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Last week, Shia LaBeoufs He Will Not Divide Us live-stream was shuttered by Queens Museum of the Moving Image, who cited the serious and ongoing safety hazard associated with so many people, of all political stripes, furiously wanking in a single area. Since it was conceived by the team of LaBeouf, Nastja Sde Rnkk, and Luke Turner as a response to the inauguration of Donald Trump, the performance art piece had become a target for 4chan trolls and maybe-ironic white nationalists who were eager for a new medium to shout their memes into as a way of drowning out the ever-present void, creating a tense, generally irritating atmosphere that led to a 24/7 police presence, numerous arrests (including LaBeouf himself), and eventually, the whole thing being shut down. But before it was over, it gave the world a lasting, poignant image of Americas newest political force: a bunch of shirtless, bellowing, internet outlaws chugging milk while joking about racism.

Yes, milk, long beloved of babies, is now associated with attention-seeking, sort-of-kidding white supremacists, who have adopted itlike New Balance shoes and Wendys before itas a winking symbol of their own racial superiority. As with every aspect of the alt-right culture, of course, understanding how this happened requires digging through multiple layers of internet irony and eye-stabbing 4chan threads: Essentially, somebody once posted a scientific study on higher instances of lactose intolerance among certain populations; some of 4chans legion of shitposterswho were just being edgy!used this a springboard to joke about how the ability to drink milk is a mark of white purity. The meme then entered our bleary-eyed waking world when Internet-famous rapper Paperboy Prince told 4chan personality /pol/blart, live on Shia LaBeoufs stream, that drinking milk is hate speech, thus giving their trolling the transformative power of someone actually caring.

In response, /pol/blartalong with his various other message board bandits riding roughshod across the hardy terrain of message boards, rebelling against the hegemony of not being dicks to everyoneswarmed the museum to strip to the waist, dance around, and drink milk straight from the bottle. As they dribbled that milk like big, manly toddlers into their goatees, one of them dripping it down the LOL-Nazi tattoos on their chest, they cheered their exuberant display of peak masculinity. They flexed and bragged about how much they could squat. They rubbed their pale, glistening, milk-fed bellies together, did cartwheels, straddled their balls across each others necks, and shouted about cucks and the vegan agenda. And they laughed at how they were making fools of all the triggered, gay libtards down in their safe spaces and the silly things they do, shouting out their alpha male community of dudes who spend their entire day trading in-jokes on the internet.

And hey, it worked! Not only did they make a bunch of museum employees sick of dealing with grown men giggling about Hitler, then triumphantly force them to cancel an art installation, the media actually wrote about how Nazis love milk! Thanks to this, the alt-rights love of milk is now officially a meme we all have to hear aboutwhich is why you will see people like Richard Spencer, the punched face of the movement, ceremonially replacing the cartoon frogs with milk emojis in their Twitter handles and joking about how cows are racists and the lactose intolerant left. All in all, a successful act of proving to Shia LaBeouf that, when it comes to being obnoxious solely for attention, these pasty bros spitting up milk on themselves into a webcam are truly superior.

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Milk-chugging alt-right trolls shut down Shia LaBeouf's art project ... - A.V. Club

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A new South Korean conservative Alt Right coalition is forming to fight against what they say is the illegal impeachment of the duly elected president, Park Geun-hye, by the lying media and pro-North Korean establishment elites.

The pro-Park conservatives have been slow to organize in the wake of a presidential corruption scandal that erupted in October of last year.

Maybe our attempts to rescue the president are too late, or a little bit late. Why? Because the whole thing was unexpected, said Chulhong Kim, an associate professor at the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary in Seoul, who has become a leader of a new conservative group that has yet to become a formal organization.

October surprise

President Park was brought down by allegations that she colluded with or was manipulated by her long time friend Choi Soon-sil, along with some close presidential aides, to force Korean conglomerates to donate nearly $65 million to two dubious foundations. Choi reportedly benefited from lucrative side contracts to companies owned by herself and her friends.

