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Is everyone who disagrees with you just "alt-right", is that how that works? Seems to be a pretty common thing.
by bsagdiyev 4y ago
Is everyone who disagrees with you just "alt-right", is that how that works? Seems to be a pretty common thing.
- inferiorhuman 4y ago> is that how that works? No, spouting off unhinged alt right conspiracy theories gets you labeled alt right. That's how it works. Things like "anti-Asian initiatives", "covid extremism", "anti-lead propaganda" or whinging about how raising the felony threshold to keep pace with inflation is the cause of "all the crime".
- bsagdiyev 4y agoThe person you replied to did nothing of that sort though, you just knee jerk reacted with emotions and accused them of being "alt-right" because they didn't share your opinion.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoThe things I put in double quotes were in fact direct quotes from the comment I replied to. So… > accused them of being "alt-right" because they didn't share your opinion No, I didn't. Look. I couldn't possibly give two fucks about whether or not some random HN user agrees with me or not. Trafficking in alt right conspiracy theories and other alt right nonsense warrants the label alt right. Blaming Prop 47 for California's ills is an alt right talking point. As someone who's also studied California politics in an academic setting, attempting to lay blame at its feet is objectively ignorant and completely lacking in nuance (at best). At worst it's disingenuous. As a San Francisco native and lifelong Bay Area resident I've followed the airport thing a bit and aside from the sheer ridiculousness of calling something "anti-lead propaganda" it's a gross mischaracterization of what's actually going on. Ars had a decent writeup, but it's not clickbaity enough to end up at HN.