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It's a little odd, since 99% of the time it's really just a euphemism for a particular kind of neo-nazi.
by TillE 10y ago
It's a little odd, since 99% of the time it's really just a euphemism for a particular kind of neo-nazi.
- dpc59 10y agoalternative is pretty much a synonym of neo
- jgrowl 10y agoI was thinking about this earlier. It's so silly. Neo Conservative was already taken so lets make up a new term to label people with. "I know, how about alt-right..."
- waterphone 10y agoAlt-right people came up with the name for themselves, it wasn't a term others created to label them.
- htns 10y agoEither way it's a navel-gazing orwellism.
- paulddraper 10y agoThe alternative is neo-neoconservative, like post-postmodernism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism) You're a programmer, right? NewNewClass ...
- betenoire 10y agothe politically correct term for a racist
- paulddraper 10y agoA white racist. The Black Panthers are also racist, but I would not call them alt-right or neo-nazis.
- nailer 10y agoReally? The alt-right side don't support immigration and like their own culture - which is a very common thing across the world, particularly amongst the working class. neo nazis specifically advocate violence. I generally vote for the Labour party, but that doesn't mean I and my fellow Labour voters (Corbyn aside) support Mao/Chavez/PolPot-style murdering of our enemies.
- rtpg 10y agothis is how the Alt-Right frames itself, and it's pretty ingenious. People discuss protection of culture, and completely step over the part about "their own culture". The Alt Right ideology relies on the principle that White culture is the "true" culture of the nation, and that other contributions simply do not count. They cast an illegitimacy to the history of minorities in the US. The debate about protecting the culture is irrelevant because they do not want to protect the nation's culture. They want to protect White culture.
- nailer 10y agoIt's the same as the (generally left) folk feel fine about when preserving areas from other cultures. Want to preserve Oakland or the Mission as is? That's fine. Don't like seeing women forced to walk around in burkas and girls having their genitals cut (I live in London where these re both issues)? That's racist. Obviously Islam isn't a race, and this makes no sense, but it's something people still claim. Either preserving existing cultures is OK or it isn't.
- quonn 10y agoI'm sure genital mutilation is already prohibited under British law. The problem with the burkas is that is it of course difficult to determine or prove that they are not worn voluntarily. I know some girls from liberal (Christian/Atheist) families who converted to Islam who wear a Niqab. I can guarantee you that they are not "forced" to do this.
- nailer 10y ago