what is the alt right?

[Avatar4321]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

 

[midcan5]

Alternative right, a blend of white supremacists, nationalists, Nazi lovers, nativists, xenophobes, misogynists, homophobes, and the extreme right wing.

Americans pretend there is no racism and yet the democrats have lost the white vote since civil rights. Coincidence. Trump's Mexican and immigration policies appeal to white Americans today. Reasons abound, see video at bottom. See this too, read it. Dog Whistle Politics

For the Record: For Trump, everything’s going to be alt-right

"Kritzer’s observation speaks volumes about the incoherence of the reactionary politics that are driving the Puppy campaign — and, in national politics, the Trump campaign. Despite all the claims to make America “great,” the actual behavior looks quite a bit like kneecapping the aspirations of women, people of color, and queer people so that straight white male mediocrities don’t have to deal with the competition." http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/the...-hijacked-by-trumpian-style-culture-warriors/

Has Hillary helped the GOP? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/hillary_clinton_offers_the_gop_a_lifeboat_off_of_t rump_s_sinking_ship.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE_iFHqR3c

"There was a market for white resentment": Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that’s risen from the shadows

Read or listen: Interview with Tim Wise about what the Trump phenomenon portends for the future of U.S. politics
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/22/the...-and-the-bigotry-that-risen-from-the-shadows/

 

[Norman]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

They are nationalists who oppose the globalism.

On the other hand, they are not what the left claims. Which is what they claim regarding all their enemies... "xenophobes, misogynists, racists.. " basically they perceive any enemy as the next coming of Hitler and an extreme right-winger, no matter how moderate.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

It's a Democrat construct intent on conflating the tiny thoughts of the nutty Klan types with the policy goals of a Trump administration. They believe that having such goobers support Trump is somehow different than having The Communist Party and other Marxist activists support Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

 

[Pogo]

>> ... In just one day, the so-called “alt right”—a political faction that spreads white supremacist ideology primarily online—has come to dominate the national news cycle. Today, they’ve had a hashtag, #AltRightMeans, trending on Twitter; they’ve gotten high praise from Donald Trump, who swore up and down this community isn’t racist; and then came the cherry on top: an impassioned speech by Hillary Clinton in which she called out their members, who have banded together behind Trump, by name.

What more could a dark army of trolls want? It didn’t take long until they started celebrating on the same online portals they’ve used as recruiting tools since the term “alt right” first popped up around 2008.

...The term “alt-right” is merely a rebranding of an ideology with deep, dark historic roots, says Jessie Daniels, a professor of sociology at Hunter College and author of the book Cyber Racism. In fact, you could say it’s a “dog whistle” for white supremacy. “People who are in the United States, mostly white people, are uncomfortable saying white supremacy,” Daniels says. “They’re more comfortable saying alt-right” << --- Wired
​

In other words it seems fair to call it the second coming of the Know Nothing Party.

Actually the third coming. The second came with the Klan.

 

[hazlnut]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

They are nationalists who oppose the globalism.

On the other hand, they are not what the left claims. Which is what they claim regarding all their enemies... "xenophobes, misogynists, racists.. " basically they perceive any enemy as the next coming of Hitler and an extreme right-winger, no matter how moderate.

Above is a perfect example of a racist bigot who thinks his grotesque views are in line with American values.

the Alt right see themselves as "patriots" -- just like the dixiecrats segregationists did back in the 1960's. They didn't think their white kids should have to go to school with or drink from the same fountains as black kids.

 

[Pogo]

Just for an experiment I pressed "Alt-Right arrow" on my computer. David Duke popped up, speaking German.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

>> ... In just one day, the so-called “alt right”—a political faction that spreads white supremacist ideology primarily online—has come to dominate the national news cycle. Today, they’ve had a hashtag, #AltRightMeans, trending on Twitter; they’ve gotten high praise from Donald Trump, who swore up and down this community isn’t racist; and then came the cherry on top: an impassioned speech by Hillary Clinton in which she called out their members, who have banded together behind Trump, by name.

