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In reply to the discussion: Words matter! This "alt-right" crap needs to stop now! [View all]asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)So many at DU - understand perfectly what the Altright is especially reading your comments..
For example - The 40 Maps at VOX helped me understand the history of the Middle East, and why we are,we are...(a wealth of information)..especially our involvement with Turkey in Syria - and the US telling the Kurds to back away from some of the areas recently retaken from ISIS (w/Kurdish help no less)...
With Media Matters I look for clarity for terms - such as Alt-right...or research re: lies by Media.
.So many at DU - understand perfectly what the Altright is especially reading your comments..
.this article below helped me to understand what Altright is and who the players are..it is lengthy -
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The New Yorker reported that the term alt-right was coined by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who described the movement in December as an ideology around identity, European identity. The Anti-Defamation League described Spencer as a symbol of a new generation of intellectual white supremacists who runs a variety of ventures that promote racist ideology.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/25/what-alt-right-guide-white-nationalist-movement-now-leading-conservative-media/212643
But then, you already know this stuff...be well all - Stronger Together