How Extremists Weaponize Irony To Spread Hate
By Tom Dreisbach
April 26, 2021
On a recent episode of his livestreamed show, the 22-year-old extremist Nick Fuentes repeated a formula that has won him a following with some of the youngest members of the far right. He went on an extended, violent and misogynistic rant, only to turn to the camera and add with a smirk, “Just joking!”
In this case, from the April 22 edition of Fuentes’ show,
America First, a viewer wrote in to ask Fuentes for advice on how to “punish” his wife for “getting out of line.”
Fuentes responded, “Why don’t you smack her across the face?”