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Speaking post-truth to power

In a YouTube interview, social studies teacher Tianna Dolichov suggested that teachers come together through social media. She posted her own frustrations with the limits of textbooks. She insisted others should share experiences with curriculum and teaching for change. She tried to organize an activist teacher network that would have ultimately founded culturally sustaining alternative schools. As a critical media literacy instructor, I would have been inspired by her call for classroom teachers to use alternative and social media to call for critical pedagogy and radical systemic change—had Dolichov not been a member of the Alt-Right and an avowed White supremacist. The Alt-Right are an online racist group where multiple characters from the “intellectual dark web” or White identitarian right come together; trolls, incels, men’s rights activists, and ironic gamers intersect with right populist movements, Neo-romantic reactionaries, and Christian nationalists. Not limited to a hidden far-right separatist group, their articles, videos, memes, and posts circulate to a broader audience, moving from sites like 4chan and Reddit, though to Facebook and YouTube. Their ludic, ironic racism borrows from the postmodern, playful, provocative style once associated with the artistic left—what NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch (2017) calls “punk rock conservatism.” This provocative political style rejects the mainstream right’s colorblind conservatism and moralizing metaphors, replacing them with populist, transgressive speech and explicit calls to White racial consciousness. In far-right forums, public education is a hoary vision of socialist indoctrination and in book groups, Breitbart, memes, and message boards new forms of conservative education fester. Beginning with the French New Right, far-right groups have increasingly fought cultural or metapolitical battles (Taguieff, 1983). Reactionary groups have been called “Gramscians of the right” (Taguieff, 1983) as they draw on Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s exploration of the power of cultural hegemony and common sense—especially through education (Hall, 1988). Henry Giroux (2011) notes right-wing media is itself a kind of public pedagogy. Extending this, I argue that the Alt-Right now takes up a postmodern conceptual grammar, of transgressive, affective language play, and critical