Current Events > Who started using the term "Alt-Right"?

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I never really cared for it because I thought it was a stupid phrase describing some nuts, so I never bothered to really look into that much outside of the typical CE topic.

But I guess it isn't going away because literal nazi's have become a thing again in the year 2017 of our Lord.

Did right winger's bestow that term upon themselves, or was it a label their political opposites on the left cooked up?
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The Caddyshack theme
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I dunno but I don't think it was people who believed in white supremacy
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A literal Nazi made it up.
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Kazi1212 posted...

I dunno but I don't think it was people who believed in white supremacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer
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White supremacists decided they needed a re-brand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

In November 2008, self-described paleoconservative philosopher Paul Gottfried addressed the H. L. Mencken Club about what he called "the alternative right".[41] This was republished in December under the title "The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right"[42] in the conservative Taki's Magazine, making this the earliest published usage of the phrase in its current context according to Slate. In 2009, two more posts at Taki's Magazine, by Patrick J. Ford and Jack Hunter, further discussed the alternative right.[43] The term, however, is most commonly attributed to Richard B. Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute and founder of Alternative Right.[

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RebelElite791 posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

I dunno but I don't think it was people who believed in white supremacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

"He has advocated for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.[5]"


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Richard B Spencer was also a part of the rally. And the Nazi who got punched in the face.

No sleep was lost.
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Bloodychess posted...

RebelElite791 posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

I dunno but I don't think it was people who believed in white supremacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

"He has advocated for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.[5]"

I wonder what he considers "peaceful ethnic cleansing".
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Bloodychess posted...

RebelElite791 posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

I dunno but I don't think it was people who believed in white supremacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

"He has advocated for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and called for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.[5]"

I wonder what he considers "peaceful ethnic cleansing".

I would assume the least questionable would be exclusion. Like white-only zones or something. But then I figure you also run the gambit for deportation ala Hitler's desire for Lebensraum and, potentially, secretive sterilization of the supposed undesirables.

Just spit balling, so someone can dredge up any explanation that the individual in question has provided if they want.
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Matthew McConaughey

Alt-right, alt-right, alt-right!