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The language of this article is biased and portrays viewpoints using various leftist tropes such as use of "deniers", "right wing", "alt-right". The article is

• slumpt_ 5y ago
  Right wing, alt-right, and “deniers” are all real constructs. The article is undoubtedly flawed but do at least get your ducks in a row.
  • JPKab 5y ago
    I agree with you on "Right Wing", and with "denier" in the sense of climate change, but alt-right has devolved into a meaningless label for anyone to the right of Mao. I was called "alt-right" by an AI ethics researcher because I asked her if she had looked at the actual data on police shootings/crime and argued with her response that the data released by the FBI UCR (victim reported crime data) was fabricated/fraudulent. I was also called a "denier" on a trip to Orange County, California last year because I wasn't wearing a mask while walking outside on a boardwalk, by a person who assumed I was an anti-masker. (I simply don't wear them outdoors)
    • chobeat 5y ago
      if people misuse of a specific term in a casual context made the term meaningless, we wouldn't be able to speak of politics, science or any other specific field. Alt-right has a very specific meaning in politics and political analysis, regardless of how it's used in a casual context
      • SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
        "Alt-right" isn't any sort of established term of art; it was first coined in a casual context less than a decade ago. I've seen some researchers use it as a kind of synonym for "white identity politics", but it seems to me that they're doing so specifically because of the casual usage, not because the term is particularly useful to them.
• JPKab 5y ago
  I noticed this as well, and as I said in another comment, I've voted Democratic my entire life. The "Reformist" category, if following the same logic as the "Right Wing Accelerationist" category, should have identified this group as being "Left Wing Reformist", because literally every single group listed as an example is a radical leftist/collectivist political movement. I'm a center-left liberal, so my own biases (and dislike of radical leftists who have hijacked my political party) are likely influencing my judgement of this.
• grive 5y ago
  You are talking of "leftist tropes" such as the "right wing"? I mean, that's just the pot calling the kettle black, at a minimum right? There are climate derniers. There is a right political wing in America. There is an alt-right. They are all engaging in talks and rhetoric about climate change. It's not "leftist trope" to describe their position. > The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals of future society. The article describes several types of collapses as envisioned by several ideologies. It seems useful to map those ideologies and their responses toward what they perceive as a threat to our civilisation. You seem extremely biased yourself so of course you won't be open to these views.
  • wayoutthere 5y ago
    There is no “alt-right”; they’re just the far right. “Alt-right” was just cool new branding for the same ethnonationalist crap that’s always been around.
• fallingfrog 5y ago
  It is somewhat vacuous but not for that reason.