What more could a dark army of trolls want? It didn’t take long until they started celebrating on the same online portals they’ve used as recruiting tools since the term “alt right” first popped up around 2008.

...The term “alt-right” is merely a rebranding of an ideology with deep, dark historic roots, says Jessie Daniels, a professor of sociology at Hunter College and author of the book Cyber Racism. In fact, you could say it’s a “dog whistle” for white supremacy. “People who are in the United States, mostly white people, are uncomfortable saying white supremacy,” Daniels says. “They’re more comfortable saying alt-right” << --- Wired
​

In other words it seems fair to call it the second coming of the Know Nothing Party.

Actually the third coming. The second came with the Klan.

 

[Norman]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

They are nationalists who oppose the globalism.

On the other hand, they are not what the left claims. Which is what they claim regarding all their enemies... "xenophobes, misogynists, racists.. " basically they perceive any enemy as the next coming of Hitler and an extreme right-winger, no matter how moderate.

Above is a perfect example of a racist bigot who thinks his grotesque views are in line with American values.

the Alt right see themselves as "patriots" -- just like the dixiecrats segregationists did back in the 1960's. They didn't think their white kids should have to go to school with or drink from the same fountains as black kids.

I have never seen an alt right person who views himself as patriot. You must be talking about conservatives?

You are as clueless as they come. Not surprising for a well known racist of the board.

 

[Norman]

Alternative right, a blend of white supremacists, nationalists, Nazi lovers, nativists, xenophobes, misogynists, homophobes, and the extreme right wing.

Americans pretend there is no racism and yet the democrats have lost the white vote since civil rights. Coincidence. Trump's Mexican and immigration policies appeal to white Americans today. Reasons abound, see video at bottom. See this too, read it. Dog Whistle Politics

For the Record: For Trump, everything’s going to be alt-right

"Kritzer’s observation speaks volumes about the incoherence of the reactionary politics that are driving the Puppy campaign — and, in national politics, the Trump campaign. Despite all the claims to make America “great,” the actual behavior looks quite a bit like kneecapping the aspirations of women, people of color, and queer people so that straight white male mediocrities don’t have to deal with the competition." http://www.salon.com/2016/08/23/the...-hijacked-by-trumpian-style-culture-warriors/

Has Hillary helped the GOP? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/hillary_clinton_offers_the_gop_a_lifeboat_off_of_t rump_s_sinking_ship.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE_iFHqR3c

"There was a market for white resentment": Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that’s risen from the shadows

Read or listen: Interview with Tim Wise about what the Trump phenomenon portends for the future of U.S. politics
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/22/the...-and-the-bigotry-that-risen-from-the-shadows/

There is no racism because the democrats have lost.

The rest of the story is 180 degrees from the reality, as to be expected.

 

[Katzndogz]

It's something the left made up to scare their fellow leftists
.

 

[Pogo]

It's something the left made up to scare their fellow leftists
.

Actually it goes back to 2008.

--- which just happens to be when that guy ran for President who was B ::cough cough:

... who was B ::cough::

.... who was Born in Hawaìi.


This came with the package yanno. Always read the ingredient label.

>> When he again spouts asinine or even vicious nonsense — like belittling tortured POWs from Vietnam, likening an opponent to a child molester, smearing an innocent reporter, making fun of another reporter’s disability, or insinuating that another opponent’s father conspired to kill JFK — he’s all yours.

.... You own his vulgarity. You own his viciousness and thuggishness, his admiration for tyrants and his own authoritarianism. You own his ignorance, his self-absorption (or worse), his instability, his incompetence, his incontinent prevarications small and outrageously large, his wild streak that tends to lead to serial failures, and his dangerous lack of diplomacy. You also own his misogyny and his bigotry, and his penchant for trampling “ordinary Americans” under his feet. And if some October indictment or health issue befalls Hillary Clinton, and therefore Trump, Lord forbid, becomes president, then you own the dangerous national and international disorder that will ensue. << --- Michael Vadon, American Spectator​

 

[OKTexas]

It's the fear mongering left attempting to change the vernacular again, in an attempt to scare minorities, because their other libelous terms were failing. They'll over use this one just like all the rest and invent something new and it will start all over again. If nothing else, the left is very predictable.

