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Racist Propaganda in the Digital Eraby Jessie Daniels, PhD
DECIDIS IT University Copenhagen | 15 May 2017
Twitter: @JessieNYC
<where we are now>
Richard Spencer: White Nationalist
Cassandra Fairbanks | Mike Cernovich
Cassandra Fairbanks | Mike Cernovich
Source: The Independent, 29 April 2017
Source: Buzzfeed | Tech 30 April 2017
White Supremacists with Torches Gather at Confederate-era Statue
Source: The Daily Progress, 2017
“blood and soil”
“Russia is our friend”
<three parts to one story>
<1. racist propaganda>
White.Grey.Black.
Source: Howard Becker, American Sociological Review, 1949
(1933-1945) (1934-1939)
200+ deaths linked to Turner Diaries
Jo Cox, MP (1974-2016)
<2. my earlier research>
WS Before & After the Internet
(2009)(1997)
Source: Tom Metzger, White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.) Newsletter, ca. 1980
racism is changing because of digital
technologies
(2009)
WS rhetoric is easier to access, global and more
participatory
“Ladies Only” Forum: white women make white supremacy
compatible with feminism
The key issue: making hard-won moral, political & legal victories once
again up for debate.
<3.changing media ecosystem>
“one-to-many” “many-to-many”
elevates racistpropaganda
Since the 1970s, a small group of billionaires committed to the radical right has financed and organized an interlocking
network of
think tanks, front groups, academics,
universities, &
news media outlets
[I no longer want to just support politicians who are]
“actors playing out a script” [now I intend to]
“supply the themes and the words for the scripts.” - Billionaire Charles Koch, 1981
“the robber barrons are the real heroes” –
Charles Koch funded “Freedom School”
Rebekah Mercer | Robert Mercer
“First Lady of the Alt-Right” | Cambridge Analytica
2017: vast network of hate radio
Talk radio meets YouTube
Roger Stone, Alex Jones 8 Nov 2016
Source: Buzzfeed, 3 December 2016
Source: New York Times, 5 March 2017
bots accelerate & amplify
convergence of news & reality TV
“most readers don’t approach the news as a clinical exercise in absorbing facts,
but experience it viscerally as an ongoing drama, with distinct story lines, heroes, and villains.”
“Our whole mindset is looking for these rolling narratives. The big ones won’t surprise you –immigration, ISIS, race riots, and what we call ‘the collapse of traditional values.’ But I’d say Hillary Clinton is tops.” – Steve Bannon
“Birtherism”
National Prominence via Reality TV
“Successful” “Self-Made”
DJT as ‘Uber Influencer’
Reads print-outs from Brietbart
Mainstream News Reports on his Tweets & Memes
<the threat to democracy>
Source: V. Polonski, World Economic Forum, 04 August 2016
is this “polarizing” or dangerous ?
some ideas are dangerous
some ideas are dangerous
racist propaganda is dangerous
“[Bannon] mused about limiting the vote to property owners….such a law would exclude a lot of African Americans, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”
racist propaganda is intended to put
political & moral victories up for debate
we must resist!
Twitter: @JessieNYC
Thank you!
#resist
53% of white
women
“Ladies Only” Forum:
white women make white supremacy compatible
with feminism
“I didn’t mean to
offend the black
stretch pant
wearing women of America…”
“Go to any mall or
airport in America,
they don’t wear
anything that zips, buttons or fastens…”
“Ivanka’s poise and polish artfully mask just
how closely her
ideologies align with
her father’s.”
“The same women who
hate Hillary
Clinton as ‘unfeminine’ flock to Ivanka, whom they
call “classy”
and “regal.”
(White) feminism is an effective shell for white
nationalist goals.
“most of those Lean In women [are] high-IQ
whites”