There were also other charges that outraged the public but carried less legal weight, that Choi used her presidential connections to gain her daughter admission into a prestigious university, and that Park was negligent in handling the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster that killed over 300 people, many of them school age children.

The fast moving scandal sparked weeks of widespread public protests across the country, and saw the presidents public approval rating plummet to below 10 percent. In December, the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to impeach Park, while at the same time appointing a special counsel to investigate the charges. Since then Park has been suspended from office while the Constitutional Court reviews the impeachment motion, that if upheld will result in an early presidential election some time this year.

The presidents defenders contend the impeachment legislative process is overtly political, pressured by bias media coverage and unduly influenced by public demonstrations, and legally flawed in convicting Park and suspending her from office before even holding official hearings.

Under the current law, impeachment is not illegal but subsequently the immediate suspension of the president is against the principle of presumption of innocence, said Professor Kim.

Protests and term limits

Over the weekend, both pro and anti-impeachment demonstrations were held in Seoul and across the country.

Korean media reported that 750,000 pro-impeachment supporters held a candlelight vigil on Saturday evening in downtown Gwanghwamun Square despite freezing temperatures that dropped to minus 9 degrees Celsius. Moon Jae-in, a progressive leader of the opposition Democratic Party and the leading presidential contender in opinion polls, joined with the demonstrators, saying that, the voices of the people are the constitution.

The renewed surge of protesters coming out against President Park reflects concerns the Constitution Court could become deadlocked if they do not soon conclude their judicial review.

The nine member Constitutional Court must reach the required quorum of six votes to uphold the impeachment motion. However the court is already down to eight members as the term of the chief justice ended in January. Another justice will reach his term limit in March. Then the court will be down to seven members, but six votes will still be required to reach a verdict. And Constitutional Court justices cannot be replaced until the impeachment issue is resolved.

Lying media

Parks supporters also held a rally earlier on Saturday in front of City Hall. Media reports say the number of anti-impeachment demonstrators reached over 200,000, but organizers claim that more than a million people participated.

The hardline pro-Park organizers discount mainstream media reports, saying they are biased against the president and her ruling Saenuri Party, and working with opposition groups to topple the president.

I want (to say to the) dishonest media, you, please, do not deceive our people, said Jiyeon Ihn, an activist and attorney that heads us up a group called Now! Act for North Koreans! (NANK.)

Pro-American

At the conservative rallies, American flags are proudly displayed. The deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system is widely supported. And China objections about increasing U.S. military capabilities, and reservations expressed by opposition leaders, are loudly jeered.

Many of these Korean far-right activists see Parks impeachment as part of an insidious leftist, communist movement backed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

If the attempt succeeds the future government would be pro-North Korean, anti-American, anti-free market, anti-human rights. It would inaugurate a unified communist regime in the Korean Peninsula, said Professor Kim.

Unable to get their views expressed in traditional news outlets, the new Korean Alt-Right is spreading the word through social media. While their rallies are still smaller than their opponents, they say their movement is growing. And even if President Parks impeachment is upheld, these conservatives intend to become an influential political force in future elections.

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Chadwick Moore, a 33-year-old journalist who lives in Williamsburg, had been a lifelong liberal. Then, last September, he penned a profile for Out magazine of Milo Yiannopoulos a controversial alt-right extremist who is an outspoken critic of feminism, Muslims and gay rights (despite being openly gay himself), proclaimed the note at the beginning of OUT Magazine contributor Chadwick Moores recent article where he came out as a conservative.

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The smear was included in a note written by The New York Posts Michael Kaplan, whose byline appears on the print edition of the story, and not by Moore, whose piece was praised by MILO as a touching story.

MILO has been repeatedly brandedalt-right by news outlets and journalists, despite the fact that both parties have repeatedly refuted this claim.

In the past few months,several major news outlets have issued retractions after falsely branding MILO with terms such as white nationalist and alt-right, includingNBC News, USA Today, CNN, CBS, The Los Angeles Times,The Chicago Tribune, and Fusion, who called MILO a Nazi before deleting the post.

