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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:21 AM Aug 2017

AP 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 OP
This should be.. disillusioned73 Aug 2017 #1
i think it should not be dismissed AlexSFCA Aug 2017 #2
Call them Nazis dalton99a Aug 2017 #3
kick bigtree Aug 2017 #4
 

disillusioned73

(2,872 posts)
1. This should be..
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:53 AM
Aug 2017

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
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:09 AM
Aug 2017

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

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