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We live in a time of mass misinformation. When any idiot rube can open a Twitter account or a Facebook account and spew their diatribes all over the internet, I think it’s safe to say we are easy prey for stochastic information terrorists. But what if you LIVED with one of these people? What if they were your brother? This is the story of how MY brother went from a cosmopolitan dinner guest to outright Alt Right troglodyte. Readers be warned: some of the tweets and images below are deeply disturbing.

The Beginning

My brother’s transformation started off inconspicuously. He would talk about a Twitter account run by PragerU, what I know now to be a white nationalist think tank run by Dennis Prager. He would bring up PragerU’s latest infotainment video at our upper middle class dinner parties in the most casual, matter of fact tone. At first, none of us thought anything of it, as we all knew that my brother and I were raised in a slightly right leaning household – I support devout Episcopalian and traditional conservative Pete Buttigieg. Looking back, however, we should have heeded the warning signs. This is the sort of material Twitter is allowing to be published on its platform:

If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace, right? That’s what you hear from most college professors. But what if Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state of their own—and not just once, but on FIVE separate occasions? pic.twitter.com/4CU6CwUaqR — PragerU (@prageru) January 28, 2020

Now I know what you are all thinking, and yes, I am all for Israel launching a preemptive tactical nuclear strike against any of its opponents, but we need to be nuanced about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That said, I never in my wildest dreams imagined my brother would be enabling propaganda of the worst sort. Things would only escalate from there.

Graham Allen, Steven Crowder and Roaming Millennial

After some time had passed, I noticed my brother started to grow an operator beard and would watch Rant Nation videos on his phone. For those who don’t know, Rant Nation, aka Graham Allen, is a white supremacist radicalized in the US military who spews whatever bigoted trash that comes to his mind while sitting inside his car.

BREAKING: The fact that @joerogan is being smeared as a “Transphobe” simply because he knows that there are only TWO genders is CRAZY! Men are not women and women are not men…..the end! TWO Genders the rest is simply your feelings. RT! #JoeRogan — Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) January 24, 2020

Sick.

I also caught my brother watching so called comedian Steven Crowder. Yes, the Steven Crowder who thought it was HILARIOUS to draw Muhammad. I guess it’s funny to make light of historically marginalized communities now. Look at this white nationalist tweet:

Whole story via @TwitchyTeam ==> Steven Crowder makes video defending Israel, fends off haters | Twitchy – http://t.co/KxLpLoW3 — Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 17, 2012

I also noticed that my brother re-tweeted Lauren Chen, aka Roaming Millennial.

This is disgusting. Amber Heard is a straight up ABUSER, and I don’t want to hear ANY #MeToo virtue signalling from the Hollywood hypocrites who STILL continue to work with her. https://t.co/RVvFmsDh9T — Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 2, 2020

What disgusting bile. We BELIEVE womyn around here.

Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and the Alt Right

Once my brother could no longer get his fix from the ostensibly “milder” bigots discussed above, he went full-tilt into the Alt Right. That’s right, he started to read Daily Wire and bought a copy of 12 Rules For Life. Things became unbearable at that point.

“Don’t eat f***ing bats” is not racist https://t.co/eJ1gTqseBO — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 31, 2020

I’ll tell you what’s racist, being head of the Alt Right, that’s what. But, I’ve saved the WORST for last.

This is the man that got my brother REFUSING to use people’s preferred gender pronouns, and that’s where I had to draw the line. We haven’t spoken since, except for the few times my brother has called my sexual orientation into question because I like listening to The Bee Gees in my Tesla. I’ll drop in on his social media from time to time, but the Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan content is just too disturbing. Now, he just hangs out at bars with Three Percenters and MAGA retards.

I need all the help I can get because I just don’t know what to do at this point. It’s embarrassing for my family and friends to have such an unchecked dissident around, but worst of all, this level of radicalization is dangerous for society as a whole. We can’t have effective organized opposition such as my brother’s and his ilk derail our plans for the future. Red flag laws are not enough! We NEED to have people like my brother committed to psychiatric treatment facilities for so much as sharing their conspiratorial nonsense. I’m open to suggestions because I am beyond terrified at this point. I hope that my progressive friends at the Accredited Times are able to excuse my brother’s behavior until such time as we are able to solve this problem.