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The whole strategy of the so-called alt-right is to pretend that everything is a joke; that having values or moral convictions of any sort is a mark of weakness. They pretend that the only political good that matters is the freedom to say outlandish things, and that this is somehow edgy and subversive and daring. And whenever they get called out they pretend it's a massive joke and their critics are po-faced puritans and enemies of freedom. But they're not really brave or subversive. Milo's shrill response to the suggestion that he might hold even mildly-unorthodox views on paedophilia shows that the Alt-Right are really just as dull and bland and middle-class as the cossetted college students protesting against them. And behind the smugness and the adolescent nihilistic posing, they are just as anxious and moralistic and conventional as the people they affect to mock. |