Something of interest: Somebody's going around Reddit calling the Alt-Right like a CIA psy-op or something

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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just skimmed the article, it is a load of poorly researched shit that still thinks it's 2016.

They're conflating "Alt-Right" figures like Richard Spencer with civnat/Zionist "Alt-Lite" figures like Mike Cernovich, Tommy Robinson and Milo Yiannopoulos. The AR and AL have never been in league with each other. It's a common misconception from 2016 because many of those people co-opted the AR label, but dropped it like a hot potato later.

The groups like Atomwaffen Division and National Action have never been part of the "Alt-Right". Morgoth and Millennial Woes talked about this before, but the people in those organisations are people we've never heard of or had any contact with. They seem to be all in obscure Facebook/Telegram groups. I think the groups themselves are FBI/MI5 honeytraps which some impressionable/angry white kids walk right into.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for taking one for the team and reading such tripe. I'm so sick of articles that frame the Alt right disingenuously. In fact I'd gladly read a harsh critique of the alt right is the reviewer could at the very least bother to learn about who we really are. Do you think he was doing it because he genuinely didn't know about the alt right or was he just being malicious?

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suspect it's because when people learn who we really are, they take one of two options:

1) Realize that we're not as "extreme" as claimed, that we have some good points, and then join us 2) Realize that we're not as "extreme" as claimed, recognize that our values are not that dissimilar from normie social conservatives, and therefore recalibrate - become a far-leftist and call all right-wingers and centrists Nazi fascists who need to be deplatformed

So the only articles written about us are

1) Written by us 2) Written by raging leftists who attack all white people and conservatives as well 3) Written by people who don't know what they're talking about

Here we have option (3).

Edit: having read the piece it looks more like a (2). He thinks normie conservatives are Alt-Right...