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The alt-right community serves as a gateway into the white nationalist movement. However, more research is needed on how the alt-right's virulent misogyny interfaces with white nationalist masculinity premised on patriarchal protection of white femininity. This study addresses this question through a qualitative analysis of a white nationalist forum, Stormfront.org, and finds two masculine strategies vying for site dominance. These two gender strategies draw on different movement ideologies, white nationalist or alt-right. Users battle over the prime adversary used to construct movement identity and mobilize against. I argue forum conflict reveals that defining a central adversary is necessary for a masculine social movement to achieve a collective "movement masculinity" through a unification of goals and strategies. These findings contribute to research on masculinity and social movements by showcasing that not only is there diversity in extreme-right masculinity but that there is significant contestation over different masculine strategies.

In 2019, the authors led a workshop at King's College London examining how to study 4chan and assess their association with the Alt-Right. Unbeknownst to the authors, a participant was a 4chan user and started a mid-workshop thread on its notorious /pol/ (politically incorrect) board. It gained significant attention. Reviewing it later, the authors realised that this parallel thread illustrates perfectly the challenges researching 4chan – and similar – communities. We conducted discourse analysis on this unique dataset, providing an alternative perspective to predominant anthropological and informatic approaches. Our analysis enhances understanding of 'free-extremist' communities such as 4chan in several ways. It assesses how the /pol/ community responds to observation and provides new insights into roles influencers might have in radicalising others. It illustrates the value of discourse analysis in evaluating users' associations with the Alt-Right. Finally, it proposes ways researchers can overcome the challenges faced when analysing such communities.

The alt-right claims it responsibly advocates for its positions while the Ku Klux Klan was "ad-hoc." This allows them to accept the philosophy of white nationalism while rejecting comparisons with prior white nationalist organizations. I confront this by comparing the methodologies of alt-right trolls and the KKK. After studying each movement's genesis in pranks done for amusement, I demonstrate that each uses threats to police behavior, encourages comradery around ethnic heritage, and manipulates politics to exclude voices from public deliberation. Differences between alt-right trolls and the KKK originate in the technologies they use, not out of a concern for responsible advocacy.

Este artículo se centra en el impacto de pensadores europeos –cuyas ideas influenciaron los movimientos nazi y fascista de entreguerras en el siglo xx– sobre el actual movimiento de extrema derecha digital de la Alt-Right, localizado sobre todo en Estados Unidos. En concreto, explora las ideas sobre gobierno autoritario desarrolladas por intelectuales como Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900), principalmente, o Julius Evola (1898-1974), y su uso contemporáneo en el discurso empleado por el líder de dicha corriente política iliberal estadounidense, Richard B. Spencer. El objetivo es construir un análisis del pensamiento de la derecha radical transnacional, específicamente del pensamiento autoritario, a través del tiempo y de medios totalmente distintos como pueden ser la literatura versus Internet.

This article probes American sportswear manufacturer New Balance's reputational and public relations crisis, which resulted from an executive's statement of support for Donald Trump's US-focused trade policies in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. Reported consumer backlash to New Balance's apparent alliance with Trump was exacerbated when neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer penned an editorial appropriating New Balance as "the official shoes of White people." Using theories of affect in social media and consumer culture as a framework, I situate the New Balance case within the current culture wars as enacted in politicized social media threads, as well as prior instances in which alt-right groups have attempted to co-opt sportswear brands' cultural associations in the service of extremist politics. Performing manual inductive content analysis on a sample of tweets from before the publication of the editorial (n=100) and after (n=77), I illuminate a polarized political division between users in terms of their backlash or endorsement of New Balance's stance, which correlates with stated anti-Trump or pro-Trump positions, and articulate how users position themselves in terms of a consumer/customer relation to New Balance as brand, while sneakers become a material outlet for consumers to enact their discontent in a mediatized forum.

Abstract
This paper considers aspects of the rise of neo-fascist political sentiment across Europe. It suggests that an appropriate political response to those developments must involve a reconsideration of the politics of sympathy which is seen as essential in the formation of solidarity.

The new and old of white nationalism -- Red pills for the masses: metapolitical awakenings -- Back to the future: reactionary timescapes -- Whitopia: ethnostate dreamin' -- Cat ladies, wolves and lobsters: a menagerie of biological essentialism -- Living the TradLife: babies, butter, and the vanishing of Bre Fauxcheux -- Normalizing nationalism: alt-right creep -- Decoding and derailing white nationalist discourse.

Years of Rage is a powerful and revealing examination of the history of white supremacy in America from the 1920s to the present. It explores the various groups that have operated in the United States during this time, from the Klan to the alt-right, the ongoing dangers they pose to the country, and their deep roots within American society.