What we actually need are researchers who study particular phenomena in depth: how algorithms shape behavior, how communities form and dissolve, the difference between political extremism and nihilism

Terms like “groyper” are thrown around the way “incel” once was — stripped of their specific meaning and history. Monarchists, groypers, MAGA, accelerationists, the Manosphere — these are distinct subcultures with different beliefs, even when they occasionally overlap. The right isn’t innocent of this either: dismissing everyone as “communists”... See more