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=== Alt-right and racism === | === Alt-right and racism === | ||
The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], believed in radical [[biological essentialism]], a prominent [[alt-right]] view. While white, he not a white nationalist or member of the alt-right as a collective (as far as we know) and is thought to be currently living in the Phillipines. The first two blackpill boards anywhere were either founded or discussion-seeded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", ie [[Caamib]]. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by a non-racist anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. Braincels espoused a unique version of the blackpill and were not particularly traditionalist or alt-right (outside of slut-shaming) for most of it's life, defining the blackpill to mean "women just care about looks". Braincels actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community and before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] killed himself, were largely hostile to the [[alt-right]].<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref> The lack of racism on Braincels was largely due to the fact that at that point in time, if any [[alt-right]] blackpill subreddit got popular, they would have been banned, so it was mainly Reddit admin pressure which kept [[alt-right]] views temporarily out of a blackpill forum for so long. On [[incels.co]], the current largest blackpill community, there exists a large [[alt-right]] presence, with 15% of polled users stating that alt-right views were their most valued subject matter outside the forum.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/whats-your-second-preferred-division-of-the-manosphere-after-incel.106366/</ref> | The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], believed in radical [[biological essentialism]], a prominent [[alt-right]] view. While white, he not a white nationalist or member of the alt-right as a collective (as far as we know) and is thought to be currently living in the Phillipines. The first two blackpill boards anywhere were either founded or discussion-seeded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", ie [[Caamib]]. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by a non-racist anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. Braincels espoused a unique version of the blackpill and were not particularly traditionalist or alt-right (outside of slut-shaming) for most of it's life, defining the blackpill to mean "women just care about looks". Braincels actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community and before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] killed himself, were largely hostile to the [[alt-right]].<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref> The lack of racism on Braincels was largely due to the fact that at that point in time, if any [[alt-right]] blackpill subreddit got popular, they would have been banned, so it was mainly Reddit admin pressure which kept [[alt-right]] views temporarily out of a blackpill forum for so long. On [[incels.co]], the current largest blackpill community, there exists a large [[alt-right]] presence, with 15% of polled users stating that alt-right views were their most valued subject matter outside the forum.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/whats-your-second-preferred-division-of-the-manosphere-after-incel.106366/</ref> Their continued non-banned presence on the forum<ref>https://incels.co/threads/to-the-wns-would-asians-or-hapas-be-allowed-in-the-ethnostate.108581/</ref><ref>https://incels.co/threads/james-allsup-youtuber-casually-drops-the-race-realism-pill-on-1-5-million-viewers.109543/</ref> leads to constant threads complaining about race-baiting and there exists mild but ultimately toothless animosity between "stormfrontcels" and ethnic users. Part of the reason this clash never resolves may be due to the fact that one of the admins of incels.co (Master) is both black and on the Breitbart-side of the alt-right. Alt-right sentiment also bleeds into purplepill spaces. [[Incelistan.net]], a purplepill external forum, has hundreds of registered users, but their most active poster in early 2020 is an [[alt-right]] half-Jew, while their admin is not [[alt-right]]. Alt-righters tend to be very vocal. | ||
=== Blackpill science === | === Blackpill science === | ||