Elle Reeve

“Nazis and pornographers have become our First Amendment heroes, because they want to be. It has been the conscious strategy of white supremacists for decades. […] This is a conflation of two things: being disliked and being vulnerable. Civil libertarians might say those things are the same. But they’re not. White supremacy is not at the margins of society, but at its center. And so white supremacists have pulled off a great con with the illusion that they’re threatened and need to be protected.”
― Elle Reeve, Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

“Fascists notice empty gestures of corporate responsibility—the makeup brand posting about police violence, the investment bank sponsoring Pride Week—and use it to attack all work for social justice as cynical and self interested. This elevates a side effect of a cultural shift towards equality and presents it as the main goal, and that makes a win look like a loss. […] They say any attempt to do anything about racism only serves to make society less equal, not more. […] Modern internet fascists are consumed with hatred for liberal democracy.”
― Elle Reeve, Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics