Facebook Helps Radicalize Angry Young Men | Can Bannon Pass A Background Check?

This Is How Facebook Is Radicalizing You BuzzFeed

Polarized online spaces in the West like Anonymous, Gamergate, and the men’s rights movement have a single root: frustrated young men who think their place in the society is shrinking. These fringe movements would eventually break through, hit Facebook, go mainstream, and spread around the world.

At the same time, male-driven online communities typically used for sharing memes are mobilizing politically. In the UK, football “banter” culture — which has long held an unspoken connection to racism and sexism — or meme pages like Meninist Posts act as a gateway that can lead young men to more radical alt-right figures like Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos, or Facebook pages more closely aligned with traditional right-wing ideology, like Britain First. Yiannopoulos positioned himself as an early bridge between Gamergate, men’s rights activists, anti-EU sentiment, and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Yiannopoulos and his followers realized that Trump’s “Make America Great Again” could be abbreviated as #MAGA, a hashtag that has been used in the UK primarily by British lads to abbreviate Magaluf, a Spanish island resort popular for clubbing. There are currently rumors swirling that Yiannopoulos is being considered for press secretary.

Bannon's Background Check?

Is Trump's Man Steve Bannon Too Shady to Handle Secrets The Daily Beast

Is it possible that Steve Bannon, proposed White House chief strategist and senior counselor to the president can't pass a background check? 

The basic form required to get a security clearance, called the SF86, asks about "one’s arrest record, foreign contacts, association with organizations dedicated to the use of violence, and association with groups that advocate use of force to discourage individuals from exercising their constitutional rights."

As a man celebrated by American white nationalists and already in contact with key figures in Europe's ultra-right -- the Trump organization led by Bannon has already reached out with an offer of help to France's nationalist party presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, these questions could be seriously complicated for Bannon. The fact that he's been charged with choking his ex-wife doesn't help either. 

Tribeca Steakhouse Tells Women To 'Calm Down' After Customers Shout 'Grab Them By Their Pussies' Gothamist

Men have oggled women for years in New York, but there's a good chance that the boys club has a new lease on life. Three women walking by Wolgang's Steakhouse in Tribeca were harassed by three 'gentlemen' smokers shouting Donald Trump's now infamous "grab them by the pussies" line. Lindsay Means shared the details on Twitter, revealing that following the men's outburst, staff at the restaurant told Means and her friends to "calm down" because these were "good guys."

Means told Tribeca Citizen that she eventually received a response from the restaurant's manager, who apologized, explaining the patrons were "drunk out of their minds" but admitted that was "not an excuse." The manager also offered Means and her friends a complimentary meal or gift certificate, which she rejected. On Monday Wolfgangs Steakhouse formally apologized via Twitter. 

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