Overall, their podcast was very informative, as I learned more about how trad wives align with the alt-right trend by pairing political commentary with lifestyle content. I really liked the quote about how "trad wives...are feminine, not feminist." It was also interesting to see how traditional wives employ strategies similar to male influencers by posting videos in a soft/aesthetic manner that lead the audience to absorb these beliefs and ideologies without immediately realizing it.#so339

I listened to Mitalski, Dunlap, and Palomo's podcast about how conservative influencers help spread alt-right ideologies. They explain how WP rhetoric spreads easily by introducing audiences to increasingly radical beliefs that avoid blatant extremism. As they stated, "alt-right beliefs aren't always stated outright."They cited figures like Ben Shapiro/Joe Rogan, who, while they share similar political beliefs, like opposing feminism, all far-right groups don't share the same ideologies.#so339

and pepe the frog hurt man. like why? i just didn't know and wasn;t made aware that they are that invasive, especially on social media #so339

Since the alt-right side of "life" (just being racist and spiteful) is taboo, those with those belief find spaces where they can express themselves fully. And I did not know a lot of their symbols are hidden in music and art which could that just looks cool on the street #so339

There are so many myths about alt-right and alt-lite gangs and it makes no sense. I just think people purposefully try to push it outta sight because when it comes to gang violence, these genre of gangs are at the top of the list. #so339

In the beginning of Valasik's book, he became with talking about the categorization of gangs and what classifies them. When people purposefully choose to exclude white-supremist groups as apart of the categories, it only perpetuates the violence cause by these youth, but then put pressure on black communities because of setereotypes #so339

It really hit me when Luther and Hayes talked about the crime Victimization, and how selective empathy is used mostly only when race is involved. This leads to literally moral regression in the justice system because can how two people do the same crime and get different sentences? #so339

Luther and Hayes talk about how as a black man or woman, the crime weighs more due to how media perceives the damage of the crime based on who committed it. So the media's construction of an criminal became being black, which skews the view of people in society, which leads to more prejudice #so339

In Chapter 1 of Hayes, he really digs in how media influence how we associate and connotated people with certain things/events in our society. When a certain pattern is portrayed in media, we don't often take account to how people harbor the crime with the "people" , not the person #so339

Additionally, I thought the idea of race was pretty interesting with showing who is "criminal" or not. We talked about this in class with the first book and I thought this was another good example to show off. I do wonder though do Black Fraternites (like the ones in the Divine Nine) get shown as criminal or as traditional? I think this would be a good question to look into if someone ever did a research paper similar to this topic. (2/2) #so339