The Alt-Right Playbook
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The Alt-Right Playbook is a web series created by YouTuber Ian Danskin.[1] Its first episode was released in October of 2017 and it is currently ongoing. The series focuses on examining and dismantling the online culture of the alt-right and "the rhetorical strategies [it] uses to legitimize itself and gain power."[2][3] The sources used for each episode are listed in the videos' descriptions, and Danskin has made his research list available on Tumblr.[4]
Episodes[edit]
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| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Introduction" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | October 11, 2017 | |
| Ian introduces the alt-right, the series, and makes clear that the purpose of the series is not to help to confront the alt-right, rather to discourage from it. | |||||
| 2 | "Control the Conversation" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | October 11, 2017 | |
| 3 | "Never Play Defense" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | November 29, 2017 | |
| Ian introduces how a seemingly advantageous position of rebutting short flawed accusations with well thought out arguments can be seen as "losing" by the average viewer, which happens to be the position US liberals want to be in. He also explains how people, not just the alt-right, tend to "put people in boxes" to discourage others from listening to them and others who fit in it. | |||||
| 4 | "Endnote 1: What I Mean When I Say "The Right"" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | March 14, 2018 | |
| Ian addresses some critiques he received regarding the series. The first regarding how he portrays the right, which is deemed as "generalistic", which he refutes by explaining that he is careful about the wording and the characters used to portray different right-wing positions, as well as claiming that the series is about the rhetoric, not the positions. He also addresses that the rhetoric is never portrayed as exclusive to the right, rather as more frequently used by them. | |||||
| 5 | "Mainstreaming" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | April 4, 2018 | |
| 6 | "The Ship of Theseus" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | May 1, 2018 | |
| Based on the eponymous philosophical dilemma, Ian explains how accusations, with slight changes in wording, can be easily misconstrued and lead to false conclusions. He also compares it to the use of ever-changing dog whistles both in the left (usually to itself) and the right and the use of clickbait in media and the best way to see through it. | |||||
| 7 | "The Death of a Euphemism" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | May 31, 2018 | |
| Ian describes how liberal media was found with the guard down on the 2016 presidential elections when Donald Trump, instead of using euphemisms to hide racism towards Mexicans and Muslims, was open about it and this helped the far-right rhetoric to become more mainstream. He also explains the birth of euphemisms in US politics. | |||||
| 8 | "You Go High, We Go Low" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | November 4, 2018 | |
| Ian addresses how the Democratic party is coerced by the republicans to keep their moral high ground even when the latter are not, as well as the reluctance of liberals to address the ends over the means and how the alt-right uses this to shield themselves against criticism for the worst of their actions. | |||||
| 9 | "Endnote 2: White Fascism" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | November 29, 2018 | |
| 10 | "The Card Says Moops" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | January 25, 2019 | |
| 11 | "Always a Bigger Fish" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | March 22, 2019 | |
| 12 | "Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | March 22, 2019 | |
| 13 | "How to Radicalize a Normie" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | October 21, 2019 | |
| Ian's longest video. In it, he explains the process in which a normal person with not much interest in politics can be recruited by the alt-right and then radicalized through the solutions this group gives to society's problems and their "truths" about the world that are given through alt-right content (usually on Youtube) as mantras rather than arguments, as well as how someone can escape this mindset. He also discourages people from trying to change people who are on a radicalization process because they might validate their biases. | |||||
| 14 | "Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | December 2, 2019 | |
| 15 | "I Hate Mondays" | Ian Danskin | Ian Danskin | April 6, 2020 | |
References[edit]
- ↑ Somos, Christy. "Dismantling the 'Alt-Right Playbook': YouTuber explains how online radicalization works". CTV News. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ↑ Somos, Christy (October 25, 2019). "Dismantling the 'Alt-Right Playbook': YouTuber explains how online radicalization works". CTVNews.
- ↑ Danskin, Ian (October 11, 2017). "The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction". YouTube. Retrieved April 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Danskin, Ian. "Research Masterpost". Innuendo Studios.
External links[edit]
- The Alt-Right Playbook on YouTube
- The Alt-Right Playbook on IMDb Search this movie on
- Somos, Christy. "Dismantling the 'Alt-Right Playbook': YouTuber explains how online radicalization works". CTV News. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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