Miranda Christou

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How The Radical Right Is Mansplaining Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement is monumental not only because it has challenged the significance of material monuments to historical racism, but also because it has sparked multiple globalized campaigns…

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5 min

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Nihilism And Hypocrisy Is The GOP’s COVID-19 Response

Calls to sacrifice lives for the economy. Funding protests that endanger public health. The radical right is highlighting their “pro-life” hypocrisy. The so-called “anti-lockdown” protests around the USA have brought…

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4 min

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COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right

The COVID-19 conspiratorial cesspool is populated by both right-wing extremists and parts of the liberal left that views itself as woke, progressive and definitely anti-racist. In his recent article on openDemocracy,…

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7 min

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Is the radical right spreading the coronavirus?

The radical right has always been good at spreading misinformation; now they might be spreading Covid-19. It is easy to look at the core ideology of the radical right—nativism, white…

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7 min

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How To Debunk Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

From lies about 5G to vast conspiracies of a Bill Gates vaccine plot, COVID-19 has sparked an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Here’s how to spot them. Did you know that…

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6 min

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#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy

The TradWives debate is a new and effective recruiting tool for the growing intersection between toxic masculinity and white supremacy. When BBC Stories aired in January 2020 the short documentary…

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5 min

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How The Radical Right Distorts The Science Of Gender

In his book “The Attack on the Family and the European Response,” Roberto Fiore launches a homophobic tantrum and distorts the science of gender. “Never has the institution of the…

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7 min

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Turning Family Into a Political Weapon

A descriptive and benign term, “family” has been turned into the primary frontier of social wars by the radical right. In March 2019, the World Congress of Families (WCF), in…

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5 min

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The Fragile, Toxic Masculinity Of White Supremacy

The Proud Boys march in Portland, Oregon in August, 2019, as well their participation in past marches like the one in Charlottesville, was a bitter reminder that racism and sexism…

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6 min

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Not the Same Difference: How the New Right hijacked an essential postmodern concept

In this post, I discuss how the concept of “difference” is a surprising link between postmodern thought and the New Right. In New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe,…

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Categories

How The Radical Right Is Mansplaining Black Lives Matter

Nihilism And Hypocrisy Is The GOP’s COVID-19 Response

COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right

Is the radical right spreading the coronavirus?

How To Debunk Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy

How The Radical Right Distorts The Science Of Gender

Turning Family Into a Political Weapon

The Fragile, Toxic Masculinity Of White Supremacy

Not the Same Difference: How the New Right hijacked an essential postmodern concept

Remove or defend Kebab? Radical right, music of the Yugoslav wars, and the perils of simplifying narratives

Part Three: Hegel and Fascism

Right Rising Podcast (Season One, Episode Eight): Women and Gender in the Extreme Right

Radical Right Conspiracy Theories Are A Threat To Democracy