interview: ‘history of alt-right and racist pepe memes’.. 

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Angela Nagle spent years studying the online evolution of the alt-right and how they normalized white nationalism.

If you didn’t spend 2016 lurking in the dark corners of the internet you may still be scratching your head over the connection between Donald Trump – cartoon ‘hate symbol’ Pepe – deceased zoo gorilla Harambe and the alt-right.

Not Angela Nagle – an Irish author who has been meticulously studying what’s happening on infamous anonymous forum sites like 4chan and 8chan (and later Reddit’s Trump-supporter forum r/TheDonald) for years and who has seen more of these seedy domains than you might be able to stomach.

And she’s well beyond over all the memes.

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Source: Interview: Angela Nagle’s “Kill All Normies” exposes history of alt-right and racist Pepe memes – Salon.com