The “Alternative Right"

[Wombaticus Rex]

How the Left Can Circumvent the Rise of the Alt-Right

By Shane Burley

...yeah, but....

How the Left Can Circumvent the Rise of the Alt-Right

By Shane Burley

...be honest, how much of what you paste here do you actually read?

[American Dream]

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

[dada]

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

What does this mean?

I don't know. Maybe I'll understand it after coffee.

[coffin_dodger]

He's got the measure of you, Wom. The Committee shall hear about this!

[Wombaticus Rex]

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

Nah, buddy. Not gonna let you do that aspersion game with me. Enjoy the rest of Campaign 2016 off. Maybe spend some time thinking about how you engage with other people, comrade.

[Perelandra]

[semper occultus]

that same paragraph was repeated twice

...well its worked...I actually clicked on the article and read it....not totally convinced the author knows the meaning of the word prurient though...

[Belligerent Savant]

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

Nah, buddy. Not gonna let you do that aspersion game with me. Enjoy the rest of Campaign 2016 off. Maybe spend some time thinking about how you engage with other people, comrade.

Trap tailored for the target. Well done.

(Good thing you're the only one brandishing such a sword. Place would get quite bloody otherwise.)

[hanshan]

...





...

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

Nah, buddy. Not gonna let you do that aspersion game with me. Enjoy the rest of Campaign 2016 off. Maybe spend some time thinking about how you engage with other people, comrade.

Trap tailored for the target. Well done.

(Good thing you're the only one brandishing such a sword. Place would get quite bloody otherwise.)

...

[Searcher08]

Yeah, that same paragraph was repeated twice and it does target claims which you may even support. So, Bingo.

Nah, buddy. Not gonna let you do that aspersion game with me. Enjoy the rest of Campaign 2016 off. Maybe spend some time thinking about how you engage with other people, comrade.

Trap tailored for the target. Well done.

(Good thing you're the only one brandishing such a sword. Place would get quite bloody otherwise.)

@MrSavant Seconded.

@Semper I tried to read it, but there were more weasel words than a sackful of ferrets and could see so many scare quotes I thought I was in "Halloween" - just wasn't worth it.

[seemslikeadream]

we all be at the mercy of the broadsword


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LuVUPpUorQ

don't be stingy with the candy

we must respect the only man that will change our kitty litter

[American Dream]

Well worth the price of admission just for the art work alone:

My Journey to the Center of the Alt Right

In the broadest sense, the alt-right is a populist revolt against the political establishment. Alt-righters are mostly young white men who are angry about income inequality, poor job prospects, PC culture, crumbling social welfare programs and war. They come from Pat Buchanan’s nativist paleoconservatism, Ron Paul’s libertarianism, the rape-y Manosphere, the Gamergate underground, and other subcultures. Along the way, they feed off disinformation and conspiracy theories that have gained credence thanks in no small measure to Republican efforts to demonize journalism, science and what Karl Rove is believed to have dismissed as the “reality-based community.” This journey is called being “red-pilled,” a reference to the main character’s choice in “The Matrix” to swallow a red pill that shows him the horror of his enslaved reality or a blue pill that lets him remain blissfully unaware.

The horrifying truth the red pill supposedly reveals is that we inhabit a country in the throes of a “white genocide” driven by immigration policies. Some, like Spencer, dress up these notions with palaver about preserving identity and Western culture. Others lace up jackboots. Either way, there is nothing ambiguous about their beliefs. These are unabashed racists who think that blacks, Hispanics and Arabs are congenitally stupid and violent. Most are virulently anti-Semitic. Many are self-identified fascists.

Read at: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/arti ... alt-right/

[8bitagent]

Well worth the price of admission just for the art work alone:

My Journey to the Center of the Alt Right

In the broadest sense, the alt-right is a populist revolt against the political establishment. Alt-righters are mostly young white men who are angry about income inequality, poor job prospects, PC culture, crumbling social welfare programs and war. They come from Pat Buchanan’s nativist paleoconservatism, Ron Paul’s libertarianism, the rape-y Manosphere, the Gamergate underground, and other subcultures. Along the way, they feed off disinformation and conspiracy theories that have gained credence thanks in no small measure to Republican efforts to demonize journalism, science and what Karl Rove is believed to have dismissed as the “reality-based community.” This journey is called being “red-pilled,” a reference to the main character’s choice in “The Matrix” to swallow a red pill that shows him the horror of his enslaved reality or a blue pill that lets him remain blissfully unaware.

The horrifying truth the red pill supposedly reveals is that we inhabit a country in the throes of a “white genocide” driven by immigration policies. Some, like Spencer, dress up these notions with palaver about preserving identity and Western culture. Others lace up jackboots. Either way, there is nothing ambiguous about their beliefs. These are unabashed racists who think that blacks, Hispanics and Arabs are congenitally stupid and violent. Most are virulently anti-Semitic. Many are self-identified fascists.

Read at: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/arti ... alt-right/

The alt right "red pill", drawing from Lawrence Fishburne in the Matrix 1999 film Morpheus character. Which they'd refer to as a "Nig nog dindu". As always, nothing makes sense in alt right world.

