Episode 19: Two Normies Four Beers
Summary: <p>Yoel and Mickey discuss Kill All Normies, a book written by Angela Nagle about the online culture wars, the rise of transgressive politics, and the disappearance of moderates. But, first they discuss a new journal article titled The Paradox of Viral Outrage suggesting that online pile-ons tend to backfire </p> <p>Bonus: What does Mickey really think about Christina Hoff Sommers?</p><p>Links:</p><ul> <li><a title="Quillette Social in Toronto" rel="nofollow" href="https://litigationguy.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/d-jared-brown-attends-quillette-social-in-toronto-publication-for-free-thinkers-and-ideas/">Quillette Social in Toronto</a></li> <li><a title="Quillette" rel="nofollow" href="https://quillette.com/">Quillette</a></li> <li> <a title="The Paradox of Viral Outrage - Takuya Sawaoka, Benoît Monin, 2018" rel="nofollow" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618780658?journalCode=pssa">The Paradox of Viral Outrage - Takuya Sawaoka, Benoît Monin, 2018</a> — Moral outrage has traditionally served a valuable social function, expressing group values and inhibiting deviant behavior, but the exponential dynamics of Internet postings make this expression of legitimate individual outrage appear excessive and unjust.</li> <li> <a title="Kill All Normies || Angela Nagle" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.zero-books.net/books/kill-all-normies">Kill All Normies || Angela Nagle</a> — How internet subcultures are conquering the mainstream, from from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.</li> <li> <a title="Yelp Reviewers’ Use of ‘Authenticity’ Is White Supremacy in Action - Eater NY" rel="nofollow" href="https://ny.eater.com/2019/1/18/18183973/authenticity-yelp-reviews-white-supremacy-trap">Yelp Reviewers’ Use of ‘Authenticity’ Is White Supremacy in Action - Eater NY</a> — According to a study of Yelp reviews for NYC restaurants, judging restaurants by “authenticity” tends to put non-white owners in a trap</li> <li> <a title="Is a Planned Monument to Women’s Rights Racist? - The New York Times" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/nyregion/is-a-planned-monument-to-womens-rights-racist.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share">Is a Planned Monument to Women’s Rights Racist? - The New York Times</a> — "I do think we cannot have a statue of two white women representing the vote for all women,” </li> </ul>
