Andrew Breitbart = TROLL
However, as I mean to prove, the current youth ethos embodied by internet subculture is fundamentally conservative in character, even if its denizens have not yet caught on to that fact.
- From Internet Lays Foundation for GOP Rebirth.
Here’s the logic tree he used to support this claim:
The internet likes memes
4Chan creates memes
Ron Paul was a meme
Ron Paul is a Republican
The Internet is Republican
Still not convinced? Wait, there’s more!
4Chan is not politically correct*
Republicans are not politically correct
4Chan is Republican
4Chan creates memes
The internet likes memes
The Internet is Republican
In addition to crafting the longest sentence** in recent history, Breitbart is trying to align himself with 4Chan - a rather strange idea. But apparently, he’s convinced that media actually creates opinions, rather than reinforcing them. To wit:
In fact, much as the highly controversial and obscene Comedy Central show South Park gave rise to a populist, pro-National Security, anti-political correctness breed of young Republican in the early 2000s, I would argue that the new decade could see a similar rise of iconoclastic, libertarian, anti-political correctness sentiment among what I would term “4chan Republicans.”
Well, I know that I, personally, will refer to every Republican as a “4chan Republican. I suspect this will not turn out as poor Andy intended.
*Currently in the running for the “understatment of the Ever” award
**The sentence: “In order to prove this, I will draw on knowledge that I have gained both as an avid internet user and as a member of a generation for whom digital communication is a second language – knowledge which would require investigating not only the harmless environs of Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, but also the darkest, least talked about nether-regions of the internet – websites which produce 90% of the internet’s cultural references, and yet are so riddled with perversity that their own patrons take it as an unspoken rule never to talk about them.”
