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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
by 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 agoif 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.