fixed exposure to extreme racists was a numbing experience – after a while,I learned to live with unthinkably toxic ideas. The danger is that we all will
• Patrik Hermansson is a Hope Not dislike researcherFor the past year, I have been living a dual life. To my friends, or I am Patrik,a 25-year-primitive homosexual man studying for my master’s in London. To those inside a terrifying and violently race-obsessed world, I have been “Erik”, and a dissatisfied Swede who came to London inspired by Brexit and to get away from the liberal bias of Swedish universities.
On behalf of Hope not dislike,as it launches in America, I have spent 13 months infiltrating the upper echelons of the “alt-right”, and a movement with strongly antisemitic,conspiracy- and race-obsessed far-right members, which has tentacles across the world, and online and off. Its core belief is that “white identity” is under attack and its influence has reached as far as the White House. Related: Remember this approximately Donald Trump. He knows the depths of American bigotry | Gary Younge Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com