[tangential] Former alt-right grifter on how it works: "And the emphasis on genetics and IQ was appealing as well. 'They see it almost as a moral value. They think that people with high IQ confers them with some kind of super-ability and makes them leaders, natural leaders.'"
(https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/katie-mchugh)
posted on May 02, 2019 02:29 PM by
u/dgerard
/r/TheMotte in a nutshell
ETA:
Even if McHugh no longer ‘aligns’, she’s still a grifter at her core. They’re simply dormant, waiting for another wave of attention to ride out of their misery. We must resist humoring the rehabilitation of glassy-eyed opportunists. She’ll be back to swim with the sharks soon enough.
this is a really interesting article actually
she wrote some awful stuff, and believed in awful things
but it also sounds like genuinely sees the error of her ways and is trying to show others (through this long and extensive read) that the alt-right really isn’t the solution
she owns up to her mistakes-she’s not saying “yea I wasn’t ACTUALLY racist, I just made some mistakes NBD” which isn’t really easy to do
I couldn’t care less about her redemption narrative, what’s valuable in this piece is how it traces how she was cultivated through various insitutions and patrons, and how it outs all of these people by publishing personal correspondences.