First, an Alt Right activist plastered pictures of Meryl Streep in Los Angeles, with "She Knew" covering her eyes:
Meryl Streep targeted by street artists with "She knew" posters https://t.co/3RxlyDrGZE pic.twitter.com/73ue86i3c5— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 19, 2017
The reference to "she knew" is about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations which the Alt Righter argues Streep knew about, long before they became public knowledge. Note that he chose a woman as the only symbol of institutional silence on sexual harassment. And as far as I can tell, there's no evidence suggesting that Streep was aware of what Weinstein was up to.
Second, an Alt Right group massaged the Rotten Tomatoes ratings of the movie The Last Jedi. A moderator of the Alt Right group has claimed that the group used bots to bring the ratings of the movie down.
Why? Here's the moderator's answer:
The moderator explained to The Huffington Post that the group is upset with “Star Wars” for “introducing more female characters into the franchise’s universe.” The group is also not happy that Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) has become a “victim of the anti-mansplaining movement” and that characters like Poe and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) are in danger of being “turned gay.” The moderator said men should be “reinstated as rulers of society,” and expressed distaste for the way “The Last Jedi” disrespects the franchise’s history.
Third, the weirdest of all weird interviews by a Breitbart.com editor quizzes some presumed expert about the connections between witchcraft and feminism.
My eyes hurt from trying to keep them parallel while reading an expert opinion like this:
According to Nash, feminist witches are joining together against Trump and are building elaborate “altars and tables with candles and pentagrams,” to create an “almost—a sense of sisterhood.”Just one factual correction: Wiccans are not atheists. But the whole interview has no real point, except for the one Breitbart.com religiously follows which would be attacking uppity women (or any women, really).
“They have these other women which they can kind of get together and have a weird time with,’ he explained. “Secondly, I think it scares religious people. Obviously, a lot of these people are atheistic. They like to wind up the Christians. And thirdly, I think they also have a kind of—they feel like they have a connection to the persecuted women of the Salem witch trials. They look at these women and see them as kind of as victims of patriarchy, almost.”
So what do these stories share? It's as if they were stuff from the most sexist parts of the manosphere, and of course they probably are. Only now we call people there Alt Right, a label which sorta protects them.
It's useful to remember that some information bubbles online indeed are poisonous, and that there are people who get all their information in those poison puddles.