 

[Boss]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

I hesitate to say they are Trump supporters because many of his supporters are simply Conservatives who feel they have no choice and are holding their nose because Hillary is so deplorable. But the rabid "anti-Cruz" obnoxious loudmouths who are also known as "populist-nationalists" ...THOSE people are the alt right.

I'm fine with the designation, as long as it's understood these people are not affiliated with Conservatism in any way. They actually have more in common with the radical progressive left. From their Saul Alinsky tactics to their love of Big Government.

Now, you have to wonder, who were they before they were "alt right"? Many of them were calling themselves "moderates" and supported the establishment type republicans and some of them were masquerading rather convincingly as conservatives. Because of their strong nativist identity, they also seem to attract the fringe racist element.

 

[toomuchtime_]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

There is no such thing as the alt right. It is a particularly gruesome manifestation of Hillary's paranoia about a "vast right wing conspiracy" that she has been claiming for years has been following her and her husband around and is responsible for all their difficulties.

 

[toomuchtime_]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

I hesitate to say they are Trump supporters because many of his supporters are simply Conservatives who feel they have no choice and are holding their nose because Hillary is so deplorable. But the rabid "anti-Cruz" obnoxious loudmouths who are also known as "populist-nationalists" ...THOSE people are the alt right.

I'm fine with the designation, as long as it's understood these people are not affiliated with Conservatism in any way. They actually have more in common with the radical progressive left. From their Saul Alinsky tactics to their love of Big Government.

Now, you have to wonder, who were they before they were "alt right"? Many of them were calling themselves "moderates" and supported the establishment type republicans and some of them were masquerading rather convincingly as conservatives. Because of their strong nativist identity, they also seem to attract the fringe racist element.

So one has to ask, when Senator Clinton voted for the same border fence she now claims she opposes and criticized Mexico and illegal immigrants from Mexico in much the same way Trump has done, was she a member of the alt right?

 

[OldLady]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

You will learn here that it doesn't exist. Just like the KKK is dead and gone. No white supremacists here. Nope.

 

[toomuchtime_]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

You will learn here that it doesn't exist. Just like the KKK is dead and gone. No white supremacists here. Nope.

Certainly there are extremists on the right and the left, and Hillary's recent efforts to incite African Americans against the police marks her as one of them, but there the term alt right is an effort to make voters believe they are part of a vast right wing conspiracy that doesn't exist. Hitler, Erdogan and the old white southern politicians used the same tactics as Hillary to gain popular support with their conspiracy theories.

 

[Boss]

So one has to ask, when Senator Clinton voted for the same border fence she now claims she opposes and criticized Mexico and illegal immigrants from Mexico in much the same way Trump has done, was she a member of the alt right?

No because Hillary Clinton is a Marxist Socialist. And what happened to "the wall"? When did it suddenly become a fence? You see, populism is funny like that... you never know what is going to change depending on popularity of the moment. There are no real principles mooring it's foundation other than populism. Raise your finger in the air, see which way the wind is blowing today, and that's your stated position today. It could change tomorrow, no one knows.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

The term keeps popping up. Never heard it before the end of the primary. What is it?

They are nationalists who oppose the globalism.

On the other hand, they are not what the left claims. Which is what they claim regarding all their enemies... "xenophobes, misogynists, racists.. " basically they perceive any enemy as the next coming of Hitler and an extreme right-winger, no matter how moderate.

Above is a perfect example of a racist bigot who thinks his grotesque views are in line with American values.

the Alt right see themselves as "patriots" -- just like the dixiecrats segregationists did back in the 1960's. They didn't think their white kids should have to go to school with or drink from the same fountains as black kids.

Sorry, but youre wrong again and need to be corrected. That was the libs who did that. I feel sorry for the stupidity in this post. Its sad to see america devolve to this level of thinking and ignorance of history.