![]() Red-pill posts would rarely stay up long. Implicit or explicit gestures of antisemitism were strongly protested by evangelical Christians. Common responses included “people should be treated as individuals not as part of a group” and “the Democrats are the ones who want to divide us up by race”. This type of extreme racist post was frequently met with pushback from the community. ![]() While regular posts would feature familiar conservative tropes like “having an iPhone means you can’t criticize capitalism” and “Venezuela proves that socialism doesn’t work”, extreme posts would contain racist caricatures and anti-capitalist messaging in favor of white identity. This account would repost high-performing content from big Republican pages etc) and use the popularity of these images to accumulate a following of Fox, Breitbart and Turning Point USA-type viewers.Ībout once a week, the account would unexpectedly post extreme content. The bio might read: □Free Speech, □ Debate Welcome, □ Make America Great – by all outward appearances it would look like a regular conservative Instagram page. They’d set up meme pages that, on the surface, appeared to be run-of-the-mill, Republican Maga-type accounts. I once followed the work of a group of far-right teenagers who devoted much of their time to radicalising people. Today, an essential part of online radicalization is the desire to spread this new knowledge to a larger audience. Once you’ve been red-pilled, you want other people to take the red-pill, too. A red-pill – the name is taken from the famous scene in The Matrix – is something that opens your eyes to a hidden political “truth”.
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