[American Dream]

MEET THE ALT LITE, THE PEOPLE MAINSTREAMING THE ALT RIGHT’S WHITE NATIONALISM

What a fascist ideological current needs to become a movement is a way to crossover. To gain entry into the culture, into public discourse, into the collective consciousness. Over the years, fascism, with its various ideological positions like innate human inequality and essentialized identities, has found people that could bridge the edge of acceptability to their world of racism. In the 1980s and 1990s this was largely made up of Paleoconservatism, where the high water mark was people like Pat Buchanan. It also took the form of the broader conspiracy theorist world, which mainstreamed ideas like the Jews being responsible for 9/11 or the notion that the Holocaust was a Jewish fabrication.

Today, the Alt Right is the latest successful branding of the ongoing fascist movement, and it simply brings white nationalism into the current world of memes and ironic hashtags. Its massive growth has come, largely, from an internal culture where someone can rise to the status of subcultural celebrity without ever being known to the mainstream. Within this world they have still had to find ways of mainstreaming their message, and they have done this by cozying up to people who make many of their larger political points without all of the baggage.

This group of people has been termed the Alt Lite: a sort of Diet Alt Right who brings in a lot of their ideas and their cultural behavior without committing to the hard white nationalism, traditionalism, and reactionary revolutionary ideology. We have compiled a list of the key Alt Lite players who are helping to bring this movement to the surface, and discuss how they are important to target as mouthpieces for fascism.

Read at: https://antifascistnews.net/2016/11/03/ ... tionalism/

[American Dream]

The inmates really are running the asylum now:

Top Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Cited Racist Anti-Immigrant Book In Radio Appearance

By Miranda Blue | November 17, 2016

Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart chief who is now slated to be Donald Trump’s chief strategist in the White House, is notorious for using the conservative media platform he ran to promote the racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic views of the white nationalist Alt-Right movement.

Among the troubling voices given a platform at Breitbart under Bannon’s leadership was Jason Richwine. As The Daily Beast reported in August, when Bannon left Breitbart to take a top spot on Trump’s campaign:

Bannon didn’t just make Breitbart a safe space for white supremacists; he’s also welcomed a scholar blacklisted from the mainstream conservative movement for arguing there’s a connection between race and IQ. Breitbart frequently highlights the work of Jason Richwine, who resigned from the conservative Heritage Foundation when news broke that his Harvard dissertation argued in part that Hispanics have lower IQs than non-Hispanic whites.

Bannon loves Richwine. On Jan. 6 of this year, when Richwine was a guest on [Bannon’s Sirius XM] radio show, Bannon called him “one of the smartest brains out there in demographics, demography, this whole issue of immigration, what it means to this country.”

There’s more to that January 6 interview. After praising Richwine for being “one of the smartest brains” on demographic issues, Bannon said that he believed that the presidential election was “going to become a referendum on this whole issue of what is the sovereignty of our country, what is legal immigration, what is illegal immigration, what are we prepared to do with people here illegally, what about this whole situation in Europe … the whole thing in Europe is all about immigration, it’s a global issue today, this kind of global Camp of the Saints.”

“The Camp of The Saints” is a racist dystopian anti-immigrant novel beloved of white supremacists. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the plot:

The book depicts an invasion of France and the white Western world by a fleet of starving, dark-skinned refugees, characterized as horrific and uncivilized “monsters” who will stop at nothing to greedily and violently seize what rightfully belongs to the white man.

SPLC notes that a 2015 Breitbart piece on refugees invoked the book; the site similarly promoted the book in 2014.

In the interview with Bannon, Richwine went on to argue that the GOP shouldn’t try to adjust its positions to attract the votes of immigrants, claiming that he doubted conservatism could “survive a major demographic change” that would “change substantially the culture and institutions of our country.”

Bannon concluded the interview by calling Richwine “an American hero” and a “true patriot,” noting that “we’ve got this entire site of Breitbart and this news show is to make sure that voices like yours are heard.”

More at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/top- ... ppearance/

Defining the Alt Right and the New American Fascism

The Alt Right saw its earliest beginnings as a growing dissident movement at the end of paleoconservatism began coalescing around explicitly racial politics and the influence of European New Right philosophy. Richard Spencer, a former Assistant Editor at the American Conservative who had moved on to Taki’s Magazine, coined the term along with right-wing academic Paul Gottfried. Both had been involved in the H.L. Menken Club, a proto-white nationalist organization that attracted people like VDare founder Peter Brimelow, paleoconservative ideologue Pat Buchanan, and advocates of race and IQ arguments like Steve Sailer.

Within this world Spencer noticed a growing disaffection with conservative politics, which had become the territory of Neoconservatism and hawkish foreign policy. Instead, Spencer idolized the “Old Right” class of isolationism, the aristocratic conservatism of people like Madison Grant, and often considered himself more an acolyte of Friedrich Nietzsche than William Buckley (He used to jokingly refer to himself as a Nietzsche-con).

Inside of these circles he was meeting hardline libertarians, radical Traditionalist Catholics, Heathens returning to pre-Christian European religions, race realists, eugenics proponents, and other people who were more right wing than they were “conservative” in the American sense.

It was with this thrust that he left Taki to create Alternative Right, a webzine that would bring together these dissident forces under a “big tent” of far right wing ideas.In its first few years it gained prominence by publishing people like Jason Richwine, who lost his position at the Heritage Foundation after his Harvard dissertation surfaced where he cited “racial differences in intelligence.”