Stop calling it “alt-right” 2k17

systlin:

shitrichcollegekidssay:

Let’s take a look at the term “alt-right,” and the people who have been at the helm of this movement. First the person who has been given the credit of coining this term – Richard Spencer. A popular advocate for ethnic cleansing to preserve the white race and has been long cited as “a leader in white supremacist circles,” by the Anti-Defamation League. He’s also the chairman of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank, and the founder of Alternative Right, a white supremacist blog. You can read* some of this background and white supremacist views HERE. 

Other prominent “alt-righters?” 

• Peter Brimelow who works for VDARE, a political website that dedicates itself to anti-immigration, anti-Semitism and other white supremacist views. You can read some of his background and views HERE.
• Jared Taylor was the editor for American Renaissance magazine, now discontinued and turned into a website which he still runs – which published works about eugenics and white supremacism. Other writers that work for him are noted Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis. You can read some of his background and views HERE.
• Kevin MacDonald who is the editor of Occidental Observer, a white supremacist website , and has been a noted voice for anti-Semitism, defending Holocaust deniers (himself taking an “agnostic view,” on the Holocaust) and dedicates much of his time to anti-Jewish works. You can read some of his background and views HERE.
• Matt Forney who’s made a name for himself writing for white supremacist and anti-women sites like Alternative Right and Return of Kings. 
• Steve Bannon who took control of Breitbart News, a website that has become the “platform for the alt-right,” according to Bannon himself. He served as the head of the website that has written works related to misogyny, anti-Semitism, racism, and anti-immigration. He is now resigning from this position to work as chief strategist for Donald Trump in the White House. 
• Andrew Anglin who aligns himself more with the identity of neo-Nazi and founded the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer. The website dedicates itself to white supremacist propaganda and violent anti-Semitism and as of April 2016 calls itself “The World’s Most Visited Alt-Right Web Site.” You can read some of his background information and views HERE.
• Nathan Damigo who founded the white supremacist group Identity Evropa, who has been recently noted as the group who’s been putting up white supremacist propaganda at CSU Sacramento. He’s been working on expanding his group to spread propaganda at colleges around the country. He also served time in prison for a hate crime against a Muslim cab driver. 

There’s a reason it’s not too uncommon to find “alt-righters” being associated with white supremacism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, ableism, misogyny, transphobia, racism, racial pseudo-science, and opposing immigration of any kind. The fact that Richard Spencer is the one who coined this term is alarming. He IS a fucking white supremacist, there’s no tiptoeing around this and we’re letting him write the narrative of who he is/these people are. “Alt-right” isn’t as alarming as neo-Nazi/white supremacist, and he KNOWS this. It’s not going to get the attention of people who aren’t interested in the modern political climate outside a few basics. (Laugh, but I almost always have to explain what alt-right is to people outside the internet.) Hiding what he really is in the public eye is a really good way to slip through the cracks.

They reject these terms in attempt to normalize it all – and it’s working. It’s coming to the point where people are defending the alt-right simply under the belief that this is a republican vs. democrat issue or something as simplistic as that. And I truly believe in a lot of these cases (not all obvs.) that people don’t know what the alt-right truly is and who these people at the helm of it are. I’d even argue that most people I’ve talked to about this actually have heard “alt-right” but it doesn’t really pop out now does it? It sounds relatively innocent if you didn’t have an already understanding what it was. That’s exactly what these fucks were going for when they shifted their title. It makes them unnoticeable and there’s less of a push back against them and their current deep influence on politics. 

*Note: None of the links about these men’s backgrounds are to their websites, while the information is very disturbing, it’s the SPLC website and the information they have on them. 

NAZIS. Say it with me. these people are NEO-NAZIS. FASCISTS. And FUCK THEM.