*The road to Charlottesville, 540 miles away from his home in Paoli, Ind., began decades ago for Matthew Parrott, who at 35 calls himself “the first alt-righter,” referring to a small and decentralized movement of extreme conservatives, many of whom profess white-supremacist and anti-Semitic beliefs and seek a whites-only ethno state.
Parrott had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 15, he said. So his family pooled their money and got him a computer with access to the Internet — a rarity in his neighborhood of mobile homes — which he came to see as his “secret portal in my bedroom.” In chat rooms, he developed a taste for intellectual combat, always taking the contrarian side, obsessing over how to dismantle progressive arguments until, as he puts it, he “ended up self-radicalizing.”*
There, he met people who looked like him, people he never would have associated with white nationalism — men wearing suits, not swastikas — and it made him want to be a part of something.
It's like he expects white nationalists to be wearing capes and spandex with swastikas on their chest.
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1 Miguk_Saram 2017-08-21
Snappy, he was already radicalized many years ago. What you're proposing is too little, too late.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-21
Snappy's a little slow BUT IS TRYING HIS BEST mmmm kay?
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-21
Uh, well, that's sad...
Oh. Huh.
1 -not_a_mimic- 2017-08-21
Wanna bet that this kid woulda been beat up no matter where he'd gone to school?
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-21
Maybe. But then he would Eliot Roger a bunch of jocks instead marching around screaming about blacks, lol.
1 quantumphilisp 2017-08-21
I got beat up by whites, blacks, native, etc in school everyday, at least my experience was diverse :D
1 carthoris26 2017-08-21
/r/2meirl4meirl/
1 rewind45 2017-08-21
Social media was a mistake, a huge mistake.
1 froibo 2017-08-21
America was better when the only voters were rich people who debated whether they should care about poor people a little bit or not at all.
1 worthlessworthl 2017-08-21
How long before the white nationalists start recruiting these guys as suicide bombers and go full ISIS?
1 WarSanchez 2017-08-21
Pretty sure the FBI already got in trouble for that. Not even kidding. Let me find the link.
1 Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-08-21
Wasn't there a white nationalist who converted to islam and killed all his roommates not too long ago?
1 worthlessworthl 2017-08-21
Makes sense. You pretty much just need to change your opinion on Islam and not a whole lot else.
1 nmx179 2017-08-21
72 virgins in heaven is a way better deal for your average incel than anything the white nationalists are selling.
1 makes_people_cringe 2017-08-21
Yes
1 AnnoysTheGoys 2017-08-21
Not long. If I was a mayopride nut, I'd go recruit in /r/incels/mgtow, etc.
1 joltto 2017-08-21
This could be about literally any one of them.
1 wolfsktaag 2017-08-21
every article about "prominent" and "leading" alt righters is always about some dude no ones ever heard of
1 bleepis 2017-08-21
why can't he just use his autism for something more productive like obsessively memorizing train schedules or whatever
1 knottedfate 2017-08-21
*The road to Charlottesville, 540 miles away from his home in Paoli, Ind., began decades ago for Matthew Parrott, who at 35 calls himself “the first alt-righter,” referring to a small and decentralized movement of extreme conservatives, many of whom profess white-supremacist and anti-Semitic beliefs and seek a whites-only ethno state.
Parrott had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 15, he said. So his family pooled their money and got him a computer with access to the Internet — a rarity in his neighborhood of mobile homes — which he came to see as his “secret portal in my bedroom.” In chat rooms, he developed a taste for intellectual combat, always taking the contrarian side, obsessing over how to dismantle progressive arguments until, as he puts it, he “ended up self-radicalizing.”*
oh that makes sense
1 Forseti69 2017-08-21
It's like he expects white nationalists to be wearing capes and spandex with swastikas on their chest.
1 SpotNL 2017-08-21
Imagine posting pepe memes irl