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originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
It's a group the DNC made up as a boogeyman for their supporters.
My comment on who and what is the Alt right....WHO CARES!!
If Clinton was against them then you really have to wonder , no ? Think about it , the alt-right also don't believe in the whole man made climate change and are there for labeled as deniers . Back a few years ago in Canada the courts took what ever the women said in court as the gospel while judging the males as guilty and needing to prove their innocence .Kind of a reverse onus type law .I and others know full well what it was like in courts and out of that the courts learned that they were in the wrong because in a lot of cases the women (victims ) were given preferential treatment while they in most cases were actually the cause of the issues . The lawyers knew of this bias and exploited it . Things have changed sense then and now in family courts those kinds of accusations need to be proven .
In Nevada, Clinton took on the alt-right by name, singling it out as an "emerging racist ideology."
originally posted by: GodEmperor
It's an amalgamation of anyone who isn't 'mainstream right'.
You could say, the left is 'alternative right', grouping the lefties in there would shut them up about it.
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: Boadicea
That and the SJW lable are equally dumb attempts to divide & conquer the people with shallow and reductionistic rhetorics.
Nothing for a reasonable and differentiated debate, which is why I always have to laugh when I see the usual suspects using those terms...
I already added my 2 cents and don't feel like debating with someone who believes everything they read online.
You make some very good points, but I have to confess that I didn't realize Hillary was the first to throw the label out until I did the research.
The Alternative Right is a term coined in 2008 by Richard Bertrand Spencer, who heads the white nationalist think tank known as the National Policy Institute, to describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on “white identity” and the preservation of “Western civilization.” In 2010, Spencer, who had done stints as an editor of The American Conservative and Taki’s Magazine, launched the Alternative Right blog, where he worked to refine the movement’s ideological tenets.
Spencer describes the Alt Right as a big-tent ideology that blends the ideas of neo-reactionaries (NRx-ers), who advocate a return to an antiquated, pseudo-libertarian government that supports “traditional western civilization”; “archeofuturists,” those who advocate for a return to “traditional values” without jettisoning the advances of society and technology; human biodiversity adherents (HBDers) and “race realists,” people who generally adhere to “scientific racism”; and other extreme-right ideologies. Alt-Right adherents stridently reject egalitarianism and universalism.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: theultimatebelgianjoke
That's an excellent video. Thanks for posting it here. It's an excellent example of how those who refuse to buy the mainstream nonsense and garbage from both left and right are easily and quickly labeled and marginalized and demonized -- and that it doesn't work!
I haven't heard anyone called the "Alt-Left" yet though...
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: Middleoftheroad
I already added my 2 cents and don't feel like debating with someone who believes everything they read online.
I see you are new here, so you are unfamiliar with my strong anti-vaxing views, my championing of chemtrails, HAARP research and daring exposure of the Monn Landing Hoax.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Boadicea
You mean that you don't understand how telling someone on the left that they are also alt-right in order to shut discussion down being compared to the simple playground comeback of "I know you are but what am I?" to shut an argument down?
I really don't know how else to explain it, but I can say that it isn't conducive to promoting discussion and it looks childish.