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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP has an epiphany about it's use of the term 'alt-right'
Natasha Bertrand? @NatashaBertrand 1h1 hour ago.@AP says it won't use the term "alt-right" anymore "because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims."
At AP, we have taken the position that the term alt-right should be avoided because it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims. So use it only when quoting someone or when describing what the movement says about itself. Enclose the term alt-right in quotation marks or use phrasing such as the so-called alt-right (no quote marks when using the term so-called) or the self-described alt-right.
read more: https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/how-to-describe-extremists-who-rallied-in-charlottesville
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AP has an epiphany about it's use of the term 'alt-right' (Original Post)
bigtree
Aug 2017
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disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)1. This should be..
forwarded to every semi-reputable news netwrok as well.. they have been complicite with the whitewashing of the term as well.. no pun intended
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)2. i think it should not be dismissed
but add white supremacy alt right or neo nazi alt right. If you stop using alt right then people wilk thibk that alt right is something else. The term exists and you can't just get rid of it
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)3. Call them Nazis
because that's what they are.