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This is part of a piece on the "alt-right" from the Raw Story site. Well worth reading the whole thing. Link below.
Whats so renegade about the alt-right? It puts on bold display the racism and misogyny that has always fueled the so-called conservative movement, but which has typically been rationalized through themes involving the word freedom, employed to justify a right to discriminate, whether against members of races or creeds other than your own, or by gender, sexual orientation or gender identity. The alt-right hordes on Twitter and other internet haunts dispense with the obfuscation, declaring the superiority of white people and demonstrating contempt for blacks and Jews, hating on women, and preposterously whining that they are the targets of a white genocide.
The alt-right encompasses a range of right-wing hate groups and ideologies, from the Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer crowd to the more buttoned-down wanna-be-wonks at the National Policy Institute. As Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton prepared to deliver a speech Thursday devoted to Trumps exploitation of the alt-right, the movements denizens erupted in a stream of vitriol and fevered attempts to define their own movement before Clintons definition took hold.
The alt-right encompasses a range of right-wing hate groups and ideologies, from the Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer crowd to the more buttoned-down wanna-be-wonks at the National Policy Institute. As Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton prepared to deliver a speech Thursday devoted to Trumps exploitation of the alt-right, the movements denizens erupted in a stream of vitriol and fevered attempts to define their own movement before Clintons definition took hold.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/the-alt-right-dictionary-7-terms-you-need-to-know-to-understand-trumps-most-hateful-supporters/
So they tried to define their own movement before Hillary's definition took hold. Too late. The Rude Pundit has picked up on it and MSNBC has picked up on it, as have many other media outlets. The scum that they are is out there for all to see. (Google it for yourself.)
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More on "alt-right" (Original Post)
Cyrano
Aug 2016
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. I thought it was an acronym!!!
Asinine
Lousy
Troglodytes
Racist
Intolerant
Greedy
Hateful
Trumpeteers
I'll bet someone can come up something better!
Free-Way-Fanny
(15 posts)2. A good "alt-right" explainer, from the Southern Poverty Law Center....
The Alternative Right, commonly known as the Alt-Right, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that white identity is under attack by multicultural forces using political correctness and social justice to undermine white people and their civilization. Characterized by heavy use of social media and online memes, Alt-Righters eschew establishment conservatism, skew young, and embrace white ethno-nationalism as a fundamental value.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alternative-right
Free-Way-Fanny
(15 posts)3. And another variant...
American Racists Work to Spread Identitarian Ideology
Several small American hate groups are stepping up efforts to spread local variants of identitarianism, a movement born in France in recent years that preaches opposition to multiculturalism, often taking shape in the form of anti-Muslim xenophobia.
Several small American hate groups are stepping up efforts to spread local variants of identitarianism, a movement born in France in recent years that preaches opposition to multiculturalism, often taking shape in the form of anti-Muslim xenophobia.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/12/american-racists-work-spread-%E2%80%98identitarian%E2%80%99-ideology