What is the Alt Right? (Varg)

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[–]DisgustResponse 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

How old is this video? The "alt-right", as a label or project, has been obsolete for years now. How about instead of lumping people into nebulously defined categories and addressing them as a monolith, you talk to them and discover there's a lot more nuance and common ground than you thought?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The "alt-right", as a label or project, has been obsolete for years now.

Then why is this sub named what it is?

How about instead of lumping people into nebulously defined categories and addressing them as a monolith, you talk to them and discover there's a lot more nuance and common ground than you thought?

Labels that people choose to identify themselves with are extremely useful. The vast majority of humanity is worthless. To save time in finding the few worthwhile people, I can eliminate all those who identify themselves with bad labels (Leftist, Alt-Right, Jew, etc.).

[–]DisgustResponse 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Then why is this sub named what it is?

Because that was the name of the old sub on reddit created many years ago. Probably should've been changed, but it is what it is.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Probably should've been changed, but it is what it is.

There was some disagreement among mods. Some wanted a change when we left Reddit; others did not. I think that 'dissident' is a better description of the group of thinkers that fall into our beliefs but 'alt right' only became a bad word because of psy ops to tarnish the group. 'Dissident' right is slightly more broad then the old alt right; but that's about the only difference.

I voted to keep 'alt right' because I wanted people to find us during the transition. I also like to keep the name because anybody 'offended' by the name probably isn't going to really take the time to learn about what we really believe anyway. It's a pre screening name. 'Alt right' is not offensive on it's face. Most names for white nationalism only become 'offensive' because the media decides it's offensive. Which puts us in the position of forcing us into re branding ourselves every 3-6 years. That's not good for marketing IMO.

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alt right makes me think it is derived from alternative right. An alternative to the establishment GOP which is weak and milquetoast. It also makes me think of the alternative rock musical genre, which was a new thing in the late 80s, and 90s, a nebulous term but people generally understood what it meant after listening to the music. I'm not comparing the right to rock just comparing it to the fact that the name might not be obvious just by looking at the words but it becomes obvious to anyone who pays a little attention to politics.