Posted on 11/28/2016 1:42:13 PM PST by ColdOne
The Associated Press Monday released new guidelines for referencing the "alt-right," which ask that journalists use the term alongside its definition and in context of its association with racist beliefs.
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"'Alt-right' (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the 'self-described' or 'so-called alt-right' in stories discussing what the movement says about itself. Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters' actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
....and here I thought it was a keystroke combo!
AP’s article is about as confusing as using ‘Alt-right’.
Clinton tried to use it to villainize Trump, but most who heard it were sort of like ‘who? huh?’
It is a nonsensical that can have numerous contexts and definitions.
It was used in this election cycle by those who were being too cute by half. It failed.
To them, it's any presence on the alternate media (i.e. the Internet) that isn't explicitly Left, who are apparently the sole rightful owners of the Internet in the eyes of the mainstream media. The latter are profoundly ignorant of the ways, mores, and culture of the alternate media and are attempting to build a narrative in which the MSM are the good guys and the Internet posters, ineluctably evil. I look at it like dinosaurs howling at the faster, smarter mammals who are about to take over the world.
And no, it has nothing to do with white supremacy or fascism or anything of the sort. It has a lot to do with weirdness and youth and creativity. And of a group of people who flatter themselves that they're in charge and in fact, haven't a clue.
The linguistic problem faced by liberals is:
(Term/Issue)
Right Wing / Generic, and for many, complimentary
Far, Radical, or Extreme Right / Known to be overused to mean the same as right wing
Christian Right / Rarely used now that left loves Islam
So they had to come up with something new, hence “Alt Right”.
So, what are Alt-Left?
Seems to me that the majority of those running for office as a Democrat are “Alt-Left”, or outright Socialists.
Oh, just found alt-left too
First key to the right of you spacebar...............
“Yeah, can anyone post a link for the ‘alt-right’ ?”
The “Alt-Right” isn’t a cohesive ideology. There is no leader as such. There are many branches and differences between those who self label as “Alt-Right”.
Alt-Right is basically part of the Red Pill movement. People who are sick to death of the degenerate quislings and spineless whimpering losers of the “conservative movement” who do no thing so much as constantly cave to the destructionist left.
And, of course, they’re ‘racist’ and ‘nazis’ because they’re not compliant commiescum, and to the commiescum, anyone who ain’t them is that.
But they caused Hillary to lose the election she's been preparing for for fifty years?
I thought "alt-right" was a pejorative term imposed on certain people by the MSM.
Some of that ‘silent majority’ is tired of biting their tongue. And, with no side of the default politics representing them, they helped make their own.
Trump had so little support from the GOPe that he, more or less, ran as an independent under the R label.
Broad term for a wide range of people. They're what happened after the GOP exploited and killed off the Tea Party movement.
They're the latest bogey-man of the left (After Richard M Scaife, the Koch Brothers, the Tea Party, etc... eventually wore out).
The democrat party propaganda organs got tired of going after the Tea Party, so now the Alt-Right is the new boogy man.
Eventually, the rat media will realize that their endless accusations against the Alt-Right will only help the Alt-Right.
Free publicity and all that.
I don’t think it is breaking news that FR is the home of the Alt Right.
I have been trying this out among libs and I think we should embrace the term “Alt Right” with slogans like:
Alt Right: You are not a nut if the conspiracy is true.
The Alt Right is right!
Ect.
I’ve tried different comebacks and different terms for the left, but the best one in my field test remains the oldie but goodie, Kool Aide drinkers.
It leaves libs sputtering and unable to reply the times I’ve used it.
LOL...yes Kool aide does bug the c5ap out of them still.
From that website:
Richard Spencer, President of The National Policy Institute, Editor of Radix Journal, and the man who coined the term “Alt Right”
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