"The alt-left pipeline can best be described as a response to its inverse, the alt-right pipeline. Pundits of the alt-right pipeline usually believe in white nationalism, anti-gay ideology, and rigid gender roles. The alt-left pipeliners believe in gender equality, universal healthcare, empathy, multiculturalism, and gun reform. These #altleftpipeline posters start by stating their intention to apply for the alt-left pipeline, then outline their interests: working out, abortion rights, sports, Black liberation, working on cars, universal healthcare, etc."
""My mustache is as strong as my advocacy for the working class," a creator named Tanner says in his video. According to Strez, this movement was kind of an accidental one. His video was initially a riff on the alt-right pipeline discourse he'd been seeing and witnessing, as a "masculine white Christian man with a background in sports and athletics." The response to his initial video has exceeded his expectations, which were nonexistent at the beginning."
A social-media trend labeled the alt-left pipeline mobilizes masculine-presenting young men to promote progressive politics using aesthetics similar to the alt-right. Posters often declare an intent to join the alt-left pipeline and list interests like working out, abortion rights, sports, Black liberation, car work, and universal healthcare. The trend runs counter to a stigma that left-leaning men are less masculine and emphasizes support for reproductive rights, healthcare, and the advancement of women. The movement originated from an offhand video riff and grew into hundreds of posts, with engagement and response far exceeding initial expectations.
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