Posted on 11/29/2016 12:27:44 PM PST by markomalley
A New York advertiser is taking it upon himself to make sure that the “alt-right” never becomes normalized in the public consciousness.
“George Zola” is the alias of a web professional who spoke with Huffington Post about his new a Google Chrome extension, “Stop Normalizing The Alt Right.” The app works by automatically taking out all mentions of “alt-right,” and replacing the term with “white supremacy.”
“I don’t want this term to be sugar coated, I want it to instantly make [people] recoil in the same way most recoil when thinking of white supremacists or white nationalists groups,” said Zola. “They’re scary, dangerous, and it’s important we stop the normalization of this before it gets out of hand. History shows us how quickly these movements can spiral out of control.”
According to the extension’s website, the app’s purpose is to prevent white nationalist sentiment from being sanitized. Zola said that that he created the app to show unity with minority groups who have faced increased abuse in the current sociopolitical climate.
The alt-right has been tied to Donald Trump‘s rise, with the rationale that the President-elect’s inflammatory rhetoric has emboldened Neo-Nazis and white supremacists who support him. Various news figures have started debating about whether Trump’s antics will cause fringe and objectionable viewpoints to go mainstream.
“Lots of politicians use coded language & dog whistles to appeal to people’s racism,” said Zola. “But Trump was more brazen and open about it than any major candidate in recent history, and for him to prevail with these tactics is a scary precedent.
Why don’t they just get one that says kill whitey...that is what the goal is.
Also handy to review the Society of Professional Journalists (an oxymoron if there ever was one) guidance on a related matter:
Of course, there is no editorializing on the news pages, is there?
There’s a New Google Chrome Extension That Will Replace ‘Alt-Right’ With ‘White Supremacy’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Which is one more reason I and millions of others do not use Google Chrome.
We need an extension that replaces terms such as liberal, progressive, leftist, democrat, socialist, etc. to “communist mass murderers.”
Bless his heart, what a good little brownshirt he is.
Typical of the left wing ... trying to lump crazy racists in with the entire conservative group. But they won’t dare lump the crazy jihadists in with all Muslims.
“Lots of politicians use coded language & dog whistles to appeal to people’s racism,” said Zola. “But Trump was more brazen and open about it than any major candidate in recent history, and for him to prevail with these tactics is a scary precedent.”
Everything is ‘scary’ to leftists...
Is there an app that replaces “Progressive” with “Communist”?
I have never — never — even heard the expression "Alt-Right" since it was first uttered by Hillary Clinton, or one of her flying monkeys, a month or two ago.
I've never seen the video that Hillary said was the cause of the Benghazi murders either, as long as we're on the subject.
Some enterprising person should create an extension that replaced liberal or democrat communist.
Stalin would make this asswipe a Hero of the Soviet Union. Too bad we’re stuck with him today.
Okay. I am just irritated with this “alt-right”, “alt-left”, or “alt-bullcrap”.
What is it with this? Why not just say what you think instead of inventing stupid new words or phrases. (not YOU, it is the general “you” markomalley!)
How about libs or dems with ultra left wing radical extremist baby killers?
I always felt that way about "there there" (as in: 'There's no there, there') .... what in hell is that supposed to mean anyway ???
I would think a more useful extension for the alt-left would be an extension that replaces “Republican” with “deplorable racist, xenophobic, misogynous, white supremacist”
“White supremacy” is not at all the same thing as “alt-right”, no matter how much certain mindsets want to conflate the two terms. Made of the same cloth as the attempt to tag all Republicans with “racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it”, a quote much beloved by Herself, in placing a label on “the basket of deplorables.”
I’m more worried about the big government CTRL-left than about the Alt-right.
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