Alt-right - Wikipedia
The
alt-right, or
alternative right, is a loose group of people with
far-right ideologies who reject mainstream
conservatism in the United States. White nationalist
Richard Spencer coined the term in 2010 to define a movement centered on
white nationalism, and has been accused of doing so to whitewash overt
racism,
white supremacism, and
neo-Nazism.
[1][2][3][4][5] Spencer has repeatedly quoted from
Nazi propaganda and spoken critically of the
Jewish people,
[5][6] although he has denied being a neo-Nazi; alt-right beliefs have been described as white supremacist,
[7][8][9] frequently overlapping with
antisemitism and Neo-Nazism,
[10][11][12] nativism and
Islamophobia,
[13][14][15][16][17]antifeminism and
homophobia,
[10][18][19][20] white nationalist,
right-wing populism,
[21][22] and the
neoreactionary movement.
[7][23] The concept has further been associated with multiple groups from
American nationalists, neo-monarchists,
men's rights advocates, and the
2016 campaign of
Donald Trump.
[13][17][20][22][23][24]
The term drew considerable media attention and controversy during the
2016 presidential election, particularly after Trump appointed
Breitbart News chair
Steve Bannon, who has called Breitbart "the platform for the alt-right," CEO of the Trump campaign in August.
[25][26] Media attention grew further after the election, particularly when Spencer exclaimed "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory" at a post-election celebratory conference near the
White House. In response, a number of Spencer's supporters gave the
Nazi salute and chanted in a similar fashion to the
Sieg Heil chant used at the
Nuremberg rallies. Spencer, who used several
Nazi propaganda terms during the meeting, defended the conduct, stating that the Nazi salute was given in a spirit of "irony and exuberance".
[27][28] Following the episode, the style guide of the
Associated Press warned the "so-called 'alt-right' movement" is a label "currently embraced by some white supremacists and white nationalists ... It is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters' actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience.
In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist."[1]
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