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Ben Shapiro was one of the people most attacked by the alt-right. The alt right isn't a big fan of Jews after all.

• refurb 5y ago
  “Alt-right” is just a label slapped on an unacceptable right-of-center viewpoint that attempts to lump it in with racism, authoritarianism, etc. It’s kind of a useless label at this point, since it’s thrown around so much.
  • jjgreen 5y ago
    According to Wikipedia [1], the term was coined by American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer and shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan. So more a label that they slapped on themselves. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
    • refurb 5y ago
      That Wikipedia article seems like a stretch? A white nationalist launched a webzine called “The Alternative Right”. Then “His term was shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan.” So other people used the term alt-right and somehow it’s linked to a webzine?
      • jjgreen 5y ago
        You could always correct that article then.
        • refurb 5y ago
          I could, but I like my sanity! But anyways, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware that at least wikipedia makes that connection. I've alway heard "alt-right" used as "a vague collection of far right people that fall outside the Republican Party". So they could include white supremacists, but aren't exclusively white supremacists.