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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe time has come to strike "alt-right" from our vocabularies.
The term alt-right is a marketing term to make the loose association of white nationalists, white supremacists, racsists, and neo-nazis more palatable. They wear it as a badge of honour because it doesn't actually include any of those terms, so they can use it in polite company. It softens their image to people who don't know about their actual ideologies. It's convenient to type, it's easier to say, and it hides their true motivations behind a term that they can readily use in public without fear of reprisal.
So, it's time to stop using it. When we're referring to white nationalists, white supremacists, racists, and neo-nazis, we need to start calling them white nationalists, white supremacists, racists, and neo-nazis. Don't let them disguise themselves behind a buzz word as banal as "alt-right." Richard Spencer and the Brietbart set can own their movement with all of their ideologies spelled out. Breitbart isn't alt-right, it's white nationalist, white supremacist, racist, and neo-nazi.
Time to strike it from our vocabularies.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)We have to stop letting them sanitize their hate. When we do that makes them and their ideas mainstream. Which is not acceptable!
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)I'm also not using their anti-fa term.
Those opposed to fascism in a non-violent way, are just plain decent people.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)There is no need to tiptoe through the daisies here.
The Republican party has courted these people and enabled them through voter suppression, prisons for profit, suppression of CDC studies on hate groups etc....
Saviolo
(3,284 posts)They need to be saddled to their entire disgusting ideology. Anytime one of them identifies as "alt-right" we need to respond with, "Oh, you mean white nationalists, white supremacist, racist, and neo-nazi?"
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Anti-social human beings.
Some wear armbands, some burn crosses and some are Senators from Texas and Kentucky...
Submariner
(12,513 posts)Just your everyday racist sexist white trash republicans no matter what label they try to adopt.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)into their disgusting mass of hatreds in order to select just the right term, I'm going to just call them all "Nazis", as I remember my Mom doing in the 50's and 60's.