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[Perfect Blue]

On June 16th, nine days before the rally, Merwin announced a surprise addition to his lineup: the white nationalist and anti-Semite Richard Spencer. Spencer believes that white Americans need their own homeland—“a sort of white Zionism,” he calls it. For years, he had been a marginal figure on the far right; last year, when the alt-right became an object of popular fascination, Spencer used the notoriety to his advantage. After the election, he experienced two moments of viral fame: one shortly after Trump’s victory, when Spencer cried “Hail Trump” during a speech and appeared to lead a crowd in a Nazi-esque salute, and the other on Inauguration Day, when a masked stranger punched him in the face. Spencer is a deliberately divisive figure, and, during the past few months, many on the right have worked to distance themselves from him and his views. Lucian Wintrich, of the pro-Trump tabloid the Gateway Pundit, told me that, last year, the term alt-right “was adopted by libertarians, anti-globalists, classical conservatives, and pretty much everyone else who was sick of what had become of establishment conservatism.” Wintrich counted himself among that group. “Then Richard Spencer came along, throwing up Nazi salutes and claiming that he was the leader of the alt-right,” Wintrich went on. “He effectively made the term toxic and then claimed it for himself. We all abandoned using it in droves.”

Full article here: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-alt-right-branding-war-has-torn-the-movement-in-two

 

[perfectchaos007]

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

They can share it.

 

[Ahasverus]

Fucking semantics should be the least of the problems regarding this matter.

 

[Volimar]

Huh...I always thought it was just code for racist shit stains.

 

[FinaruDensetsu]

Lol I don't believe him when he says many of them are distancing themselves from Spencer.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Fucking semantics should be the least of the problems regarding this matter.

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

 

[Enduin]

So de facto racists and bigots are upset that they're being associated with outright racists and bigots. Such a tragedy.

 

[Damaniel]

'Alt-right' or not, I'm sure most of the people from the groups listed in that article voted for Trump.

 

[Username1198]

Poor snowflakes.

Their all the same. Fuck em all

 

[Jackpot]

Just call them all neo-Nazis and be done with it.

 

[Slayven]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

This is too good

 

[benicillin]

And gamergate was about ethics in journalism before the bad people showed up and ruined it.

Gimme a break.

 

[YaBish]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

 

[BocoDragon]

Richard Spencer invented the term so.....

It was a deliberate attempt on his part to make a term that bundled white supremacy with other "less extreme" forms of right wing politics to further this aims. He played them.

 

[HStallion]

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

A pinched off turd.

 

[Viewt]

"Look, I get it, we're all bigots. But, like, guys, you can't be so open about it..."

"HEIL TRUMP!"

"No yeah, totally, but ya know, for the sake of optics..."

"LET'S CUCK THE LIBTARDS! MEME MAGIC!"

"That's... better, I guess?"

"LOCK HER UP!"

"Now you're speakin' my language!"

These people don't give a shit. They're just miffed because these guys are "off message" and they don't know how to brand it for the mainstream.

 

[Lil Marco]

Don't worry, we can just call them Nazis

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

So the covert racists are getting salty that they're getting bunched in with the open racists just because they supported an open racist for President?

 

[Perfect Blue]

Huh, 20 posts in and no letthemfight.gif.

 

[Sobriquet]

He's wrong and covering his ass. Alt-right has referred specifically to white nationalism for years.

 

[5taquitos]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

ayyyyy

 

[platakul]

Wintrich was also claiming on Twitter that Spencer is a pedophile so idk

 

[theWB27]

Wish we'd just call then racists and stop sugar coating their bs.

 

[Magwik]

Poor snowflakes.

Their all the same. Fuck em all

.

 

[cameron]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

 

[Volimar]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

Jolly good.

 

[Ahasverus]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

sensiblechuckle.gif

 

[Whompa02]

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

the KKK

 

[John Rabbit]

So...out and out racists vs closeted racists.


Got it.

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

The Schutzstaffel.

 

[Ethical Hedonism]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

LMAO

 

[beelulzebub]

Bullshit. The alt-right subreddit predates that Richard Spencer nazi salute and it was no less unsavory before or after. Same with the_donald and /pol/, both of which identified as alt-right for pretty much all of 2016. These guys just want to distance themselves from a now well-known and toxic term.

 

[Netherscourge]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

You're playing 4D checkers, bro.

 

[Username1198]

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

Fuck it took me like 10 minutes to get this. Fucking Eh, lmao

 

[kirblar]

Conservatives poisoning previously useful terms?

Nice to have them learning to deal w/ what liberals have been dealing with for generations.

 

[John Kowalski]

Hmm, I do recall the term being used long before these recent developments

 

[Parch]

Is this Republicans trying to distance themselves from the alt-right?

They're not us.
Wrong.
They are definitely you. This is what you created. Don't pretend they're not your Frankenstein monster just because you can no longer control them.

 

[SecretMoblin]

eh, every faction has these fights, it's more about who you want to be friends with rather than any sort of ideologically consistent labels

this site melts down every time "Tulsi Gabbard"

Spoiler

or "Bill Maher"

and "progressive" are on the same page (100ppp)

 

[IaN_GAF]

I think it's too late. Everyone who isn't left is now an alt right Nazi.

 

[John Rabbit]

Is this Republicans trying to distance themselves from the alt-right?

They're not us.
Wrong.
They are definitely you. This is what you created. Don't pretend they're not your Frankenstein monster just because you can no longer control them.

So should Democrats start taking responsibility for Antifa?

 

[L Thammy]

jerks making white supremacism look bad

 

[CopperPuppy]

"We prefer our racism and white supremacy to be veiled and surreptitious. Spencer made it too blatant so we're distancing ourselves in name only for purely calculated and political reasons."

 

[Not]

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

White ISIS

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

So teabaggers broke off from the republicans, and alt-righters broke off from the teaparty. I wonder what will inevitably break off from the alt-right.

every time one of these groups splinter off from the Republican party they get worse and worse. the next group is just going to have a 24/7/365 channel just spewing every racial epithet possible and randomly beating up minorities while screaming maga!

 

[Pandy]

Huh...I always thought it was just code for racist shit stains.

It is. He's just annoyed as part of the closet racist alt-right that the openly racist alt-right have made it obvious.

I thought most of them were anti-semantic?

Very, very good.

 

[Ponn]

It's always about being called a racist and not that they are actually doing racist things. They are jusst going to keep jumping ship to different names as each becomes too toxic for the public, the core groups don't change though.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

a 24/7/365 channel just spewing every racial epithet possible and randomly beating up minorities while screaming maga!

WGN after the Sinclair buyout.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

I know one conservative Youtuber stated on Twitter that he heard alt-right all the way back in like 07-09 at Libertarian-leaning rallies, and that Spencer basically coopted it because it hadn't taken off.

 

[L Thammy]

I know one conservative Youtuber stated on Twitter that he heard alt-right all the way back in like 07-09 at Libertarian-leaning rallies, and that Spencer basically coopted it because it hadn't taken off.

When did he say this? Are you sure he isn't just an alt-right hipster?

 

[radios shipping overview]

The far right has been infighting ever since Spencer held that Nazi rally in DC right after the election. The main thing they still have in common is bigotry.