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Can we please stop using the "alt-right" euphemism for racist, backwards, literal Nazis? Edit: seems we have some Nazi-sympathizer downvoters on HN. Go figure
by jachee 7y ago
Can we please stop using the "alt-right" euphemism for racist, backwards, literal Nazis?
Edit: seems we have some Nazi-sympathizer downvoters on HN.
Go figure.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoThere is an important difference, in approach if not in ultimate intent: the alt right tries to look suave, intellectual, and hipsterish. (This is also why "debate" is exactly the wrong way to approach them as it plays to their charade. Antifa is entirely correct to respond to them with suppressive violence.)
- rpmisms 7y agoLiteral Nazis are German White Nationalist Socialists. That's not what the alt-right is. The alt-right is a blanket term used to describe anyone right of Bill Clinton who is currently not a media darling. Fascists or Ethno-Centrists are both better terms, and cover the ideologies that most people attribute to the alt right.