Should we adopt the language of 4chan to combat rising Alt-Right influence, if only for the purposes of disrupting the snowflake/ pc narrative. Could it be considered a Deluzian Schizo strategy or is it just late at night and I'm manic ?
So I've been reading this great book called The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball, its the best account of how QAnon developed from 4chan and alt-right Internet culture. I'm in my 20's and spent a lot of time on the Internet especially on pc video games like Cs go and so have been influenced by some of the disparate strains of Internet culture that combined into QAnon, most prominently the "ironic" use of slurs. I know now that unnuanced arbitrary usage of slurs is certainly not a joke and have made apologies. However I'm still somewhat inclined to use words such as "fuckt*rd" against the right wing, as it both upsets their narrative of a soft, blue haired Starbucks leftist whilst also somewhat accurately portraying extreme right wing ideology as a product of learning difficulties, in a very vulgar methodology. However I've also read about the reclaiming of the f slur against the lbtq+ community and am aware of the possibly more successful reclaiming of the n word. The latter I don't think I'd advocate its usage against the right wing or its usage by anyone just on a gut instinct it feels wrong. The author of the other pandemic discusses his "affectionate usage" of the former term, which he does justify by his own sexual orientation as a gay man, but I thought perhaps this could be extended into the more unaffectionate usage in political debate, which as I'm sure many here are aware, is seemingly more and more fruitless. I've been slightly obsessed with Anti- Odepius ever since learning about the atomisation of mental health and its framing as individual rather than social pathology, introduced to this by Mark Fisher, but I've also become interested in the Schizoanalysis and the rhizomatic approach to political action. Watching documentaries by Adam Curtis, can't remember which one specifically but probably HyperNormalisation or Century of the Self, in which he discusses how left wing organisational principles such as those arising in the 70's based on the individual conquest of mental sovereignty from the system (Reich and Matisse gey rid of the fascist in your mind) and how they've been co-opted by capital to secure its social domination, and its seems that Trump and Putin may have co-opted this schizophrenic approach to politics to some degree through their deployment of non-linear warfare, could we retake this by bringing forwards a new approach to political agitation in which we coopt the offensive language of the far right to upset its proponents and discredit their idea of leftism. I've also been thinking a lot about how, when I talk with some right wing friends, of which I have only a few, we generally agree on points of disliking government, disliking the effects of capital in terms of social/ community breakdown and disliking authority generally. Of course we have vast disagreements on the finer details, but it seems like the way forwards will inevitably involve some of the more anti- state elements of right wing. To do this we may have to an extent ignore at least temporarily the more offensive attitudes and language of the right wing. Roger Hallam discusses this in a recent video titled "I Went To Prison for the Climate - Here's what I learned" where he says how working class activists were effectively frozen out of organisations due to language which was deemed offensive by a majority middle class, slightly elitist membership.
To be clear I do not advocate the use of slurs against the minority groups in which they originated, unless perhaps a few marginal cases (Nick Fuentes, Yiannapolous), and also wouldn't consider this a whollostic approach to revolution by any means. I acknowledge it would come with a risk of destabilising political debate, but it doesent really seem like there's much of a semblance of fair debate anyway, and the terms get used in this disruptive way by the right wing any way, perhaps we fight fire with fire and bring it back to them ?
Apologies to anyone if this is offensive, I know its dodgy ground and do not wish to upset or attack any non-fascists in any way, but to detach these slurs from their original meanings and wepaonise them in a way that could be conducive to some sort of progression from the malaise that we currently are in.
Posted Jan 8, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC