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The Safety Pin and the Swastika

Haider, Shuja
http://viewpointmag.com/2017/01/04/the-safety-pin-and-the-swastika/

Publisher:  Viewpoint Magazine
Date Written:  04/01/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Examining the rise of the alt-right as being opposed to but also drawing from liberal identity politics, and how the two movements are not comparable, yet also compatible.

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When the shock of electoral upheaval crossed the Atlantic, the safety pin followed. Two days after the Presidential election, Michelle Goldberg wrote a column at Slate advocating its use, in an America where "the deplorables are emboldened." But her adoption of the symbol altered its purpose. Goldberg worried that, as a white woman, she would be mistaken for a Trump voter. "We need an outward sign of sympathy, a way for the majority of us who voted against fascism to recognize one another," she wrote. Instead of Allison's pledge to take action, the safety pin would function as a signal of affinity between defeated supporters of Hillary Clinton.

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It should go without saying that left-liberal identity politics and alt-right white nationalism are not comparable. The problem is that they are compatible.
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