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The careless bundling of everyone under the sun into the "alt-right" category is getting out of hand. I don't care what you think about the shitposters on r/Th
by leifaffles 9y ago
The careless bundling of everyone under the sun into the "alt-right" category is getting out of hand.
I don't care what you think about the shitposters on r/The_Donald or Mike Cernovich, but they aren't anything close to advocates for the white identity politics advocated by the "alt-right".
- chrishepner 9y agoI don't see on what axis you could meaningfully separate Cernovich from the rest of the "alt-right" - the hateful conspiracy theory stuff aside, he says things like "diversity is code for white genocide."
- leifaffles 9y agoHow about on the axis of "believes in white racial superiority"? The claim of the "alt-right" is that Western civilization is intimately tied to the white race. Here's a video of Jared Taylor explaining the "alt right": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnDm7OxuU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnDm7OxuU4 It's also worth noting that alt-right wasn't even well-defined until 2016. As it became clearer, plenty of people (including Cernovich) publically denounced and distanced themselves. None of this is a broader defense of Cernovich, who I maintain is creepy and lacking in substance, but the careless lumping in of mainstream conservatives, nationalists, internet trolls, Pepe the Frog, etc into the "alt-right" bucket is not helpful.
- mejin 9y agoSeeing as Hillary calls half of all the Trump voters as alt-right, and half of the voters voted for Trump, that would make 1/4 of all the voters alt-right. I guess we can now divide the American voters into 4 equal sections. Alt-left, left, right and alt-right. Just remember, advertisers and politician use words like alt, nano, micro, easy payments, etc. in ways that you may no be used to using them.