{"id":23670,"date":"2016-08-27T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23670"},"modified":"2016-08-27T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T21:29:47","slug":"they-should-be-called-alt-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/27\/they-should-be-called-alt-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"They Should Be Called Alt-Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent conversation, I was asked to explain Alt-Right.  I said that it refers to a a loose coalition of Republicans, fascists, white nationalists, bigots, misogynists and and homophobes that usually encourages their followers to express their hatred through violence.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like all political movements, the alt-right has its own lexicon and memes, as well as its own interpretation of news events. Below you’ll find a brief list of terms you may use as a guide if you care to visit the swamps in which adherents to this 21st-century version of white supremacist ideology reside. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

1. Alt-right.<\/font><\/strong><\/span> As Julie Andrews once sang before her character fled the Nazis: \u201cLet\u2019s start at the very beginning<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>.\u201d The term \u201calt-right\u201d is shorthand for "alternative right." Just as, say, alt folk musicians envisioned themselves as a more modern, hipper iteration of the Dylan-era folk music that preceded them (which really wasn\u2019t folk music at all, but I digress), alt-righties perceive their movement to be the tweaked-for-millennial-consumption adaptation of the ideologies professed by such uncool paleoconservatives as Cranky Uncle Pat Buchanan and Klanboy David Duke.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

There are, however, disagreements among alt-righties on the scope of their hatred. The self-parodying Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, for example, wears his gay identity as a badge, even as he spews vitriol against Muslims and blacks. Others who wear the alt-right label, such as the Daily Stormer\u2019s Andrew Anglin, spurn Yiannopoulos as a \u201cdegenerate.\u201d Yiannopoulos\u2019 latest badge of courage is being <\/font><\/font>banned by Twitter<\/a><\/font> for his racist dogging of actor\/comedian Leslie Jones, a star of the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters<\/em><\/span>. (Since then, Jones\u2019 personal accounts have been hacked in a brutal cyberattack<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font>.)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

One form of hatred that appears to unite alt-righties? Misogyny. Man, do they <\/font><\/font>hate feminists<\/a><\/font>! Yiannopoulos even did a lecture tour titled, \u201cFeminism is cancer<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font>.\u201d<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Gearing up a Twitter offensive in advance of Hillary Clinton\u2019s speech in Reno about the alt-right, #altright members on Twitter set out to define their own movement.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/font><\/font>#AltRight<\/a><\/font> means you don’t think a room full of white males is a problem to be fixed,\u201d <\/font>wrote @hateful_heritic<\/a><\/font><\/font>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/font><\/font>#AltRightMeans<\/a><\/font><\/font> it’s time to oppose HUD\/Section8 housing moving blacks into the suburbs. Save our White neighborhoods\u201d, added@_AltRight_, with an accompanying photo of a lone white man in a swimming pool, surrounded by dark-skinned people.Some posted Richard B. Spencer\u2019s white-identity video, \u201cWho are we?\u201d (Money quote: \u201cI\u2019m a Roman, a Briton, a Dane\u2026\u201d)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here is that "white identity" video.  It contains hateful propaganda to justify white supremacy.<\/font><\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n