Conspiracy theorizing by Kyle A. Lohmeier
I have a hard time believing in coincidences. Therefore, I have an even harder time believing that big, nebulous things moving in perfect harmony and working out seemingly according to plan happens by accident. As such, it strikes me as very strange that just as the Social Justice movement was playing itself out and regular folks were increasingly tired of strange-looking people hysterically attacking boogeymen like “rape culture” and “institutional racism,” that this so-called “alt-right” movement came to the fore. The creators of South Park had time to do an entire season lampooning the idiotic non-issues the social justice movement and new politically correct culture rails against and their precision mockery was helping move the cultural zeitgeist away from taking these perennially-butthurt snowflakes seriously. The revival of 90s-era PC culture was looking like it might just be about over.
Then, almost as if on cue, here comes the “alt-right (I don’t capitalize it because I don’t think it’ll be around long enough to earn proper noun status).” Can it really be coincidence that just when the social justice movement was fighting phantom menaces like “institutional racism,” and “the patriarchy” and looking very silly doing it; up springs a “movement” that overtly seeks to normalize vicious racism while referring to all those who disagree as “cucks?” Isn’t it odd that while third wave feminists were decrying the nation’s fascination with attractively-shaped women that a boisterous and vocal group emerges, ready to “body-shame” the hell out of everyone, often rather flamboyantly?
Before the “alt-right,” #BlackLivesMatter was a joke outside of its own membership and the typical idiot leftist bleeding hearts who don’t understand anything. It was hard to get traction fighting the “institutional racism” of cops when young black males account for 5 percent of the population and nearly 40 percent of violent crimes; meanwhile cops shoot more white people each and every year than they do black people. Their disruptive tactics of rioting and shutting down highways wasn’t earning them many new fans either. Now, #BlackLivesMatter has a very vocal and boisterous opposition group that calls for blacks to be segregated from whites in what the alt-right calls “race realism,” thus giving #BLM far more legitimacy than they ever had before.
I’ve read many novels and seen many films over the years and last-minute rescues do make for a dramatic plot device, but they can also feel quite forced; often to the point of threatening suspension of disbelief. The perfectly choreographed arrival of the alt-right to provide a real Cobra the Enemy to the social justice movement’s GI Joe strikes me as just too-forced of a last-minute “rescue” to be believable.
Of course, to the rank-and-file alt-righter you’ll encounter online, my theory is preposterous. The individual alt-righter has likely long harbored ignorant feelings of racism and misogyny; making a true believer out of such a person by offering them a group that gives them “legitimacy” is easy – deep down they’ve been craving such legitimizing their whole lives.
I simply do not think it impossible that the puppet masters of the Left knew there was this well of ignorance among some Americans just waiting to be tapped into, given form and brought into the light of day; knowing that in doing so, they’ll have given their own side’s pet agitators, the social justice movement, an actual enemy to fight and thereby restore the relevance that was rapidly fading. Having deep-seeded, idiotic prejudices makes a person easy to manipulate via those prejudices. Molding those useful idiots into a controlled opposition group that spews completely out-of-touch and hate-filled ire seems an easy feat for some of the billionaire opinion manipulators on the Left.
Of course, this is just my theory. Yes, it’s obvious the alt-right is itself a reaction to the social justice movement; but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it wasn’t quite as “organic” in its formation as its rank-and-file members like to believe. Finishing the above analogy; Hasbro wouldn’t sell nearly as many action figures if it didn’t have bad guys for GI Joe to fight. With the media already under its control, creating that “Cobra the Enemy” was a simple matter of finding and kicking a racist hornet’s nest and then getting the media to cover it.
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