I came across this video which explains the progressive view of internet politics from their side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g
It goes into who they view as "alt-right", what they think their opponents are saying and how they think the online world contributes to it all. Covers everything from Jordan Peterson, to Charlottesville, to nazis infiltrating gaming/anime/etc. It also has some hilarious quotes like, "There's a joke on the internet that nerds only perceive two races: white and political".
One of the central themes I got implicitly was that everything not progressive is Nazism. "Not-liberal", "alt-right", and "nazi" are used interchangeably. There's this strange argument that "Nazis are bad" is not a political statement since everyone agrees and that therefore "Nazis are good" is also not a political statement. This combined with the marketplace of ideas provides cover for Nazis to propagate their ideas.
At 18:08, he proposes an onion as a metaphor for the "alt-right". Each layer represents a red pill until a final red pill at the centre, which might be about Jews. He then says that number and order of these pills might vary. It seems like he's really trying to force the metaphor to frame anyone with non-progressive ideas as part of a heirarchy of forbidden ideas which culminates in anti-semitism.
The video lists 14 possible exits from the "cis het white male" centered world but my favorite is the last: "He may revisit an old belief system such as religion, social justice, or a really wholesome fandom (Steven Universe)".
Generally, my autoplay leads to communists like Slavoj Zizek that I just ignore, but i guess it's fun to see what the other side says too. I was frequently surprised to see how often this video validated my stereotypes of progressives. Anyways, 2/10 check it out for a laugh.
I'm in the same boat, it started with games and movies and then starting to notice how fucked up things have gotten at work. I used to be glad that they strive for diversity, I thought it meant that race or gender was not taken in to account, then I was involved in the hiring process and that fucked me up, it was so incredibly racist towards whites and men that it made me depressive and kind of lost.
Then when I was at work a new guy told me about Jordan Peterson, the guy had read his book and he got motivated to change his life around, he went from a fat lazy simp to leaving his old job for a better paying one, getting fit, got in to MMA and now he was doing great with the ladies.
I ended up watching a ton of his videos and bought his book. Next I decided to watch the other "right wing extremist" that reddit told me about so I watched Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Milo etc. Here there was this Milo guy, who was rude as fuck but was of jewish descent, gay with a black boyfriend and the left was calling him a racist nazi. At that point I hated r/politics, I felt lied to, betrayed and manipulated (so about the same as dating a manipulative bitch).
So I ended up on the right, against identity politics and SJW being forced in games and movies, pro freedom of speech and I did a 180 on guns, I am now 100% for guns.