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Kill All Normies: Street fights of Tumblr liberals and the alt-right
JEN IZAAKSON previews a new book which explores whether the bullying online behaviour of liberals has more in common with the alt-right than you might think

ANGELA NAGLE’S Kill All Normies represents a break with the usual unwillingness to subject the amorphous left’s internet cultures and identity politics to the same degree of scrutiny as the right’s.

Published by Zero Books, Kill All Normies uses as its title a slogan promoted on 4Chan’s politics board that essentially derides anyone who has ever been in a relationship or had a job as a “normal fag.” Unless still living in your mother’s house you’re not truly qualified sanctimonious loser troll material.

The London launch was held at the Marx Memorial Library signalling that there is still some left-wing support for ventures in critical thought.

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