Kulturkampf

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“We’re throwing our hands up in a way,” Cash told Interview magazine of Forever, the self-proclaimed “offensive” magazine she co-edits with Anika Jade Levy whose contributor list seems allergic to melanin. “Forever can be whatever we need. If we need to turn into a band or an arms manufacturer or a streaming service, fine.”

Band, arms manufacturer, streaming service — it’s a list of nouns strung together like a plastic beaded bracelet, a choppy and vaguely associative cadence characteristic of the Dimes Square novels themselves. It strikes me as the literary equivalent of shitposting, a notorious alt-right internet tactic that The Guardian’s Robert Topinka defines as “a genre of low-effort social media content designed to amuse insiders and annoy outsiders.”

 No, it's a joke about the flexibility of the project.

Here's some more WELL KNOWN science:

If anything, given that algorithms like YouTube are well known to funnel toward the alt-right, Louise’s KKK arc would have been an edgier, funnier choice, if Cash had the stomach for racial self-reflection

The link goes to an article about a study that definitely does not say this at all. The study found that 26% of people who commented on "alt-lite" classified videos also commented on "alt-right" classified videos. For some reason the authors are perplexed by this.

It’s fairly easy to get to alt-lite and intellectual dark web content with a simple search, but alt-right videos tend to be harder to find for first-time users. Yet the researchers found that YouTube’s algorithm often directed users who searched for specific keywords toward increasingly violent, extreme content.
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The authors estimate that about 60,000 people who commented on alt-lite or intellectual dark web content got exposed to alt-right videos over a period of about 18 months.

edit: Even this reporting is wrong, they deliberately searched for borderline Nazi keywords:

You search for "the jewish question" and you're going to get Nazi (or Marx) results. 

Later on the authors admit that 90-99% of commenters aren't "pipelined" at all: