfishing white supremacists online. The result: personal trauma, predictions of a “bloody” election season, and the realization that many extremists aren’t holed up in basements—they’re bit players in our daily...

sillhouette · 2020-10-17T01:28:38.265Z

Eating fish and chips dry to own the impure.

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lauren southern dated the biggest loser on the planet https://t.co/SeGs5lMWLM

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Nesrie · 2020-10-17T01:33:15.966Z

Dry, tasteless food seems perfectly fitting for racists.

sillhouette · 2020-10-17T01:34:43.131Z

Someone should tell him who first brewed beer.

Nesrie · 2020-10-17T01:35:50.759Z

He probably thinks it’s Germans and he would be so so far off.

Dissensus · 2020-10-17T02:23:41.342Z

sillhouette:

Eating fish and chips dry to own the impure.

If he’s serious, he can’t even eat that since potatoes originate in the Americas.

Gordon_Cameron · 2020-10-17T02:54:34.050Z

Imagine being so racist that you wouldn’t eat Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, Ethiopian, Thai, Indian…

CLWheeljack · 2020-10-17T02:58:31.117Z

The best accepted origin for ketchup traces back to Roman garum, so, as is so often the case, he’s not even right about the bits he’s being racist about.

Dissensus · 2020-10-17T03:22:14.491Z

The article that quote is excerpted from is pretty good. I was afraid it was trying to drum up sympathy for her, but it never does. It has some expected nuggets in there about how she first learned that, actually, white people are the oppressed ones:

Daniel Lombroso:

Sure, her parents had raised her in one of Vancouver’s wealthiest suburbs, but they had earned it through “hard work” and “assimilation.” Plus, she was surrounded by “rich Asian kids,” who she believed enjoyed far more privilege than white girls like her. Southern felt scapegoated when the class discussed topics like slavery or the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Canadians.

Naturally, she’s doing just fine:

Daniel Lombroso:

Southern moved with her husband and her son to Australia, where she has returned to activism. . . She also frequently appears as a commentator on the country’s Sky News channel, inveighing against COVID-19 restrictions and “cancel culture.”

There was never going to be a reckoning. No accountability, only retreat. It’s chilling how much damage one young person with a knack for social media can do.

The Atlantic

Why the Alt-Right’s Most Famous Woman Disappeared

Lauren Southern could spew racist propaganda like no other. But the men around her were better at one thing: trafficking in ugly misogyny.

John_Doyle · 2020-10-17T04:52:52.141Z

CLWheeljack:

The best accepted origin for ketchup traces back to Roman garum, so, as is so often the case, he’s not even right about the bits he’s being racist about

I thought tomatoes also originated in the Americas. Now I must head to wikipedia.

CraigM · 2020-10-17T04:55:39.257Z

I believe you are right, if I recall in Peru/ Chile.

Gordon_Cameron · 2020-10-17T05:03:52.656Z

Apparently tomato wasn’t always a primary ingredient in ketchup, which is why many bottles say ‘tomato ketchup’ implying there are other kinds.

I know this from reading some random thing on Teh Internetz so take it with the requisite dollop of garum.

Thrag · 2020-10-17T05:42:46.357Z

The potato originated in Peru.

There are a vast number of potato varieties, but only one comes from North America. The couch potato.

(I took a trek through the Andes some years ago and this was the guide’s favorite joke)

Destarius · 2020-10-17T05:55:59.649Z

Ketchup is a Chinese word. So maybe tomato paste or tomato sauce is ok but the same product called Ketchup would be a no-no.