The alt-right recruiting from the crunchy end of the counterculture

Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, posted this fascinating and revelatory thread about anti-government drop-out culture politics.

Since the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a conversation, people may be interested in the longer history of the white power movement's investment in crunch (crunchiness) (1)

— Kathleen Belew (@kathleen_belew) December 6, 2022

"Since the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a conversation, people may be interested in the longer history of the white power movement's investment in crunch (crunchiness)

All the way back in the 1970s and '80s, white power women (in the Klan, skinhead groups, Christian Identity churches, and beyond) were interested in a bunch of things you might think of as crunchy:

These include organic farming, macrobiotic diet, paganism, avoiding fluoride, traditional midwifery."

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