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Jimmy the Giant

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

And so a lot of conspiracy theorist people will use this one situation that happened maybe once or twice in history to basically come to the conclusion that anyone who believes in anything that's different than the mainstream is always correct.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

And so a lot of conspiracy theorist people will use this one situation that happened maybe once or twice in history to basically come to the conclusion that anyone who believes in anything that's different than the mainstream is always correct.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Oh, Tommy.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Oh, Tommy.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Because what they've done is so fucking clever because they re-skin, they repackage racism. It's good to look into the history of these movements and how their rhetoric changes. So the BNP, Nick Griffin, when he came in, he realized that if you stop talking about ethnicity and ethnic purity and start talking about cultural preservation, that's way more palatable because ethnicity is inherent.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Because what they've done is so fucking clever because they re-skin, they repackage racism. It's good to look into the history of these movements and how their rhetoric changes. So the BNP, Nick Griffin, when he came in, he realized that if you stop talking about ethnicity and ethnic purity and start talking about cultural preservation, that's way more palatable because ethnicity is inherent.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Like we don't have a choice in our skin color. But culture, you could argue like if you live in this country, you're kind of following the ideas, the beliefs, the... the sort of attitudes of that country and that can change. So there's this sort of separation in someone's mind where you can separate culture from race and you feel like you're not a racist anymore.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Like we don't have a choice in our skin color. But culture, you could argue like if you live in this country, you're kind of following the ideas, the beliefs, the... the sort of attitudes of that country and that can change. So there's this sort of separation in someone's mind where you can separate culture from race and you feel like you're not a racist anymore.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

And maybe arguably you're not a racist, you're xenophobic. Like that's effectively what it is. And I think xenophobia is much more marketable. It still has the...

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

And maybe arguably you're not a racist, you're xenophobic. Like that's effectively what it is. And I think xenophobia is much more marketable. It still has the...

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

liberal idea that these are individual decisions and choices without it being like tied to their ethnicity so when it came to Tony Robinson he although now I've looked back he did say some racist shit but the way they would frame it themselves was like they were just talking about ideology so like radical Islam to them is literally all Islam but their market in it is so smart what's

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

liberal idea that these are individual decisions and choices without it being like tied to their ethnicity so when it came to Tony Robinson he although now I've looked back he did say some racist shit but the way they would frame it themselves was like they were just talking about ideology so like radical Islam to them is literally all Islam but their market in it is so smart what's

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Right-wingers were so busy getting scared about Muslims affecting their Western Christian values that they forgot to tell their kids why dictatorships are bad. Surely that's more worrying. Right-wingers love to be scared of the shadows. They're not scared of the thing that's in front of them. They're like all these things like potential threats.

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Right-wingers were so busy getting scared about Muslims affecting their Western Christian values that they forgot to tell their kids why dictatorships are bad. Surely that's more worrying. Right-wingers love to be scared of the shadows. They're not scared of the thing that's in front of them. They're like all these things like potential threats.

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, yeah. That again, it was kind of the Ukraine thing where it kind of shifted my perspective where my personal relationship to Chavs was going to school, there was like the chavvy kids, you'd have fights with them, you'd got to co-op, they'd throw harry bows at you. So my perception of Chavs was that. This is what I like about the left is it's...

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

Yeah, yeah. That again, it was kind of the Ukraine thing where it kind of shifted my perspective where my personal relationship to Chavs was going to school, there was like the chavvy kids, you'd have fights with them, you'd got to co-op, they'd throw harry bows at you. So my perception of Chavs was that. This is what I like about the left is it's...

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

more interesting like it's not just people are bad that's such a boring way of like looking at things it's like well this thing happened with social housing where they changed the dynamic the makeup of how social housing like the types of people that were allowed in certain areas you'd have the people that were more troubled put in these social houses the people that were better off putting these ones that started making a divide you then had this process like they call it like residualization which meant that like certain more troubled backgrounds so yeah

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

more interesting like it's not just people are bad that's such a boring way of like looking at things it's like well this thing happened with social housing where they changed the dynamic the makeup of how social housing like the types of people that were allowed in certain areas you'd have the people that were more troubled put in these social houses the people that were better off putting these ones that started making a divide you then had this process like they call it like residualization which meant that like certain more troubled backgrounds so yeah

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Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

pooling together and they didn't get the support they needed and then like there's like an actual story there there's like an obvious starting point which was at some point we had these good council houses that brought communities together they made really connected communities people had more opportunities and then over time that changed we neglected lots of the community and then

Pod Save the UK
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline

pooling together and they didn't get the support they needed and then like there's like an actual story there there's like an obvious starting point which was at some point we had these good council houses that brought communities together they made really connected communities people had more opportunities and then over time that changed we neglected lots of the community and then