[Air-L] Groypers, Fuentes, and America First

[stustu12 at student.ubc.ca]

Groypers, Fuentes, and America First

These are three of 12 short data documentaries from a series about the so-called "America First" movement on Twitter made a few years ago. Since the Groyper-in-Chief Nick Fuentes now claims his group is being framed for the Kirk murder, it seemed like a good time to surface these data. The underlying data is available for replication studies.

It is quite troubling to see public figures and administration officials vowing revenge and retribution against "Antifa" (or anyone using the word fascist in a U.S. context) when it appears the most likely explanation is that this was an unhinged far-right ideologue assassinating Mr. Kirk for not being fascist enough...lately. The Groypers v. Kirk saga began in 2019.

I asked a variety of people at APSA, occurring this week in Vancouver, whether they knew about the Groyper movement. Almost nobody did. The APSA theme this year is: "Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times." Little fringe movements agitating for racist violence should be documented and understood. History speaks to this.

Groypers
https://vimeo.com/1118493710

Fuentes
https://vimeo.com/1118493637

America First
https://vimeo.com/1118493816


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Recent America First Identity Claims on Twitter<https://vimeo.com/1118493816>
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Stu Shulman
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