Talk:Alexander Reid Ross

Subject not sufficiently notable for an entry

This is an adjunct (literally an adjunct in the department where he earned a PhD, no less) lecturer with no major accomplishments beyond getting his own non-academic, outside-his-expertise research retracted from websites. He's nothing more than a minor online figure seeking to establish himself as a credible voice outside his field of study. Doesn't meet the Notability policy [3]

I disagree. He wrote a 400 page book about a timely topic, and international media like The Guardian find it notable enough to review it, saying, "Activists, journalists, and researchers who want to understand a surging far right, and how it borrows from the left, should start here." —Jason Wilson, columnist, The Guardian

Additionally, from Alexander Reid Ross' own "about me" page on his website: "I am an award-winning geographer taking a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the world. My work includes scholarly research on resource management, journalistic investigations into transnational political networks, and professional reports on disinformation and the far right, spanning features in Fortune, CNN, and The Washington Post, as well as collaborations with Amnesty International, The New York Times Visual Investigations Team, and Forensic Architecture." 2601:282:8000:B010:B9D4:3148:713F:E7C7 (talk) 03:11, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Sources

• Far-right civil war accelerationists called the Boogaloo Bois are appearing at protests around the country with guns and Hawaiian shirts (MSN, Jun 2020)
• California Anti-Fascists Want Racists and the Trump Administration to Be Afraid(Vice, May 2017)
• How ‘antifa’ became a Trump catch-all (Politico, Jun 2020)
• Armed Vigilantes Antagonizing Protesters Have Received a Warm Reception From Police
• Anarchist book fair explores fascism and the political hierarchy (California State University Northridge's The Sundial, March 2017)
• Hiding in plain sight: how the 'alt-right' is weaponizing irony to spread fascism (The Guardian, May 2017)
• PORTLAND VIOLENCE: When Fascists Become the Anti-Fascists? (Byline Times, Jul 2019)
• Why Fascists Storm Bookstores (The Nation, May 2019)*
• Clark Brothers Accused of Planning Race War Followed Alt-Right Heroes (The Daily Beast, Nov 2018)

Against Fascist Creep:

• ‘The Rain’ and Its Man-Eating Planet (Playboy, May 2019)
• Responding to the Fascist Creep: An Interview With Alexander Reid Ross (It's Going Down, Jun 2017)
• Looking Back on the Best Books of 2017 (Portland Mercury, Dec 2017)
• Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ (The Nation, Dec 2019)

Highlighted works: [4] -> [5]

Multipolar Spin:

• The Southern Poverty Law Center Took Down An Article Trying To Connect "Left-Wing" People And "Fascists" After Getting Complaints (BFN, Mar 2018)
• Southern Poverty Law Center apologizes after painting journalists as fascists in retracted article (Fox, Mar 2018)
• An Inside Look at How Pro-Russia Trolls Got the SPLC to Censor a Commie (newpol, Apr 2018)
• Max Blumenthal and the Streisand Effect (newpol, Mar 2018)
• Ross' reflections afterwards
• Daily Beast thrashed over op-ed that ‘dirtbag left’ is actively courting the far-right (The Daily Dot, Mar 2021)

Jlevi (talk) 10:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

For more thought

I don't understand this interaction yet. Keeping on talk until I sort it out:

Reid Ross was named in a list of individuals that Andy Ngo labelled covert "antifa ideologues" whom Ngo claimed were using the mantle of journalism. In May 2019, Quillette published an article by Eoin Lenihan that alleged connections between antifa activists and national-level reporters who cover the far-right. According to Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross, they and a number of other journalists received death threats after the claims were published.

Jlevi (talk) 10:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

References

Nonfree book cover

Hi Hullaballoo Wolfowitz. You recently removed the book cover I uploaded for the section on on the book Against the Fascist Creep. I tried my best to read through the policy on this, and it looks like I may have misinterpreted. Mind pointing me to the relevant section so I better understand this for the future?

This book is notably enough on its own that it could be made into its own article if necessary. I simply felt like a sufficiently short article on this subject (the author) that the two might as well be combined.

Thanks! Jlevi (talk) 20:46, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

The general rule is that nonfree book covers may not be displayed in author bios, just as nonfree album covers may not be displayed in musician bios. There are very limited exceptions, typically if the author is also the cover artist. A nonfree cover ordinarily may be used as identification only in an article devoted to the work itself.The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong! (talk) 21:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

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Ross' contacts and informants

No mention of his connection to the CIA and government officials? https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/14/anarchist-alexander-reid-ross-cops-cia-dhs/ 46.222.92.51 (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2023 (UTC)