04-20-2020, 11:24 AM
(04-18-2020, 04:44 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Why stop with Boomers and Silents? Right wing extremism has been around in America for a very long time. The alt-right is a late Gen X/early Millennial form of it. The term "alt-right" is Gen X in style, borrowing as it does from terms like "alternative rock" and "alt-country" (I suppose Spencer was trying to cast his message of hate as some kind of heroic fight against the mainstream.)
Gen X is also responsible for antifa, which rose in response to the neo-Nazi skinheads of the 80s.
Just as a benchmark: the John Birch Society originated in the 1950s and the original RW Minutemen originated in the 1960s. RW conspiracy theorists have been around even longer than that. There's nothing like paranoia to stoke the flames of intolerance.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.