The Online Influencers Mainstreaming White Supremacy to Teen Boys

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Whereas Carlson reaches some three million weekly viewers on his daily evening program, Cozy.tv’s 40-plus streamers, each with their thousands of viewers, give intimate and personal displays of hate speech 24 hours a day. Fuentes, who’s in regular contact with his 45,000 subscribers on Telegram and 137,600 followers on Gab, broadcasts his own brand of racism to 18,000 followers on Cozy.tv for two to four hours a night. “Big story obviously, all weekend, a lot of news, what a gift!” Fuentes exclaimed, kicking off his livestream on Monday, the first since the Buffalo shooting. “Well, let’s rewind. … I’m not saying it’s good — some of it is very tragic and bad; some of it is very interesting.”

With a wry smile Fuentes continued, as if rehearsed, to walk back his initial excitement. “The mass shooting in Buffalo New York […] is a very bad thing, very evil, horrifying and tragic thing. I’m not trying to make light of it, I misspoke,” he explained. Then, within a breath, he pivoted. “That being said, it does not change the fact that white genocide is real, it is occuring now and it is wrong,” he urged his young viewers. “This is the idea of our lifetime, it’s the number one most impactful trend of our lifetimes.”

But where Carlson might otherwise leave his audience stewing in anger, Fuentes’ jocular, ironic disposition allows him the cover of plausible deniability. Most importantly, his young, growing audience of men already know what’s behind the wry smile and in-jokes, and they echo the vitriol in a chorus on the live chat, then over on Telegram, and Reddit, and 4chan and on and on and on. Until, as with Gendron, it all becomes far too real — and tragic.

“I don’t want to be replaced ,” wrote a member of a Fuentes fan group on Telegram during the beginning of his livestream. “The White man will rise once again. THIS COUNTRY WOULDNT EXIST WITHOUT WHITE PEOPLE.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-online-influencers-mainstreaming-white-supremacy-to-teen-boys/ar-AAXspsZ

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1. Didn't Cozy Tv use to be Mary Tyler Moore and Columbo re-runs? What happened?

ETA: Also, this is not Fox and not right wing radio. There is no reason we cannot stake out our own territories like these.