The Mayor of Berkeley was forced to apologizeafter falsely labeling MILO as a white nationalist, but has since gone on to falsely claim that the Breitbart News senior editor isa prominent alt-rightist.

Alt-right icon Richard Spencer previously dispelled claims of MILO being a member of the movement, stating simply that Milo is not a part of the alt-right during a video debate.

Popular alt-right blogThe Right Stuff also bluntly declared in an article that Milo isnt one of us.

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New York Post Smears MILO as 'Alt-Right Extremist' - Breitbart - Breitbart News

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The 'Alt-Right': A new mask for white supremacy Workers World Feb. 13 Alt-right has become a buzzword in the mainstream media to describe the extreme right-wing politics pushed by far-right bigots like Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer and Steve Bannon. What do the term and its mouthpieces really represent? Violent protest and free speech: Antifa meets the alt right at UC BerkeleyRI Future Alt-right extremist Yiannopoulos postpones book to include campus protestsAhram Online 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams shouldn't fear speaking at UC Berkeley following Milo Yiannopoulos protestThe Mercury News Kentucky Kernel -Newsworks.org all 51 news articles »

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Lately, theres been a lot of news coverage about the far-left liberals. Since Donald Trump took office, weve seen the highly liberal left orchestrate demonstration after demonstration.

But, theres another side to the spectrum just as extreme as those liberals: the far right, also known as the alt-right.

I hadnt heard much about the alt-right until last year when I met a man who subscribes to those alt-right ideologies. I knew white nationalists existed, but I had never imagined sitting down with one and having a political conversation.

I had heard alt-righters had extreme views, but a part of me didnt want to believe there were people out there who really believed this stuff.

He was a friend of a friend, and I decided to sit down with him to hear what he believed. I imagined myself as a high-profile interviewer getting the scoop of the year. I could see the headline: An inside look into the mind of an alt-righter.

He started out talking about immigration. He was so forceful with his words. They sounded like venom in my ears.

He said United States is a white country, and its supposed to be for white people. I stared at him blankly, wondering what his rationale could be for that.

I remember him trying to explain so matter-of-factly that white people dont have their own country, and this used to be a white-person country.

I responded with the truth that when I think of white people, I think of Europe. What about Europe?

He argued Europe has even more of minorities than we do here. He continued with the point that he wasnt saying there cant be any of minorities here, but we need to make sure its below a certain percentage, so we can keep them in the minority.

I think my jaw dropped at this point in the conversation. I just couldnt believe someone who believed this stuff was sitting two feet away from me, that he was sitting in my own house.

Just as I thought it couldnt get worse, it did. He started talking about how he is attracted to people who look like him. I suppose he meant people who are white.

So, I told him to date someone who looks like him, then. His response was that if everyone is mixing, there wont be any pure white people left.

This is where it got really weird for me. He said something like, What if my kids want to be with someone who looks like them? To which I responded, White people arent going anywhere. Dont worry.

He rebutted with the suggestion that down the line, his concerns might prove valid.

Now, this is where I just couldnt wrap my head around what he was saying. I couldnt take it anymore. I was trying to sit quietly and hear him out without judgment, but I just couldnt listen any longer.

I told him I found it extremely weird that he was worried about the sexual preferences of his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandkids.

He looked at me in complete disbelief. He couldnt believe that I didnt see his side or understand his point. He had grown agitated at my reaction, and it seemed to boil over at this point.

He exclaimed in frustration that I must want my own people to go extinct.

I couldnt hold back a laugh. I told him I was already mixed. The conversation ended there.

Now, this is not to say that all conservatives, or even all alt-righters, align with the ideology of this one guy I had the misfortune of wasting an evening with. However, this does show me that these fractured mentalities are still lurking in the minds of, at least some, Americans.

I learned a lot that night. I saw a part of the world that I never expected to see. I heard racist, sexist and xenophobic rhetoric that I had only ever pictured in my mind as coming from beneath a white hood.

There were no hoods, signs or symbols indicating his extreme beliefs. And that was the scariest part about it.

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