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> much as the moniker "alt-right" legitimizes white > supremacists. Actually, alt-right was coined as a term to differentiate people who adhere to the trad

by pdx 9y ago

> much as the moniker "alt-right" legitimizes white > supremacists. Actually, alt-right was coined as a term to differentiate people who adhere to the traditional republican/libertarian views about personal liberty and small government from the neo-conservatives such as Romney, McCain, Graham, and others who push so strongly for nation-building and big government. The collection of people that are drawn to the ideal of small-government and liberty is larger than the subset you describe.

openasocket 9y ago
Source? The Southern Poverty Law Center says it was coined by Richard Spencer to describe a white nationalist political ideology: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alternative-right https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideo...
- pdx 9y ago
  The Southern Poverty Law Center is notoriously biased [1] against any non-progressive ideology, which includes alt-right and libertarian ideals. If this is indeed their actual opinion, it is wrong. I suspect even they know it is not true. Alt-right traces is lineage back to Ron Paul and the tea-party. [1] http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-about-southern-poverty-law-aaron-bandler#exit-modal http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-ab...
  - openasocket 9y ago
    Do you have any sources to back up your claim the the term "Alt-right" can be traced back to Ron Paul and the tea party? Wikipedia says the first usage of the term "alternative right" was by Paul Gottfried in 2008 (http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-paleoconservative-who-coined-the-term-alternative-right/ http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-pale...) It also says that the first usage of the contracted form "alt-right" was by Richard Spencer. https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-ri... http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-... and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-dona... quote Spencer as claiming to be the person who coined the term. And there's like a dozen other citations on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right Where are your sources?

by pdx 9y ago

openasocket 9y ago

Source? The Southern Poverty Law Center says it was coined by Richard Spencer to describe a white nationalist political ideology: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alternative-right https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideo...

pdx 9y ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center is notoriously biased [1] against any non-progressive ideology, which includes alt-right and libertarian ideals. If this is indeed their actual opinion, it is wrong. I suspect even they know it is not true. Alt-right traces is lineage back to Ron Paul and the tea-party. [1] http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-about-southern-poverty-law-aaron-bandler#exit-modal http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-ab...
- openasocket 9y ago
  Do you have any sources to back up your claim the the term "Alt-right" can be traced back to Ron Paul and the tea party? Wikipedia says the first usage of the term "alternative right" was by Paul Gottfried in 2008 (http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-paleoconservative-who-coined-the-term-alternative-right/ http://forward.com/news/national/348372/meet-the-jewish-pale...) It also says that the first usage of the contracted form "alt-right" was by Richard Spencer. https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-ri... http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-... and https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-dona... quote Spencer as claiming to be the person who coined the term. And there's like a dozen other citations on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right Where are your sources?