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So would you describe the person who shot Scalise as mainstream left then?
by jdoliner 9y ago
So would you describe the person who shot Scalise as mainstream left then?
- acdha 9y agoThere have always been deranged lunatics. The question is whether he was part of or influenced by a larger movement, which doesn't seem to be the case. Similarly, do you have anyone defending his actions the way some of the neo-Nazi groups have? As a comparison, Timothy McVeigh was quickly condemned by just about everyone and is often used as an example of a lone wolf. This guy will be remembered as a [thankfully less successful] left-wing counterpart.
- j2kun 9y agoDid he self-identify as alt-left? Literally nobody identifies as alt-left. Unless he did, it's irrelevant to my comment.
- jdoliner 9y agoHe self identified as left.
- j2kun 9y agoExactly. Alt-left is a term made up by literal white supremacists to make violent leftist terrorists look like they're a broad, organized movement. They use it to excuse themselves for the violence their side commits. It gives them non sequiturs to distract in conversation, as you and the root comment successfully did.
- hashberry 9y ago"The alt-right didn’t invent ‘alt-left.’ Liberals did."[0] [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/08/17/the-alt-right-didnt-invent-alt-left-liberals-did/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/0...
- j2kun 9y agoRight. http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/is-the-alt-left-a-real-thing/ http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/is-the-alt-left-a-real-thin...